Tauro-Piscean language

Spreec täropisceesum
Pronounced:	[spɹek tɛəɹopiskesum]
Timeline and Universe:	Present, this universe
Species:	Human
Spoken:	People's Democratic Republic of New Pisces and Taurus
Total speakers:	2
Writing system:	Partridgo-Andersonic alphabet
Genealogy:	Indo-European  Multi-Western   Early Old Piscean    Middle Old Piscean     Late Old Piscean      Piscean   Taurusian
Typology
Morphological type:	Inflecting
Morphosyntactic alignment:	Nominative-accusative
Basic word order:	V2
Credits
Creator:	Anderson, Partridge
Created:	27 November 2007

The Tauro-Piscean language belongs to S.C. Anderson and L.J. Partridge, residents of the territories claimed by the New Pisces and Taurus micronation. Throughout its history, Piscean has belonged to several branches of the Indo-European language family, including Italic and West Germanic. Due to the awkward classification, a new pseudo-branch of Indo-European languages has been created by Anderson: 'Multi-Western', after the languages spoken in western Europe that have inspired Piscean. Tauro-Piscean is essentially the modern Piscean dialect, with some revived features from its history, and the newly developing - now ingested - language Taurusian. Since an agreement on 27 November 2007, Anderson (Piscean) and Partridge (Taurusian) have agreed to work on a joint language and now both moderate the Piscean Lexicon.

Writing system

Effectively, Tauro-Piscean implements an enhanced version of the Andersonic alphabet, the Partridgo-Andersonic alphabet, one in which formerly Partridgic letters are used alongside the original Andersonic letters. When written in the Latin alphabet, Tauro-Piscean contains double consonants; however, in the correct alphabet, any double consonants are replaced with a single Partridgic letter. Also, Tauro-Piscean vowels written in the Latin alphabet with acute accents or circumflexes to mark atypical stress - á, é, í, ó, ú, ĵ - are replaced with Partridgic vowels.

• cc, dd, ff, gg, ll, mm, nn, pp, rr, ss, tt, vv, xx, zz respectively:

• á, é, í, ó, ú, ĵ respectively:

Vocabulary of Tauro-Piscean

Words from Piscean

Due to Piscean's history of borrowing from different Germanic and Romance languages, modern Piscean has 'recessive' vocabulary, i.e. it has words that mean the same as one another in their source languages, but now have different meanings in Tauro-Piscean. For example, there are four words that originally translated as 'day':

• Dominant: 'Deej' (Germanic) - 'day'
• Recessive 1: 'Tag' (Germanic) - 'typical day'
• Recessive 2: 'Scharne (Romance) - 'personal holiday'
• Recessive 3: 'Pee' (Germanic) - 'bank holiday'

The last form was imported into early Old Piscean from modern English ('pé', a corruption of 'day'); the third, into middle Old Piscean from French/Italian ('jarna', compare 'jour' and 'giorno'); the second, into late Old Piscean from German ('Tag'); the first, into modern Piscean from Old English (reformed spelling: 'daeg'). Therefore, Tauro-Piscean could now be compared to English, albeit the language of Anderson and Partridge arguably has a much more consistent method of assigning vocabulary. See also: Piscean language

Reform 07/12/07

The Reform of December has meant that in Tauro-Piscean, the letter G in words of Old English origin will be replaced by the letter J. Previously, in Piscean, some were replaced, but the substitution is now made complete. Observe:

• Godendeej (modern Piscean) > Jodendeej (Tauro-Piscean)
• frignan (modern Piscean) > frijnan (Tauro-Piscean)
• geond (modern Piscean) > jeond (Tauro-Piscean)

Words from Taurusian

Tauro-Piscean, in addition to Romance and Germanic influences, is influced by Taurusian. Taurusian vocabulary is invented spontaneously by Partridge and, as a result of which, can cater for unique words among the Piscean language that often help to make communication quicker and less ambiguous. Observe (Piscean elements of infinitives are enclosed in square brackets):

• pars [bean] - to have mixed emotions
• Hijfíĵs - someone that opposes one's ideas or mannerisms
• Dijnumm - AstroTurf, flat 'artificial turf' used for sports
• Hupíjcort - cross-country running
• Runndajvu - motocross
• Ruscgonstull - registration at regular intervals to affirm attendance
• Cornipáznaj - compact disc (CD)
• Hijvidrool - digital versatile disc (DVD)
• Bude - box set
• lijtáccan - to be taken lightly
• ruffär - shaky/sketchy
• Waterdogg - subwoofer