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Croissant is the ancestor of the Zoomic language family spoken on the planet Rulak. It's meant to be French gibberish with retroflexes.

Phonology

The same as French, but with three additional retroflex consonants: ṭ /ʈ/, ḍ /ɖ/ and ṇ /ɳ/.

Orthography

Written like French.

Morphology

Articles

The indefinite article is "le/la" in free variation.

The definite article is "en".

Nouns

Croissant nouns have two cases: nominative and genitive. Nouns ending with consonants use this paradigm:

	Singular	Plural
Nominative	-	-o
Genitive	-e	-ɑ̃

For example,

riège (wood)	Singular	Plural
Nominative	riège	riègeau
Genitive	riègé	riègent

(Croissant final -ent is always pronounced.) Nouns ending with vowels use the same paradigm, but with an intrusive t:

	Singular	Plural
Nominative	-	-to
Genitive	-te	-tɑ̃

For example,

crus (grass)	Singular	Plural
Nominative	crus	crûteau
Genitive	crûté	crûtant

Verbs

Verbs don't inflect for number or person.

gauṇe 'to love'	Indicative	Subjunctive
Present	gauṇe	gauṇement
Past	dégauṇe	dégauṇement
Future	gauṇé	gauṇaise

Non-finite forms

• Imperative: gauṇier!
• Infinitive: gauṇesse
• Verbal noun: gauṇerre (genitive form: gauṇerez)

Pronouns

Unlike in English, there are no accusative forms of pronouns in Croissant.

Pronoun	Nominative	Genitive
I	dans	danné
you	lin	lunné
he / she	fuis	fuisé
we	deman	demé
you folks	sonc	sonché
they	fuille	fuillé
this	jus	jusé
these	juseau	jusant
that	honne	honné
those	honneau	honnant
that over there	ṇeux	ṇeusé
those over there	ṇeuseau	ṇeusant
who (interrogative)	tris	trisé
who (plural)	trisau	trisent
what	treux	treusé
what (plural)	treusau	treusent

Relative pronouns

avec = who; genitive form avez chez = that; genitive form chez

Syntax

Croissant is an almost exact relex of English.