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Batraći baćanen

A few weeks ago I decided to create a language, which has become the one of the most well-developed of all of my languages, with hundreds of words. But I couldn't create a page because I didn't have a name for the language, so it is temporarily placed here under the title batraći baćanen, which means "the drunken frog." Weird, huh?

Pronouns

The language has a fairly simple system of pronouns (some of the ones I didn't totally make up are Germanic in origin.) The first person singular is nominative ić, accusative/dative ića, cf. German ich; while the plural is nuć/nuća, which is of no exact origin, but starts, like in Latin (and hence most Romance languages) with the letter n. Second person singular sa/sas ultimately derives from Old English, but the original þ has been obscured. The second person plural o'i/o'is is entirely of my own invention, however, as are third person singular 'jes/'jesa and plural ne'a/ne'as. Possession is indicated by the suffix -o.

Lexicon

The lexicon is much too long for me to spell out here at the moment, but most of it is Greek-derived. I will therefore tell you about some of the non-Greek words, of which there are far fewer. You would do well at this point to note that ć is pronounced /ʃ/ (as is plain c [otherwise /k/] before a front vowel), ' as /h/ (c' as /k/) and the rather ambiguous j as /j/ (word-finally /ʝ/). Stress is on the ultimate syllable except when the last syllable ends in a vowel, in which case it is on the penultimate; or where indicated otherwise by an acute accent.

'ja - god

domast - great

cora'o - to invade or conquer

ćati - water

ćan - sky

do'a - color

'jebo - to marry

'jebocsa - marriage

cata'o - to greet

simbat - also

adu'ić - a notice

ama'í - hail!

buć - boat

ća'ijo - to say

će'i - this

će'a - that

do'umo - to dock

ascaja - building

pac'e'o - to seize

cict - silent

ćlagec - meat

ćo'u - to smoke

ćubel - head

tju'i - door

sera'u - to look

groce'u - to understand

pe'i - person

'ilin - bird

namo - mammal

'jisc - fish

na'u - reptile

ćjoc - military

'arino - to speak

'arin - an utterance

Grammar

Some basic points:

• There is no indefinate article.
• The definate article is a suffix, -i (or -'i after a vowel, -ji after an apostrophe-vowel group).
• The particle o is roughly equivalent to "of", but the possessor always comes before it.
• Adjectives in the predicate that describe the subject end in -pt, -st, or -l as listed, while adjectives that come directly after the nouns they describe (it is a head-first language) change -pt to -m and -st to -n. -l adjectives stay the same

(eg: Agalma'i eji adamapt ("The statue is [of] iron") vs. Agalma'i adamam ("The iron statue"). Note this could also be expressed as Agalma'i o adamacsa ("The statue of iron-ness").)