Morphology

Sekko, due to it being a logical (monoparsing) language, must necessarily have a self-segregating morphology (SSM). An SSM scheme is a system where words are constructed in such a way that word boundaries can be unambiguously determined using only the forms of the words themselves.

While there are a variety of SSM schemes out there, Sekko uses an arbitrary classification of sounds along with a A+B+ word form. All words contain one or more A components, followed by one or more B components. A word boundary is defined as when a series of B sequences makes contact with an A component.

Sekko categorizes sounds as either A, B, or C. A and B sounds behave as described above. C sounds, however, will morph into the sound that immediately precedes them. Therefore, a sequence ACCACBCCC will be interpreted as AAAAABBBB.

• A sounds: p t k b d g s z h
• B sounds: i o m q
• C sounds: a e u n l r x

The speech stream baqpakketexoiambanauelromepi ACBACAACACCBBCBACCCCCCCCBBBCAB can be unambiguously parsed as baq pakketexoiam banauelrome pi ACB ACAACACCBBCB ACCCCCCCBBBC AB.

Word derivation is usually a priori. However, a posteriori derivation from languages with contrastive vowel and consonant length is permitted (e.g. Finnish, Japanese, Hindi, Latin, etc.).