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==Orthography and phonology==
==Orthography and phonology==
Jokelang 2 orthography and phonology are identical to modern [[w:General_American_English|General American]] and [[w:Received Pronunciation|Received Pronunciation]] English, except the General American accent retains older [ʍ] and the Received Pronunciation accent, and a small number of nouns have non-English pronunciations.
Jokelang 2 orthography and phonology are identical to modern [[w:General_American_English|General American]] and [[w:Received Pronunciation|Received Pronunciation]] English, except the General American accent retains older [ʍ] and the Received Pronunciation accent has [[w:Linking_and_intrusive_R#IntrusiveR|intrusive R]], and a small number of nouns have non-English pronunciations.


See also [[Jokelang_2#Accent agreement|Accent agreement]].
See also [[Jokelang_2#Accent agreement|Accent agreement]].

Revision as of 17:34, 3 February 2024

Jokelang 2
English
Pronunciation[ˈʔɛŋgɫɪʃ]
Created byDillon Hartwig
Date2023
Default
  • Jokelang 2

Jokelang 2 (Jokelang 2: English [ˈʔɛŋgɫɪʃ]) is my first and only serious joke language.

Orthography and phonology

Jokelang 2 orthography and phonology are identical to modern General American and Received Pronunciation English, except the General American accent retains older [ʍ] and the Received Pronunciation accent has intrusive R, and a small number of nouns have non-English pronunciations.

See also Accent agreement.

Morphology

Alignment

Jokelang 2 has nominative-accusative morphosyntactic alignment.

Accent agreement

In agreement with their head noun's gender (except see Verbs), all verbs, adjectives, numerals, and measurement units are pronounced with either a General American (for American nouns) or Received_Pronunciation (for British nouns) accent.

Nouns

Nouns are gendered American or British.

Pronouns

Pronouns mark number, gender, and many other categories.

Verbs

Questions

Negation

Circumpositions

Jokelang 2 has no prepositions or postpositions, only circumpositions.

Numerals

Derivational morphology

Part-of-speech modifiers

Syntax

Constituent order

Word order is strictly SVO.

Noun and verb phrases

Dependent clauses

Example texts

Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 1

A murican whizz paw freedombuh ah reddingbuh foodigitybar ah foodiggitybar. Yodel shoob why ah whoe ah forwhittling ation again undlebuh again jon.

A

PL.US

murican

person

whizz

all known and unknown

paw

bear.PASS.US

freedom-buh

free.US-ESS

ah

and

redding-buh

equal.US-ESS

foo-digity-bar

in-dignity-in

ah

and

foo-diggity-bar.

in-rights-in

A murican whizz paw freedom-buh ah redding-buh foo-digity-bar ah foo-diggity-bar.

PL.US person {all known and unknown} bear.PASS.US free.US-ESS and equal.US-ESS in-dignity-in and in-rights-in


Yodel

3PL.US

shoob

give.PASS.UK

why

reason

ah

and

whoe

conscience

ah

and

forwhittling

do.US

ation

should.US

again

RECP

undle-buh

brother-ESS

again

RECP

jon.

as if.US

Yodel shoob why ah whoe ah forwhittling ation again undle-buh again jon.

3PL.US give.PASS.UK reason and conscience and do.US should.US RECP brother-ESS RECP {as if}.US

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Other resources

CALS