Jokelang 2
| Jokelang 2 | |
|---|---|
| English | |
| Pronunciation | [ˈʔɛŋgɫɪʃ] |
| Created by | Dillon Hartwig |
| Date | 2023 |
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Jokelang 2 (Jokelang 2: English [ˈʔɛŋgɫɪʃ]) is my first and only serious joke language.
Orthography and phonology
Jokelang 2 orthography and phonology are identical to modern General American and Received_Pronunciation English, except the General American accent retains older [ʍ] and the Received Pronunciation accent, and a small number of nouns have non-English pronunciations.
See also Accent agreement.
Morphology
Alignment
Jokelang 2 has nominative-accusative morphosyntactic alignment.
Accent agreement
In agreement with their head noun's gender (except see Verbs), all verbs, adjectives, numerals, and measurement units are pronounced with either a General American (for American nouns) or Received_Pronunciation (for British nouns) accent.
Nouns
Nouns are gendered American or British.
Pronouns
Pronouns mark number, gender, and many other categories.
Verbs
Questions
Negation
Circumpositions
Jokelang 2 has no prepositions or postpositions, only circumpositions.
Numerals
Derivational morphology
Part-of-speech modifiers
Syntax
Constituent order
Word order is strictly SVO.
Noun and verb phrases
Dependent clauses
Example texts
Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 1
A murican whizz paw freedombuh ah reddingbuh foodigitybar ah foodiggitybar. Yodel shoob why ah whoe ah forwhittling ation again undlebuh again jon.
A
PL.US
murican
person
whizz
all known and unknown
paw
bear.PASS.US
freedom-buh
free.US-ESS
ah
and
redding-buh
equal.US-ESS
foo-digity-bar
in-dignity-in
ah
and
foo-diggity-bar.
in-rights-in
Yodel
3PL.US
shoob
give.PASS.UK
why
reason
ah
and
whoe
conscience
ah
and
forwhittling
do.US
ation
should.US
again
RECP
undle-buh
brother-ESS
again
RECP
jon.
as if.US