Tipsprek language

Tipslansk (Tipslansk: 𐍄𐌹𐍀𐍃𐌻𐌰𐌽𐍃𐌺, IPA : [ˈtɪpslɒnsk]) is a West Teutonic language originating in southern Tiperyn on the Goidelia subcontinent. Its earliest form, Old Tipslansk, developed from western Artemian Teutonic languages in the 11th Century CE after being brought to Goidelia by Teutonic invaders.

Tipslansk is closely related to Anglic and is the dominant Teutonic language on the Goidelia subcontinent and the official language of Tiperyn, with both languages belonging to the Anglo-Tipslansk languages. This is due to centuries of shared culture and language amongst early Teutonic tribes that lived in the area of northwestern Artemia that the Teutonic migrants to Goidelia descended from. It is hypothesised that the a single Proto-Anglo-Tipslansk language with several dialects was shared by most Teutonic tribes that migrated to Goidelia from 1000-1100 CE. However, there was a distinct split after this period, with burgeoning Teutonic society of southern Tiperyn developing Old Tipslansk and those of northern Tiperyn developing Old Anglic. Although this development was staggered and irregular, it is generally accepted that the border between these two language families formed roughly at the 60th parallel north, with the Izerhert Mountain Range isolating much of the Old Anglic speaking population.

Colloquially, Tipslansk is considered to being in-between Anglic and, which is primarily spoken in Noordelijkland and two states on Tiperyn's eastern coast. Meanwhile, Noordelansk is considered to be in-between Anglic and in similarity.

Etymology
The word "Tipslansk" is derived from Tipslan, a region in southwestern Goidelia and modern Tiperyn. The suffix -sk is added to the place name to create a. Thus, Tipslansk means "people of Tipslan".

The word Tipslan was used by Proto-Anglo-Tipslansk Teutonic tribes to describe the subcontinent of Goidelia as early as the 8th Century CE. This word in turn was derived from Tiper—meaning furthest in Old Tipslansk—and lan—meaning land. Tipslan was applied to the region of southern Goidelia that Teutonic tribes initially invaded in the 11th Century CE, now the name for the Grand Duchy of Tipslan and the native Tipslansk name for the Holy Tiperyn Realm.

Alphabet
Tipslansk uses Gothic script, specifically a variant of the Tipslansk alphabet that is shared with Hawkreath Anglic.

Adjectives
In Tipslansk, adjectives—words that modify nouns by providing more information about the nouns—are not and do not agree with the nouns they modify. Tipslansk has no system of in that there is no dictinction between male, female or neuter gendered nouns and there is no aspect of verbs, articles, pronouns or adjectives that nouns must be in agreement with. For example, in de geweldik famkes (the awesome girls) and de geweldik jong (the awesome boy), the adjective geweldik does not modify the nouns famkes or jong or vice versa.

Nouns can generally be turned into adjectives through the addition of the -sk suffix. This is the case for demonyms. Tipslansk is created by combining Tipslan and -sk, meaning of Tipslansk or person/people of Tipslansk depending on the context.

To describe professions, an object associated with the profession in question may be modified in this way to represent the profession. This is often used in casual settings, while the profession is directly named as a noun in a formal setting. For example, a butcher may say yk bin hakmesk (I am of the cleaver) rather than yk bin in slakter (I am a butcher), with hakmesk being derived from the noun hakmes meaning cleaver. Likewise, a bricklayer may say yk bin bakstiensk (I am of the brick) rather than yk bin in bakstienlak (I am a bricklayer), with the adjective bakstiensk (of the brick) being derived from the noun baksteinsk (brick). In the Chimchag dialect of Tipslansk, rather than an -sk suffix an -ski suffix is added to the end of a noun describing a profession. Thus, a Chimchag bricklayer would say yk bin baksteinski rather than yk bin baksteinsk. As noun forms do not modify adjective forms, this concept applies for all personal pronoun sets. For example, yk bin handelsk (I am of a trade) and yken bins handelsk (We are of a trade).

This feature can also be applied to nouns a person identifies with in general, but is usually applied to activities rather than tools. For example, an art enthusiast may say yk bin keunstsk (I am of the art) while a professional artist may say yk bin boarstelsk (I am of the brush).

Pronouns, case, and person
Similar to Anglic, personal Tipslansk pronouns distinguish between the subjective and objective case, gender, possession, and plurality. Although Tipslansk lacks a system of grammatical gender, it does feature some nouns and pronouns with, meaning gender character is semantically applied to certain nouns with no grammatical gender.

For example, "𐌷𐍉" and "𐍃𐍉" (ho and so, translated into Anglic as "he" and "she" respectively) are pronouns used to denote gender of a person, animal or objects in some contexts. The gender neutral variant of this variant of this pronoun is "𐍃𐌷𐍉" (sho, translated into Anglic as "they"). The gender neutral form of pronouns are generally more similar in sound to their female equivalents than their male equivalents, which is likely descendent from the matriarchal culture that Old Tipslansk arose from. In some dialects, particularly Chimchag Tipslansk, the female 3rd person singular is used in place of the neuter 3rd period singular. In all dialects there is no distinction between singular gender neutral 3rd person pronouns and all plural 3rd person pronouns or between plural and singular 2nd person pronouns.