Tyrith

Tyrith/Lexicon

Compared to real-world Chinese, Standard Chinese (中出語 Türiŋit ŋää /ˈtyriŋit ˈŋæː/) has taken a dramatically different course in the alternate history of User:IlL/Lõis (地, L-Standard Chinese for 'Earth'). Türiŋit is a co-creation of User:IlL and User:Praimhín, inspired by Estonian and Turkish.

Notes

• A = a/ä
• O = e/ö/õ/o
• U = i/ü/ũ/u

Phonology

Consonants

		Labial	Dental	Alveolar		Palatal	Velar	Uvular	Glottal
				central	lateral
Nasal	voiceless	mh /m̥/		nh /n̥/			ŋh /ŋ̊/
	voiced	m /m/		n /n/			ŋ /ŋ/
Plosive	voiceless	p /p/		t /t/			k /k/	q /q/	ʔ /ʔ/
	voiced	b /b/		d /d/			g /ɡ/	ġ /ɢ/
Affricate	voiceless			ts /ts/
	voiced			dz /dz~z/
Fricative		f /f~v/	th /θ~ð/	s /s/	lh /ɬ/		kh /x~ɣ/		h /h/
Trill	voiceless			rh /r̥/
	voiced			r /r/
Approximant					l /l/		-i /j/	-u /w/

Vowels

Tyrith vowels

	Front				Back
	unrounded		rounded		unrounded		rounded
	short	long	short	long	short	long	short	long
Close	i /i/	ii /iː/	ü /y/	üü /yː/	ũ /ɯ/	ũũ /ɯː/	u /u/	uu /uː/
Mid	e /e/	ee /eː/	ö /ø/	öö /øː/	õ /ɤ/	õõ /ɤː/	o /o/	oo /oː/
Open	ä /æ/	ää /æː/			a /ɑ/	aa /ɑː/

glides: -i -u /-j -w/

Stress

Stress is always on the first syllable.

Morphology

Nouns

The plural suffix is -El: räŋe 'fish', räŋel 'fish, fishes'.

• Nominative: -0 (räŋe 'a fish', räŋe 'fish (plural)')
• Genitive: -(O)d (räŋed 'of a fish', räŋeled 'of fish')
• Ablative: -(U)t (räŋet 'from a fish', räŋelit 'from fish')
• Dative: -(O)b (räŋeb 'for a fish', räŋeleb 'for fish')

Pronouns

• "I": nom. 吾 ŋa /ˈŋɑ/; acc.: 我 ŋai; other cases: 我 ŋai-
• "you": nom. and acc. 汝 nää /ˈnæː/, other cases: näC- (e.g. gen. nät < *nätte, abl. näit 'from you')
• "he/she": 其 ge /ˈge/
• "we": 我民 ŋaimõŋ /ˈŋaimɤŋ/
• "you guys": 汝民 näpmeŋ /ˈnæpmeŋ/
• "they": 其民 gemeŋ /ˈgemeŋ/

Numerals

1: id /id/ 2: niis /niːs/ 3: sürm /syrm/ 4: silis /silis/ 5: paŋg /paŋg/ 6: kürg /kyrg/ 7: sid /sid/ 8: põrd /pɤrd/ 9: küü /kyː/ 10: teeb /teːb/