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PostPosted: Mon 28 May 2012, 02:01 
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Phonemes
The letters used have the same sound value as in the IPA, altough they can be pronounced in a number of different ways without ambiguity.

Consonants
k
p
t
m
n
s
l
h

Vowels
a
i
o

Words
All pimititatalata words are composed of a consonant and a vowel (CV).

ka this (close speaker)
ki that (close to listener)
ko yon (away from both speaker and listener)
pa negation/opposite
pi good/superior/light
po do/verb marker
ta thing
ti alive
to direct object marker
ma at/in/on/place/location marker
mi rational
mo thought/feeling
na one/specific
ni want/desired
no state of being
sa subjective to the speaker
si moving/direction
so future/cause/up/forward/instrument marker
la for/between/among
li some/a little/more/large
lo surface
ha origins
hi tool/technology
ho line

Grammar
(The grammar is not complete yet, will be worked on in the future)
pimititatalata uses reduplication to indicate plural or that something is more of someting, and a few other creative uses that use symbolism, such as the reduplication of ho to represent two lines crossing, plus no to mean complex, retriplication of ho to represent three lines enclosing a space, meaning box, or lo plus pa with ho reduplicated (in this case meaning round) meaning eyes. It uses intonation to form an interrogative sentence. pimititatalata uses a large number of compound words, a few of them are
tita animal
mitita human
mititata people
mititatasilohi road
kata me
katata us
kita you
kitata you (plural)
kota he/she/it
kotata them
lili all
lilitahapopita god
mititatalapota language
sapimitita friend
sapipimitita lover
pimititalano friendship
pipimititalano loving/sexual relationship
katahapota parent
katahapotata parents
pipokatahapotata loving parents
hohono complex
papi bad/evil/darkness
mititatahohoho house
lopahoho eyes
Orthography
Letters have the same sound value as in the IPA. Pimititatalapota only uses lower case letters, and does not use spaces. It uses a . to denote an end of a sentence, and a ? to denote a question.


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PostPosted: Mon 28 May 2012, 02:15 
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PostPosted: Mon 28 May 2012, 02:29 
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arilando wrote:
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interesting start; do continue this.

(i imagine missionaries would have a fainting spell if they met these people, though) :)


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PostPosted: Mon 28 May 2012, 03:04 
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What are your design goals for this language?

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PostPosted: Mon 28 May 2012, 07:48 
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Well,is arilando arpee?


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PostPosted: Mon 28 May 2012, 10:30 
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Xaro wrote:
Well,is arilando arpee?

No, but i am inspired by him.


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PostPosted: Mon 28 May 2012, 12:01 
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Mhmmmmmm

So what are your design goals for this language?

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PostPosted: Mon 28 May 2012, 12:07 
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Trailsend wrote:
Mhmmmmmm

So what are your design goals for this language?

What do you mean exactly? My goal is to have as simple a language as possible while still being usable as oral human communication.


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PostPosted: Mon 28 May 2012, 13:08 
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arilando wrote:
What do you mean exactly? My goal is to have as simple a language as possible while still being usable as oral human communication.

Hmmm... I reckon that simply deriving vocabulary will get complicated (or confusing) quickly. For a simple language, you probably want to focus on the likes of transparent orthographies and grammars with few irregularities rather than small lexicons.

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PostPosted: Mon 28 May 2012, 16:41 
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arilando wrote:
What do you mean exactly? My goal is to have as simple a language as possible while still being usable as oral human communication.

In that case, you've failed.

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PostPosted: Mon 28 May 2012, 17:49 
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Oligosynthesis is simple in theory never in facts (and oral communication is not its best use) :roll:


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PostPosted: Mon 28 May 2012, 18:14 
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Thakowsaizmu wrote:
arilando wrote:
What do you mean exactly? My goal is to have as simple a language as possible while still being usable as oral human communication.

In that case, you've failed.

Why?


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PostPosted: Mon 28 May 2012, 18:15 
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Because you can't talk about anything that basic communication requires.

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PostPosted: Mon 28 May 2012, 18:42 
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Thakowsaizmu wrote:
Because you can't talk about anything that basic communication requires.

You can talk about virtually everything in this language. Come up with any sentence and i will translate it.


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PostPosted: Mon 28 May 2012, 18:45 
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arilando wrote:
Thakowsaizmu wrote:
Because you can't talk about anything that basic communication requires.

You can talk about virtually everything in this language. Come up with any sentence and i will translate it.


"The deuterostomes are related to protostomes, but their anus and mouth change place during the embryonic stage."

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PostPosted: Mon 28 May 2012, 18:53 
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arilando wrote:
You can talk about virtually everything in this language. Come up with any sentence and i will translate it.
"In the area of prudence,cetacean centaurs were eating some deviled eggs in order to resurrect a conlang."


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PostPosted: Mon 28 May 2012, 18:55 
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Xaro wrote:
arilando wrote:
You can talk about virtually everything in this language. Come up with any sentence and i will translate it.
"In the area of prudence,cetacean centaurs were eating some deviled eggs in order to resurrect a conlang."


That was even better than my example. [:D]

EDIT: Another example: "The Doctor, while staying in present day, can, via a time paradox, appear to be at yesterday tomorrow."

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PostPosted: Mon 28 May 2012, 18:58 
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First off, it's not really necessary to have two demonstratives ('this' and 'that'); a simple demonstrative will be fine. Secondly, if you have an oppositional particle anyway, why don't you just use that together with 'this' if you want 'that'? You could've used that 24th word for something else!

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PostPosted: Mon 28 May 2012, 19:08 
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Besides, most of the compounds that can be created from these 24 "words" have to be memorized as their own units. The language, therefore, have many more words than 24.

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