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There is a case that appears with quatifiers. Say, it's called the partitive. The quantifier is inflected. There is a word that is both the indefinite article and word 'one'. Then the word inflects and the article is uninflected. ma-lo kram-s one-LOC house-PARTVE 'in one house' ma kram-lo INDEF hous...

The examples are at the limit of my English skills, so feel free to translate them into better English as well. 1a) The car's of those two women are a Mercedes and an Audi. 'One woman's car is a Mercedes and the other one's car is an Audi.' [Also, to get the meaning of the scond sentence, the first...

The direct evidential can very rarely be used of second person. It has to be replaced by the inferential.
I would be considered too intimate to claim that I know anything about you directly.

p t t͡ʃ k q (ʔ) b d d͡ʒ ɓ ɗ ɗ͡ʒ s ʃ x~χ z m n l r ʋ j i ɨ u ä - vowels can be short or long - consonants can be sporadically geminated Revised a bit t t͡ʃ k b d d͡ʒ ɓ ɗ ɗ͡ʒ f s ʃ (voiced [v z ʒ] when non-intial) m n (ɲ) l r j ɰ w i ɨ u <i gi u> ə <e> ä <a> Vowels can be short or long. Stressed long...

Perhaps I am overthinking how tonal languages work, but I'm gonna ask anyway. If a language has a word tone/pitch accent system, how do contours manifest in the language? I've read that in such languages, contours are just a high and low tone next to each other. But, how does it occur in an otherwi...

I realized that verbs can be ambitransitive (like to open) without agreement and still preserve pro-drop if word order is strict.

Gaare modda
door.DEF open
'The door opened.'

Modda gaare.
open door.DEF
'S/he opened the door.'

:con: Euta, 7th translation The tense of the main clause does not change. A particle can mark it if needed. (Xe) kę́ę́ hóje wi soohó kéíke. (SG1) see.EGO someone enjoy.SENS cake 'I saw that someone ate the cake.' (Xe) kę́ę́ hóje wiyu soohó kéíke. (SG1) see.EGO someone enjoy.DS.SIM cake 'I saw that s...

Euta, 6th translation

Xe wᶖᶖ kópeda po-u.
SG1 like love1 sg22-DAT
'I love you.'

1 Kópeda is a noun that means sexual/romatic love.
2 There will probably be more second person pronouns for different registers.

I decided how complex nouns are formed in Euta. The system is a bit too similar to that of Dleesoop viewtopic.php?t=7639 but the modifiers do not try to be verbs.

I also translated three sentences.

Euta, 5th translation

Xe sę-ᶙ rúno-u káha-u, sepu káha he pupo-i woope-i.
SG1 go.byfoot.slowly-SS.SIM [place-LOC tree-LOC], [stick tree] go.fast.SENS down-DAT head-DAT
'I was walking in the forest when a branch fell on my head.'

:con: Euta, 4th translation [pa.ɟĩ˥.jã ha:˥.mi:˩˥ ɕa.jai ɹe:.pau nda˥ pa.ʔi:˥.ta heu˩˥.ʔeu˥˩.wa˥, ʔõũ jo.no mã.ɹĩ.kau˥˩] Pajį́yą háámi-í xaya-i 1 reepa-u ndá pa'ííta heú'éu-wá 2 , 'ǫ-ᶙ yono mąrᶖkáu 3 . song [distribution-DAT.GEN mana-DAT] possibility-LOC change.SENS [order tone-ABL.GEN], happen-SS.S...

Dictionary Generic nouns kuu 'person' rúno 'place' . rúno káha 'forest' (tree place) sepu 'stick' soohó 'a dish' (what kind of food) towo 'house, building' - towo hépini 'bar' woope 'head' Specific nouns hépini 'evening' repí 'male' Abstract nouns háámi 'distribution' . háámií xayai 'destiny' (dist...

Euta, 3rd translation

Euta is a good example of a satellite framed language.

Kuu repí sé towo-i hépini-i.
person male go1.SENS house-DAT evening-DAT
'A man walks to a bar.'

1 sé means to go by foot at inhabited areas

I once read (in Uller Uprising; author’s name escapes me; maybe H. Beam Piper?) a suggestion about a science-fictional species’s language which I’ll paraphrase here (as well as I can). It had a system of 4 tenses, that applied to nouns and pronouns rather than verbs, and expressed present-vs-nonpre...

Euta verbs are still in their infancy. They have the four cases. Number is not coded productively. Most nouns consist of a generic noun followed by a specific noun. But there are many unresolved questions - how is possession expressed - Can a specific noun be derived from a generic noun and can the ...

Kahichali will have an enclitic -še (or -šje depending on the final phonology) that can be attached to the first NP to code focus or the last word to code mirativity. kí ti kí ša šièna-gun PROX 1 PROX 2 love-12 'I love you' kí ti-še kí ša šièna-gun PROX 1-FOC PROX 2 love-12 'It's me who loves you.' ...

I google translated 'I love you' into Japanese and it gave 愛してます。 Aishitemasu. It apparently just means 'love'. Is there some politeness thing or something that hints thats 'I love you' instead of, say, 'He loves her'? Japanese often doesn't use pronouns as it's kind of expected to be obvious from ...

p t t͡ʃ k q (ʔ) b d d͡ʒ ɓ ɗ ɗ͡ʒ s ʃ x~χ z m n l r ʋ j i ɨ u ä - vowels can be short or long - consonants can be sporadically geminated Four open word classes: verbs (something agglutinative), nouns, adjectives (very much nounlike), and local adverbs. Nouns - generic form is the unmarked one "m...

Twinga is my newest project. It seems that my langs last around a week. A while back, I asked you if you were a filmstabber . Now I'm wondering if you are in fact a spawner. Very possibly I think am waiting for a language that is interesting enough to deserve a lexicon. Usually my new projects are ...

Thank you both for iamitives!



I google translated 'I love you' into Japanese and it gave
愛してます。
Aishitemasu.

It apparently just means 'love'. Is there some politeness thing or something that hints thats 'I love you' instead of, say, 'He loves her'?