Khemehekis wrote: ↑29 Apr 2024 17:24
Arayaz wrote: ↑29 Apr 2024 15:25
Should I post writing here, or keep it conlangs-only?
Writing? I say go for it!
All right, if I ever write anything I like enough to post here, I will.
2c2ef0
Edit: This is an exo/engelang I started a while back; I just wanted to move it to this thread.
In 2c2ef0, every root word is a quantity of red light and a quantity of green light. All words are nouns.
44c1- wellbeing
76b4- tree branch
Inverting the red and green light forms a plural.
c144- the wellbeing of multiple people
b476- tree branches
The quantity of blue light signifies definiteness and case.
c14458 caused by these people's wellbeings
76b4a0 a tree branch (phrase head) (going to be mentioned later)
To be more specific, the definiteness is indicated by the first part of the blue-light value:
-f- the one and only (My
neighbor)
-a- new information that will be mentioned later (And then I saw a
man carrying a gun)
-7- new information that won't be mentioned later, throwaway information (I walked through the
forest, and then when I got to the city...)
-5- this; it's immediately obvious due to proximity
-2- not new information
Before I explain case, I have to explain clausal structure. In
2c2ef0, a clause is an assertation of the existence of its head. The head takes -0 as its case marker. The head may be followed by any number of other words modifying it; their cases are simply noting how they are related to the head.
-0 phrase head
-4 head is located at this
-8 head is caused/made by this
-a head is this
-d head is of or part of this
-f head is affected by this
These modifiers may themselves be modified, but there are constraints. When a modifier is to be modified itself, it must first be backed, so that all the other modifiers are in front of it. After that, there must be the resumptive pronoun
4242- (which in practice always takes the form
424220), which is the head of its own phrase. This may be better illustrated by an example:
c9dc0044c15d
end-one.and.only-HEAD happiness-PROX-GEN
The happiness ended.
c9dc0044c15d42422099a9fd
end-one.and.only-HEAD happiness-PROX-GEN RES.PRO-DEF-HEAD 1-one.and.only-GEN
I stopped being happy.