Xeno-Mandarin

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Xeno-Mandarin (Putongyu or Putonglawas) is an Altaic conlang with a "nontonal Mandarin" aesthetic, spoken in northern China and parts of Mongolia and Siberia in Verse:Irta. It's a hypothetical answer to the question "What if Mandarin were an Altaic sprachbund language?"

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Derive from existing "reconstructions" of Proto-Altaic

Chinese words in this language should sound so Mandarin they're even polysyllabic, like taiyang "sun" instead of ri

-zi is quite productive and works even with Altaic words

Andalusian Spanish-style vowel harmony?

Nouns

  • nominative: -en / -ian
  • accusative: -Ø / -ь
  • genitive: -es / -ies (sai-siot)
  • dative: -ade / -iade
  • ablative: -ar / -iar
  • locative: -am / -iam
  • comitative: -emb / -iemb
  • essive: -ao / -iao
  • translative: -aza / -iaza

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