Crozii

Natively known as: krɔzī /kʰrɔtˈsiː/

  ...and he stood holding his hat and turned his wet face to the wind...
boo ip kha fsa i kist boo klelˈkoo i grɵ sprirˈshorʧ dzhɪst ploogts
Pronunciation: /bʲʊ ip xa fsʲa i kisʲtʲ bʲʊ klelʲˈkʊ i grʲɵ sprʲirˈʂorʧʰ dʐɪsʲtʲ plʊgʦʰ/
Crozii word order: and stood he holding hat his and turned his face wet to the wind  

Spelling & Phonology

  Consonant inventory: b bʲ d dʲ f fʲ g j k kʰ l lʲ m mʲ n nʲ p pʲ r rʲ s sʲ t tʰ tʲ v vʲ w wʲ x xʲ z zʲ ɕː ɮ ɮʲ ʂ ʂː ʃ ʐ ʐː ʒ ʦ ʦʰ ʧ ʧʰ ʨ  

↓Manner/Place→	Bilabial	Labiodental	Alveolar	Palato-alveolar	Retroflex	Alveolo-palatal	Palatal	Velar
Nasal	m mʲ		n nʲ
Stop	p b pʲ bʲ		d t dʲ tʲ tʰ					k g kʰ
Affricate			ʦ ʦʰ	ʧʰ ʧ		ʨ
Fricative		v vʲ f fʲ	s z sʲ zʲ	ʃ ʒ	ʐ ʂ ʂː ʐː	ɕː		x xʲ
Approximant							j
Trill			r rʲ
Lateral fricative			ɮ ɮʲ
Lateral approximant			lʲ l

  Co-articulated phonemes  

↓Manner/Place→	Labial-velar
Approximant	w wʲ

  Vowel inventory: a e i o u ɔ ɪ ɵ ʊ  

	Front	Central	Back
High	i		u
Near-high	ɪ		ʊ
High-mid	e	ɵ	o
Low-mid			ɔ
Low	a

  Syllable structure: Custom defined ?
Stress pattern: Second — stress is on the second syllable ?   Spelling rules:  

Pronunciation	Spelling
ʨ	ch
x	kh
ʐ	zh
ʂ	sh
tˈs	z
ʦ	ts
iː	ī
ɕː	shch
ʊ	oo
ɮ	sh
ʲ
ʰ

 

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Grammar

  Main word order: Verb Subject Object (Prepositional phrase). “Mary opened the door with a key” turns into Opened mary the door with a key.
Adjective order: Adjectives are positioned after the noun.
Adposition: prepositions ?  

Pronouns

 

Masculine

 

	Singular	Plural
1st person	slo /sʲlʲo/ I (masc), me (masc), mine (masc)
2nd person	o /o/ you (masc), yours (masc)
3rd person	kha /xa/ he, him, his	mɪ /mɪ/ they (masc), them (masc), theirs (masc)

Feminine

 

	Singular	Plural
1st person	srelm /srʲelʲm/ I (fem), me (fem), mine (fem)
2nd person	joo /jʊ/ you (fem), yours (fem)
3rd person	do /do/ she, her, hers	a /a/ they (fem), them (fem), theirs (fem)

Neuter

 

	Singular	Plural
1st person	dun /dun/ I (neut), me (neut), mine (neut)	srɔ /srʲɔ/ we (neut), us (neut), ours (neut)
2nd person	fste /fste/ you (neut), yours (neut)	vnɪntr /vnɪntr/ you (neut) all
3rd person	drat /dratʲ/ they (neut), them (neut), theirs (neut)	smɵ /smʲɵ/ they (neut), them (neut), theirs (neut)

 

Possessive determiners

 

Singular

 

	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
Possessive	lam /lʲamʲ/ my	mnɔ /mnʲɔ/ your	i /i/ his, her, their, its

Plural

 

	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
Possessive	u /u/ our	khri /xri/ your (pl)	a /a/ their

 

 

Numbers

  Crozii has a base-10 number system:   1 - shchust
2 - stsokt
3 - la
4 - nɵst
5 - shchoort
6 - zɵlp
7 - kɔdz
8 - doo
9 - vzdɵj
10 - gla
100 - stro
1000 - pishˈnunre
 

Derivational morphology

  Adjective → adverb = Suffix -i
Adjective → noun (the quality of being [adj]) = If ends with vowel: Suffix -r
Else: Suffix -ar
Adjective → verb (to make something [adj]) = If ends with vowel: Suffix -jskʊ
Else: Suffix -ajskʊ
Noun → adjective (having the quality of [noun]) = If ends with vowel: Suffix -ɮs
Else: Suffix -ɔɮs
Noun → adjective relating to noun (e.g. economy → economic) = If ends with vowel: Suffix -r
Else: Suffix -ʊr
Noun to verb = Suffix -olʲ
Verb → adjective (result of doing [verb]) = If ends with vowel: Suffix -ɕːa
Else: Suffix -ɔɕːa
Tending to = If ends with vowel: Suffix -lpu
Else: Suffix -alpu
Verb → noun (the act of [verb]) = Suffix -ɵ
Verb → noun that verb produces (e.g. know → knowledge) = If ends with vowel: Suffix -rɔ
Else: Suffix -ʊrɔ
One who [verb]s (e.g. paint → painter) = If ends with vowel: Suffix -sʲlʲ
Else: Suffix -isʲlʲ
Place of (e.g. wine → winery) = If ends with vowel: Suffix -blʲ
Else: Suffix -ɔblʲ
Diminutive = Suffix -ɔ
Augmentative = If ends with vowel: Suffix -nʲ
Else: Suffix -enʲ