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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''' (''croveš'' /tsɣoˈveʃ/) is a language of Southern Etalocin, inspired by Hebrew and Georgian.
Φēsvrostamāber glāduom gnovilatlom
 
> Fērostimāber glādum novilacrum
Most [[Verse:Tricin|Trician]] linguists classify it as an isolate.
> Fesrostimer glade novilacre xD
 
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==Phonology==
===Orthography===
 
Tsrovesh is most commonly written with the Clofabic 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/
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| [ŋ]
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|-
! rowspan="2" |Plosive
! |<small>voiceless</small>
| '''p''' /p/
| '''t''' /t/
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| '''k''' /k/
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|-
! |<small>voiced</small>
| '''b''' /b/
| '''d''' /d/
|
| '''g''' /g/
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|-
! 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''' /ɣ~ʁ/
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|-
! rowspan="2" style="" |Affricate
! |<small>voiceless</small>
|
| '''c''' /ts/
| '''č''' /tʃ/
|
|
|-
! |<small>voiced</small>
|
| '''dz''' /dz/
| '''dž''' /dʒ/
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|-
! colspan="2" |Approximant
|
| '''l''' /l/
| '''y''' /j/
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|
|}
 
===Vowels===
{| border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" class="bluetable lightbluebg" style="text-align:center;"
|+ '''{{PAGENAME}} vowels'''
|-
!  style="width: 60px; "|
!  style="width: 60px; " |Front
!  style="width: 60px; " |Central
!  style="width: 60px; " |Back
|-
! style="" |Close
| '''i, y''' /i/
|
| '''u''' /u/
|-
! style="" |Mid
| '''e''' /e/
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| '''o''' /o/
|-
! style="" |Open
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| '''a''' /a/
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|}
 
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, for example:
 
* ''Croveš'' (the name of the language)
* ''ldag'' (door)
* ''šmer'' (man)
* ''cnaxat'' (dream)
* ''gzin'' (to shine)
* ''vlo'' (to live)
* ''lvar'' (to play)
* ''tmežov'' (to find)
* ''tkešet'' (regardless)
* ''švili'' (for me)
 
Medial consonant clusters are also common:
 
* ''ertma'' (spider)
* ''detkvisi'' (limestone)
* ''opxram'' (reed)
 
Clusters must obey a sonority hierarchy, i.e. a resonant (one of ''m, n, l, r'') cannot come between two other consonants. For example, ''-tkv-'' is allowed but ''-kmv-'' is not.
 
All final clusters are prohibited.
 
===Morphophonology===
==Morphology==
===Nouns===
Nouns have 6 cases: nominative, accusative, genitive, dative, instrumental, and locative.
 
===Verbs===
The present, past and future tenses are ''be-'', ''ki-'' and ''sa-'' respectively. The present tense is also used as a timeless tense.
 
'''''Kimežov ma-šmer la-detkvisi.'''''
 
PAST-find NOM.DEF-man ACC.DEF limestone
 
''The man who found the limestone.''
 
Verbs do not inflect for person but they do inflect for number (except for the copula): the plural suffix is ''-eba''.
 
The negative suffix is ''-tso'', and when fused with the plural it becomes ''-sia''. The negative form of the copula is ''tso'', which is the same in the plural.
 
Participial forms are used in the perfect and progressive aspects.
 
==Syntax==
===Constituent order===
 
Tsrovesh sentence structure is VSO 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==
azar, kin, tvagi, lucmi, čorti, mevti, uškni, voherbi, adorgi, ktela, ktela azareb, ktela kineb, ktela tvagib, ktela lucmib, ...
 
20 = ktela mekin
 
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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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