Hiberno-Japanese

Irish-Japanese-Mandarin-Korean (mainly Irish, Mandarin and Sino-Xenic) creole spoken in Irta Tricin's Cualand, written in Katakana

mishi ōu ishiki = I drink (drank, will drink...) water

mishi gurāshmas tusa = I love you

• shān dini, māri dini = man, woman (age agnostic)
• shān fyaru, māri fyaru = (adult) man, woman
• shān kuran, māri kuran = son, daughter

Mishi tā Nihon dini = I am Japanese

Phonology

a e i o u /a e i o ɨ/

p t k b d g f s sh ch j h m n r w y /pʰ t̪ʰ kʰ p~b t̪~d̪ k~g φ s ʃ~ɕ tʃʰ tʃ h m n ɾ~l w j/

Initial broad L -> ur-, initial broad R -> r, initial slender L amd R -> ry-

-l -il -r -ir -> -u -ri -ru -ri

-Ca -Ce -> -Ca -Ci

Korean vowels: a eo i (a)e u eu → a o i e u u

All Korean stops are borrowed as voiceless (except intervocalic plain stops)

Lexicon (before erosion)

• ryanau = baby, child, something small
• kuran = one's child (Ir. clann)
• aru = (literary) quotative, complementizer (Ir. ar)
• unarugi = sea (Ir. an fharraige)
• ishiki = water (Ir. uisce)
• unnyan = sky (Ir. an neamh)
• to = and (for nouns)
• agasu = and (for sentences)
• tā = yes, really (Ir. tá)
• nīha → nya = no, not (Ir. ní hea, Korean aniyeyo)
• fyaru ← fear = person
• shān ← Seán = male (adj), man
• māri ← Máire = female (adj), woman
• ADJ na NOUN, POSSESSOR na NOUN
• ihi ← ith = to eat
• ōu ← ól = to drink
• deri ← deir = to say; quotative, complementizer
• sunān (← snámh) = to swim
• ēshiki (← éisc) = fish
• fāri (← fáil 'to find, to get') = to have, there is
• mishi = 1st person pronoun
• tusa = 2nd person pronoun
• gunjū (← gōngjù) = instrument, tool
• nyorime (ní bhfuair mé) = there is not
• urā <- lá = day
• urua <- luath = early