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{{Infobox|name=<span style="font-size: 2em"><span style="font-family: partridgo-andersonic">Spreec täropisceesum</span>
|pronounce=[spɹek tɛəɹopiskesum]
|tu=Present, this universe
|species=Human
|in=[[People's Democratic Republic of New Pisces and Taurus]]
|no=2
|script=Partridgo-Andersonic alphabet
|tree=Indo-European<br>
&nbsp;Multi-Western<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Old_Piscean_language#Early_Old_Piscean|Early Old Piscean]]<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Old_Piscean_language#Middle_Old_Piscean|Middle Old Piscean]]<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Old_Piscean_language#Late_Old_Piscean|Late Old Piscean]]<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Piscean_language|Piscean]]<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Old_Taurusian_language|Old Taurusian]]
|morph=Inflecting
|ms=Nominative-accusative
|wo=V2
|creator=S.C. Anderson, L.J. Partridge
|date=27 November 2007}}
[[Image:Tauro-pisces.png|left]]
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 [[Piscean_language|modern Piscean dialect]], reformed and 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.
==Sounds==
Tauro-Piscean sounds are based mainly on those in the modern standard dialects of German and English.
For non-linguists or for casual browsing: Tauro-Piscean letters can be compared to English phonetically:
[[Image:EngTP.png]]
===Types of consonants===
Linguistically, Tauro-Piscean consonants can be arranged in a grid like this:
[[Image:TPconsonants.png]]
==Nouns==
==Nouns==


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The Piscean language includes three 'logical' grammatical genders. While in many languages, the genders do not often relate to physical properties of nouns, they do in Piscean; therefore, most nouns are neuter, while creatures of the male sex are masculine and creatures of female sex are feminine. If one refers to a creature, but does not wish to distinguish sex, the neuter gender can be used as a substitute. Observe the following examples:
The Piscean language includes three 'logical' grammatical genders. While in many languages, the genders do not often relate to physical properties of nouns, they do in Piscean; therefore, most nouns are neuter, while creatures of the male sex are masculine and creatures of female sex are feminine. If one refers to a creature, but does not wish to distinguish sex, the neuter gender can be used as a substitute. Observe the following examples:


*teet Sunne - the sun (no sex, so neuter)  
*tet Sunnê - the sun (no sex, so neuter)
*teet Mann - the person (no sex specified, so neuter)  
*tet Mann - the person (no sex specified, so neuter)
*se Mann - the man (male, so masculine)  
*sê Mann - the man (male, so masculine)
*seo Mann - the woman (female, so feminine)
*seo Mann - the woman (female, so feminine)
 
The above example shows the importance the article plays in Piscean of distinguishing between sexes in a language where one noun fits all.
The above example shows the importance the article plays in Piscean of distinguishing between sexes in a language where one noun fits all.


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====Definite articles====
====Definite articles====
<span style="font-family: comic sans ms">The word ‘the’ is known as the definite article.</span>
[[Image:tpdefart]]
 
The definite article is inflected in various ways, firstly split into three depending on grammatical gender, then into six depending also on quantity - whether singular or plural - and finally into a further thirty depending on grammatical case - whether nominative, accusative, dative, genitive or instrumental.
 
[[Image:definitearticle.png]]
 
<span style="font-family: times new roman">Those words highlighted with an asterisk follow irregular patterns. 'Enum' is a contraction arising from a rather complex - and now incorrect - 'teemenum'. 'Seäm' is a result of 'seoum', which is difficult for a Piscean speaker to pronounce. The O and U thus collapse into Ä. Similarly, 'som' is contrived, as 'säum' is awkward in speech, giving way instead to a collapse of Ä and U into O.</span>


====Indefinite articles====
====Indefinite articles====
<span style="font-family: comic sans ms">The word ‘a’ is known as the indefinite article.</span>
[[Image:tpindefart]]
 
The indefinite article is inflected in much the same way as the definite article, but lacking plural forms (which are shown not with an article, merely by inflecting the noun itself).
 
[[Image:indefinitearticle.png]]


<span style="font-family: times new roman">Those words highlighted with an asterisk follow irregular patterns. 'Een', 'eem', 'ees' and 'eum' are contracted forms of 'aneen', 'aneem', 'anees' and 'aneum', respectively. Regarding the feminine irregularities, 'änoen', 'änoem', 'änoes' and 'änoum' first contracted to 'oen', 'oem', 'oes' and 'oum', but - for even easier pronunciation - the O (and E, where applicable) finally collapsed into the dipthong IJ, which sounds like the English word 'eye'.</span>
===Singular and Plural===
There are several ways to form plural nouns in Tauro-Piscean:
1. Bok > Bokê (add –ê to nouns that end in a consonant)
2. Äto > Ätos (add –s to nouns that end in a vowel other than ê)
3. Sunnê > Sunnên (add –n to nouns that end in ê)

Revision as of 11:33, 7 March 2008

Nouns

Genders

The Piscean language includes three 'logical' grammatical genders. While in many languages, the genders do not often relate to physical properties of nouns, they do in Piscean; therefore, most nouns are neuter, while creatures of the male sex are masculine and creatures of female sex are feminine. If one refers to a creature, but does not wish to distinguish sex, the neuter gender can be used as a substitute. Observe the following examples:

  • tet Sunnê - the sun (no sex, so neuter)
  • tet Mann - the person (no sex specified, so neuter)
  • sê Mann - the man (male, so masculine)
  • seo Mann - the woman (female, so feminine)

The above example shows the importance the article plays in Piscean of distinguishing between sexes in a language where one noun fits all.

Articles

Definite articles

File:Tpdefart

Indefinite articles

File:Tpindefart

Singular and Plural

There are several ways to form plural nouns in Tauro-Piscean: 1. Bok > Bokê (add –ê to nouns that end in a consonant) 2. Äto > Ätos (add –s to nouns that end in a vowel other than ê) 3. Sunnê > Sunnên (add –n to nouns that end in ê)

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