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====Vowel Distribution====
====Vowel Distribution====
'''Close Vowels'''
* /iː/ ‹İ i› is only permitted when [V-] and before coronal consonants
** /j/ ‹J j› is a permissible replacement between two single consonants, or when ‹İ i› is singular.
** /iː/ ‹Y y› is only permitted before /g p b x ɣ v/
*** /i/ appears outside its usual positions in some foreign-derived words.
** /ɨː/ ‹Ÿ ÿ› is only permitted when [-V] and where [C] is /k p x f/
*** Before /k/, ‹Ÿ ÿ› is written as ‹İ i›, where ‹İ i› is expected after ‹Qu qu›
*** /ɨː/ ‹Ÿ ÿ› contrasts with /iː/ ‹Y y› before /p x/
* /iː/ ‹İJ ij› is permitted when [V-] and before coronal consonants.
* The vowels /ɨː/ and /iː/ are considered to rhyme in poetry out of tradition, as in the past /ɨ/ was closer to [ɪ], which is acoustically more similar to [i].
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'''Close-Mid vs. Open-Mid Vowels'''
* Close-Mid and Open-Mid vowels are usually in complementary distinction:
** Open-Syllable é ő ó [eː øː oː]
** Closed-Syllable ė ö o [ɛ œ ɔ]
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However, they do form minimal pairs in certain environments:
* Word-Final
** é [-eː] vs. ė [-ɛ]
** ő [-øː] vs. ö [-œ]
** ó [-oː] vs. o [-ɔ]
* Closed Monosyllables:
** [CøːC] vs. [CœC]
** [CoːC] vs. [CɔC]
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'''Open Vowels'''
* á /ɑː/ and å /ɒː/
** a /ɑː/ and å /ɒː/ appear in complementary distribution in stressed syllables
**** In unstressed syllables, á /ɑː/ may be reduced to [ə]
** å /ɒː/ appears where it was an Old á /ɑː/
* á /ɑː/ and a /ɐ/
** á /ɑː/ appears in stressed syllables only
** a /ɐ/ is a shortened /ɑː/ in unstressed syllables
* á /ɑː/ and a̋ /æː/
** á /ɑː/ appears in morphemes with all back vowels
** a̋ /æː/ appears as a fronted /ɑː/ in morphemes with all front vowels
* a̋ /æː/ and ä /ɛ/
** a̋ /æː/ appears in stressed syllables only
** ä /ɛ/ is a shortened a̋ /æː/ in unstressed syllables
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'''Schwa'''
* The schwa /ə/ is a very unstable phoneme which tends to merge with other vowels or be elided entirely. The schwa merges with /ø/ in the following environments:
** [əσe] or [əσi]
* In certain environments, it is elided entirely:
** [σ-əC-σ]
* It is sometimes pronounced in these environments:
** [-ə.C-]
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'''Nasal Vowels'''
* Nasal [Ṽ] appears in stressed syllables only, in contrast with oral vowels.
* Nasal Contrast
** Nasal vowels contrast with oral vowels only before fricatives and velar/glottal consonants.
* Nasal Metaphony
** Nasalization is phonemic only in the vowel marked as nasal
* Nasal Metaphony is progressive (i.e. left to right), meaning that all vowels to the right of the nasal vowel are nasalized.
** This nasalization of surrounding vowels is allophonic and non-phonemic.
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===Vowel Harmony===
===Vowel Harmony===

Revision as of 18:24, 2 June 2019


Czecklish
Czěcklíš
Pronunciation[[Help:IPA|ʈʂeːˈkɫiːɕ]]
Created by
Native toSaxony
Native speakers52,724 ()
  • Czecklish
Official status
Regulated byCzecklish Revitalization Project
Language codes
ISO 639-1ck
ISO 639-2czk
ISO 639-3czk



Czecklish
Czěcklíš
Progress: 37%
Type
Fusional, Agglutinative
Alignment
Tripartite
Head direction
Initial Mixed Final
Primary word order
Verb-object-subject
Tonal
No
Declensions
Yes
Conjugations
Yes
Genders
n/a
Nouns decline according to...
Case Number
Definiteness Gender
Verbs conjugate according to...
Voice Mood
Person Number
Tense Aspect


History

Czěcklíš is originally spoken by the Dźhrajåinia [ɖ̥ʐr̊ə̤ˈxɒːi̯ɲə] extraterrestrial species. The Dźhrajåinia brought their language and beliefs to Earth circa 4000-3200 BCE. It is an astounding revelation that Czěcklíš is the native language of the Dźhrajåiña. Naturally, the Czěcklíš that the Dźhrajåiña speak is different from the Human variety. Czěcklíš is a vulnerable language isolate spoken in Saxony, Germany and Moravia, Czechia. Šäkkelíš, a very closely related language, is spoken solely within Prešov, Slovakia. Cigríş is spoken solely within the counties of Hunedoara and Caraş-Severin. Both Šäkkelíš and Cigríş are considered by UNESCO to be definitely endangered.

Before this project began, there were only a handful of mentions of Czěcklíš by Germans and Bohemians. The German linguist Friedrich Sauber created The Traveler’s Language Handbook for Czěcklíš in 1871 for those travelling through Czeckland. It is however, sadly outdated and contains gross misinformation regarding Czěcklíš grammar. It will be dismissed as a reference for this paper due to its innumerable grammatical inaccuracies. Before Sauber’s handbook, a Franciscan friar of the Grosse Brüdergasse Friary, named Göthe recorded some notes “on the strange, local tongue of Czeckland” circa 1506 CE. The original notes have since been lost since World War II. However, a record of an attempted translation by a local priest uses Göthe’s Czěcklíš alphabet, which is heavily inspired by the Polish orthography of that time.

During the Cold War, Czeckland was occupied by the Communists, and placed under a Communist regime. The Soviet Union changed the traditionally monarchist, feudal Czeckland into a industrialized Democratic Republic of Czeckland. President Ģaiň also developed a Cyrillic alphabet for Czěcklíš use during the Communist regime. His regime plunged Czeckland into an economic depression, resulting in widespread poverty and the migration of many Czěcklíš speakers to Erzgebirge District. Later in the 1970s, a mixed Latin-Cyrillic alphabet was used and developed by President Abhrahą Jozef. It was in use for only a decade, before most Czěcklíš reverted to the Cyrillic alphabet. To this day both Ģaiň’s Cyrillic Alphabet and Jozef’s Alphabet are not in active use. Because they have a communist stigma attached to them, their use can lead to most Czěcklíš thinking that you are a Communist, and cannot be trusted.

The Czěcklíš Revitalization Project (CRP) has recently began, with the aim of revitalizing Czěcklíš, Šäkkelíš and Cigríş language family. Alongside this project, a Czěcklíš Language Course for German Speakers will eventually be taught in the University of Leipzig; a Duolingo course and Memrise course will be developed for supplemental material. Additionally, a German-Czěcklíš and Czěcklíš-German translation website and online dictionary is in the process of being made.

Varieties

Phonology

Vowels

Monophthongs

Oral Monophthongs

22 total

Front Central Back
Close iː yː ɨ ɯː uː
Near-Close ɪ ʏ ɯ ʊ
Close-Mid eː øː ɤː oː
Mid ə
Open-Mid ɛ ɔ
Near-Open æː ɐ
Open ɑː ɒː


Nasal Monophthongs

5 total

Front Central Back
Close ĩː ũː
Mid ẽː õː
Open ɑ̃ː


Diphthongs

Oral Diphthongs
i̯- u̯- -i̯ -u̯ Open
i u̯i iu̯
u i̯u ui̯
e u̯e ei̯ eu̯ ey̯
o i̯o oi̯
ɑ i̯ɑ u̯ɑ ɑi̯ ɑu̯
ɒ i̯ɒ u̯ɒ ɒi̯ ɒu̯
ɯ i̯ɯ ɯi̯
ɤ i̯ɤ u̯ɤ ɤi̯ ɤu̯
y i̯y yi̯ yø̯
ø i̯ø u̯ø øi̯ øu̯ øy̯
æ i̯æ u̯æ æi̯ æu̯ æø


Nasal Diphthongs
i̯- u̯- -i̯ -u̯
ĩ u̯ĩ ĩu̯
ũ i̯ũ ũi̯
u̯ẽ ẽi̯ ẽu̯
õ i̯õ õi̯
ɑ̃ i̯ɑ̃ u̯ɑ̃ ɑ̃i̯ ɑ̃u̯


Vowel Distribution

Close Vowels

  • /iː/ ‹İ i› is only permitted when [V-] and before coronal consonants
    • /j/ ‹J j› is a permissible replacement between two single consonants, or when ‹İ i› is singular.
    • /iː/ ‹Y y› is only permitted before /g p b x ɣ v/
      • /i/ appears outside its usual positions in some foreign-derived words.
    • /ɨː/ ‹Ÿ ÿ› is only permitted when [-V] and where [C] is /k p x f/
      • Before /k/, ‹Ÿ ÿ› is written as ‹İ i›, where ‹İ i› is expected after ‹Qu qu›
      • /ɨː/ ‹Ÿ ÿ› contrasts with /iː/ ‹Y y› before /p x/
  • /iː/ ‹İJ ij› is permitted when [V-] and before coronal consonants.
  • The vowels /ɨː/ and /iː/ are considered to rhyme in poetry out of tradition, as in the past /ɨ/ was closer to [ɪ], which is acoustically more similar to [i].


Close-Mid vs. Open-Mid Vowels

  • Close-Mid and Open-Mid vowels are usually in complementary distinction:
    • Open-Syllable é ő ó [eː øː oː]
    • Closed-Syllable ė ö o [ɛ œ ɔ]


However, they do form minimal pairs in certain environments:

  • Word-Final
    • é [-eː] vs. ė [-ɛ]
    • ő [-øː] vs. ö [-œ]
    • ó [-oː] vs. o [-ɔ]
  • Closed Monosyllables:
    • [CøːC] vs. [CœC]
    • [CoːC] vs. [CɔC]


Open Vowels

  • á /ɑː/ and å /ɒː/
    • a /ɑː/ and å /ɒː/ appear in complementary distribution in stressed syllables
        • In unstressed syllables, á /ɑː/ may be reduced to [ə]
    • å /ɒː/ appears where it was an Old á /ɑː/
  • á /ɑː/ and a /ɐ/
    • á /ɑː/ appears in stressed syllables only
    • a /ɐ/ is a shortened /ɑː/ in unstressed syllables
  • á /ɑː/ and a̋ /æː/
    • á /ɑː/ appears in morphemes with all back vowels
    • a̋ /æː/ appears as a fronted /ɑː/ in morphemes with all front vowels
  • a̋ /æː/ and ä /ɛ/
    • a̋ /æː/ appears in stressed syllables only
    • ä /ɛ/ is a shortened a̋ /æː/ in unstressed syllables


Schwa

  • The schwa /ə/ is a very unstable phoneme which tends to merge with other vowels or be elided entirely. The schwa merges with /ø/ in the following environments:
    • [əσe] or [əσi]
  • In certain environments, it is elided entirely:
    • [σ-əC-σ]
  • It is sometimes pronounced in these environments:
    • [-ə.C-]


Nasal Vowels

  • Nasal [Ṽ] appears in stressed syllables only, in contrast with oral vowels.
  • Nasal Contrast
    • Nasal vowels contrast with oral vowels only before fricatives and velar/glottal consonants.
  • Nasal Metaphony
    • Nasalization is phonemic only in the vowel marked as nasal
  • Nasal Metaphony is progressive (i.e. left to right), meaning that all vowels to the right of the nasal vowel are nasalized.
    • This nasalization of surrounding vowels is allophonic and non-phonemic.


Vowel Harmony

Consonants

Consonant Inventory

Allophones

Assimilation

Consonant Mutation

Syntactic Gemination

Liaison

Syllable Structure

Phonological Constraints

Stress

Orthography & Numerals

Alphabets

Unique Letters

Multigraphs

Palatal Multigraphs

Aspirate Multigraphs

Initial Mutation Multigraphs

Diacritics

Numerals

Cardinals

Ordinals

Morphology

Categories

Conjugation

Declension

Pronouns

Articles

Particles

Syntax