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= Introduction =
= Introduction =

Revision as of 07:27, 22 September 2019

Amal grammar

  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_grammar
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_grammar#Parts_of_speech
  • en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Turkish/Word_Order
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_grammar#Verbs
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingua_Franca_Nova_grammar
  • en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Turkish_monosyllabic_words
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Iran_by_province
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_cities_and_towns_in_Turkey
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_and_towns_in_Saudi_Arabia
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_municipalities_of_Spain
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ancient_settlements_in_Turkey
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ancient_Indian_cities

Introduction

Amal is meant to be a personal (or artistic) conlang and despite appearances and structure is not intended as an IAL. Amal is phonologically inspired by Semitic languages but incorporates aspects and lemma of numerous natural languages, in an effort to be euphonious and easy to use/learn.

Amal is an agglutinative language. Its vocabulary consists of basic roots which can be extended into different parts of speech, their meaning changed or modified, with various suffixes. Most of the suffixes are optional, so that there is a choice of what sort of information to convey with a given word.

Phonology

consonants
Bilabial Alveolar Palatal Velar Labiovelar Glottal
Plosives p   b t   d k   g ʔ (q)
Nasals m n
Fricatives s ʃ (sh) x (h)
Approximants l j (y) w h
Trill r

Note: The glottal stop /ʔ/ q, is used as a "buffer" to keep vowels apart when adding suffixes. /x/ and /h/ are actually allophonic.

vowels
Front Central Back
Close i~ɪ u~ʊ
Mid e~ɛ o
Open a~ə

The vowels can be marked with an acute accent — á, é, í, ú — for two purposes: to mark stress if it does not follow the most common pattern, or to differentiate words that are otherwise spelled identically.

  • ai - /a͡ɪ/ (this is the only diphthong in Amal)
  • o - /o/ is very rare

The four vowels /a e i u/ can be divided summarily into "front" and "back". This distinction is used in a type of vowel harmony when deriving new words and influences which affixes are used.

Phonotactics

The only syllable pattern allowed is CVC (where V includes long vowels and diphthongs), however, the q /ʔ/ (vestigial) is dropped unless buffering between non-diphthongized vowels (intervocalic). This means that the de facto syllable structure is (C)V(C) .

Initial consonant clusters are prohibited, and the final consonant, if any, cannot be p, g, q, w, or y. Syllables cannot begin with wu or wo.

Clusters do occur medially, but are often separated by /ɛ/.

All syllables should be emphatically pronounced, with a slight stress on the first syllable of a word (but on the second, if the word begins with a vowel).

Allophony

The velar stops become fricative between front vowels.

  • begiya - /beɣiːja/ - PROX-dress - This dress.
  • ikirim - /ixiːrim/ - tooth-PL - teeth

Word Order

Sentences generally take the form: (subject(s)) (object(s)) verb. For example, the following sentence literally means the woman the book read:

subject object verb
shen-a kam.at-ú kan-esh-u
woman.NOM book-ACC read-PST-3s.ANIM
The woman read the book.

This word order is not obligatory. You can alter the word order to emphasize a particular element. The most stressed element in a sentence is the element which is nearest to the verb. If you want to stress the verb, you put it at the beginning of the sentence. If you want to stress that it is the woman who read the book, you change the word order. This can also be done to emphasize negation of the verb.

object subject verb
kam.at-ú shen-a kan-esh-u
book.ACC woman.NOM read-PST-3s.ANIM
The woman read the book.
negation verb subject object
ne kan-esh-u shen-a kam.at-ú
NEG read-PST-3s.ANIM woman.NOM book.ACC
The woman did not read the book.


subject object verb
kup-a ur-wa ish-u
dog.NOM water.ACC drink-3s.ANIM
(The) dog (the) water is drinking.
subject direct object indirect object verb
edesh gumb-ú bi-kupa shamk-esh-u
boy ball.ACC DAT-dog throw-PST-3s.ANIM
The boy threw the ball to the dog.
NOTE: shamkek means to throw towards a precise point


Nouns

Determiners

Pronouns

Verbs

Adjectives and Adverbs

Prepositions

Conjunctions

Questions

Clauses

Numbers