Language Details: Enki

Posted by MahFreenAmeh on Feb. 2, 2007, 10:58 p.m.

So. I started up in an RPG today, and I realized that I had to create a language for my character. Anyways. The details of this language will follow soon. But first, a bit of a background: The language was created by Vasilis Etikas (My character) when he reached a revelation in his life. A divine figure visited him in the night, and told him that he is to start Kameni Diatagi (Greek for Lost Order), and lead his people to freedom.

Kameni Diatagi is a guild of pacifistic magicians, which is why they speak this language, along with the language of the time: This language is what allows them to do magic, such as the (crappy) language in Eragon. What follows are the details:

ENKI

Details: Magical language. Created by founder of Kameni Diatagi, Vasilis Ethikas

Overview:

ALPHABET

NOTE: Uppercase letters are the sound in the language.

Letter English Equivalent

A sAw

B Bye

CH/K chiCK

D meDical

DH myTH

E sEE

G maGazine

GH/J John

I whY

M Me

N No

O Open

P Pyro

R moRe

T Tan

U mOOn

V diVe

Z hiS

CHT hitCH To

Word order: V-O-S (VERB OBJECT SUBJECT)

Example: Zetoz Votaji vogh Ghapogh = I see my big father (Literally: I POSSESSIVE see Father ACCUSATIVE Large)

Case of a word is determined by an affix.

Cases: Nominative, Accusative, Dative, Genitive, and Locative

Nominative: Main object; Subject.

Accusative: Direct object

Dative: Indirect object (Rarely used.)

Genitive: Possession (Rarely used.)

Locative: Showing location (Rarely used. Prepositions more prominent.)

The language is rather Agglutinative, so to speak. Whole sentences are made into a word based upon how you like to read the sentence. Agglutination or not is up to the writer.

__VERBS__

End in -ki

Replace -ki with conjugation.

Conjugated as following:

EX. VERB: Enki - To Be

Past Present Future

1st -zar -toz -kim

2nd -ko -chit -tur

3rd -baz -zorg -zim

1st Pl. -azar -chtoz -chtim

2nd Pl. -chto -chito -chtur

3rd Pl. -abaz -chtorg -zimch

Gerund: Formed by removing -ki and adding -ghiki

The past tense can also be formed using two other methods: Past Perfect, or Past Indicative.

Past perfect: Conjugated form of Miki + 3rd Pl. present Conjugation of verb (Mitoz Enchtorg = I was (neglecting pronouns))

Past Indicative: Kavka + present conjugation (Kavka Entoz : I was.)

Future tense can also be formed with the addition of Ki before modfied verb (Ki Entoz = I will be/I will have been.)

Negative modifier: Ni ( Ni Entoz = I am not.)

Auxillaries: Sanki = To be able to, Dertoki = To have to, Moktiki = To like, Zaki = To want, Enki = To be

PRONOUNS

Gha - I

Govocht - You

Enk - He

Ke - She

Dazu - It

Vocht - We

Tekto - You PLURAL

Kanei - They

Gigh - One (Impersonal pronoun)

Dhiti - That

Kichtka - This

Interrogatives

Kidh - Who

Ghaza - What

Vijan - When

Kovar - Where

Chtinv - Why

Choen - How

Ochiti - And

Obos - But…/On the contrary…/However…

Zav - Or

Vink - When (Referring to a single event)

Akta … Zor Na - As soon as …

To form the accusative form, add -chti to end, Dative: -zicht

NOUNS

Pluralization: Add -mogh to end of noun.

Accusative: -aji

Dative: -det

Genitive: -kal (Menaji Tiokal = The men of war)

Locative: Formed using prepositions

Adjectives

Follow same rules as nouns, if a noun is modified via an affix, said affix is also on adjective.

To form an adverb, add -chtoni to the end.

To form opposite of an adjective, add -te to the end.

Comparitive forms:

-jin : Minor comparitive

-amigh - Superlative comparitive

Dhak - Than

Wordlist

Prepositions

Ghoch - Out

Derzet - Besides

Nor - By

Chton - With

Avazit - After

Zichir - Since

Chtezi - Of

Kokta - To

Ondh - Until

Dorizi - Through

Zo - For

Ghig - Against

Zont - Without

Azonti - Around

Ka - At

Dhagh - On

Vint - Behind

Char - In

Zende - Next (to)

Oz - Over

Kuras - Under

Chorat - Before

Dhinur - Between

Zilt - Still

Vadato - Again

Verbs

Enki - To be

SAnki - To be able to

Dertoki - To have to

Moktiki - To like

Zaki - To want

Miki - To have

Maghki - To summon

Koriki - To control

Zariki - To sit

Voloki - To envelope

Perturiki - To plague

Kaviki - To play

Kizoki - To hate

Gharoki - To love

Vuki - To wish

Zenaki - To destroy

Aschtiki - To eradicate

Zanghki - To sing

Dhaziki - To recite

Voloriki - To follow

Oboneki - To possess

Veroki - To research

Ka Peruski - To look at

Zordhiki - To purchase

Panki - To sell

Dhuniki - To do

Dhraziki - To praise

Maghtiki - To (do) Magic

Kamviki - To battle

Dhrinki - To drink

Bidetiki - To Build

Schtaki - To strike

Atoriki - To Attack

Ka Schariki - To slash at

Siniki - To sin

Dharoski - To think

Zeki - To see

Ka Zeki - To look at

Sakorki - To speak

NOUNS

Vam - Tree

Vodhir - Water

Dras - Rock

Chtorgin - Air

Vichar - Fire

Nazor - Nature

Chrondh - Ground

Maghti - Magic

Maghtiker - Mage

Kamviker - Warrior

Mondh - Moon

Zanor - Sun

Zuteru - Star

Chutuchtu - God

Desor - Sword

Desorer - Knight

Gzor - Group, Faction

Orginiti - Organa

Lunositi - Knights of Lunos

Dorniti - Dorna

Atoma - Dirt

Bidetiker - Builder

Beghini - Fundament

Zanti - Son

Vot - Father

Dochti - Daughter

Mot - Mother

Voghivot - Grandfather

Voghimot - Grandmother

Chanikos - Parent

Ghakvo - Liquid

Zarak - Language

ADJECTIVES

Vogh - Big

Ghoj - Good

Paroti - Righteous

Vatir - Very

Darekt - Wet

Ghonikir - Long

Gotin - Loose

Ghort - Hot

Tati - Tall

Iton - Young

Sutu - Straight

Denaz - Fast

RANDOM WORDS/PHRASES

Martoz Govocht ghoj zo Gha - Pleasure to meet you (Literally: I meet you for good.)

Zagh! - Hello!

Indhi - Yes

Ni - No

Vaduz! - Good bye!

I doubt many people are going to read this, but if you do, I'd like to see what you have to think. I know that the language has a lot of weird pronunciation issues, but it's somewhat like Enochian: A magic language that is a bit hard to pronounce in many cases.

But, in any case, this is it.

Also, note that this is far from done.

Comments

s 17 years, 9 months ago

Ya, I never listened in G1-3 because I hadn't learned how to cope with my ADD. Hence, my troubles are in present tense.

Bryan 17 years, 9 months ago

hmmm….. well good luck with it =)

Cesque 17 years, 9 months ago

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You have way too much fucking time on your hands.

Shuddap. Good to see someone here beside me is into conlanging :P

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I doubt many people are going to read this, but if you do, I'd like to see what you have to think. I know that the language has a lot of weird pronunciation issues, but it's somewhat like Enochian: A magic language that is a bit hard to pronounce in many cases.

Well, I wouldn't say pronunciation is "weird", because linguistically, such a thing as "weird pronunciation" don't exist. For Indo-European speakers, Berber syllabic "kh" may be weird, but the English word "hanged" is unpronunciable for most Polish speakers, not to mention Japanese.

Overally, I like it, though GH for the "j" sound looks pretty strange. I would say that prepositions could go together with cases rather than replace them, as in, let's say, Latin or Russian, but it's probably weird for an agglutinative language (as opposed to inflectional).

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Gender stuff is easy in French. At least, I have no problem with it. The thing I have problems with is tenses.

I don't know much French, but most Poles have enough problems with English tenses. Polish uses only three - past, present, future, and concepts like "plusquamperfect" seem totally abstract. On the other hand, Polish past tense inflects for gender (as in Russian and most other Slavic languages).

Gender can be said to be a waste of time, but so is number or tense. Mandarin Chinese has neither. "Yesterday wash dishes" and "two dog" / "many dog" work fine enough in many languages.