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Hi fellow conlanger!
I wonder how you would say things like "who/which". Your relatives are only of type "that". There are differences between the various relatives. It's mostly direct/indirect object or subject, but in your case, I miss the subject / direct obejct part:
The man who talks (subject)
The man that I talk about (indirect object)
The man that I see (direct object - difference direct / indirect doesn't show well in English - in French que/dont).
Your grammar remains very English. You are just changing the way verbs are treated and the order of the words. Whatare the tenses, for instance? It looks like you have present and past.
If you really want to make a different grammar, check conlangs like all-noun, or lojban. These have quite funny grammars. Mine includes things like no pronoun, relative pronoun usually translated as 'parenthesis' (subject) or a dedicated verb (object), 4 pasts, 4 futures, 2 present tenses. It really requires thinking in a different way to speak in such a tongue, also because there are intentional omissions in the vocabulary (some concepts don't exist in that language). Just ideas.
Beware also that you say all syllabas are CV, but your language name starts with a vowel, so that is not true...
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Hi fellow conlanger!
I wonder how you would say things like "who/which". Your relatives are only of type "that". There are differences between the various relatives. It's mostly direct/indirect object or subject, but in your case, I miss the subject / direct obejct part:
The man who talks (subject)
The man that I talk about (indirect object)
The man that I see (direct object - difference direct / indirect doesn't show well in English - in French que/dont).
At first I considered making separate ones but decided to keep them all the same. Also, I may be confused but AFAIK all English relatives are the same in regard to their ability to replace different parts of teh sentence...maybe there's some difference between that and which, but I think that may be just prescribed.
Your grammar remains very English. You are just changing the way verbs are treated and the order of the words. Whatare the tenses, for instance? It looks like you have present and past.
True, much of the basic things are the same. The tenses are present (unmarked), past (ed), and future (il). All three can also be in perfect or progressive forms. In this respect the language is very much like English.
If you really want to make a different grammar, check conlangs like all-noun, or lojban. These have quite funny grammars. Mine includes things like no pronoun, relative pronoun usually translated as 'parenthesis' (subject) or a dedicated verb (object), 4 pasts, 4 futures, 2 present tenses. It really requires thinking in a different way to speak in such a tongue, also because there are intentional omissions in the vocabulary (some concepts don't exist in that language). Just ideas.
I intended for this language to at least be somewhat realistic as a real language, though I'm pretty sure having postpositions and yet having modifiers follow heads is very contradictory syntactically. A language of all nouns is, simply, inhuman. Some of your other ideas though do sound nice.
Beware also that you say all syllabas are CV, but your language name starts with a vowel, so that is not true...
Well, technically that's true, but in every linguistic description I've seen it's assumed that the given syllable structure is the most complex that is allowed and that all simpler structures are also present.
We'd love to have all of you share your languages on our conlang board, the Zompist phpBB. The more the merrier!
Registering right now, I've been interested in this sort of thing ever since I took a linguistics class over the summer!
Last edited by civman2000; October 24, 2003, 21:43.
Originally posted by Shi Huangdi
My reccomendation: Go outside more. Get a life.
You know what's funny about that get a life stuff? When people spend their lives telling others to get a life for doing something that interests them and actually uses their intellect.
Originally posted by Mercator
Maybe you should invest your time in trying to learn one of the many languages of the world that is going extinct as we speak.
Dumbass. Maybe he can't get to anywhere where he could do that? Did that thought ever cross your mind, you ignorarius!
We just like creating our own languages, if you think that's stupid, then just leave us alone.
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