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It took me 5 days to learn all the '''Dama Diwan''' vocabulary. It can take a week, but once you know it, you have a treasure: the International Auxiliary Language, minimal but all efficient, artistic and perfectly logical, flexible syntax and permanent vocabulary yet with unlimited possibilities for creating new terms. It is not based on any human language. All the vocabulary comes from the sky, hence the name Dama (or tama) "of the sky" Dewan (or tiwan) "with the earth". | It took me 5 days to learn all the '''Dama Diwan''' vocabulary. It can take a week, but once you know it, you have a treasure: the International Auxiliary Language, minimal but all efficient, artistic and perfectly logical, flexible syntax and permanent vocabulary yet with unlimited possibilities for creating new terms. It is not based on any human language. All the vocabulary comes from the sky, hence the name Dama (or tama) "of the sky" and it is for the earth, hence it is Dewan / Diwan (or tiwan) "with the earth". | ||
It allows wonderful freedom of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_(linguistics) word order] within the frame of the head-final syntax. Well worth to devote one week to learn it. | It allows wonderful freedom of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_(linguistics) word order] within the frame of the head-final syntax. Well worth to devote one week to learn it. | ||
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The suffix -a is used when the adverb is used as a postposition, or more generally to show that the adverb is connected primarily with the previous words before the meaning is joined to the following. | The suffix -a is used when the adverb is used as a postposition, or more generally to show that the adverb is connected primarily with the previous words before the meaning is joined to the following. | ||
If there is no question whether the adverb joins primarily to the previous or to the next, -a is taken to mean "of" or "in relation to" the word it marks, while -an | If there is no question whether the adverb joins primarily to the previous or to the next, -a is taken to mean "of" or "in relation to" the word it marks, while -an can very rarely be in the end of a clause, then it refers to something understood but not stated. | ||
=== Other parts of speech / juno womo sijo === | === Other parts of speech / juno womo sijo === | ||
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:Informal Dama Diwan can express four "degrees" (mujo) which bear the native names : 1."jume", 2."i kiban", 3."kaso", 4."nanon". | :Informal Dama Diwan can express four "degrees" (mujo) which bear the native names : 1."jume", 2."i kiban", 3."kaso", 4."nanon". | ||
:This is done by expressive usage of vowels, as follows: | :This is done by expressive usage of vowels, as follows: | ||
*1."jume", means that informal Dama can lengthen (double, triple, or even more) the first or only vowel of a word in order to express largeness, e.g. baako =a big body (bako), taaamo =the huge sky, muuko =a big volume, wiiiwo =huge water (ocean), and so on. | *1."jume" (intensification), means that informal Dama can lengthen (double, triple, or even more) the first or only vowel of a word in order to express largeness, e.g. baako =a big body (bako), taaamo =the huge sky, muuko =a big volume, wiiiwo =huge water (ocean), and so on. | ||
*2."i kiban", which, in theory, means that only the lengthened suffix (of disyllabic words only) is emphasized according to the lengthening of its vowel; in practice, this is asserting the grammatical function of the word on the cost of its stem; so e.g. if we say raboo, this means we assert it is a noun, an extant thing, because the extant thing in this case is very small and tends to be neglected, so raboo means a small tree (rabo), and likewise taroo= a small animal (taro), jutooo is a tiny piece of skin (juto). It works the same way with verbs and adverbs; so, if we say "jajee" it means that (s/he) gave money indeed, but it was so little money (jaj-). An example with an adverb is sunaaa "in the past", which is very very near past. So this function lessens, makes light, or even makes fun, of the stem meaning. | *2."i kiban", which, in theory, means that only the lengthened suffix (of disyllabic words only) is emphasized according to the lengthening of its vowel; in practice, this is asserting the grammatical function of the word on the cost of its stem; so e.g. if we say raboo, this means we assert it is a noun, an extant thing, because the extant thing in this case is very small and tends to be neglected, so raboo means a small tree (rabo), and likewise taroo= a small animal (taro), jutooo is a tiny piece of skin (juto). It works the same way with verbs and adverbs; so, if we say "jajee" it means that (s/he) gave money indeed, but it was so little money (jaj-). An example with an adverb is sunaaa "in the past", which is very very near past. So this function lessens, makes light, or even makes fun, of the stem meaning. | ||
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== Phonology and phonotactics / kumo sijo, kumo nijo == | == Phonology and phonotactics / kumo sijo, kumo nijo == | ||
Dama has 3 vowel phonemes: a, i/e, u/o. It is also possible to use two allophones of "a" like | Dama has 3 vowel phonemes: a, i/e, u/o. It is also possible to use two allophones of "a" like, for example, /ɑ/ and /ɐ/, if that feels better for native speakers of a language that differentiates between a higher and a slightly lower "a"; | ||
and 9 consonant phonemes: k/g, t/d/ts, b, n, m, j, r, w, s. | and 9 consonant phonemes: k/g, t/d/ts, b, n, m, j, r, w, s. | ||