Tyrith
Compared to real-world Chinese, Standard Chinese (中出語 Türiŋit ŋää /ˈtyriŋit ˈŋæː/) has taken a dramatically different course in the alternate history of User:IlL/Lõis (地, L-Standard Chinese for 'Earth'). Türiŋit is a co-creation of User:IlL and User:Praimhín, inspired by Estonian and Turkish.
Notes
- A = a/ä
- E = e/ö/õ/o
- U = i/ü/ũ/u
Phonology
Consonants
| Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| central | lateral | ||||||||
| Nasal | voiceless | mh /m̥/ | nh /n̥/ | ŋh /ŋ̊/ | |||||
| voiced | m /m/ | n /n/ | ŋ /ŋ/ | ||||||
| Plosive | voiceless | p /p/ | t /t/ | k /k/ | q /q/ | ʔ /ʔ/ | |||
| 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/ | ũ /ɯ/ | ũũ /ɯː/ | u /u/ | uu /uː/ |
| Mid | e /e/ | ee /eː/ | ö /ø/ | öö /øː/ | õ /ɤ/ | õõ /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: räŋe 'fish', räŋel 'fish, fishes'.
- Nominative: -0 (räŋe 'a fish', räŋe 'fish (plural)')
- Genitive: -(U)d (räŋed 'of a fish', räŋeled 'of fish')
- Ablative: -(U)t (räŋet 'from a fish', räŋelet 'from fish')
Verbs
Numerals
1: id /id/ 2: niis /niːs/ 3: sürm /syrm/ 4: silis /silis/ 5: paŋg /paŋg/ 6: kürg /kyrg/ 7: sid /sid/ 8: põrd /pɤrd/ 9: küü /kyː/ 10: teeb /teːb/