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IlL/Spare pages 1/5 (Tsjoenz-blotp) is a modern descendant of Myuftseezh (with significant Varrkkún influence) spoken in Talma (Western Etalocin, Teolmeo /tʌlmʌ/ in Chick Corean). It is an official language in Chick Corea and several other countries, and a lingua franca in Talma. It's inspired aesthetically by Swedish and Sino-Korean, and grammatically by Vietnamese.

Todo

• ADAPT TÍOGALL SCRIPT
• Chick Corean national anthem?
• zatj = 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 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]

History

The main source of borrowings in Chick Corean is Varkkún and its descendant ___ (something French-inspired). Nearby Clofabic languages and other languages have contributed as well to the rich vocabulary of Chick Corean.

Chick Coreanization of Varkkún words

Vowels:

• a á i í ij u ú uw é ó > eo a e eu/i eu/i o u u e o

Consonants:

• Consonants that come in pharyngealized/nonpharyngealized pairs are rendered C/Ceu (pharyngealized) and Cj/Ci (nonpharyngealized). However, in word-final position, only (nonpharyngealized) t/d/s/z are palatalized to tj/dj/sj/zj.
• tj/dj/sj/zj become tj/dj/sj/zj.
• w/y become w/j.
• h becomes h. The verb ending -ah is borrowed as -eo.

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/

Some linguists consider eu to actually be a non-palatalizing allophone of i.

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

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 (informal)	lju-	krjeo-, krj-
2 (formal)	za-
3 (animate)	sju-, s-
3 (inanimate)	reo-

Classifiers

The following classifiers are used:

• lek, pl. ___ = animates (humans, more "animate" animals like pets)
• njab, pl. ___ = honorific form of lek
• kveod, pl. ___ = organisms not viewed as sentient: plants, fungi, bacteria, "lower" animals, pests
• mae, pl. mae = tiny, point-like objects; mass nouns
• oetsp, pl. ___ = long, thin objects
• flat sheets
• govz, pl. ___ = food items
• raev, pl. ___ = abstractions; works of art
• gjaetx, pl. ___ = books
• tsma, pl. ___ = manmade structures: houses, buildings, cities; tools

Derivational morphology

• Compound nouns are head-final and are always hyphenated

Syntax

Basic typology

Chick Corean grammar is mostly analytic and SVXO. Genitives, adjectives, and short (1-2 words) relative clauses precede nouns; longer relative clauses follow nouns. Both pre- and postpositions are used.

Xi taek oseor eukng ti fjuxt.

I speak of love and hate.

Hveol ngeo mul kjom xi hi?

Are you saving it for me?

Miscellaneous

Poetry

• Chick Corean poetry uses assonance as a weak form of rhyming: two words are considered to rhyme if the vowel in the last syllable is the same.
• "Telegraphic" poetry à la Classical Chinese is common.