Jokelang 2

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Jokelang 2
English
Pronunciation[ˈʔɛŋgɫɪʃ]
Created byDillon Hartwig
Date2023
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  • Jokelang 2

Jokelang 2 (Jokelang 2: English [ˈʔɛŋgɫɪʃ]) is my first and only serious joke language.

Orthography and phonology

Jokelang 2 orthography and phonology are identical to modern General American and Received Pronunciation English, except the General American accent retains older [ʍ] and the Received Pronunciation accent has intrusive R, and a small number of nouns have non-English pronunciations.

See also Accent agreement.

Morphology

Alignment

Jokelang 2 has nominative-accusative morphosyntactic alignment.

Accent agreement

In agreement with their head noun's gender (except see Verbs), all verbs, adjectives, numerals, and measurement units are pronounced with either a General American (for American nouns) or Received Pronunciation (for British nouns) accent.

Nouns

Nouns are gendered American or British.

Pronouns

Pronouns mark number, gender, and many other categories.

Verbs

Questions

Negation

Circumpositions

Jokelang 2 has no prepositions or postpositions, only circumpositions.

Numerals

Derivational morphology

Part-of-speech modifiers

Syntax

Constituent order

Word order is strictly SVO.

Noun and verb phrases

Dependent clauses

Example texts

Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 1

A murican whizz paw freedombuh ah reddingbuh foodigitybar ah foodiggitybar. Yodel shoob why ah whoe ah forwhittling ation again undlebuh again jon.

A

PL.US

murican

person

whizz

all known and unknown

paw

bear.PASS.US

freedom-buh

free.US-ESS

ah

and

redding-buh

equal.US-ESS

foo-digity-bar

in-dignity-in

ah

and

foo-diggity-bar.

in-rights-in

A murican whizz paw freedom-buh ah redding-buh foo-digity-bar ah foo-diggity-bar.

PL.US person {all known and unknown} bear.PASS.US free.US-ESS and equal.US-ESS in-dignity-in and in-rights-in


Yodel

3PL.US

shoob

give.PASS.UK

why

reason

ah

and

whoe

conscience

ah

and

forwhittling

do.US

ation

should.US

again

RECP

undle-buh

brother-ESS

again

RECP

jon.

as if.US

Yodel shoob why ah whoe ah forwhittling ation again undle-buh again jon.

3PL.US give.PASS.UK reason and conscience and do.US should.US RECP brother-ESS RECP {as if}.US

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Conlang Atlas of Language Structures-hosted translations

Other resources

CALS