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 |
| 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.
Appearance of Tauro-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: 'Sharne (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.
Words of interest 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
- Ruscgonstull - registration at regular intervals to affirm attendance
