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Croissant is the ancestor of the Zoomic language family spoken on the planet Rulak. It's meant to be French gibberish with retroflexes.

Introduction

Phonology

The same as French, but with three additional retroflex consonants: /ʈ/, /ɖ/ and /ɳ/.

Orthography

Written like French.

Consonants

Vowels

Prosody

Stress

Intonation

Phonotactics

Morphophonology

Morphology

Articles

The indefinite article is "le/la" in free variation.

The definite article is "en".

Nouns

Croissant nouns have two cases: nominative and genitive. Nouns ending with consonants use this paradigm:

Singular Plural
Nominative - -o
Genitive -e -ɑ̃

For example,

riège (wood) Singular Plural
Nominative riège riègeau
Genitive riègé riègent

(Croissant final -ent is always pronounced.) Nouns ending with vowels use the same paradigm, but with an intrusive t:

Singular Plural
Nominative - -to
Genitive -te -tɑ̃

For example,

crus (grass) Singular Plural
Nominative crus crûteau
Genitive crûté crûtant

Verbs

Verbs don't inflect for number or person.

gauṇe 'to love' Indicative Subjunctive
Present gauṇe gauṇement
Past dégauṇe dégauṇement
Future gauṇé gauṇaise

Non-finite forms

  • Imperative: gauṇier!
  • Infinitive: gauṇesse
  • Verbal noun: gauṇerre (genitive form: gauṇerez)

Pronouns

Unlike in English, there are no accusative forms of pronouns in Croissant.

Pronoun Nominative Genitive
I dans danné
you lin lunné
he / she fuis fuisé
we deman demé
you folks sonc sonché
they fuille fuillé
this jus jusé
these juseau jusant
that honne honné
those honneau honnant
that over there ṇeux ṇeusé
those over there ṇeuseau ṇeusant
who (interrogative) tris trisé
who (plural) trisau trisent
what treux treusé
what (plural) treusau treusent

Relative pronouns

avec = who; genitive form avez chez = that; genitive form chez

Syntax

Croissant is an almost exact relex of English.

Constituent order

Noun phrase

Verb phrase

Sentence phrase

Dependent clauses

Example texts

Other resources