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'''Zlïke''' (native name ''ihr zlïker Zießammel'') is a language of the country Zlïkezhẅẅs in Central Etalocin. It's aesthetically inspired by German.


Zlïke has loanwords from Classical Netagin, Tamil, Ksieh, Naeng, Fursfop and Clofabosin.
==Todo==
Jazh - harp
Kuzhel - flute
==Phonology==
Vowels: ''a e i o u w ë ï ẅ'' /ɑ ɛ ɪ ɔ ʊ ʏ ə ɨ ʊ/. Unstressed ''e'' is pronounced as if written ''ë''. Vowels may be doubled or glottalized; the latter is marked with the letter ''h''.
In addition there are a few diphthongs: ''ei ëi ie ïe au ua'' /ɛɪ əɨ ɪə ɨə ɑʊ ʊɑ/.
Consonants: ''b p f pf d t th g k ch h s z zh ß m n ng l r j'' /b p v f d t t' g k k' ʔ ʂ ʈ ɽ s m n ŋ l ɾ j/
Ejectives are weak as in Georgian. Final ejectives are realized as unreleased stops, whereas final voiceless stops may be spirantized as in Irish English or Liverpool English.
===Dialects===
There are two rough dialect areas, Upper Zlïce and Lower Zlïce. The former includes the dialect of the capital city Raudehn.
==Place names==
*Brwschling
*Eintrach
*Klwgepfazh
*Anfihst
*Laamaper
*Pfernpfuh
==Morphology==
Zlïce is polysynthetic in that it features noun incorporation with certain verbs. It is unlike most other polysynthetic languages in that word lengths are comparable to the average Germanic or Finnic language. The morpheme count in an average Zlïce word is much smaller than in most polysynthetic languages.
===Nouns===
Zlïce nouns come in four genders: personal, human, animate nonhuman and inanimate. Technically the personal gender isn't really a noun gender because it only includes pronouns but it's treated as a gender for the sake of verb agreement.
Noun morphology includes case, number and incorporated adjective. Cases and numbers are mostly agglutinating suffixes while incorporating adjectives are prefixes with occasional umlaut, which manifests as vowel backing if the umlauting vowel is ''e'', ''i'' or ''w''. Occasionally adjectives cause suppletion of the noun.
===Adjectives===
Incorporating adjectives are a small closed class, with others being expressed as verbs.
===Constituent order===
Zlïce is predicate-first like Lushootseed.
Example:
'''''Rahin an mëjinnen ei Schaapau ja Pfernpfuh.'''''
The gardens in Furnifoo are indeed beautiful.
Ischeß ihr emPfanber drëbagbeigem, ihr angtlẅren tah "Staußar ihr Kuzhel! Staußar ihr Jazh!"
never-PERF DEF CONST.baby-GEN babble<perceive> the word<show>.AGENT like beauty.EMPH DEF flute beauty.EMPH DEF harp
"Those who say the flute and harp are sweet have never heard their baby babbling"

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