Akbiekdi

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Akbiekdi is an a priori conlang which was created by Renato Piereck. It purports to be "the official language of the Republic of Naro Ermase".

(note: the language is being moved to FrathWiki, no further updates will be done at Angelfire --Rpiereck (talk) 08:01, 14 June 2014 (PDT) .

The Akbiekdi Alphabet

The alphabet in Akbiekdi consists of 21 letters:

a, b, e, d, i, f, o, g, h, j, k, l, m, n, p, r, s, t, u, v, x, z

The following letters are pronounced as in English:

b, d, f, h, j, k, l, m, n, p, s, t, v, z

The vowels are pronounced as follows:

a - as a in bad

e - as e in fed

i - as i in sin

o - as o in dog

u - as oo in cool

When vowels are doubled, they are pronounced as long vowels.

These consonants are pronounced differently:

g - always hard as in good, never as in ginger

r - always rolled as in Italian

x - always as sh in shy

When consonants are doubled, they must be pronounced twice, as the Ls when saying "full life" in English.

Every letter is always pronounced.

The stress of words always falls on the next to the last syllable.

The name of each letter follows an easy convention:

• vowels: add -k to the vowel sound: ak, ek, ik, ok, uk

• consonants: add -i to the consonant: bi, di, fi, gi, hi, ji, ki, li, mi, ni, pi, ri, si, ti, vi, xi, zi

The name of the language, Akbiekdi, is the name of the first four letters of the alphabet: a-b-e-d: ak-bi-ek-di

Here is the pronunciation for a few words:

naro - "NAH-roh" room

mase - "MAH-seh" I, me

Pronouns

All pronouns in Akbiekdi end with -se.

Pronouns are made plural by adding -k to the end of the word.

Pronouns are made possessive by adding er- to the beginning of the word.

These are the personal pronouns:

mase - I, me

kase - you

lase - he, she, it, him, her

masek - we, us

kasek - you, plural

lasek - they, them

kase kries mase - I love you

lasek junes masek - we know them

These are their respective possessives:

ermase - my, mine

erkase - your, yours

erlase - his, her, hers, its

ermasek - our, ours

erkasek - your, yours

erlasek - their, theirs

fero ermase ges kase - you are my friend

nifro elase ares lase - he follows his cat

These are some demonstrative pronouns:

dese - this, these

vese - that, those

kumo ges dese - this is the lake ferok erlase ges vese - those are his friends

These are some interrogative pronouns:

nese? - what?

nelse? - who?

nense? - which?

nerse? - how?

netse? - how many?

nepse? - how much?

neise? - where?

nekse? - when?

napse ges dese? - how much is this?

nelse ges dese? - who is that?

These are some relative pronouns:

Some relative pronouns are formed by adding te- to the interrogative forms:

tenese - that

tenelse - who, the one who

tenense - whose

tenerse - how

teneise - there

teineise - where

tenekse - when

kase ploes mogein tenelse ges mase - I am the one who saw you earlier

teneise xises lase - he lives there

These are indefinite pronouns:

helise - everything

merise - everyone

kiise - all

madse - each

hekruse - something

koinse - not much, little

utse - few

sepse - enough

talase - not enough

popse - such a

ianse - all kinds of

nidese - someone

ense - nothing

olse - no one

kise, kise.. - either, or...

lise, lise.. - neither, nor...

zannase - many

devse - several

igse - both

Practice the following:

ermase naro - my room

erlase fero - his, her, its friend

Nouns

All nouns in Akbiekdi end with -o.

There is no distinction for gender.

Nouns are made plural by adding -k to the end of the word.

Practice the following:

naro - room

narok - rooms

fero - friend

ferok - friends

pifio - dog

pifiok - dogs

nifro - cat

nifrok - cats

xilo - book

xilok - books

ino - year

inok - years

Adjectival Suffixes

Adjectival suffixes may be used instead of separate adjectives, but are used maily for predicative and more permanent qualities of a noun.

All suffixes in Akbiekdi may start with -k, -g or -t, and almost all of them always end in -e or -u.

Any letter and any number of letters may appear between a suffix's starting letter and the final one.

Many suffixes do the work of simple adjectives and adverbs.

These are a few examples of suffixes:

-ke - big, large

-txe - small, little

-ku - old

-kere - young

-tikke - good

-tsimu - bad

-kniru - opposite meaning, "not X-adjective"

-kulu - fast

-gartu - slow

-gefe - a lot

-tzitu - a little

-tamtu - next

-geze - previous

Notice how you can use the suffix -kniru to make the opposite of other suffixes, but this is usually used for emphasis:

narokeo - big room (naro "room" + ke "big" + o "noun")

narotxeo - small room (naro "room" + txe "small" + o "noun")

narokekniruo - small room, "not-big room" (naro "room" + ke "big" + kniru "not" + o "noun")

narotxekniruo - big room, "not-small room" (naro "room" + txe "small" + kniru "not" + o "noun")

A grammar and dictionary is available on the language's home page (edit: the language is being moved to FrathWiki, no further updates will be done at Angelfire --Rpiereck (talk) 08:01, 14 June 2014 (PDT) .

External Links

• Akbiekdi at LangMaker (archived)
• Akbiekdi's home page (live web)