User:H. H. P. M. P. Cole/Riemannic

Riemannic (piþakorzarlinsprek, lit. maths-music-speak) is a semi-naturalistic artlang created by Cole in 2024. It is his first conlang, and despite the fact that it is a work in progress, he moved on from it, thinking it is a bad conlang. The conlang's English name derives from the mathematician Bernhard Riemann and the music theorist Hugo Riemann.

Official Google sheet

Phonology and orthography

Riemannic uses the Latin alphabet with some Greek and Cyrillic letters. The alphabet used is unicase.

Consonants

There are 23 consonants in Riemannic.

p	b	t	d	k	g	f	v	þ	s	z	σ	ç	ɣ	h	ч	џ	w	r	l	j
/p/	/b/	/t/	/d/	/k/	/g/	/f/	/v/	/θ~ð/	/s/	/z/	/ʃ/	/x/	/ɣ/	/h/	/tʃ/	/dʒ/	/w/	/r~ɬ~ɹ/	/l/	/j/

Vowels

There are 18 vowels in Riemannic: nine short and nine long.

i	y	u	e	ø	ə	o	æ	a	ī	ȳ	ū	ē	ø̄	ə̄	ō	ǣ	ā
/i/	/y/	/u/	/e/	/ø/	/ə/	/o/	/æ/	/a/	/iː/	/yː/	/uː/	/eː/	/øː/	/əː/	/oː/	/æː/	/aː/

Morphology

The default type of object in Riemannic is the noun. For example, σtain (stone) or teves (gas). Verb and adjective morphology and conjugation is completely regular. Here is a list of conversions:

to adjective	-iσ, -liσ, -iσə, -liσə (last two are interchangeable with first two)
verb to noun	remove -ən
noun to verb	add -ən
adjective to noun	change ending -σ or -iσ to -ait
compound adjective with noun	remove -σ or -iσ, add noun
compound adverb with verb	remove -σ or -iσ, add verb
to make plural	-en
comparative	remove -σ or -iσ, add -altiσ
superlative	remove -σ or -iσ, add -sopraniσ

And here is the list of verb conjugations:

past	-d, -əd
past participle, present	-n, -ən
past perfect	-ə
infinitive	-nk, -ənk
present perfect	hat -ən
future	-t, -ət
future perfect	-m, -əm
imperfect	u-
gnomic	-þ, -əþ

Articles

Definite articles:

	Singular	Plural
Nominative	þe	þē
Genitive	þes	þer

Indefinite articles:

	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ēn	ēn
Genitive	ēs	ēr

Syntax

Riemannic is SVO and head-final. Adjectives are usually placed in the same word as the noun.

desēr tak iσt ēn ūsiltak.

This day is a new day.

Generally, Riemannic grammar can be thought of as a simplified German grammar.

Pronouns

	Reflexive	Posessive	The verb 'to be'
ih	məi	min	ih bin
dū	dəi	din	dū bist
ēr, sī, es	səi	sin	ēr, sī, es iσt
wir	uəi	uns	wir zind
ir	oəi	oins	ir zaid
si	iəi	irns	si zind

Conjunctions and prepositions

English	Riemannic
not	nekt
and, also	un
but, however	abər
xor	øi'iø
or	øī
implies that	iøī
reverse order of subject and object	þī-
at	at
in	in
out, outside of	øt
on, wrt	on
with	mit
if	if
then	þen
for	vor
because	vānt
therefore	drenēnsēken
left bracket	la
right bracket	al
against	dron
before	etæl
after	fø
than	þæn
regardless of	nektvānt (lit. not because of)
despite	ɣwol

Vocabulary

Riemannic's vocabulary is either borrowed from standard mathematical terminology, Old High German (and sometimes Modern German), or Finnish. It uses a base-16 system taken from Leibniz:

zero	ø
one	ēns
two	zven
three	dren
four	viər
five	fynf
six	seks
seven	sibən
eight	açt
nine	noin
ten	ūt
eleven	re
twelve	mi
thirteen	fa
fourteen	sol
fifteen	lā
sixteen	zen
32	zvenzen
256	hundret
4096	tusend
65536	mīrjad
16^6	hundret mīrjad
16^8	mīrjad mīrjad
nth	n-iþ

Example texts

Here is a message I made up in response to a certain discovery by a Discord user 'DroneBetter':

On 9/11/2024, twenty-three years after the famous attacks, a certain drone discovered something too big to be captured on even the most advanced cameras, and even if it is captured it possesses a tubelike architecture, so compactifying it would be near-impossible. It is the world's longest mealworm, the larva of Tenebrio molitor dronebetteris. Spanning many tens of metres long, breaking its exoskeleton will cause it to explode.

Nonliteral translation:

reiþ tak. noiniþ kūn. sibənhundretsolzenaçtiþ jār. zensibən jāren fø þē levjælisσlektσkraftōden, þe flikmeþalvug þes kwārkσtāt entēzə ēn sopransūriσ tior. desēr iσt ēn vug þē ūsilzaiteksoperatzvenēkydrenen nektkanσkraftəþ, un if desēr sopransūriσ tior þījǣgət, þen es nektkanmaçət σytaltiσ. es iσt þe sūrsopraniσ molitōr þes ērd, þe çintoid þes Tenebrio molitor dronebetteris. es piчæjait iσt piчæaltiσ þæn açt manen, un tailəþ irns nektiniσēleþn iøī es σterbət.

The Samurai Jack opening sequence in Riemannic:

in ēn wānzait, un in ēn fǣrlānt, ih, akū, þe oiklivaitājər, þe σkraftər þes σwarsait, fraigebəþ ēn sopransūriσ nektriçtait! abər ēn lakāpǣalσamurāj ɣēr haltən ēn hə̄ligmeþalσtok σkraftəd dronmin. etæl þe σamurāj tōdəd min mit sin hə̄ligmeþalσtok, ih ø̄fnəd ēn zaitþīadvōr, un ih σofəd sin in þe føzait, ɣār min nekthə̄ligait iσt riçtiσ! þe lakāpǣalman vȳnσən la er kanət þe etælzait un er tōdət þe akūføzait al!