Kekish

*(Language created by the Memelord Durelzo)*

(Kekish Dictionary)

The **Kekistani Language** (*Keks Avvah*) , also known as **Kekish**, is an Eastern Iranian language of the Indo-European language family originating from Kekistan and historically spoken by the Kekistani people. Kekish is spoken as a first language by a small minority of people, and as a second language by a larger group of non-native speakers.

The suppression of both the Kekistani culture and language by the Normies has led to significant division in spoken and written varieties of Kekish; there is no standardized form, though this article will be using assumed common vocabulary and grammar. In addition to wide dialectal variations, there is also a considerable latitude in terms of personal choice when speaking, that is, one person might use a word order or pronunciation inconsistent with more widely accepted Kekish forms, but will still be understood by and intelligible to other Kekish speakers.

As of 2018, Kekish remains an unrecognized language in the Republic of Kekistan.

## Phonology

### Consonants

All consonants, other than voiced plosives and /ŋ/, are subject to gemination; spelled using a double of the consonant, geminate consonants are held out for twice as long as the plain consonant (eg. saveniy /sav'ɛnij/ "potential"; savvenke /sav:'ɛnkɛ/ "to declare")

\*Some speakers will realize /k, g, χ, ʁ/ as palatals when articulated adjacent to /i/ or /j/.

### Vowels

 Mid
 Low

The realization of /a/ can vary from front [a] to far back and pharyngealized [ɑˤ] depending on the exact phonetic environment and speaker.

### Phonotactics

The syllable structure of Kekish is as follows:

(C(C))(G)V(G)(C(C))

Where C is a consonant, G is a glide (/j/ or /w/), and V is an obligatory vowel.

## Writing System (Orthography)

### Orthography

The original Kekish Alphabet is no longer in use by the average Kekistani, instead being substituted by variants of the Latin, Cyrillic, Arabic, or (rarely) Armenian scripts. This article uses the Latin script.

### Spelling Conventions

The following rules denote common and significant conventions, in addition to some important restriction:

* Kekish has no long vowels and thus has no double vowels in spelling, except across morpheme boundaries.
* {y} represents a voiced palatal approximant /j/, never a vowel.
* Kekish does not utilize diacritics other than the grave accent above {e} to denote schwa /ə/.
* Geminate varients of {th, dh, sh, zh, gh, ch, ts, dz} are spelled {tth, ddh, ssh, zzh, kkh, ggh, cch, tts, ddz} respectively.

## Grammar

### **Nominals**

#### Nouns

Kekish has two nouns genders. All Kekish nouns fall under one of the two genders; masculine and feminine, and five declensions:

1. Closed, Masculine
2. Closed, Feminine
3. Open, Masculine
4. Open, Feminine
5. -iy, (all nouns with -iy nominative endings are masculine) (Includes *diy* "the")

Declension Table:

Ergative-Absolutive marking is only used to create the progressive aspect.

#### Pronouns

Kekish pronouns are quite regular, though they follow their own declension pattern. The genitive form of each pronoun can be used as a possessive determiner.

#### Adjectives and Determiners

Adjectives occur after the noun they modify and must agree with the noun in number and case. Determiners also decline in accordance to the nouns with which they are used, but they proceed the noun; this includes quantifiers, numbers, articles, and demonstratives. Determiners and adjectives share declensional patterns; which declension to use is determined by the adjective/determiner's ending (i.e. whether the adjective/determiner ends in a vowel or a consonant). The adjective/determiner does not have grammatical gender, and does not need to be declined to agree with the gender of its associated noun. Adjectives/determiners are declined in the accusative case when used with Ergative-Absolutive case nouns.

 Nominative
 Accusative
 Prepositional
 Genitive

Comparatives are formed by adding the suffix *-tam*; superlatives by adding the suffix *-darb*. Comparatives and superlatives both decline according to the consonant ending declension pattern.

#### Adpositions

All Kekish adpositions invoke the prepositional case of their associated noun phrase. Though normally preceding their compliment, in certain circumstances, especially when used with pronouns, adpositions can occur postpositionally, such as in the phrase *eta-vay wed' Kek* "goodbye; farewell"; such cases are orthographically indicated with a hyphen {-}.

### **Verbs**

Except for a few exceptions, Kekish verbs are highly regular. There is only one conjugation and all forms can easily be made by knowing the infinitive. The main irregular verbs, whose forms must be memorized independently, are *wede* "to be"; *zhude* "to go"; *ghezde* "to want"; and *shikhde* "to make, do". Verbs in Kekish are conjugated for three persons and two numbers (singular and plural). Kekish makes use of the following tenses: *simple* *present, present progressive, present perfect, simple past (preterite), past progressive, past perfect, imperfect, simple future, future progressive* and *future perfect.* There are no independent forms for the progressive tenses; these are constructed using Ergative-Absolutive cases with the simple tense form. Additionally, all verbs have two subjunctive moods (plain and perfect) that are used in much the same way as the Persian subjunctive - often used where English would use an infinitive in catanative verb strings.

#### Participles

Kekish verbs have two participle forms- present and perfect. Both participles are used as verbal adjectives; the perfect always assumes the past tense, and the present always assumes active voice.

The perfect participle is used to form the perfect tenses. It is passive when used with *wede* and active when used with *shikhde.* The perfect is formed by dropping the infinitive *-e* ending and adding -*anè.*

* shadile "to fight" > shadilanè "fought"
* wede "to be" > wedanè "been"
* re "to see" > ranè "seen"

The present participle is formed by dropping the infinitive *-e* ending, adding the suffix *-adh*, and adding the prefix *in'.* When used in isolation, the present participle can be used as an agent noun.

* shadile > in'shadiladh "fighting, fighter"
* wede > in'wedadh "being"
* re > in'radh "seeing, seer"

A verbal adverb can be constructed by adding the suffix *-i* to the present participle.

#### Conjugation

Conjugation is relatively quite simple and very consistent in comparison to other Iranian languages. The Imperfect is formed by reduplication of the final syllable before the personal ending. To form the present perfect, past perfect, or future perfect, the perfect participle is used in conjunction with either the present, past, or future form of the verb *shikhde* "to make, do" (eg. *Shim [mim] danè* "I have given").

The following tables are a template for all regular verbs with *de* "to give" as the example verb:

 Present Participle
 Verbal Adverb
 Imperative
 plural
 Optative

#### Irregular Conjugations

The following four table sets are the full conjugations for the four irregular Kekish verbs: *wede* "to be"; *zhude* "to go"; *ghezde* "to want"; and *shikhde* "to make, do". Note that the imperfect appears to be formed as if it were the present tense of a regular verb.

##### ***Wede* "to be"**

 Present Participle
 Verbal Adverb
 Imperative
 Optative

##### ***Shikhde* "to make, do"**

 Present Participle
 Verbal Adverb
 Imperative
 plural
 Optative

##### ***Zhude* "to go"**

 Present Participle
 Verbal Adverb
 Imperative
 plural
 Optative

##### ***Ghezde* "to want"**

 Present Participle
 Verbal Adverb
 Imperative
 Optative

### **Syntax**

Word order in Kekish is largely VSO, with prepositional phrases coming before the direct object or at the beginning of the IP. Adjectives come after the nouns they modify; adverbs can be used either directly before or directly after the verbs they modify.

 Translation of "Shadilay" (Kekistan National Anthem)

 khakamilka kawniyit, haslika adiyit
avira udh ancores, akhatka temedis
gazsalilik mayaduk grohiv bishadid
alwatem jav kawniya, tarbaram keta
ris 'sti dug akhtiy, ety'anamavdesti, mi stam so manam
oooh oooh
shadiley shadiley oh mis azadis
shadiley shadiley oh naaa
shadiley shadiley oh ghab no haslika
shadiley shadiley oh naaa
deri misek ziswi alwata, ast khakamilit na
mi stam so manam
miya-vay azshira, deri azamniya aw deris domidha
wedast mis bavriy eta
harmoni falisit, haslika ostid
vidyoklip eletronit, afrina temedis
gazsalilik mayaduk grohiv bishadid
alwatem jav kawniya, tarbaram keta
ris 'sti dug akhtiy, ety'anamavdesti, mi stam so manam
oooh oooh
shadiley shadiley oh mis azadis
shadiley shadiley oh naaa
shadiley shadiley oh ghab no haslika
shadiley shadiley oh naaa
deri misek ziswi alwata, ast khakamilit na
mi stam so manam
miya-vay azshira, deri azamniya aw deris domidha
wedast mis bavriy eta
respiro di un immagine, sintonia di civiltà
confusa progenia di cellule ribelli
volo verso l'universo, l'attraverserò
se sei stella fatti vedere, io mi fermerò
oooh oooh
shadilay shadilay la mia libertà
shadilay shadilea oh nooo
shadilay shadilay oh sogno o realtà
shadilay shadilay oh nooo
vola nella mia vita, no non è finita
io mi fermerò
sciogli le mie vele, nel cielo e in fondo al mare
io ti crederò
armonia metallica, concreta realtà
videoclip elettronico, elogio di civiltà
confusa progenia di cellule ribelli
volo verso l'universo, l'attraverserò
se sei stella fatti vedere, io mi fermerò
oooh oooh
shadilay shadilay la mia libertà
shadilay shadilay oh nooo
shadilay shadilay oh sogno o realtà
shadilay shadilay oh nooo
vola nella mia vita, no non è finita
io mi fermerò
sciogli le mie vele, nel cielo e in fondo al mare
io ti crederò

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## Example Text

 Direvam mim uyi in'wathrajadhè ith udh kharzhek gèhanitwadedh
Gè tarfast: "der diya ajariya fikkend dur yangaq sanges
Meruwad so vidadhis. Zdi kasr, al diya reyghwi,
kyayghorganè, leshtest u paykr shekastavdanè, gès rayenku,
aw liv chiqotanè, aw dozhboru fordamkayi sarutes,
vadtarfend gè ghandast shah ketwis in'burdadh kalsish ehsasish
Gè zis shikhdest naz, al elsedh vizis ceyzku burdanè,
Widz diya lasku gè parshgevast kisr, so diya ceyadha gè yudiy devast:
Aw badend elsuk kalmaq al diya fenkadha:
'Ast mis kekk Satepnakek, sultan sultanev:
Katèlavdavday misi karish, tesr neghwit, aw noviday!'
Manest hichèceyzuk zur. Jav diya vasswi
Kalses luwidayi zhinjes, vihadhek so baynadh
Lèray-lèra dumend diy reyghik tanha so rutib."
Who said: “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare