The Academic Coronese Language and Script

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Forvosd

Sdad de no

Academic Coronese Wordlist

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Short grammar of Academic Coronean

-m (personal) or
-d (relative).

Person may be '1', '2', '3' or 'xe', for first, second, third or undecided respectively.

Questions are formed using the interrogative particles, yes/no by appending the predicative interrogative particle, multiple-choice by prepending each of the choices (each being a lexical unit) with the optional interrogative particle and direct or indirect questions by starting the sentence with their respective particles. The predicative particle may also be used — when it alone with its main word forms a whole sentence — to require a motivation of something.
Number The number in Coronean may be none, one, two, some, several, all, non-integral or exactly given in the particle. They all have distinct particles — such as 'ob' for none, or 'on' for some.

Meta-syntactic variables / Macros Meta-syntactic variables or macros may be defined at any time. The standard dialect of Academic Coronean uses three variables: 'foo' 'bar' and 'baz'. They are defined by inserting the definee in a macro definition pair (foo — oof, bar — rab or baz — zab), and are referenced by the dereferencing particles foo-ifti, bar-ifti and baz-ifti.

Some ai or sib dialects use instead an array; defining 'foo- — -oof' and referencing 'foo--ifti', and colloquial Coronean makes do with only foo.

General dereferencing is done with the special sentence 'Oof.'.

Phonetics of Academic Coronean

The Coronean spoken (as opposed to written or transferred using electronic (or other) transfer protocols), follows roughly this scheme; which has also laid fast main part of the Coronean spelling.

Of course, the transliterations here are merely transliterations from the somewhat modified alphabet used in the 10th millennium.

The alphabet consists of the following characters:


A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

where A E I O U Y W are vowels and B C D F G H J K L M N P Q R S T V X Z consonants. Y functions as both.

All vowels can also take 5 diacritical marks, carrying extra phonetic information; all vowels can take all diacritical marks:

a ä á à ã â
Consonants The following charts classify the consonants following some common phonetic distinction schemes. A commentary will follow after the charts.

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Consonants

R is a rolling, frontally palatized consonant. The tongue is supposed to vibrate noticeably. F and V are pronounced by biting the lower lip (lightly!) and either blowing lightly and noisily or 'humming' respectively. K and C are floating between being stops and affricatives; it varies with dialects of the languages. Most markedly, Quarks are known to pronounce it almost as fricatives, something that is considered most vulgar.

Vowels
A is a rounded central low vowel — as in 20th century German 'aber'.
E is a flat frontal mid vowel — as in 20th century English 'hear'
I is a flat frontal high vowel — as in 20th century English 'she' or 'feel'
O is a rounded back low vowel
U is a tightly rounded back low vowel
Y is a rounded frontal mid vowel — like E with an 'O'-mouth
W is a rounded back mid semi-vowel

Diacritics
(using A as carrier vowel; the comments apply to all vowels alike)

a ä ã â á à

The absence of diacritics implies pronunciation as above.


The ä diacritic (diaresis), palatizes the previous sound; inducing a J-like sound. If a word ends with a diaresis, the palatization follows the vowel instead of preceding it.


The ä diacritic nazalises the vowel in question.



The â diacritic rounds flat vowels and flattens round vowels.

The á diacritic represents a rising tone, and the à diacritic a falling. Normal language is monotone. Questions are normally stated in a higher tone completely.

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Numerics- Wordlist

Free numerals begin with a marker, telling the reader which number system is being used. Common language includes binary, hexadecimal and decimal. After the marker, the speaker may proceed in three different ways, with increasing sloppiness:

1) use the numeral grouping pair n~u — ~un to indicate that the included is to be read as a position based number
2) use the wë — ëw grouping to indicate the same thing, or
3) not use any grouping at all.

After grouping and/or numerals, a marker indicating the exact meaning follows. It is either numeric (-le), ordeal (-lõ), distributive (-to) or adverbial (-xo).

Thus, you write to-2351-le to indicate the number 2351, to-2351-lõ to indicate the 2351st etc.

This you pronounce (and write out overly clearly) as
1) /to-n~u júb dérèz aifë wõn ~un-le/
2) /to-wë júb dérèz aifë wõn ëw-le/
3) /to-júb dérèz aifë wën-le/


or using other systems:

xe-92F-le /xe-n~in~i júb vidïn-le/ (hexadecimal - 92F)
bi-100100101111-le /bi-wë reb to-júb-xo wë wõn nillin nillin ëw ber wõn
nillin reb to-hi~er-xo wõn ber ëw-le/ (binary - 100100101111)

Here the use of the adverbial number mode (once, twice ...) in determining how many times a pattern is repeated may be seen. Using this, one may at last hear the first person personal pronoun pronounced: om-1m /om-wõn-m/ (or rather, because of assimilation in posh Coronean, and sound laws of the Quark dialect:)

Coronean: /om-wõm/
Quark : /om-wnim/ (unability to properly nasalize vowels and thereby replacing them with diphtongs is one of the clearest marks of a Quark; apart from the 'baby-simple' grammar)

• Academic Coronese Alphabet
• Corona (Iota Piscium d)