Carinnaha

[Vardelm]

Thanks! It's unlike anything I'm familiar with. For some reason, I get hints of Indian languages, but I don't know if that's really accurate at all. Is there any particular aesthetic you're aiming for?

[Travis B.]

Thanks! It's unlike anything I'm familiar with. For some reason, I get hints of Indian languages, but I don't know if that's really accurate at all. Is there any particular aesthetic you're aiming for?

It was not inspired as a whole by any particular language or language group, but aspects of it are; its use of pronominal prefixes on verbs, perfect versus imperfect TAM, construct state (for which nouns are not marked as definite or have case endings), pronominal enclitics (to express objects on verbs, possessors on nouns, objects on prepositions, and independent pronouns with person/number on dummy stems), its marking of definiteness on both nouns and adjectives (which must agree),and derivation to express voice are inspired by Semitic, its use of schwa epenthesis is inspired by Berber, its use of "compound verbs" (i.e. light verb plus verbal noun which each express perfect versus imperfect) to express more complex tenses/aspects and is coexistence of singular/plural number and collective/singulative number (with the possibility of making singulative numbers plural, to express the "plural of paucity") are inspired by Arabic in particular. But at the same time the overall language is not attempting to emulate Semitic or Berber, i.e. it has limited templatic morphology (with the only ablaut being in some verb stems to mark perfect versus imperfect versus imperative), is primarily agglutinative, makes frequent use of a combination of prepositions and relational nouns, and has a phonology that is essentially stemming from an attempt to make an alphabetlang with both a reasonable-looking but not overly boring orthography and phonology (i.e. not simply mapping letters of the basic Latin script onto their equivalent IPA, but at the same time not doing anything odd-looking like mapping "consonant" letters onto vowels). Its case system is not inspired in particular by any language but rather is of little functional load, primarily serving to distinguish subject from object, construct from definite or indefinite nouns, and adjectives from adverbs, and much of the functional load taken on by more complex case systems is instead taken on by prepositions and relational nouns.

[Travis B.]

Some More Examples

Adrawkhdn nohma jaama ryahumni mijurts qarh vaqnuhn teamni mteahmni sbarmni.
[atɾawkʼχɐdən nɔːχma tɕaʔama ɾjɑχomni midʑuɾtʼəs qʼɑɾχ βɑqʼnoχɐn tʼeːʔamni mətʼeːʔɑχməni səbaɾmni]

A-

SUBJ.3.S.M-

d-

PERF-

rawk

curse.IMPF

-h

-REPORT

-dn

-OBJ.3.P.M

noh

priest.M

-m

-DEF

-a

-NOM

jaa

great

-m

-DEF

-a

-NOM

ryah

heretical

-u

-NOM.INST

-m

-DEF

-n

-PL

-i

-OBL

mi-

SUBJ.3.P.M-

jurt

dare.IMPF

-s

-OBJ.3.S.F

qarh

defile.PERF.F

vaq

write.PERF

-n

-PART.PASS

-u

-NOM.INST

-h

-F

-n

-PL

tea

god.M

-m

-DEF

-n

-PL

-i

-OBL

m-

COM-

tea

god.M

-h

-F

-m

-DEF

-n

-PL

-i

-OBL

sbar

great

-m

-DEF

-n

-PL

-i.

-OBL

The high priest cursed the heretics who dare defile the great gods and goddesses' scriptures.

Akarbhs vralma mqyahr nedrmni sbarmni retmni mihakr gajori gad.
[akʼaɾpχɐs βɾalma mɐqʼjɑχɐɾ neːtɾəmni səbaɾməni reːtʼməni meχɑkʼəɾ kadʑoːɾi kat]

A-

SUBJ.3.S.M-

karb

order.PERF

-h

-REPORT

-s

-OBL.3.S.F

vral

king.M

-m

-DEF

-a

-NOM

m-

IMPF-

qyahr

execute.PERF.F

nedr

person.M

-m

-DEF

-n

-PL

-i

-OBL

sbar

great

-m

-DEF

-n

-PL

-i

-OBL

ret

great

-m

-DEF

-n

-PL

-i

-OBL

mi-

SUBJ.3.P.M

hakr

rebel.PERF

ga-

ABL-

jor

rule.IMPF.F

-i

-OBL

ga

ABL

-d.

-3.S.M

The king ordered the execution of the many nobles who rebelled against his rule.

Mivayyadn kretumna ryiqndn hrdbli midddn sdraymi.
[miβajːadən kʼɾeːtʼumna ɾjeqʼnədən χɾətpli mitːədən sətɾajmi]

Mi-

SUBJ.3.P.M-

vay

flood.PERF

-ya

-REPORT

-dn

-OBJ.3.P.M

kre

farm.IMPF

-t

-PART.PASS

-u

-NOM.INST

-m

-DEF

-n

-PL

-a

-NOM

ryiq

field.M

-dn

-PL

-dn

-POSS.3.P.M

h-

DAT-

r-

CAUS-

d-

PERF-

bli

grow.IMPF

midd

crop.M.COLL

-dn

-POSS.3.P.M

s-

LOC-

dray

spring.F

-m

-DEF

-i.

-OBL

The farmers flooded their fields to make their crops grow in the spring.

Areyad kretuma unehhmi hhew middmi akas da rdblid sbriwwmi jugyhmi.
[aɾeːjat kʼɾeːtʼuma unɛːχːɐmi χɐχɛːw mitːəmi akʼas ta ɾətplit səpɾiwːəmi tɕukjɐχmi]

A-

SUBJ.3.S.M-

re

-go.PERF

-ya

-REPORT

-d

-OBJ.3.S.M

kre

farm.IMPF

-t

-PART.PASS

-u

-NOM.INST

-m

-DEF

-a

-NOM

u-

ALL-

nehh

market.M

-m

-DEF

-i

-OBL

h-

DAT-

hew

sell.PERF

midd

crop.M.coll

-m

-DEF

-i

-OBL

a-

SUBJ.3.S.M-

ka

do.PERF

-s

-OBJ.3.S.F

d

PROX.M

-a

-NOM

r-

CAUS-

d-

PERF-

bli

grow.IMPF

-d

-OBJ.3.S.A

s-

LOC-

briww

season.F

-m

-DEF

-i

-OBL

jugy

past

-h

-F

-m

-DEF

-i.

-OBL

The farmer went to market to sell the crops he had grown the past season.

[mèþru]

It doesn't look like any language I know of.

[Travis B.]

Interrogative words

The interrogative word xa can also be used as a pronoun. In the masculine is used to mean who, where, and when, distinguished by context, and in the feminine it used to mean what.

[Travis B.]

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