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sannehnagi:

conlangprompts:

How do you say “Do you speak [Conlang name]?” in your conlang?

Sanne nenšë? /sa.nːə nə̰.ʃɛ/ Do you speak Sanne?

Yr jiliver Ngæçmaru? (to one person)
Yr jiliverim Ngæçmaru? (to several people)

In Moten:

Komotenku|leju igebezi ito mu ito?

In Haotyétpi:

Haotyétpi ure inayét turap a? (asked to one person)

Haotyétpi ure inaayét turap a? (asked to several people)

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conlangprompts:

A semi-syllabic script structured in a way similar to fanqie, that is, each character represents either an onset or a rhyme, and thus form complete syllables in pairs.

This is basically how Hmong works, except it’s weirder: each syllable is written with two letters, one marking the onset, the other the rhyme, except that:

  • The letters are written in opposite order of how they are pronounced (i.e rhyme first);
  • If the onset letter is omitted, the rhyme letter is pronounced with a k- onset, making the writing system a kind of reversed abugida, or vowel-based abugida. A null onset must be used to remove the k- when the syllable truly start with a vowel;
  • if the rhyme letter is omitted (yes, it can be!), the onset letter is automatically pronounced with an -au rhyme (except when it follows) a bare rhyme, in which case the -au rhyme must be explicitly written, or the onset letter will be read as part of the previous syllable (Hmong is written without spaces). In other words, Hmong behaves as if it was two abugidas, one vowel-based and one consonant-based, smashed together with the vowel-based one having priority!

But really though, just go to its Wikipedia page and admire this writing system in all its beautiful madness!

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Q:Create words in your language that revolve around a basic word/concept, but have different meanings for the word based on the state that the word is in. For example: A word that means "rushing water" and a word that means "cold water," which are both completely different from the word for "water." Bonus points if there is no word for water (ie, the base concept)

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Moten has different roots for “water” at different temperatures:

  • |no: frozen water, ice, frost, lying snow (snow still falling from the sky is keli);
  • vone: cold (but liquid) water (also used to refer to water in general);
  • zuba: warm water (warm to the touch but not too hot, typically the temperature of a comfortable bath or shower);
  • den: hot water (scalding hot, up to boiling point).

There’s also zubzin: “lukewarm water”, but rather than an independent stem it’s simply the diminutive of zuba. And notice that there is no separate word for water as a general concept (but vone tends to be used in that meaning).

Haotyétpi also has different words for water, but based on origin and potability rather than temperature:

  • táw: river, stream, brook; riverwater, groundwater (basically unfiltered, untreated water taken directly from a ground source, usually not drinkable as is);
  • ikkóte: rainwater, drinkwater (refers to water falling from the sky -rain as the weather phenomenon itself is wakkú- and by extension water that is drinkable, whatever its origin, especially if it needed treatment first).

In fact, ikkóte’s meaning has been extended to all sorts of consumable liquids, depending on the possessor (ikkóte as a noun is mandatorily possessed), and can be translated as “juice”, “broth” or even “sauce”. So much that when one really wants to refer to rainwater itself, it’s common to say ós ikkót: “sky water“ to make sure people get what you mean. Here again, there’s no word for “water” in general.

For other cases than water, I can always mention Haotyétpi hár: “village“ vs. tamín: “riverside village, fishermen’s settlement“, or the Moten distinction between odun: “young, new, newly built“ and amla: “newly acquired“, and their opposites ukol: “old, of old age“ and mabo: “ancient, senior” (so an “old friend” is teoluz ukol if they’re actually old, even if the friendship itself is new, and teoluz mabo if it’s the friendship itself that has lasted for a long time, even if the person themself is not be old yet).

It’s always fun to cut up the semantic space into different bits than how the languages you already know do :).