Croissant is the ancestor of the Zoomic language family spoken on the planet Rulak. It's meant to be French gibberish with retroflexes.
Introduction
Phonology
The same as French, but with three additional retroflex consonants: ṭ /ʈ/, ḍ /ɖ/ and ṇ /ɳ/.
Orthography
Written like French.
Consonants
Vowels
Prosody
Stress
Intonation
Phonotactics
Morphophonology
Morphology
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Present | gauṇe | gauṇement |
| Past | dégauṇe | dégauṇement |
| Future | gauṇé | gauṇaise |
Non-finite forms
- Imperative: gauṇier!
- Infinitive: gauṇesse
Syntax
Croissant is an almost exact relex of English.