Cascadian Turkic (suotıptın tili or suotıptınẓı) is a Turkic language spoken in User:IlL/Lõis's Pacific Northwest.


Introduction

Phonology

All letters are pronounced as in Turkish, except:

  • e is always /ɛ/;
  • r is /ɹ/;
  • ŕ is /r/;
  • ȼ is /ɬ/;
  • ŋ is /ŋ/; and
  • is /ʒ/.

Vowel harmony

The symbols X and O denote two underspecified vowels. X can be i, ı, u or ü, and O can be e, a, o or ö.

Phonotactics

Morphophonology

Morphology

Nouns

Cascadian Turkic has 6 cases:

Case Nominative Genitive Accusative Locative Ablative Dative
Ending -(n)O -(n)X -dX/-tX -dXn/-tXn -kX, -ŋX after a vowel

The plural is -lXŕ.

Unusually for a Turkic language, first and second person possessives are prefixes.

Person Singular Plural
1 be- rim-
2 ȼe- re-

The third person possessive is a suffix: -(s)X. -sX may be abbreviated to -s.

Verbs

  • Simple present: -(X)r-
  • Present continuous: -bie-
  • Past: -dX/tX-
  • Evidential past: -mXs-
  • Future: -(X)ẓXŋ-

Here are the personal suffixes:

Person Singular Plural
1 -mXn -mXr
2 -sXn -sXr
3 -Ø/-dXŕ/-tXŕ -Ø/-lXŕ

These work somewhat differently in the present continuous tense:

Person Singular Plural
1 -biemin -biemir
2 -biesin -biesir
3 -bier -bier/-bieliŕ

In the future tense and in predicative sentences (where these suffixes are attached to nouns or adjectives), -sXn and -sXr become -ȼXn and -ȼXr respectively.

Syntax

Constituent order

Noun phrase

Verb phrase

Sentence phrase

Dependent clauses

Example texts

Some non-Turkic words

Suotıptın = the Pacific Northwest, from Lushootseed "swátixʷtəd"

tsımetmik = to pick berries, from Lushootseed "c’əb"

tsımşı = berry picker

shıwın = blackberry, from Lushootseed "sx̌əgʷəd"

Other resources