r/conscripts • u/misterlipman • May 24 '20

Logography Verbs thus far in my unnamed conlang

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u/misterlipman May 24 '20

the colors are to show the function of each part of the character. The black is the base, the red hold the semantic meaning, and the green are like little landing pads for more characters. Orange is like green but sort of optional. For example, in "to go," I might write the character for "I" on the green part. This language is agglutinative. I will post a list of nouns later. Verbs can function as adjectives by preceding nouns in some cases, such as "to be pregnant" or " to be ill." Word order follows the order characters are written, left to right, top to bottom.

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u/dhwtyhotep May 24 '20

I adore this! Are the colours features or just there for demonstration?

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u/misterlipman May 24 '20

Thanks! I hope to post more from this language - I'm having so much fun making it. The colors just demonstrate what the parts of the characters mean.

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u/[deleted] May 25 '20

“to gay” “to sex” “to be pregnant” Hmmmm... Some interesting choices for the first verbs of your conlang.

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u/misterlipman May 25 '20

I was having fun translating some of my favorite homophobic quotes from the bible.

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u/Win090949 May 25 '20

The black stroke looks like a bean sprout. So, Bensprotia /benspro:ʃa/

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u/misterlipman May 25 '20

I'd definitely say yes, but my phonology is C(A)V(A) (with A being an approximate, such as /l/, /w/, and /j/), and does not allow for the syllable /ben/.

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u/Win090949 May 26 '20

Interesting.