Xeno-Mandarin

Tiruttazhai is an Altaic conlang with an Icelandic, Scandinavian, PGmc and Tamil aesthetic, spoken in northern China in Lõis.

• retroflexes
• more consonant clusters (lC, nC, mC, fricativeC) including final ones
• preaspiration (including /ʰʈ/)

Sino words can begin with rt, rn, rs etc.

r and zh both pronounced [r ~ r̥], from Old Tiruttazhai *r and *z

• tiruhtazōi -> [tiɾʏʰtaɾai]

Nouns

• nominative: -inn
• accusative: -Ø
• genitive: -a
• dative: -aðu
• ablative: -ár
• locative: -ém
• comitative: -inum / -um / -alum / -aðum / -árum / -émum
• essive: -ai
• translative: -attu

Lexicon

línken < ȵiɪn kˠɛn
sývú < d͡ziɪ jɨu
suvanjam < t͡suən ŋɨɐm
kivallí < ɡˠiuᴇn liɪ
pijattá < bˠiæŋ təŋ
lysé < lɨ siᴇŋ
lausím < lɨɐŋ siɪm