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Translation.

My favourite line from LotR:

So fair, yet so cold like a morning of pale Spring still clinging to Winter's chill.

Se:njume dos kar dos ti:ra:. Loen lananjurne poern sel krit ro-ti:nos ma-london.

(lit. so beautiful, yet so cold. Like a early-spring morning that blows with cool of the Winter.

The man runs. Lo:rnini. He runs. Sinini. I run. Lenini. Three men run. Manolo:rmannini. He ran. Sinina. He is running. Sinin. He was running. Sinina. (There’s no continuous tense.) He should run. Sininnoto. He should have been running. Sinininoto. Run! Oninnoto! Don’t run! Oninnota! He doesn’t run. Sinini ma. He didn’t run. Sinina. He won’t run. Sinine. He ran quickly. Sinina lilo. He ran away. Sidoelnina. He ran after her. Sinina lai-se. He ran on Tuesday. Sinina an-tonon.

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halonia

I’m compiling some syntax-testing sentences for translating as a reference for conlanging. (There’s a lot of word lists and some sentences lists but few of them focus on syntactic and morphosyntactic structures.)

At the moment this is largely an exercise in showcasing English’s...

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lo:n - noun, moon taelo - noun, sunray go - noun, all visible sky kaelso - noun, star kanuil - noun, all visible land

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Hello?

Are there any slavic conlangers? If you are one or you create a slavic colang, please contact me.

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Love.

aeli Verb 'to love deeply, after many years, with strong bounds'

manj Verb 'to love with an erotic context'

minj Verb 'to love freshly, be in love with someone'

roel Verb 'to love with no erotic context'

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Universe, creation. (1)

A

aedo Adjective bright

alianu Noun forest

alik Noun tree

astin Noun sky

F

faeltoe Noun lightning

fial Noun sea

fialo Noun river

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Cases

Cases are attached to nouns, adjectives and pronouns. All of them, except for Nominativus and Accusativus, are constructed with the use of a proper prefix.

There are fourteen cases in mafae.

Nominativus - no prefix.

Genetivus - ma- (of smth, belonging to smth)

Dativus - lai- (for smth, to smth)

Accusativus - no prefix, determined with position, after predicate (except for personal pronouns)

Locativus - oan-

Inessivus - oanj- (in the middle of smth)

Instrumentalis - kon- (using smth, with smth)

Vocativus - ai-

Temporalis - an- (at, during, on some time, period)

Partitivus - lef- (part of smth)

Comitativus - ko- (with smth)

Adessivus - bes- (next to, by smth)

Causalis - sel- (because of smth)

Essivus - ro- (as smth)

Examples:

You, because of you he is dead! Ai-o, sinn kanyat sel-o!

-nn- - verb, to be; kanyat - adj., dead, o - pron., you

She will come with me at 12 o'clock. Seloe ko-lu an-ni:n.

se - pron., she lo - verb, to come ni:n - noun, noon (pl. tant.)

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Lenaio. - I love you. Siloari. - She came to us. Ome:ner ko-ri. - You will eat with us. Seraiediran. - She will light a candle. Ti:nasea. - You are tired.

Vocabulary:

Verbs:

na - to love

lo - to come

me - to eat

rai - to light, to fire

Nouns:

ner - meal

diran - candle

Infixes:

-e- - past tense

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Vocabulary - the body

toral - body, torael

mino - face, minoe

kaleb - nose, kale:b

silai - arm, sili:

ran - leg, raen

mikol - knee, mikoel

tuli - ear, tului

anin - eye, anuin

falin - finger, faluin

okal - hair, okael (hair of more than one person)

rino - breast, rinoe

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Mafae dictionary

This post is being updated after creating every new word. Last (third) update: Jul 12.

a - conj., and

alik - noun, tree

anin - noun, eye

ar - adj., bad

ari - noun, language

diran - noun, candle

falin - noun, finger

fia - noun, water

fiari - noun, blood

fiarn - noun, vocabulary, words of language

kaleb - noun, nose

kan - noun, ground

kanyat - adj., dead

kanyu - noun, world of the dead

kar - conj., but, however

le - pron., I, me

lo - verb, to come

lol - conj., or, either

lu - pron., me (non-nominative cases)

maf - noun, music

mafalk - verb, rustle

me - verb, to eat

mikol - noun, knee

mino - noun, face

na - verb, to love

nase - adj., tired

ni:n - noun, noon (pl. tant.)

-nn- - verb, to be;

no - conj., and

nyu - noun, beauty

o - pron., you (sin)

okal - noun, hair

pa - conj., or, either

ra - pron., we

rai - 1. noun, fire; 2. verb, to fire

raikan - noun, desert

ran - noun, leg

ri - pron., us

rino - noun, breast

se - pron., she

si - pron., he

si:t - conj., but, however

silai - noun, arm

su - pron., him, her

ta - pron., they

ti - pron., you (pl)

tiu - pron., you (pl, non-nominative cases

toernen - conj., and

toral - noun, body

tu - pron., them

tuli - noun, ear

vel - adj., good

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Numerals

Mafae counting system is a base-3 system, which main elements are 1, 2, 3 i 18.

ilo

taso

mano

(3+1) manilo

(3+2) mataso

(3*2) manoe

manoe ilo

manoe taso

manoe mano

manoe manilo

manoe mataso

man-manoe

man-manoe ilo

man-manoe taso

man-manoe mano

man-manoe manilo

man-manoe mataso

tu:los

…

36. tu:loes

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Root combination

Most of the roots in mafae language can be combined to create new, more symbolical meanings. Those are some examples:

raikan - desert (rai - fire, kan - land, earth, dirt)

mafalk - rustle (maf - music, alk - tree, plant)

fiarn - vocabulary, words of language (fia - water, arn - language)

kanyu - world of the dead (nyu - beautiful, kan - land, earth, dirt)

fiari - blood (fia - water, rai - fire)

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Phonetics

Sounds of mafae language:

Vowels:

a /a/ e /ɛ/ i /i/ o /o/ u /u/ (northern Mafae pronounce it differently, more like japanese /u/) oe /ə/

Diphthongs:

ae, ai /aɪ/

Length of vowels:

Every vowel is normally equally long, unless there's colon after them.

a: e: i: o: u: oe:

Consonants:

p b t d k g f v s h /x/ m n r /r/ l /l/ i /j/

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Conjunctions

spójniki łączące - no, toernen

spójniki przeciwstawienia - kar, si:t

spójniki równorzędności - a

spójniki alternatywy - pa, lol

spójniki równoczesności - kann

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Liczebnik

Liczebniki występują w systemie trójkowym, którego głównymi wykładnikami są liczby 1, 2, 3 i 18.

ilo