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'''Czecklish''' (''Čeklis'' [tɕɛkˈlis]) is a constructed, a priori and naturalistic language from the Liberec family of languages, descended from the hypothetical Proto-Liberec language. The closest genetic relatives to Czecklish are Ostritzisch (2,451 speakers) and Leśna (4,752 speakers). Czecklish itself is spoken in the tiny village of Chrastava, with a total of 5,112 native speakers. Czecklish is heavily influenced by the West Slavic and Romance language families. The greatest substrata are Czech, Polish and Italian. Despite being in the very midst of the Standard Average European Sprachbund, Czecklish morphology is definitively non-Indo-European. Czecklish is an agglunitative, polysynthetic and noun-incorporating language. As such, it's verb conjugation and noun declension is (over)complicated and difficult. A unique characteristic of Czecklish morphology is that it utilizes polyexponential formatives to encode multiple grammatical categories. That is to say, one bound morpheme can be used to express different grammatical categories simultaneously. These morphemes, which serve as function words, are known as screeves in Czecklish linguistics. Like Georgian screeves, Czecklish screeves are a number of combinations that indicate person, number and TAM categories. Contrastive to the Georgian screeve, though, screeve endings in Czecklish encode all TAM categories - Tense, Mood and Voice. Czecklish is also unusual in that adjectives and adverbs are completely absent, being replaced with auxiliary participles and attibutive verbs.