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The '''Zhoushi language''' (Zhoushi: ''Ʒөшinчina'') is a [[wikipedia:Slavic_languages|Slavic language]] with major influence of local languages | The '''Zhoushi language''' (Zhoushi: ''Ʒөшinчina'') is a [[wikipedia:Slavic_languages|Slavic language]] with major influence of local languages, that arose as a [[wikipedia:Mixed language|mixed language]] or [[wikipedia:Pidgin|pidgin]] of sorts in the nation of [[Zhousheng]], a former colonial outpost of [[Suidenland]]. It is based on a slavic grammatic and linguistic base, especially inspired by [[Bogmian language|Bogmian]], [[wikipedia:Czech language|Suiden]] and [[Belgorian language|Belgorian]] languages, but has many major influences of other languages located in the region, especially [[Yu language|Standard Yu]], [[wikipedia:Khmer language|Preimeai]], [[wikipedia:Mandarin Chinese|Mandarin Chinese]] and [[wikipedia:Kagate language|Syuba]]. | ||
=History= | ==History== | ||
==Comparison with the two former languages== | ===Comparison with the two former languages=== | ||
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=Orthography and phonology= | ==Orthography and phonology== | ||
==Introduction== | ===Introduction=== | ||
The language has a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavic_languages slavic root and grammar], however, unlike other slavic languages, has 8 grammatical cases (other have 7 or 6). Also, there are about 700 Zhengian words in present day Zhoushi language, they are inflected using Bogmian grammar. Old Zhengian, having been descendant out of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austroasiatic_languages Prei-Phnom languages], was slowly assimilated into Slavic grammar, having transformed into Slavic Zhengian. Because of the Zhengian accents profilerating, Zhoushi language has 40 unique phonemes, 2 of which are exclusive to Zhoushi language (those are /r̝̊/ ''([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiceless_alveolar_trill#Voiceless_alveolar_fricative_trill Voiceless alveolar fricative trill])<ref>Note: this phoneme is present in other two [[Kento-Polyash languages]]: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_language Velnotian] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorbian_languages Ulevan]</ref>'' and /ȴ̩/ ''([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syllabic_consonant Syllabic] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiced_palatal_lateral_approximant voiced alveolo-palatal lateral approximant])''). | The language has a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavic_languages slavic root and grammar], however, unlike other slavic languages, has 8 grammatical cases (other have 7 or 6). Also, there are about 700 Zhengian words in present day Zhoushi language, they are inflected using Bogmian grammar. Old Zhengian, having been descendant out of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austroasiatic_languages Prei-Phnom languages], was slowly assimilated into Slavic grammar, having transformed into Slavic Zhengian. Because of the Zhengian accents profilerating, Zhoushi language has 40 unique phonemes, 2 of which are exclusive to Zhoushi language (those are /r̝̊/ ''([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiceless_alveolar_trill#Voiceless_alveolar_fricative_trill Voiceless alveolar fricative trill])<ref>Note: this phoneme is present in other two [[Kento-Polyash languages]]: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_language Velnotian] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorbian_languages Ulevan]</ref>'' and /ȴ̩/ ''([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syllabic_consonant Syllabic] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiced_palatal_lateral_approximant voiced alveolo-palatal lateral approximant])''). | ||
==Alphabet== | ===Alphabet=== | ||
{{Main|Zhoushi orthography}} | {{Main|Zhoushi orthography}} | ||
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{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;" | {| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;" | ||
!Order | !rowspan=2|Order !!colspan=2 rowspan=2|Letter !!rowspan=2|Name !!colspan=3|Sound in a syllable | ||
! | |||
|- | |- | ||
! | !Beginning !!Middle !!End | ||
|- | |- | ||
![[wikipedia: | !1 !![[wikipedia:A|A]] !!a | ||
|style="text-align: left;"|'' ||a ||colspan=2|ɑ | |||
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|- | |- | ||
![[wikipedia: | !2 !![[wikipedia:B|B]] !!b | ||
|style="text-align: left;"|'' ||colspan=3|b | |||
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|- | |- | ||
! | !3 !![[wikipedia:C|C]] !!c | ||
|style="text-align: left;"|'' ||colspan=3|ʈ͡s ~ s | |||
|- | |- | ||
![[wikipedia: | !4 !![[wikipedia:Che (Cyrillic)|Ч]] !!ч | ||
| | |style="text-align: left;"|'' ||colspan=3|ʈ͡ɕ | ||
|- | |- | ||
![[wikipedia: | !5 !![[wikipedia:D|D]] !!d | ||
| | |style="text-align: left;"|'' ||colspan=2|d ||ɖ | ||
|- | |- | ||
![[wikipedia: | !6 !![[wikipedia:D with stroke|Đ]] !!đ | ||
|n ||ɲ ||o || | |style="text-align: left;"|'' ||colspan=2|ɟ ||ɟə | ||
|t | |- | ||
!7 !![[wikipedia:Ƌ|Ƌ]] !!ƌ | |||
|style="text-align: left;"|'' ||colspan=3|ɖ͡z ~ z | |||
|- | |||
!8 !![[wikipedia:E|E]] !!e | |||
|style="text-align: left;"|'' ||colspan=2|æ ||ɛ | |||
|- | |||
!9 !![[wikipedia:Ukrainian Ye|Є]] !!є | |||
|style="text-align: left;"|'' ||je ||colspan=2|e | |||
|- | |||
!10 !![[wikipedia:F|F]] !!f | |||
|style="text-align: left;"|'' ||colspan=3|f | |||
|} | |||
{{col-4}} | |||
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;" | |||
!rowspan=2|Order !!colspan=2 rowspan=2|Letter !!rowspan=2|Name !!colspan=3|Sound in a syllable | |||
|- | |||
!Beginning !!Middle !!End | |||
|- | |||
!11 !![[wikipedia:G|G]] !!g | |||
|style="text-align: left;"|'' ||colspan=3|ɡ | |||
|- | |||
!12 !![[wikipedia:Dzhe|Џ]] !!џ | |||
|style="text-align: left;"|'' ||colspan=3|ɖ͡ʑ~ʑ | |||
|- | |||
!13 !![[wikipedia:H|H]] !!h | |||
|style="text-align: left;"|'' ||colspan=3|ɦ~h | |||
|- | |||
!14 !![[wikipedia:Yogh|Ȝ]] !!ȝ | |||
|style="text-align: left;"|'' ||colspan=3|x~ɣ | |||
|- | |||
!15 !![[wikipedia:I|I]] !!i | |||
|style="text-align: left;"|'' ||colspan=3|i~ɪ | |||
|- | |||
!16 !![[wikipedia:J|J]] !!j | |||
|style="text-align: left;"|'' ||j~ʝ ||colspan=2|j | |||
|- | |||
!17 !![[wikipedia:K|K]] !!k | |||
|style="text-align: left;"|'' ||k~q ||colspan=2|k | |||
|- | |||
!18 !![[wikipedia:L|L]] !!l | |||
|style="text-align: left;"|'' ||colspan=3|l | |||
|- | |||
!19 !![[wikipedia:Lambda|Λ]] !!λ | |||
|style="text-align: left;"|'' ||colspan=3|ʎ{{efn|Also possibly [lʲ] in some dialects}} | |||
|- | |||
!20 !![[wikipedia:M|M]] !!m | |||
|style="text-align: left;"|'' ||colspan=3|m | |||
|} | |||
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{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;" | |||
!rowspan=2|Order !!colspan=2 rowspan=2|Letter !!rowspan=2|Name !!colspan=3|Sound in a syllable | |||
|- | |||
!Beginning !!Middle !!End | |||
|- | |||
!21 !![[wikipedia:N|N]] !!n | |||
|style="text-align: left;"|'' ||colspan=2|n~ɳ ||ŋ | |||
|- | |||
!22 !![[wikipedia:N with long right leg|Ƞ]] !!ƞ | |||
|style="text-align: left;"|'' ||colspan=2|ɲ ||ɲʰ | |||
|- | |||
!23 !![[wikipedia:O|O]] !!o | |||
|style="text-align: left;"|'' ||colspan=3|o~ɔ | |||
|- | |||
!24 !![[wikipedia:Oe (Cyrillic)|Ө]] !!ө | |||
|style="text-align: left;"|'' ||colspan=3|ʊ͡ɔ | |||
|- | |||
!25 !![[wikipedia:P|P]] !!p | |||
|style="text-align: left;"|'' ||colspan=3|p | |||
|- | |||
!26 !![[wikipedia:Q|Q]] !!q | |||
|style="text-align: left;"|'' ||k͡v~k͡w{{efn|Also possibly [ɡ] in some dialects}} ||colspan=2|q | |||
|- | |||
!27 !![[wikipedia:R|R]] !!r | |||
|style="text-align: left;"|'' ||colspan=3|r | |||
|- | |||
!28 !![[wikipedia:R rotunda|Ꝛ]] !!ꝛ | |||
|style="text-align: left;"|'' ||colspan=3|ʐ | |||
|- | |||
!29 !![[wikipedia:S|S]] !!s | |||
|style="text-align: left;"|'' ||colspan=3|s | |||
|- | |||
!30 !![[wikipedia:Sha (Cyrillic)|Ш]] !!ш | |||
|style="text-align: left;"|'' ||colspan=3|ɕ~ʃ | |||
|} | |||
{{col-4}} | |||
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;" | |||
!rowspan=2|Order !!colspan=2 rowspan=2|Letter !!rowspan=2|Name !!colspan=3|Sound in a syllable | |||
|- | |||
!Beginning !!Middle !!End | |||
|- | |||
!31 !![[wikipedia:T|T]] !!t | |||
|style="text-align: left;"|'' ||colspan=2|t ||ʈ | |||
|- | |||
!32 !![[wikipedia:Insular script|Ꞇ]] !!ꞇ | |||
|style="text-align: left;"|'' ||colspan=2|c ||cə | |||
|- | |||
!33 !![[wikipedia:Thorn (letter)|Þ]] !!þ | |||
|style="text-align: left;"|'' ||colspan=3|θ~ð | |||
|- | |||
!34 !![[wikipedia:U|U]] !!u | |||
|style="text-align: left;"|'' ||ʊ ||colspan=2|u | |||
|- | |||
!35 !![[wikipedia:V|V]] !!v | |||
|style="text-align: left;"|'' ||colspan=3|v | |||
|- | |||
!36 !![[wikipedia:Wynn|Ƿ]] !!ƿ | |||
|style="text-align: left;"|'' ||colspan=3|w~ʋ | |||
|- | |||
!37 !![[wikipedia:X|X]] !!x | |||
|style="text-align: left;"|'' ||colspan=3|k͡s~g͡z~ə{{efn|X is used as a new form for gender neutral declination for nonbinary pronouns as a suffix with the sound [ə]}} | |||
|- | |||
!38 !![[wikipedia:Y|Y]] !!y | |||
|style="text-align: left;"|'' ||colspan=3|ɨ~y | |||
|- | |||
!39 !![[wikipedia:Z|Z]] !!z | |||
|style="text-align: left;"|'' ||colspan=3|z | |||
|- | |||
!40 !![[wikipedia:Ezh|Ʒ]] !!ʒ | |||
|style="text-align: left;"|'' ||colspan=3|ʑ~ʒ | |||
|} | |} | ||
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==Phonology== | ===Phonology=== | ||
{| class="wikitable" style="background:transparent;text-align:center;font-weight:normal;font-size:100%" | {| class="wikitable" style="background:transparent;text-align:center;font-weight:normal;font-size:100%" | ||
!rowspan="2"<!--style="border-bottom:none; width: 60px; padding-bottom:0; text-align:right;"-->{{diagonal split header|[[wikipedia:Manner of articulation|Manner]]|[[wikipedia:Place of articulation|Place]]}} <!--→--> | !rowspan="2"<!--style="border-bottom:none; width: 60px; padding-bottom:0; text-align:right;"-->{{diagonal split header|[[wikipedia:Manner of articulation|Manner]]|[[wikipedia:Place of articulation|Place]]}} <!--→--> | ||
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'''<big>Bold</big>''' ''are the common sounds, while'' <big>regular</big> ''sounds may happen in dialects and/or in a world for easier pronunciation | '''<big>Bold</big>''' ''are the common sounds, while'' <big>regular</big> ''sounds may happen in dialects and/or in a world for easier pronunciation | ||
=Grammar= | ==Grammar== | ||
{{Main|Zhoushi grammar}} | {{Main|Zhoushi grammar}} | ||
The Zhoushi language knows two grammatical numbers, singular and plural (with some remnants of the [[wikipedia:Dual (grammatical number)|Dual number]]) and all 8 Proto-[[Thuado-Thrismaran languages|Thuado-Thrismaran]] grammatical cases: | The Zhoushi language knows two grammatical numbers, singular and plural (with some remnants of the [[wikipedia:Dual (grammatical number)|Dual number]]) and all 8 Proto-[[Thuado-Thrismaran languages|Thuado-Thrismaran]] grammatical cases: | ||
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This system can be still seen for example on the Zhoushi clock faces, which are still using the old system, writing it as 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-ᚴ-ⵒ-ᘐ. | This system can be still seen for example on the Zhoushi clock faces, which are still using the old system, writing it as 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-ᚴ-ⵒ-ᘐ. | ||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||
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Zhoushi | |
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Ʒөшinчina - Ʒөшinƌky jєzyk | |
Pronunciation | /ʒu͡oʃɪnt͡ʃina/ |
Native to | |
Ethnicity | Zhoushi Slavs |
Native speakers | L1: 26,985,000 L2: 4,532,000 FL: 230,000 |
Standard forms | Great Corpus of the New Zhoushi language
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Zhoushi Latin Alphabet | |
Official status | |
Official language in | |
Recognised minority language in | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-1 | ZS |
ISO 639-2 | ZSG |
ISO 639-3 | ZSG |
The Zhoushi language (Zhoushi: Ʒөшinчina) is a Slavic language with major influence of local languages, that arose as a mixed language or pidgin of sorts in the nation of Zhousheng, a former colonial outpost of Suidenland. It is based on a slavic grammatic and linguistic base, especially inspired by Bogmian, Suiden and Belgorian languages, but has many major influences of other languages located in the region, especially Standard Yu, Preimeai, Mandarin Chinese and Syuba.
History
Comparison with the two former languages
Aspect | Bogmian | Zhengian | Zhoushi | ||
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Genders | YES | NO | YES | ||
Clusivity | NO | YES | YES | ||
Vowel length | YES | NO | NO | ||
Syllabicity | YES | NO | YES | ||
Reflexive | YES | NO | YES | ||
Cases | YES | ??? | YES | ||
Dozenal | NO | YES | ??? | ||
Indifference | NO | YES | YES |
Orthography and phonology
Introduction
The language has a slavic root and grammar, however, unlike other slavic languages, has 8 grammatical cases (other have 7 or 6). Also, there are about 700 Zhengian words in present day Zhoushi language, they are inflected using Bogmian grammar. Old Zhengian, having been descendant out of Prei-Phnom languages, was slowly assimilated into Slavic grammar, having transformed into Slavic Zhengian. Because of the Zhengian accents profilerating, Zhoushi language has 40 unique phonemes, 2 of which are exclusive to Zhoushi language (those are /r̝̊/ (Voiceless alveolar fricative trill)[1] and /ȴ̩/ (Syllabic voiced alveolo-palatal lateral approximant)).
Alphabet
A a | B b | C c | Ч ч | D d | Đ đ | Ƌ ƌ | E e | Є є | F f |
G g | Џ џ | H h | Ȝ ȝ | I i | J j | K k | L l | Λ λ | M m |
N n | Ƞ ƞ | O o | Ө ө | P p | Q q | R r | Ꝛ ꝛ | S s | Ш ш |
T t | Ꞇ ꞇ | Þ þ | U u | V v | Ƿ ƿ | X x | Y y | Z z | Ʒ ʒ |
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Phonology
Labial | Coronal | Dorsal | Laryngeal | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Bilabial | Labiodental | Linguolabial | Dental | Alveolar | Postal-veolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Pharyngeal | Glottal | |||||||||||||
Nasal | m̥ (m) |
m (m) |
n (n) |
ɳ (n) |
ɲ (ƞ) |
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Plosive | p (p) |
b (b) |
t (t) |
d (d) |
ʈ (t) |
ɖ (d) |
c (ꞇ) |
ɟ (đ) |
k (k) |
g (g) |
q (q) |
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Sibilant affricate | t͡s (c) |
d͡z (ƌ) |
t͡ʃ (ч) |
d͡ʒ (џ) |
ʈ͡ʂ (ч) |
ɖ͡ʐ (џ) |
t͡ɕ (ч) |
d͡ʑ (џ) |
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Sibilant fricative | s (s) |
z (z) |
ʃ (ш) |
ʒ (ʒ) |
ʂ (ш) |
ʐ (ʒ) |
ɕ (ш) |
ʑ (ʒ) |
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Non-sibilant fricative | f (f) |
v (v) |
θ (þ) |
ð (þ) |
ʝ (j) |
x (ȝ) |
ɣ (ȝ) |
χ (ȝ) |
h (h) |
ɦ (h) | ||||||||||||||
Approximant | ʋ (ƿ) |
j (j) |
w (ƿ) |
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Tap/Flap | ɾ̥ (r) |
ɾ (r) |
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Trill | r̥ (r) r̝̊ (ꝛ) |
r (r) r̝ (ꝛ) |
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Latelar approximant | l (l) |
ȴ (λ) |
ʟ (λ) |
Tongue position | Front | Near-front | Central | Near-back | Back | |||||
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Close | i (i) |
y (y) |
ɨ (y) |
u (u) | ||||||
Near-close | ɪ (i) |
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Close-mid | e (є) |
o (o) | ||||||||
Mid | ə (e) |
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Open-mid | ɛ (e) |
ʌ (o) |
ɔ (o) | |||||||
Near-open | æ (e) |
ɐ (a) |
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Open | a (a) |
ɑ (a) |
ɒ (a) | |||||||
Diphthong | a͡u (au) ~ ɛ͡u (eu) ~ e͡u (єu) ~ o͡u (ou) ~ ɔ͡u (ou) ~ u͡o (ө) ~ u͡ɔ (ө) ~ a͡e (ae) ~ a͡i (ai) | |||||||||
Long vowels | aː (a) ~ ɛː (e) ~ eː (є) ~ iː (i) ~ ɪː (i) ~ oː (o) ~ ɔː (o) ~ uː (u) ~ ɨː (y) |
Bold are the common sounds, while regular sounds may happen in dialects and/or in a world for easier pronunciation
Grammar
The Zhoushi language knows two grammatical numbers, singular and plural (with some remnants of the Dual number) and all 8 Proto-Thuado-Thrismaran grammatical cases:
- Nominative - Named "Miƞik"
- Genitive - Named "Rodƞik"
- Dative - Named "Darƞik"
- Accusative - Named "Viƞik"
- Locative - Named "Mistƞik"
- Instrumentative - Named "Tvorƞik"
- Ablative - Named "Mєrƞik"
- Vocative - Named "Volaƞik"
Nouns
The Zhoushi language recognizes 4 grammatical genders and then a set of words with no gender:
- Masculine
- Masculine animate - 4 inflection patterns
- Masculine inanimate - 4 inflection patterns
- Feminine - 4 inflection patterns
- Neuter - 4 inflection patterns
- Indifferent (that is not a gender, but a lack of gender) - 2 inflection patterns
Adjectives
There are 4 inflection patterns for adjectives, being a combination of hard/soft and descriptivity/possessivity:
- Descriptive soft
- Descriptive hard
- Possessive soft
- Possessive hard
In the declinations of adjectives, Vocative has merged with Nominative.
Pronouns
The Zhoushi language has following pronouns:
- Singular
- Ja (GEN Miƞe) - I/Me
- Ty (GEN Tebe) - You
- Өn (GEN Ƞej/Jego/Jeho) - He/Him
- Өna (GEN Ƞi/Jej) - She/Her
- Өno (GEN Өnogo/Өnoho) - It/Its
- Өnu (GEN Ƞij/Joj) - They/Them
- ACC Se (GEN Sebe) - -self
- Plural
- Ny (GEN Nas) - Inclusive we
- Vy (GEN Vas) - You
- Oni (GEN Ƞiȝ/Jiȝ) - They/Them (masculine)
- Ony (GEN Ƞeȝ/Jeȝ) - They/Them (feminine)
- Ona (GEN Ƞєȝ/Oƞєȝ) - They/Them (neuter + indifferent)
- My (GEN Mas) - Exclusive we
- ACC Sє (GEN Sєbe) - -selfves
Numbers
Until 1970's, Zhousheng used dozenal numerical system, substituting 10 a 11 with ᚴ and ⵒ. The last symbol used was so called "Cyclic symbol", which was used for twelve-step cycles and sets of twelve parts, which was written as ᘐ.
This system can be still seen for example on the Zhoushi clock faces, which are still using the old system, writing it as 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-ᚴ-ⵒ-ᘐ.
See also
- ↑ Note: this phoneme is present in other two Kento-Polyash languages: Velnotian and Ulevan
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