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by Dama Diwan
Sun Feb 11, 2018 1:51 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: the most main points of Dama language
Replies: 10
Views: 7013

the most main points of Dama language

kuwe non un sake i un kuwo un. KUWE-NON UN-SAKE I UN-KUWO UN. frightening-thing← not-knowing that not-afraid not. “ignoring or being unaware of the danger is no bravery”. This is a good example to show the basic function of Dama. The most important distinction is between a noun (KUWO, afraid) and th...
by Dama Diwan
Wed Nov 09, 2016 8:47 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: “Get it across” game.
Replies: 2
Views: 3285

“Get it across” game.

An idea for a game i have not seen in any place, though there are similar games based on sequence of posts. I call them RINO KUJO “sequence games”. The point is, give a word, or an expression, or a phrase, and maybe reach even to a short story, without a translation of the whole word/expression/phra...
by Dama Diwan
Sat Nov 05, 2016 10:48 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: How quickly can you sketch out a grammar?
Replies: 4
Views: 3010

Re: How quickly can you sketch out a grammar?

I have made a description of Dama Diwan grammar in 4 lines on an A4 page, and by using conventional abbreviations it can be shorter. E.g. -o =NMLZ/PASS, -o-n =ACC, -a-n=GEN, -e=ACT, -e-n=ACT TRANS, -a=ADV; head-last direction. But, to make it easily and well understood by giving examples, a good des...
by Dama Diwan
Thu Nov 03, 2016 8:39 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: tube bo, kije bo & ALL GRAMMAR OF DAMA DIWAN
Replies: 61
Views: 21662

Re: tube bo, kije bo & ALL GRAMMAR OF DAMA DIWAN

https://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/resources/glossing-rules.php thanks, friend, as you see I have never studied linguistics or languages. After I study and use that international glossing system, Dama Diwan will be well understood by everyone and so everybody will like it and learn it. Well, frankly I t...
by Dama Diwan
Thu Nov 03, 2016 8:39 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: tube bo, kije bo & ALL GRAMMAR OF DAMA DIWAN
Replies: 61
Views: 21662

Re: tube bo, kije bo & ALL GRAMMAR OF DAMA DIWAN

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by Dama Diwan
Thu Nov 03, 2016 8:10 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: tube bo, kije bo & ALL GRAMMAR OF DAMA DIWAN
Replies: 61
Views: 21662

Re: tube bo, kije bo & ALL GRAMMAR OF DAMA DIWAN

I delete this too, because it was mistakenly posted before I finished my edit, which is below.
by Dama Diwan
Thu Nov 03, 2016 7:08 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Dama kewon a tu tiri? / your translation please?
Replies: 7
Views: 4154

Re: your translation please?

Is this intended as a serious auxiliary language, or the seed of one, or an homage to Toki Pona? frankly you can consider it all these. A friend called it "an open source language", meaning it does not give terms for everything, but for building every term needed. Everybody can build terms, as long...
by Dama Diwan
Thu Nov 03, 2016 6:35 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: tube bo, kije bo & ALL GRAMMAR OF DAMA DIWAN
Replies: 61
Views: 21662

Re: tube bo naja kije bo AND THE WHOLE DAMA DIWAN

WIWO: to me this would refer to a small, dim and confused person (remind you of anyone?), as that is how I see babies, and it reminds me of baby talk. SANO: to me this would mean truth, as it reminds or Swedish words meaning similar things. I would love to hear what your divination skill tell you t...
by Dama Diwan
Fri Aug 12, 2016 2:18 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Nawi (probably to be renamed later): Burke's lang
Replies: 18
Views: 7589

Re: Nawi (probably to be renamed later): Burke's lang

well, what I find nice is that it resembles a natural language in every aspect. Some of its phonotactics are found in the Cretan and other dialects of Greek. Another thing I have to observe, consider using postpositions instead of prepositions, because your syntax is often head-last, in which postpo...
by Dama Diwan
Fri Aug 12, 2016 2:05 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: tube bo, kije bo & ALL GRAMMAR OF DAMA DIWAN
Replies: 61
Views: 21662

Re: tube bo, kije bo & ALL GRAMMAR OF DAMA DIWAN

I thought that my English, although not terribly rich, is at least clear. to do your examples, I will use simply NUTO =a fruit and TO =a person, because to make a specific word for apple you have to give a short description in the beginning of a text, e.g. TURO JIRO NUTO, and then refer to it simply...
by Dama Diwan
Fri Jul 08, 2016 10:03 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: tube bo, kije bo & ALL GRAMMAR OF DAMA DIWAN
Replies: 61
Views: 21662

Re: tube bo naja kije bo AND THE WHOLE function of DAMA DIWA

a numa! (A NUMA means hello, literally "you well", like Chinese 你好, and Greek γειά-σου, literally "health of you") I find it admirable that this post has received 1951 views, and it has received so many replies referring to every object of knowledge EXCEPT what the post is about. So let me explain t...
by Dama Diwan
Fri Jun 10, 2016 8:35 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: fetch a gloss on mouseover
Replies: 7
Views: 2389

Re: fetch a gloss on mouseover

finlay, I know that http://www.unilang.org/jara.php tool is not good at all, I tried it for Japanese and it is 100 times worse than Google translation. However, for such a simple language like Dama it should work all right. To be sincere, I would prefer the stand-alone tool, if it is very simple, it...
by Dama Diwan
Fri Jun 10, 2016 7:51 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Lexicon Building
Replies: 4308
Views: 784044

Re: Lexicon Building

NEXT: sweet food, dessert, soemthing eaten after a meal koos la qofo sugar COM food [kɞːs˩ la˩ ˈqɔ˩βɔ] dessert , literally 'food with sugar' sefekyud ci tbes macar qofo meal GEN after TEMP food [sɛβɛgˈjʉ˥˩ çi˩ t͡pœs ˈmaʝaɾ ˈqɔ˩βɔ] dessert , literally 'food for after a meal' EDIT: Shoot, sorry Dama,...
by Dama Diwan
Thu Jun 09, 2016 11:08 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: fetch a gloss on mouseover
Replies: 7
Views: 2389

Re: fetch a gloss on mouseover

shouldn't be that difficult if you're familiar with any server-side scripting languages (e.g. PHP, ASP.NET...) + JavaScript The hard part is parsing the text that has been glossed; displaying it on mouseover is trivial with some JavaScript and the onmouseover event. This gives me a direction. If I ...
by Dama Diwan
Thu Jun 09, 2016 10:23 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Lexicon Building
Replies: 4308
Views: 784044

Re: Lexicon Building

Tautisca is not an a priori language where I can make up whatever I want. It's an Indo-Eureopean a posteriori language with a history of language contact; in this case, Tautisca, in a similar way to many European languages, got the name of most cultivated fruits from Latin. And BTW, the scientific ...
by Dama Diwan
Thu Jun 09, 2016 10:03 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: fetch a gloss on mouseover
Replies: 7
Views: 2389

Re: fetch a gloss on mouseover

For me it does not look like a quicky: for years I cannot find a solution to something that seems simple; all those that I asked could not answer, and it is an important matter from the aspect of computing and from the aspect of languages as well. I think it is interesting to all people interested i...
by Dama Diwan
Thu Jun 09, 2016 5:20 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: fetch a gloss on mouseover
Replies: 7
Views: 2389

fetch a gloss on mouseover

Hi everyone, before posting this I searched the whole forum, there were no matches. It is, I think, since 3 years ago that I ask about this. Does anyone here know how to make a tool analogous to http://www.unilang.org/jara.php ? I want something like that in order to facilitate people to learn Dama ...
by Dama Diwan
Thu Jun 09, 2016 4:19 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Lexicon Building
Replies: 4308
Views: 784044

Re: Lexicon Building

Tautisca armeniacun, armeniacus, armenis "apricot", from Latin (malum) armeniacum "apricot" Next: to plough I expected something more "innovative" than the mere scientific name. Anyway, Dama freely accepts all scientific names as they are, and adds a description when they are introduced. So for "ap...
by Dama Diwan
Mon Jun 06, 2016 2:12 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Lexicon Building
Replies: 4308
Views: 784044

Re: Lexicon Building

sucaeyl wrote:Next:wine tasting
mito wawon wija sime

MITO sweet thing
WAWON fermented
WIJA by means of the senses
SIME form an opinion

next: apricot
by Dama Diwan
Sat Jun 04, 2016 10:32 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Arka: an a priori conlang with 14,000 words from Japan
Replies: 197
Views: 44861

Re: Arka: an a priori conlang with 14,000 words from Japan

If the words come from Japan, then it is not a priori, it is a posteriori.
A question: who knows all these 14000 words?
by Dama Diwan
Fri Jun 03, 2016 2:07 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Dama kewon a tu tiri? / your translation please?
Replies: 7
Views: 4154

Re: your translation please?

Is this intended as a serious auxiliary language, or the seed of one, or an homage to Toki Pona? In toki pona to say the simplest thing in the world "he used a stick" you must use a whole line of 10 syllables in a rigid order: "ona li kepeken e palisa". In Dama the commonest way for the same is "sa...
by Dama Diwan
Thu Jun 02, 2016 2:11 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Dama kewon a tu tiri? / your translation please?
Replies: 7
Views: 4154

Dama kewon a tu tiri? / your translation please?

An aboriginal Australian story (in Dama Diwan Int Aux Lang, not in the original Australian). There are only 5 suffixes used here: -A(N), O(N), E, and they are not glossed; note that Dama Diwan normally uses POSTpositions and not prepositions; modifiers precede (head-last syntax). I give glossing of ...
by Dama Diwan
Sun May 15, 2016 7:21 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Lexicon Building
Replies: 4308
Views: 784044

Re: Lexicon Building

next: social rapport; sociable sina numo; "together good"; or sina numa; "together well"; or sina njumo "together good [marked as abstract noun]" or swino "togetherness" or ta tabo "human way - in between thing" or to wan tabo "of people - in between thing". next: feather with alternating colors, i...
by Dama Diwan
Sat May 14, 2016 10:17 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Other conlangs?
Replies: 43
Views: 13967

Re: Other conlangs?

Sjal, I appreciate your kindness. Take a look starting from http://linguifex.com/wiki/Dama_Diwan and I wish I have your opinion in the group https://www.facebook.com/groups/omado.sosti.matiko (because I rarely visit the zompist bboard).
by Dama Diwan
Sat May 14, 2016 5:31 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: tube bo, kije bo & ALL GRAMMAR OF DAMA DIWAN
Replies: 61
Views: 21662

Re: tube bo naja kije bo AND THE WHOLE DAMA DIWAN

For those who are interested, here is the phoneme inventory from what I can see. I think the vowels are a little bit boring (Why don't you try some of the weirder ones and see how they make you feel?), I actually quite like the consonant inventory, both in its simplicity and in its quite pleasing a...