Tyrith
Türiit (Türiit jää /ˈtyriːt ˈjæː/, from older *Türiŋit) is a divergent descendent of Old Chinese with vowel harmony. It also has loans from Middle Chinese. Türiit is a co-creation of User:IlL and User:Praimhín, inspired by Medh Chêl.
- remi = 'name'
- remiseks = 'literal'
- berian = 'hello'
- päring = 'pair'
- -seks = adjectivizer (from 性; irregular because of koineization)
- nöö = wisecracker
Zhengzhang Shangfang = Deriiskädri Dääsfää
Notes
- A = a/ä
- O = e/ö/ë/o
- U = i/ü/ï/u
Phonology
Consonants
| Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| central | lateral | ||||||||
| Nasal | voiceless | mh /m̥/ | nh /n̥/ | ||||||
| voiced | m /m/ | n /n/ | |||||||
| Plosive | voiceless | p /p/ | t /t/ | k /k/ | q /q/ | ||||
| voiced | b /b/ | d /d/ | g /ɡ/ | ġ /ɢ/ | |||||
| Affricate | voiceless | ts /ts/ | |||||||
| voiced | dz /dz~z/ | ||||||||
| Fricative | f /f~v/ | th /θ~ð/ | s /s/ | lh /ɬ/ | kh /x~ɣ/ | h /h/ | |||
| Trill | voiceless | rh /r̥/ | |||||||
| voiced | r /r/ | ||||||||
| Approximant | l /l/ | -i /j/ | -u /w/ | ||||||
Vowels
| Front | Back | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| unrounded | rounded | unrounded | rounded | |||||
| short | long | short | long | short | long | short | long | |
| Close | i /i/ | ii /iː/ | ü /y/ | üü /yː/ | ï /ɯ/ | ïï /ɯː/ | u /u/ | uu /uː/ |
| Mid | e /e/ | ee /eː/ | ö /ø/ | öö /øː/ | ë /ɤ/ | ëë /ɤː/ | o /o/ | oo /oː/ |
| Open | ä /æ/ | ää /æː/ | a /ɑ/ | aa /ɑː/ | ||||
glides: -i -u /-j -w/
Stress
Stress is always on the first syllable.
Morphology
Nouns
The plural suffix is -El: rää 'fish', rääl 'fish, fishes'.
- Nominative/Accusative: -0 (rää 'a fish', rääl 'fish (plural)')
- Genitive: 之 -(E)d (rääd 'of a fish', rääled 'of fish')
- Ablative: 出 -(U)t (räät 'from a fish', räälit 'from fish')
- Dative: 給 -(E)b (rääb 'for a fish', rääleb 'for fish')
- Instrumental
- Locative
- Lative
Pronouns
- "I": nom. ja /ˈjɑ/; acc. jai; other cases take the stem jai-
- "you": nää /ˈnæː/
- "he/she": ge /ˈge/
- "we": jaimë /ˈjɑimɤ/
- "you guys": nääme /ˈnæːme/
- "they" (animate): geme /ˈgeme/
Verbs
- 'to eat', present tense: melgiä, melgin, melgi, melgiäm, melginem, melgel
- 'to eat', present progressive: melgibä, melgibin, melgib, melgibäm, melgibinem, melgibel
- 'to drink': qürimbä, qürimbin, qürimb, qürimbäm, qürimbinem, qürimbel
- Süder qürimbibä = I am drinking water
Subject pronouns are required in the third person: Ge süder qürimb = He drinks water
Adjectives
Adjectives only inflect for degree.
- 'good, better, best': huu, huuvad, tsots huuvad
- Beri tärsit huuvad = Peace is better than war
Numerals
1: id 2: niis 3: sürm 4: silis 5: pang 6: kürg 7: sid 8: përd 9: küü 10: teeb 100: parg 1000: sïnï 10000: rämens