Tyrith

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Tyrith/Lexicon

Compared to real-world Chinese, Standard Chinese (中出語 Türiŋit ŋää /ˈtyriŋit ˈŋæː/) has taken a dramatically different course in the alternate history of User:IlL/Lõis (地, L-Standard Chinese for 'Earth'). Türiŋit is a co-creation of User:IlL and User:Praimhín, inspired by Estonian and Turkish.

Notes

  • A = a/ä
  • O = e/ö/õ/o
  • U = i/ü/ũ/u

Phonology

Consonants

Labial Dental Alveolar Palatal Velar Uvular Glottal
central lateral
Nasal voiceless mh /m̥/ nh /n̥/ ŋh /ŋ̊/
voiced m /m/ n /n/ ŋ /ŋ/
Plosive voiceless p /p/ t /t/ k /k/ q /q/ ʔ /ʔ/
voiced b /b/ d /d/ g /ɡ/ ġ /ɢ/
Affricate voiceless ts /ts/
voiced dz /dz~z/
Fricative f /f~v/ th /θ~ð/ s /s/ lh /ɬ/ kh /x~ɣ/ h /h/
Trill voiceless rh /r̥/
voiced r /r/
Approximant l /l/ -i /j/ -u /w/

Vowels

Tyrith vowels
Front Back
unrounded rounded unrounded rounded
short long short long short long short long
Close i /i/ ii /iː/ ü /y/ üü /yː/ ũ /ɯ/ ũũ /ɯː/ u /u/ uu /uː/
Mid e /e/ ee /eː/ ö /ø/ öö /øː/ õ /ɤ/ õõ /ɤː/ o /o/ oo /oː/
Open ä /æ/ ää /æː/ a /ɑ/ aa /ɑː/

glides: -i -u /-j -w/

Stress

Stress is always on the first syllable.

Morphology

Nouns

The plural suffix is -El: räŋe 'fish', räŋel 'fish, fishes'.

  • Nominative: -0 (räŋe 'a fish', räŋe 'fish (plural)')
  • Genitive: -(E)d (räŋed 'of a fish', räŋeled 'of fish')
  • Ablative: -(U)t (räŋet 'from a fish', räŋelit 'from fish')
  • Dative: 給 -(E)b (räŋeb 'for a fish', räŋeleb 'for fish')

Pronouns

  • "I": nom. 吾 ŋa /ˈŋɑ/; acc.: 我 ŋai; other cases: 我 ŋai-
  • "you": nom. and acc. 汝 nää /ˈnæː/, other cases: näC- (e.g. gen. nät < *nätte, abl. näit 'from you')
  • "he/she": 其 ge /ˈge/
  • "we": 我民 ŋaimõŋ /ˈŋaimɤŋ/
  • "you guys": 汝民 näpmeŋ /ˈnæpmeŋ/
  • "they": 其民 gemeŋ /ˈgemeŋ/

Verbs

Numerals

1: id 2: niis 3: sürm 4: silis 5: paŋg 6: kürg 7: sid 8: põrd 9: küü 10: teeb 100: parg 1000: sũnũŋ

Syntax