Cheyoon
Lunar Chinese | |
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Pronounced: | [Unknown] |
Timeline and Universe: | Polycosm |
Species: | Human |
Spoken: | Unknown |
Total speakers: | Unknown |
Writing system: | Chinese, Roman |
Genealogy: | Descendant of Mandarin |
Typology: | |
Morphology: | Analytic |
Morphosyntax: | Unknown |
Word order: | SVO |
Credits | |
Creator: | Linguarum Magister |
Created: | 2016 |
Lunar Chinese Creole
This is a Lunar Chinese creole spoken by descendants of Americans.
Pronouns
1s wa 1p wam
2s ni 2p nim
3s ta 3p tam
Plurals
Regular Plural
If a word ends in a vowel, the plural ending is -m; if it ends in a consonant, the plural ending is -en
haits 'child' > haitsen 'children'; beits 'cup' > beitsen 'cups'; fants 'housing unit' > fantsen 'housing units'
hants 'letter' > hantsen 'letters, alphabet'
nizh 'wife, woman' > nizhen 'wives'
bangcho 'ball' > bangchom 'balls'; li 'kilometer' > lim 'kilometers'
Singulative
Some nouns are plural by default and take a plural ending to indicate the singulative
chif 'food' > chiffen '(pieces of) food'
Adjectives
Adjectives end in -d or -id
(n)dad 'big'; shoud 'small'; (ng)haod 'good'; waid 'bad'
fantsid 'domestic'; haitsid 'puerile'; quaisid 'fast'; manid 'slow'; shinid 'new' joad 'old'; quaid 'expensive'; lenid 'cheap'
Pronominal Adjectives
wad, nid, tad; wamid, nimid, tamid
Colloquialisms
'nizh-e nid' 'wife and your own/wife and kids'
Colors
white - bais
black - heis
red - honks
yellow - wonks
green - lis
blue - lants
gray - wais
Directions
central - jong
east - dombu
west - shimen
north - beimen
south - nammen
Numbers
number - shits
0 - ling
1 - i
2 - leng
3 - san
4 - si
5 - u
6 - lo
7 - chi
8 - ba
9 - jo
10 - shi
100 - bai
1000 - chen
1,0000 - wan
Verb
I eat - wa chi
I ate - wa chil
I was eating - wa chig