Knašta

Knashta
Knašta
Pronunciation	[[Help:IPA|'knæʃta]]
Created by	–
Native speakers	Unknown ()
Language family	Indo-Korinthic Knashtic Knashta
Language codes
ISO 639-3	qtz

Background

The Knašta language (English: [kɪnæʃta]), is a language spoken by the Corstek people, who reside on the east coast of North America. The language is related to the Corstek language, and contact with the English and French speaking peoples of the east coast has given rise to a creole called Kombiez.

Knašta is an Indo-Korinthic language. Proto-Indo-Korinthic was spoken in the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent before the arrival of Indo-European speaking peoples. For an unspecified reason, the Korinthic people migrated out of India and settled in Greece in 100 BCE. The source of the name 'Korinthic' comes from the Proto-Indo-Korinthic word korintʰíkasʷēgrotʰníosī ([korɪntʰikasʷɛːgrotʰniosɪː]), which means 'the people who went to Corinth (Greece)' (literally Corinth-went-people). The Korinthic people then eventually migrated to what is modern-day France, where Latin heavily influenced their speech.

After the fall of the Roman Empire, the Korinthic peoples split. What are now called the Knashtic people (who refer to themselves as Corsteks), moved north into what is now the Netherlands, where their language was influenced by the Germanic peoples that lived there. The Korstekic people (who also refer to themselves as Corsteks), moved east into what is now the Czech republic, where their language was influenced by the Slavic peoples that lived there.

During the 18th century many Knaštic Corsteks went to North America, and founded the Republic of Corstekistan.

Phonology

Consonants

	Bilabial	Labio-dental	Dental	Alveolar	Post-alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal	m			n			ŋ
Plosive	p b			t d			k g
Fricative		f v	θ ð	z s	ʃ ʒ	ç ʝ		h
Approximant	w			ɹ		j
Trill				r
Lateral app.				l

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i		u
Near-Close	ɪ
Close-Mid	e ø		o
Mid	e̞*
Open-mid	ɛ ɛ̃		ʌ ɔ
Near-open	æ
Open	a		ɑ ɑ̃

• This vowel sound only occurs according to the Tsí Rule.

Grammar

Morphology

Knašta is an agglutinative language. Word meanings can be changed by adding an array of different prefixes and suffixes, and word compounding between all classes of words (noun, verb, etc.) is allowed.

Nouns

Nouns in Knašta have no gender, and are all made plural by adding the suffix sin.

Nouns are inflected for two cases, nominative and genitive. The nominative form of the word is unchanged while the genitive form of the word contains the ins suffix, as seen in the below example.

ňos - person

Nominative	Genitive	Plural
ňos	ňos-ins	ňossin
person	person's	people

Pronouns

There are three persons in Knašta.

	1st singular	2nd singular	3rd singular	1st plural	2nd singular	3rd singular
Nominative	Joj	Vošní	Íl (he), Èl (she), Lot (it)	Nærsk	Vošnísin	Lotsen
Genitive	Jo-ins	Vošní-ins	Íl-ins, Èl-ins, Lot-ins	Nærsk-ins	Vošnísin-ins	Lotsen-ins
Objective	Jo	Vošní	Íl, Èl, Lot	Nærsk	Vošnísin	Lotsen

Note that only the first person singular pronoun has an irregular objective and genitive form.

Verbs

Almost all Knašta verbs are regular. There are only four irregular verbs in the entire language: kanel (can), potečřé (might), avbendí (need), můsťen (must), and ǰinxa (be, exist).

Regular Knašta verbs are grouped into two classes based on how they are conjugated, -va and -nés verbs. Which group any particular verb is in must be memorized, as it cannot be determined from the verb itself alone. The majority of regular Knašta verbs are -nés verbs.

-va verbs

-va verbs add the suffix va to the verb with both second person forms. See the example below.

Present Tense Conjugation of Het (To Stop)

1st singular	2nd singular	3rd singular	1st plural	2nd plural	3rd plural
Joj het	Vošní hetva	Íl, Èl, Lot het	Nærsk het	Vošnísin hetva	Lotsen het

-nés verbs

-nés verbs add the suffix nés to the verb with both second person forms. See the example below.

Present Tense Conjugation of Aďeska (To Help)

1st singular	2nd singular	3rd singular	1st plural	2nd plural	3rd plural
Joj aďeska	Vošní aďeskanés	Íl, Èl, Lot aďeska	Nærsk aďeska	Vošnísin aďeskanés	Lotsen aďeska

Verb Tense

Tense is changed through the addition of one or multiple prefixes and suffixes. See the table below.

Affix	Meaning	Example	Example Translation
sen-	past	Joj sen-parlenska a íl.	I talked to him.
són-	perfect	Joj són-parlenska a íl.	I have talked to him.
til-	future	Joj til-parlenska a íl.	I will talk to him.
-link	present perfect	Joj parlenska-link a íl.	I am talking to him.

As stated above, these can be combined, as in the sentence Joj sen-parlenska-link a íl, which means I was talking to him.