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===Orthography=== | ===Orthography=== | ||
Writing system of Doslox has graphemes derived from pictograms, and their order is based on an old story ('Halox Dozkepyr' or Hunter's Day' which is where the name originates): [http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2013/024/4/b/doslox_by_juhhmi-d5sjj22.jpg]. Later, Wadoslox was developed to simplify the script and make it easier to read: [http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2013/052/8/8/modern_doslox_by_juhhmi-d5vpsl8.jpg]. Each grapheme represents a singe phoneme or syllable, but the words for original pictograms didn't sometimes even include the actual letter - rather the sound was thought to be essential to the word: for example, symbol for 'j' comes from 'nanyalt' /nɑnjɑlt/ meaning 'loved'. With Doslox, every word can be written without raising your pen of the paper. | Writing system of Doslox has graphemes derived from pictograms, and their order is based on an old story ('Halox Dozkepyr' or Hunter's Day' which is where the name originates): [http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2013/024/4/b/doslox_by_juhhmi-d5sjj22.jpg]. Later, Wadoslox was developed to simplify the script and make it easier to read: [http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2013/052/8/8/modern_doslox_by_juhhmi-d5vpsl8.jpg]. Each grapheme represents a singe phoneme or syllable, but the words for original pictograms didn't sometimes even include the actual letter - rather the sound was thought to be essential to the word: for example, symbol for 'j' comes from 'nanyalt' /nɑnjɑlt/ meaning 'loved'. With Doslox, every word can be written without raising your pen of the paper. | ||
Special marks in the beginning and at the end of sentences are used to separate them from another |sentence| or to indicate whether they are an interrogative (zo-question) or an imperative <sentence>: |Neym pa| or (Zoneyh phe). With Latin script of course, these marks aren't used to avoid misunderstandings. | |||
Romanized versions and their pronunciation: | Romanized versions and their pronunciation: | ||
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*U - /u/ | *U - /u/ | ||
==Grammar | ==Grammar and Syntax== | ||
Rinap is a nominative-accusative language so the subjects of transitive and agents of intransitive verbs are treated as the same. Transitive verb objects are declined into the objective case: 'Zodoih phe '''nik''' pemozt'''ek''' doile'''ke''' knoi'''k'''?' (¿See you the bird beautiful that?) 'Do you see those beautiful birds?' This 'naphuk' or 'k-language' is the formal way of speaking so in casual situations and dialects the postfixes are often omitted. | Rinap is a nominative-accusative language so the subjects of transitive and agents of intransitive verbs are treated as the same. Transitive verb objects are declined into the objective case: 'Zodoih phe '''nik''' pemozt'''ek''' doile'''ke''' knoi'''k'''?' (¿See you the bird beautiful that?) 'Do you see those beautiful birds?' This 'naphuk' or 'k-language' is the formal way of speaking so in casual situations and dialects the postfixes are often omitted. | ||
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Rinap is quite head-initial so that all determiners except articles are placed after the noun: 'kni '''gekhu''' okku pär knoi' 'the '''house''' small my that'. The order for those is article-noun-adjective-possessive-demonstrative as in the example. It should be noted that articles are used even if there is a demonstrative pronoun. | Rinap is quite head-initial so that all determiners except articles are placed after the noun: 'kni '''gekhu''' okku pär knoi' 'the '''house''' small my that'. The order for those is article-noun-adjective-possessive-demonstrative as in the example. It should be noted that articles are used even if there is a demonstrative pronoun. | ||
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[[Category:Conlangs]] | [[Category:Conlangs]] | ||