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Trây (Trây hadlưthcô) is a minor Txapoallian language. It's inspired by Slavic languages and Vietnamese.

It's classified as a language isolate by Trician linguists.

Gibberish

Châdmađưth yôkhzhêm txel vrâte exphrova ôngâstô adliv sringanhu.

Phonology

Consonants

Labial Dental Alveolar Medial Palatal Velar Labiovelar Glottal
Nasal m /m/ n /n/ nh /ɲ/ ng /ŋ/
Plosive voiceless p /p/ t /t/ tx /ts/ ch /tʃ/ c, k /k/ qu /kʷ/
ejective p' /p'/ t' /t'/ tx' /ts'/ ch' /tʃ'/ c', k' /k'/ qu' /kʷ'/
voiced b /b/ đ /d/
Fricative voiceless ph /f/ th /θ/ x /s/ s /ʂ/ kh /x/ h /h/
voiced v /v/ d /z/ gi /ʒ/ g /ɣ/
Resonant l /l/ zh /ɹ/ y /j/ r /ʁ/

/k/ is written k before i ê e and c otherwise.

Vowels

/i ɨ u e ə o ɛ a ɔ/ = i ư u ê â ô e a o

Grammar

OSV, head-final, head-marking, polysynthetic

The grammar should confuse both Slavic and Vietnamese speakers

Nouns

Plural: x-/i-

Possessive affixes:

  • txe- = 1sg
  • bo- = 2sg
  • hâ- = 3sg
  • di- = 1pl
  • la- = 2pl
  • hay- = 3pl

Adpositions

Trây has no true cases or adpositions (more basic semantic relations such as dative are expressed by applicatives). There are relational nouns (often with irregular inflection) that function similarly to adpositions.

comitative: txed, bod, had, divê, lavê, hevê

Verbs

Bipersonal affixes are portmanteau affixes