#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 🧵👇️!

In my "Seffin Phel" series, there's a people called the Baari. Their language tends to join nouns together with a vowel to indicate a relationship or connection between those nouns. "Sob'iNadel" indicates that Soba is a member of the Nadel family. "Sob'uNadel" is how Soba would...

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I toyed with 'hello' or 'good-daytime' before deciding I needed to be true to my language and the people who speak it: Dowk is pissed-talk, and ppl who have an entire language for bad moods aren't going to beat around the bush.
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I managed it. 💀 This grammar is definitely going to get progressively mangled as I go on though. 😂

Alright first and foremost the most general, informal of greetings is "Min nen kheriti" (lit. "I see you," with the verb being derived from the noun for "eye," kheri).

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#TheDragonblood: I do know the expressions for Nemorian. The usual Nemorian formal greeting translates to "I am trustworthy", because they can usually tell when others are lying, so if they're not trustworthy, their auras would immediately give them away.

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#Conlangity The standard greeting in Athan is "Barad" - Good Day (Bar - Good, Ad - Day). It can be farewell, but the colloquial goodbye is "urnad" - one day. Itself a shortening of the traditional "Uzn lr'urb urn ad".

I will allow you to live for one more day.

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In Na'aqal, the main general greeting is "Haad faaroza" (Xad fah-RO-za).

This would be translated as "good day" but literally means "good hours." A "faaro" is an approximately 8-hr period, 3 per day - morning, afternoon/evening & night.

There are also greetings for each faaro:
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So, greetings in Arca'raed can have levels of formality. At your most formal, you might say "Imi urram ves ar posa dis bith'bheo." Or "It's my honour to join your presence."

More casual, it can be a simple "Bheita'mait" & "Alo" (well met & hello).

A formal goodbye: "Dis leid

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"do your best with the grammar"

Emily, look, I'm trying my best, but I can't even get the grammar right in English half the time!

Anyway! In Tellari-Universal, there's many types of greeting, and while they do imply a certain formality/familiarity, they mostly negotiate distance.

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In the Redwoods…

General Use Greeting

Initial Hello = suli = SOO-lee

Literally “I am (here)”. When you speak first, or if you’re the one to arrive somewhere, this is what you say. The "here" is elided and understood as implied.

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#Conlangity 6. The standard Kraslan greeting, used when arriving or leaving, is “Agiola umʋreniea ty ƥísa” [ɐ-d̠ʒi-l̪ɐ yow̥-bɾ̪e̞-n̪ɤ t̪ʉ fɨ-ʃɐ / a-dio-la yow-bre-nu too fí-sha], which means “May the darkness bless you” (literally, “Bless darkness you may”). However, this is quite 🧵

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Cultural thing to start with: it's expected practice to sniff each other's cheeks when meeting or greeting someone, especially on a first introduction.

This goes to the question I ended with on in Day 4, which was, "How do you know what someone's normal, 'neutral' tone is?" 🧵

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I decided to make a chart because i also decided to map out the vowels of the Crystal Island dialect because i wanted to show in ipa and transliteration how these would sound different than standard and from blue

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Handspeak in my WIP is a shameless conglomeration of IRL sign languages from all over the world. Here's how I stole signs from ASL, Brit/Aus, Nepali, Russian, and JSL to say HELLO! Greetings depend on area AND formality (bonus ASL at the end for "what's up").

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This is still a bit of a blank space so far. I have the casual greeting/goodbye that everyone uses (kaisʉ) and the super formal greeting which roughly translates to long life and good health (there is a _lot_ of nuance lost in that translation). Nothing in between so far.
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Get'i:a — the essential hello
Get'i:an-ama — formal hello
Ixiu — Hey — Generally said under one's breath, amounts to a “fuck you” in greeting terms
O:a'la'i — affectionate hello

Na:i'a — the essential bye
Aena:i'a — full goodbye 🧵

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The vocab I've already created is low on interaction, so this is gonna be making stuff up again. Fortunately, I get to go off CULTURE.😊

To start with, Dhurma is the word for close friend, possibly in equivalent to beloved, not romantic, but showing emotional attachment. - 1/?

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Time to make some vocab! Or share, if you've already got something!

How do people greet each other/say goodbye in your language? Are there different customs depending on the time & place, the familiarity or identity of the speakers, etc?

(Do your best with the grammar!)

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Okay, Siefans! I am hella behind today because of work (🚗💨) and cats.

Surprisingly I don't actually have a lot on them built up as they initially served as just some eventually problematic people and to introduce Eru (and why he looked so different).

That's boring.
(I'ma be rambling.)

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The language evolved as Growan grew more united. IT was essentially forced on people to give them a more common identity and connection.

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