Tyrith

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Tyrith/Lexicon

Compared to real-world Chinese, Standard Chinese (Türiit hää /ˈtyriːt ˈhæː/) has taken a dramatically different course on Lõis. Türiit is a co-creation of User:IlL and User:Praimhín, inspired by Estonian and Turkish.

  • remi = name
  • berian = 'hello'

Zhengzhang Shangfang = Deriiskädri Dääsfää

Notes

  • A = a/ä
  • O = 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/
voiced m /m/ n /n/
Plosive voiceless p /p/ t /t/ k /k/ q /q/
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

Tyrith 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: rää 'fish', rääl 'fish, fishes'.

  • Nominative/Accusative: -0 (rää 'a fish', rääl 'fish (plural)')
  • Genitive: 之 -(E)d (rääd 'of a fish', rääled 'of fish')
  • Ablative: 出 -(U)t (räät 'from a fish', räälit 'from fish')
  • Dative: 給 -(E)b (rääb 'for a fish', rääleb 'for fish')
  • Comitative: -(E)ŋ

Pronouns

  • "I": nom. ha /ˈhɑ/; acc. hai; other cases take the stem hai-
  • "you": nää /ˈnæː/
  • "he/she": ge /ˈge/
  • "we": haimõ /ˈŋɑimɤ/
  • "you guys": nääme /ˈnæːme/
  • "they" (animate): geme /ˈgeme/

Verbs

  • 'to eat', present tense: melgiä, melgin, melgi, melgiäm, melginem, melgil

Numerals

1: id 2: niis 3: sürm 4: silis 5: pang 6: kürg 7: sid 8: põrd 9: küü 10: teeb 100: parg 1000: sũnũ 10000: rämens

Syntax