Jokelang 2
| Jokelang 2 | |
|---|---|
| English | |
| Pronunciation | [ˈʔɛŋgɫɪʃ] |
| Created by | Dillon Hartwig |
| Date | 2023 |
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Jokelang 2 (Jokelang 2: English [ˈʔɛŋgɫɪʃ]) is my first and only serious joke language.
Orthography and phonology
Jokelang 2 orthography and phonology are identical to modern General American and Received Pronunciation English, except the General American accent retains older [ʍ] and the Received Pronunciation accent has intrusive R, and a small number of nouns have non-English pronunciations.
See also Accent agreement.
Morphology
Alignment
Jokelang 2 has nominative-accusative morphosyntactic alignment.
Accent agreement
In agreement with their head noun's gender (except see Verbs), all verbs, adjectives, numerals, and measurement units are pronounced with either a General American (for American nouns) or Received Pronunciation (for British nouns) accent.
Nouns
Nouns are gendered American or British.
Pronouns
Pronouns mark number, gender, and many other categories.
Verbs
Questions
Negation
Circumpositions
Jokelang 2 has no prepositions or postpositions, only circumpositions.
Numerals
Derivational morphology
Part-of-speech modifiers
Syntax
Constituent order
Word order is strictly SVO.
Noun and verb phrases
Dependent clauses
Example texts
Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 1
A murican whizz paw freedombuh ah reddingbuh foodigitybar ah foodiggitybar. Yodel shoob why ah whoe ah forwhittling ation again undlebuh again jon.
A
PL.US
murican
person
whizz
all known and unknown
paw
bear.PASS.US
freedom-buh
free.US-ESS
ah
and
redding-buh
equal.US-ESS
foo-digity-bar
in-dignity-in
ah
and
foo-diggity-bar.
in-rights-in
Yodel
3PL.US
shoob
give.PASS.UK
why
reason
ah
and
whoe
conscience
ah
and
forwhittling
do.US
ation
should.US
again
RECP
undle-buh
brother-ESS
again
RECP
jon.
as if.US