Germian

Germian
Germic
The Germian flag is inspired by the Dutch, German, British and Swedish flags.
Pronunciation	[germiʃ]
Created by	Jeppesper
Date	2022
Setting	Germanic languages
Language family	Indo-European Germanic North Germanic West Germic Germian
Writing system	Latin

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Germian (Germic IPA: /germiʃ/) is a conlang created by Jeppesper beginning in 2022, germ stands for it being based of off Germanic languages. It could be considered an engineered language since it is constructed to be regular, simple, recognizable, lack grammatical gender and gender differentiation of nouns/pronouns. The conlang is mainly based on English, German, Dutch and Swedish, but it has to smaller extends also been influenced by Afrikaans, Danish, Norwegian, Yiddish, West-frisian, Luxembourgish and Icelandic.

Qualities

Alignment	Neutral alignment
Type	Analytical
Tonal	No
Genders	None

Nouns decline according to	Case Number Definiteness
Verbs conjugate according to	Tense Aspect
Adjectives decline according to	Comparision

100%	Phonetic alphabet
100%	Consistent noun & adjective declensions
100%	Consistent verb conjugations
99%	Gender-neutral vocabulary
+	GSRD inclusive
+	Swadesh inclusive

Phonology

Consonants

	Bilabial	Labio-dental	Alveolar	Post-alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Labio-velar	Glottal
Nasal	m		n			ŋ
Plosive	p b		t d			k g
Fricative		f v	s z	ʃ				h
Approximant					j		w
Trill			r
Lateral app.			l
Clusters						ks kw

Vowels

	Front	Near-front	Central	Near-back	Back
High	iː yː				uː
Near-high		ɪ ʏ		ʊ
High-mid	eː				oː
Mid
Low-mid	ɛ				ɔ
Near-low
Low		a			ɑː
Diphthongs	ɛ͡ɪ	a͡ɪ a͡ʊ			ɔ͡ɪ ɔ͡ʊ

Orthography

Alphabet

Letter	Aa	Bb	Cc	Dd	Ee	Ff	Gg	Hh	Ii	Jj	Kk	Ll	Mm	Nn	Oo	Pp	Qq	Rr	Ss	Tt	Uu	Vv	Ww	Xx	Yy	Zz
Sound	/a/	/b/	/ʃ/	/d/	/ɛ/	/f/	/g/	/h/	/ɪ/	/j/	/k/	/l/	/m/	/n/	/ɔ/	/p/	/kw/	/r/	/s/	/t/	/ʊ/	/v/	/w/	/ks/	/ʏ/	/z/
Name	/a/	/beː/	/ʃeː/	/deː/	/ɛ/	/ɛf/	/geː/	/hoː/	/ɪ/	/jɛɪ/	/kɛɪ/	/ɛl/	/ɛm/	/ɛn/	/ɔ/	/peː/	/kwuː/	/ɛr/	/ɛs/	/teː/	/ʊ/	/vɛɪ/	/wʏn/	/ɛks/	/ʏ/	/zɛt/

Digraphs & Diphthongs

Digraphs & Diphthongs	Aa aa	Ee ee	Ii ii	Oo oo	Uu uu	Yy yy	Ng ng	Ai ai	Ei ei	Oi oi	Au au	Ou ou
Sound	/ɑː/	/eː/	/iː/	/oː/	/uː/	/yː/	/ŋ/	/a͡ɪ/	/ɛ͡ɪ/	/ɔ͡ɪ/	/a͡ʊ/	/ɔ͡ʊ/
Name	laang a	laang e	laang i	laang o	laang u	laang y	/ɛŋ/	/a͡ɪ/	/ɛ͡ɪ/	/ɔ͡ɪ/	/a͡ʊ/	/ɔ͡ʊ/

Phonotactics

Double consonants (that aren't part of a digraph) are pronounced with a syllable break:

Example: bb = /b.b/

The first 2 vowels that are viable as a vowel digraph/diphthong pair are the ones that will be pronounced as such:

Example: aii = /a͡ɪ.ɪ/

Example: eei = /eː.ɪ/

Not like: aii = /a.iː/

Not like: eei = /ɛ.ɛ͡ɪ/

Vowel digraph/diphthong pairs and single vowels that directly preceeds/follows a vowel digraph/diphthong pair are pronounced with a syllable break inbetween them:

Example: aaeiou = /ɑː.ɛ͡ɪ.ɔ͡ʊ/

Example: eaa = /ɛ.ɑː/

Example: aio = /a͡ɪ.ɔ/

Example: aaa = /ɑː.a/

Vowels following each other that are not part of a vowel digraph/diphthong pair are not pronounced with a syllable break inbetween them:

Example: ia = /ɪa/

Example: iea = /ɪɛa/

Example: aioe = /a͡ɪ.ɔɛ/

Grammar

Syntax

SVO (subject–verb–object)

Example: Jaik¹ hav² ain³ kat⁴. ⇄ I¹ have² a³ cat⁴.

Example: Jaik¹ see⁴ nite³ et⁵. ⇄ I¹ do² not³ see⁴ it⁵.

Example: Ain¹ rootic² rous³. ⇄ A¹ red² rose³.

Vocabulary

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Noun declenations

Case articles and number

Example	Singular	Plural
Nominative: definite article	de kat	de kates
Nominative: indefinite article	ain kat	(vleere) kates
Genitive: definite article	de katese	de kateses
Genitive: indefinite article	ain katese	(vleere) kateses

Vocabulary

ain ⇄ a/an (singular indefinite article)

de ⇄ the (definite article)

kat ⇄ cat

vleere ⇄ several (plural indefinite "article")

Verb conjugations

Infinitive/Imperative: sainen ⇄ to be	Simple	Progressive	Perfect	Imperfect
Present	sain ⇄ am/is/are	saine ⇄ being	hasain ⇄ have/has been
Past	saind ⇄ was/were	sainde ⇄ was/were being	hadsain ⇄ had been
Future	vil sain ⇄ will be	vil saine ⇄ will become	vil hasain ⇄ will have been
Conditional			skalde hasain ⇄ would have been	skalde sain ⇄ would be

Infinitive/Imperative: dunen ⇄ to do	Simple	Progressive	Perfect	Imperfect
Present	dun ⇄ do	dune ⇄ doing	hadun ⇄ have/has done
Past	dund ⇄ did	dunde ⇄ was/were doing	haddun ⇄ had done
Future	vil dun ⇄ will do	vil dune ⇄ will be doing	vil hadun ⇄ will have done
Conditional			skalde hadun ⇄ would have done	skalde dun ⇄ would do

Infinitive/Imperative: haven ⇄ to have	Simple	Progressive	Perfect	Imperfect
Present	hav ⇄ have	have ⇄ having	hahav ⇄ have/has had
Past	havd ⇄ had	havde ⇄ was/were having	hadhav ⇄ had had
Future	vil hav ⇄ will have	vil have ⇄ will be having	vil hahav ⇄ will have had
Conditional			skalde hahav ⇄ would have had	skalde hav ⇄ would have

Verb suffixes

-en ⇄ (making-verb)

Example	(Making-verb)	Progressive	Example phrase	Example phrase
vit ⇄ white	viten ⇄ whiten	vite ⇄ whitening	viten de tands ⇄ whiten the teeth	de vite of de tands ⇄ the whitening of the teeth

rii- ⇄ (repeat)

un- ⇄ (deprive)

ike-- ⇄ (negate)

Example	(repeat)	(deprive)	(negate)
vit ⇄ white	riiviten ⇄ rewhiten	unviten ⇄ unwhiten	ike-vit ⇄ non-white

Modal auxiliary verbs

berhauce ⇄ need

brauke ⇄ brukar (SE)/usually do

burte ⇄ ought

durfo ⇄ may/permitted to/allowed to/få (SE)/dürf (DE)

kan ⇄ can/to be able

kaunde ⇄ could

moug ⇄ might

must ⇄ must

skal ⇄ shall

skalde ⇄ would

taure ⇄ dare

vil ⇄ will/going to

wilte ⇄ want

Adjective comparison

-er ⇄ (comparative)

-est ⇄ (superlative)

Example	Positive/Negative	Comparative	Superlative
Adjective	groos	grooser	groosest

Example: Et sain groos. ⇄ It is big.

Example: Et sain grooser dan dat. ⇄ It is larger than that.

Example: Et sain (de) groosest. ⇄ It is the largest.

Example: Et sain klain. ⇄ It is small.

Example: Et sain klainer dan dat. ⇄ It is smaller than that.

Example: Et sain (de) klainest. ⇄ It is the smallest.

Example: Et sain fiiler dan dat. ⇄ It is more than that.

Example: Et sain klimer dan dat. ⇄ It is less than that.

Example: Jaik wilte meer. ⇄ I want (even) more.

Example: Jaik wilte haven vleere. ⇄ I want to have several ones.

Vocabulary

dan ⇄ than

dat ⇄ that

de ⇄ the

et ⇄ it

fiil ⇄ many/much/a lot

groos ⇄ big

hav ⇄ have

jaik ⇄ I

klain ⇄ small

klim ⇄ little

meer ⇄ even more/additional

sain ⇄ am/is/are

vleere ⇄ several

wilte ⇄ want

Adjective suffix

-ic ⇄ (making-adjective)/(having qualities of)

Example	gold ⇄ gold	hund ⇄ dog
-ic	goldic	hundic

Personal pronouns

Personal pronouns	Nominative	Possesive	Reflexive
1st person	jaik ⇄ I vii ⇄ we	jaikse ⇄ my/mine viise ⇄ our/ours	jaikself ⇄ myself viiselfs ⇄ ourselves
2nd person	duu ⇄ you (s.) juu ⇄ you (pl.)	duuse ⇄ your/yours (s.) juuse ⇄ you/yours (pl.)	duuself ⇄ yourself (s.) juuselfs ⇄ yourselves (pl.)
3rd person	xiin ⇄ they/this one (s. proximate./former. standard) diin ⇄ they/that one (s. obviative./post-former.) et ⇄ it dei ⇄ they (pl.)	xiinse ⇄ theirs (s.) diinse ⇄ theirs (s.) etse ⇄ its deise ⇄ theirs (pl.)	xiinself ⇄ themself (s.) diinself ⇄ themself (s.) etself ⇄ itself deiselfs ⇄ themselves (pl.)
4th person	eim ⇄ one	eimse ⇄ one's	eimself ⇄ oneself

Numerals

Ordinal numbers are marked by adding the suffix "-ce" to a number.

Capitalization

Capital letters are used for the first word of a sentence and for proper nouns.

The proper nouns in Germian are exclusively: personal names, place names, marketed titles and organization names.

Dictionary

Phrases

Jaik heiten... ⇄ My name is...	jaik ⇄ I	heiten ⇄ to be referred to as/heter (SE)/heiße (DE)
Vat sain duuse name? ⇄ What is your name?	name ⇄ name	Spraten duu... ⇄ Do you speak...
Jaik spraten nite... ⇄ I don't speak...	Jaik verctond nite. ⇄ I don't understand.	Veir sain de toilet? ⇄ Where is the toilet?
Vur sain duu?/Vur sain et? ⇄ How are you?/How is it?/How is it going?	Sain duu okee/ok? ⇄ Are you okay?	Sain et okee/ok? ⇄ Is it going okay?
okee/ok ⇄ okay/ok	jaa ⇄ yes	nei ⇄ no
njei ⇄ (yes/no)/well	jee ⇄ yeah	naa ⇄ nah
maince ⇄ maybe	natuurlic ⇄ of course	kain problem ⇄ no problem
antswer ⇄ answer	genau/exakt/presiic/korekt/ret ⇄ exactly/precisely/correct/right	inkorekt/falc ⇄ incorrect/false/wrong
tangke ⇄ thanks	tangke duu/juu (s./pl.) ⇄ thank you	fiil tangke ⇄ thank you very much
stop! ⇄ stop!	help ⇄ help	akta! ⇄ look out!
sori ⇄ sorry	sploristop ⇄ sorry, but please lets stop/end this	pardon ⇄ excuse me
spliifst ⇄ please	ckol ⇄ cheers	grelsing ⇄ greeting
haloo ⇄ hello	hae ⇄ hi	hei ⇄ hey
dae ⇄ good day/bye/dag (NE)	guutein ⇄ have a good one/goodbye	cau ⇄ bye
adjoo ⇄ adieu	ferwel ⇄ farewell	sees vii ⇄ see you/see you later
wilkom ⇄ welcome/you're welcome	moost wilkom ⇄ most welcome/you are most welcome	guut morgen ⇄ good morning
guut daag ⇄ good day	guut naftermiddaag ⇄ good afternoon	guut aufend ⇄ good evening
guut nact ⇄ good night	jaik eliibe duu ⇄ I love you	Vur fiil sain dit? ⇄ How much is this?

Swadesh+

1. I ⇄ jaik
2. we ⇄ vii
3. you (singular) ⇄ duu
4. you (plural) ⇄ juu
5. they (singular proximate) ⇄ xiin
6. they (singular obviative) ⇄ diin
7. they (plural) ⇄ dei
8. this ⇄ dit
9. that ⇄ dat
10. here ⇄ heir
11. there ⇄ daar
12. who ⇄ viim
13. whose ⇄ viis
14. what ⇄ vat
15. which ⇄ velke
16. why ⇄ vatfuur
17. where ⇄ veir
18. when ⇄ van
19. how ⇄ vur
20. what kind of/what something's like ⇄ vurvat
21. not ⇄ nite
22. all ⇄ al
23. none, no, not any ⇄ kain
24. many ⇄ fiil
25. few ⇄ veenig
26. some ⇄ somige
27. other ⇄ aader
28. one ⇄ ein
29. two ⇄ tvei
30. three ⇄ drii
31. four ⇄ fiir
32. five ⇄ faif
33. big ⇄ groos
34. small ⇄ klain
35. long ⇄ lang
36. short ⇄ kort
37. wide ⇄ breid
38. narrow ⇄ smaal
39. thick ⇄ dik
40. thin ⇄ dun
41. heavy ⇄ cveer
42. light ⇄ leict
43. female ⇄ femlin
44. male ⇄ manske
45. androgyne ⇄ wenle
46. gender-neutral ⇄ nukjon (nutrei-kjon)
47. genderless ⇄ zukjon (zunte-kjon)
48. cultural gender ⇄ qukjon (qultural-kjon)
49. inter(-sex/-gender) ⇄ jinen(-sec/-kjon)
50. endo(-sex/cisgender) ⇄ ine(-sec/-kjon)
51. trans(-sexual/-gender) ⇄ tverc(-sec/-kjon)
52. diverse/variating/queer ⇄ veirai
53. human ⇄ huumas
54. child/youngling ⇄ kind
55. child/offspring ⇄ cinder
56. lifepartner/martial partner ⇄ jaing (extension of "jaik")
57. parent ⇄ elder
58. animal ⇄ diir
59. fish ⇄ fic
60. bird ⇄ fogel
61. dog ⇄ hund
62. louse ⇄ laus
63. snake ⇄ clang
64. worm ⇄ wurm
65. nature ⇄ natuur
66. tree ⇄ trai
67. forest ⇄ skoog
68. stick ⇄ stape
69. fruit ⇄ fruut
70. seed ⇄ saed
71. leaf ⇄ lauv
72. root ⇄ wrootcel
73. bark (of a tree) ⇄ bark
74. flower ⇄ blom
75. grass ⇄ grais
76. rope ⇄ roup
77. body ⇄ bodi
78. organ ⇄ organ
79. skin ⇄ skind
80. leather ⇄ leder
81. scale ⇄ sqeil
82. meat ⇄ flec
83. blood ⇄ blut
84. bone ⇄ boun
85. fat (noun) ⇄ feit
86. grease ⇄ greis
87. mucle ⇄ muskel
88. guts ⇄ darm
89. heart ⇄ hart
90. brain ⇄ breihin
91. liver ⇄ leever
92. egg ⇄ eig
93. spit/saliva ⇄ speit
94. earwax ⇄ oorvax
95. sweat ⇄ sveit
96. snot ⇄ snot
97. bugger ⇄ buge
98. teardrop ⇄ treen
99. sleepies/eye gunk ⇄ sleps
100. horn ⇄ horn
101. stinger ⇄ stakel
102. antenna ⇄ anten
103. tail ⇄ stvan
104. feather ⇄ veder
105. hair ⇄ har
106. fur ⇄ fel
107. head ⇄ hovd
108. face ⇄ sicte
109. chin ⇄ cin
110. cheek ⇄ cing
111. ear ⇄ oor
112. auricle ⇄ oormucel
113. eye ⇄ ooge
114. eyelid ⇄ oogelid
115. eyelash ⇄ wimper
116. eyebrow ⇄ oogebrei
117. nose ⇄ noose
118. nostril ⇄ noostril
119. snout ⇄ snuut
120. mouth ⇄ mund
121. beard ⇄ bard
122. mustasch ⇄ mustac
123. lip ⇄ lip
124. tooth ⇄ tand
125. tongue ⇄ tunge
126. foot ⇄ fut
127. toe ⇄ too
128. heel ⇄ heil
129. leg ⇄ leg
130. knee ⇄ knii
131. kneepit (kneefold) ⇄ kniiboug
132. thigh ⇄ daig
133. groin ⇄ laist
134. hand ⇄ hand
135. nail (body part) ⇄ nagel
136. wing ⇄ ving
137. belly ⇄ belai
138. waist ⇄ taile
139. bellybutton ⇄ naavel
140. stomach ⇄ maage
141. hals (DE/SE)/neck-/-throat ⇄ halse
142. neck ⇄ nek
143. throat ⇄ froot
144. back ⇄ rug
145. breast/boob ⇄ brost
146. chest ⇄ cest
147. nipple ⇄ nipel
148. ass/butt ⇄ bump
149. buttcheek ⇄ cink/gluut
150. anus ⇄ anus
151. urethra ⇄ uretra
152. vagina ⇄ vagin
153. vagina (juvenile) ⇄ vip
154. clitoris ⇄ klitoris
155. womb ⇄ wuum
156. ovary ⇄ oovery
157. ovum ⇄ oovum
158. penis ⇄ peenis
159. penis (juvenile) ⇄ pik
160. scrotum/ballsack ⇄ skrung
161. (collective word for penis and scrotum) ⇄ prung
162. glans ⇄ gleiskel
163. testicle ⇄ testikel
164. sperm ⇄ sperm
165. to drink ⇄ dringken
166. to eat ⇄ spiitsen
167. to nibble ⇄ knibelen
168. to bite ⇄ baiten
169. to suck ⇄ saugen
170. to spit ⇄ speiten
171. to vomit ⇄ sparfen
172. to blow ⇄ blousen
173. to breathe ⇄ andemen
174. to laugh ⇄ lahen
175. to see ⇄ siien
176. to hear ⇄ hooren
177. to know ⇄ visten
178. to think ⇄ tengken
179. to smell ⇄ raukten
180. to taste ⇄ spruufen
181. to feel (emotionally) ⇄ kenden
182. to feel (physicaly) ⇄ fuulen
183. to touch ⇄ rooren
184. to sense ⇄ sensen
185. to fear ⇄ frangsten
186. to sleep ⇄ slaapen
187. to live ⇄ leven
188. to die ⇄ cdurden
189. to kill ⇄ douden
190. to fight (combat) ⇄ straiden
191. to fight (struggle) ⇄ kempen
192. to hunt ⇄ jakten
193. to hit ⇄ slaagen
194. to cut ⇄ cneiden
195. to chop ⇄ haken
196. to stab ⇄ staben
197. to share ⇄ deelen
198. to split ⇄ spliten
199. to scratch ⇄ skrapsen
200. to dig ⇄ graven
201. to swim ⇄ swimen
202. to fly ⇄ fliigen
203. to walk/go ⇄ gouen
204. to come ⇄ komen
205. to lie (lay) ⇄ leegen
206. to sit ⇄ siten
207. to stand ⇄ standen
208. to turn (intransitive) ⇄ dreiden
209. to rise ⇄ staigen
210. to fall ⇄ falen
211. to give ⇄ geeven
212. to take ⇄ neimen
213. to hold ⇄ halden
214. to squeeze ⇄ sqeesen
215. to rub ⇄ ruben
216. to wash ⇄ vasen
217. to wipe ⇄ drooken
218. to pull ⇄ pulen
219. to push ⇄ druken
220. to throw ⇄ troiven
221. to catch ⇄ fangen
222. to tie ⇄ binden
223. to sew ⇄ snaien
224. to count ⇄ reekenen
225. to say ⇄ saagen
226. to sing ⇄ singen
227. to play ⇄ spleien
228. to float ⇄ flouten
229. to sink ⇄ zingken
230. to flow ⇄ flouen
231. to swell ⇄ svelen
232. to freeze ⇄ friisen
233. to burn ⇄ branden
234. body of fire ⇄ fiierbodi
235. fire ⇄ fiier
236. sun ⇄ son
237. star ⇄ ster
238. body of earth ⇄ erdbodi
239. earth ⇄ erd
240. moon ⇄ mon
241. salt ⇄ salt
242. stone ⇄ steen
243. dust ⇄ stov
244. gravel ⇄ graus
245. asphalt ⇄ asfalt
246. boulder ⇄ boulder
247. ash ⇄ ask
248. mountain ⇄ berg
249. hill ⇄ houvel
250. sand ⇄ sand
251. road ⇄ veig
252. earthquake ⇄ erdbeeving
253. body of water ⇄ vaaterbodi
254. water ⇄ vaater
255. drop ⇄ drop
256. rain ⇄ regen
257. river ⇄ flusd
258. lake ⇄ see
259. sea ⇄ haav
260. waterstream ⇄ vaaterstroum
261. waterfall ⇄ vaaterfal
262. snow ⇄ snee
263. ice ⇄ ais
264. fog ⇄ neevel
265. mist ⇄ mist
266. tsunami ⇄ tsunaami
267. body of air ⇄ luftbodi
268. air ⇄ luft
269. cloud ⇄ woln
270. sky ⇄ himel
271. wind ⇄ wind
272. smoke ⇄ rook
273. tornado ⇄ tornaado
274. color ⇄ kolur
275. paint ⇄ farb
276. red ⇄ roud
277. orange ⇄ oranc
278. yellow ⇄ gelu
279. lime ⇄ laim
280. green ⇄ grun
281. turquoise ⇄ turkois
282. cyan ⇄ cyan
283. azure ⇄ azor
284. blue ⇄ blo
285. purple ⇄ prila
286. magenta ⇄ magent
287. cerise ⇄ ceri
288. white ⇄ vit
289. gray ⇄ gro
290. black ⇄ svart
291. brown (dark orange/orange-like colors) ⇄ brun
292. pink (pale red, magenta, cerise) ⇄ rooz
293. light ⇄ lict
294. hazy ⇄ hazi
295. dark ⇄ dunkel
296. night ⇄ nact
297. day ⇄ daag
298. year ⇄ jaur
299. warm ⇄ varm
300. cold ⇄ kald
301. full ⇄ fol
302. empty ⇄ lemtom
303. new ⇄ nue
304. old ⇄ old
305. good ⇄ guut
306. bad ⇄ slect
307. ripe/mature ⇄ raif
308. rotten ⇄ rotnen
309. clean ⇄ crein
310. dirty ⇄ smotsic
311. straight ⇄ strak
312. bent ⇄ bougd
313. round ⇄ rund
314. sharp (as a knife) ⇄ cerp
315. dull (as a knife) ⇄ dulp
316. smooth ⇄ glat
317. ragged ⇄ rugd
318. wet ⇄ vnot
319. dry ⇄ drog
320. near ⇄ neer
321. far ⇄ faar
322. right ⇄ rect
323. left ⇄ lingks
324. center ⇄ centraal
325. north ⇄ nord
326. south ⇄ saud
327. east ⇄ oust
328. west ⇄ vest
329. at ⇄ aton
330. in ⇄ in
331. with ⇄ mit
332. and ⇄ end
333. if ⇄ ifals
334. because ⇄ soodat
335. name ⇄ name
336. correct ⇄ korekt

Nouns

noom ⇄ noun

People/Family/Relation

Sexology

Elements

World parts

Languages

Time

Nature

Animals

Ability/Aid

Verbs

Common verbs

Relation/Family

Adjectives

adjektiv ⇄ adjective

Common adjectives

Colors

Family/Relation

Adverbs

adverb ⇄ adverb

Common adverbs

Numerals

Numerical/Mathematical words

Culture

Cultural philosophy

(Stoicism + Buddhism + Absurdism + Individual reflection)

Stance on higher power

1. Does not believe in any higher power(s).

2. Everything can be explained by science, only our knowledge is limited.

3. Instead of following a faith, one follows philosophy and a just lifestyle:

If there is any higher power(s) and they're just, then you will be rewarded by your virtuous acts.

If there is any higher power(s) and they're unjust, then you shouldn't want to follow them anyways.

If there is no higher power(s), then your virtuous acts will live on in the memory of your loved ones.

Stance on life, death and time

1. There most probably nothing after death, since every idea of what we think as an afterlife is just our wishful thinking that we have no basis for believing in.

2. Existence has no inherent meaning. Although life doesn't "lack" meaning because there was never room for meaning to begin with, life is a fact not a meaning.

3. Humans have an inherent need for meaning in a universe were meaning is irrelevant, this is absurd. We either tend to make a leap of faith to something abstract and irrational or turn to physical escape or destruction to escape this absurdity, but one ought to embrace the absurdity instead.

4. However, one should not reject life nor turn to faith when facing this crippling reality. One should instead accept this fact and still rejoice in life and its small things despite or because of their "lack of" meaning, because the fact of these things existing ought to be enough. Or if you will, may the joy and appreciation of "meaninglessness" be an act of rebellion.

5. Death is not the opposite of life, but an innate preconditioned part of it. Death is not something to fear, avoid, lament or hate. Death is outside our control, our view of death is our responsibility, and we can learn to accept it as a part of life, as neither good nor bad. Grief is of course important when experiencing the death of someone, and it ought to be practiced in a healthy way.

6. "Memento mori" - "Remember that one [has to] die" works as a reminder of one's mortality and inevitable death. It gives one perspective on life to value one's time since one has been given time in the first place.

7. "Protect time like your money". Value your time and don't waste any time in the day on the trivial and vain. Don't waste time worrying on problems one can't do anything about, and act instead of worry about problems one can do something about.

8. Try to remember and cherish more than regret or mourning things and experiences.

Stance on ego and identity

Ancient stoic take on ego death. Modern usage of ego deaths usually refers to our self-esteem, and our tendency to defend our self-esteem against attack, and our tendency to view the world in terms of our perceived identities. For example, if people identify themselves in terms of their political preferences or their social status or their skill set, then they will defend these abstractions as they defend themselves, and they will interact with the world as members of these groups.

The ancient Stoics would say that all of these things are external to us, that they come and go and there is no need to cling to them, and that it is a falsehood to identify one's self with them. Our real selves, as they see it, are our judgment and our will, our capacity for choice and experience. The part of you that is convinced of things, and that chooses things, is the real you. Everything else is external to you, a thing that you might enjoy or use while it is available, but not part of your core self.

We are entities, we have ideas and beliefs of who we are that we identify with. These are identities. Identities might help convey information, but are in actuality external to us. We ought to stop forming self-images of ourselves from these identities since these external views of ourselves are clouding our experience as self-entities. This is because our self-entities are in fact impossible for us to concretely think of.

Remove external beliefs/ideas of what you think you are and realize that you can't actually think of yourself. Reach ego-death. When you feel hurt/triggered by potential "harm" in social situations, it is just the false idea (based on external things) of what you think you are (self-image) that gets threatened.

Unblock your survival from fear, pleasure from regret, willpower from shame, love from grief, truth from lies, insight from illusion and pure conscience of experience from worldly desires to reach one’s own full and true potential.

Disciplines/Principles/Practices

1. Only virtue is good, only vice is bad, everything else is indifferent. Virtue is sufficient for happiness.

Practice and strive for the 4 stoic virtues: Justice, wisdom, temperance and courage. Avoid the 4 vices: Injustice, foolishness, intemperance and cowardice.

Wisdom means being able to tell what's right and what's wrong without prejudice, approaching everything logically and calmy and understand what is to be chosen or avoided. Justice means to always be fair and do the right thing even when something is wrong. Courage is to do the right thing even if you feel like it can be harmful for you, facing challenges and struggles without complaint, applying wisdom to things we fear. Temperance is the willpower for volontary self-restraint and moderation to things we are attracted to and ought not to be gluttoned.

2. After the first impression, interpretation of reality, and emotional analysis of an event, one should not go for the emotional response, one should instead make a rational analysis and then a rational response.

3. Anger is an emotion that erodes the fabric of who we are. Thus one ought to learn how to control it. "One's anger is more likely to do more harm than how much someone is wrong".

4. “The Discipline of Desire”, which has to do with acceptance of our fate. Don't waste time on things you can't control or influence. Don’t desire what is out of your control e.g. never to die, never get sick, never get in an accident etc. Once something that's outside of your control happens, you make the best of what you got at hand to deal with it. Prepare yourself for the worst possible outcomes based on the true nature of things and hope for the best. Having an idealized fantasy as the expected outcome (desiring something unnatural) is going to crush you every time. It’s ok to prefer that the thing you desire won't turn bad, but know it is in the realm of possibilities that it will. Play by nature’s rules, and don’t desire the outcome to be anything outside of the realm of possibilities.

• “The Discipline of Action”, which has to do with philanthropy or love of humankind.

Mastering impulse to act and impulse not to act. This is a gentler form of desire and aversion. We are to appeal to different roles we have. These form a hierarchy.

[1] Universal role as a human being.

At the top of the list is health and taking care of ourselves. The next thing we do is to appeal to our particular talents, and cultivate what we're best at and most interested in. This is going towards your nature. To go against your nature would be to pursue things that you're not really interested in.

[2] Appealing to our specific relationships with other people. Am I a parent, a partner, a friend?

An example that Epictetus uses is a father who is not able to care for his sick daughter. He runs away from his daughter, he leaves the house, he can't handle the fact that his daughter might die.

The idea here is that this is not someone who has mastered desire and aversion. He thinks death is a bad thing, he's afraid of his daughter dying, he hasn't come to terms with what his ultimate value system should be under the Stoic picture. And because of that, it is interfering with his capacity to fulfill his obligation to other people. He's not able to fulfill his obligation as a father because he's still afraid.

[3] Preference

If it doesn't go against reason, if it doesn't go against your interests, if it doesn't go against your relationships with other people, you are free to choose whatever you prefer.

• “The Discipline of Assent”, which has to do with mindfulness of our judgements.

Assent means agreement. The discipline of assent involves making correct judgements about the nature of the external world and events that occur in it.

As a practicing Stoic, we need to know that we assent to value judgements of things that occur around us that were made by us consciously or unconsciously. This can affect how we feel about the event.

We can use a three step process of- Stop it, Strip it and See it.

Step 1: Stop it- Stop the value judgment in its tracks. See that you can stop it before it can affect you.

Step 2: Strip it- Strip the value judgment and see through it. Most things that we perceive are nothing more than mere indifference that we can see through if we take a moment to observe it more clearly. As Marcus Aurelius writes in Meditations, "When you have savories and fine dishes set before you, you will gain an idea of their nature if you tell yourself that this is the corpse of a fish, and that the corpse of a bird or a pig; or again, that fine Falernian wine is merely grape-juice, and this purple robe some sheep’s wool dipped in the blood of a shellfish; and as for sexual intercourse, it is the friction of a piece of gut and, following a sort of convulsion, the expulsion of mucus." (VI.13)

Step 3: See it- See the event from a cosmic viewpoint. Whatever is happening at that moment may seem out of ordinary and inconvenient but try to look at it in the grander scheme of things. Maybe this was always supposed to happen and what has happened may have set a new course for you.

5. Practice mindfulness and seek nature to find clarity

6. Follow the 5 Buddhist precepts as a form of standard behavior: Don't abuse words, don't abuse senses, don't intoxicate, don't take what is not given and don't kill.

7. Acknowledge, appreciate, respect and value: Nature and life, others' humanity and diversity, learning new things, experiences and change.

8. Practice responsibility and kindness, avoid laziness and cruelty

9. Always remember to be responsible and to mindfully organize these 7 things when one is lost: self, health, environment, relationships, work, interests and experiences.

10. One ought to follow a Nonviolent Communication (NVC) style, also called Giraffe language, to reach the most effective, optimal and rational conclusion. Explain the situation/problem, explain how it affects, explain what is needed, and give suggestions how to compromise.

Cultural prosoponyms

Cultural Germian personal names (lacking meaning and gender)

Aic

Alet

Alix

Aspi

Aulim

Beili

Bili

Bjel

Caarli

Cansii

Deviv

Eedam

Eerin

Eevis

Eilex

Eica

Evlet

Ezin

Feeli

Gliio

Haime

Iiden

Iikiv

Ikim

Iz

Jei

Jeimly

Jesin

Jii

Joisen

Jota

Jyn

Keea

Kei

Kelty

Kiia

Kimi

Klei

Kouli

Kyn

Kyvi

Laarem

Lenuu

Lexin

Lii

Lonel

Lyrik

Lysu

Marjom

Miica

Mika

Muue

Naaga

Ngoli

Ngiika

Nixei

Olasa

Oili

Ouza

Peit

Qaali

Qarel

Qen

Qin

Qonik

Riica

Robi

Ryli

Saca

Sadiin

Saem

Seim

Seiwin

Siien

Solve

Tei

Tirin

Usuj

Uuli

Vei

Venel

Vylyn

Wyn

Xima

Ylois

Yyvei

Zene

Zia