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|style="border-bottom: 1pt solid #c0c0c0; width: 30%"| Genealogy: ||style="border-left: 1pt solid #c0c0c0; border-bottom: 1pt solid #c0c0c0; width: 70%"| Descendant of Mandarin
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|style="border-bottom: 1pt solid #c0c0c0; width: 30%"| Creator: ||style="border-left: 1pt solid #c0c0c0; border-bottom: 1pt solid #c0c0c0; width: 70%"| Linguarum Magister
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Cheyoon (an [mis-]anglicization of its native name cayû) is spoken by pinnapoid creatures often mistaken for mermaids and mermen.


=Phonology=
=Lunar Chinese Creole=
Although the phonemes below are divided into consonants and vowels for convenience of pronunciation, the archiphoneme for each consonant/vowel pair is a semivocalic.


==Consonants (Crests)==
This is a Lunar Chinese creole spoken by descendants of Americans.
/y/ [j]
/ž/ [ʝ]
/j/ [ɟ]
/ñ/ [ɲ]
/Y/ [j_0]
/š/ [ç]
/c/ [c]
/Ñ/ [ɲ_0]


/w/ [w]
=Pronouns=
/v/ [v]
/b/ [b]
/m/ [m]
/W/ [ʍ]
/f/ [f]
/p/ [p]
/M/ [m_0]


/q/ [zero morpheme]
1s wa        1p wam
/r/ [ʁ]
/g/ [ɢ]
/ŋ/ [ɴ]
/Q/ [ʔ]
/R/ [χ]
/q/ [q]
/Ŋ/ [ŋ_0]


==Vowels (Troughs)==
2s ni        2p nim
/i/ [i]
/í/ [iˑ]
/ï/ [iː]
/î/ [i:ⁿ]
/ih/ [i_0]
/íh/ [iˑ_0]
/ïh/ [iː_0]
/îh/ [i:ⁿ_0]


/u/ [u]
3s ta        3p tam
/ú/ [uˑ]
/ü/ [uː]
/û/ [u:ⁿ]
/uh/ [u_0]
/úh/ [uˑ_0]
/üh/ [uː_0]
/ûh/ [u:ⁿ_0]


/a/ [a]
=Plurals=
/á/ [aˑ]
/ä/ [aː]
/ã/ [a:ⁿ]
/ah/ [a_0]
/áh/ [aˑ_0]
/äh/ [aː_0]
/ãh/ [a:ⁿ_0]


=Grammar=
==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


Singular > Plural


C1V1C2V1 > C1V1C2V2C2V2


V1C1V2C2 > C1V1C1V2C2


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Latest revision as of 11:15, 9 June 2017

Lunar Chinese
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

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