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[[Tsrovesh/Lexicon]]
Placeholder for a joke [[Talmic]] language spoken in an alternate-history Tricin. Inspired by Græco-Latin vocabulary in English.
==Plan==
[[Thensarian]] > quasi-Latin gib > Latino-English gib


[[Tsrovesh/Swadesh list]]
Φēsvrostamāber glāduom gnovilatlom
 
> Fērostimāber glādum novilacrum
{{Infobox language
> Fesrostimer glade novilacre xD
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|pronunciation= /tsʁoˈveʃ/
|setting = [[Verse:Tricin]]
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'''Tsrovesh''' (''croveš'' /tsʁoˈveʃ/) is a [[Lakovic]] language spoken in Txapoalli, inspired by Modern Hebrew and Georgian.
 
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==Introduction==
 
==Phonology==
===Orthography===
 
Tsrovesh is most commonly written with the Windermere alphabet.
 
===Consonants===
 
{| border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" class="bluetable lightbluebg" style="width: 700px; text-align:center;"
! colspan="2" |
!  |Labial
!  |Dental
!  |Palatal
!  |Velar
!  |Glottal
|-
! colspan="2" style="" |Nasal
| '''m''' /m/
| '''n''' /n/
|
| [ŋ]
|
|-
! rowspan="2" |Plosive
! |<small>voiceless</small>
| '''p''' /p/
| '''t''' /t/
|
| '''k''' /k/
|
|-
! |<small>voiced</small>
| '''b''' /b/
| '''d''' /d/
|
| '''g''' /g/
|
|-
! rowspan="2" style="" |Fricative
! |<small>voiceless</small>
|
| '''s''' /s/
| '''š''' /ʃ/
| '''x''' /x/
| '''h''' /h/
|-
! |<small>voiced</small>
| '''v''' /v/
| '''z''' /z/
| '''ž''' /ʒ/
| '''r''' /ʁ/
|
|-
! rowspan="2" style="" |Affricate
! |<small>voiceless</small>
|
| '''c''' /ts/
| '''č''' /tʃ/
|
|
|-
! |<small>voiced</small>
|
| '''dz''' /dz/
| '''j''' /dʒ/
|
|
|-
! colspan="2" |Approximant
|
| '''l''' /l/
|
|
|
|}
 
Syllabic resonants: '''ṃ ṇ ḷ ṛ ṿ'''
 
===Vowels===
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|+ '''{{PAGENAME}} vowels'''
|-
!  style="width: 60px; "|
!  style="width: 60px; " |Front
!  style="width: 60px; " |Central
!  style="width: 60px; " |Back
|-
! style="" |Close
| '''i''' /i/
|
| '''u''' /u/
|-
! style="" |Mid
| '''e''' /e/
|
| '''o''' /o/
|-
! style="" |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. For example:
 
* ''croveš'' (the name of the language)
* ''ldag'' (door)
* ''šmer'' (man)
* ''cnaxat'' (dream)
* ''gzin'' (to shine)
* ''vlo'' (to live)
* ''lvar'' (to play)
* ''tkešet'' (regardless)
* ''švili'' (for)
 
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: ''dalet'' 'a language' > ''daldelet'' 'languages'
 
Definite suffix ''-i'': ''lakov'' 'a person' > ''lakovi'' 'the person'
 
==Syntax==
===Constituent order===
 
Tsrovesh sentence structure is SVO and head-final, except for complementizer phrases and prepositional phrases. Tsrovesh is not zero-copula; the word for 'to live' is used as a copula. Word order is strict, and topicalization occurs with the suffix ''-eti''.
 
===Noun phrase===
 
The adjective comes before the noun in Tsrovesh:
 
''ha-udvanit ertma'' = the happy spider
 
(udvanit = happy, ertma = spider)
 
But relative clauses are placed after the noun:
 
''ertma, li-ves ha-šmer kixaven'' = spider who the man killed
 
===Verb phrase===
 
===Sentence phrase===
====Conjunctions====
''et'' = and
 
''-eb'' = and (used like Latin ''-que'')
 
===Dependent clauses===
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==Numbers==
Windermere 1-5: doan, rath, stiw, smech, müets
 
?, ?, ?, ?, mevtsi, uškni, voherbi, adorgi, ktela, ktela azareb, ktela kineb, ktela tvagib, ktela lucmib, ...
 
20 = ktela mekin
 
==Example texts==
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[[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]]
[[Category:Languages]]
[[Category:Tricin]]

Latest revision as of 15:12, 28 April 2021

Placeholder for a joke Talmic language spoken in an alternate-history Tricin. Inspired by Græco-Latin vocabulary in English.

Plan

Thensarian > quasi-Latin gib > Latino-English gib

Φēsvrostamāber glāduom gnovilatlom > Fērostimāber glādum novilacrum > Fesrostimer glade novilacre xD

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