Gartul, p.1- Tell Me If This Is Terrible
Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2017 12:16 pm
Hey y’all!
So, I’m making a conlang. Hurrah! It’s my first one, and I wanted to tell y’all what I have so far, so tell me if this is terrible.
It’s entitled Gartul.
Enjoy!
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TENSES
Past, present, future, and uncertain tenses all have suffixes.
PAST TENSE- add ‘un’ to the end. E.g- ‘morosun’= has/have played.
PRESENT TENSE- add ‘el’ to the end. E.g.- ‘mosorel’= plays/is playing.
FUTURE TENSE- add ‘iss’ to the end. E.g.- ‘mosoriss’= will play.
UNCERTAIN TENSE= add ‘ar’ to the end. E.G.- ‘mosorar’= might/would/could play.
Note- the presence of the uncertain tense makes it so that would, could, and might don’t exist in Gartul, because adding ‘ar’ to the end makes those words.
GENDER
Gender has prefixes.
MALE GENDER PREFIX- ‘ bete komosorun’= he played. Bete means ‘he’, and since that word is there, you add ‘ko’ to the beginning of the word, ‘mosorun’, which means have played.
FEMALE GENDER PREFIX- ‘nete omosorun’= she played. Nete means she, and since nete is there, add ‘o’ (making the sound of the English word ‘oh’) to the beginning of the word.
INANIMATE GENDER PREFIX- ‘frete pamosorun’= it played. Frete means it, and since frete is there, add pa, like Pa as in father, to the beginning of the word.
SYNTAX- VSO.
Example sentence-
‘Mosoriss Joseph vu strovonn.’ That means, ‘Joseph will play the guitar’.
Other important syntax notes- pronouns always go before verbs.
CASES
Gartul has a couple cases for you. To denote case, you add a couple suffixes-
Example word- trisha (book)
Nominative- add no suffix.
Accusative- -ur. (Trishur)
Genitive- -ich. (Trisich)
Essive- -sta. (Trissta)
Inessive- -ats. (Trisats)
Adessive- -oll. (Trisholl.)
Instructive- -min. (Trishmin.)
Abessive- -kap. (Trishkap)
NEGATION
To denote negation, add ‘reot’ as a word after the word.
E.G.- I don’t remember that day.
‘Umalannel reot ka jete asey.’
Remember (with present suffix) NEGATION I that day
ARTICLES
There are two articles in Gartul: one for ‘a’ (‘cha’) which is used when referring to an object, but you don’t exactly know which object, and one for ‘the’ (‘vu’) which is used when referring to an object and you know exactly which one.
E.g.- ‘Cha sovash’= a(n) animal
‘Vu sovash’= the animal
NUMBERS
1- surn
2- mio
3- insh
4- kroo
5- zipf
6- pil
7- bay
8- ub
9- noin
10- ecks
So, I’m making a conlang. Hurrah! It’s my first one, and I wanted to tell y’all what I have so far, so tell me if this is terrible.
It’s entitled Gartul.
Enjoy!
—————
TENSES
Past, present, future, and uncertain tenses all have suffixes.
PAST TENSE- add ‘un’ to the end. E.g- ‘morosun’= has/have played.
PRESENT TENSE- add ‘el’ to the end. E.g.- ‘mosorel’= plays/is playing.
FUTURE TENSE- add ‘iss’ to the end. E.g.- ‘mosoriss’= will play.
UNCERTAIN TENSE= add ‘ar’ to the end. E.G.- ‘mosorar’= might/would/could play.
Note- the presence of the uncertain tense makes it so that would, could, and might don’t exist in Gartul, because adding ‘ar’ to the end makes those words.
GENDER
Gender has prefixes.
MALE GENDER PREFIX- ‘ bete komosorun’= he played. Bete means ‘he’, and since that word is there, you add ‘ko’ to the beginning of the word, ‘mosorun’, which means have played.
FEMALE GENDER PREFIX- ‘nete omosorun’= she played. Nete means she, and since nete is there, add ‘o’ (making the sound of the English word ‘oh’) to the beginning of the word.
INANIMATE GENDER PREFIX- ‘frete pamosorun’= it played. Frete means it, and since frete is there, add pa, like Pa as in father, to the beginning of the word.
SYNTAX- VSO.
Example sentence-
‘Mosoriss Joseph vu strovonn.’ That means, ‘Joseph will play the guitar’.
Other important syntax notes- pronouns always go before verbs.
CASES
Gartul has a couple cases for you. To denote case, you add a couple suffixes-
Example word- trisha (book)
Nominative- add no suffix.
Accusative- -ur. (Trishur)
Genitive- -ich. (Trisich)
Essive- -sta. (Trissta)
Inessive- -ats. (Trisats)
Adessive- -oll. (Trisholl.)
Instructive- -min. (Trishmin.)
Abessive- -kap. (Trishkap)
NEGATION
To denote negation, add ‘reot’ as a word after the word.
E.G.- I don’t remember that day.
‘Umalannel reot ka jete asey.’
Remember (with present suffix) NEGATION I that day
ARTICLES
There are two articles in Gartul: one for ‘a’ (‘cha’) which is used when referring to an object, but you don’t exactly know which object, and one for ‘the’ (‘vu’) which is used when referring to an object and you know exactly which one.
E.g.- ‘Cha sovash’= a(n) animal
‘Vu sovash’= the animal
NUMBERS
1- surn
2- mio
3- insh
4- kroo
5- zipf
6- pil
7- bay
8- ub
9- noin
10- ecks