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Bentovian
croveš
Pronunciation[/tsʁoˈveʃ/]
Created byIlL, Praimhín
SettingVerse:Tricin
Lakovic
  • Bentovian
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Tsrovesh (croveš /tsʁoˈveʃ/) is a Lakovic language spoken in Zagvneti in Talma, inspired by Modern Hebrew, Georgian, and Armenian.

Introduction

Unlike Classical Windermere or Tergetian, Tsrovesh has many loans from an ancient (unnamed) pre-Lakovic substrate, often called the Kodṛcha-Tzameshut Archeological Complex (KTAC).

It went through some of the strangest sound changes in Lakovic.

Old Tsrovesh grammar is much closer to Windermere or Häskä than to Modern Tsrovesh.

Todo

f -> ɸ -> h? vowel reduction into 'a'?

A breathy voice vowel split

ikcav = "topic"?

be- = agentive?

xamak = Dr.

mic- = adverb prefix? (micloxer = furiously)

PLak with a Philly Cockney accent?

initial t could be added randomly to vowel-initial words in tsrovesh (from an earlier sandhi/liaison-like phenomenon)

Dialects

Tsrovesh is fairly dialectally uniform. The dialect spoken in the eastern region of Kadzovetia aspirates voiceless stops.

Phonology

Orthography

Tsrovesh is most commonly written with the Windermere alphabet.

Consonants

Labial Dental Palatal Velar Glottal
Nasal m /m/ n /n/ [ŋ]
Plosive voiceless p /p/ t /t/ k /k/
voiced b /b/ d /d/ g /g/
Fricative voiceless s /s/ š /ʃ/ x /x/ h /h/
voiced v /v/ z /z/ ž /ʒ/ r /ʁ/
Affricate voiceless c /ts/ č /tʃ/
voiced dz /dz/ j /dʒ/
Approximant l /l/

Syllabic resonants: ṃ ṇ ḷ ṛ ṿ

Vowels

Bentovian vowels
Front Central Back
Close i /i/ u /u/
Mid e /e/ o /o/
Open a /a/

Consecutive vowels are prohibited.

Prosody

Stress

Intonation

Phonotactics

Tsrovesh phonology is slightly less restrictive than Israeli Hebrew but much more so than Georgian. As in both languages, initial consonant clusters appear frequently in Tsrovesh. Initial clusters of the form l/r + consonant are allowed (Are those really syllabic resonants?). For example:

  • croveš (the name of the language)
  • ldag (door)
  • šmer (man)
  • cnaxat (dream)
  • gzin (to shine)
  • vna (to live)
  • lvar (to play)
  • tkešet (regardless)
  • švili (for me)

Medial consonant clusters are also common:

  • ertma (spider)
  • detkvis (limestone)
  • opxram (reed)

All final clusters are prohibited.

Stress

Stress is always penultimate.

Morphology

Nouns

Plurals by redup: crov 'a language' > circrov 'languages'

Definite suffix -i or -ti: lakov 'a person' > lakovi 'the person'; ertma 'a spider' > ertmati 'the spider'

Somewhat agglutinating; no grammatical gender

Honorific is marked with -is.

Verbs

some uncanny hebrew or nahuatl prefixes (like mitz-)

me- for the present imperfective? (it could use a welsh-like grammatical shift of progressive -> imperfective)

bare verb stem = subjunctive

past tense ablaut (like gzin -> gazan; lvar -> laver)

Ablaut patterns:

  • C(ə)CiC -> CaCaC
  • C(ə)CaC -> CaCeC
  • C(ə)CoC -> CaCuC
  • C(ə)CeC -> liCCaC
  • C(ə)CuC -> liCCeCon

ə may appear as /a/ in some verbs, like žacem -> ližcam

Regular past tense: li-(VERB)-et (an example: masar "to dance" -> limasaret "danced")

li- ~ ni- some past tense morpheme in Proto-Ashanic?

Telic = ?

Pronominal suffixes

-ili, -eč, -ek, -eš, -eb?

Derivational morphology

  • atse- 'style of, à la'
    • atsegeban '(literary) realism' < geban 'true, real'

Syntax

Constituent order

Finnish relex

Noun phrase

The adjective comes before the noun in Tsrovesh:

udvanit ertmati = the happy spider

(udvanit = happy, ertma = spider)

But relative clauses are placed after the noun:

ertma, ža-ves šmeri lixavenet = spider who the man killed

Verb phrase

Sentence phrase

Conjunctions

et = and

-eb = and (used like Latin -que)

Dependent clauses

Numbers

Windermere 1-5: doan, rath, stiw, smech, müets

azar, kin, šelvi, sṃči, mevci, cohi, avci, lucebi, azorbi, kteva?

kteva azareb, kteva kineb, kteva šelvib, ktela sṃčib, ... (could those be KTAC words?)

Example texts