User:H. H. P. M. P. Cole/Bad conlang

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A slight refinement of a bad conlang I made over dinner one day.

/m n t k l j/ m n t k l j
/a ə/ a e

(C)V(D)
C = m n t k l j
V = a e
D = m n

Total: 42 syllables

SVO
Head-final
Analytic (uses particles)
Conjunctions as infix
Case marked after noun
Tense marked after verb
Questions marked by VO order
Indirect object before object
Plurals marked by particle (same goes for pronouns)
Everything assumed to be gnomic tense
Numbers in binary

Lexicon
a  left bracket
e  right bracket
am  genitive particle
em  dative particle
an  negative particle
en  plural particle
ma  logical not, complement of a set
me  3PS
mam  logical and, intersection of sets
mem  1PS
man  logical or, union of sets
men  2PS
na  0 (binary digit)
ne  1 (binary digit)
nam  + (or adding of sets)
nem  ×
nan  - (or subtracting of sets)
nen  ÷
ta  set(elem1, elem2... elemn)
te  element (of set)
tam  function(var1, var2... varn)
tem  domain (of function)
tan  variable (general)
ten  range (of function)
ka  what? (which variable? number?)
ke  proposition/lemma
kam  where? (which domain?)
kem  true
kan  is it true or false?
ken  false
la  infinite set of integers past tense particle
le  binary point
lam  exponentiation present tense particle
lem  set of variables of a function
lan  infinite set of rational numbers future tense particle
len  length of a set
ja  name (of element or variable)
je  copula, equals
jam  impersonal pronoun
jem  definite article
jan  reflexive pronoun
jen  indefinite article