| Puffish | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Type | Agglutinative (Separated by dashs) | ||||||||||||
| Alignment | Nominative-Accusative | ||||||||||||
| Head direction | Depends (Can be one of these three):
1. bood-[noun] bliiy [adj] 2. [adj] bliiy bood-[noun] 3. bood-[noun]-[adj] | ||||||||||||
| Tonal | No | ||||||||||||
| Declensions | No | ||||||||||||
| Conjugations | No | ||||||||||||
| Genders | No | ||||||||||||
| Nouns decline according to... | |||||||||||||
| Case | Number | ||||||||||||
| Definiteness | Gender | ||||||||||||
| Verbs conjugate according to... | |||||||||||||
| Voice | Mood | ||||||||||||
| Person | Number | ||||||||||||
| Tense | Aspect | ||||||||||||
| Meta-information | |||||||||||||
| Progress | 0% | ||||||||||||
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| Creator | Glitchy999 | ||||||||||||
Classification and Dialects[]
Puffish or "Bood-Zii-Vah" (/budzivah/)* is the language used by the Puffians "Bood-Zii-Ii-An", an alien race made of pure light.
*Puffish is an alien language with a very different phonology to humans, any IPA's are a made transphonetization of theirs to ours
Phonology[]
Consonants[]
| Bilabial | Dental | (Post)Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | /m/ | /n/ | /ŋ/ | /ʔ/ | |||
| Plosive | /p/ /b/ | /t/ /d/ | /k/ /g/ | ||||
| Fricative | /ɸ/ /β/ | /θ/ | /s/ /z/ | /ʃ/ /ʒ/ | /ʝ/ | /h/ | |
| Affricate | /t͡ʃ/ | ||||||
| Approximant | /w/ | (/w/) | |||||
| Trill | /r/ | ||||||
| Flap or tap | /ɾ/ | ||||||
| Lateral app. | /l/ | ||||||
Vowels[]
| Front | Back | |
|---|---|---|
| High | /ɪ/ -> /i/ | /o/ -> /u/ |
| Mid | /ɛ/ -> /e/ | /ʌ/ -> /ɔ/ |
| Low | /a/ -> /æ/ | |
Phonotactics[]
first a selection of 0, 1 or 2 consonants
next, either 1 or 2 vowel sounds (They must be the same vowels if it is 2, which will make it change to a different sound, refer to the vowel chart).
Lastly, another 0, 1 or 2 consonant words.
So this means a (C)(C)V(V)(C)(C) structure
For the romanisation, c is used for /θ/, q is used for /ʃ/, j is used for /ʒ/ and x is used for /t͡ʃ/
Writing System[]
Grammar[]
Sentence structures (brackets imply non-neccesary sections):
- (haat)-bood/bool/book-NOUN/VERB bliiy-(tense) (haat)-bood/bool/book-NOUN/VERB (namb...)
- bood/bool/book-NOUN cyuum-(tense) (haat)-VERB (namb...)
- (haat)-VERB cyuut-(tense) bood/bool/book-NOUN (namb...)
Translation
- (of)-The/A/This-NOUN/VERB is-(tense) (of)-The/A/This-NOUN/VERB (because...)
- The/A/This-NOUN does-(tense) (of)-VERB (because...)
- (of)-VERB is being done by-(tense) The/A/This-NOUN (because...)
Lexicon[]
https://alldimensions.fandom.com/wiki/Puffish
Example text[]
A prayer to their god, "Puffgas":
Bood-qahk-geel cyuum zoy-haat-geev-jac-zii-pev-jii
bood-qahk-geel-vav bliiy bood-geev namb bood-geev bliiy zii
Translation:
DEF-1pl do alive-of-2sg-infinite-light-and-good (We live within your endless light and purity)
DEF-1pl-god COP DEF-2sg because DEF-2sg COP light (Our only god is you because you are light)