Fransáes

Fransáes is a jokelang created by Caelen Selke-Minogue. It is intended to fix the French language because it sorely needs it. It fixes the abomination that is French spelling, and also changes the grammar to conform with the more intelligent languages of the world.

Phonology

Consonants

Consonants
	Labial	Alveolar	Post-Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Uvular
Plosive	p /p/ b /b/	t /t/ d /d/			k /k/ g /g/
Fricative	f /f/ v /v/	s /s/ z /z/	sh /ʃ/ zh /ʒ/		x /x/	rh /ʁ/
Nasal	m /m/	n /n/		nn /ɲ/	ng /ŋ/
Tap/Flap		r /r/
Approximant			l /l/	j /j/

Vowels

Vowels
	Front	Middle	Back
Close	i /i/		u /u/
Close-mid	ae /e/	' /ə/	ou /o/
Open-Mid	e /ɛ/		o /ɔ/
Open		a /a/

Stress is always denoted by an acute (´). If stress occurs on a sound represented by two letters it is put on the first letter.

Syllable Structure

• CV
• CCV
• CVC
• V
• CCVC
• VC
• CCCV
• CCVCC
• CCCVC
• VCC
• CCCVCC

Morphology

Nouns

Fransáes has fourteen grammatical cases: Nominative, Accusative, Vocative, Dative, Genitive, Instrumental, Causal, Locative, Ablative, Sublative, Elative, Illative, Terminative and Temporal

	Function	Marking	English example	Francáes example
Nominative	Subject of finite verb	N/A	"The cat eats"	Lu sha monzh
Accusative	Object of transitive verb	-u	"The cat eats rice"	Lu sha monzh riu
Vocative	Addressee	-an	"Hello, Jean!"	Búnzhu, Zhánan!
Dative	Indirect object; to	-a	"The cat eats rice under the table"	Lu sha monzh riu su lu tablá
Genitive	Possessor of noun; of	-du	"The leg of the table"	Lu zhomb lu tablódu
Instrumental	Means of performing a verb; with	-av	"The cat eats rice with a fork"	Lu sha monzh riu un fushétav
Causal	The reason for a verb; for	-pu	"The cat walks to the kitchen for rice"	Lu sha mash lu kvísina rípu
Locative	General physical position; by	-pa	"The cat eats by the table"	Lu sha monzh lu tablópa
Ablative	Movement from; from	-dupvi	"The cat walks away from the table"	Lu sha mash lu tablódupvi
Sublative	Movement toward; toward	-ve	"The cat walks toward the table"	Lu sha mash lu tablóve
Elative	Movement from; out of	-duo	"The cat walks out of the kitchen"	Lu sha mash lu kvízinduo
Illative	Movement toward; into	-don	"The cat walks into the kitchen"	Lu sha mash lu kvízindon
Terminative	Limit of; until	-zhuska	"The cat has until noon to eat"	Lu sha a mídizhuska mónzhe
Temporal	Location of time; at	-on	"The cat eats at eleven"	Lu sha monzh únzon