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.
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!