Hiberno-Japanese

Irish-Japanese-Mandarin-Korean (mainly Irish, Mandarin and Sino-Xenic) creole spoken in Irta Tricin's Cualand

Epenthetic vowels in words from Irish: broad consonants take -ə, slender consonants take -i

mishe ōu ishike = I drink (drank, will drink...) water

mishe gurāshmas tusa = I love you

• shān dini, māri dini = man, woman (age agnostic)
• shān fyaru, māri fyaru = (adult) man, woman
• shān kuwan, māri kuwan = boy, girl

Phonology

a e i o u /a e i o ə~ɨ/

p t k b d g s š č j h m n r w y /pʰ t̪ʰ kʰ p~b t̪~d̪ k~g s ʃ~ɕ tʃʰ tʃ h m n ɾ~l w j/

-l -il -r -ir -> -u -ru -ru -ri

Lexicon (before erosion)

• unarige = sea (Ir. an fharraige)
• ishike = water (Ir. uisce)
• unnyaun → unnyon = sky (Ir. an neamh)
• to = and (for nouns)
• agusu = and (for sentences)
• tā = yes, really (Ir. tá)
• nīha → nya = no, not (Ir. ní hea, Korean aniyeyo)
• fyaru ← fear = person
• shān ← Seán = male (adj), man
• māri ← Máire = female (adj), woman
• ADJ na NOUN, POSSESSOR na NOUN
• ihi ← ith = to eat
• ōu ← ól = to drink
• aburi ← abair = to say
• sunāun (← snámh) → sunān → saunan = to swim
• ēshiki (← éisc) = fish
• fāru (← fáil 'to find, to get') = to have, there is
• mishe = 1st person pronoun
• tusa = 2nd person pronoun
• gunjū (← gōngjù) = instrument, tool
• nyorime (ní bhfuair mé) = there is not