Nibenese/Colovian conlang

Hammythefrog · **Posted:** Mon Sep 05, 2016 1:25 am

I'm something of a language nerd and I figured it'd be a fun project to create conlangs (a man-made language) for the Nibenese and Colovian peoples. If anyone would like to contribute vocabulary, translating texts, etc it'd be pretty chill. I can provide all the grammar rules I have created, feel free to add or recommend that I change something

I've started work on the Nibenese language and i've created the following regarding the oblivion crisis

"Krste oblevest (brneväc ojuke et Grencam Piricem) ce prsteva na tkanaļ tridná grnová apu Meruns Dagen va senäs verjipetkrne daedrest segirantevamis kirodilatt. Segirantev eteseva tkanev par Martinema Septim apu ál ce trincformeva na Atoktarat Akatosest lijovant hrļevat kongemes"

Literally translated-
"Crisis oblivion-masc. sg. gen (called-masc. sg also as-dat. prep Great-masc. sg. dat. Anguish-masc. sg. dat) happen-perf in-dat. prep. end-fem. sg. dat. third fem. sg. gen era-fem. gen. sg when Mehrunes Dagon and his-masc. sg Legion daedra masc. sg. gen attacked- 3p pl. perf. Cyrodill (masc. sg. acc). Siege be-3p. sg. perf ended- masc. sg by- Instr. prep. Martin-masc. sg. instr. when he become-3p. sing. perf into-acc. prep Avatar -masc. sg. acc Akatosh-masc. sg. gen use-ger. amulet-fem. sg. acc king -masc. pl. gen.

The Oblivion crisis (also called the Great Anguish) happened at the end of the 3d Era when Mehrunes Dagon and his legion of Daedra attacked Cyrodill. The invasion was ended by Martin Septim when he turned into the Avatar of Akatosh using the Amulet of Kings.

Hammythefrog · **Posted:** Mon Sep 05, 2016 1:28 am

Declension of Nouns
Feminine

Nominative Ø (s)esa
Accusative (a)t - (s)esti
Dative (a)ļ - (s)emma
Genitive (t)á - (s)átta
Instrumental (t)éļ - (s)ola
Vocative (t)o - (s)ete

Masculine Singular Plural

Nominative Ø - (t)i
Accusative (a)tt - (s)attem
Dative (a)m- (s)emma
Genitive (e)st- (s)emes
Instrumental (e)ma- (s)ena
Vocative (t)e- (s)ennet

Declension of Adjectives
*note* Adjectives with "ä" in the penultimate syllable lose the "ä" in all cases except for the masculine singular
Lärc- (Low)
Feminine Singular Plural

Nominative Lrca - Lrcesa
Accusative Lrcat - Lrcesti
Dative Lrcaļ - Lrcemma
Genitive Lrcá - Lrcátta
Instrumental Lrcéļ- Lrcola
Vocative Lrco - Lrcete

Masculine Singular Plural

Nominative Lärc- Lrci
Accusative Lrcatt- Lrcattem
Dative Lrcam- Lrcemma
Genitive Lrcest - Lrcemes
Instrumental Lrcema - Lrcena
Vocative Lrce - (s)ennet

Verb Conjugation
Tróvinar- To find
Ļo tróvino - Nace tróvinamis
Te tróvinac - Vace tróvinas
Ál/ Ála tróvina - Àli/Àlesa tróvinan

Ļicär- to build
Ļo ļicro - Nace ļicrmis
Te ļicrac - Vace ļicris
Àl/Àla ļicr - Àli/Àlesa ļicrin

Verb tenses- Indicative
Past Perfect

For -ar verbs, add "ev" before attaching the personal endings
ļo viklo (I study, viklar)
ļo viklevo (I studied)

For -är verbs, remove the ä and add "iv" before attaching the personal endings
ļo tskro (I call, tskär)
ļo tskrivo (I called)

Imperfect
For -ar verbs, add "ļante" AFTER the personal endings
ļo brvo (I eat, brvar)
ļo brvoļante

For -är verbs, add "sinte" after removing the ä and attaching a personal ending
ļo privro (I write, privär)
ļo privrosinte (I used to write/was writing)

Future
For all verbs, simply add "var" to the beginning of the verb
ļo optermo (I perfect, optermar)
ļo varoptermo (I will/am going to perfect)

Verb tenses- Subjunctive
Present
In the subjunctive present for -ar verbs, add "en" before attaching the personal endings
ļo brvo (I eat, brvar)
Sem ujikäc de brveno ļeppukatt (I am happy that i am eating an apple)

For -är verbs, add an "en" after removing the ä from the stem
ļo patistro (I bake, patistär)
Amiro de patistreno (I love to bake)

Past Perfect
In the past subjunctive for ALL verbs, simply add te(m) to the beginning of the verb
Sem ujikca de tebrikno- (I'm happy that i celebrated, briknar, to celebrate)

Hammythefrog · **Posted:** Mon Sep 05, 2016 1:46 am

PHONOLOGY
A- /a/- As in "Father"
Á- /au/- As in "Ow"
Ä- Same as /A/ but disappears in all cases, genders, and numbers ASIDE from the Masculine Nominative Singular
B-/b/
C- /t͡s/- As in "Cats"
D-/d/
E- /ɛ/- As in "Ed, Edd n Eddy"
É- /e/- As in "Ay whaddup dog"
F-/f/
G- /ɡ/ Always pronounced hard, as in "Garbage"
I- /i/
J- /ʒ/- As in "Measure"
L-/l/
Ļ-/j/ Like the Spanish "LL" sound or the English consonantal "Y" sound
M-/m/
N-/n/
O- /o/- But it's a PURE vowel, not a dipthong as it is usually pronounced in English
Ó- /ɔ/ Open mid back vowel, Identical to the Swedish Å
P-/p/
R- /r/ Always trilled, can act as a consonant or a vowel
S- /s/
T-/t/
U- /u/- Pure vowel
V-/v/
X-/x/ Voiceless velar fricative, As in German "Doch" or French "Rouge"
Z-/z/

AKB · **Posted:** Mon Sep 05, 2016 1:56 am

Of all the language projects I have seen spring up, I haven't seen one for the Colovians and Nibenese.

Hammythefrog · **Posted:** Mon Sep 05, 2016 2:12 am

Once I create about 500 words i'll alphabetize them and upload it as a pdf. I'll continue adding revisions as more words are created. This should be fun!

VirtualWeasel · **Posted:** Mon Sep 05, 2016 4:25 am

Interesting work, but I don't see it having much of a relationship to Ehlnofex, which it would have to be descended from either through the Nedic or Aldmeris branch of the tree.
I mean, I would understand that it would go through some changes after being further removed from base Ehlnofex, but not quite something so drastic.

legoless · **Posted:** Mon Sep 05, 2016 4:28 am

Hammythefrog wrote:

Future
For all verbs, simply add "var" to the beginning of the verb
ļo optermo (I perfect, optermar)
ļo veroptermo (I will/am going to perfect)

Typo?

Can't say I'm a fan of the random diacritics, since it's a big departure from the ASCII-friendly source material. Interesting work though.

Hammythefrog · **Posted:** Mon Sep 05, 2016 4:48 am

The diacritics affect the pronunciation, for instance the ļ makes a consonantal "y" sound. If it's easier it could be replaced with just a "y". The diacritics on the vowels affect pronunciation as well.

Good catch! That was definitely a typo. My bad

Hammythefrog · **Posted:** Mon Sep 05, 2016 5:54 am

VirtualWeasel wrote:

Interesting work, but I don't see it having much of a relationship to Ehlnofex, which it would have to be descended from either through the Nedic or Aldmeris branch of the tree.
I mean, I would understand that it would go through some changes after being further removed from base Ehlnofex, but not quite something so drastic.

Definitely, from now on I'll take a look at some of the Nedic/Aldmeris resources and reconstruct root words from there.

VirtualWeasel · **Posted:** Mon Sep 05, 2016 6:28 am

Hammythefrog wrote:

VirtualWeasel wrote:

Interesting work, but I don't see it having much of a relationship to Ehlnofex, which it would have to be descended from either through the Nedic or Aldmeris branch of the tree.
I mean, I would understand that it would go through some changes after being further removed from base Ehlnofex, but not quite something so drastic.

Definitely, from now on I'll take a look at some of the Nedic/Aldmeris resources and reconstruct root words from there.

I'm interested to see the result, you seem to have a much better grip on grammar than I've ever had when it comes to conlangs

Hammythefrog · **Posted:** Mon Sep 05, 2016 3:32 pm

VirtualWeasel wrote:

Hammythefrog wrote:

VirtualWeasel wrote:

Interesting work, but I don't see it having much of a relationship to Ehlnofex, which it would have to be descended from either through the Nedic or Aldmeris branch of the tree.
I mean, I would understand that it would go through some changes after being further removed from base Ehlnofex, but not quite something so drastic.

Definitely, from now on I'll take a look at some of the Nedic/Aldmeris resources and reconstruct root words from there.

I'm interested to see the result, you seem to have a much better grip on grammar than I've ever had when it comes to conlangs

Thank you!

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