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[[Tserovesh/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


[[Tserovesh/Swadesh list]]
Φēsvrostamāber glāduom gnovilatlom
 
> Fērostimāber glādum novilacrum
{{Infobox language
> Fesrostimer glade novilacre xD
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|pronunciation= /tseʁoˈveʃ/
|setting = [[Verse:Tricin]]
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'''Tserovesh''' (''ceroveš'' /tseʁoˈveʃ/) is a [[Lakovic]] language spoken in [[Verse:Tricin/Zagvneti|Zagvneti]] in Talma, inspired by Modern Hebrew, Georgian, and Armenian.
 
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==Introduction==
 
Unlike Classical Windermere or Tergetian, Tserovesh has many loans from an ancient (unnamed) pre-Lakovic substrate, often called the ''[[KTAC|Kodṛcha-Tzameshut Archeological Complex]]'' (KTAC).
 
It went through some of the strangest sound changes in Lakovic.
 
Old Tserovesh grammar is much closer to Windermere or Häskä than to Modern Tserovesh.
 
==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 Tserovesh (from an earlier sandhi/liaison-like phenomenon)
 
==Dialects==
 
Tserovesh is fairly dialectally uniform. The dialect spoken in the eastern region of Kadzovetia aspirates voiceless stops.
 
==Phonology==
===Orthography===
 
Tserovesh 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===
Tserovesh phonology only allows open syllables (syllabic resonants count as vowels), except final consonants are allowed.<!--
 
Tserovesh phonology is slightly less restrictive than Israeli Hebrew but much more so than Georgian. As in both languages, initial consonant clusters appear frequently in Tserovesh. 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.
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===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 Tserovesh:
 
''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===
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==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==
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[[Category:Languages]]
[[Category:Tricin]]
[[Category:Lakovic languages]]

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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