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IlL/Spare pages 1/5 (Tsjoenz-blotp) is a modern descendant of Myuftseezh (with Varrkkún influence) and the most widely spoken language in Teolmeo (Western Etalocin). It's inspired aesthetically by Swedish and Sino-Korean.

Todo

• ADAPT TÍOGALL SCRIPT
• 2nd person polite pronoun
• Handle Varrkkún words more transparently
• postvocalic h is allowed
• elseo = eagle
• Xi gdeoz, beugju xi tjaleo = Cogito ergo sum
• hael = ego
• hjeo (before C), hjeor (before V) = this
• tjaleo = exist
• fosn = therefore; beugju = ergo
• Otsn./Ngjodav. = Hello.
• Eobak. = Greetings. (somewhat more formal)
• Tsuxa. = Thank you.
• Sjapt otsn. = Bye.
• ingk (mae) = name
• rip = learn
• nim (mae) = water
• zjeosm (lek) = wife
• keokeortjar = strict
• gdeoz = to think
• eobak (mae) 'greeting'
• muk 'bad'
• fljeongar 'round'
• vael 'I (formal)' (< yavvál 'servant')
• vaelur 'we (formal)'
• 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'
• Xi taek osr eukng ti fjuxt. = I speak of love and hate.
• Hveol mul ngeo kjom xi hi? = Are you saving it for me?
• Xi tat wegar 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 e x-lek tsjatmaengal! = Not my president!
• ke = ovum, genesis (Varquun kké 'egg')
• bljedin = theorem
• hveol 'question particle' < kʷa-ləy; kjom 'for' < q'əw, mul 'keep' < muyλay
• Vae-ingk e [name] / X-ingk e [name] = My name is [name]

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	Medial	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal		m /m/	n /n/				ng /ŋ/
Plosive	voiceless	p /p/	t /t/	tx /tɬ/	tsj /tʂ/	tj* /t͡ɕ/	k /k/
	voiced	b /b/	d /d/			dj* /d͡ʑ/	g /g/
Fricative	voiceless	f /f/	s /s/	x /ɬ/	sj /ɧ/	hj /ç/		h /h/
	voiced	v /v/	z /z/		zj /ζ/1
Affricate			ts /ts/
Resonant		w /w/	r /r/	l /l/		j /j/

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

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

* t and d are pronounced like tj and dj before /i/ and /y/.

Vowels

Chick Corean has 10 vowel phonemes. There are no diphthongs.

	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

Stress

Stress is initial.

Morphology

Chick Corean grammar is mostly analytic and SVXO.

Nouns

Chick Corean nouns do not inflect for number but take possessive prefixes for inalienable possession. Chick Corean has various classifiers; classifiers mark definiteness, come in singular and plural forms, and take possessive prefixes. Classifiers with possessive prefixes mark alienable possession.

Inalienable possession is most commonly used for family members ('the boy's mother'), body parts ('my arm') and inherent properties ('the prime factorization of 760') but may used for other nuances as well. As an example, vae-raev eotijin (with alienable possession) would be the usual way of saying 'my proof' (i.e. the proof that I devised of a mathematical statement), while vae-eotijin (using inalienable possession) suggests a more special or unique relationship, e.g. I am the one who originally proved the theorem.

Chick Corean uses a possessive prefix, either on a classifier placed before the possessum (classifiers are also used as definite articles) for alienable possession or directly on the possessum for inalienable possession.

Example:

Alienable: Teuk s-raev hundeofin = the man's song (e.g. a song that he is singing)

Inalienable: Teuk sju-hundeofin = the man's song (i.e. a song authored by him)

The possessive prefixes are as follows (they're always hyphenated):

Possessive prefixes

	Singular	Plural
1 (informal)	xi-, x-, xj-	tsa-, ts-
1 (formal)	vae-
2	lju-	krjeo-, krj-
3 (animate)	sju-, s-
3 (inanimate)	reo-, r-

Classifiers

The following classifiers are used:

• animates (humans, more "animate" animals like pets)
• generic inanimates?
• plants
• tiny, point-like objects
• fruits/round things
• long, thin objects
• flat sheets
• food items
• abstractions; works of art
• books
• devices or instruments

Miscellaneous

Chick Corean poetry uses alliteration and assonance, instead of rhyme.