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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.
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| ==Introduction==
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| ==Phonology==
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| The same as French, but with three additional retroflex consonants: '''ṭ''' /ʈ/, '''ḍ''' /ɖ/ and '''ṇ''' /ɳ/.
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| ===Orthography===
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| Written like French.
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| ===Consonants===
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| ===Vowels===
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| ===Prosody===
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| ====Stress====
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| ====Intonation====
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| ===Phonotactics===
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| ===Morphophonology===
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| ==Morphology==
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| ===Articles===
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| The indefinite article is "le/la" in free variation.
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| The definite article is "en".
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| ===Nouns===
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| Croissant nouns have two cases: nominative and genitive. Nouns ending with consonants use this paradigm:
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| ! !! Singular !! Plural
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| | Nominative || - || -o
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| | Genitive || -e || -ɑ̃
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| For example,
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| {| class="wikitable"
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| ! ''riège'' (wood) !! Singular !! Plural
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| | Nominative || riège || riègeau
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| | Genitive || riègé || riègent
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| (Croissant final -ent is always pronounced.) Nouns ending with vowels use the same paradigm, but with an intrusive t:
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| {| class="wikitable"
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| ! !! Singular !! Plural
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| | Nominative || - || -to
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| | Genitive || -te || -tɑ̃
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| For example,
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| ! ''crus'' (grass) !! Singular !! Plural
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| | Nominative || crus || crûteau
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| | Genitive || crûté || crûtant
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| ===Verbs===
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| Verbs don't inflect for number or person.
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| ! ''gauṇe'' 'to love' !! Indicative !! Subjunctive !! Progressive !! Perfect !! Perfect Progressive
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| | Present || gauṇe || gauṇement || gauṇois || gauṇive || gauṇevois
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| | Past || dégauṇe|| dégauṇement || dégauṇois || dégauṇive || dégauṇevois
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| | Future || gauṇé || gauṇaise || gauṇoir || gauṇivre || dégauṇevoir
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| ====Non-finite forms====
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| * Infinitive: gauṇesse
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| * Verbal noun: gauṇerre (genitive form: gauṇerez)
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| ===Pronouns===
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| Unlike in English, there are no accusative forms of pronouns in Croissant.
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| ! Pronoun !! Nominative !! Genitive
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| | I|| dans|| danné
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| | you|| lin || lunné
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| | he / she || fuis|| fuisé
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| | we|| deman|| demé
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| | you folks|| sonc|| sonché
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| | they|| fuille|| fuillé
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| | this || jus || jusé
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| | these || juseau || jusant
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| | that|| honne || honné
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| | those || honneau || honnant
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| | that over there || ṇeux|| ṇeusé
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| | those over there || ṇeuseau || ṇeusant
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| | who (interrogative) || tris|| trisé
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| | who (plural) || trisau || trisent
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| | what || treux || treusé
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| | what (plural) || treusau || treusent
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| ====Relative pronouns====
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| ''avec'' = who; genitive form ''avez''
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| ''chez'' = that; genitive form ''chez''
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| ==Syntax==
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| Croissant is an almost exact relex of English.
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| ===Constituent order===
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| ===Noun phrase===
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| ===Verb phrase===
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| ==Example texts==
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| ''En Évon Jert à-t-en Ṇèle déṭaitive loix rattier, que tris de fuille dére étrapique, sont l'épulir déchart avandre, crêvette-au-lus eux le ḍemble. Fuille dénaître, et en loix avec dévent loir en épulir raisse-au-plas fuisé ḍemble, déré dantrette-au-dis prait étrapique car en chelle loix.''
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| The North Wind and the Sun were arguing one day about which of them was stronger, when a traveler came along wrapped up in an overcoat. They agreed that the one who could make the traveler take his coat off would be considered stronger than the other one.
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| Then the North Wind blew as hard as he could, but the harder he blew, the tighter the traveler wrapped his coat around him; and at last the North Wind gave up trying.
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| Then the Sun began to shine hot , and right away the traveler took his coat off. And so the North Wind had to admit that the Sun was stronger than he was.
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| [to be translated]
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