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{{Infobox language
|name              = Jokelang 2
|nativename        = English
|pronunciation     = ˈʔɛŋgɫɪʃ
|created           = 2023
|creator           = Dillon Hartwig
|familycolor       = isolate
|script            = Latn
}}

'''Jokelang 2''' (<small>Jokelang 2:&nbsp;</small><span class="nowrap" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)" style="font-family:Gentium,'DejaVu Sans','Segoe UI',sans-serif">English [[w:English_language#Phonology|[ˈʔɛŋgɫɪʃ]]]</span>) is my first and only serious joke language.

==Orthography and phonology==
Jokelang 2 orthography and phonology are identical to modern [[w:General_American_English|General American]] and [[w:Received Pronunciation|Received Pronunciation]] English, except the General American accent retains /ʍ/ and the Received Pronunciation accent has [[w:Linking_and_intrusive_R#IntrusiveR|intrusive R]], and a small number of nouns have non-English pronunciations.

See also [[Jokelang_2#Accent agreement|Accent agreement]].

==Morphology==
===Alignment===
Jokelang 2 has nominative-accusative morphosyntactic alignment.

===Accent agreement===
In agreement with their head noun's gender (except see [[Jokelang_2#Verbs|Verbs]]), all verbs, adjectives, numerals, and measurement units are pronounced with either a [[w:General_American_English|General American]] (for American nouns) or [[w:Received_Pronunciation|Received Pronunciation]] (for British nouns) accent.

===Nouns===
Nouns are gendered American or British. Plural nouns are marked with a preceding particle: ''a'' for American nouns and ''an'' for British nouns.

====Pronouns====
Pronouns mark number, gender, and many other categories. Informal plural pronouns in formal are instead singular.

====Demonstratives====
Nouns and pronouns can be reduplicated with the opposite accent to act as preceding demonstratives.

===Verbs===
Verbs agree with their subject's accent unless the verb's object is British, in which case the verbs agrees with its object.

===Questions===
Jokelang 2 has no overt question marking. Questions are asked by stating an affirmative sentence and demanding that the listener answers, usually with ''"Spillet capiche," "Answer (threatening imperative)."

===Negation===
===Circumpositions===
Jokelang 2 has no prepositions or postpositions, only circumpositions.

===Numerals===
Numerals agree in gender with their noun.

{|class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
|+ Numerals
|-
! !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4 !! 5
|-
! British
| cocky || lua || five || colspan="2" | ha
|-
! American
| beer || ick || ooch || colspan="2" | dirt
|-
! !! 6 !! 7 !! 8 !! 9 !! 10
|-
! British
| oh no || hick || wall || ewe || oomie
|-
! American
| alty || yeti || seckies || dokas || on
|-
! !! 11 !! 12 !! 13 !! 14 !! 15
|-
! British
| cockimie || lumie || coalmie || colspan="2" | hamie
|-
! American
| beer-on || ick-on || ooch-on || colspan="2" | dirt-on
|-
! !! 16 !! 17 !! 18 !! 19 !! 20
|-
! British
| oh nomie || hickmie || wallmie || ewemie || ukalue
|-
! American
| alty-on || yeti-on || seckies-on || dokas-on || yermie
|-
! !! 30 !! 40 !! 50 !! 60 !! 70
|-
! British
| canoke || cow || lime || rowspan="2" | on-alty || rowspan="2" | on-yeti
|-
! American
| oats || kirk || elly
|-
! !! 80 !! 90 !! 100 !! 1,000 !! 1,000,000
|-
! British
| rowspan="2" | on-seckies || rowspan="2" | on-dokas || hanele || kaukany || rowspan="2" | big
|-
! American
| use || bin
|}

====Units of measurement====
All unit words have paired imperial and metric meanings based on the noun they modify, imperial for American nouns and metric for British nouns. These pairs are not always near-equivalent.

===Classifiers===
Classifiers are optional in informal speech, but in formal speech must precede nouns when modified by ''no'' or a numeral. Classifiers can also be applied to unmodified nouns as honorifics.

===Derivational morphology===
====Part-of-speech modifiers====
==Syntax==
===Constituent order===
Word order is strictly SVO.

===Noun and verb phrases===
Possessors, adjectives, and adverbs follow their head. Numerals and demonstratives precede their head.

===Dependent clauses===
Dependent clauses follow their head.

==Example texts==
===Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 1===
'''A murican whizz paw freedombuh ah reddingbuh foo digity bar ah foo diggity bar. Yodel shoob why ah whoe ah forwhittling ation again undlebuh again jon.

{{interlinear
|A murican whizz paw freedom-buh ah redding-buh foo digity bar ah foo diggity bar.
|PL.US person {all known and unknown} bear.PASS.US free.US-ESS and equal.US-ESS in dignity in and in rights in
||display-messages=no|italics2=no|italics3=no|ablist=US:American gender}}
<br>
{{interlinear
|Yodel shoob why ah whoe ah forwhittling ation again undle-buh again jon.
|3PL.US give.PASS.{{gcl|UK|British gender}} reason and conscience and do.US should.US RECP brother-ESS RECP {as if}.US
||display-messages=no|italics1=yes|italics2=no|italics3=no|ablist=US:American gender}}

===Linguifex-hosted translations===
*[[:Category:Translated works in Jokelang 2|Translated works in Jokelang 2]]
*[[Jokelang 2/Test Case Sentences]]
*[[Jokelang 2/Corpus]]

===Conlang Atlas of Language Structures-hosted translations===
*[https://cals.info/translation/language/jokelang-2 CALS translations]

==Other resources==
[https://cals.info/language/jokelang-2/ CALS]

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