Pradiul

Pradiul
Created by	IlL
Setting	Verse:Tricin
Language family	Lakovic Pradiul

Trây is a minor Txapoallian language. It's inspired by Slavic languages and Khmer.

Gibberish

Châdmađưth yôkhzhêm txel vrâte exphrova ôngâstô adliv sringanhu.

Found in my old Bolon article: Hơ! Hee! Nu ẞíwesơn zôviêz nhey Yươstúlɟeng ʼơư Winthúnưtzeh mangchưanưmaß!

Phonology

Consonant phonemes of Pradjuul

		Labial		Alveolar		Postalveolar		Palatal	Velar	Glottal
		plain	pal.	plain	pal.	plain	pal.	pal.	plain	plain	pal.
Nasal		m m	mj mʲ	n n̪	nj nʲ			ŋj ɲ	ŋ ŋ
Stop	plain	p p	pj pʲ	t t̪	tj tʲ			kj c	k k	ʔ ʔ	ʔj ʔʲ
	implosive	b ɓ	bj ɓʲ	d ɗ	dj ɗʲ
Affricate				ts t̪͡s̪	tsj t͡sʲ
Fricative	voiceless	f f	fj fʲ	s s̪	sj sʲ	sh ʃ	shj ʃʲ	xj, hj ç	x x	h h
	voiced	v v	vj vʲ
Approximant				l ɫ̪	lj lʲ			y j
Trill				r r	rj rʲ

Allowed finals: p t k m n ng l r y w h ʔ /p t k m n ŋ ɫ̪ r j w h ʔ/

Vowels

i ʉ u e ɵ o a iː ʉː uː eː ɵː oː aː iə ʉə uə

(In Pradjuul > 'i 'u u i 'ə ə a 'iː 'uː uː iː 'əː aː 'aː 'iə 'uə uə)

Vowel phonemes

	Front		Central		Back
	short	long	short	long	short	long
Close	i /i/	î /iː/			u /u/	û /uː/
Mid			e /ə/	ê /ə/
Open			a /a/	â /aː/

Grammar

Nouns

Plural: x-/i-

Possessive affixes:

• rê- = 1sg
• se- = 2sg
• hâ- = 3sg
• rêm- = 1pl
• sem- = 2pl
• ham- = 3pl

Adpositions

Trây has no true cases or adpositions (more basic semantic relations such as dative are expressed by applicatives). There are relational nouns (often with irregular inflection) that function similarly to adpositions.

comitative: txed, bod, had, divê, lavê, hevê

Verbs

Bipersonal affixes are portmanteau affixes