beggining in tones
From: | # 1 <salut_vous_autre@...> |
Date: | Thursday, January 27, 2005, 2:01 |
I decided to beggin a new conlang that I would less think to regularize
I wrote a vocabulary how I felt it and it occured that there are only 5
voiceless consonants
/s/, /t/, /t_h/, /t_w/, /k/, /k_h/, and /k_w/
and 15 voiced ones
And, less because it is intuitive, I introduced tones
there are the plane tone, the rising tone, and the falling tone
But, to simplify the pronounciation and not to have to think wich tone to
use before each vowel, I decided that a tone would affect the whole word and
not each of its vowels
Is it possible?
if the rising and falling tones are / and \
to love/like is [/wek_hate]
to hate/detest is [\wek_hate]
(prefix w- indicates the verb is a state, a being, a feeling or a
description)
to eat is [/zeZabI]
to feed is [\zeZabI]
(the prefix z- indicates the verb is an action)
the rising and falling tones also serve to recognize the nominative and the
accusative (or maybe erg-abs, I didn't worked on intransitive sentences)
the order of arguments is determined by the person
2nd -> 1st -> Verb -> 3rd-human -> 3rd-neutral
So there is no definited word order, it will depend of the persons of the
arguments
Object -> 1st 2nd 3rd
Subject
1st person SOV OSV SVO
or OSV
2nd person SOV SOV SVO
or OSV
3rd person OVS OVS VOS
or VSO
when the persons of the 2 arguments are the same, the order doesn't care but
I prefer the one I place over the other
and the verb agrees with the first of its arguments, don't care if it is the
subject or the object
Singular Plural
1 ------> -m -b_we
2 ------> -d -de
3 human-> -g -j
thing-> -gi -hi
And the pronouns are
Singular Plural
1 ------> me hame
2 ------> de dehe
3 human-> ge je
thing-> gi hi
so
I love you = [/de \me /wek_hatEd]
you love me = [\de /me /wek_hatEd]
I love it = [/me /wek_hatEm \gi]
he loves me = [\me /wek_hatEm /ge]
on a noun, the case is represented by the same tones but on its article: the
tone on the noun contributes to its meaning
man = [/k_hamene]
father = [\k_hamene]
woman = [/k_himani]
mother = [\k_himani]
my mother loves a man = [/wek_hatEg /hEm \k_himani \ho /k_hamene]
love-3rd my-nom mother a-acc man
Okay, I entered in a description of the language but I still want to know
what's about the word tones? wich languages do this?