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I present to you my artificial-language-in-progress Inagalasi:
Sounds of Inagalasi:
a, b, d, e, i, k, l, n, o, p, s, t, u are essentially like the same sounds in most languages (vowels are like spanish).
f is pronounced between the lips, like in Japanese and I think Greek ph.
g is always a "hard" g like in "go"
h is a glottal stop, like in ""uh oh". This sound is common in arabic.
r is like spanish r (ere), not a trill but a single tap
y is like in english (a shortened i)
There are no sounds represented as c, j, m, q, v, w, x, or z.
All syllables have the structure Consonant-vowel (CV), except that final syllables of verbs can end in a consonant (CVC).
Stress is always on the last syllable of the root of a word. Stress is ordinarily written as an accent marks, but as I'm too lazy to find the special codes to make them I'll use capital letters (as in "inagalasI", the more proper way of writing the name of the language).
General structure of Inagalasi:
Sentences are essentially of the form SVO (Subject Verb Object (if there is one)). ALL modifiers of verbs (positional phrases, objects, adverbs) come after the verb. All modifiers of noun phrases come after the basic noun. Almost all positional ideas (prepositions in English) and other gramatical modifiers are expressed as suffixes of the word they modify.
Nouns:
Nouns are the simplest aspect of Inagalasi. They can have two types of affixes: "ne", which makes a noun plural, and postpositions. Postpositions generally are like prepositions, but also can express things like a noun being the direct object of a sentence.
Example: "pigA" means pig. "pigAne" means pigs. "pigAne Ade" means "the pigs of (de) me (A)", or my pigs.
Noun/pronoun list (not comprehensive, you can form more by "inagalasi-ifyling" English words):
A=I
U=you
I=he/she/it
garA=grape
pigA=pig
ferinA=much, a lot (usually used in conjunction with postposition fi to mean "very")
inagalasI=this language
alafabetA=alphabet
foninA=phoneme
lanagA=language
fudA=food
sakulA=school
balaberI=blueberry
sinI=thing
kidA=kid
retA=here (used with ni)
retU=there (used with ni)
retI=over there (used with ni)
tunarA=tomorrow (used with fe)
atA=question marker; more on this later
ogorO=something extra (used with fi to mean "also")
nitA=knight
Postpositions/endings used on nouns (not comprehensive):
ne=plural
lo=direct object marker
fi="in the manner of"; changes the noun into an adverb
ni=in, but cannot be used idiomatically; can only refer to physical location
de=of
fe=location in time, used with time words
tu=direction of action/indirect object
ka="because of", marks the cause of something
ti=with
po=marks the duration of time an action takes
Dizzy yet? I've still got a lot more to say (and it'll all make more sense once I show you a lot of sample sentences)
I present to you my artificial-language-in-progress Inagalasi:
Sounds of Inagalasi:
a, b, d, e, i, k, l, n, o, p, s, t, u are essentially like the same sounds in most languages (vowels are like spanish).
f is pronounced between the lips, like in Japanese and I think Greek ph.
g is always a "hard" g like in "go"
h is a glottal stop, like in ""uh oh". This sound is common in arabic.
r is like spanish r (ere), not a trill but a single tap
y is like in english (a shortened i)
There are no sounds represented as c, j, m, q, v, w, x, or z.
All syllables have the structure Consonant-vowel (CV), except that final syllables of verbs can end in a consonant (CVC).
Stress is always on the last syllable of the root of a word. Stress is ordinarily written as an accent marks, but as I'm too lazy to find the special codes to make them I'll use capital letters (as in "inagalasI", the more proper way of writing the name of the language).
General structure of Inagalasi:
Sentences are essentially of the form SVO (Subject Verb Object (if there is one)). ALL modifiers of verbs (positional phrases, objects, adverbs) come after the verb. All modifiers of noun phrases come after the basic noun. Almost all positional ideas (prepositions in English) and other gramatical modifiers are expressed as suffixes of the word they modify.
Nouns:
Nouns are the simplest aspect of Inagalasi. They can have two types of affixes: "ne", which makes a noun plural, and postpositions. Postpositions generally are like prepositions, but also can express things like a noun being the direct object of a sentence.
Example: "pigA" means pig. "pigAne" means pigs. "pigAne Ade" means "the pigs of (de) me (A)", or my pigs.
Noun/pronoun list (not comprehensive, you can form more by "inagalasi-ifyling" English words):
A=I
U=you
I=he/she/it
garA=grape
pigA=pig
ferinA=much, a lot (usually used in conjunction with postposition fi to mean "very")
inagalasI=this language
alafabetA=alphabet
foninA=phoneme
lanagA=language
fudA=food
sakulA=school
balaberI=blueberry
sinI=thing
kidA=kid
retA=here (used with ni)
retU=there (used with ni)
retI=over there (used with ni)
tunarA=tomorrow (used with fe)
atA=question marker; more on this later
ogorO=something extra (used with fi to mean "also")
nitA=knight
Postpositions/endings used on nouns (not comprehensive):
ne=plural
lo=direct object marker
fi="in the manner of"; changes the noun into an adverb
ni=in, but cannot be used idiomatically; can only refer to physical location
de=of
fe=location in time, used with time words
tu=direction of action/indirect object
ka="because of", marks the cause of something
ti=with
po=marks the duration of time an action takes
Dizzy yet? I've still got a lot more to say (and it'll all make more sense once I show you a lot of sample sentences)
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