Hiberno-Japanese

Irish-Japanese-Mandarin-Korean (mainly Irish and Sino-Jp) creole spoken in Irta Tricin's Cualand

Epenthetic vowels in words from Irish: broad consonants take -ə, slender consonants take -i

Phonology

a e i o u /a e i o ə~ɨ/

p t k b d g s š č j h m n r w y /pʰ t̪ʰ kʰ p~b t̪~d̪ k~g s ʃ~ɕ tʃʰ tʃ h m n ɾ~l w j/

Lexicon

• unarigi = sea (Ir. an fharraige)
• ishchi = water (Ir. uisce)
• nyaun → nyon = sky (Ir. neamh)
• to = and (for nouns)
• agusu = and (for sentences)
• tā = yes, really (Ir. tá)
• nīha → niya = no, not (Ir. ní hea, Korean aniyeyo)
• fyaru ← fear = person
• maku ← mac = male (adj), man
• māri ← Máire = female (adj), woman
• ADJ na NOUN, POSSESSOR na NOUN
• ihi ← ith = to eat
• ōu ← ól = to drink
• aburi ← abair = to say
• sunāun (← snámh) → sunān = to swim