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Irish-Japanese-Mandarin-Korean (mainly Irish and Sino-Jp) creole spoken in Irta Tricin's Cualand
Epenthetic vowels in words from Irish: broad consonants take -ə, slender consonants take -i
Phonology
a e i o u /a e i o ə~ɨ/
p t k b d g s š č j h m n r w y /pʰ t̪ʰ kʰ p~b t̪~d̪ k~g s ʃ~ɕ tʃʰ tʃ h m n ɾ~l w j/
Lexicon
- unarigi = sea (Ir. an fharraige)
- ishchi = water (Ir. uisce)
- nyaun → nyon = sky (Ir. neamh)
- to = and (for nouns)
- agusu = and (for sentences)
- tā = yes, really (Ir. tá)
- nīha → niya = no, not (Ir. ní hea, Korean aniyeyo)
- fyaru ← fear = man, person
- māri ← Máire = female (adj), woman
- ADJ na NOUN, POSSESSOR na NOUN
- ihi ← ith = to eat
- ōu ← ól = to drink
- aburi ← abair = to say