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Vocab Day again!

Today's theme is "locations." How do people describe where things are in your conlang? In English we say "here" & "there," but does your conlang have other positions (e.g. "WAY over there"?)

What about place names - "land, town, hill," etc. How are things labeled?

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#TheDragonblood: Adjectives are inflected for case, number and gender and precede the noun they modify.

The suffix -isłā́ corresponds to English -ish, converting nouns into adjectives describing resemblance to it.

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I got bandwidth for colors!

chirir (red), ekenideng (orange), iideng (yellow), nemetse (green), nemeche (blue), khona (purple: yes, I'm gonna claim it for myself), syskal (white), and kuor (black).

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A few adjectives I've come up with for Na'aqal!

Colors - Adza (green), Xotli (crimson), Duun (black), Tola (blue), Qaara (violet), Nova (gold/yellow), Reia (gray)

Misc others - Udnu (deep), Amak (big), Maaji (great), Vatsa (cold), Bora (dark), Lefa (good), Edet (always/eternal)
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#Conlangity 12. In Kraslan, adjectives come after the nouns they modify and must agree in gender and number. When it's a singular, feminine noun, no change occurs; when it's masculine, it takes an -i or, if it already ends with the letter, an -y:

"Nitara luƥim vyu" =

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I put this together a bit quickly 😉 because in text I had maybe three adjectives that i had to figure out rules from
These language rules for Sun-Drop may be subject to change, but for now I am pleased with the formation (also gives me a hint about how i should form my nouns) anyway🪡

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Adjectives generally go in front of the word they describe (or after if you're feeling poetic, it's fine if it's obvious from context).
There are some endings that can be tacked onto words to change them into descriptions. For example, 'epōs' tacked to the end of a word indicates

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This is a tough one, because it establishes partial words, but ... I think Kirrhin handles these in much the same way.

-ful » 'ne:hi
-ish » 'o'ua
-ly » :ka.
-er » :te
-est » :tiyu

To provide a couple functional examples there: 🧵

#Conlangity Just caught up on yesterday's, but this should be fun if I can keep my brain awake.

I already have some descriptors created, so that's why I'm attempting this with a half asleep brain.

In Shallin-Ethray, many descriptors/modifiers are prefixes, such as Re, which basically means -

#Conlangity before today I knew words like "what" were pronouns.😂

I may fail to keep what is & isn't a pronoun straight, & I'm probably gonna go into less depth here than I'd like to, but we'll see how far I get.

First of all Shallin-ethray is low on proper pronouns. They have no she, he, or it, -

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This should hopefully be a fun one! We're talking about descriptors - aka adjectives & adverbs.

Give some examples of both. Are there special endings or other unique features for these words in your conlang?

(Don't get into verbals or prepositions yet, that'll be for later!)

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personal pronouns in Nummersil are sometimes used as a suffix to the verb, and sometimes as a standalone, especially in other cases.

singular
1st p: mo (I)
2nd: ko (you)
3d: (h)o (she)
plural:
1st: wo (we)
2nd: vo (you all)
3d: tozo (they)

edemo = I eat

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So, a fun thing in Na'aqal is that many of the pronouns are also their number words.

For example:
"I" = du ["one"]
"You" = ki ["two"]

When "du" and "ki" are used in sentences, whether it's a number or a pronoun is often understood by context, plus often numbers will use articles.🧵

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Think I'm going to mostly go off cards today as pronouns is one thing that I have pretty well established. I'll add a bit of explanation to some.

So, the basic she/he/they pronouns (they being singular or plural) are ne/be/te. These come from the root words for female (n'van), 🧵

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#TheDragonblood: Nemorian has a pretty complicated system of personal pronouns. Some of it has collapsed in Draconoidic, but a lot of the complexity remains.

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The first and second person pronouns distinguish between singular and plural. Third person pronouns are distinguish between animate/non-animate as well. Gendered forms exist but they're mostly obsolete.
Cases are indicated with particles for these so pronouns don't change with case.

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Duo post also featuring the Handspeak we've been discussing in #conlangity 🤟🏻

(Sorry for the weird text formatting, Bsky is struggling with me this AM)

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#Conlangity 11. Let’s go with personal pronouns, which, to be honest, are the only ones I have fully developed so far:

- Sa [sha] = I
- Ty [too] = you
- Ry = you (plural)
- Nyr - you (formal, both singular and plural)
- Iny [i-noo] = she
- Ina = he
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