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'''Zēsti'''(''Ζήστι'', pronounced [ˈzɛːˌsti]), a.k.a '''Rizzish'''(''Ρίζι'') is a Romance '''jokelang''' made to be as zesty as possible.
'''Zēsti'''(''Ζήστι'' or ''Zḗsti'', <small>Zēsti:</small> [[Help:IPA|<nowiki>[ˈzɛːˌsti]</nowiki>]]), a.k.a '''Rizzish'''(''Ρίζι'') is a Romance '''jokelang''' made to be as zesty as possible.
It uses the Greek alphabet, which I personally consider the zestiest script of all time.
It uses the Greek alphabet, which I personally consider the zestiest script of all time.


A signed version of Zēsti also exists, called Unspoken Rizz(''ρίζι τασίτε'').
A signed version of Zēsti also exists, called Unspoken Rizz(''ρίζιε τασίτε'').
==Phonology==
==Phonology==
===Orthography===
===Orthography===
Zēsti uses the [[w:Greek script|Greek]] alphabet, because its zesty as hell.
The Zēsti alphabet is identical to the Greek alphabet, although pronunciation differs. For example, 〈Χχ〉(chi) is pronounced [ˈt͡ʃi], although the modern Greek pronunciation would be [ˈxi].
{|class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
|+ Zēsti alphabet
|-
! Alphabet
| Aα || Ββ || Γγ || Δδ || Εε || Ζζ || Ηη || Θθ || Ιι || Κκ || Λλ || Μμ || Νν || Ξξ || Οο || Ππ || Ρρ || Σσς || Ττ || Υυ || Χχ || Φφ || Ψψ || Ωω
|-
! Romanisation
| Aa || Bb || Gg || Dd || Ee || Zz || Ēē || Ðð || Ii || Kk || Ll || Mm || Nn || Xx || Oo || Pp || Rr || Ss || Tt || Uu || Çç || Ff || Psps || Õõ
|-
! IPA
| a || bʱ || gʱ || dʱ || ε || z || e || θ || i || kʰ || l || m || n || t͡s || ɔ || p || r || s || tʰ || u || t͡ʃ || f || ps || o
|}


===Consonants===
===Consonants===
All consonants in Zēsti are aspirated, because they sound nicer that way.
All plosives in Zēsti are aspirated depending on whether they are voiced or not, e.g. /tʰ/(unvoiced) or /dʱ/(voiced).
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
!
! colspan="2" | [[w:Labial consonant|Labial]]
! colspan="2" | [[w:Dental consonant|Dental]]
! colspan="2" | [[w:Alveolar consonant|Alveolar]]
! colspan="2" | [[w:Postalveolar consonant|Post-<br>alveolar]]/<br>[[w:Palatal consonant|palatal]]
! colspan="2" | [[w:Velar consonant|Velar]]
! colspan="2" | [[w:Glottal consonant|Glottal]]
|-
! [[w:Nasal consonant|Nasal]]
| style="border-right: 0;" | || style="border-left: 0;" | [[w:Voiced bilabial nasal|m]]
| colspan="2" |
| style="border-right: 0;" | || style="border-left: 0;" | [[w:Voiced alveolar nasal|n]]
| style="border-right: 0;" | || style="border-left: 0;" | ([[w:Voiced palatal nasal|ɲ]])
| style="border-right: 0;" | || style="border-left: 0;" | ([[w:Voiced velar nasal|ŋ]])
| colspan="2" |
|-
! [[w:stop consonant|Stop]]
| style="border-right: 0;" | [[w:Voiceless bilabial stop|pʰ]] || style="border-left: 0;" | [[w:Voiced bilabial stop|bʱ]]
| colspan="2" |
| style="border-right: 0;" | [[w:Voiceless alveolar stop|tʰ]] || style="border-left: 0;" | [[w:Voiced alveolar stop|dʱ]]
| colspan="2" |
| style="border-right: 0;" | &nbsp;[[w:Voiceless velar stop|kʰ]] || style="border-left: 0;" | [[w:Voiced velar stop|ɡʱ]]
| colspan="2" |
|-
! [[w:Affricate consonant|Affricate]]
| colspan="2" |
| colspan="2" |
| style="border-right: 0;" | [[w:Voiceless alveolar sibilant affricate|t͡s]] || style="border-left: 0;" |
| style="border-right: 0;" | [[w:Voiceless palato-alveolar affricate|t͡ʃ]] || style="border-left: 0;" |
| colspan="2" |
| colspan="2" |
|-
! [[w:fricative consonant|Fricative]]
| style="border-right: 0;" | [[w:Voiceless labiodental fricative|f]] || style="border-left: 0;" |
| style="border-right: 0;" | [[w:Voiceless dental fricative|θ]] || style="border-left: 0;" | 
| style="border-right: 0;" | [[w:Voiceless alveolar sibilant|s]] || style="border-left: 0;" | [[w:Voiced alveolar sibilant|z]]
| style="border-right: 0;" | ([[w:Voiceless palato-alveolar fricative|ʃ]]) || style="border-left: 0;" |
| colspan="2" |
| style="border-right: 0;" | || style="border-left: 0;" | ([[w:Voiced glottal fricative|ɦ]])
|-
! [[w:Lateral consonant|Lateral]]
| colspan="2" |
| colspan="2" |
| style="border-right: 0;" | || style="border-left: 0;" | [[w:Voiced alveolar lateral approximant|l]]
| style="border-right: 0;" | || style="border-left: 0;" |
| colspan="2" |
| colspan="2" |
|-
! [[w:Trill consonant|Trill]]
| colspan="2" |
| colspan="2" |
| style="border-right: 0;" | || style="border-left: 0;" | [[w:Voiced alveolar trill|r]]
| colspan="2" |
| colspan="2" |
| colspan="2" |
|}
/ʃ/ is only pronounced in the digraph 〈σς〉, /ɲ/ is only pronounced in the digraphs 〈νι〉or 〈νη〉and /ŋ/ is only pronounced in the digraph 〈γγ〉. /ɦ/ is only pronounced in the digraph 〈χς〉(çs). Another digraph is 〈μλ〉(ml).
 
===Vowels===
===Vowels===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
!
! colspan="2" | [[w:Front vowel|Front]]
! colspan="2" | [[w:Central vowel|Central]]
! colspan="2" | [[w:Back vowel|Back]]
|-
! [[w:Close vowel|Close]]
| style="border-right: 0;" | [[w:Close front vowel|i]] || style="border-left: 0;" |
| colspan="2" |
| style="border-right: 0;" | || style="border-left: 0;" | [[w:Close back vowel|u]]
|-
! [[w:Close-mid vowel|Close-mid]]
| style="border-right: 0;" | [[w:Close-mid front vowel|e]] || style="border-left: 0;" |
| colspan="2" |
| style="border-right: 0;" | || style="border-left: 0;" | [[w:Close-mid back vowel|o]]
|-
! [[w:Mid vowel|Mid]]
| colspan="2" |
| colspan="2" | ([[w:Mid central vowel|ə]])
| colspan="2" |
|-
! [[w:Open-mid vowel|Open-mid]]
| style="border-right: 0;" | [[w:Open-mid front vowel|ε]] || style="border-left: 0;" |
| colspan="2" |
| style="border-right: 0;" | || style="border-left: 0;" | [[w:Open-mid back vowel|ɔ]]
|-
! [[w:Open vowel|Open]]
| style="border-right: 0;" | [[w:Open front vowel|a]] || style="border-left: 0;" |
| colspan="2" |
| colspan="2" |
|}
===Prosody===
===Prosody===
====Stress====
====Stress====
====Intonation====
Like in Greek, the ''tonos''(´) is used to indicate where stress is placed, although by default stress is paroxytonic, meaning stress is placed on the penultimate syllable of a word.
===Phonotactics===
Most consonant clusters in Zēsti are identical to those in Greek, such as 〈γγ〉(transliterated as 〈gg〉in Latin) would be pronounced [ˈŋg], as well as 〈σς〉(transliterated as 〈ss〉) being pronounced /ʃ/. An example of this would be ''τέγγο''(teggo), meaning "I have".


===Phonotactics===
Vowel clusters are more unique, for example 〈αο〉or 〈αω〉(transliterated as 〈ao〉and 〈aõ〉respectively) are both pronounced [ə].
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===Morphophonology===
===Morphophonology===
Zēsti does not have a /h/ or /x/ sound, so often times it gets converted into a /t͡ʃ/(χ). Even basic words, like "man", turns from French ''homme'' to Zēsti ''[[Contionary:χώμο|χώμο]]''(chõmo).
==Morphology==
==Morphology==
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===Nouns===
 
====Grammatical gender====
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All nouns in Zēsti have a grammatical gender - either masculine or feminine<ref>sorry guys, but this is a romance language. gotta have grammatical gender ¯\_(ツ)_/¯</ref>. Masculine nouns tend to end in ''-o''/''-ω'', while feminine nouns tend to end in ''-α'', although they can be concretely identified by the article behind it, as seen in this table:
 
{| class="wikitable"
Nouns
|+ Singular articles
Adjectives
|-
Verbs
! !! Masculine !! Feminine
Adverbs
|-
Particles
! Definite
Derivational morphology
| ''ελ''(''λη'') || ''λα''
|-
! Indefinite
| ''υν'' || ''ύνα''
|}
{| class="wikitable"
|+ Plural articles
|-
! !! Masculine !! Feminine
|-
! Definite
| ''ελήρ''(''λήρε'') || ''λάζε''
|-
! Indefinite
| ''ύνες'' || ''ύνας''
|}
The alternate masculine definite article ''λη''(''lē'') is used only as a direct object pronoun.<br>
'''Examples:'''<br>
''Τέγγο ασσέτερ ύν τελέ.''(''Téggo asséter ún telé'', I bought a TV.)<br>
''Τέγγο '''λη''' ασσέτερ.''(''Téggo '''lē''' asséter'', I bought '''it'''.)<br>
''Νω γύστο Λάυρα.''(''Nõ gústo Láura'', I don't like Laura.)<br>
''Νω '''λα''' γύστο.''(''Nõ '''la''' gústo'', I don't like '''her'''.)


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===Verbs===
Zēsti is a null pronoun language, and instead pronouns are inferred through the inflection of the verb in a sentence, which itself can be deduced by the suffix of the inflected verb. Inflection also varies depending on the ending of the infinitive, e.g. ''τένερ'' has a different inflection than ''φίνιρ''.
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
|+ Verbs ending in -er
|-
! !! Suffix
|-
! ''έχο''(I)
| ''-o''
|-
! ''τυ''(you singular)
| ''-ες''
|-
! ''ιλ''/''ίλα''(he/she singular)
| ''-ε''
|-
! ''νοσώδο''(we)
| ''-έσος''
|-
! ''φοσώδο''(you plural)
| ''-έις''
|-
! ''ίλες''/''ιλάες''(they(m)/they(f))
| ''-ενς''
|}
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
|+ Verbs ending in -ir
|-
! !! Suffix
|-
! ''έχο''(I)
| ''-ι''
|-
! ''τυ''(you singular)
| ''-ις''
|-
! ''ιλ''/''ίλα''(he/she singular)
| ''-ιμ''
|-
! ''νοσώδο''(we)
| ''-ος''
|-
! ''φοσώδο''(you plural)
| ''-έις''
|-
! ''ίλες''/''ιλάες''(they(m)/they(f))
| ''-σενς''
|}
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
|+ Verbs ending in -ēr
|-
! !! Suffix
|-
! ''έχο''(I)
| ''-ω''
|-
! ''τυ''(you singular)
| ''-ης''
|-
! ''ιλ''/''ίλα''(he/she singular)
| ''-ημ''
|-
! ''νοσώδο''(we)
| ''-ημος''
|-
! ''φοσώδο''(you plural)
| ''-έις''
|-
! ''ίλες''/''ιλάες''(they(m)/they(f))
| ''-ενς''
|}
====Irregular verbs====
The two main irregular verbs are ''σηρ''(''sēr'', to be) and ''τένερ''(''téner'', to have).
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
|+ Conjugation of [[Contionary:σηρ|sēr]]
|-
! !! Suffix
|-
! ''έχο''(I)
| ''σω''
|-
! ''τυ''(you singular)
| ''ες''
|-
! ''ιλ''/''ίλα''(he/she singular)
| ''ηζε''
|-
! ''νοσώδο''(we)
| ''σώμος''
|-
! ''φοσώδο''(you plural)
| ''ητίς''
|-
! ''ίλες''/''ιλάες''(they(m)/they(f))
| ''σώντε''
|}
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
|+ Conjugation of [[Contionary:τένερ|téner]]
|-
! !! Suffix
|-
! ''έχο''(I)
| ''τέγγο''
|-
! ''τυ''(you singular)
| ''τήνες''
|-
! ''ιλ''/''ίλα''(he/she singular)
| ''τίνε''
|-
! ''νοσώδο''(we)
| ''τηνύμος''
|-
! ''φοσώδο''(you plural)
| ''τινείσε''
|-
! ''ίλες''/''ιλάες''(they(m)/they(f))
| ''τηνσε''
|}
=====Examples=====
'''[[Contionary:σηρ|σηρ]]''' - '''''Σω''' υν χώμο''.('''''Sõ''' un çõmo'', I am a man)<br>
'''[[Contionary:τένερ|τένερ]]''' - ''Ελ τόσολτω '''τίνε''' υν χύρο.''(''El tósoltõ '''tíne''' un çúro'', The firefighter has a churro.)


==Syntax==
==Syntax==
===Constituent order===
===Constituent order===
Zēsti is generally an SVO(subject-verb-object) language, but when a direct object pronoun takes the place of a regular object, it is placed before the verb, such that it becomes an SOV sentence.
===Noun phrase===
===Noun phrase===
===Verb phrase===
===Verb phrase===
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