Conlang Year: Week 26
I'm shooting for a quick turnaround this week! As always, the prompts are here.
I added a bit more vocabulary yesterday while thinking about names:
| IPA | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ɛɪʒ.aɪ | spear |
| ɛɪʒ.aɪ | soldier, warrior |
| zɛɪ.ɛɪ.ʃaɪ | sword (literally weapon-hand) |
| zɛɪ.ɛɪ.ʃaɪ | bandit, highwayman |
| zɪx | cave |
| ʃβʌθ | grave |
| aɢʌɾ | tomb |
| uθaɪ | jar |
| ðɛd | word |
| xʌɸ.u | death |
The same word carrying multiple meanings for spear/soldier and sword/bandit have separate entries because the weapons are inanimate and the professions are animate, meaning they're easily distinguishable in speech even though the base form of the word is the same.
Day 176 - Formalize your naming strategies
I wrote these sections as I was working on naming last week. I've gone ahead and added my example sentences to the documentation as well.
Day 177 - Explore options for phrasal coordination
I've already snuck in a coordinating conjunction in the names because I'd settled on an "and" a while ago. I think I'm going to end up having an and, an inclusive or, an exclusive or, a but, and a so.
Day 178 - Plan what you need for your coordination strategy
I looked through the Wikipedia article on coordination and I thought about using different conjunctions to coordinate verbs versus nouns, but I think I want to keep it simple in this case. I'm sticking with the five words I listed on Day 177.
Day 179 - Create examples of phrasal coordination
Here's the conjunctions that I'm working with:
| IPA | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ɪ | and |
| ʎaɪ | or (inclusive) |
| naɪ | or (exclusive) |
| mʌm | but |
| ðwa | so (therefore, because of) |
Here's a few phrases using the conjunctions:
| IPA | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ŋxa.ɾa ɪ ʒʌð.ɾa ɪ aɪʃ.zɾa | worms, bugs, and flies |
| ɛɪɾ.ɸm.ɢaŋ ʎaɪ qyð.ɸm.ɢaŋ | morning or evening |
| ʃxu.ɾa naɪ βðøm.ɾa | dog xor cat |
| wɪʒ.ɢaɪm mʌm ta.zɛɪ.pʃʌ.ɢaɪm mɛʃs | valley but not canyon |
Day 180 - Consider how coordination interact with inflections
Thekkish doesn't change verb conjugation based on number, but it does based on speaker or animacy. What I've decided to do here is that conjoined phrases will use whatever is higher in a hierarchy based on the components of the set - animacy outranks inanimacy, so an inanimate object conjoined with an animate one will use an animate verb, and first-person outranks second-person outranks third-person, so including "you" means a third party also uses the second-person verb.
Day 181 - Create examples of other phrase types
I'm going to stick with one set of conjunctions regardless of the type of phrases they're joining. Here's a few examples:
| IPA | Grammar | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| ɛɪx.pɾɛɪ ɪ ɛɪx.syɸ ɛɪ ŋa aɪmβ.ɢaŋ | 1.pa.LIE DOWN and 1.pa.SLEPT I.nom on bridge.acc | I laid down and slept on the bridge. |
| ʒɛx.ʃan qyɸ sɪn ɛɪʒ.ɾaŋ naɪ sɪn zɛɪ.ʃaɪ.ɾaŋ | 3.a.pa.BE he.nom with soldiers.acc or with bandits.acc | He was with soldiers or with bandits. |
| ʒɛʎ.ɪ.xʃan ɛɪʒ.ɢa Ʌθ.ɣy.ɢa.sɪn ɪ ɢyɾ.ɢa.sɪn | 3.i.pr.BE spear.nom sharp and beautiful | The spear is sharp and beautiful. |
| taʎ.ɪ.aɪb.as ŋaʎ ʃɸoŋ.ɾaŋ mʌm ʒɛx.ɪ.aɪb.as qyβm ɢʌɸ.ɾaŋ | 2.a.pr.DESIRE you.nom goat.acc but 3.a.pr.DESIRE they.nom beef.acc | You want goat, but they want beef. |
| ɛɪx.aɪ.ʃyʎ ɛɪ sɪn ʃy.ɾaŋ ðwa ʒɛx.aɪ.saɪ.ʃaɪ pɛp.ɾa | 1.fu.INVOKE I.nom with gods.acc so 3.i.fu.RAIN rain.nom | I will call to the gods so the rain will rain. |
Also, I noticed that I've created two different verbs for "to be." I'm going to have to add some shades of meaning to distinguish them from one another; I think that's more fun than just deleting one.
Day 182 - Write a section describing phrasal coordination
I wrote a summary of what I worked on this week in my documentation along with listing some of my examples.
Wow, this one breezed by! I'll be back next week with another post (if I don't manage to sneak one in before then).