User:Aquatiki/Sandbox

Goals

1. Endgoal - A noun-less language I can pronounce
2. Vague phrases
   1. Process Philosophy - change is all that exists
   2. Predicate Centrism
   3. Radical Incorporation
   4. Gestalt experience
      1. Dynamic Interrelation
      2. Emergent Perception
      3. Holistic Understanding
      4. Meaning Making
      5. Psychological and Therapeutic
   5. Experiential Framing
   6. Murmuring to yourself
3. Naturalism: 8/10.
   • Just a little push to get rid of all verb
   • Language isolate where none exists
   • I don't wanna do all the diachronic/irregularities, or at least, not at first
   • idioms are cool, ambiguity is cool
4. Complexity - insane. Allowed to be worse than Navajo
5. Derivation - the template is always a must
6. Feature
   1. Phonology
      1. ejectives
      2. syllabic fricatives
      3. ã and õ
      4. þ and ł
      5. CV, CF, V (hiatus)
   2. Grammar
      1. Open: transitives, statives, intransitive, incorporated nouns, adverb
      2. Closed: relators, valency,
      3. evidentiality
      4. emotive/reflective language (mirativity, etc)
      5. politeness vocabulary, kinship marking, avoidance/passives
   3. Culture
      1. slightly in the future: has adapted to technology/internet

Try again on slots

1. Circumstantials vs Person
2. VAC
3. EAF
4. Mode
5. Aspect
6. Tense
7. Subject
8. Object
9. Adverb
10. Noun
11. Root

Phonology

Consonants

	Labial	Dental	Central	Sibilant	Lateral	Palatal	Velar	Glotal
Plain	/p/	/t͡θ/ tþ	/t/	/t͡s/ ts	/t͡ɬ/ tł	/t͡ʃ/ tc	/k/
Ejective	/p'/	/t͡θ'/ tþ'	/t'/	/t͡s'/ ts'	/t͡ɬ'/ tł'	/t͡ʃ/ tc'	/k'/	/ʔ/ '
Voiced						/d͡ʒ/ j	/g/
Fricative	/ɸ/ f	/θ/ þ		/s/	/ɬ/ ł	/ʃ/ c	/x/	/h/
Sonorant	/m/		/n/		/l/	/j/ y	/ŋ/ /w/

"Vowels"

	Oral	Nasal	Sonorant	Sibilant	Fricative
Near-High	/ɪ/ i	/õ/ o	/ŋ̊/ ŋr	/ʃ/ cr	/ɸ/ fr
Mid	/ǝ/ e	/ǝ̃/ u	/n̊/ nr	/ɬ/ łr	/θ/ þr
Low	/ä/ a	/ã/ æ	/m̊/ mr	/s/ sr	/x/ xr

Verb Slots

Verbs are built according to a template. The optional first slot is to make it a comment, not a main clause

1. VAC - Valency Altering Complex
2. EAF - Epistemic-Affective Framing
3. Mood
4. Tense
5. Aspect
6. subject/object class
7. incorporated noun
8. person
9. adverbial
10. root

Slot 0

This prefix turns a finite verb into a circumstantial clause, effectively making it non-finite.

Name	Sound	Translations	Notes
Simultaneous	fu-	while, during, as	can also mean "at the same place"
Purpose	łæ-	in order to, for the sake of, to, for	can be irrealis, as in intended consequence
Comparative	kxrc-	like, as, -ly	for an alike-manner or a metaphor/simile
Causal	t'mr-	since, from, because of	specifies the origin or source
Concessive	tþ'a-	even though, despite, although	contrary, adversative
Neutral	xwe-	-ing	does not specify the relationship beyond circumstances-to-comment

VAC

The Valency-Alteration Complex (VAC). One is required each time

Name	Effect	Sound	Notes
Transitive		he-	Normal conjugation for two-argument verbs
Intransitive		cli-	Normal conjugation for one-argument verbs
Causative	+1 agent	ŋi-	Promotes external causer to subject, causee to object, old patient to oblique
Reflex/Recip	-1 patient	tł'æ-	agent=patient
Antipassive	-1 patient	cłr-	patient is backgrounded
Passive	-1 agent	mŋr-	agent suppressed
Benefactive	+1 patient	ło-	promotes goal/recipient
Locative	+1 patient	xþr-	promotes location
Instr/Comit.	+1 patient	ce-	Adds means or accompanier
Genitive	+1 patient	k'e-	Adds alienable possessor

EAF

Epistemic-Affective Framing is about attitude or stance: how the speaker is positioned—emotionally, epistemically, experientially—toward the event. One is required per verb.

Name	Sound	Glosses	Notes
Surprise	-tþu-	"I didn't expect that"	often unpleasant but not necessarily so
Dislike	-xo-	"I dislike that"	Always strongly negative
Love	le-	"I am glad that"	Always strongly positive
Direct	-ck'æ-	"I experienced that"	strict for personal, sensory phenomenon
Hearsay	-tþi-	"It was told to me that"	read, heard, reported information
Inferential	-pcr-	"I assume that"	assumptions, logically inferred

Mode

1. Imperfective - ongoing, incomplete
2. Perfective - done, complete
3. Progressive - changing, evolving
4. Subjunctive - likely but not real, command, conditional
5. Optative - unlikely and not real, wishes, hypothetical

Tense

1. Present - now
2. Hodiernal - today
3. Past - before today
4. Future - after today
5. Gnomic - timeless

Aspect

1. Momentane - of an instant
2. Continuative - no clear boundaries
3. Conative - attempt
4. Semelfactive - one time unit in a sequence, once
5. Stative - enduring, condition, identity