NOUNS of ABCL

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BASIC/ROOT NOUNS

“Basic/root nouns” consist principally of five letters (CVCCV). There are however nouns derived from verbs, adjectives and other nouns having six-seven letters. They all end on a vowel same as the basic nouns. Adding the sixth and seventh letter was necessary to avoid ambiguities with the root nouns and the double vowels. The root nouns are classified in 15 noun groups, each of them heading a special area of use, such as “body”, “human”, “animals”, plants, “mental”, psychology-spirit”, social”, “daily home”, “health”, “pastime”, ”nature and environment”, “science”, “construction-technic-transport”, “time” and “others”. Each of them have its own special initial consonant. Considering “S” is being the mostly utilized initial consonant in many languages, we preferred it for the “heading” BODY and HUMAN, which are mostly mentioned in daily speaking.

This partly philosophical approach of word creation are not favoured by some critics, saying words differing by an end vowel (or consonant) only, could be mixed up easily. This may seem at first sight true but many world languages have many similar words which is not considered as a problem. Even so, the grouping and classification of words as done in ABCL have the big advantage of connotation for memorizing or remembering of a word.

Nouns are created by the use of an Excel matrix; an example for the main topic “BODY” is shown below. For this heading, CVCCV is selected as S#N##, whereas S and N being basic consonants for the heading “BODY”. The subtopics are constructed by varying first vocal in lateral line of the matrix from “A” to “Ü” (also 8 vocals=8 columns) (here, for example, for subtitle “Head”, first varying vowel being “E”, first syllable is SEN and for the following subtitle “Upper Body”, it is SİN ). Now for each subheading having a fixed CVC (e.g. SEN), the fourth letter (consonant) will be kept, the fifth letter (a vowel) will be varied from “A” to “Ü” (“SEN”C#), building a block with 8 columns. ((In the matrix below, for the sake of vowel harmony (applied for the “Level 1” only) some columns (e.g. “sanbe, sınbi, sünbo..) haven’t been utilized.)) Vertically, at the each column of the matrix the fourth letter (a consonant) will be varied from “B” to “Z” (“SEN”C*”a”… 20 in total). This way for each subtopic 8×20=160 nouns could be created theoretically. For one heading (e.g. “BODY” with the corresponding fixed consonants “SAN”##, “SEN”## etc. as here) we could have 8×160=1280 nouns. Varying “N” in this scheme from “B” to “Z”, we will have 20×1280=25 600 nouns beginning with “S”. And for 20 initial consonants, we could have created 20×25 600=512 000 nouns with this matrix scheme.

We aim to utilize for the Level 1 about 5000 nouns only, so we can effort dropping combination with difficult pronunciations (for example with the letters “J” or “I” and for the sake of vowel harmony etc. Fully utilization of the matrix might be required for the medical and technical terms only, if any. The matrix scheme would also allow using of the computer programs for word creation and translation. The matrix allows further sub-subheading such as of the “Head”, the first column (S-ENe) indicating sense organs like eye, nose, ear (denoted as Sene: primary) and further columns right of them, the subparts of first noun at the beginning (denoted as “seconders”). For example: eye (senge) (first column), then in the same row; eyelid (sengi), eyelash (sengo), iris (sengö). Being Excel table, the matrix allows right click explanation for each cell, where we can put the meaning of a word in any language.

                     ABCL nouns of group S*N** (BODY) (selected partially as example)
                                           SEN: HEAD

Sen#e: Primary				Sen#i: Seconders	Sen#o: Seconders.....

SEN#e			SEN#i			SEN#o			SEN#ö			SEN#ü
senbe	head		senbi	...		senbo	...		senbö	...		senbü	...
sence	skull		senci	scalp		senco	...		sencö	chin		sencü	cheekbone
sençe	tooth		sençi	foretooth		senço	gum		sençö	canine tooth		sençü	grinder
sende	mouth		sendi	lip		sendo	palate		sendö	poach		sendü	tongue
senfe	nose		senfi	nostril		senfo	phlegm		senfö	nosal bone		senfü	sinus
senge	eye		sengi	eye lid		sengo	eye lash		sengö	iris		sengü	pupil
senhe	ear		senhi	earlobe	...	senho	...		senhö	middle ear		senhü	inner ear
...........
senne	...		senni	...		senno	...		sennö	...		sennü	...
...........
sense	eye brow		sensi	...		senso	...		sensö	...		sensü	...
senze	face		senzi	forehead		senzo	...		senzö	jaw		senzü	cheek

Prosodics are generally not required. However to avoid the misunderstanding due to close sounds of some vocals the (especially second) syllables must be accentuated.

DERIVED NOUNS

Nouns will be derived from nouns, verbs and adjectives by adding suffixes according to a fixed scheme. They will typically end also on a vowel as the root nouns.

Deverbal Nouns

ABCL Suffix		ABCL Suffix		Example: ABCL noun		English Suffix	Some English Nouns (Examples)
(Level 1)		(Level 2)		(incl. Level 2)			(only nouns in italic translated into ABCL)
_ı/i		_ı/i		sen.i, sin.i, dek.i		to ...	be well (hallo), keep in touch(good by), to eat
_aya		_aya		kas.aya		_, _age, _ure	cut, bore, leakage, creature
_aya		_aya		çol.aya		_/t)ion	protrusion , indication, motion, division, organization, evaporation
_aya		_aya		her.aya		_ing	building, being, writing, dead, smell, piping
_aya		_aha		mes.aha		_ence	joy, fun, thought, excellence
_aya		_aha		hün.aha, tad.aha		_ment	employment, enjoyment, amazement, imprisonment, replacement
_aya		_ada		tüm.ada		_(t-,s-)ion	relaxation, attention, selection, evaporation, introduction
_ana		_ama		hün.ama		_er,_ent,_ory,_ak,_ier	employer, student, servant, baker, liar, governor, waitress, signatory, cashier, cleaner
_ana		_ana		vük.ana		_er	counter, cleaner, recorder, player, opener, obstacle, scale, viewer (for _scope: as microscope)
_aya		_aşa		dan.aşa		_	dress/clothes(ing)/wear/garment
_asa		_asa		hün.asa		_ee	employee, refugee, trainee
_aça		_aça		vös.aça		_(e)ry	refinery, bakery, laundry, laboratory, dormitory
_aça		_aca		dir.aca		_ing, _tion	bedding, station (bus stop), aim/target, passage
_aka		_aka		yin.aka		_ing	running, beginning, rejoicing