Ma-Lengi - an auxlang

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Ma-lengi is the newest version of my auxlang projects. I well understand that nobody will ever speak it. Its goal is to be as good as possible if it were spoken. Afa-Mutu is among the earlier versions https://cbbforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=7790 .

Ma-Lengi means something like This Language or My Language.


Features (many of them ar recycled from my older auxlangs)
- English-based vocabulary
- A closed class of verbs
- Many light verb constructions
- Many compounds that try to be transparent

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Phonology

Onset consonants
p t ts k
b d g
s
m n
l
j w

Coda consonants
n

Stressed vowels
i u
e o
ä <a>

Unstressed vowels
i u
ä <a>

Phonotactics is simple.
(C)V(n)

The first syllable is stressed. In compounds, the first syllable of the non-first roots can be stressed but less heavily than the first one.

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Pronouns

mi 'I'
ti 'you (sg.)'
si 'he, she, it, they'

mimi 'we (excl.)'
miti 'we (incl)'
titi 'you (pl.)'

Demonstratives are derived from pronouns.
ma 'this'
ta 'that (near you)'
sa 'that'
mata 'this (near us)'

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There are eight motion verbs, which is a big part of all verbs in the language. All of them are derived from the root g-.

The vowel expresses path.
u 'enter'
a 'to go about'
i 'to leave'
e 'to visit'

The intransitive motion verbs are thus
gu 'to enter'
ga 'to go about'
gi 'to leave'
ge 'to visit'

They are transitivized/causativized by adding -n.
gun 'to bring to a place'
gan 'to take about'
gin 'to take out'
gen 'to bring and then take'