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Preliminary data on language "Eastern" [For Valles' fantasy project]
Preliminary data on language "Eastern" [For Valles' fantasy project]
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Most consonants are as in English.
Vowels are as in Japanese and Italian.
Eastern does not have and/or distingush h, x, q, c, f, v, or j. F and V are heard as the same as TH and DH.

Special
consonants:

th "“
as "th" in English "think, thin, thought"

dh "“
as "th" in English "this, that, mother"

' "“
not really a consonant so much as a boundary between syllables
perhaps for one of us to tell the difference between banana
[ba-na-na: loanword for the fruit] and ban'ana
[ban-a-na:Made up of smaller words ban
and ana

Current
extant vocabulary:

From
Asima's family motto:


"Neso
polamon, dhara rilusi." "“ "Because I've done this, I cannot
run."

dhara
"“ pronoun "I" (first person singular, formal/feminine)

neso
"“ pronoun
"this" (inanimate thing/action)

pol-
"“ verb
"to do" (only a person or animal can be the subject of "pol-")

ril-
"“ verb
"to run, to flee, to retreat"

extant
conjugations of "ril-":


[For
convenience, the English translation will use "he" as the
subject]

rilu "“
He runs. [Present tense, stative.]

rila "“
He ran. [Past tense, stative.]

rilusi "“
He cannot run. [Present tense, negative potential.]

rilasi "“
he could not run. [Past tense, negative potential.]

rilumon "“
because he runs [Subordinate present tense, causative]

rilamon "“
because he ran [Subordinate past tense, causative]

So,
for the verbs that conjugate like "ril-" and "pol-" we have a
model to work from.

-u "“
Simple present

-a "“
Simple past

-si "“
negative potential modifier

-mon "“
causative modifier

Thus,
there's a potential for "rilasimon" as "because he could not
run."

Numbers


One "“ es

two "“
lu

three
"“ de

four
"“ tan

five
"“ kos

six "“
ri

seven
"“ ma

eight
"“ hu

nine
"“ nom

ten "“
gin

eleven
"“ gin-es

twenty
"“ lu-gin

twenty-three
"“ lu-gin-de

hundred
"“ ken

thousand
"“ gin-ken

ten
thousand "“ pas

hundred
thousand "“ gin-pas

million
"“ ken-pas





*Snips wordfoam of 650 protoforms (i.e., "Words" that have no meanings, but fit word patterns), available in RTF file on request*
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''

-- James Nicoll
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Preliminary data on language "Eastern" [For Valles' fantasy project] - by Foxboy - 08-05-2009, 02:43 AM
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