Conlang Year: Week 20
I'm back for another week in the language mines! This one went by quickly compared to the last few outings. Once again, prompts are here.
Day 134 - Expand your adjective section
Conveniently, I already did this while working on Days 131-133. Free space!
Day 135 - Update your dictionary
Likewise, this work was done while working on Days 131-133.
Day 136 - Explore strategies for negating nouns
I'm going to use the entire indefinite article used to describe nouns — "mɛʃs" — to do this.
Day 137 - Create a noun negation strategy
The negation particle immediately follows the noun it negates. As an example, I'm going back to the same phrase I used while working on verb negation:
"The monkey has a knife!"
3.a.pr.POSSESS monkey.nom knife.acc - ʒɛx.ɪ.us.ʃwɪ ŋɢaɪ.dʌ.ɾa Ʌθ.ɣy.ɢaŋ
“The monkey has a knife, not a rock!”
3.a.pr.POSSESS monkey.nom knife.acc rock.acc negation - ʒɛx.ɪ.us.ʃwɪ ŋɢaɪ.dʌ.ɾa Ʌθ.ɣy.ɢaŋ ʃɪθ.βan.ɢaŋ mɛʃs
Day 138 - Document your NP negation strategy
I wrote this up while working on Day 136 and 137.
Day 139 - Explore options for number bases
I decided long ago that the default counting for Jewelsea languages will be base-12. This is partially because it's easy to count on the knuckles of one hand and partially because I appreciate how much easier it is to divide into parts than base-10.
Day 140 - Explore options for counting nouns
Most of today's prompt is focused on singular and plural forms, which Thekkish doesn't distinguish between. I also don't have the partitive case mentioned. I don't think it makes sense to force nouns into nominative, accusative, or dative cases when counting them as a counted noun could be the subject, direct object, or indirect object of a sentence and there's certainly no reason to push them into the genitive case.
For the time being, I will probably have numbers agree with the noun they are counting.