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|creator = Dillon Hartwig | |creator = Dillon Hartwig | ||
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====Pronouns==== | ====Pronouns==== | ||
Pronouns mark number, gender, and many other categories. | Pronouns mark number, gender, and many other categories. Informal plural pronouns in formal are instead singular. | ||
====Demonstratives==== | |||
Nouns and pronouns can be reduplicated with the opposite accent to act as preceding demonstratives. | |||
===Verbs=== | ===Verbs=== | ||
Verbs agree with their subject's accent unless the verb's object is British, in which case the verbs agrees with its object. | |||
===Questions=== | ===Questions=== | ||
Jokelang 2 has no overt question marking. Questions are asked by stating an affirmative sentence and demanding that the listener answers, usually with ''"Spillet capiche," "Answer (threatening imperative)." | |||
===Negation=== | ===Negation=== | ||
===Circumpositions=== | ===Circumpositions=== | ||
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===Numerals=== | ===Numerals=== | ||
Numerals agree in gender with their noun. | |||
{|class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;" | |||
|+ Numerals | |||
|- | |||
! !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4 !! 5 | |||
|- | |||
! British | |||
| cocky || lua || five || colspan="2" | ha | |||
|- | |||
! American | |||
| beer || ick || ooch || colspan="2" | dirt | |||
|- | |||
! !! 6 !! 7 !! 8 !! 9 !! 10 | |||
|- | |||
! British | |||
| oh no || hick || wall || ewe || oomie | |||
|- | |||
! American | |||
| alty || yeti || seckies || dokas || on | |||
|- | |||
! !! 11 !! 12 !! 13 !! 14 !! 15 | |||
|- | |||
! British | |||
| cockimie || lumie || coalmie || colspan="2" | hamie | |||
|- | |||
! American | |||
| beer-on || ick-on || ooch-on || colspan="2" | dirt-on | |||
|- | |||
! !! 16 !! 17 !! 18 !! 19 !! 20 | |||
|- | |||
! British | |||
| oh nomie || hickmie || wallmie || ewemie || ukalue | |||
|- | |||
! American | |||
| alty-on || yeti-on || seckies-on || dokas-on || yermie | |||
|- | |||
! !! 30 !! 40 !! 50 !! 60 !! 70 | |||
|- | |||
! British | |||
| canoke || cow || lime || rowspan="2" | on-alty || rowspan="2" | on-yeti | |||
|- | |||
! American | |||
| oats || kirk || elly | |||
|- | |||
! !! 80 !! 90 !! 100 !! 1,000 !! 1,000,000 | |||
|- | |||
! British | |||
| rowspan="2" | on-seckies || rowspan="2" | on-dokas || hanele || kaukany || rowspan="2" | big | |||
|- | |||
! American | |||
| use || bin | |||
|} | |||
====Units of measurement==== | |||
All unit words have paired imperial and metric meanings based on the noun they modify, imperial for American nouns and metric for British nouns. These pairs are not always near-equivalent. | |||
===Classifiers=== | |||
Classifiers are optional in informal speech, but in formal speech must precede nouns when modified by ''no'' or a numeral. Classifiers can also be applied to unmodified nouns as honorifics. | |||
===Derivational morphology=== | ===Derivational morphology=== | ||
====Part-of-speech modifiers==== | ====Part-of-speech modifiers==== | ||
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===Constituent order=== | ===Constituent order=== | ||
Word order is strictly SVO. | Word order is strictly SVO. | ||
===Noun and verb phrases=== | ===Noun and verb phrases=== | ||
Possessors, adjectives, and adverbs follow their head. Numerals and demonstratives precede their head. | |||
===Dependent clauses=== | ===Dependent clauses=== | ||
Dependent clauses follow their head. | |||
==Example texts== | ==Example texts== | ||
===Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 1=== | ===Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 1=== | ||
'''A murican whizz paw freedombuh ah reddingbuh | '''A murican whizz paw freedombuh ah reddingbuh foo digity bar ah foo diggity bar. Yodel shoob why ah whoe ah forwhittling ation again undlebuh again jon. | ||
{{interlinear | {{interlinear | ||
|A murican whizz paw freedom-buh ah redding-buh foo | |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 | |PL.US person {all known and unknown} bear.PASS.US free.US-ESS and equal.US-ESS in dignity in and in rights in | ||
||display-messages=no|italics2=no|italics3=no|ablist=US:American gender}} | ||display-messages=no|italics2=no|italics3=no|ablist=US:American gender}} | ||
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[[Category:Jokelang 2 language]] | [[Category:Jokelang 2 language]] | ||
[[Category:Jokelangs]] | |||
[[Category:Languages]] | [[Category:Languages]] | ||
[[Category:Conlangs]] | [[Category:Conlangs]] | ||