#Conlangity Day 8

This is gonna be a sort of loose topic day - do what you want with it!

Today is about compound words & other affixes. Can you combine words in your conlang? Do you have any examples? What kind of prefixes/suffixes exist, & how are they used?

More to consider in the thread! 🧵👇️

#Conlangity 7

#TheDragonblood: Draconoidic has SOV word order, and adjectives and adverbs preceed what they describe.

At least assuming I don't decide to make big changes from Nemorian, which is the assumption I've been working under so far.

#Conlangity

An easy day (tentatively, we'll see how it plays out as the vocab gets bigger)!

I'm continuing to borrow from Yakut's structure, so it is a SOV language.

While adjectives precede a noun ("a known yay!"), something curious I'm going to have to wrap my head around is where adverbs go...

#Conlangity Day 7

Take 2 of today's answer. Damn blackouts😤.

I screw myself up with my Istemorian grammar rules all the time. I think it's because my knowledge of languages consists of a lifetime of English, followed by kindergarten to grade 9 French, & finally the last 5 or so years learning 🧵

#authorsky #booksky #Conlangity #writers #writing #WritingCommunity

For Kirrhin, I'm actually still figuring this out and thinking about it because the few times I've dipped into Kirrhin use, I have not really thought about it on this level, which means those drafts I have that use it will rather 🧵

#Conlangity Day 7
Nummersil is often O VS, with the subject as a suffix to the verb when it's just a pronoun. The direct object is marked by a case and a prepositionsufix (-u-ki) so it can be placed anywhere except between verb and subject.

Bram esmo. (I am Bram)
maluki edemo. (I eat an apple)

#Conlangity

Generally, subject-verb-object, but there is plenty of room for rearrangement.

#WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #WriteSky

Reminder for my #Conlangity peeps:

I'm trying to keep my first posts *relatively* basic, so if you just want to read and respond to that, you can! The thread is just for additional info.

Remember you don't have to deep dive every topic; you can also do vibes. (But I love y'all's deep dives! 🥹❤️)

#conlangity 7

Nivani is primarily subject verb object. I might make it free order depending on some context or strata stuff. My few adjective/adverb examples that I have so far places them in the front of words that they are describing.

#Conlangity

Dowk is [Sub] [Verb] [Adv] [Obj] [Adj]

I would add that bc I am in charge, there are no exceptions

I'm boring and kept Atchua as Subject / Verb / Object 😅

Some specific rules though:

1️⃣ Direct objects must always come before indirect objects. It would never be "Jack gave Cassie a donut," but "Jack gave a donut to Cassie." Strictly speaking, that's a prepositional phrase; but...

#Conlangity

#Conlangity Athan uses Verb/Subject/Object. As it doesn't really use pronouns (see yesterday's post) they'll sub in the giant's name, or the clan name, where appropriate.

Adjectives and adverbs are their own special case.

#WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

#Conlangity 7. Ah, grammar, the thing I’m worse at (including in my mother language) 😅 My brain literally goes "nah, I'm out" when I start reading about grammar lol But let’s see what we can do here.

Kraslan uses a basic SOV (subject-object-verb) word order. When there are 🧵

#ChroniclesOfTheRealms

#Conlangity 7

Sun-Drop sentences tend to start with the subject and end with the verb

A sample sentence from one of my WIPs has Au being told by Laets that they make him happy, but he uses his native Sun-Drop sentence structure so it sounds like this

“You me happy make too.”

🪡

#Conlangity 7
The hard part begins 😂
Inawlo is usually SOV, but the word order is flexible. The case is marked with particles, and there's a whole variety of them. This means you can technically use, say, SVO all the time but you'll sound weird.
Adjectives/descriptors come before the word.

#Conlangity 7

Na'aqal is a VSO language! It ALWAYS starts with a verb.

In sentences that have no object or which have a predicate nominative instead, it goes V/S/(PN).

"Swims Mireia." (no object)
"Plays Kena the flute." (object)
"Is Mireia the Sea Mother." (PN)

Adjectives & Adverbs tend to...
🧵

#conlangity ITS GRAMMAR TIME🤟🏻

Handspeak has the same grammar structure as ASL: time, topic, comment, and/or question word.

Example:
I went to the store yesterday
HS: yesterday store I go

Which paper do you want? Blue or yellow?
HS: paper want blue yellow which

#writesky #writingcommunity

#Conlangity
First of all Shallin-Ethray has no "the". All objects are referred to by a description word, with an 'A' beforehand if they are plural.

Now ugh, the problem is I can make any order work, but I tried to look through what I've already created & what feels right to me, so lets just - 1/?

#Conlangity Day 7

GRAMMAR TIME! 🥳😂

What's the usual order of words in a sentence? In English, it goes Subject/Verb/Object, but many languages use a different order! How does your language do it?

Do descriptors (adj/adv) go before or after?

For more info about sentence structure, read the 🧵👇️!