I figured that I would start with the Babel passage from Genesis because... well it's fun. I am trying to build this language semi-organically, solidifying my grammar and vocab as I come across them in texts I am translating. Let me know what you think.
GandyalQuote:
Now the whole earth used the same language and the same words. It came about as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. They said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly.” And they used brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.
They said, “Come, let us build for ourselves a city, and a tower whose top will reach into heaven, and let us make for ourselves a name, otherwise we will be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.
Gaya da vagandan mendasin lo suo gandyalo mel rron suon ganerron. Sayasi dundrinal sandyerrya, sadyarasin ang vilya rru Andyushinar mel banerrasin rru. Dangandasin, Gaja, neyivan bazadon bar mel don vazar. Mel mendasin bazadon on zadon, mel mendasin glyodo on dozado.
Gandasin, Gaya, neyivan dunbar ang banerro, mel ang baélo andyélga vunairili vaélo, mel neyivan dunbar ang ganderru, jungaya nobanyalan vilé rré varré vandyerré rra vilya.
Anyway, basic rules:
All consonants are voiced, and the basic feel is ripped from the vocalise I do at the beginning of every voice lesson. I wanted it to be a very musical language.
Pronunciationa: a
e: ɛ
é: e
i: i
o: o
ò: ɔ
u: [u]
Glides:
y: glide [j]
w: glide [w]
B: b
D: d
G: g
J: d͡ʒ
L: l
M: m
N: n
R: flipped
Rr: rolled
S: z
V: v
Z: ʒ
Articles Definite
Indefinite
Nouns:
Brick: n. Bazad
City: f. Banerr
Earth: f. Vandyerr (va- whole, andy-place rr-feminine)
East/Morning: m. Sandyerr
Heaven/sky: m. Vaél
Mortar: n. Dozad
Name: f. ganderr
Person: n. gandad
Speaking/speech: m. Gandyal (pl. Gandinal)
Stone: n. Zad
Tar: n. Glyod
Top: m. Andyél (and- place
Tower: m. Baél
Vily: f. Surface (wideness).
Word: f. ganerr
World (people): Collective pl. Da Vagandan (all people)
Declension
Adjectives
Beginning/rising: sal- sarr- sad-
Far: nol, norr, nod
Whole/all: val- varr- vad-
Same: sul- surr- sud-
Wide: vil- virr- vid- Verbs
Bari: to build
Ban: to do*
Banerri: to settle/build
Noban: scatter (make far
Dundri: to go
Gandi: to speak
Mendi: to use
Nairi: to stretch
Neyi: to have the intention to (verb)
Nomi: to eat.
Sayi: to happen, to begin (intrans), to come to be
Vunairi: to reach [into] intrans, takes acc. (vu- into)
Zari: burn/cook
Conjugation, regularActive, Indicative
irregular
I am not exactly sure what i meant by this. I will have to figure it out.
Indirect
Pronoun-verb obj1st sing: du-
2nd sing: dé-
3rd sing: da-
1st pl: dun-
2nd pl: dén-
3rd pl: dan-
Relative
Nom -ga, gan
Gen
Dat
Acc, -go, gon
Abl
ConjunctionsAnd: mel
Allora, so, now then, (introducing a sentence): Gaya
PrepositionsIn: vu
For/as: on
AdverbsJungaya: otherwise (lit. Or indeed)
Any advice for a rank beginner?
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