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Phonology

Bilabial Labiodental Alveolar Postalveolar Palatal Velar Glottal Nasal m n m n Plosive p b p̪ b̪ t d k g ʔ p b p b t d k g ' Affricate ts dz tʃ dʒ c j c j Fricative ɸ β f v s z ʃ ʒ h f v f v s z s z h Approximant w ɹ j w r y Trill ʙ r bb rr Lateral Fricative ɬ ɮ x q Lateral Approximant l l

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Pronunciation guide for people that speak English and not IPA: m, n, p, b, t, d, k, g, f, v, s, z, h, w, r, y, and l are all pronounced as in English. C and j are pronounced like the first sounds of "chip" and "job" respectively. P and b can be pronounced with your mouth in the position you normally use for f and v, and vice versa. S and z can also be pronounced like the first sound of "ship" and the middle sound of "treasure" respectively. ' (an apostrophe) is like k, but farther back where you normally pronounce h. Rr is a trilled r like in Spanish, and bb is a trill with your lips. X and q are pronounced with your mouth in the position you use for l, but making more noise with the air coming over the sides of your tongue; with x you don't use your voice (like s) and with q you do use your voice (like z.)

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Note: In order to create a distinctive character for the language, k and g should be treated in a similar manner to the letter x in English. ie: Rarely and primarily for loan words from other languages or for making things sound alien/foreign/weird etc.

Vowels:

Front Back Close i ɯ u i u u Mid e o e o Open a ɒ a o

Diphthongs: ai, ei, au

Phonotactics

Basic syllable structure: (C)(C)V(V)(C)(C)

What can be where

Words may begin with a consonant, a consonant plus an approximant, or a vowel.

Words may end with any single consonant other than an affricate or trill, or in a nasal plus a same-POA stop.

Any pairs of consonants are allowed in the middle of words, and may be followed by an approximant. The following exceptions apply: Any nasal followed by a stop must share its POA. Two adjoining consonants must have different MOAs.



Vowels

Any sequences of three or fewer vowels are allowed. They are pronounced separately except for the diphthongs and long vowels.

Advertisement: There are two degrees of vowel length - the longer one indicated by doubling the written vowel.

If two instances of the same vowel adjoin but are pronounced separately, they are separated by a glottal stop, written with an apostrophe.

Stress

Words are stressed on the second-to-last syllable, and nonstandard stress is indicated by an acute accent over the stressed vowel.

When a doubled vowel is accented thus, the accent comes on the first written vowel.

Example single-syllable word: Kwaunt

Word order

The basic sentence structure is subject-object-verb. Adjectives and adverbs follow what they modify, as do adjectival and adverbial phrases.

Nouns

Noun classes

deity -ya

sentient -a

animal -e

object -o

abstract and verbal nouns -u

dístafya _goddess_

dístafa _woman_

dístafe _female animal_

dístafo _female statue_

dístafu _femininity / to be female_

Pronouns

Personal

first : i(n) 'I, me, myself'

second : pu(n) 'you, yourself'

third : ta(n)/fa(n)/va(n) 'troper/non-troper/non-human'



in 'me' + pun 'you' = ipun 'me and you, we'

pun + fan 'him/her/them' = pufan 'you and them/you lot/y'all'

etc.

Correlatives

definite indefinite distal that (near you) proximal this (near me/near both of us) impersonal that (away from both of us) interrogative/reflexive what universal all/every negative none alterntive/reciprocal another/eachother existential-elective some/any thing/determiner ze (that/those) je (this/these) (that over there) (what/which/who/whom) dev (all, every, everything, everyone, both) hero (none/no/no one/nobody/nothing/neither)) dif (another/one another/each other) ol(some/any/something/anything/someone/anyone) time zewe/zeri (then) jemu (now) (when) dev-* (always) hero-*(never) dif-* ol-* place zeset (there) jeset (here) (where) devset (everywhere) heroset (nowhere) difset (somewhere else/each place) olset(somewhere/anywhere) reason (therefore) (thus) (why) (no reason) (another reason/each reason) (for some reason/any reason) manner (thereby) (this way) (how) (no way) (another way/each way) (somehow/any way) amount (that much) (this much) (how much) (no amount) (another amount/each amount) (some/any amount)

Nouns belong to one of five classes, indicated by adding a suffix to the root. The suffixes are:Thus for example, the root distaf _female_ forms:personal pronouns can be mixed to create plurals-n is added to the end of a pronoun if followed by another pronoun or a vowel, so as to stop plural confusion.time correlatives can be suffixed with -mu, -ri, -we, as well as the time-travel tenses, however they are still considered adverbs. The only exceptions to this are the distal/proximal/impersonal, where distal is either we/ri, proximal is always mu, and impersonal is always time-travel.

place correlatives can be combined with any preposition.

pronouns can also be suffixed with the laudative '-sande' to indicate shown their work, or the pejorative '-dindo' for the opposite

ta-sande (he who did his reasearch)

pu-dindo (you, who have not shown your work)

distaf-sande (good girl)

sepir-dindo (silly boy)

Verbs

Tenses

past -ri

present -mu

future -we

future changed -yowe (eg.I ate tommorrow)

past changed -yori (eg.i didn't eat yesterday (but i did in an alternate timeline))

future-past changed -yomu (eg. I shall eat yesterday)

There are three basic tenses, indicated by the following suffixes:time-travel tenses

The suffix -yo is used to indicate that the tense suffix which follows is correct from the timeline of the speaker's experience. If a person does something, then travels to a time before that action, the person should say "I do-yo-ri it."

Imperative

Copula ("to be")

distaf-ri _was a woman_

distaf-mu _is a woman_

distaf-we _will be a woman_

as well as the time travel tenses

Existence

Ri wordya 'There was a God/There was a Writer'

Mu drahone jeset 'here there be dragons'

Mu va jeset! 'Here it is!'

The suffix -mio is used to form the imperative, in all grammatical persons - i.e. "let's go" and "may he go" as well as "go!"There is no copula - the state of being something is expressed by attaching the proper tense suffix(es) to the root. Thus distaf, the female root, forms:to denote existence (ie. 'There is/are/was/were etc.') the sentence starts with the particles 'Ri', 'Mu', 'We' as well as the time-travel tenses.can also be used for place/time

Adjectives and adverbs

These words are created from a root with the suffix -i. Thus distaf, the female root, forms distafi, meaning "feminine" or "femininely."

Numbers

The numberal system is base-twelve, so 24 would be duxo' or two-twelve, and 26 would be duxo'-duo, or two-twelve and two.

Suggested Stuff

Suggested Morphology: Agglutinative; Agglutinative/Isolating split

Lexicon

Any root can be formed into any type of word, though not all derivations will be meaningful.

Phrases/Poetry

Tropese English Origin Notes In pu romansmu / Im pu romancmu I love you Common phrase I just felt that 'Im pu' flows better, it isn't a definite rule. Assimilation of this sort is pretty common. Je twelvisto ipu cihinwe devhelando! Tonight we dine in Hell! 300 Also pronounced 'develando'. The ancient greeks only had an 'Underword' - No hell. Take from that what you wish. Devu srowitinmu, Devu itmu Nothing is True, Everything is Permitted Assassin's Creed, ripping off Friedrich Nietzsche, who claimed it came from the Hashashin (Assassins) Whether you take this to be a good translation or not, it literally means: Everything is a Mistake, Everything is Permitted ...There's a limited vocab and It's hard coming up with trope-related words! Mu drahone jeset here there be dragons TV Tropes literally: "There are dragons here" Pu Flebmu, Harri/ Pu Flembu, Harri You're a Wizard, Harry Harry Potter Only realised i'd written 'Flembu' instead of 'Flebmu' after I wrote it, felt is sounded nicer though, so left it in. Changed final character to an i, to more accurately mirror English and otherwise pronunciation and make it something a bit less [[Unpronounceable]] than [harj]. Paduxo'xi' polavaya berr caropmio! May the 42 Gods of Mystery molest Your Mom! I wanted to create a curse for my upcoming game/novel/anime/manga Rose The Cat.

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