Conlang Year: Week 13
Week 13 marks the quarter point. Nine months to go! Prompts are here.
Day 85 - Brainstorm ideas for indefinite pronouns
There's not a lot to write down today. When being used as a modifier, these aren't going to bother with class agreement, but when used as pronouns, they'll have class included.
Day 86 - Create singular indefinite forms
We're making forms for one, each, and any today.
one - pu
each - ɣɛz
any - doŋ
They're all conjugated based on the pattern as I laid out on Day 85. I think I'm going to stop listing all the forms here on the blog. They're still in the dictionary, but they've never been particularly easy to read here so I don't think they're adding much value and they're a pain to copy and paste.
Day 87 - Create plural indefinite forms
I started with some, few, many, and all.
some - sʌθ
few - ʒʌɾn
many - xɾaʃɸ
all - wɛɪ
Eagle eyed readers will notice that "one" from yesterday and "few" and "many" today are stems I created quite a while back. I'm glad I remembered that I'd already done them.
Day 88 - Create “absence” indefinite forms
I don't think that I need to have as many absence forms as English has. I'm going to stick with a single one.
mɛʃs - none/nothing
Day 89 - Formalize your indefinite system
I added a few notes to my documentation about how to properly use indefinite pronouns and modifiers and which to use in each case.
Day 90 - Update your dictionary with indefinite forms
As always, I keep the dictionary full of all the ways a given word can be conjugated, so there's no extra work to be done today.
Day 91 - List templates for basic clause structures
Well, here we get to have some fun listing phrases so we can start to worry about things like verb tense. The lack of ability to conjugate verbs has been one of the things making me hold off from trying to create things like sentences, so it's great to see this.
COOK person.nom mushroom.acc - [sɸɪt] xɪɾ.ɾa ʌʃ.ɛɪp.ɢaŋ
BUILD clan.nom house.acc sibling.gen - [ŋyʃ] ɾɪm.ʃθoŋ.ɾa θyp.ɢaŋ ʃʌɾ.ɾat
FIGHT dog.nom cat.acc - [aɸ.ʎaɢ] ʃxu.ɾa βðøm.ɾaŋ
PLANT spouse.nom fruit tree.acc child.dat - [an.ɪ] ɣʒɪŋ.ɾa θaɪ.ɢaŋ dwʌɢ.ɾaɪm
FLOOD stream.nom field.acc clan.gen - [ɪx.qyʒ] βyð.ɾa ŋaɪ.ɢaŋ ɾɪm.ʃθoŋ.ɾat
WALK I.nom with elephant.dat - [βɛɪ] ɛɪ sɪn ɸθɾaŋ.ɾaɪm
SLEEP child.nom until morning.dat - [syβ] dwʌɢ.ɾa ɛɪɾ ɛɪɾ.ɸm.ɢaɪm
HOLD monkey.nom rock.acc - [xɛɪ.pʌ.ɛɪ] ŋɢaɪ.dʌ.ɾa ʃɪθ.βan.ɢaŋ
WEIGH person.nom copper.acc - [ŋwɛʃ.xaβ] xɪɾ.ɾa ɣʎʌ.woŋ.ɢaŋ
LISTEN lizard.nom for cat.dat - [xɛɪt.zɛɪ] ŋɢaɪ.dʌ.ɾa ɾɪm βðøm.ɾaɪm
Well, that was fun if a bit brain twisting as I tried to figure out which cases make sense for each of the nouns. I'm not sure which case I should be using when a noun appears after a preposition, I'll probably have to come back and fix these later.