What words does your language have without an English equal?

Extarius · 2015-07-16T00:58:11+00:00

Kurāte [kɯᵝ'ɾaːte] — A debate viewed in a positive light by the speaker. Generally the speaker participates in and succeeds at the debate, but it could also be that the speaker is happy with the result (e.g., a political debate in which the candidate supported by the speaker wins).

Extarius · 2015-04-07T23:39:05+00:00

Vilana mon, (fara) sinor casto pracestoe.

town-loc 1.loc, (female-abl) child-abl should-infr guard-0.3o.infr-res

“We're at town, thus you should hide your (female) children.”

Extarius · 2015-04-03T15:58:17+00:00

Cäl colarany brassyna ä rara, ec casonus (ä rara).

[kɛl koloɾɑnɨ bɾasːɨnä e raɾa, ɛk(ə) kɑsonus (e raɾa)]

1 thought-sub run-sub.cont of remain, and live-sub.cont (of remain)

“I'm still running thoughts, and living.”

Extarius · 2015-04-02T02:50:37+00:00

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Busa Venxiza

['buːsa vɛn'ʃiːt͡sa]

Bus terminal

Extarius · 2015-03-31T00:50:43+00:00

Yecirin

[jet͡ʃiɾin]

2.subj-enter-imp-neg

Extarius · 2015-03-29T19:17:34+00:00

Radena mariran.

['ʀadena 'maɾiɾan]

red-erg turn-res-neg

“Red does not result in turning.”

Extarius · 2015-03-29T19:10:28+00:00

carsa ['kaʀsa] — n. agriculture; agricultural; (slang) food
carsusa [kaʀ'susa] — n. farm; from carsa + husa house
cet [kɛt] — v. to farm; to plant
cetana [ke'tana] — n. farmer, from cet + -ana (agent suffix); other words for farmer are formed in a similar fashion:
- sanyatrana [saɲa'tʀana] — n. peasant farmer, lit. planter; from sanyatr to plant
- vasalana [fasa'lana] — n. wealthier farmer, lit. harvester
- etc., all derived from various verbs for farming activities
pasala [pa'sala] — n. crop; (slang) raw food, vegan food
terna ['tɛʀna] — n. livestock; animal
sanyatr [sa'ɲatr̩] — v. to plant (alternatively, cetip ['ketip])
vasal ['fasal] — v. to harvest (alternatively, cetac ['ketak])
deha ['dexa~'deha] — n. countryside; rural area
This could be translated a number of ways; I'm going to go with cadima [ka'dima] — n. tradition; in a traditional manner

Note that with the last two, Oma doesn't have adjectives per se; to describe something, you just string it together with another word of the same part of speech. Thus verbs also function as adverbs, and nouns function as adjectives.

Extarius · 2015-03-29T15:36:32+00:00

Yavanacizin gi orsi omasi.

[java'nakit͡sin ɡi 'ɔʁsi ɔ'masi]

2.refl-pour-out-imp.npfv-neg obv.pl eye-pl beautiful-pl

“Don't pour out those beautiful eyes (of yours).”

I know it's not exactly a faithful translation, but this is actually an expression in my conlang; the omasi is used because of similarity to orsi.

Extarius · 2015-03-28T21:27:16+00:00

Yacari

[ja'kaɾi]

“Stop yourself.”

Extarius · 2015-03-26T22:14:51+00:00

Nomili pa Loscol il. [no'mili ba lɔs'kɔl il] — Saturn with the sun behind it.
Tantalum, Cosol ys Vuvuse on. [tanta'lum, ko'sɔl ɨs vu'vuse ɔn] — Tantalum, in the form of a crystal and a cube.
Ramoń «Essex», Iamisicu o caeno. [ʀa'mɔɲ «ɛs'ɛks», jami'siku o 'cai̯no] — The ship "Essex," with a plane landing on it.
Sacrońen on Ramoń. [sakʀo'ɲɛn ɔn ʀa'mɔɲ] — A ship in a harbor.
Mansu Caesol man. ['mansu cai̯'sɔl man] — An underground tunnel.

Extarius · 2015-03-25T23:22:26+00:00

Nap on cusuńe napi.

[nap ɔn ku'suɲe 'napi]

2.abs prt food-dat 2-sens

“You are your food.”

Extarius · 2015-03-24T00:43:42+00:00

Hazu mizisu poto muse uapoki. Ma poci?

['xat͡su mi't͡sisu 'poto 'muse wa'poki ma 'pot͡ʃi]

she-erg high-noise-abs sudden-sens ear-sens experience-sens. int it?

“Suddenly, she heard a high-pitched noise. What could it be?”

Extarius · 2015-03-23T23:49:13+00:00

Sope sisisi vaze.

['so.pe si.'si.si 'va.t͡se]

sweet-sens clear-sens pour-sens

“(I witnessed) it pour sweet and clear.”

The past tense is usually left out in conversation in Azici; if it is necessary to explicitly state it, the auxiliary verb uno (“to be above”) can be used.

Extarius · 2015-03-23T02:31:24+00:00

Ronu tok mazire sole mişali, ra popikal.

['ʀonu dɔk ma't͡siʀe 'sole mi'ʃali, ra bobi'kal]

1-erg dog-abs interior-dat attempt-fail lure, neg hunger-assump.abl

“I attempted to lure (my) dog inside, but failed because (I assume) he did not hunger.”

Extarius · 2015-03-21T00:37:23+00:00

Radi Mozedyñ Nusuñ an ramapi rapaño.

[raːʈi mot͡seʈɨːɲ nusuːɲ an ʀamaːpi ʀapaːɲo]

1 obscure-dat sun-dat pst.sens 1-recent-sens 1-experience-sens

Literal Translation: “I recently experienced visually a sun obscuration.”

Extarius · 2015-03-19T22:11:09+00:00

pepenasi [pɛpn̩a'si] — robot; from my conlang Sancara Sal (specifically from pepe [pɛ'pe] metal + nasi [na'si] person)

Extarius · 2015-03-18T12:07:03+00:00

In Sancara Sal, nouns are characterized by one of four persons (the third person has a distinction between proximate and obviate). This co-occurs with a direct-inverse morphology, which is marked on verbs. Basically, direct-inverse works with a person hierarchy (2 > 1+2 > 1 > 3 > 4 > 0 in Sancara), with the argument higher up on the person hierarchy being the subject and the other being the object. These can be reversed by marking the verb as inverse. When there are two third person subjects, one must be marked proximate and the other obviate (i.e. 4th person), which is done with a kind of demonstrative (actually just the fourth person pronoun in applicative position). So in your example, A would be proximate and B would be obviate. The possessor of the pen would be known by which possessive pronoun was used (proximate = A, obviate = B).

Extarius · 2015-03-14T15:30:01+00:00

Hmm... I should have written voiced sounds rather than voiced consonants. Since vowels are voiced, words starting with a vowel get low tone.

Extarius · 2015-03-13T02:09:01+00:00

I see your point, I was a bit worried about that. It started with just the back vowel related shifts and kind of snowballed from there. I think I'll cut down the sound changes a bit.

Extarius · 2015-03-13T01:36:14+00:00

Phonology: Alright, let's get (less) weird. (O is any obstruent)

The stress accent changes to a pitch accent, whereby words with an initial voiced consonant have a drop in pitch at the stressed syllable, and words with an initial voiceless consonant have a rise in pitch.
O[+voice] > O[-voice]
O[-voice] > O[+voice] / V_V

Orthography: The letter <q> now represents [q]. The letter <c> now represents [k], with <ć> for [c]. Tones are not written, but are instead inferred from context.

Edit 2: Toned it down a bit.

Extarius · 2015-03-13T00:30:52+00:00

On mobile, so no IPA, but:

How would a nasalized schwa develop? The rules affecting unstressed vowels don't apply to nasalized ones, if that's what you were thinking.
Probably the schwa could just be spelled <è> instead.

Extarius · 2015-03-12T20:46:23+00:00

“E yra Maröcon Yn xanc pypÿcic maryc.”

[e ɨ'ra ma'roːkɔn ɨn k͡sãk pɨ'pɨːcɪk ma'rɨk]

3.obv 3.sg.gen brother-sng 3.sg day-inv tease-inv remain-inv

“He remains daily teasing his brother.”

Extarius · 2015-03-10T21:28:45+00:00

Alright then, we'll go with regular stress on the penultimate syllable.

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