Verse:Anachron/Arabo-Japanese
Arabo-Japanese is a variety of Japanese spoken in Irta's Sakhalin, Mongolia and parts of Canada. It's notable for having lots of Arabic and Persian loanwords.
Todo
Japanese-made Perso-Arabic words analogous to wasei eigo and wasei kango?
Some unexpected Sino-Japanese words where OTL Japanese would use a native or English word
R/L in Arabic and Persian borrowed the way Japanese borrows them in English instead of simply merging them?
Written in Perso-Arabic script
Middle Japanese + Arabic/Persian + subsequent sound changes
jigā = liver, seat of emotions (like "heart" in English), (poetic) other/second
- the first two senses come from PIE *yekwr, the last one from PIE *dwi-kwer-
nān - bread; (poetic) name
- ishin is a more common poetic synonym for "name"
nāme - book
kitābuhāne - library
abū - cloud (Internet)
mīe = fruit (earlier *miwe)
baji = some
hendese = geometry
umīzu = hope
bāchi = garden
nei = reed flute
sarāmōreikun = assalāmu 3alaykum
ōreikunsarān = wa 3alaykum salām
S, D, T, Z -> suw-, zuw-, tsuw-, zuw-
zuiudō = Difda3
nōsu = nafs
ishichōmāru = isti3māl
tasuwauō, tasuō - taSawwur
rutsū - luTf
tsuibbu = Tibb
bōzū = ba3D
tsuiuru = Tifl
History
The most recent wave of Iranian and Scythian migration in Irta's northeast Asia
Personal names
Persian origin
Hēdoushi, Rusutan, Sōrābu, Hereidūn, Janshīzu, Kaifusurou, Manūchē, Mērān, Shiamaku, Shiyawashi
Orthography
Arabo-Japanese is written in a mix of two scripts: Perso-Arabic and a cursive form of Hiragana. It's written from right to left.
Grammar
Verbs of Arabic origin use VN + suru or VN + iru (analogous to the way they work in Turkish).
dāsu suru = to study
Pluralization becomes a bit more productive because of Arabic influence (e.g. kitābu -> kutsubu); a native plural morpheme develops
Izae
Sometimes compounds in Arabo-Japanese use a construction called izae, which works like ezāfe in Persian. An example is mūjika-i-āsumān "music of the spheres". In some instances personal affixes are borrowed from Persian -- an example with te "hand":
- 1sg teyan
- 2sg teyatsu
- 3sg teyashi
- 1pl teyamān
- 2pl teyatān
- 3pl teyashān
Sometimes emphatic pronouns are formed from the root fud- (fudan, fudatsu, fudashi etc.) from PIE *swe - these are the only true personal pronouns in Arabo-Japanese. Like Standard Japanese, Arabo-Japanese is pro-drop.
Texts
Subete no insān wa umarenagara ni shite āzāzu de ari, katsu, heishiatsu-wo-hakku to ni tsuite barābā de aru.
Judeo-Arabo-Japanese
written in Hebrew script and has a Hebrew lexical layer
Fewer phonotactic restrictions (e.g. final consonants are allowed); separate /l/ is introduced as well as emphatics, e.g. /ts/ undergoes a phonemic split from /t/