Musmeh

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Contents 1 The Language of Musmeh || Lezçuģe ё Musmeh 2 Influences || Evendane 3 Phonology and Orthography || Muizlega eh Uçfurmi 4 Grammar || Leziš 5 Verbs || Balti 6 More Pronouns || Gonşac Saksozardami 7 Style, Numbers, and More || Fentar, Hamaşliki, eh Gonţar 8 Phrases || Poģůsozi 9 Vocabulary || Baģabaş

The Language of Musmeh || Lezçuģe ё Musmeh

Influences || Evendane

- Russian (minor)
- Other Slavic Languages
- Latin (Grammatical)
- Turkmen/Uzbek (Vocabulary basis)
- Armenian (Vocabulary basis)
Orthography is slightly influenced by the alphabets of various Slavic counties including Slovenia and Croatia.

Phonology and Orthography || Muizlega eh Uçfurmi

A (a) -- /a/ -- fall
B (b) -- /b/ -- boss
C (c) -- /k/ -- tic
Č (č) -- /tʃʰ/ -- chip
Ç (ç) -- /ts/ -- lists
D (d) -- /d/ -- door
E (e) -- /ɛ/ -- men
Ё (ё) -- /jɛ/ -- yelp
F (f) -- /f/ -- fin
G (g) -- /g/ -- goat
H (h) -- /h/ -- hen
I (i) -- /i/ -- eel
K (k) -- /kʰ/ -- oak
L (l) -- /l/ -- low
M (m) -- /m/ -- mow
N (n) -- /n/ -- nose
O (o) -- /o/ -- hole
P (p) -- /pʰ/ -- pole
R (r) -- /r/ -- roll
S (s) -- /s/ -- slow
Ş (ş) -- [ʃ] -- show
T (t) -- /tʰ/ -- toll
Ţ (ţ) -- [ts’] – *
U(u) -- /y/ -- lune
Ů (ů) -- /u/ -- pull
V (v) -- /v/ -- vote
Z (z) -- /z/ -- zen
Ģ (ģ) -- /ʁ/ -- loch ``pronounced in the back of the throat

• similar to /ts/ but a harder affricate emphasis, pronouced like the Armenian letter “ ծ “

Vowels {a, e, ĕ, j, o, u}

Grammar || Leziš

Nouns || Saksozi

In talking about nouns, it is essential to state the basics of nouns in the language of Musmeh. At first, nouns do not have gender, but have case to them. The case in which nouns fall into is rather simple and straight-forward. My demonstrating word will be kečat (meaning dog). The default or dictionary form of a word is always in the nominative singular.
Nominative
Singular: kečat
Plural: kečati

Genitive
Singular: kečatu
Plural: kečatun

Accusative
Singular: kečaten
Plural: kečatenen

As you may not have noticed endings are put regardless the last letter of the word.

Some prepositions that might be useful:
With – behet
For – hamaţ
To – vuģ
On -- boёngaç

Verbs || Balti

The verbs in Musmeh follow a distinct structure. First, when written in a dictionary form, every verb is written in its infinitive form. The verb that we will use to demonstrate is ĕzmakur meaning to feel. As you see, the ur is the infinitive stem adding the “to” preposition to the meaning, its pretty straightforward.

Personal Pronouns
I – vůs
You – důn
He – en
She – an
It – on

We – vůsi
You(formal) – dune
They – eģ

Present Tense
I feel – vůs ezmakům
You feel – důn ezmakus
He/she/it feels – en/an/on ezmakut

We feel – vůsi ezmakim
You(plural) feel – dune ezmaksus
They feel – eģ ezmakuç

Imperfect – a similar structure to English exists, the word is formated as a present tense word, but the perfect form of the word “to be” is placed before the verb (as a separate word) respectively.

Future – a similar structure to English exists, the word is formated as a present tense word, but the future form of the word “to be” is placed before the verb (as a separate word) respectively.

Perfect
I felt -- vůs ezmakom
You felt – důn ezmakous
He/she/it felt – en/an/on ezmakot

We felt – vůsi ezmakoem
You(plural) felt – dune ezmakosus
They felt – eģ ezmakouç

Plu-Perfect
I had felt – vůs ezmakolm
You had felt – důn ezmakolus
He/she/it had felt – en/an/on ezmakolut

We felt – vůsi ezmakolem
You(plural) felt – dune ezmakolsus
They felt – eģ ezmakoluç

There are no irregular verbs in the language of Musmeh.

Helpful Verbs:

To be – bolganur
Will be - bolgenur
To like – selmaţur
To greet – saģanaşur
To have – dunvur
To talk – ocçolur
To eat – pevegeshur
To know – ёlcapur
To do -- etčalur

More Pronouns || Gonşac Saksozardami

Possessive Pronouns:
The construction of possessive pronouns is a simple task.

Let’s say you have the pronoun dun (you). To make it possessive you have to add the ça ending thus making it dunça (yours). You perform the same task to the other pronouns respectively.

Style, Numbers, and More || Fentar, Hamaşliki, eh Gonţar

A typical sentence follows the same word order as English, subject – verb – adjective. However, word order in speech is free to an extent.*
The boy was late.
Daģa bolganout sonvan.

Here is a scenario, you have a question stating, do you eat? Since the “do” is a question word here (its behind the subject) you would use the infinitive form. However if the question states was, you do eat, the form of do would conform to “you.”

In negating a question, I do not speak Musmeh, you would had a “na” after the “do” to negate it.

It is important to realize that in the few cases like “vůs” where vowels are lacking, “ů” is required to be inserted so pronunciation is constant. Once you see enough examples, you will be more acquainted in the certain situations where “ů” is used.

Punctuation: The punctuation in Musmeh is period(.), comma(,), exclamation point (!), question mark (?). However, in the plural genitive there is a (‘) sign to the last letter of that noun.

Numbers:
1 – en
2 – dva
3 – ţi
4 –četre
5 – hinsa
6 – sinç
7 – sent
8 – ut
9 – ģin
10 – danův

Question Words
How? – nahat?
When? – haģ?
Where? – urba?
Who? – ev?
What? – ečme?
Why? – veţe?

• - Since Musmeh is not frequently spoken I will pardon the time to discuss the specifics of spoken Musmeh. Speaking Musmeh is the same in relationship to reading Musmeh, but sometimes like in all languages word order can be switched around more easily in speech.

Phrases || Poģůsozi

• "You" questions are written in the formal tense because that’s how you would greet somebody you did not know

Good day – Bevdaba
Hello – Gaba
Yes – Hev
No -- Nĕ
How are you – Nahat bolganuç dun?
Do you speak Musmeh? – Etshalur dun geģosuç Musmehen?
I speak Musmeh – Vůs geģosm Musmehen
What is your name? – Ĕčme bolganut dunça anёģa?
I do not know Musmeh – Vůs etshalům na ёlcapům Musmehen
Where do you live? – Uţar etshalur dun ačmakuç?

Vocabulary || Baģabaş

A vocabulary list will be kept here, but remember there are other words defined throughout this document. The list will be updated periodically. All verbs are in dictionary form (infinitive form).
After—başa
Argument – danban
Arise -- tačanur
Bad -- eģva
Big -- mevre
Bread – Harek
Cut -- cůsevur
Day -- daba
Flag – Doşca
Friend – nůgvar
Great – Beveş
Good – Bev
Hairy – mazma
In case – dipni
Infection -- henaţgra
Insisit -- uzuvukur
Live – ačmakur
Long – şira
Medical -- bediger
Name – anёģa
Republic – Ģepubleca
Some -- minč
Speak – Geģosur
Take -- dacur
Time – ţam
Treatment -- luzva
Water -- Subac
Vital -- caraģeş