Kekish

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Kekish
Kekish, also known as the Kekistani Langueage (English pronunciation: /kɛkɪʃ/, /kɛkɪstæni/; Kekish: Keks Avvah [kɛ̝ks.ä̝vːˈɑh]) is an Eastern Iranian language, distantly related to Pashto. It is spoken by the Kekistani people and is native language of Kekistan. Though the grammar retains many distinct features of Old Iranian, most of its lexicon has been supplanted by the latent powers of Meme Magic. Due to the historic oppression of Kekistan, Kekish has largely fallen out of use, but has seen intense revitalization efforts in recent days.

Author's Note:
Kekish, as seen here, is as historically accurate and etymologically justified as my knowledge of the Eastern Iranian Languages will allow. The majority of vocabulary is based directly on Proto-Iranian and its modern descendants; sound changes are consistent, depending on whether a term evolved from an earlier form or borrowed more recently from Persian or Pashto or the like. I will eventually get around to creating a table of the historical sound changes, but that is of a lower priority to building the lexicon and creating a solid grammatical framework- inflection, syntax, and so on. Also, what you see on this page may not be the full extent of progress I've made; I do most of my work on paper and update here when I have a sizable or worthwhile amount. If there are any questions about terms or grammar, or if you'd like specific words or phrases translated, you can contact me on the talk page of either this page or here.

{This article uses the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) to transcribe the sounds of Kekish}

Classification and Dialects
The suppression of both the Kekistani culture and language by the Normies has led to massive division is spoken and written varieties of Kekish; there is no standardized form, though this article will be using assumed common vocabulary and grammar. In addition to wide dialectal variations, there is also a considerable latitude in terms of personal choice when speaking, that is, one person might use a word order or pronunciation inconsistent with more widely accepted Kekish forms, but will still be understood by and intelligible to other Kekish speakers.

Consonants
All consonants, other than voiced plosives and /ŋ/, are subject to gemination; spelled using a double of the consonant, geminate consonants are held out for twice as long as the plain consonant (eg. saveniy /sav'ɛnij/ "potential"; savvenke /sav:'ɛnkɛ/ "to declare")

Vowels
The realization of /a/ can vary from front [a] to far back and pharyngealized [ɑˤ] depending on the exact phonetic environment and speaker.

Phonotactics
The syllable structure of Kekish is as follows:

(C(C))(G)V(G)(C(C))

Where C is a consonant, G is a glide (/j/ or /w/), and V is an obligatory vowel.

Orthography
The original Kekish Alphabet is no longer in use by the average Kekistani, instead being substituted by a variant of the Latin script. This article uses the Latin script.

Spelling Conventions
The following rules denote common and significant conventions, in addition to some important restriction:
 * Kekish has no long vowels and thus has no double vowels in spelling, except across morpheme boundaries.
 * {y} represents a voiced palatal approximant /j/, never a vowel.
 * Kekish does not utilize diacritics other than the grave accent above {e} to denote schwa /ə/.
 * Geminate varients of {th, dh, sh, zh, gh, ch, ts, dz} are spelled {tth, ddh, ssh, zzh, kkh, ggh, cch, tts, ddz} respectively.

Nouns
Kekish as two nouns genders. All Kekish nouns fall under one of the two genders; kekuline or kekinine (also refered to by some as masculine and feminine respectively), and five declensions: Declension Table: Ergative-Absolutive marking is only used with animate subjects of transitive verbs to create the progressive aspect, and is not used by all speakers.
 * 1) Closed, Masculine
 * 2) Closed, Feminine
 * 3) Open, Masculine
 * 4) Open, Feminine
 * 5) -iy, (all nouns with -iy nominative endings are masculine) (Includes diy "the")

Syntax
Word order in Kekish is largely VSO, with prepositional phrases coming before the direct object or at the beginning of the IP. Adjectives come after the nouns they modify; adverbs can be used either directly before or directly after the verbs they modify.

Lexicon
Swadesh List

Lexicon
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 * church - kerk, kanisè
 * up - foyut
 * down - esbit
 * land - kuriy
 * brother - kit
 * sister - ea
 * Kekish - Keks Avvah
 * air - shiy
 * ground - dhin
 * move - kuwe
 * go - kiye
 * hot - vatta
 * heat - vata
 * heart - tseya
 * pool - birkè
 * start - ajiz

Example text
Kekes savvenkes els in'shadilay relowe els Pepey, diy pevvenay ek Kekek. Hesr mes "Reeeeeeeeeeeeee" tetek Kekistaniya hayev hesr kevves letayi.

Kek declared "in'shadilay", and so too did Pepe, the prophet of our lord. We must "[translation not available; see: Autistic Screeching]" throughout Kekistan until we are free.