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It can take a week to learn all the '''Dama Diwan''' vocabulary, | It can take a week to learn all the '''Dama Diwan''' vocabulary, but once you know it, you have a treasure: | ||
* it is the ideal International Auxiliary Language | |||
* minimal but all efficient | |||
* artistic and dignified in sound | |||
* perfectly logical | |||
* flexible syntax | |||
* permanent vocabulary (yet with unlimited possibilities for creating new terms) | |||
* not based on any human language, but it exists within all human languages | |||
* it can imitate the ways of all languages, although its fundamental structure is closer to head-final languages. | |||
All the vocabulary (including grammar) comes, through sortition, from the sky, hence the name Dama (or tama) "by the sky" and it is for the people of the whole earth, hence it is Dewan / Diwan (or tiwan) "of the earth". | |||
It allows wonderful freedom of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_(linguistics) word order] within the frame of the head-final syntax. | It allows wonderful freedom of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_(linguistics) word order] within the frame of the head-final syntax. | ||
A language not suitable for telling any lies, but ideal for telling any truth. | A language not suitable for telling any lies, but ideal for telling any truth. | ||
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 “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 a person’s or people’s personal judgements. | |||
# It is accomplished totally by means of divination through sortition (random), and that by asking the supreme benevolent spirit to form it, for the sake of the whole earth. | |||
# All possible combinations of phonemes are used. | |||
# All phonemes are equally represented. | |||
== Grammar / kiwan nijo == | == Grammar / kiwan nijo == | ||
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The 3 suffixes o / a / e have the following native names (with examples in brackets): | The 3 suffixes o / a / e have the following native names (with examples in brackets): | ||
:-o : ruro. (to, taro, no, wano…). It | :-o : ruro. (to, taro, no, wano…). It indicates a noun. | ||
:-a : jeno. (rasa, taba, na, kuka…). It | :-a : jeno. (rasa, taba, na, kuka…). It indicates an adverb. | ||
:-e : tubo. (be, ne, bibe, nuje…). It | :-e : tubo. (be, ne, bibe, nuje…). It indicates an active verb. | ||
Adjectives are indicated by their position (before of a noun as modifiers, or after the noun as predicates), and not by any special marking; all parts of speech can serve as adjectives. | |||
Relative clause are expressed by their position (before the word they modify). | |||
Genitive and possessive pronouns are expressed through the root S- "to have", the extended suffix -AN, and the word WISO ("one's own") that substitutes all possessive pronouns. | |||
From a purely theoretical point of vew, the main parts of speech are thought to correspond to the main principles that define the world: space (nouns, -O), time (verbs, -E), and causality (adverbs, -A). | |||
"Causality" means everything regarded as a cause for a certain effect. | |||
Adverbs primordially express mode or manner; however, according to their pragmatic meaning and the context, they can express everything that adverbs are used for in all languages (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adverb). | |||
===MODIFIERS TO NOUNS / ruro nuna juno=== | ===MODIFIERS TO NOUNS / ruro nuna juno=== | ||