Holy Tongue Tyitwo: The Historic Tongue

Natively known as: tyitwo /ˈtjitwo/

...and he stood holding his hat and turned his wet face to the wind...
flik sliw khya kwaf chtich twota flik nyak chtich klech wuch na upe
Pronunciation: /flik sliw xja kwaf ʧtiʧ ˈtwota flik ɲak ʧtiʧ kleʧ wuʧ na ˈupe/
Tyitwoian word order: and stood he holding his hat and turned his wet face to the wind

Spelling & Phonology

Consonant inventory: c f h j k l m n p r s t w x ç ɲ ʃ ʧ

↓Manner/Place→	Bilabial	Labiodental	Alveolar	Palato-alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal	m		n		ɲ
Stop	p		t		c	k
Affricate				ʧ
Fricative		f	s	ʃ	ç	x	h
Approximant					j
Trill			r
Lateral approximant			l

Co-articulated phonemes

↓Manner/Place→	Labial-velar
Approximant	w

Vowel inventory: a e i o u

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

Syllable structure: (C)(C)V(C) ?
Stress pattern: Penultimate — stress is on the second last syllable ?
Spelling rules:

Pronunciation	Spelling
j	y
ʃ	sh
c	j
ʧ	ch
ɲ	ny
ç	shy
x	kh

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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 before the noun.
Adposition: prepositions ?

Nouns

Nouns have three cases:

• Nominative is the doer of a verb: dog bites man.
• Accusative is the done-to of a verb: man bites dog.
• Genitive is the possessor of something: dog’s tail hits man.

	Definite	Indefinite
Nominative	Prefix ʧti- chtiesh /ˈʧtieʃ/ the dog (doing the verb)	If starts with vowel: Prefix uj- Else: Prefix uji- uyesh /ˈujeʃ/ a/some dog (doing the verb)
Accusative	If starts with vowel: Prefix n- Else: Prefix ni- nesh /neʃ/ (verb done to) the dog	If starts with vowel: Prefix fr- Else: Prefix fre- fresh /freʃ/ (verb done to) a/some dog
Genitive	If starts with vowel: Prefix kç- Else: Prefix kça- kshyesh /kçeʃ/ the dogʼs	If starts with vowel: Prefix n- Else: Prefix ne- nesh /neʃ/ a/some dogʼs

Articles

Tyitwoian encodes definite article ‘the’, and indefinite article ‘a’ in noun affixes. See Noun section.

Pronouns

	Nominative	Accusative	Genitive
1st singular	nyosh /njoʃ/ I	ma /ma/ me	chto /ʧto/ mine
2nd singular	wa /wa/ you	e /e/ you	skhi /sxi/ yours
3rd singular masc	khya /xja/ he, it (masc)	chluj /ʧluc/ his, it (masc)	snu /snu/ his, its (masc)
3rd singular fem	hyus /hjus/ she, it (fem)	sye /sje/ her, it (fem)	sno /sno/ hers, its (fem)
1st plural	cho /ʧo/ we	fkhun /fxun/ us	chla /ʧla/ ours
2nd plural	kyoj /kjoc/ you all	u /u/ you all	ok /ok/ yours (pl)
3rd plural	shya /ça/ they	po /po/ them	slen /slen/ theirs

Possessive determiners

	Possessive
1st singular	shne /ʃne/ my
2nd singular	nya /nja/ your
3rd singular masc	chtich /ʧtiʧ/ his
3rd singular fem	shush /ʃuʃ/ her
1st plural	is /is/ our
2nd plural	sle /sle/ your (pl)
3rd plural	nu /nu/ their

Verbs

Future

If starts with vowel: Prefix sm- Else: Prefix sme- smemech /ˈsmemeʧ/ will learn

Tyitwoian uses a standalone particle word for past tense:

Past	Particle before the verb: ʃwi - shwi mech /ʃwi meʧ/ learned

Perfect aspect

The perfect aspect in English is exemplified in ‘I have read this book’, which expresses an event that took place before the time spoken but which has an effect on or is in some way still relevant to the present.
Tyitwoian uses an affix for the perfect aspect:

Perfect

If starts with vowel: Prefix xr- Else: Prefix xra- khramech /ˈxrameʧ/ have learned

Numbers

Tyitwoian has a base-10 number system:
1 - shwo
2 - chte
3 - kni
4 - kleny
5 - ksar
6 - fi
7 - chif
8 - a
9 - sshyi
10 - shu
100 - fshek
1000 - shif

Derivational morphology

Adjective → adverb = Prefix li-
Adjective → noun (the quality of being [adj]) = If ends with vowel: Suffix -no
Else: Suffix -uno
Adjective → verb (to make something [adj]) = If starts with vowel: Prefix kx-
Else: Prefix kxu-
Noun → adjective (having the quality of [noun]) = If ends with vowel: Suffix -ʃ
Else: Suffix -iʃ
Noun → adjective relating to noun (e.g. economy → economic) = If ends with vowel: Suffix -x
Else: Suffix -ax
Noun to verb = If ends with vowel: Suffix -s
Else: Suffix -es
Verb → adjective (result of doing [verb]) = Suffix -ex
Tending to = If starts with vowel: Prefix ʃn-
Else: Prefix ʃna-
Verb → noun (the act of [verb]) = Suffix -e
Verb → noun that verb produces (e.g. know → knowledge) = If ends with vowel: Suffix -plu
Else: Suffix -eplu
One who [verb]s (e.g. paint → painter) = If ends with vowel: Suffix -s
Else: Suffix -as
Place of (e.g. wine → winery) = If ends with vowel: Suffix -k
Else: Suffix -ek
Diminutive = If ends with vowel: Suffix -ʃ
Else: Suffix -aʃ
Augmentative = Suffix -ek

As Above So Below As Within So Without Logo by Khali A. Crawford

Grandmaster SixPathsSage

Khali Crawford

   

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One of the The Great Sage's 7 Holy Tongues