Prazmish (/prazm/)

Prazmish is one of the languages of Cury.

Natively known as: prazm /prazm/

...and he stood holding his hat and turned his wet face to the wind...
chi gu pashch gest gu skru chi prist gu stra sjunt shlu vaftu
Pronunciation: /ʨi gu paɕː gest gu skru ʨi prist gu stra sjunt ʂlʲu ˈvaftu/
Prazmish word order: and he stood holding his hat and turned his wet face to the wind

Spelling & Phonology

Consonant inventory: b bʲ d dʲ f fʲ g j k l lʲ m mʲ n nʲ p pʲ r rʲ s sʲ t tʲ v vʲ x z zʲ ɕː ʂ ʂː ʐ ʐː ʦ ʨ

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

Vowel inventory: a e i o u

	Front	Back
High	i	u
High-mid	e	o
Low	a

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

Pronunciation	Spelling
ʨ	ch
x	kh
ʐ	zh
ʂ	sh
ʦ	ts
ʲ
ɕː	shch

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Grammar

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

Nouns

Singular	If starts with vowel: Prefix k- Else: Prefix ke- kepiskhi /keˈpisxi/ dog
Plural	No affix piskhi /ˈpisxi/ dogs

Articles

	Definite	Indefinite
Singular	fprok /fprok/ the	fklo /fklʲo/ a
Plural	if /if/ the	ne /ne/ some

Uses of definite article that differ from English:

• Definite article can be omitted: ‘I am going to supermarket’
• Used to talk about countable nouns in general: English’s ‘I like cats’ would translate to ‘I like the cats’
• Not used for mass (uncountable) nouns: ‘Walking in the mud’ would always translate to ‘Walking in mud’.

Pronouns

1st singular	plu /plu/ I, me, mine
2nd singular	tsa /ʦa/ you, yours
3rd singular masc	gu /gu/ he, him, his, it, its
3rd singular fem	sto /sʲtʲo/ she, her, hers, it, its
1st plural	vat /vatʲ/ we, us, ours
2nd plural	fo /fʲo/ you all, yours (pl)
3rd plural	pri /pri/ they, them, theirs

Possessive determiners

1st singular	plu /plu/ my
2nd singular	tsa /ʦa/ your
3rd singular masc	gu /gu/ his
3rd singular fem	sto /sʲtʲo/ her
1st plural	vat /vatʲ/ our
2nd plural	fo /fʲo/ your (pl)
3rd plural	pri /pri/ their

Verbs

Present	No affix vmush /vmʲuʂ/ learn
Past	If starts with vowel: Prefix vrʲ- Else: Prefix vrʲi- vrivmush /ˈvrʲivmʲuʂ/ learned
Remote past	If starts with vowel: Prefix sj- Else: Prefix sjo- sjovmush /ˈsjovmʲuʂ/ learned (long ago)
Future	Prefix zno- znovmush /ˈznovmʲuʂ/ will learn

Imperfective aspect

The ‘imperfective’ aspect refers to ongoing actions, such as I am learning and habitual actions, such as I learn (something new every day).
Prazmish uses an affix for imperfective:

Imperfective

Prefix a- avmush /ˈavmʲuʂ/ learns/is learning

Numbers

Prazmish has a base-10 number system:
1 - trik
2 - go
3 - ni
4 - skvozm
5 - khim
6 - vasht
7 - khishlezro
8 - sta
9 - vnet
10 - shi
Hundred - fet
Thousand - sma

Derivational morphology

Adjective → adverb = If starts with vowel: Prefix fsʲlʲ-
Else: Prefix fsʲlʲo-
Adjective → noun (the quality of being [adj]) = If starts with vowel: Prefix t-
Else: Prefix ti-
Adjective → verb (to make something [adj]) = Prefix u-
Noun → adjective (having the quality of [noun]) = If starts with vowel: Prefix krʲ-
Else: Prefix krʲe-
Noun → adjective relating to noun (e.g. economy → economic) = If starts with vowel: Prefix orʐ-
Else: Prefix orʐo-
Noun to verb = If starts with vowel: Prefix k-
Else: Prefix ka-
Verb → adjective (result of doing [verb]) = If starts with vowel: Prefix trʲ-
Else: Prefix trʲo-
Tending to = If starts with vowel: Prefix dʲ-
Else: Prefix dʲe-
Verb → noun (the act of [verb]) = Prefix spʲe-
Verb → noun that verb produces (e.g. know → knowledge) = If starts with vowel: Prefix irx-
Else: Prefix irxa-
One who [verb]s (e.g. paint → painter) = If starts with vowel: Prefix m-
Else: Prefix ma-
Place of (e.g. wine → winery) = If starts with vowel: Prefix brʲ-
Else: Prefix brʲa-
Diminutive = Prefix a-
Augmentative = Prefix bri-
Maker = If starts with vowel: Prefix zʲ-
Else: Prefix zʲi-

Prazmish Librarian

A Prazmish person perusing an outdoor library.

Dictionary

3128 Words.

Prazmish Book

An illustrated Prazmish book.