Khura’inese Class With Mx. Eaglet Mae

I attempt to teach my conlang based on the fictional Kingdom of Khura’in from Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney — Spirit of Justice. I have extremely limited experience with attempting to teach a language. Any feedback is appreciated. Keep in mind the language is also a work in progress so it may change in parts over time. Always down to translate anything you might want translated btw. Got nothing better to do.

[eagletwriteskhurainese]

BLOG UPDATE:

I have had so much fun working on this conlang, but at this point I’ve learned so much and have so many new ideas that if I was going to continue working on it, I would just start over from scratch.

I might do that someday, but I have so many other projects I’m working on right now that it probably won’t be for a while.

Thank you for appreciating this project of mine. It was a lot of fun (:

[eagletwriteskhurainese]

Tried looking this up but I just couldn’t figure it out so if you know language stuff PLEASE HELP

In my conlang, a word is used before a sentence to indicate when that sentence takes place. Examples:

Ta’a Bu’si’e = He is dying

Gu Ta’a Bu’si’e = He is going to die

Pa’ta’gu Ta’a Bu’si’e = He died

Hopefully that makes sense (I used a weird verb for this but I don’t think it really matters)

What I’m wondering, however, is what part of speech are the words “gu” and “patagu”???

Please help!!!

It’s gotta be a type of word that exists already, right? There are so many languages out there, this has to have a name.

[eagletdoesthings]

So many things to do, so little time. I just wanna do everything this week! Today I’ve got a fun headcanon suggested by my sis. Hope y’all find it interesting 💖

Today’s headcanon (9):

In Khura’inese culture, there are three recognized genders. The main two are the equivalent to ‘man’ and ‘woman,’ being designated at birth based on the person’s genitalia. There are of course different cultural ideas of what it means to be either a kuna (man) or a kuona (woman), but that’s not what I’m interested in discussing today. What I think would be more fun to talk about is the third gender; kuno. To talk about this though, first I have to explain the two monk ‘branches’ I have conceptualized. (Both of these branches are mainly composed of AMAB individuals, as culturally they are more traditionally monks.) The first one is the more common branch, who I will refer to as ‘the servants.’ These people carry out their monk duties predominantly by praying and arranging ceremonies to thank and please the gods. In short, they live to serve the gods. The next is where gender comes into this. The second branch, the kunos. Instead of appeasing and serving the gods in their duties, kunos are focused on trying to understand and communicate with them. They spend most of their time in deep meditation, up on a mountain which I have not come up with a name for yet (which is where most of them live), trying to transport their souls to the twilight realm enough to where an extremely spiritually powerful soul could commune with them. As they live up in the mountains, apart from most Khura’inese society, and, spending a lot of their time in the twilight realm, are even considered to be a bit disconnected from the living world as a whole, they are not considered to be like the average person enough to be considered either of the more common genders. Therefore, they are designated a third one; kuno.

Yeah, I’ve thought about this a lot. Nahyuta is a kuno btw. That’s the only real affect it has on canonical characters.

[eagletwriteskhurainese]

Thought it might be a good idea to reblog this to my Khura’inese blog. It goes into a lot of detail about what is quite a large part of my vision of Khura’inism and Khura’inese culture in general. Give it a read if you’d like. I find this stuff really interesting to think about.

[eagletwriteskhurainese]

When writing in Khura’inese, I’ve been using custom fonts I’ve made in iFontMaker.

Throughout the process of trying to make this language, these fonts have gone through many iterations, and will continue to as the language evolves.

I’ve created this document detailing each iteration of the font, and what changes between them. (PM me if you want any of these fonts btw)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1agDrUqfoQgW441eibd0qlZ7vDhinPOI-/view?usp=sharing

[eagletwriteskhurainese]

Kani: Happy

Kui: New

Tisukengohs’: Year

🎉

[eagletwriteskhurainese]

Finally added a word for ‘food’ and ‘eat’

Had been procrastinating on it cause it’s just such an important word

But here it is:

Agi

Kinda anticlimactic but it’s there.

[eagletwriteskhurainese]

Finally Updating the Dictionary!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Vsq_-ClN2bhrGDmEy9xMJUAwmNpwxbSD/view?usp=sharing

Been taking a break from editing it, so I decided this was a good time to share what I’ve been working on!

Still don’t have a word for eating though...

I’ll do that at some point maybe...

[eagletwriteskhurainese]

An important thing I added to the dictionary, but I haven’t updated the dictionary yet.

Making statements interrogative (questions)

Enu

Makes the following sentence interrogative

Examples:

Taro nama - Your name

Enu taro nama - What is your name?

Ta’a kiisa dikkizhu - You like peaches

Enu ta’a kiisa dikkizhu - Do you like peaches?

[eagletwriteskhurainese]

Attempt #1 at making a flag to represent Khura’in

I think it turned out quite well.

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Numbers up to 100 (Kami)

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Been adding more words to the dictionary. Will update it soon probably.

I’ve decided to make symbols to represent certain words. Kind of like Japanese Kanji if I understand what Kanji is.

They’re called Kami. I’ve made two symbols so far.

[eagletwriteskhurainese]

Finished the dictionary of all words currently in the language!

Tell me if the link doesn’t work 😅

Hopefully it does though

It works for me

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1X7XsqacX7rKzoMVOqpLGQ1kU6kferEjs/view?usp=sharing

[eagletwriteskhurainese]

Started working on the dictionary. Made it a lot more complicated than it needs to be but hey that’s me.

I’m not sure exactly how sharing notes documents with people works, but I think I can figure it out.

I’ll be making a google doc too after I’m done with the notes one.

Aini tazhu ❤️

[eagletwriteskhurainese]

Can’t think of what to teach next. I’m thinking of making a dictionary of Khura’inese words and their English meanings, but if there’s something else important I’m missing, please let me know.

[eagletwriteskhurainese]

Numbers up to 100

Sun

Ken

Tuun

Fan

Torin

Sua

Kea

Tua

Fea

Tisu

Tisusun

Tisuken

Tisutuun

Tisufan

Tisutorin

Tisusua

Tisukea

Tisutua

Tisufea

Tike

Tikesun

Tikeken

Tiketuun

Tikefan

Tiketorin

Tikesua

Tikekea

Tiketua

Tikefea

Titu

Titusun

Tituken

Titutuun

Titufan

Titutorin

Titusua

Titukea

Titutua

Titufea

Tifa

Tifasun

Tifaken

Tifatuun

Tifafan

Tifatorin

Tifasua

Tifakea

Tifatua

Tifafea

Tiri

Tirisun

Tiriken

Tirituun

Tirifan

Tiritorin

Tirisua

Tirikea

Tiritua

Tirifea

Asu

Asusun

Asuken

Asutuun

Asufan

Asutorin

Asusua

Asukea

Asutua

Asufea

Ake

Akesun

Akeken

Aketuun

Akefan

Aketorin

Akesua

Akekea

Aketua

Akefea

Atu

Atusun

Atuken

Atutuun

Atufan

Atutorin

Atusua

Atukea

Atutua

Atufea

Afa

Afasun

Afaken

Afatuun

Afafan

Afatorin

Afasua

Afakea

Afatua

Afafea

Sunti

[eagletwriteskhurainese]

Indicating time

Adverbs of Time:

Succeeds a sentence to indicate if it takes place in the past or the future.

Gu - Indicates the following sentence takes place in the future

Patagu - Indicates the following sentence takes place in the past

Examples:

(pa’a) “bureiu” - He is looking

*gu* (pa’a) “bureiu” - He will look

*patagu* (pa’a) “bureiu” - He looked

There are also more specific ones, such as:

Sungu - Tomorrow

Kengu - The day after tomorrow

Sunpatagu - Yesterday

Kenpatagu - The day before yesterday

Sun means one and ken means two, and any number can be added at the beginning of the word to affect the amount of time passed.

[eagletwriteskhurainese]

Pronouns and Possessive Adjectives:

Background:

Khura’in traditionally has three acknowledged genders:

Naka: Basically male

Onoka: Basically female

Noka: A third gender adopted by certain highly devoted monks.

All of these genders have their own sets of 2nd and 3rd person pronouns, which will be labeled below.

1st Person:

A - Singular, gender neutral pronoun. Rough English Translation: Me

Ro - Singular, gender neutral possessive adjective. Rough English Translation: My

‘A’ is often cut out of sentences, and it is just assumed you are talking about yourself.

There are other 1st person pronouns used less often, but still used sometimes. (I may add more later. I’d love suggestions, but) Here are some examples:

Ma’a - Singular, hyper-masculine/naka pronoun.

Maro - Singular, hyper-masculine/naka possessive adjective.

Ama’a - Singular, hyper-feminine/onoka pronoun.

Amaro - Singular, hyper-feminine/onoka possessive adjective.

2nd Person:

Ta’a - Singular, masculine/naka pronoun.

Taro - Singular, masculine/naka possessive adjective.

Toa - Singular, noka pronoun.

Toro - Singular, noka possessive adjective.

Ata’a - Singular, feminine/onoka pronoun.

Ataro - Singular, feminine/onoka possessive adjective.

3rd Person:

Pa’a - Singular, masculine/naka pronoun.

Paro - Singular, masculine/naka possessive adjective.

Poa - Singular, noka pronoun.

Poro - Singular, noka possessive adjective.

Apa’a - Singular, feminine/onoka pronoun.

Aparo - Singular, feminine/onoka possessive adjective.