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Lason Agsem

From:Patrick Dunn <tb0pwd1@...>
Date:Tuesday, January 25, 2000, 2:22
Okay, my new language has undergone some major revisions in the last
twenty four hours.  It's moved from isolating to inflecting, for instance,
and adopted a stack of irregular verbs.  I'm wondering if some of the
changes are plausable -- or rather, possible: I know they're not
plausible.

Here's the background: a group of British mages around 1600 get together
and create a secret order of magicians called "Agsem Maji".  In order to
communicate and protect their information from profane and hostile eyes,
they begin using a mixture of English, Latin, Hebrew, and Enochian.

Let me give you some examples of paradigms, and see what you think:

l'ehef - to love
ehefen - loved
ehefendo - loving

                perfect
1       ehefti          ehefnu
2       ehefta          eheftem
3       ehef            ehefu

                imperfect
1       ehef            nehef
2       tehef           tehef
3       jehef           jehefu

la cur - to care
curan - cared
curando - caring

(Verbs from the Latin -are, -ire, -ere conjugations retain their theme
vowels only in the participles.  Otherwise, the participial endings are
-en and -endo

                perfect
1       curti           curnu
2       curta           curtem
3       cur             curu

                imperfect
1       ecur            nicur
2       ticur           ticuru
3       jicur           jicuru

Nouns:

sad - demon     sades - demons
amijo - friend  amiji - friends
seme - seed     semi - seeds
miseri - mystery miseres - mysteries
nimpa - nymph   nimpaj - nymphs

Pronouns

There are three levels of formality in pronoun usage.

Superior to Inferior (mage to demon, adept to student)

1       vel             ja
2       nonci           nonci
3       i, e, id        ei

Equal to Equal (adept to adept, student to student)

1       ejo             no
2       tu              vo
3       i, e, id        ei

Inferior to Superior (mage to god, student to adept)

1       ani             anecnu
2       at              atam
3       hu, hi          em

There are also a set of pronominal suffixes used to indicate possesion.
These are:

1       -ki             -nu
2       -ta             -tem
3       -hu, -ha        -ma, -na

Examples:

You are like serpents of fire, you angels of the night sky.

Atam esti ci nacases de icni, o merifres de cjel lajla.
You  are  like serpents of fire VOC angels of sky night.

Come unto me, spirits of healing!  There is light within your wings!

venu la vel, o sades de sanando!  jes or in alajtem!
come(IMP, PL) to me, VOC demons of healing!  there.is light in your.wings

God gave the truth to his prophet, and his prophets gave the truth to the
adepts, and the adepts give the truth to us.

Deo natan et-a-vero al nafeshu, va nafeshu natanu et-a-vero al a adepti,
va a adepti natanu et-a-vero al no.


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Are these sound changes plausable:

invocalic g -> j
ng -> nc
gn -> cn
-us -> -o
-s -> 0
-n -> 0
-m -> 0

Is it likely with a multi-source language that sound changes might only be
applied to one of the source languages -- for instance, a different set of
changes might apply to Hebrew roots than Latin ones?


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I know most of these changes and mixings aren't plausible, but do you
think they'll work -- or even better, any cool ideas to incorporate?  I
actually do intend to use this language at some point for magic, maybe
even keep a grimoire in it.