Hyväṙähexkėtätȧqẋ
Posted: 03 Aug 2016 22:50
Alternative title: That one time Ebon threw away any semblance of naturality and common sense and went nuts with wild abandon.
This is what became of the AI language I asked about the other day. I'm having a great deal of fun with it and now I have enough to start a thread about it, I think.
Phonology
/ç ʝ x ɣ χ ʁ h ɸ β/ <c j x ɣ ẋ r h f v>
/k g q ɢ t d p b/ <k g q ġ t d p b>
/ʋ ʔ ʀ/ <w ' ṙ>
/i ɪ y/ <i ị y>
/u ʊ/ <u ụ>
/a æ ɒ/ <a ä ȧ>
/o ɔ œ/ <o ȯ ö>
/e ɛ/ <e ė>
All vowels can be geminate, which is indicated by a double vowel. All vowels can also be nasalised, which is indicated by an n following the vowel that isn't otherwise pronounced.
Hyväṙähexkėtätȧqẋ is an attempt to create a language that incorporates everything into the verb. As a result, verbs are the heart of the language. The basic form of a verb consists of at least one consonant and at least one vowel (in any order) and additional parts of the sentence are marked by a prefix.
I'm no good at explaining what I mean, so let's go through an example with the verb kci, to eat. Hyväṙähexkėtätȧqẋ is an absolutive/ergative language, so let's mark both of those. The absolutive prefix is a-, the ergative prefix is k-. Thus, the basic form of the sentence is a-kci-k. Or k-a-kci. Or k-kci-a. Word order is very free. But let's go with a-kci-k.
The next step is inserting the other words. Let's say our sentence is "I eat an apple". The word for apple is vrä, the ergative form of I is v. Thus we get avrä-kci-kv. Unvoiced and voiced consonants may not be next to each other, so that turns into avrä-kci-gv.
Next, we need to insert the article into apple. Apple falls into the plant category and takes the ii-infix, which is inserted after the word's first consonant, so we get aviirä-kci-gv.
And then we need to add the present tense infix into kci, which is af'. The final sentence is aviiräkaf'cigv.
Now let's say we want to say "I eat a red apple" instead. Red means ȧg, and because apple falls under the organic category, it gains the suffix ịd. So how do you say red apple? Aviirä-ȧgịd. Adjectives function much like verbs, although (for now) they don't get a tense marker. aviirä-ȧgịd is incorporated into the rest of the sentence: aaviirä-ȧgịdkaf'cigv
Once again, no unvoiced and voiced consonants adjacent to each others, so: aaviiräȧgịtkaf'cigv
(I'm going to create a hierarchy of sentence parts to determine which consonant assimilates; in this case, the main verb ranks higher than the ịd-suffix, so the suffix assimilates.)
Hyväṙähexkėtätȧqẋ is a complete sentence, too. The core verb is hy-kätȧ-k, with hy being a comparison marker. Kätȧ means speak.
Hyväṙähex consists of hy- and the word for robot (the sentient AI kind), which is väx. Infixed into väx is äṙ, the plural marker for machine nouns, forming väṙäx, and also he, a collective infix, forming väṙähex.
kėtätȧ uses a truism tense, used for perpetually true statements, with the infix ėt after the first consonant.
And finally qẋ is the k- ergative prefix with the 1PL exclusive ergative pronoun ẋ, with k assimilating to q.
Thus, the entire sentence means "We (excl.) speak like robots".
I still have a lot of work to do on everything, but I wanted to post about what I'm working on. I hope to update this frequently. :)
This is what became of the AI language I asked about the other day. I'm having a great deal of fun with it and now I have enough to start a thread about it, I think.
Phonology
/ç ʝ x ɣ χ ʁ h ɸ β/ <c j x ɣ ẋ r h f v>
/k g q ɢ t d p b/ <k g q ġ t d p b>
/ʋ ʔ ʀ/ <w ' ṙ>
/i ɪ y/ <i ị y>
/u ʊ/ <u ụ>
/a æ ɒ/ <a ä ȧ>
/o ɔ œ/ <o ȯ ö>
/e ɛ/ <e ė>
All vowels can be geminate, which is indicated by a double vowel. All vowels can also be nasalised, which is indicated by an n following the vowel that isn't otherwise pronounced.
Hyväṙähexkėtätȧqẋ is an attempt to create a language that incorporates everything into the verb. As a result, verbs are the heart of the language. The basic form of a verb consists of at least one consonant and at least one vowel (in any order) and additional parts of the sentence are marked by a prefix.
I'm no good at explaining what I mean, so let's go through an example with the verb kci, to eat. Hyväṙähexkėtätȧqẋ is an absolutive/ergative language, so let's mark both of those. The absolutive prefix is a-, the ergative prefix is k-. Thus, the basic form of the sentence is a-kci-k. Or k-a-kci. Or k-kci-a. Word order is very free. But let's go with a-kci-k.
The next step is inserting the other words. Let's say our sentence is "I eat an apple". The word for apple is vrä, the ergative form of I is v. Thus we get avrä-kci-kv. Unvoiced and voiced consonants may not be next to each other, so that turns into avrä-kci-gv.
Next, we need to insert the article into apple. Apple falls into the plant category and takes the ii-infix, which is inserted after the word's first consonant, so we get aviirä-kci-gv.
And then we need to add the present tense infix into kci, which is af'. The final sentence is aviiräkaf'cigv.
Now let's say we want to say "I eat a red apple" instead. Red means ȧg, and because apple falls under the organic category, it gains the suffix ịd. So how do you say red apple? Aviirä-ȧgịd. Adjectives function much like verbs, although (for now) they don't get a tense marker. aviirä-ȧgịd is incorporated into the rest of the sentence: aaviirä-ȧgịdkaf'cigv
Once again, no unvoiced and voiced consonants adjacent to each others, so: aaviiräȧgịtkaf'cigv
(I'm going to create a hierarchy of sentence parts to determine which consonant assimilates; in this case, the main verb ranks higher than the ịd-suffix, so the suffix assimilates.)
Hyväṙähexkėtätȧqẋ is a complete sentence, too. The core verb is hy-kätȧ-k, with hy being a comparison marker. Kätȧ means speak.
Hyväṙähex consists of hy- and the word for robot (the sentient AI kind), which is väx. Infixed into väx is äṙ, the plural marker for machine nouns, forming väṙäx, and also he, a collective infix, forming väṙähex.
kėtätȧ uses a truism tense, used for perpetually true statements, with the infix ėt after the first consonant.
And finally qẋ is the k- ergative prefix with the 1PL exclusive ergative pronoun ẋ, with k assimilating to q.
Thus, the entire sentence means "We (excl.) speak like robots".
I still have a lot of work to do on everything, but I wanted to post about what I'm working on. I hope to update this frequently. :)