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[[Xeno-Mandarin]] (''Putongyu'') is an Altaic conlang with a Mandarin aesthetic, spoken in northern China in | [[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?" | ||
==Todo== | |||
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== | ==Nouns== | ||
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*nominative: -en / -ian | *nominative: -en / -ian | ||
*accusative: -Ø / -ь | *accusative: -Ø / -ь | ||
*genitive: - | *genitive: -es / -ies (sai-siot) | ||
*dative: -ade / - | *dative: -ade / -iade | ||
*ablative: -ar / - | *ablative: -ar / -iar | ||
*locative: -am / - | *locative: -am / -iam | ||
*comitative: -emb | *comitative: -emb / -iemb | ||
*essive: -ao / -iao | *essive: -ao / -iao | ||
*translative: -aza / - | *translative: -aza / -iaza | ||
==Lexicon== | ==Lexicon== | ||