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Trây (dluxcô Trây) is a Txapoallian language. It's inspired by Slavic languages and Vietnamese.

It's classified as a language isolate.

Gibberish

Châdmađưth yôkhzhêm txel vrâte exphrova ôngâstô adliv sringanhu.

Phonology

Consonants

Labial Dental Alveolar Medial Palatal Velar Glottal
Nasal m /m/ n /n/ nh /ɲ/ ng /ŋ/
Plosive voiceless p /p/ t /t/ tx /ts/ ch /tʃ/ c, k /k/
voiced b /b/ đ /d/
Fricative voiceless ph /f/ th /θ/ x /s/ s /ʂ/ kh /x/ h /h/
voiced v /v/ d /z/ gi /ʒ/ g /ɣ/
Resonant l /l/ r /r/ zh /ɹ~ʁ/ y /j/

/k/ is written k before i ê e and c otherwise.

Vowels

/i ɨ u e ə o ɛ a ɔ/ = i ư u ê â ô e a o

Grammar

OSV, head-final, head-marking

Nouns

Plurals, possessive affixes

  • txe- = 1sg
  • bo- = 2sg
  • â- = 3sg
  • di- = 1pl
  • nha- = 2pl
  • ay- = 3pl

Adpositions

Trây has no true adpositions (more basic semantic relations such as dative are expressed by applicatives). There are some inalienable nouns that act like adpositions.

comitative: txed, bod, ad, did, nhad, ayâd

Verbs

Bipersonal affixes are portmanteau affixes