Tichoshian
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[edit] Introduction
Tichoshian (tɪ.ko.ʃi.an) or 'tekut' is a sythetic language which was intended to use for fiction purposes until it developed more. There are many inflectional affixes. Tichoshian is not influenced much by any language but the ones found are from Turkish and Japanese.
[edit] The Alphabet
The Tichoshian alphaet is based of the latin alphabet and was formally in cyrillic. Transliterations are as following:
Aa = /ɑ/
Áá = /ɔ/
Ææ = /æ/
Bb = /b/
Cc = /tʃ/
Dd = /d/
Đđ = /dj/
Ee = /ɛ/
Ff = /f/
Gg = /g/
Hh = /h/
Ii = /i/
ĺí = /ɪ/
Jj = /dʒ/
Kk = /k/
Ll = /l/
Mm = /m/
Nn = /n/
Oo = /o/
Pp = /p/
Qq = /θ/
Rr = /ɹ/
Ss = /ʃ/
Tt = /t/
Uu = /u/
Úú = /ʌ/
Üü = /ʊ/
Vv = /v/
Ww = /w/
Xx = /ŋ/
Yy = /j/
Zz = /s/
[edit] Grammar
[edit] Adjectives
[edit] Adjective forms
In Tichoshian adjectives are marked by type to explain what exactly what feature they're describing or sense they are describing with.They are all marked with suffixes. The types are as follows.
Describing Smell:-rú
Describing Taste:-zi
Describing Touch:-gæn
Describing Sight:-kija
Desribing Sound:-can
Descibing Physical apperence:-ge
Describing Behaviour:-ci
Describing Emotion:-ku
Describing Pesonallity:-pa
Describing all else: add nothing.
[edit] Intensity
Almost all adjectives are of neutral intensity exept for words like 'great' or 'extravagant'. The intensities range from very very intense, very intense, too intense, very dull, and very very dull. All the inflections are in the form of suffixes
| Very very intense | Very intense | Too intense | Very dull | Very very dull |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| -ukep | -okep | -rekep | -ore | -ure |
[edit] Superlative and Comparitive
There are 2 superlative and 5 comparitive forms, all of which are suffixes like most of Tichoshian's inflections.
Superlative-the most:-za ex:kepza (best)
Superlative-the least:-sli ex:kepsli (least best)
Comparitive to nothing-better:-ya ex:kepya (better)
Comparitive to something-better:-yaa ex:kepyaa (better than)
Comparitive-same as:-dü ex:kepdü (as good as)
Comparitive to nothing-lesser:-sa ex:kepsa (less good)
Comparitive to something-lesser:-saa ex:kepsaa (less good than)
[edit] Negation
Negation is also done by inflecting the base word by suffix. this is also the same method as the way verbs inflects for negation.
If the word ends in a consonant:-o
If the word ends in a vowel:-yo
[edit] Tenses
Basic tenses are the past and future adjectives and verbs are already in present. These must agree with the verb.
| Ends in s,c,z | Ends in other consonant | Ends in vowel | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Past | -an | -as | -nas |
| Future | -in | -ki | -kin |
There are also other tenses that are used for emphasis
| Ends in s,c,z | Ends in other consonant | Ends in vowel | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Non-past | -eian | -eias | -neias |
| Non-present | -leik | -eiak | -leiak |
| -Non-future | -keia | -eia | -keia |
| all tenses | -olein | -oleis | -yoleis |
[edit] Case system
In Tichoshian the adjective agree with the noun it modifies. usually case is only used for formallity or emphasis and is marked by suffix.
Nominative:-oye
Objective:-owa
Genitive:-osa
Possesed:-onac
[edit] Suffix order
The order for inflectional suffixs are:
(Affix)+Base+Intensity+Form+Tense+Case+Negation+Superlative/Comparitive+(Affix)
For example: Kep-rekep-ci-nas-onac-o-yaa (keprekepcinasonacoyaa)means 'have behaved to much better than'
[edit] Verbs
[edit] Aspect
For Tichoshian aspect is a suffix to the verb and most come in perfective and imperfective form, the types of aspects are paired with there imperfective forms (perfective, imperfective) except the the group with out a pair is always imperfective
Infinitive form -ir
Imperfective (like -ing) -im
To stop -al
To stop for a little while -ík
To start -am -amu
To try -at -ata
For a while (long duriation) -ar -ara
For a little while -it -itu
Extreamly small duriation -ac -aci
To continue -üt -üti
Habitually -ik -iku
Frequently -úm -úmu
With more effort -æt -ætú
With less effort -æm -æmi
Intentionally -ok -oku
Accedentally -om -omi
Almost -eti -etiam
