Cheyoon

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'; len 'cheap'

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