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Chick Corean grammar is mostly analytic and SVO.
Chick Corean grammar is mostly analytic and SVO.
===Nouns===
===Nouns===
Chick Corean nouns do not inflect. Instead, they take articles that depend on the gender/class of the noun.
Chick Corean nouns do not inflect for number but take possessive prefixes for ''inalienable'' possession.
====Articles====
====Articles====
Articles inflect in singular and plural forms and take possessive prefixes. Many articles pluralize by adding ''-s'', but some have irregular plurals.
Articles inflect in singular and plural forms and take possessive prefixes. Articles with possessive prefixes mark ''alienable'' possession.


===Verbs===
===Verbs===

Revision as of 06:26, 12 December 2016

IlL/Spare pages 1/5/Swadesh list

IlL/Spare pages 1/5 (Tsjoenz-blotp; sometimes affectionately called tsje-blotp 'the tsje language', referring to the "unusual" sound [!] represented by tsj) is a modern descendant of Myuftseezh and a lingua franca of Xjeof. It's inspired aesthetically by Swedish and Sino-Korean words.

Todo

  • hjeo (before C), hjeor (before V) = this
  • tjaleo = exist
  • fosn = therefore
  • Otsn./Ngjodav. = Hello.
  • Eobak. = Greetings.
  • Tsuxjad. = Thank you.
  • ingk (mae) = name
  • rip = learn
  • nim (mae) = water
  • zjeosm (bek) = wife
  • keokeortjar = strict
  • gdeoz = to think
  • eobak (mae) 'greeting'
  • muk 'bad'
  • fljeongar 'round'
  • jeonael 'I (when speaking to a stranger or a superior)' (< yannál 'servant')
  • bjaels 'state'
  • vjeorkun 'Varquun'
  • blotp /blotp/ 'tongue, language' (Myuftseezh blotp < Proto-Ftseezhic blōtp < Proto-Myuftseezh *blātʼpʼ)
  • rjeonmok /rjʌnmok/ 'hero (often used ironically)' < Varquun rannammókk "raven-joy", i.e. warrior
  • eotijeo = prove < Varquun atiyah 'prove, demonstrate'
  • Jeonael osr eukng ti fjuxt taek. = I speak of love and hate.
  • Hveol ngeo kjo xi mul hi? = Are you saving it for me?
  • Xi tat vaegar mae gzeos fae mydar mae gzeos, klje xjod kyks pju. = 'I mixed the blue liquid and the orange liquid, and then there was an explosion.'
  • Si tje xi bek tsjatmaengal! = Not my president!
  • ke = ovum, genesis (Varquun kké 'egg')
  • bledin = theorem
  • hveol 'question particle' < kʷa-ləy; kjo 'for' < q'əw, mul 'keep' < muyλay

Phonology

Chick Corean has an average-sized (~25, depending on who's counting) consonant inventory and a rather large (10) vowel inventory.

Consonants

IlL/Spare pages 1/5 consonants
  Labial Alveolar Lateral Click Palatal Velar Glottal
Nasal m, hm /m/ n, hn /n/ ng, hng /ŋ/
Plosive voiceless p /p/ t /t/ tx /tɬ/ tsj /!/ tj* /t͡ɕ/ k /k/
voiced b /b/ d /d/ dj* /d͡ʑ/ g /g/
Fricative voiceless f /f/ s /s/ x /ɬ/ sj /ɧ/ h /h/
voiced v /v/ z /z/ zj /ζ/1
Affricate ts /ts/
Resonant [w] r, hr /r/ l, hl /l/ j, hj /j/

kv, gv, ngv, hv are pronounced [kw, gw, ŋw, hw].

1 In this article the symbol /ζ/ is used for [ɧ̬] (voiced sje-sound).

* t and d are also pronounced as /t͡ɕ/ before /i/ and /y/.

Vowels

Front Back
unrounded rounded unrounded rounded
Close i /i/ y /y/ eu /ɯ/ u /u/
Close-mid e /e/ oe /ø~œ/ o /o/
Open-mid ae /ɛ/ eo /ʌ~ɔ/
Open a /a/

Myuftseezh i u e ø o a

  • (no umlaut) > a (open)/ɯ (closed) u ə ə o a
  • (umlaut) > i u i e ø ɛ

Morphology

Chick Corean grammar is mostly analytic and SVO.

Nouns

Chick Corean nouns do not inflect for number but take possessive prefixes for inalienable possession.

Articles

Articles inflect in singular and plural forms and take possessive prefixes. Articles with possessive prefixes mark alienable possession.

Verbs