Sunday, 9 September 2007

Cálos ~ Affixes & Particles

Suffixes:
  • -is :: noun, adjective - neuter gender; verb -> noun (to snow -> snow)
  • -os :: noun, adjective - masculine gender
  • -as :: noun, adjective - feminine gender
  • -é :: adverb
  • -áthos :: verb -> noun (to fish -> fisherman)
  • -los :: language
  • -mas :: country
  • -lea :: if (sahinlea = if I see)
  • -sea :: then / answer to if (mólsinsea = then I hate)
  • -cál :: be able to (sahincállea = if I am able to see)

Prefixes:

  • ci- :: smaller, weaker
  • él- :: bigger, more powerful, deeper, more serious
  • a/o/i- :: plural
  • gyr- :: a part of (arhívos = archive / gyrarhívos = document)
  • ný- :: electrical, modern, high tech, computer related
  • cael- :: not true, false, not genuine, fake

Other affixes:

  • ás- ~ -is :: verb -> noun (to snow -> snowing)
  • -u- :: noun -> adjective
  • san- ~ -is :: adjective -> noun (vánis = alike; similar / sanvánis = harmony;similarity)
  • -ámul- :: verb, noun -> adjective
  • -yr- :: opposite
  • -úm- :: almost (ósos = island / ósúmos = peninsula)
  • -zé- :: result (cavos = dog / cavozéos = puppy)

Particles:

  • e ~ :: polite, showing respect or honour
  • ~ :: asking, marking a question
  • a ~ :: something close
  • o ~ :: ordinal numbers
  • él :: confirmation (sure?)
  • ~ á :: exclamation point

Thursday, 6 September 2007

Cálos ~ Examples

Examples do always show themselves handy!
PS: They are just rough examples however.

Cavon onanám és, sói céta hányros áser.
dog-the cat-the(sociative) is but where no-one knows
The dog is together with the cat, but no one knows where.

Imithrí cíwis haremá! Oothron ésev ésemá!
lives(gen) your(pl) live(imp plural) men-the are(2nd plural) be(imp plural)
Live your lives! Be who you are!

Semprinu miagros és, ca hányros vát alá sív...
House(subessive) treasure is that everyone-anti without me(acc) know(3rd singular)
Under the house, there's a treasure that no one but me know of...

Enlóm? Ít nihólóm ítim?
english(sociative) only japanese(sociative) concentrate(2nd singular)
What about English? Do you only concentrate on Japanese


Wednesday, 5 September 2007

Cálos ~ The Alphabet

The alphabet is some of the hardest things I know to come up with, and I promise you that it is a lot of reformations when it comes to this... Especially for me at least. I recently had a reformation, and I feel that I really like this one, and hopefully I'll stick to it.

The stress always falls on the accented/long vowel when there is one. When not, it falls on the first syllable.

Basic Letters:

Aa - [a]
Bb - [b]
Cc - [k]
Dd - [d]
Ee - [e]
Ff - [f]
Gg - [ɣ]
Hh - [ç] / [ɧ] (optionable)
Ii - [ɪ]
Ll - [l]
Mm - [m]
Nn - [n]
Oo - [ɔ]
Pp - [p]
Rr - [r]
Ss - [s]
Tt - [t]
Uu - [u]
Vv - [v]
Ww - [w]
Yy - [y]
Zz - [θ]

Additional Letters:

Áá - [aː]
Éé - [eː]
Íí - [iː]
Óó - [ɔː]
Úú - [uː]
Ýý - [yː]
Ćć - [tʃ]
Śś - [ʃ]
Thth - [ð]

Cálos ~ Grammatical Cases

Ok, so now I have reformed Calean (Cálos) a bit and added "some" more cases than just nominative, genitive and locative... I will show you the different meanings of the masculine noun "cavos" (dog)

  • cavos - nominative, (a) dog
  • cavó - accusative, (a) dog in object
  • cavoso - genitive, (a) dog who owns
  • cavom - inessive, inside a dog
  • cavoe - adessive/superessive, near; on (top of) a dog
  • cavov - illative, into a dog (movement)
  • cavomu - subessive, under a dog
  • cavóc - elative/ablative, away or out of a dog (movement)
  • cavóm - instrumental, with or about a dog
  • cavót - apudessive, next to a dog

  • cavon - nominative, the dog
  • cavonó - accusative, the dog in object
  • cavono - genitive, the dog who owns
  • cavonom - inessive, inside the dog
  • cavone - adessive, near the dog; superessive, on (top of) the dog
  • cavóno - illative, into the dog (movement)
  • cavonu - subessive, under the dog
  • cavonóc - elative/ablative, away or out of the dog (movement)
  • cavonóm - instrumental, with or about the dog
  • cavonót - apudessive, next to the dog

Nick aka Buster is in!

Hi everyone, i'm teh friend of the other admin =P
He asked me to join this blog, and i accepted. After lots of curses and anger attacks, it finally worked me to accept -_-''

Tuesday, 4 September 2007

The first post!

Hei!

So, this is my first post, then!
I will be writing about my conlangs, and stuff ;)
But mostly about conlangs. Melihis means "language" in Cálos or Calean, which is my first big conlang. I often try on new conlangs, or just begin with like ortography or the pronouns, then I perhaps give it up, so let's just call them "experiments".
Nick will be joining me soon I hope ;)

Best regards,
Aleksander