New CBB

Right so im not really sure where to start, so Im just going to start here because its the first thing I have written down (its what started this whole thing off!!) They go on the beginnings of nouns, like suffixes.

So basically I like, hate prepositions and that sort of thing, and I really want to be able to squeeze everything i'm trying to say into one word, and then I found this big list of noun cases, and I was like, "That's so cool!" And I came up with a few more, too! And I'm nice, so I sorted them out all pretty-like:


Location
Adessive (near/by/around the house) - bo
Apudessive (next to the house) - lì
Ulterior (beyond the house) - naʒ
Inessive (inside the house) - đě
Intrative (between the houses) - ɣüm
Locative (at/on/in [general] the house) - łä
Pertingent (touching/in contact with the house) - jã
Subessive (underneath the house) - φécc
Superessive (above, on top of the house) - hoð
Frontal (in front of the house) - yø
Postal (behind the house) - ább
Circumferential (around [encircling] the house) - βel
Reverse Circumferential (surrounded by the house) - ɯúú
Citerior-anterior (opposite, across from) - ɯôŝ

Motion From
Ablative (away from [general] the house) - ýin
Deletive (from the top of the house) - ŋå
Ulteritive (from beyond the house) - bhi
Elative (out/from inside of the house) - def
Initiative (starting from the house) - ŗuł
(from near/by the house) [by the way i cant come up with any ideas for naming some of these so if you have any ideas plz tell me!!!] - ʒav
(from next to the house) - ñeç
(from between the houses) -- θap
(from touching/being in contact with the house) - þañ
(from underneath the house) - ød
(from in front of the house) - ċyuj
(from behind the house) - çuu
Circumferentic (around [encircling] the house) - ärè
Reverse Circumferential (surrounded by the house) - œm
Citerior-anteric (opposite, across from) - ÿoc

Motion To
Allative (at/to/towards [general] the house) - jıȷ
(to the top of the house) - ɣæb
Ulteritive (from beyond the house) - rèç
Illative (into the house) - dö
(to near/by the house - - ì'ì
(to next to the house) - øm
(to between the houses) ěŝ
(to touching/being in contact with the house) - đu
(to underneath the house) - ì'ì'ì'ì
(to in front of the house) - zax
(to behind the house) [WTH are the words for these??!!!] - po
Terminative (as far as the house) - yå
Circumferentive (to around [encircling] the house) - ʃi
Reverse Circumferential (surrounded by the house) - ŗê
Citerior-anteritive (to opposite, across from) - βazz

Motion Via
Perlative (along the house) - qáʒ
Prolative (by way of the house) - ɯòθ
Prosecutive (across the house) - ja
Vialis (through the house) - ðenŋ

Time
Temporal (at, when nine o'clock) - lil
Accusative (for many years) - lül
Posttemporal (after nine o'clock) - läl
Pretemporal (before nine o'clock) - lãl
General Accusative (during/while the year) - lÿl
Essive (on Monday, on the 6th, [used for future dates]) - lúl
Intrative (between Monday and Tuesday, from nine to four) - lăl
Temporal Pertingent (close to nine o’clock) - lol

Morphosyntactic Alignment
(I COULDNT PICK BETWEEN ALL THE ALINMENTS SO I KIND OF MADE MY OWN!!! I hade fun with them though, see?)
Accusative (direct object of transitive verb) - omg
Ergative (agent/subject of a transitive verb) - wtf
Ergative Passive (agent but not subject of a transitive verb) - ami
Nominative (subject of an intransitive verb) - doi
Accusative Passive (patient but not object of a transitive verb) - ŋwi
Instructive (answers how – usually used only in verbs; for nouns, see causal relation tag) - ððis

Relation
Ablative (concerning, having to do with the house) - đuu
Aversive (avoiding the house) - ŝeŗał
Behalfive (on behalf of) - çø
Benefactive (intended for, for the benefit of the house, in order to) - neφ
Causal (because of the house [also ‘made of’], so a house made of brick) - βaaj
Comitative (with the house) - öc
Dative (for/to the house – indirect object) - ʃtu
Distributive (per house) - ăć
Distributive-Temporal (how often something happens – daily, annually, etc.)v åp
Genetive Locative (from/originating from the house) - ɣek
owned-by (a house owned by something) - qy [see i had this idea that instead of possesive I could use something where the thing being possesed has a case and the thing possesing it doesnt! Wierd huh?]
Instrumental (with/through the use of the house) - wa
Ornative (equipped/endowed with a house) - đum
Privative (without a house) - sdar
Semblative (like/similar to a house) - jus

Semantics
Vocative (for addressing something) - þa

State
Essive (as a house) - waq

Like it yet? I know, like I said the ponology looks really really cool - but dont go there yet! Just wait!

So with the articles i wanted to do mostly number, like more numbers than natlangs do becasue it's easier to say things then, but i didn't do gender - I'm not sure if i should do gender, should I? What do you think? i think I might add it later.
The articles go one the noun like suffixes, and then the number bit comes after.

Indefinite
t
Mesiodefinite ("some" as in, "some guy stole my phone")
ŋ
Strict Definite (the one and only [might be plural – the two and only, etc.])
ʦ
Definite
n
Null (“no” as in “I am no man”)
ç
Proximal
f
Distal
ɯ
Extradistal ("yonder thing")
ɣ

Hyponumerical (negative numbers)
œ
Partial
b
Singular
nothing
Dual
õ
Trial
ı
Quadral
þ
Pental
ɯ
Hexal
ě
Paucal (some, a few)
ʃ
Plural (more than six)
k
Mass (also used for ‘every’, when noun is not usually a mass noun)
z
Mass Plural
å


So that's all for the nouns. Here are some examples:

House: ñø
The house - ñøn
Those six houses - ñøɯě
From inside these four houses - defñøfþ

So isn't that cool! I mean there are like only three syllables in that (i dunno - thats in phonology)

So now the nouns are done and i get to show you verbs! They conjegate for aspect, mood, tense, person, number, and some other stuff. Its really neat so plaes look and tell me what you think!

Aspect:
Simple/generic (I eat) (no conjegation)
Perfect (I have eaten)
ıef
Progressive (I am eating)
lı
Habitual (I [usually] ride the bus home from work – shows a habit)
ɯêl
Stative Literal (I am a man [shows a literal state])
mo
Inchoative Literal (To enter a literal state)
ıý
Cessative Literal (To leave a literal state)
ðă
Stative (I am blue [shows a relative state])
hä
Inchoative (To enter a relative state [I become blue, I turn blue])
ne
Cessative (To leave a relative state [I stop being blue])
ŋœ
General Inchoative (To begin to do something [I start to eat])
ćêê
General Cessative (To stop doing something [I stop eating])
φuk
Iterative/Repetative (I eat again, I re-eat)
up
Frequentative (I repeatedly eat)
βæ
Oftative (I often eat)
æŋ
Raritive (I rarely eat)
ŗi
Perpetual (I always/forever eat – I eat for an indefinite time)
łåDelimitative (I eat a little)
æf
Perdurative (I eat for a long period of time)
psu
Experiential (I have experience with eating)
θoç
Intentional (I eat on purpose)
koÿ
Unintentional (I accidentally eat)
ħeʣ
Clospunosigaral? (I almost eat, just fall short of)
œn
Attemptive (I try to eat)
ăć
Extensive (I continue to eat/still eat)
xob
Responsive (I push “back”)
þeg

Mood:
Indicative (for definite statements) (no conjigation)
Evidential (realis mood; "Someone proved/resolved/learned that...")
úɣ
Jussive (expresses a plea, hope, or wish, an opinion, or a ‘maybe’ - generally a want)
íʒ
Conditional (an event whose realization is dependent upon another condition – if/would)
uh
Imperative (expresses requirement, necessity, request, prohibition, command)
ır
--- (expresses allowance, acceptance) [lol still no name for some of these ]
øq
Potential (implies that the event is considered likely/probable)
eg
Dubitative (expresses doubt, unlikliness that the event occurred)
æv
Hypothetical (expresses capability)
ãđ

Voice:
Active (no conjgation)
Passive
á
Reflexive (I cut my own hair)
î
Adjutative (I helped to cut hair)
ý
Reciprocal (We cut each other's hair)
ă

Number
4 NUMBER you put the number at the end of the verb like you do on nouns

Person
for person you put the first 2 letters of the pronoun at the end of the verb (and then you can prodrop!!!) but I havent done the pronouns yet so you'll have to wait for this one!!


I can't do verb exampls until I do the pronouns which i should have tomorrow or something so just wait until then, ok? Hope you like it!!!

And heres the phonology!
Hope you really read this last because your in for a surprise now!
Unless, you know, you got it. I wasn't exactly being subtle.

So here is the alphabet: aæbβcdefghıȷklɣmnŋoœφpqrtþθðsʃtuvwɯxyzʒ
And all the vowels and some of the consonants also have diacrits (sp???) because the vowels also have seven tones (low, med, high, rising, falling, dipping, peaking) and can be nasal and some other stuff. I know you probably thing it's stupid but I really can pronounce them all!!

So the consonants are pronoungceed like they are in the ipa and the vowels are like this:
a as in the o in rock
æ as in cat
e as in bed
ı as in the first i in Mishapocalypse
o as in road (the first vowel not the second!!)
œ as in the oo in hook
u as in the o in do (like to do something not do a deer a female deer)
y as in the i in hit

And there are a few other rules like when theres a velar plosive (sp??) after a nasal the nasal becomes ŋ no matter what it is. I wrote them all down but I havent put them up on here yet - i'll do that tomorrow if it's okay.

The c and k and q all sound the same - the'yre /k/ but you use Q at the beginning of a sentence and k at the end and they change to c everywhere else. When you put C at the start of a word it gets as cedile and sounds like an S (/s/).

So thats everything, and just to make it really clear Ill walk you though the language name and how it's made & pronounced:

qy is the possesed-by case thing - go look it up in "noun cases" to see what it is - its a really neat idea i had!!
tʃü means "language".
n is the singular definite atricle.
cy means "person".
n is the singular definite articl.
k is the plural (and remember it makes the n into ŋ like I said!)

The apostraphe is the stress.
So letter for letter its like this:
Q - k
y - ɪ (im doing IPA I hope you can read it if that's okay)
tʃ - t͡ʃ
ü - ə (so the u isn't like the other u because it has a diacritic and that makes it ə not u)
n - n (duh!)
Ç - s
y - ɪ
ŋ - ŋ (it was n but then it changed because of the k)
k - k

So. /ˈkɪtʃən ˈsɪŋk/

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Whaddya think, too obvious?

I'm sorry. I'm really sorry. Please don't hurt me. I just couldn't resist. Also, in case you're wondering where I found the time to waste on this, know that most of it was actually ripped from my notes on HyPry. Yeah. It's really that bad. Meh. I've moved on.

This was almost painful. My inner grammar freak was cringing the whole time.

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Happy April 1st!

Okay. Going to go read my Psych textbook now in a desperate attempt to raise my IQ after that.

Halfway through the pronouns, I also had to spend twenty minutes chasing a very, very persistent and ridiculously clever roach around my room. Bug spray? Useless. I think it's a mutant. Rags and paper towels? Too slow. Flyswatters? Still too slow. This sucker was also actually flying, which I haven't seen one do in a while thanks to the preventative spraying that seem to take the fight out of the ones who do find their way in. This one (I named him Charlie) was rather tenacious. Eventually I caught him in a corner, but you know, a bug capable of eluding me for twenty minutes, in a cabin, on a boat, where there really aren't that many places to hide... I had too much respect for him. So I let him go. Outside. And now I'm paranoid and jumping at shadows. I don't really mind insects at all, just not anywhere near my bed. I've woken up to bugs crawling in my bed before. This island just seems to have a lot of them, they're attracted to the light, the boat is a shining oasis of potential food sources, and my bed is right over the food storage. So they fly in through the companionway and end up in my covers. I have nothing against bugs, but rolling over on one in the middle of the night? Not fun. Not fun... at all. The good points? No mosquitoes. I have not seen a single mosquito in... months. Quite a few months, actually. Not here. This is very, very nice.

You know the weird bit? Cockroaches, up close and not crawling around on your furniture, are actually kind of cute.
No, really.
Now, I'm familiar with palmetto bugs. The names are interchangeable in a lot of places, and I think they're a subspecies of roach. Not sure. I've seen them in Florida, but they're darker and can't fly. Whatever we've got down in Martinique looks like a typical, good old American cockroach, but acts a lot more like the palmettos I know - they're not afraid of the light, and even though they seem kind of noctural, they won't run away from a flashlight beam. They also have different heads. So some weird subspecies, I suppose. They probably speak insectese with French accents.
Basically, though, they're more friendly than your average roach. They are faster. They are smarter (I think. Hard to tell.) They will crawl across your toes if you put your foot in their way. They will lead you on a wild goose chase around a room for half an hour. They will flit around your room while you are reading and then land on your knee and scare the crap out of you. Then you'll look at them, and if you don't like bugs, you'll be grossed out, and if you don't care, you'll stop and say "You know, it's actually almost adorable."
There are people who keep pet cockroaches. Why not these guys? I mean, come on. Look at that widdle head:



How is that not cute?



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I just rambled about cockroaches to you all for absolutely no apparent reason. Ah... sorry about that?.