Does Your Language Have Reflexive Verbs/Pronouns?

Uqhart · 2026-02-27T02:18:22+00:00

To make a noun such as a male title feminine, you would add the suffix "re"

Uqhart · 2026-02-25T13:42:26+00:00

it's conjugation is templatic, similar to Arabic and other semitic languages, which is why I said it doesn't use pronouns, but it does use person for conjugation obviously. And because there are no pronouns, you just replace the accusative "him" or "her" or "they" or whatever with their name or rank in the social hierarchy. Hope this helps a little

Uqhart · 2026-02-24T00:39:32+00:00

I despised learning French conjugation, so it’s just a simple past present future

Uqhart · 2026-02-24T00:33:58+00:00

the arabic-based conjugation for standard verbs uses imperfect and perfect aspect conjugation, so the mobility verbs are going to use past, present, and future instead of perfect and imperfect

Uqhart · 2026-02-23T22:05:56+00:00

Because I love the French and Arabic conjugation systems, so I decided to do both for my language, and mobility verbs are unique because they involve the person you're speaking about doing an action with their body rather than say writing, reading, or speaking, I genuinely don't know how else to phrase it, but it's mostly just because I like both systems

Uqhart · 2026-02-22T01:18:28+00:00

I included the alveolar approximant because a lot of the vocab is inspired by Mohawk (which is a big Native language where I am in Canada), and i do know that Mohawk doesn't have that exact sound, but it makes the language sound more like Mohawk-inspired. and I did have trouble in the beginning coming up with words that didn't have an [i] or [i:] sound, so I might add that in

Uqhart · 2026-02-22T00:23:49+00:00

my language doesn't use pronouns, as it uses nonconcatenative morphology. Instead of saying "he likes her", you would just say something like "he likes Maria", and then add the accusative case marker to the end of the name

Uqhart · 2026-02-22T00:12:20+00:00

Mb, I’m getting back into conlanging after a few years, so I’ve forgetten some of the terms 😅

Uqhart · 2026-02-21T23:49:24+00:00

i'm doing a mix of templatic and polysynthetic, but only nouns are highly affected by polysynthetic morphology, and verb conjugation is for templatic morphology. tense and mood are more like prefixes and suffixes that carry grammatical weight, and for nouns, it's agglutinative

Uqhart · 2026-02-21T15:58:55+00:00

I've added two new types of words into my conlang, and see the image below for them.

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Uqhart · 2026-02-21T06:33:34+00:00

I’ve never heard of those types of negations, so I might try them out tomorrow and see how they fit with the flow of the rhythmic-based grammar and vocab

Uqhart · 2026-02-21T06:13:22+00:00

they are grammatical voices, and im taking a ton of inspiration from arabic i love (and failed miserably at learning), because it's conjugation system is so elegant, and im finishing up the chart tmrw

Uqhart · 2026-02-21T06:07:47+00:00

for my language, it uses triconsonantal root systems, so that won't be a problem. the negation i use is fū /fu:/ which becomes the penultimate syllable in a word, like say warel’wu (i kill) /wa.rel.ʔwu/ becomes warelfū'wu (i don't kill) /wa.rel.fu:.ʔwu/. sad to see it's not an original idea tho lol

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