Dataspeech

Natively known as: ciptisb /kɪpˈtɪsb/

...and he stood holding his hat and turned his wet face to the wind...
echchod i chol i htigam leridr echchod i wavap wirgang mel eledtmle lanisk
Pronunciation: /ɛʧˈʧod ɪ ʧol ɪ htɪˈgɑm lɛˈɹɪdɹ ɛʧˈʧod ɪ wɑˈvɑp wɪɹˈgɑŋ mɛl ɛˈlɛdtəˌməlɛ lɑˈnɪsk/
Ciptisbian word order: and he stood his hat holding and his wet face turned the wind to

Spelling & Phonology

Consonant inventory: b c d f g h k l m n p q r s t v w x z

↓Manner/Place→	Bilabial	Labiodental	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Uvular	Glottal
Nasal	m		n
Stop	p b		t d	c	k g	q
Fricative		f v	s z		x		h
Trill			r
Lateral approximant			l

Co-articulated phonemes

↓Manner/Place→	Labial-velar
Approximant	w

Vowel inventory: a e i o u y

	Front	Back
High	i y	u
High-mid	e	o
Low	a

Syllable structure: Custom defined ?
Stress pattern: Second — stress is on the second syllable ?
Sound changes (in order of application):

• htm → ətmə
• tml → təməl
• http → ətəp
• a → ɑ
• b → b
• ch → ʧ
• c → k
• d → d
• e → ɛ
• f → f
• g → g
• h → h
• i → ɪ
• j → ʤ
• k → k
• l → l
• m → m
• ng → ŋ
• n → n
• o → o
• p → p
• q → k
• r → ɹ
• sh → ʃ
• s → s
• th → θ
• t → t
• u → ʌ
• v → v
• w → w
• x → ks
• y → i
• z → z

Spelling rules:

Pronunciation	Spelling
ɛː	ä
ɛ	ä
øː	ö
œ	ö
oː	å
ɔ	o
yː	y
ʏ	y
ʉː	u
ɵ	u
ʊ	o
uː	o
iː	i
ɪ	i
eː	e
ɑː	a
ŋn	gn
ŋ	ng
j	g / _#
ɧ	sj
kk	ck
ɕ	k

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Grammar

Main word order: Subject Object Verb (Prepositional phrase). “Mary opened the door with a key” turns into Mary the door opened with a key.
Adjective order: Adjectives are positioned before the noun.
Adposition: postpositions ?

Nouns

Nouns have two cases:

• Nominative is the doer of a verb: dog bites man.
• Accusative is the done-to of a verb: man bites dog.

Nominative	No affix qien /kɪˈɛn/ dog (doing the verb)
Accusative	If ends with vowel: Suffix -s Else: Suffix -i qieni /kɪˈɛnɪ/ (verb done to) dog

	Singular	Plural
Definite	No affix qien /kɪˈɛn/ the dog	Prefix htma- htmaqien /ətˈməɑˌkɪɛn/ the dogs
Indefinite	If ends with vowel: Suffix -l Else: Suffix -a qiena /kɪˈɛnɑ/ a dog	Suffix -eh qieneh /kɪˈɛnɛh/ some dogs

Articles

Ciptisbian encodes definite article ‘the’, and indefinite article ‘a’ in noun affixes. See Noun section.

Pronouns

	Nominative	Accusative
1st singular	yl /il/ I	u /ʌ/ me
2nd singular	idr /ɪdɹ/ you	cend /kɛnd/ you
3rd singular masc	i /ɪ/ he, it (masc)	qa /kɑ/ his, it (masc)
3rd singular fem	e /ɛ/ she, it (fem)	em /ɛm/ her, it (fem)
1st plural	cesb /kɛsb/ we	ep /ɛp/ us
2nd plural	hid /hɪd/ you all	uhtml /ʌˈətməl/ you all
3rd plural	a /ɑ/ they	oht /oht/ them

Possessive determiners

	Possessive
1st singular	il /ɪl/ my
2nd singular	idɹ /ɪdɹ/ your
3rd singular masc	i /ɪ/ his
3rd singular fem	ä /ɛ/ her
1st plural	käsb /kɛsb/ our
2nd plural	hid /hɪd/ your (pl)
3rd plural	ɑ /ɑ/ their

Verbs

	Singular	Plural
Present	Prefix bi- bihel /bɪˈhɛl/ (I/you/he/she/it) learn(s)	If ends with vowel: Suffix -ch Else: Suffix -a hela /hɛˈlɑ/ (we/you all/they) learn
Past	Prefix de- dehel /dɛˈhɛl/ (I/you/he/she/it) learned	No affix hel /hɛl/ (we/you all/they) learned
Remote past	Suffix -ec helec /hɛˈlɛk/ (I/you/he/she/it) learned (long ago)	Prefix di- dihel /dɪˈhɛl/ (we/you all/they) learned (long ago)
Future	If ends with vowel: Suffix -w Else: Suffix -i heli /hɛˈlɪ/ (I/you/he/she/it) will learn	If ends with vowel: Suffix -n Else: Suffix -y hely /hɛˈli/ (we/you all/they) will learn

Progressive aspect

The ‘progressive’ aspect refers to actions that are happening at the time of speaking, such as I am learning.
Ciptisbian uses a standalone particle word for progressive:

Progressive

Particle before the verb: chengchesb - chengchesb hel /ʧɛŋˈʧɛsb hɛl/ is learning

Habitual aspect

The ‘habitual’ aspect refers to actions that happen habitually, such as I learn (something new every day), as opposed to actions that happen once (I learned something).
Ciptisbian uses an affix for habitual:

Habitual

Prefix he- hehel /hɛˈhɛl/ learns

Numbers

Ciptisbian has a base-10 number system:
1 - le
2 - otmlamnu
3 - erwupuq
4 - wa
5 - tenteng
6 - dranoxt
7 - che
8 - ihed
9 - didlycim
10 - chowiew
100 - ihtmlom
1000 - qosta

Derivational morphology

Adjective → adverb = If ends with vowel: Suffix -ch
Else: Suffix -e
Adjective → noun (the quality of being [adj]) = Suffix -ir
Adjective → verb (to make something [adj]) = Prefix we-
Noun → adjective (having the quality of [noun]) = Suffix -id
Noun → adjective relating to noun (e.g. economy → economic) = If ends with vowel: Suffix -w
Else: Suffix -e
Noun to verb = Prefix cu-
Verb → adjective (result of doing [verb]) = Prefix mla-
Tending to = Suffix -est
Verb → noun (the act of [verb]) = Suffix -och
Verb → noun that verb produces (e.g. know → knowledge) = Suffix -up
One who [verb]s (e.g. paint → painter) = If ends with vowel: Suffix -w
Else: Suffix -o
Place of (e.g. wine → winery) = Prefix ci-
Diminutive = If ends with vowel: Suffix -c
Else: Suffix -e
Augmentative = Suffix -em

Dictionary

3128 Words.