Lets build a language together. Simply pick a term from this hundred item list, and make up a word for it. I will start us out with the first person singular pronoun: "Tyv" The "y" here is acting as a semi-vowel and is pronounced like the "y" in "young", and the "v" consonant is pronounced like the "v" in "violin". If there are multiple ideas for the same word we can vote to see which word is picked.
1.I: tyv
2.You: pam
3.we
4.this
5.that
6.who?: clah
7.what?
8.not
9.all
10.many
11.one
12.two
13.big
14.long
15.small: maya
16.woman
17.man
18.person
19.fish: geltisin
20.bird
21.dog
22.louse
23.tree
24.seed
25.leaf
26.root
27.bark
28.skin
29.flesh
30.blood: aisu
31.bone
32.grease
33.egg
34.horn: barroo
35.tail
36.feather
37.hair: pele
38.head
39.ear
40.eye
41.nose
42.mouth
43.tooth
44.tongue
45.claw
46.foot
47.knee
48.hand
49.belly
50.neck
51.breasts: oogles
52.heart
53.liver
54.drink
55.eat
56.bite
57.see: von
58.hear: fon
59.know: itel
60.sleep: fniueschnadre
61.die
62.kill
63.swim
64.fly
65.walk
66.come
67.lie
68.sit
69.stand
70.give
71.say
72.sun
73.moon
74.star
75.water
76.rain
77.stone
78.sand
79.earth
80.cloud
81.smoke
82.fire
83.ash(es)
84.burn
85.path
86.mountain
87.red
88.green
89.yellow
90.white
91.black
92.night
93.hot
94.cold
95.full
96.new: fopolopolos
97.good
98.round
99.dry
100.name
101.any other word you want to add to the vocabulary.
102.awesome: shlyndenflein
103.marklar: marklar
104.shut up: badum tish
105.old: antifopolopolos
106.derail: daystar
107.pirate: yarrvar
108.pirates: yarverre
109.piracy: yarrva
I'll create a rudimentary grammar based mostly on English for simplicity and post it afterwords. If your asking yourself why should we do this? The answer is simply for fun! Also, if this works out well we can expand upon this idea later.
Grammar and pronunciation rules:
1. Emphasis partial and question indication: add "u" as in lawsuit for an exclamation, and "che" for a question. Add these directly onto the end of a word. This way, at any point in a sentence you can make part of it a question, and part of it a statement without having to make the entire sentence into a question.
example: Isn't that betterche, because I like itu.
2. Vowel pronunciation: "a" is pronounced like the "o" in the word "hot"
"u" is pronounced like the "u" in the word "cup"
"i" is pronounced like the "ee" in the word "keep"
"o" is pronounced like the "o" in the word "oval"
"e" is pronounced like the "a" in the word "ace"
3. Gliding vowel/diphthong pronunciation: "ai" is pronounced like the word "I"
"ue" is pronounced like the "oo" in the word "hoop"
"au" is pronounced like the "ow" in the word "pow"
4. Articles and Tenses: As far as tenses go, I say we make a rule that unless otherwise noted we are always in present tense. Then for future tense we add the suffix "-wa" to the verb or linking verb in a sentence, and for past tense we add the suffix "-we" in the same manner. So, as an example "The pirate sees." would be "yarrvar von, "the pirate will see." would be "yarrvar vonwa." and "The pirate has seen." would be "yarrvar vonwe." We can say that like in most Asian languages the articles "a/an/the" are implied, because we assume all words are singular unless otherwise noted. And words like "have/will/has/had" are all implied by the tense indicating suffixes.
5. Pluralization: words are pluralized by adding the suffix "-re" to the end of the word. For example our word for "horn" is "barroo" so "horns" would be "barroore".
1.I: tyv
2.You: pam
3.we
4.this
5.that
6.who?: clah
7.what?
8.not
9.all
10.many
11.one
12.two
13.big
14.long
15.small: maya
16.woman
17.man
18.person
19.fish: geltisin
20.bird
21.dog
22.louse
23.tree
24.seed
25.leaf
26.root
27.bark
28.skin
29.flesh
30.blood: aisu
31.bone
32.grease
33.egg
34.horn: barroo
35.tail
36.feather
37.hair: pele
38.head
39.ear
40.eye
41.nose
42.mouth
43.tooth
44.tongue
45.claw
46.foot
47.knee
48.hand
49.belly
50.neck
51.breasts: oogles
52.heart
53.liver
54.drink
55.eat
56.bite
57.see: von
58.hear: fon
59.know: itel
60.sleep: fniueschnadre
61.die
62.kill
63.swim
64.fly
65.walk
66.come
67.lie
68.sit
69.stand
70.give
71.say
72.sun
73.moon
74.star
75.water
76.rain
77.stone
78.sand
79.earth
80.cloud
81.smoke
82.fire
83.ash(es)
84.burn
85.path
86.mountain
87.red
88.green
89.yellow
90.white
91.black
92.night
93.hot
94.cold
95.full
96.new: fopolopolos
97.good
98.round
99.dry
100.name
101.any other word you want to add to the vocabulary.
102.awesome: shlyndenflein
103.marklar: marklar
104.shut up: badum tish
105.old: antifopolopolos
106.derail: daystar
107.pirate: yarrvar
108.pirates: yarverre
109.piracy: yarrva
I'll create a rudimentary grammar based mostly on English for simplicity and post it afterwords. If your asking yourself why should we do this? The answer is simply for fun! Also, if this works out well we can expand upon this idea later.
Grammar and pronunciation rules:
1. Emphasis partial and question indication: add "u" as in lawsuit for an exclamation, and "che" for a question. Add these directly onto the end of a word. This way, at any point in a sentence you can make part of it a question, and part of it a statement without having to make the entire sentence into a question.
example: Isn't that betterche, because I like itu.
2. Vowel pronunciation: "a" is pronounced like the "o" in the word "hot"
"u" is pronounced like the "u" in the word "cup"
"i" is pronounced like the "ee" in the word "keep"
"o" is pronounced like the "o" in the word "oval"
"e" is pronounced like the "a" in the word "ace"
3. Gliding vowel/diphthong pronunciation: "ai" is pronounced like the word "I"
"ue" is pronounced like the "oo" in the word "hoop"
"au" is pronounced like the "ow" in the word "pow"
4. Articles and Tenses: As far as tenses go, I say we make a rule that unless otherwise noted we are always in present tense. Then for future tense we add the suffix "-wa" to the verb or linking verb in a sentence, and for past tense we add the suffix "-we" in the same manner. So, as an example "The pirate sees." would be "yarrvar von, "the pirate will see." would be "yarrvar vonwa." and "The pirate has seen." would be "yarrvar vonwe." We can say that like in most Asian languages the articles "a/an/the" are implied, because we assume all words are singular unless otherwise noted. And words like "have/will/has/had" are all implied by the tense indicating suffixes.
5. Pluralization: words are pluralized by adding the suffix "-re" to the end of the word. For example our word for "horn" is "barroo" so "horns" would be "barroore".
