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|creator          = Dillon Hartwig
|creator          = Dillon Hartwig
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|script            = Latn
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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===
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===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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|-
|-
! !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4 !! 5
! !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4 !! 5
|-
! British
| cocky || lua || five || colspan="2" | ha
|-
|-
! American
! American
| beer || ick || ooch || colspan="2" | dirt
| beer || ick || ooch || colspan="2" | dirt
|-
! !! 6 !! 7 !! 8 !! 9 !! 10
|-
|-
! British
! British
| cocky || lua || coal || colspan="2" | ha
| oh no || hick || wall || ewe || oomie
|-
! !! 6 !! 7 !! 8 !! 9 !! 10
|-
|-
! American
! American
| alty || yeti || seckies || dokas || on
| alty || yeti || seckies || dokas || on
|-
! !! 11 !! 12 !! 13 !! 14 !! 15
|-
|-
! British
! British
| oh no || hick || wall || ewe || oomie
| cockimie || lumie || coalmie || colspan="2" | hamie
|-
|-
! !! 11 !! 12 !! 13 !! 14 !! 15
! American
| beer-on || ick-on || ooch-on || colspan="2" | dirt-on
|-
|-
! American
! !! 16 !! 17 !! 18 !! 19 !! 20
| ??? || ??? || ??? || ??? || ???
|-
|-
! British
! British
| ??? || ??? || ??? || ??? || ???
| oh nomie || hickmie || wallmie || ewemie || ukalue
|-
! !! 16 !! 17 !! 18 !! 19 !! 20
|-
|-
! American
! American
| ??? || ??? || ??? || ??? || yermie
| alty-on || yeti-on || seckies-on || dokas-on || yermie
|-
! British
| ??? || ??? || ??? || ??? || ukalue
|-
|-
! !! 30 !! 40 !! 50 !! 60 !! 70
! !! 30 !! 40 !! 50 !! 60 !! 70
|-
! American
| oats || kirk || elly || rowspan="2" | ??? || rowspan="2" | ???
|-
|-
! British
! British
| canoke || cow || lime || rowspan="2" | on-alty || rowspan="2" | on-yeti
|-
|-
| canoke || cow || lime
! American
| oats || kirk || elly
|-
|-
! !! 80 !! 90 !! 100 !! 1,000 !! 1,000,000
! !! 80 !! 90 !! 100 !! 1,000 !! 1,000,000
|-
! British
| rowspan="2" | on-seckies || rowspan="2" | on-dokas || hanele || kaukany || rowspan="2" | big
|-
|-
! American
! American
| rowspan="2" | ??? || rowspan="2" | ??? || use || bin || rowspan="2" | big
| use || bin
|-
! British
| hanele || kaukany
|}
|}


====Units of measurement====
====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.
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===
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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 foodigitybar ah foodiggitybar. Yodel shoob why ah whoe ah forwhittling ation again undlebuh again jon.
'''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-digity-bar ah foo-diggity-bar.
|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
|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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