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Tolkien_Freak · Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 2:29 am Post subject: Conlang Peculiarities

I had an idea for a topic - post any little peculiarities your lang has - little details that are not something you might think about normally.

For example (and for a first entry), since my lang rarely ever uses a copula, it uses the word for 'yes' as a suffix that confirms the previous statement - where in English you would say 'it is', in Raitoliste you would say 'ëia'.

Even the 'rarely uses a copula' part would be a good enough post.

Serali · Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 6:44 am Post subject:

Käläli has 2 words for 'you' Tasil and Wä. And there isn't a plural form you just use either Tasil or Wä.
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Dhanus · Admin Joined: 06 Jul 2007 Posts: 192

I'm not completely sure if this would count, but it my language there is a specific form form for 'I am' to say what gender you are, Ra'g. Therefore there's also the past-tense of this pronoun, I was (male, female, a girl, a boy, etc.), Ra'k, which I would think would be rarely used.

Tolkien_Freak · Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 1:47 pm Post subject:

Those are good, keep 'em coming!

Addendum to the original post: You don't use -ia when negating - 'ua ëia' is incorrect.
-ia is also used (still on the noun) to say 'very' - 'ëia eti' means 'it is very good'.

halyihev · Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 5:16 pm Post subject:

The Alurhsa language has 70 phonemes.

It also has a second person deprecating pronoun and verb form, used when you want to show disdain or be insulting to someone.
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Tolkien_Freak · Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 5:32 pm Post subject:

eldin raigmore · Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 5:43 pm Post subject:

Adpihi is highly synthetic but not exactly polysynthetic.
It's somewhere between agglutinative and fusional.
It morphologically marks both topic and focus.
It's verb-initial, head-initial, and right-branching*.
It's both topic-prominent and subject-prominent.
It's a clause-chaining language, but not a serial-verb language.
It has about 25 genders, I think; I'll have to look that up, I may be remembering wrong.
It doesn't allow affricates; consecutive consonants can't be homorganic.
It has 96 demonstratives, some of which are quite rare.
The demonstratives' system uses two deictic centers -- the speaker and the addressee -- and distinguishes between in-reach and out-of-reach, and between in-sight and out-of-sight, for both of them.
It is almost entirely both head-marking and dependent-marking.
It uses no, or very few, "floating markers" or "linkers".
It has 13 past tenses and 13 future tenses.
It has a tripartite-dative morphosyntactic alignment.
It has several "bivalent intransitive" ("S E") verbs; taking an S like an intransitive subject and an E like an indirect object.

*EDIT: Maybe it's left-branching instead. The "head-initial" is the part that is most important. I'll have to work with it a bit to see whether it's more left-branching or more right-branching.

Serali · Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 7:46 pm Post subject:

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Serali · Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2007 9:33 pm Post subject:

I know..... Shocked

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Eccentric Iconoclast · Joined: 22 Apr 2007 Posts: 36

Aquénandi IS a peculiarity. The words aren't set beyond the basic morphemes, so you have to agglutinate morphemes together while you speak and Make Your Own Words depending on the context rather than using "set" words.

Tolkien_Freak · Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 9:43 pm Post subject:

That sounds confusing.
(Actually, reading through your post about it in the relevant thread, it sounds awesome.)

Serali · Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 12:44 am Post subject:

It does sound confusing reading the bit that you posted. Hopefully when I read your other post I'll understand it.
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Aeetlrcreejl · Joined: 08 Jun 2007 Posts: 839 Location: Over yonder

Le has no nasals and has [S] but no [s]. Some of you may know that.

langover94 · Joined: 21 Aug 2007 Posts: 509 Location: USA

in Danšlağ there is a 2 syllable copula. also, to make a word past tense, you would say "fafara" (did) before the word. (however, this mostly works only with verbs).

eldin raigmore · Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2007 10:54 pm Post subject:

Aeetlrcreejl · Joined: 08 Jun 2007 Posts: 839 Location: Over yonder

StrangeMagic · Admin Joined: 18 Apr 2007 Posts: 640

Aeetlrcreejl · Joined: 08 Jun 2007 Posts: 839 Location: Over yonder

Wouldn't those be moods?
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eldin raigmore · Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 4:22 pm Post subject: