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

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'

bangcho 'ball' > bangchom 'balls'; li 'kilometer' > lim 'kilometers'

Adjectives end in -d or -id

dad 'big'; shoud 'small'

fantsid 'domestic'; haitsid 'puerile'

wad, nid, tad; wamid, nimid, tamid

1 - i

2 - leng

3 - san

4 - si

5 - u

6 - lo

7 - chi

8 - ba

9 - jo

10 - shi

100 - chen