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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. |
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| | [[Thensarian]] > quasi-Latin gib > Latino-English gib |
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| '''Tsrovesh''' (''croveš'' /ˈtsɣoveʃ/) 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 |
| | | [[Category:Jokelangs]] |
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| ==Phonology==
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| ===Orthography===
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| Tsrovesh is most commonly written with the Clofabic alphabet.
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| ===Consonants===
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| ! |Labial
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| ! |Dental
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| ! |Palatal
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| ! |Velar
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| ! |Glottal
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| ! colspan="2" style="" |Nasal
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| | '''m''' /m/
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| | '''n''' /n/
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| ! rowspan="2" |Plosive
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| ! |<small>voiceless</small>
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| | '''p''' /p/
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| | '''t''' /t/
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| | '''k''' /k/
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| ! |<small>voiced</small>
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| | '''b''' /b/
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| | '''d''' /d/
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| | '''g''' /g/
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| ! rowspan="2" style="" |Fricative
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| ! |<small>voiceless</small>
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| | '''s''' /s/
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| | '''š''' /ʃ/
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| | '''x''' /x/
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| | '''h''' /h/
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| ! |<small>voiced</small>
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| | '''v''' /v/
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| | '''z''' /z/
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| | '''ž''' /ʒ/
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| | '''r''' /ɣ~ʁ/
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| ! rowspan="2" style="" |Affricate
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| ! |<small>voiceless</small>
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| | '''c''' /ts/
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| | '''č''' /tʃ/
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| ! |<small>voiced</small>
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| | '''dz''' /dz/
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| | '''j''' /dʒ/
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| | '''l''' /l/
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| | '''y''' /j/
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| ===Vowels===
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| ! style="width: 60px; " |Front
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| ! style="width: 60px; " |Central
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| ! style="width: 60px; " |Back
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| ! style="" |Close
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| | '''i''' /i/
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| | '''u''' /u/
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| ! style="" |Mid
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| | '''e''' /e/
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| | '''o''' /o/
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| | '''a''' /a/
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| Consecutive vowels are prohibited.
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| ===Prosody===
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| ====Stress====
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| ====Intonation====
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| ===Phonotactics===
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| 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:
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| * ''Croveš'' (the name of the language)
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| * ''ldag'' (door)
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| * ''šmer'' (man)
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| * ''cnaxat'' (dream)
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| * ''gzin'' (to shine)
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| * ''vlo'' (to live)
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| * ''lvar'' (to play)
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| * ''tmežov'' (to find)
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| * ''tkešet'' (regardless)
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| * ''švili'' (for me)
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| Medial consonant clusters are also common:
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| * ''ertma'' (spider)
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| * ''detkvisi'' (limestone)
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| * ''opxram'' (reed)
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| Clusters must obey a sonority hierarchy, i.e. a resonant (one of ''m, n, l, r'') cannot come between two non-resonants. For example, /tkv/ is allowed but /kmv/ is not.
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| All final clusters are prohibited.
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| ===Stress===
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| Stress is always penultimate.
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| ==Morphology==
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| ===Nouns===
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| Nouns have 6 cases: nominative, accusative, genitive, dative, instrumental, and locative.
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| ===Verbs===
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| The present, past and future tenses are ''be-'', ''ki-'' and ''sa-'' respectively. The present tense is also used as a timeless tense.
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| '''''Kimežov ma-šmer la-detkvisi.'''''
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| PAST-find NOM.DEF-man ACC.DEF limestone
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| ''The man who found the limestone.''
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| Verbs do not inflect for person but they do inflect for number (except for the copula): the plural suffix is ''-eba''.
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| 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.
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| Participial forms are used in the perfect and progressive aspects.
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| ==Syntax==
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| ===Constituent order===
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| 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''.
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| ===Noun phrase===
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| The adjective comes before the noun in Tsrovesh:
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| ''ha-udvanit ertma'' = the happy spider
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| (udvanit = happy, ertma = spider)
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| But relative clauses are placed after the noun:
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| ''ertma, li-ves ha-šmer kixaven'' = spider who the man killed
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| ===Verb phrase===
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| ===Sentence phrase===
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| ====Conjunctions====
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| ''et'' = and
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| ''-eb'' = and (used like Latin ''-que'')
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| ===Dependent clauses===
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| ==Numbers==
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| azar, kin, tvagi, lucmi, čorti, mevti, uškni, voherbi, adorgi, ktela, ktela azareb, ktela kineb, ktela tvagib, ktela lucmib, ...
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| 20 = ktela mekin
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