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| '''Sésjall''' (''SAY-shul''; natively ''Sésjall-ŋó'' /s(ʲ)eːʃalˠ ŋ(ʲ)oː/ 'Sésjall language'; ''ŋó'' is from Middle Chinese 語) is a Sino-Xenic language spoken to the north of the Korean peninsula. It's inspired by Irish, Arabic and Farsi.
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| Stress: first long vowel, if no long vowel then initial
| | Inspirations: Mandarin, Semitic languages, Old Irish |
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| Middle Chinese ''-t'' > ''-r/-rr''
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| No initial clusters
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| ==Todo== | | ==Todo== |
| ''míllay'' = future
| | Proto *f v -> h? |
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| ''mansé'' = "long live", "hurrah!" | | ''yēni'' = laurel |
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| Sino numbers: ''laŋ, ir, njí, ssám, ssí, ŋŋó, lúk, sir, ffér, kú, djif, djifir, djifnjí, djifssám, djifssí, djifŋŋó, ...''
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| (''djifssám, djifssí'' often become ''djiffám, djiffí'')
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| 100: ppak /pˠak/
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| 1000: sin /s(ʲ)ɪn/
| | /p t k p’ t’ k’ b d g m n/ ''p t k ṗ ṭ ḳ b d g m n'' |
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| 10000: man /man/
| | /s ʃ ɬ ts’ tʃ’ ʔ h l r w j/ ''s š ś ṣ ṣ̌ ʔ h l r w y'' |
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| ''Hánkkuk'' = Korea | | Verapamil non-ejective stops ''p t k b d g'' become spirants, written ''φ θ χ β δ γ'' respectively, when after a vowel and not geminated. This process is similar to Hebrew begadkefat, and some dialects even lenite ''m n r'' to /w̃ ð̃ ɾ/ in addition. |
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| ''Tjúŋkkuk'' = China | | The consonants /ʔ h/ and ejectives can't be geminated. |
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| ''Njirffun'' = Japan
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| ''Yurnnam'' = Vietnam
| | Nouns in [PAGENAME] come in three numbers: singular, dual and plural, and three states: indefinite, definite and construct (marked with suffixes and/or sometimes with vowel changes). Furthermore there are six cases marked with prepositions: |
| | *nominative |
| | *accusative |
| | *lative |
| | *ablative |
| | *locative |
| | *instrumental/comitative |
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| ''Lláŋyé'' = Rangya
| | ===Verbs=== |
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| ===Sino orthography===
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| Sésjall is written in a mixture of native, phonetic characters (in which each character represents one morpheme and encodes the phonetics) and ''Xxánzzí'', or Chinese characters, for Sinoxenic loans.
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| ===''Rrómazzí''===
| | Verbs don't inflect for person or tense, but they have two forms: absolute and conjunct, used as in Old Irish. |
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| ==Sample texts== | | ==Syntax== |
| ttúŋttaŋ or béŋttaŋ = equal
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| ''Kkúff njínkaná fallayárr bbásjélla djíyúsjarratán ssunŋémitji ginlíxxa tjurdih ttúŋttaŋsjarrah. Njínkaná lisjaŋitji láŋsimé daxxttóbatán, ózzáhigid xéŋdéáyurr saŋzínúl haŋddúŋkadaxs djakkah.''
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| One accent: [ku:ʍ ɳi:ɲcɛnʲæ: fʲɛɫɔja:rˠ ba:ʂə:ɫɑ ɖʐɨ:jʉ:ʂɜɾˠɑ:n sˠʊnɲe:mʲɪʈʂʊ ɟɪnʲlʲi:χ:ɔ ʈʂʊrʲdʲɪh tˠu:ŋtˠɔŋʂɜɾˠɔh]
| | [PAGENAME] syntax is SVO and head-final like Mandarin. |