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'''Croissant''' is the ancestor of the Zoomic language family spoken on the planet Rulak. It's meant to be French gibberish with retroflexes.
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==Phonology==
The same as French, but with three additional retroflex consonants: '''ṭ''' /ʈ/, '''ḍ''' /ɖ/ and '''ṇ''' /ɳ/.
===Orthography===
Written like French.
===Consonants===
===Vowels===
===Prosody===
====Stress====
====Intonation====
===Phonotactics===
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===Morphophonology===
==Morphology==
===Articles===
The indefinite article is "le/la" in free variation.
The definite article is "en".
===Nouns===
Croissant nouns have two cases: nominative and genitive. Nouns ending with consonants use this paradigm:
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!  !! Singular !! Plural
|-
| Nominative || - || -o
|-
| Genitive || -e || -ɑ̃
|}
For example,
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! ''riège'' (wood) !! Singular !! Plural
|-
| Nominative || riège || riègeau
|-
| Genitive || riègé || riègent
|}
(Croissant final -ent is always pronounced.) Nouns ending with vowels use the same paradigm, but with an intrusive t:
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!  !! Singular !! Plural
|-
| Nominative || - || -to
|-
| Genitive || -te || -tɑ̃
|}
For example,
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! ''crus'' (grass) !! Singular !! Plural
|-
| Nominative || crus || crûteau
|-
| Genitive || crûté || crûtant
|}
===Verbs===
Verbs don't inflect for number or person.
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! ''gauṇe'' 'to love' !! Indicative !! Subjunctive
|-
| Present || gauṇe || gauṇement
|-
| Past || dégauṇe|| dégauṇement
|-
| Future || gauṇé || gauṇaise
|}
====Non-finite forms====
* Imperative: gauṇier!
* Infinitive: gauṇesse
* Verbal noun: gauṇerre (genitive form: gauṇerez)
===Pronouns===
Unlike in English, there are no accusative forms of pronouns in Croissant.
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Pronoun !! Nominative !! Genitive
|-
| I|| dans|| danné
|-
| you|| lin || lunné
|-
| he / she || fuis|| fuisé
|-
| we|| deman|| demé
|-
| you folks|| sonc|| sonché
|-
| they|| fuille|| fuillé
|-
| this || jus || jusé
|-
| these || juseau || jusant
|-
| that|| honne || honné
|-
| those || honneau || honnant
|-
| that over there || ṇeux|| ṇeusé
|-
| those over there || ṇeuseau || ṇeusant
|-
| who (interrogative) || tris|| trisé
|-
| who (plural) || trisau || trisent
|-
| what || treux || treusé
|-
| what (plural) || treusau || treusent
|}
====Relative pronouns====
''avec'' = who; genitive form ''avez''
''chez'' = that; genitive form ''chez''
==Syntax==
Croissant is an almost exact relex of English.
===Constituent order===
===Noun phrase===
===Verb phrase===
===Sentence phrase===
===Dependent clauses===
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