Cinpruxtlal

Phonology

The phonology of Cinpruxtlal is very similar to Old Cinpruxtlal. Significant differences include the absence of ejectives, the presence of three africates, and one more vowel position. /u/ is not rounded.
Consonants

	Labial	Aveolar	Post-Alveolar	Velar
Plosive	p	t	c	k
Aspirated	ph	th	ch	kh
Voiced	b	d	j	g
Nasal	m	n		(ŋ)
Approximate		l	ɾ
Fricative	f	s	ʃ	x, h

Vowels

	front	back	open
short	i	u	a
long	ii	uu	aa

Morphology

The old word for place kaat' has become a suffix meaning place. The word for way has become a suffix used for languages. The suffix "sk" turns verbs into adjectives. The particle "ba" comes before words to negate them.

Syntax

Subject

	Formal	Informal	Count	Noncount
First
Second
Third

efore a noun, it is a singular quantifier, and after it is an adjective.

• First person possessive:
• Second person possessive:
• Third person possessive:

All nouns must be paired with a quantifier, a type of adjective that talks about how many of the thing there are. The indefinite article is also a quantifier. Quantifiers must match their noun in plurality, that is, singular, count plural, noncount plural, and precede their noun. Objects of prepositions do not need quantifiers since the preposition also matches in plurality.

Phonetics

Syllables are CV, CVC, CCVC, CCV, or CCVCC. However, for syllable structure, /kx/ and /pf/ are treated as one consonant. The most common syllable structure for multi-syllable words is CCV.

Tenses

The aspect system of Cinpruxtlal is almost identical to its parent language Old Cinpruxtlal. The most notable difference is that the Resultive cannot be paired with another verb in the Resultive. However, the markers are slightly different:
The following are for the formal. Note that (5) and (6) are both Resultive. In the formal, it must agree with the verb it depends on in aspect, imperfective or perfective. They are influenced by native Hasa verb formality markers. Those in the imperfective took on the present tense "tas". The (3) aspect took on the past tense marker "yan", and the (4) aspect took on the perfective marker "bol". The Resultive (5) took on the imperfective marker and the (6) took on the prefix "ga" meaning "so" or "therefore".
1.  2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

Adjective Order

Adjectives follow the nouns they modify.

Dictionary

14 Words.

Root Languages

• Old Cinpruxtlal

Spoken by

• Cinpruxt

Common Phrases

"trading far by river": a person is suspicious or is acting suspicious, is hiding something
"watching the bison": a person exaggerates, lies, acts crazy, or believes something crazy