Aqcin language
Aqcin (’eepcân as they say themselves) was a language spoken on a little moon called ’eehcân (Aqcin area). Nowadays the moon is destroyed by jealous neighbour planets. Aqcin langauge is only spoken by some separated survivors all over the galaxy. So Aqcin is not anymore used in everyday communication. The specialty of the language are large mental terminology and categories. In their good days the Aqcins worked commonly as psychologists. For example a very strong curse word in Aqcin is ‘ruochâq’, meaning Alzheimer’s disease.
The stucture of the laguage is rather similar to Arabian. The real meaning of the words is formed by three radical consonants, and the vowels between them are used for inflection. Because almost all vowel combinations are used in inflection, the language maybe resembles Ithual more.
Aqcin has 27 consonant phonemes.
p [p] t [t] c [c] k [k] q [q] ‘ [ʔ]
f [ϕ] th [θ] s
*b [b/β] d*[d/ð] z[z] l [ɮ] j* [ɟ/ʝ] r* [G/ʁ]
m [ɱ] n[n] nj[ɲ] ng [ŋ] nr [N]
*b, d, j and r are pronounced as plosives in the beginning of the word and as fricatives in other positions.
Aqcin has 12 vowels.
i/i/ ü y/ y/ɯ/ u/u/
e/e/ ö/ø/ õ/ɤ/ o/o/
â/a/ ä/ɶ/ a/ɑ/ å/ɒ/
The first syllable is always stressed and vowels are pronounced long. I also write them with two graphemes. In the first syllable there can also appear four diphthongs: üö, ie, yõ and uo.
The normal Aqcin syllabic structure is C1V1C2V2C3. There can be a derivational consonant between V1 and C2. The meaning of the word is expressed in the three radical consonants, and the vowels bear inflection.
There are two parts of speech in the language, but actually they are only inflected forms of one word. The inflection in the V1 is similar among both nouns and verbs.
E.g. nââbik ‘a star ship’
nååbåk ‘He travels with a star ship.’
naabik ‘a star ship traveller’
The second feature that affects all words is concreteness in the V1. Because the Aqcin culture is so deep in psychological thinking, there are special paradigms for mental and concrete words. For example a human can be either jaarim or jõõrim, depending on if he is comprehended as a physical being or a psychological being.
In the verbs: jyõfåh ‘He is thinking.’ (mental)
ryõzåt ‘He is working.’ for example on a computer
ryyzåt ‘He is working.’ for example with a shovel
The third category is voice/transitivity. There are two voices in Aqcin, active/transitive, and medio-passive/intransitive. Only transitive can get an object. (Aqcin doesn’t separate direct and indirect object.) Active expresses action that is caused by the subject; medio-passive action that is not.
Act. pyytäk ‘He fell (something).’
Med. paatäk ‘He fell.’
The transitive forms of clearly in transitive verbs are interpreted causatives. E.g. puolâp ‘s/he makes him/her sing’
poolâp ‘s/he sings’
There are three noun classes in Apcin, rational, irrational and abstract. They are expressed in the first vowel, as well. Rational the words are beings who can think or human groups. Irrationals are objects, plants animals… who cannot think. Abstracts are more action. For example animals can be rational or irrational, depending on teller’s vision. Nevertheless, the border between irrational and abstract is very clear. For example singing ‘püülâp’ is abstract but the song ‘piilâp’ is irrational. In the verbs noun class marking expresses the noun class of the subjects of the sentence.
There are two kinds to mark rationality: volitional rational and non-volitional rational. It expresses if the subject is willing to do the action. With nouns volitional forms can only be used in subject. Normally both subject and verb are either volitional or non-volitional.
These categories are expressed by variation in the first vowel.
Code: Select all
abstract, irrational, rational non-volitional, rational volitional
concrete, transitive üü ii yy uu
mental, transitive üö ie yõ uo
mental, intransitive öö ee õõ oo
concrete, intransitive ää ââ aa åå