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* This text has not been fully checked for consistency yet and may contain minor errors. | * This text has not been fully checked for consistency yet and may contain minor errors. | ||
* ''rumxud'' is ''ru·mxu·d'', "come-down.3N" ... | * ''rumxud'' is ''ru·mxu·d'', "come-down.3N" ... | ||
* ''Fnri'' is from ''fntu'' + ''-ri'', meaning "before the beginning"; ''nokr'' "chief, lord" is the name of a megacorporation and has negative connotations, and ''cirom'' "gods" indicates polytheism | * ''Fnri'' is from ''fntu'' + ''-ri'', meaning "before the beginning"; ''nokr'' "chief, lord" is the name of a megacorporation and has negative connotations, and the native word ''cirom'' "gods" indicates polytheism. | ||
* LOC, ACC, DAT all refer to particles. | * LOC, ACC, DAT all refer to particles. | ||
* Hwnic is head-final. The broadest category comes first and the most specific comes last. This order applies to qualifier sequences, compound words, and more. | * Hwnic is head-final. The broadest category comes first and the most specific comes last. This order applies to qualifier sequences, compound words, and more. | ||
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** Justification for this design choice (and others below) will be presented later. | ** Justification for this design choice (and others below) will be presented later. | ||
* ''Qs'' is a particle that only indicates the start of a sentence where the subject pronoun is dropped. | * ''Qs'' is a particle that only indicates the start of a sentence where the subject pronoun is dropped. | ||
* The two exclamation particles, ''nozn'' and ''zinbn'', come from two speech registers. | |||
* LOCV or "virtual locative" is a concept I made up for the preposition ''ni'', meaning "in a specified context/situation/state". | |||
* Hwnic has an unusual form of negative concord. For example, "The house is not here" requires a negative marker on "is" and a suffix meaning "in this context does not exist" on "the house", whereas "I'm not going to build the house" requires a negative marker on "build" and a suffix meaning "will not exist in the future" on "the house". | |||
* The "and ACC-and": the former is a conjunction that forms the parallel structure; the latter marks a list of items, in the form of "and X Y Z ..." until the next verb or particle. | * The "and ACC-and": the former is a conjunction that forms the parallel structure; the latter marks a list of items, in the form of "and X Y Z ..." until the next verb or particle. | ||
** The latter "and", ''elo'', is further fused with the accusative particle ''u'', and here it means the accusative particle applies to each item in the list. | ** The latter "and", ''elo'', is further fused with the accusative particle ''u'', and here it means the accusative particle applies to each item in the list. | ||
* The tense-aspect auxiliary verb is flexible: it can govern a full sentence, as shown here, or apply only to the one verb before it. | * The tense-aspect auxiliary verb is flexible: it can govern a full sentence, as shown here, or apply only to the one verb before it. | ||
* A single concept corresponds to a single word, which is common in agglutinative languages. | * A single concept corresponds to a single word, which is common in agglutinative languages. | ||
=== Digression === | |||
[[Hwnic/For Ri of the Lab]] | |||
I've been writing other texts in Hwnic. There is a reason why I'm writing them in a new conlang and I'll explain it somewhere | |||