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The Dailies. February 14
Did you work on your language today? Create any new rules of grammar or syntax? New progress on a script? New words in your lexicon?
On the other hand, do any excavating or reading or enjoying stuff you've already created? Do you have any favorites to share?
How did you conlang today?




No proper conlanging yesterday but I did spend some time thinking about word-order. Since we're talking about time, I've been thinking about where time-adverbials would go in a phrase in Lash-enne. I've tentatively been using a O(S)V order but I've been pondering whether the order should jump around when adding other elements to it. As some (all?) of you may know, Swedish has a V2-word order. The standard order is SVO (Jag åt maten, I ate the food) but when you add something before the construction the verb skips up in the order (Igår åt jag maten, yesterday ate I the food). My original thought was to have the O move similarly but as I am typing this I realize what I might be pondering is actually just a V2-word order anyway, but with a different default and the subject being optionally placed before the verb. So you'd have O(S)V which puts V in position 2 (not counting the optional S) and then when adding a time adverbial you'd have Adv(S)VO. Is that weird? I'll have to keep pondering today.
Sounds excellent to me!
Makes sense to me! I think it works.
Only one new word for today - uru, 'before'! I'd had another word up for suggestion, realised I didn't like it, and came up with this one.
I've also started to think more about hour-like time units, but I think that's more world-building than conlanging at this point. Also, there's nothing settled yet.
Well, I like this one!
Akachenti
Four words and a new construction, based off the same stem as the no longer productive suffix -eb. Also made more progress on figuring out the way definite and indefinite forms are done.
suta • [ su.ta ] • these — definite/specific relative pronoun, referring to a closed set of "things". Can connote relationship or possession, e.g. "my duties".
itebet • [ i.tɛ.bɛt ] • a set of furnishings and belongings — indefinite noun. Definite: tebos • [ te.bos ]
i- / -(e)bet • [ ɛb.ɛt ] • 1) an organization or collection of {noun}; an associated group of {noun}; 2) the drawing together or gathering thereof — morning and evening construction, taken with an indefinite noun meaning the plural.
ishinebet • [ i.ʃi.nɛb.ɛt ] • food(s) — indefinite noun. Definite: shinebos • [ ʃi.ne.bos ]
igu:nebet • [ i.gu:.nɛb.ɛt ] • family — indefinite noun. Definite: gu:nebos • [ gu:.ne.bos ]
This seems very useful and looks lovely! Having a word for closed sets is really cool. Maybe I should nick that for Nahul.
Sure! It's kinda tied to specificity, which is fun.