revised personal language
From: | Barry Garcia <barry_garcia@...> |
Date: | Thursday, April 20, 2000, 6:44 |
My focus has drifted back to my personal language, which I will call PLX
(Personal Language X). Here is what i have so far:
Phonemes:
Consonants: b, d, m, w, n, r, d, t, k, g, f, s, v, z, h, sh /S/
Vowels: a, e, i, o, u
Diphthongs: ao, ei, oi, ai
Basic syllables are consonant + vowel, consonant + diphthong, consonant +
vowel + s, z, or n, and consonant + diphthong + s, z, or n . Only s, z, or
n, can form a consonant cluster with other consonants. Words can only end
in those three consonants as well.
- stress is penultimate.
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- Syntax is SVO, and word order is locked.
- Adjectives follow their nouns, and these end in -iz, -ez (for when the
root ends in i): hami - happiness, hamiez - happy
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Verbs:
There are three tenses, past, present, future. I also have a conditional,
and past and present participles. Instead of having endings, I have
prefixes for these. The imperative is the same as the present:
- to be - zasanis
- was, were - nasanis
- am, is, are - kansanis
- will be - sazsanis
- would be - kussanis
- been - disanis
- being - shusanis
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Roots on their own become nouns: happiness - hami (compare hamiez - happy)
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Well that's what I have for now. I'm making this language easy for myself
(which is why all verbs will be regular, but i'm sure it will become
complicated in some other way as I work on this more :)). Since it's a
personal language it would be nice for me to become fluent in it (well, as
fluent as you can get without a native speaker, or someone to practice it
with). Anyway, it's not enough to really do anything in the language yet,
but fortunately school is winding down for me in about a month (papers,
projects, etc. I still have to finish :( )
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