Tseer

Tseer
Created by	IlL
Setting	Verse:Tricin
Language family	Lakovic Ashanic Tseer

Tseezh (chezh; dołød Tseezh /dowøt tʃẽr̝/) is a Lakovic language spoken in Talma. It is inspired mainly by Hmong and Somali, with a touch of Vietnamese and Satem IE languages like Polish.

Tseezh was a prominent classical language of Talma, and left a significant influence on Windermere and Skellan.

Todo

• i ü u e o a ì ǜ ù è ò à → i ø u e o a ii øø uu ee oo aa
• p > f
• /w l/ > /v w/ > Eevo v ł, Wdm. w w
• š > /x/ > Eevo ç
• s- > /t/ > Eevo t
• ś > /s/ > Eevo s
• ć > /c/ > Eevo tx
• t- > /T/ > Eevo tr?
• r > zh > Eevo r or rzj/zj

Disappearing preinitial vowels > tone?

Numbers: don, oozhad, txiv, khaag, omøøtx, dag, abood, xev, wooj, rab, tajaav, tzhøg

tawsuug = example

nasal vowels merge with nonnasal vowels before m/n/ng/l?

Phonology

Consonants

m n ng /ŋ/

t r /ʈ/ c k ' /ʔ/

b d g

f x /s/ s /ʃ/ kh /x/ h

tx ts

v -dh -gh

w zh /r̝~ɹ~ʒ/ j /j/

Vowels

Classical

a e i o u ø /a e i o u ɵ/

aa ee ii oo uu øø /ã ẽ ĩ õ ũ ɵ̃/

/ɵ/ will be transcribed as /ø/ for convenience.

Modern

Nasal/nonnasal vowel split

Morphology

Tergetian grammar and morphology are rather conservative, for example it has retained the Proto-Lakovic reduplicated plural, pluractionality and gender in verbs and the grammatical function of Proto-Lakovic applicatives or triggers.

Pronouns

	I	thou (m.)	thou (f.)	he	she	we (exc.)	we (inc.)	you (pl.)	they (an.)
Nominative	rii	łen	łes	in	is	tsa	bang	ngea	ănam

Nouns

Nouns have two genders, as in Proto-Ashanic. Feminine is marked with -s.

Plurals are formed by reduplication.

• 'araaj 'lion' > 'aar'araaj 'lions'
• moog 'feather' > mamoog 'feathers'

Verbs

Feminine: va-

Passive: haa-

Pluractionality: from an aspect marker? or maybe original pluractionality developed into aspects in Windermere etc.

Aspects/Tenses: ???