Languary Day 17: More sentence construction.

[aldersprig]

Starting with this thing: https://web.archive.org/web/20130307020009/http://fiziwig.com/conlang/syntax_tests.html

All the people shouted.
Some of the people shouted.
Many of the people shouted twice.

First! People. People is the plural of person!

A Person is a difuf.

All of the people are difufore.

Shout!

Shout is Fassa.

Past tense, third person singular is -iln

But the people are plural!

Okay, then -ilnot.

Fassilnot

VOS, Fassilnot difufore., All of the people shouted.

Or Fassilnot difufara, some of the people shouted.

Many! Many is another word.

dathfuth

And so is twice! Oh lord, numbers.
haph, hash, hat, 1, 2, 3, haphad, hashad, hatad, once, twice, three times.

Fassilnot hashad difufara dathfuth, many of the people shouted twice (Shouted twice people many)

Comments

[inventrix]

*does my own conlang in your comments because Why Not*

Verb 'to shout/yell': kooto
Adverb 'twice': shith

All the people shouted.
shouted every person
koototu tsaaffaryha

Some of the people shouted.
shouted some persons
koototu affaryoroha

Many of the people shouted twice.
twice-shouted many persons
shithkoototu affarypeyha

...so doing this I already learned that I don't have 'all', and also decided to change my 'near' tense infix to 'far', so I have 'far future' and 'distant/historical past' instead.

[inventrix]

I think 'far future' is used poetically as a replacement for the potential mood, sometimes.

[thnidu]

*does the serious conlang I'm pretty fluent in because Why Not*

Verb 'to shout/yell': krii = kri- 'shout' + -i [infinitive ending]
Adverb 'twice': dufoje = du 'two' + foj(o) 'time (occurrence)' + -e [adverb ending]

All the people shouted.
Ĉiuj kriis.
ĉiu 'each' + -j [plural] = ĉiuj 'all'; implicitly refers to people, 'everyone'
-is = [past tense ending]

Some of the people shouted.
Iuj kriis.
iu = 'someone, some one (of a group)', implicitly a person + -j

Many of the people shouted twice.
Multe el la homoj kriis dufoje.
mult- root 'many'
el 'out of', used like English "out of" for (quasi-)numerical subsets of a group
la = definite article, invariant
homo 'person'

Pronunciation: Ĉ like "ch" in "church" or "Chechnya". Vowels as in Spanish or Italian. J like "y" in "yes". Diphthongs: aj like "I / eye / aye"; oj like "oy!" or "(b)oy"; uj as in "(pt)ooey" said fast, as one syllable.

[inventrix]

Since this is a reply to me, I feel obligated to point out that Spanish and Italian do not, in fact, have the same vowels. :3

[thnidu]

Quite so. But Esperanto is not strict about high-mid [e, o] vs. low-mid [ɛ, ɔ], since it has only one mid level of vowels.

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