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Pronunciation | [germiʃ] |
Created by | Jeppesper |
Date | 2022 |
Setting | Germanic languages |
Indo-European
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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 |
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Type | Analytical |
Tonal | No |
Genders | None |
Nouns decline according to | Case
Number Definiteness |
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Verbs conjugate according to | Tense
Aspect |
Adjectives decline according to | Comparision |
100% | Phonetic alphabet |
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100% | Consistent noun & adjective declensions |
100% | Consistent verb conjugations |
0% | Noun/Pronoun gender differentiation |
+ | Swadesh inclusive |
+ | GSRD inclusive |
Phonology
Consonants
Bilabial | Labio-dental | Alveolar | Post-alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Labio-velar | Glottal | |
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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 | |
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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 | Rr | Ss | Tt | Uu | Vv | Ww | Xx | Yy | Zz | |
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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
There are no silent letters.
There is no phonemic reduced vowel sound like english's /ə/.
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 |
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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+
- I ⇄ jaik
- we ⇄ vii
- you (singular) ⇄ duu
- you (plural) ⇄ juu
- they (singular proximate) ⇄ xiin
- they (singular obviative) ⇄ diin
- they (plural) ⇄ dei
- this ⇄ dit
- that ⇄ dat
- here ⇄ heir
- there ⇄ daar
- who ⇄ viim
- whose ⇄ viis
- what ⇄ vat
- which ⇄ velke
- why ⇄ vatfuur
- where ⇄ veir
- when ⇄ van
- how ⇄ vur
- what kind of/what something's like ⇄ vurvat
- not ⇄ nite
- all ⇄ al
- none, no, not any ⇄ kain
- many ⇄ fiil
- few ⇄ veenig
- some ⇄ somige
- other ⇄ aader
- one ⇄ ein
- two ⇄ tvei
- three ⇄ drii
- four ⇄ fiir
- five ⇄ faif
- big ⇄ groos
- small ⇄ klain
- long ⇄ lang
- short ⇄ kort
- wide ⇄ breid
- narrow ⇄ smaal
- thick ⇄ dik
- thin ⇄ dun
- heavy ⇄ cveer
- light ⇄ leict
- female ⇄ femlin
- male ⇄ manske
- androgyne ⇄ wenle
- gender-neutral ⇄ nukjon (nutrei-kjon)
- genderless ⇄ zukjon (zunte-kjon)
- cultural gender ⇄ qukjon (qultural-kjon)
- inter(-sex/-gender) ⇄ jinen(-sec/-kjon)
- endo(-sex/cisgender) ⇄ ine(-sec/-kjon)
- trans(-sexual/-gender) ⇄ tverc(-sec/-kjon)
- diverse/variating/queer ⇄ veirai
- human ⇄ huumas
- child/youngling ⇄ kind
- child/offspring ⇄ cinder
- lifepartner/martial partner ⇄ jaing (extension of "jaik")
- parent ⇄ elder
- animal ⇄ diir
- fish ⇄ fic
- bird ⇄ fogel
- dog ⇄ hund
- louse ⇄ laus
- snake ⇄ clang
- worm ⇄ wurm
- nature ⇄ natuur
- tree ⇄ trai
- forest ⇄ skoog
- stick ⇄ stape
- fruit ⇄ fruut
- seed ⇄ saed
- leaf ⇄ lauv
- root ⇄ wrootcel
- bark (of a tree) ⇄ bark
- flower ⇄ blom
- grass ⇄ grais
- rope ⇄ roup
- body ⇄ bodi
- organ ⇄ organ
- skin ⇄ skind
- leather ⇄ leder
- scale ⇄ sqeil
- meat ⇄ flec
- blood ⇄ blut
- bone ⇄ boun
- fat (noun) ⇄ feit
- grease ⇄ greis
- mucle ⇄ muskel
- guts ⇄ darm
- heart ⇄ hart
- brain ⇄ breihin
- liver ⇄ leever
- egg ⇄ eig
- spit/saliva ⇄ speit
- earwax ⇄ oorvax
- sweat ⇄ sveit
- snot ⇄ snot
- bugger ⇄ buge
- teardrop ⇄ treen
- sleepies/eye gunk ⇄ sleps
- horn ⇄ horn
- stinger ⇄ stakel
- antenna ⇄ anten
- tail ⇄ stvan
- feather ⇄ veder
- hair ⇄ har
- fur ⇄ fel
- head ⇄ hovd
- face ⇄ sicte
- chin ⇄ cin
- cheek ⇄ cing
- ear ⇄ oor
- auricle ⇄ oormucel
- eye ⇄ ooge
- eyelid ⇄ oogelid
- eyelash ⇄ wimper
- eyebrow ⇄ oogebrei
- nose ⇄ noose
- nostril ⇄ noostril
- snout ⇄ snuut
- mouth ⇄ mund
- beard ⇄ bard
- mustasch ⇄ mustac
- lip ⇄ lip
- tooth ⇄ tand
- tongue ⇄ tunge
- foot ⇄ fut
- toe ⇄ too
- heel ⇄ heil
- leg ⇄ leg
- knee ⇄ knii
- kneepit (kneefold) ⇄ kniiboug
- thigh ⇄ daig
- groin ⇄ laist
- hand ⇄ hand
- nail (body part) ⇄ nagel
- wing ⇄ ving
- belly ⇄ belai
- waist ⇄ taile
- bellybutton ⇄ naavel
- stomach ⇄ maage
- hals (DE/SE)/neck-/-throat ⇄ halse
- neck ⇄ nek
- throat ⇄ froot
- back ⇄ rug
- breast/boob ⇄ brost
- chest ⇄ cest
- nipple ⇄ nipel
- ass/butt ⇄ bump
- buttcheek ⇄ cink/gluut
- anus ⇄ anus
- urethra ⇄ uretra
- vagina ⇄ vagin
- vagina (juvenile) ⇄ vip
- clitoris ⇄ klitoris
- womb ⇄ wuum
- ovary ⇄ oovery
- ovum ⇄ oovum
- penis ⇄ peenis
- penis (juvenile) ⇄ pik
- scrotum/ballsack ⇄ skrung
- (collective word for penis and scrotum) ⇄ prung
- glans ⇄ gleiskel
- testicle ⇄ testikel
- sperm ⇄ sperm
- to drink ⇄ dringken
- to eat ⇄ spiitsen
- to nibble ⇄ knibelen
- to bite ⇄ baiten
- to suck ⇄ saugen
- to spit ⇄ speiten
- to vomit ⇄ sparfen
- to blow ⇄ blousen
- to breathe ⇄ andemen
- to laugh ⇄ lahen
- to see ⇄ siien
- to hear ⇄ hooren
- to know ⇄ visten
- to think ⇄ tengken
- to smell ⇄ raukten
- to taste ⇄ spruufen
- to feel (emotionally) ⇄ kenden
- to feel (physicaly) ⇄ fuulen
- to touch ⇄ rooren
- to sense ⇄ sensen
- to fear ⇄ frangsten
- to sleep ⇄ slaapen
- to live ⇄ leven
- to die ⇄ cdurden
- to kill ⇄ douden
- to fight (combat) ⇄ straiden
- to fight (struggle) ⇄ kempen
- to hunt ⇄ jakten
- to hit ⇄ slaagen
- to cut ⇄ cneiden
- to chop ⇄ haken
- to stab ⇄ staben
- to share ⇄ deelen
- to split ⇄ spliten
- to scratch ⇄ skrapsen
- to dig ⇄ graven
- to swim ⇄ swimen
- to fly ⇄ fliigen
- to walk/go ⇄ gouen
- to come ⇄ komen
- to lie (lay) ⇄ leegen
- to sit ⇄ siten
- to stand ⇄ standen
- to turn (intransitive) ⇄ dreiden
- to rise ⇄ staigen
- to fall ⇄ falen
- to give ⇄ geeven
- to take ⇄ neimen
- to hold ⇄ halden
- to squeeze ⇄ sqeesen
- to rub ⇄ ruben
- to wash ⇄ vasen
- to wipe ⇄ drooken
- to pull ⇄ pulen
- to push ⇄ druken
- to throw ⇄ troiven
- to catch ⇄ fangen
- to tie ⇄ binden
- to sew ⇄ snaien
- to count ⇄ reekenen
- to say ⇄ saagen
- to sing ⇄ singen
- to play ⇄ spleien
- to float ⇄ flouten
- to sink ⇄ zingken
- to flow ⇄ flouen
- to swell ⇄ svelen
- to freeze ⇄ friisen
- to burn ⇄ branden
- body of fire ⇄ fiierbodi
- fire ⇄ fiier
- sun ⇄ son
- star ⇄ ster
- body of earth ⇄ erdbodi
- earth ⇄ erd
- moon ⇄ mon
- salt ⇄ salt
- stone ⇄ steen
- dust ⇄ stov
- gravel ⇄ graus
- asphalt ⇄ asfalt
- boulder ⇄ boulder
- ash ⇄ ask
- mountain ⇄ berg
- hill ⇄ houvel
- sand ⇄ sand
- road ⇄ veig
- earthquake ⇄ erdbeeving
- body of water ⇄ vaaterbodi
- water ⇄ vaater
- drop ⇄ drop
- rain ⇄ regen
- river ⇄ flusd
- lake ⇄ see
- sea ⇄ haav
- waterstream ⇄ vaaterstroum
- waterfall ⇄ vaaterfal
- snow ⇄ snee
- ice ⇄ ais
- fog ⇄ neevel
- mist ⇄ mist
- tsunami ⇄ tsunaami
- body of air ⇄ luftbodi
- air ⇄ luft
- cloud ⇄ woln
- sky ⇄ himel
- wind ⇄ wind
- smoke ⇄ rook
- tornado ⇄ tornaado
- color ⇄ kolur
- paint ⇄ farb
- red ⇄ roud
- orange ⇄ oranc
- yellow ⇄ gelu
- lime ⇄ laim
- green ⇄ grun
- turquoise ⇄ turkois
- cyan ⇄ cyan
- azure ⇄ azor
- blue ⇄ blo
- purple ⇄ prila
- magenta ⇄ magent
- cerise ⇄ ceri
- white ⇄ vit
- gray ⇄ gro
- black ⇄ svart
- brown (dark orange/orange-like colors) ⇄ brun
- pink (pale red, magenta, cerise) ⇄ rooz
- light ⇄ lict
- hazy ⇄ hazi
- dark ⇄ dunkel
- night ⇄ nact
- day ⇄ daag
- year ⇄ jaur
- warm ⇄ varm
- cold ⇄ kald
- full ⇄ fol
- empty ⇄ lemtom
- new ⇄ nue
- old ⇄ old
- good ⇄ guut
- bad ⇄ slect
- ripe/mature ⇄ raif
- rotten ⇄ rotnen
- clean ⇄ crein
- dirty ⇄ smotsic
- straight ⇄ strak
- bent ⇄ bougd
- round ⇄ rund
- sharp (as a knife) ⇄ cerp
- dull (as a knife) ⇄ dulp
- smooth ⇄ glat
- ragged ⇄ rugd
- wet ⇄ vnot
- dry ⇄ drog
- near ⇄ neer
- far ⇄ faar
- right ⇄ rect
- left ⇄ lingks
- center ⇄ centraal
- north ⇄ nord
- south ⇄ saud
- east ⇄ oust
- west ⇄ vest
- at ⇄ aton
- in ⇄ in
- with ⇄ mit
- and ⇄ end
- if ⇄ ifals
- because ⇄ soodat
- name ⇄ name
- correct ⇄ korekt
Nouns
noom ⇄ noun
Verbs
Adjectives
adjektiv ⇄ adjective
Adverbs
adverb ⇄ adverb
Prepositions
Numerals
Pronouns
Interjections
Conjunctions/Subjunctions
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 is 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, because life is a fact not a meaning. Life doesn't "lack" meaning because there was never room for meaning to begin with.
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. ... one should not, however, 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 death, 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, instead one ought to be responsible and to take care of problems one can do something about.
8. Practice remembering and cherishing things and experiences more than regretting and mourning the end of them.
Stance on ego and identity
1. The term "ego death" refers in modern days to the release of our self-identification and self-esteem that stems from it, but it is also the release of our need to guard it from harm and our propensity to see the world through the lens of our imagined identities. People who define themselves, for instance, by their political inclinations, social standing, skill set, or overall perception of physical attractiveness, will engage with the world as members of these groups and defend these abstractions as they defend themselves. It is a falsehood to associate one's own self-entity with these things because they are external to us, they pass by and don't require our attachment. Our true selves are the perceptions of our senses, feelings, and thoughts, as well as our ability to judge, choose, and have willpower. The real you is the one who makes decisions and is persuaded of certain things. Everything else is not a part of who you are; it is something you can find practical or enjoyable while it is available. It is not a fundamental aspect of who you are.
We are entities with thoughts and opinions that we associate with ourselves, these are identities. Although identities may aid in conveying information, they are actually external to us, something the ancient stoics understood but have in modern days become a practiced norm as an attempt as creating something for yourself. Since these external perceptions of ourselves are distorting our experience as self-entities, we ought to cease creating self-images of ourselves from these identities. This is due to the fact that we are actually unable to think of our self-entities in a tangible way. Realize that you are unable to think of yourself as you eliminate outside notions and assumptions about who you believe yourself to be. The only thing that is endangered when you experience hurt or are triggered by prospective "harm" in social situations, is your false sense of who you think you are because you believe that who you're thinking of in your thoughts (your imagined self-images) is actually the real you. One ought to realize that your thoughts are only memories and imagination, they are not real, when you're thinking back to something you've experienced, you aren't actually experiencing it, it is just another sensory input for you (your self-entity) to interact with just like your other senses.
2. To reach the full and true potential of your intellect, you ought to 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.
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. Follow The Three Stoic Disciplines of Desire, Action and Assent
• “The Discipline of Desire”.
The discipline of desire has to do with acceptance of our fate. Don't waste time on things you can't control or influence. You can do your best to avoid things you don't want, but 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”
The discipline of action 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 parent who is not able to care for their sick sick. They leave the house and runs away from their child, they can't handle the fact that their child might die.
The idea here is that this is not someone who has mastered desire and aversion. They think death is a bad thing, they're afraid of their child dying, they haven't come to terms with what their ultimate value system should be under the Stoic picture. And because of that, it is interfering with their capacity to fulfill their obligation to other people. They're not able to fulfill their obligation as a parent because they're 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”
The Discipline of Assent 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.
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.
Use the 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, meditation and seek nature to find tranquility and 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, community and individuality, 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 efficient, optimal and rational conclusion. Explain the situation/problem, explain how it affects, explain what is needed, and give suggestions how to compromise.
Prosoponyms
Constructed Germian personal names (all unisex)
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