Re: first try at conlanging

erwan ar skoul <erwan.arskoul@...> a écrit :

Hello,
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Salut! (i guess we're from neighbouring districts within the Union :-)

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It is called Lautôpaei and has a definite Polynesian look  with a strict V \
CV syllabic structure and very few consonants (p, f, t, v, l, h).
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wow. half of the consonants are labials even if we count in u and i as w and y.
what happened to the regional k or glottal stop? :-)

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the main question being "who is at the origin of the action".
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so what do you do with verbs of intellectual activity and sensations? for
instance: "i fear the dog". who is at the origin of the action? the undergoer
"i" or the topic "dog"?

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The language is globally agglutinating and handles indirect complements
through verbal suffixes. Quite user-unfriendly, I am afraid
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i think other exotic tribes called the Frankofones handle affixed pronouns like
that: "Ce cartable, mon portable je l'ai pas mis dedans."
"Mon pere, ce truc je lui dirai jamais, à lui."
:-)

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(unless you happen to have been brought up in a bilingual Tahitian-arawakan
family in a tagalog speaking district :-) J) but quite fun.
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i know you know tahitian is VSO with prefixes and no pronominal affixes, so why
tahitian? do your verbal affixes "inside" and "outside" show the direction of
the verb like "mai" and "atu" in tahitian? and by tagalog, do you mean that the
verbal affixes make Lautôpaei a trigger conlang? what's arawakan grammar like
btw?

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Nini-mê ve-lou euhâmoo-fae auôluvahîpa
We(exclusive)-passive you-active temptation-oblique not-drive-in defavor
of-inside-imperative
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could you break down the predicate bit here? what's the root and what are the
affixes for? for instance do you have affixes like "in favor of" or "detrimental
to"? also more about the "inside" stuff, please: it looks definitely different
:-)

Mathias
www.geocities.com/kalatunu/index.htm

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