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Tolkien_Freak · Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2010 2:24 am Post subject: Danmay

Finally got a new language up and going!
Danmay (/danmai/) is spoken by the eponymous people (d: Denmey-mu varas) living in the area later settled by the Emitare. The situation has an OTL parallel with the Sumerians and Akkadians, where one nation creates a civilisation, then the other comes in and cohabitatates for a while, they mix a whole lot, then the second nation ultimately absorbs the first. Written Emitare (a syllabary) will be descended from Danmay writing (a Chinese-style semanto-phonetic script).

Danmay itself is rather unremarkable as languages come - it's mostly fusional, nom-acc, with three tenses, two numbers, and three voices (active, reflexive, passive). It does have a fourth person.
It's phonology is fairly boring:

p b t d k g
m n
p\ B <f v> s z x G <kh gh>
j <y> w (labialised)
4 <r>
l

i 1 <ï> (IPA ɨ) u
o
e
a

Syllable structure is (C)(A)V(C).

Danmay grammar mixes some fusionalness with some ablaut:
PRS.ACT.1sg: dakay (from dak, to speak)
PRS.REF.1sg: dakit
PRET.ACT.1sg: dokay
PRET.REF.1sg: dokit

It's got 3 basic cases (NOM, ACC, LOC), and adpositions (I haven't got a list of these, but I'm planning on allowing change of case as well as an ability to mix and match prepositions and postpositions, for a total of 3 variables).

Some translation challenges may be attempted.

人どう思うかい？

Kiri · Joined: 13 Jun 2009 Posts: 471 Location: Latvia/Italy

What thas the A stand for in the syllable structure?
Also, the phonology is not that boring, it has it's interesting points, like /G/ and /1/... I mean, quirky bizarre (sp?) is not always the right answer, is it? Also, when the phonology is clear as a peace of glass, you have all the other parts of linguistics to play with ^_^

Tolkien_Freak · Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2010 4:49 pm Post subject:

3po · Joined: 22 Oct 2008 Posts: 34

where is the rest of the grammar?
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Tolkien_Freak · Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2010 6:53 pm Post subject:

Remains to be finished ^_^

3po · Joined: 22 Oct 2008 Posts: 34

Tolkien_Freak · Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2010 12:12 am Post subject:

Meh, terminology. 'Up and going' is not a phrase that I think requires a very specific definition.

(And no offense, but isn't that a little nitpicky?)

3po · Joined: 22 Oct 2008 Posts: 34