Fransáes

Fransáes is a jokelang created by Caelen Selke-Minogue. It is intended to fix the French language because it sorely needs it. It fixes the abomination that is French spelling, and also changes the grammar to conform with the more intelligent languages of the world.

Phonology

Consonants

Consonants
	Labial	Alveolar	Post-Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Uvular
Plosive	p /p/ b /b/	t /t/ d /d/			k /k/ g /g/
Fricative	f /f/ v /v/	s /s/ z /z/	sh /ʃ/ zh /ʒ/		x /x/	rh /ʁ/
Nasal	m /m/	n /n/		nn /ɲ/	ng /ŋ/
Tap/Flap		r /r/
Approximant			l /l/	j /j/

Vowels

Vowels
	Front	Middle	Back
Close	i /i/		u /u/
Close-mid	ae /e/	' /ə/	ou /o/
Open-Mid	e /ɛ/		o /ɔ/
Open		a /a/

Stress is always denoted by an acute (´). If stress occurs on a sound represented by two letters it is put on the first letter.

Syllable Structure

• CV
• CCV
• CVC
• V
• CCVC
• VC
• CCCV
• CCVCC
• CCCVC
• VCC
• CCCVCC

Morphology

Nouns

Fransáes has fourteen grammatical cases: Nominative, Accusative, Vocative, Dative, Genitive, Instrumental, Causal, Locative, Ablative, Sublative, Elative, Illative, Terminative and Temporal

	Function	Marking	English example	Francáes example
Nominative	Subject of finite verb	N/A	"The cat ate"	Lu sha mónzh
Accusative	Object of transitive verb	-u	"The cat ate rice"
Vocative	Addressee	-an	"Hello, Kat!"
Dative	Indirect object; to	-a	"The cat ate rice under the table"
Genitive	Possessor of noun; of	-de	"The leg of the table"
Instrumental	Means of performing a verb; with	-ave	"The cat ate rice with a fork"
Causal	The reason for a verb; for	-pu	"The cat went to the kitchen for rice"
Locative	General physical position; by	-pa	"The cat ate by the table"
Ablative	Movement from; from	-dupwi	"The cat walked away from the table"
Sublative	Movement toward; toward	-ve	"The cat walked toward the table"
Elative	Movement from; out of	-duö	"The cat walked out of the kitchen"
Illative	Movement toward; into	-don	"The cat walked into the kitchen"
Terminative	Limit of; until	-zhuska	"The cat had until noon to eat"
Temporal	Location of time; at	-on	"The cat ate at eleven"