Pradiul
Trây (Trây hadlưthcô) is a minor Txapoallian language. It's inspired by Slavic languages and Vietnamese.
It's classified as a language isolate by Trician linguists.
Gibberish
Châdmađưth yôkhzhêm txel vrâte exphrova ôngâstô adliv sringanhu.
Phonology
Consonants
| Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Medial | Palatal | Velar | Labiovelar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m /m/ | n /n/ | nh /ɲ/ | ng /ŋ/ | |||||
| Plosive | voiceless | p /p/ | t /t/ | tx /ts/ | ch /tʃ/ | c, k /k/ | qu /kʷ/ | ||
| ejective | p' /p'/ | t' /t'/ | tx' /ts'/ | ch' /tʃ'/ | c', k' /k'/ | qu' /kʷ'/ | |||
| voiced | b /b/ | đ /d/ | |||||||
| Fricative | voiceless | ph /f/ | th /θ/ | x /s/ | s /ʂ/ | kh /x/ | h /h/ | ||
| voiced | v /v/ | d /z/ | gi /ʒ/ | g /ɣ/ | |||||
| Resonant | l /l/ | zh /ɹ/ | y /j/ | r /ʁ/ | |||||
/k/ is written k before i ê e and c otherwise.
Vowels
/i ɨ u e ə o ɛ a ɔ/ = i ư u ê â ô e a o
Grammar
OSV, head-final, head-marking, polysynthetic
The grammar should confuse both Slavic and Vietnamese speakers
Nouns
Plural: x-/i-
Possessive affixes:
- txe- = 1sg
- bo- = 2sg
- hâ- = 3sg
- di- = 1pl
- la- = 2pl
- hay- = 3pl
Adpositions
Trây has no true cases or adpositions (more basic semantic relations such as dative are expressed by applicatives). There are relational nouns (often with irregular inflection) that function similarly to adpositions.
comitative: txed, bod, had, divê, lavê, hevê
Verbs
Bipersonal affixes are portmanteau affixes