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The reasons why dama diwan is objectively different to all other (natural or constructed) languages: | The reasons why dama diwan is objectively different to all other (natural or constructed) languages: | ||
# It is the easiest, simplest, and smallest of all functional languages. This is measured by its 258 roots and 4 or 6 suffixes; it has been tested that it takes about 5 days for an average person to memorize the whole vocabulary. It is not possible to make an easier functional language, because if the number of morphemes is reduced, then it will be necessary to memorize a huge number of combinations with special subjective meanings which cannot be understood by the combined elements themselves. | # It is the easiest, simplest, and smallest of all functional languages. This is measured by its 258 roots and 4 or 6 suffixes; it has been tested that it takes about 5 days for an average person to memorize the whole vocabulary. It is not possible to make an easier functional language, because if the number of morphemes is reduced, then it will be necessary to memorize a huge number of combinations with special subjective meanings which cannot be understood by the combined elements themselves. | ||
:In fact, the roots are the phonemes, so Dama is made from 12 roots only; but because it is not always easy to find the meaning of a cVc root from the individual phonemes, it is necessary to memorize the meaning of the 258 higher level roots. | |||
# It is “open source” and personalizable (can be customized according to each individual’s own usage). | # It is “open source” and personalizable (can be customized according to each individual’s own usage). | ||
# It is not made from any other language(s). | # It is not made from any other language(s). | ||
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# All possible combinations of phonemes are used. | # All possible combinations of phonemes are used. | ||
# All phonemes are equally represented. | # All phonemes are equally represented. | ||
== Dama Diwan as simple as it is / Dama Diwan sanon rure, sanon nibe == | |||
:-O :noun -ON: object before its verb. | |||
:-A :adverb -AN: genitive. | |||
:-E :active verb. -EN: active verb before its object. | |||
== Summary of the extended features / jaro jenan juron june == | |||
(optional, rare, or purely theoretical) | |||
:Lengthening of stem or only vowel: augmentative | |||
:Lengthening of suffix vowel: diminutive | |||
:(c=Consonant; v=Vowel; r=root; Ø=zero) | |||
:cAUc, cAIc, cA'Ac =the color or appearance of cUc, cIc, cA'Ac respectively. | |||
:cUAc is not cUc. | |||
:cIAc is without cIc. | |||
:cØc is not cAc. | |||
:cIUc is metaphorically cUc. | |||
:cUIc contains the cIc. | |||
:No suffix vowel: the thing that must be done. | |||
:ArA=superlative. ErA=less than. UrA=more than. | |||
:ArO=abstract noun. ErO=feminine noun. UrO=masculine noun. | |||
:ArE=reflexive verb. ErE=passive verb. UrE=causative verb. | |||
:rAO=a thing considered/used as rA. rAI=doing the way of r. | |||
:rIA=by way of the verb. rIO=the doer. | |||
:rOA=the way of the noun complex. rOI=to turn into rO. | |||
:Extra conjunctions: AJ=and so; AW=is; AJN=after first modifier; AWN=question marker. | |||
:ØN: some/any. | |||
== Grammar / kiwan nijo == | == Grammar / kiwan nijo == | ||
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==== Extended conjunctions / sine kumo mibo ==== | ==== Extended conjunctions / sine kumo mibo ==== | ||
AJ=and, and so; AW=is (copula); AJN=after first modifier; AWN=question marker. | |||
==== Omission of vowels / rira kumo bima ==== | ==== Omission of vowels / rira kumo bima ==== | ||
===== In the suffix ===== | ===== In the suffix ===== | ||
Absence of suffix vowel means the thing that must be done. KARO=a straight thing, KAR=a thing that must be straightened. To express the imperative by means of it, the object of the imperative verb should be in a genitive or dative form: A TAN KIW=a thing of yours that must be said=you must say. O MA KUR=a thing to me that must be protected=I must protect. (A KIW=you must be said, i.e. you must be mentioned, talked about; O KUR=I must be protected). | |||
===== In the stem ===== | ===== In the stem ===== | ||
A stem with 2 consonants but no vowel (or an epenthetic ɯ) means the opposite of the cAc root: KAR-=straight, KR-crooked. | |||
=====Independent -N===== | |||
=some/any. (Occurs only in divination messages). | |||
=== Correctness, personalization and limitations / jeto jino, wiso jino, nejo mijo === | === Correctness, personalization and limitations / jeto jino, wiso jino, nejo mijo === | ||