Lodeen: Difference between revisions
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===Inspiration=== | ===Inspiration=== | ||
Lodeen is a | Lodeen is a joke attempt at an auxlang, intended as an experiment to see what would a simple language to learn and speak be like if everyone was like me. | ||
But it was quickly boring so I tried to complexify it a little bit. | But it was quickly boring so I tried to complexify it a little bit. | ||
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/u/ = < u > | /u/ = < u > | ||
</poem> | </poem> | ||
=====Alphabet===== | |||
The Lodeen alphabet in its own alphabetical order : | |||
A E I O U M N P T K F S L Y W | |||
====Alternate Standard==== | ====Alternate Standard==== | ||
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===Syntax=== | ===Syntax=== | ||
====Constituents order==== | |||
The canonical order of complements is Subject-Complement-Object-Verb (SOV). This order is kept for example in negative and interrogative sentences. | |||
Lodeen mostly uses postpositions. | |||
====Head and complement order==== | |||
Adjectives usually appear after nouns and adverbs after verbs. They can appear in front for stylistic/pragmatic reasons, which sometimes lead to different shades of meaning depending on that placement. | |||
====Genitive construction==== | |||
The genitive construction is comprised of a Possessor noun, a Possessed noun, and a genitive pronoun agreeing with the possessor and placed right after it. The unit Possessor noun + genitive pronoun can appear either before or after the Possessed noun. | |||
[[Category:Languages]] | [[Category:Languages]] | ||
[[Category:Conlangs]] | |||
[[Category:Jokelangs]] | |||
[[Category:Auxlangs]] | |||
[[Category:Experimental languages]] | |||