Chantish

Chantish (Chantish: Cantiçe) is a conlang, it's based by Esperanto, Simplingua, and natural Romance languages, but it is endowed some non-romanic stuffs.

Phonotactics
((C*)C)CV(C)CV(n/s/r)

* Other consonant cluster can only have 2 consonants, but some consonant cluster can have 3 consonants, if it is before the first syllable's first vowel of a word or a rootword.

Writing System
* The “w” only use in the proper nouns that not belong to chantish proper noun dictionary.

Nouns
Other nouns no have gender, but animal nouns. Animal nouns include the nouns that means animals, identity of people, other anything with two genders, and third-person singular nominative pronouns.

Nouns have two numbers, singular and plural. For other nouns, plural term of a-end word and e-end word is “-es”, and o-end word is “-os”, but for animal nouns, plural term are always the “-es”.

Only pronouns and article change by case, nouns itselves does not.
 * And adjectives does not too.

Verbs
Verbs itselves only changing by mood and aspect. If the time of a verb was changed, it will running on time adverbs.

For example, a table of chantish verb sci (“to know”) and vizi (“to see; to look, to watch”).

Function words
Chantish articles have 3 cases to decline : Li-case, Ler-case and Le-case.
 * And Chantish pronouns have 4 cases, the 4th case named Laé-case.

Li-case used for active transitive and intransitive verbs;

Le-case used for non-active transitive and intransitive verbs, it's the default case of nouns;

Ler-case used like a “be” with personal conjugate;

Chantish have two time-adverbs, “ja” for past, and “va” for future; one location adverb “in”; and a multipurpose preposition “na”, for present time, and many purpose like “je” in Esperanto.

Parts of speech
Like Esperanto, parts of speech are conjugates with word endings in Chantish.

Cases of Pronoun
* without 2nd person. ** within 2ng person.

Syntax
Chantish have two general sequence of sentences: SVO and SOV.
 * but you can change a sentence into any other sequences by the articles.

Adjectives must link the nouns that them modifying.
 * It doesn't matter if the adjective is in front of or after the noun.

Lexicon
Generally, lexicon of Chantish is based by Romance languages, so, only one of the function words, “na”, is not a Latin origin function word in Chantish.

More see: category:Chantish nouns

Example text
Cver naé anamices, qver naé amices, cer capaé cvezito de totaé revolvito.
 * Who's our enemies, who's our friends, this is the prime question of all the revolutions.

Ler santacanto de homines le santacanto de AXTIMITO, ler anime de homines le VENTO AÓRAÉ
 * The hymn of mankind is the hymn of the COURAGE, the spirit of mankind is the GOLDEN WIND

Names of Chantish in languages

 * Chantish : Cantiçe


 * Chinese : 歌蒂语
 * English : Chantish
 * Japanese : カンティ語
 * Korean : 칸티어
 * Latin : Canticiae
 * Russian : Кантиций