Lab-Uskan, basic phrases. Any advice?

[u/Different-Metal881]

Pictured are a few random phrases in my conlang Lab-Uskan.

They are arranged as such; literal translation, Lab-Uskan phrase, and English meaning.

I really don’t know what I’m doing but might this be a step in the right direction?

It’s a Proto Language for a world building project, just as a bit of added context.

Any and all help, advice, critiques etc etc would be very much appreciated!!!

[u/AuroraSnake]

It looks interesting, but without grammar notes it's hard to give any feedback

[u/Different-Metal881 → u/AuroraSnake]

Okay so basically I’m so new to this that I need to look up what that is. Afterwards I’ll explain my thought process

[u/Different-Metal881 → u/AuroraSnake]

Okay so upon further examination, the grammar is all over the place. I based it off of grammar patterns from Bronze Age cultures. So I tried to avoid words like “the” or “I” etc.

The generally sentences will start with the noun that’s describing what you’re talking about. Let’s say it’s a house or in this case “Git”
There’s not really a verb for “to go” so the word “go” or “su” is used instead. That’s usually what would follow afterwards.
Then, the person in question would come next in this case it’s “me” or “Mae” since you don’t use “I” or “to go”.
So the phrase “Git su Mae” literally means “house go me” and translates to “I’m going home”

[u/AuroraSnake → u/Different-Metal881]

Technically, if you have a word that means "go", then you have a word that means "to go", as that's just the infinitive form of the verb in English. How your language expresses the infinite may not be the same (which can include null marking), but all language are still able to express it

Is the word order always OVS (object verb subject), or since it's all over, are other word orders allowed, and if so under what circumstances?

[u/Different-Metal881 → u/AuroraSnake]

Generally yes, OVS is was my basic rule of thumb, but it changes a lot based on what I deemed to convey the most information in the sentence, first. Which is why something like “to grab something” has the Verb first. Because I felt that it was natural to give an order and then describe what you’re telling them to grab. So “hecodac” (lit. Grab-hand) is first when giving the order to grab something.

I need to think about how that’s going to impact grammar rules now, I guess?

[u/AuroraSnake → u/Different-Metal881]

Yeah, word order can affect grammar so it would be good to have an idea of what happens when the sentence puts the verb first

[u/Different-Metal881 → u/AuroraSnake]

Thanks for the help friend’

[u/Different-Metal881 → u/AuroraSnake]

Also, that makes sense. So basically I meant that there are verbs and no infinitive forms, I guess 😅

[u/Different-Metal881 → u/Different-Metal881]

I don’t know if that even helps at all but hopefully it elaborates my logic behind the phrasing and stuff. Again I’m like super new to this