User:IlL/Spare pages 1/37

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	Progressive	Perfect	Perfect Progressive
Present	gauṇe	gauṇement	gauṇois	gauṇive	gauṇevois
Past	dégauṇe	dégauṇement	dégauṇois	dégauṇive	dégauṇevois
Future	gauṇé	gauṇaise	gauṇoir	gauṇivre	dégauṇevoir

Non-finite forms

• 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.

Example texts

En Évon Jert à-t-en Ṇèle déṭaitive loix rattier, que tris de fuille dére étrapique, sont l'épulir déchart avandre, crêvette-au-lus eux le ḍemble. Fuille dénaître, et en loix avec dévent loir en épulir raisse-au-plas fuisé ḍemble, déré dantrette-au-dis prait étrapique car en chelle loix.

The North Wind and the Sun were arguing one day about which of them was stronger, when a traveler came along wrapped up in an overcoat. They agreed that the one who could make the traveler take his coat off would be considered stronger than the other one.

Then the North Wind blew as hard as he could, but the harder he blew, the tighter the traveler wrapped his coat around him; and at last the North Wind gave up trying.

Then the Sun began to shine hot , and right away the traveler took his coat off. And so the North Wind had to admit that the Sun was stronger than he was.

[to be translated]