Tyrith

Tyrith/Lexicon

Tyrith (Tyrith jæ̂ /ˈtyriθ ˈjæː/, from older *Türiŋit) is a divergent descendent of Old Chinese with vowel harmony. It also has loans from Middle Chinese. Türiit is a co-creation of User:IlL and User:Praimhín, inspired by Medh Chêl.

• remi = 'name'
  • remizech = 'literal'
• Beri næ̂b! = 'hello'
• pæring = 'pair'
  • pæringlæch = duality
• -zech = adjectivizer (from 性)
• nœ̂ = wisecracker

Zhengzhang Shangfang = Deriiskädri Dääsfää

Notes

• A = a/ä
• O = e/ö/ë/o
• U = i/ü/ï/u

Phonology

Consonants

		Labial	Dental	Alveolar		Palatal	Velar	Uvular	Glottal
				central	lateral
Nasal	voiceless	mh /m̥/		nh /n̥/
	voiced	m /m/		n /n/
Plosive	voiceless	p /p/		t /t/			k /k/	q /q/
	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/	ï /ɯ/	ïï /ɯː/	u /u/	uu /uː/
Mid	e /e/	ee /eː/	ö /ø/	öö /øː/	ë /ɤ/	ëë /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: rää 'fish', rääl 'fish, fishes'.

• Nominative/Accusative: -0 (rää 'a fish', rääl 'fish (plural)')
• Genitive: 之 -(E)d (rääd 'of a fish', rääled 'of fish')
• Ablative: 出 -(U)t (räät 'from a fish', räälit 'from fish')
• Dative: 給 -(E)b (rääb 'for a fish', rääleb 'for fish')
• Instrumental
• Locative
• Lative

Pronouns

• "I": nom. ja /ˈjɑ/; acc. jai; other cases take the stem jai-
• "you": nää /ˈnæː/
• "he/she": ge /ˈge/
• "we": jaimë /ˈjɑimɤ/
• "you guys": nääme /ˈnæːme/
• "they" (animate): geme /ˈgeme/

Verbs

• 'to eat', present tense: melgiä, melgin, melgi, melgiäm, melginem, melgel
• 'to eat', present progressive: melgibä, melgibin, melgib, melgibäm, melgibinem, melgibel
• 'to drink': qürimbä, qürimbin, qürimb, qürimbäm, qürimbinem, qürimbel
• Süder qürimbibä = I am drinking water

Subject pronouns are required in the third person: Ge süder qürimb = He drinks water

Adjectives

Adjectives only inflect for degree.

• 'good, better, best': hû, hûvad, so-hûvad
• Beri tærrith hûvad = Peace is better than war

Numerals

1: id 2: niis 3: sürm 4: silis 5: pang 6: kürg 7: sid 8: përd 9: küü 10: teeb 100: parg 1000: sïnï 10000: rämens