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Riemannic (''piþakorzarlinsprek'', lit. maths-music-speak) is a semi-naturalistic ''a posteriori'' artlang created by [[User:H. H. P. M. P. Cole|Cole]] in 2024. It is his first conlang, and despite the fact that it is a work in progress, he moved on from it, thinking it is a bad conlang. The conlang's English name derives from the mathematician Bernhard Riemann and the music theorist Hugo Riemann.


The largest Riemannic-speaking city in Cole's old worldbuild Cardan is Utlens City (''utlænsσtat'') in the Etal States, the flag of which is shown in the infobox.


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(Conlanger's note: clearly I didn't know much about Finnish when I made this. Not to mention those noun cases. I will soon figure out a way to better incorporate Germano-Finnic grammar in the next iteration of Riemannic... if I ever make one. Clearly the in-universe "creators" of Utlensi Riemannic learned Finnish from a dictionary without a grammar guide.)


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{{Infobox language
|image= Flag of Utlens City (1825-present).png
|imagesize= 250px
|name= Riemannic
|nativename=''piþakorzarlinsprek''
|pronunciation= /piθakoɹzaɹlinspɹek/
|pronunciation_key = Guide:IPA
|creator=[[User:H. H. P. M. P. Cole|Cole]]
|region=
|fam1=Indo-European
|fam2=Germanic
|script1= Latn
|familycolor = indo-european
|-
|notice=IPA
}}


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==Phonology and orthography==
 
Riemannic uses the Latin alphabet with some Greek and Cyrillic letters. The alphabet used is unicase.
==Introduction==
 
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===Orthography===
===Consonants===
===Consonants===
There are 21 consonants in Riemannic.
{| class="wikitable"
! p || b || t || d || k || g || f || v || þ || s || z || σ || ç || ɣ || h || ч || џ || w || r || l || j
|-
| /p/ || /b/ || /t/ || /d/ || /k/ || /g/ || /f/ || /v/ || /θ~ð/ || /s/ || /z/ || /ʃ/ || /x/ || /ɣ/ || /h/ || /tʃ/ || /dʒ/ || /w/ || /r~ɬ~ɹ/ || /l/ || /j/
|}


===Vowels===
===Vowels===
===Prosody===
There are 18 vowels in Riemannic: nine short and nine long.
====Stress====
{| class="wikitable"
====Intonation====
! i || y || u || e || ø || ə || o || æ || a || ī || ȳ || ū || ē || ø̄ || ə̄ || ō || ǣ || ā
|-
| /i/ || /y/ || /u/ || /e/ || /ø/ || /ə/ || /o/ || /æ/ || /a/ || /iː/ || /yː/ || /uː/ || /eː/ || /øː/ || /əː/ || /oː/ || /æː/ || /aː/
|}
==Morphology==
The default type of object in Riemannic is the noun. For example, ''σtain'' (stone) or ''teves'' (gas). Verb and adjective morphology and conjugation is completely regular. Here is a list of conversions:
{| class="wikitable"
|to adjective || -iσ, -liσ, -iσə, -liσə (last two are interchangeable with first two)
|-
|verb to noun || remove -ən
|-
|noun to verb || add -ən
|-
|adjective to noun || change ending -σ or -iσ to -ait
|-
|compound adjective with noun || remove -σ or -iσ, add noun
|-
|compound adverb with verb || remove -σ or -iσ, add verb
|-
|to make plural || -en
|-
|comparative || remove -σ or -iσ, add -altiσ
|-
|superlative || remove -σ or -iσ, add -sopraniσ
|}
And here is the list of verb conjugations:
{| class="wikitable"
|past || -d, -əd
|-
|past participle, present || -n, -ən
|-
|past perfect || -ə
|-
|infinitive || -nk, -ənk
|-
|present perfect || hat -ən
|-
|future || -t, -ət
|-
|future perfect || -m, -əm
|-
|imperfect || u-
|-
|gnomic || -þ, -əþ
|}
===Articles===
Definite articles:
{| class="wikitable"
| || '''Singular''' || '''Plural'''
|-
|'''Nominative''' || þe || þē
|-
|'''Genitive''' || þes || þer
|}
Indefinite articles:
{| class="wikitable"
| || '''Singular''' || '''Plural'''
|-
|'''Nominative''' || ēn || ēn
|-
|'''Genitive''' || ēs || ēr
|}
==Syntax==
Riemannic is SVO and head-final. Adjectives are usually placed in the same word as the noun.


===Phonotactics===
'''''desēr tak iσt ēn ūsiltak.'''''
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===Morphophonology===
==Morphology==
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Nouns
Generally, Riemannic grammar can be thought of as a simplified German grammar.
Adjectives
Verbs
Adverbs
Particles
Derivational morphology


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===Pronouns===
{| class="wikitable"
! || Reflexive || Posessive || The verb 'to be'
|-
|ih || məi || min || ih bin
|-
|dū || dəi || din || dū bist
|-
|ēr, sī, es || səi || sin || ēr, sī, es iσt
|-
|wir || uəi || uns || wir zind
|-
|ir || oəi || oins || ir zaid
|-
|si || iəi || irns || si zind
|}


==Syntax==
===Conjunctions and prepositions===
===Constituent order===
{| class="wikitable"
===Noun phrase===
!English || Riemannic
===Verb phrase===
|-
===Sentence phrase===
|not || nekt
===Dependent clauses===
|-
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|and, also || un
|-
|but, however || abər
|-
|xor || øi'iø
|-
|or || øī
|-
|implies that || iøī
|-
|reverse order of subject and object || þī-
|-
|at || at
|-
|in || in
|-
|out, outside of || øt
|-
|on, wrt || on
|-
|with || mit
|-
|if || if
|-
|then || þen
|-
|for || vor
|-
|because || vānt
|-
|therefore || drenēnsēken (lit. three points)
|-
|left bracket || la
|-
|right bracket || al
|-
|against || dron
|-
|before || etæl
|-
|after || fø
|-
|than || þæn
|-
|regardless of || nektvānt (lit. not because of)
|-
|despite || ɣwol
|}


==Vocabulary==
Riemannic's vocabulary is either borrowed from standard mathematical terminology, Old High German (and sometimes Modern German), or Finnish. It uses a base-16 system taken from Leibniz:
{| class="wikitable"
|zero || ø
|-
|one || ēns
|-
|two || zven
|-
|three || dren
|-
|four || viər
|-
|five || fynf
|-
|six || seks
|-
|seven || sibən
|-
|eight || açt
|-
|nine || noin
|-
|ten || ūt
|-
|eleven || re
|-
|twelve || mi
|-
|thirteen || fa
|-
|fourteen || sol
|-
|fifteen || lā
|-
|sixteen || zen
|-
|32 || zvenzen
|-
|256 || hundret
|-
|4096 || tusend
|-
|65536 || mīrjad
|-
|16^6 || hundret mīrjad
|-
|16^8 || mīrjad mīrjad
|-
|nth || n-iþ
|}
==Example texts==
==Example texts==
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The Samurai Jack opening sequence in Riemannic:
==Other resources==
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in ēn wānzait, un in ēn fǣrlānt, ih, akū, þe oiklivaitājər, þe σkraftər þes σwarsait, fraigebəþ ēn sopransūriσ nektriçtait! abər ēn lakāpǣalσamurāj ɣēr haltən ēn hə̄ligmeþalσtok σkraftəd dronmin. etæl þe σamurāj tōdəd min mit sin hə̄ligmeþalσtok, ih ø̄fnəd ēn zaitþīadvōr, un ih σofəd sin in þe føzait, ɣār min nekthə̄ligait iσt riçtiσ! þe lakāpǣalman vȳnσən la er kanət þe etælzait un er tōdət þe akūføzait al!


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