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A conlang with an Icelandic, Scandinavian, PGmc and Tamil aesthetic
[[Xeno-Mandarin]] (''Putongyu'' or ''Putonglawas'') is an Altaic conlang with a "nontonal Mandarin" aesthetic, spoken in northern China and parts of Mongolia and Siberia in [[Verse:Irta]]. It's a hypothetical answer to the question "What if Mandarin were an Altaic sprachbund language?"


* retroflexes
==Todo==
* more consonant clusters (lC, nC, mC, fricativeC)
* preaspiration


r and zh both pronounced /r/, from Old Tiruttazhai *r and *z
Derive from existing "reconstructions" of Proto-Altaic
 
Chinese words in this language should sound so Mandarin they're even polysyllabic, like ''taiyang'' "sun" instead of ''ri''
 
''-zi'' is quite productive and works even with Altaic words
 
Andalusian Spanish-style vowel harmony?
 
==Nouns==
 
*nominative: -en / -ian
*accusative: -Ø /
*genitive: -es / -ies (sai-siot)
*dative: -ade / -iade
*ablative: -ar / -iar
*locative: -am / -iam
*comitative: -emb / -iemb
*essive: -ao / -iao
*translative: -aza / -iaza
 
==Lexicon==
 
 
[[Category:Languages]]
[[Category:Conlangs]]
[[Category:Altaic languages]]

Latest revision as of 07:02, 7 January 2022

Xeno-Mandarin (Putongyu or Putonglawas) is an Altaic conlang with a "nontonal Mandarin" aesthetic, spoken in northern China and parts of Mongolia and Siberia in Verse:Irta. It's a hypothetical answer to the question "What if Mandarin were an Altaic sprachbund language?"

Todo

Derive from existing "reconstructions" of Proto-Altaic

Chinese words in this language should sound so Mandarin they're even polysyllabic, like taiyang "sun" instead of ri

-zi is quite productive and works even with Altaic words

Andalusian Spanish-style vowel harmony?

Nouns

  • nominative: -en / -ian
  • accusative: -Ø / -ь
  • genitive: -es / -ies (sai-siot)
  • dative: -ade / -iade
  • ablative: -ar / -iar
  • locative: -am / -iam
  • comitative: -emb / -iemb
  • essive: -ao / -iao
  • translative: -aza / -iaza

Lexicon