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[[Xeno-Mandarin]] (''Putongyu'' or ''Putonglawas'') is an Altaic conlang with a "nontonal Mandarin" aesthetic, spoken in northern China in | [[Xeno-Mandarin]] (''Putongyu'' or ''Putonglawas'') is an Altaic conlang with a "nontonal Mandarin" aesthetic, spoken in northern China and parts of Mongolia and Siberia in [[Verse:Irta]]. It's a hypothetical answer to the question "What if Mandarin were an Altaic sprachbund language?" | ||
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Latest revision as of 07:02, 7 January 2022
Xeno-Mandarin (Putongyu or Putonglawas) is an Altaic conlang with a "nontonal Mandarin" aesthetic, spoken in northern China and parts of Mongolia and Siberia in Verse:Irta. It's a hypothetical answer to the question "What if Mandarin were an Altaic sprachbund language?"
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Derive from existing "reconstructions" of Proto-Altaic
Chinese words in this language should sound so Mandarin they're even polysyllabic, like taiyang "sun" instead of ri
-zi is quite productive and works even with Altaic words
Andalusian Spanish-style vowel harmony?
Nouns
- nominative: -en / -ian
- accusative: -Ø / -ь
- genitive: -es / -ies (sai-siot)
- dative: -ade / -iade
- ablative: -ar / -iar
- locative: -am / -iam
- comitative: -emb / -iemb
- essive: -ao / -iao
- translative: -aza / -iaza