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Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 11:34 pm

Loidarsideli

Okay. I am back, finally! Gosh, it's been months!
Well, you probably don't remember me and my horrid attempt at a language,
so I'll just say...umm... I made the banner...? xD (surprised it's still there)

Okay, let's see now. I wasn't happy with my conlang at all.
It was pretty much thought up in one night and it stunk.

My new one, conveniently the same name, is much much better. ^-^
I have spent about three-five months on it (I'm not too sure xP ).
And I decided to use it in a novel I am working on.
Meaning it now has a back story and pretty much a reason for being.

This is based loosely on English, Japanese, and Spanish.

If I can think of anything else to add here I will...
So now on to Loidarsideli, I guess. :3

Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 11:35 pm

Background on Loidarsideli

Loidarsideli first appeared in text in the year 2330 of the second rein the demigod, Ahnyanna.
Her teachings had not yet spread to the people beyond the eastern mountain barrier where Esliaev, another ruling god, resided.

Ahnyanna ordered them to learn the language as children.
She ruled her people with an iron fist, and many of them left for the teachings of Esliaev.
This angered the demigod and caused her to riot.

The three main ruling gods did not like the way Ahnyanna acted, so they banished her and her language to another realm for many hundreds of years.
This is when the written text first appeared. A small group of her followers that had gone to learn under Esliaev heard the news of her banishment
and decided to write an account of her happenings. It seemed fitting her language was used to detail her history.

The language she taught soon flourished and almost everyone learned how to read and write it.
When Ahnyanna finally returned, the descendants of her main supporters had a dispute with those of Esliaev and left the large group torn in half.
Ahnyanna’s children soon were granted a gift that was to forever change the lives of everyone on those lands.

Alphabet

Vowels:

a – ah (father)
e – eh (bet)
i – ee (feet)
o – oh (row)
u –oo (food)

Consonants:

b
c - (always soft like ‘center’ – never like ‘cat’)
ch
d
f
g - (always hard like ‘goat’ – never like ‘general’)
h
j
k
kl – (acts as a 'q')
l
m
n
p
r
s
sh
sk
t
th
v
y
z
zh – (like the last ‘g’ in ‘garage’)

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Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 11:36 pm

Word Markers

‘ji’ is placed in the end of words to make them negative or opposite.

evaesidai – happy
evaesidaiji – unhappy
tule – tall
tuleji - short

In some cases, the negative version of a word is the only
one of its kind to exist; such is the case with ‘short’.
There is no separate word for ‘short’ besides the negative of ‘tall’.
So ‘short’ is literally read as ‘tall negative’.

‘pu’ is the equivalent to the question mark.

Question words: - kocomen (question)

‘pu’ must always be placed at the end of sentences and never at the end of words.

Bur – who
Dar – what
Zer – where
Nur – when
Kar- why
Laz- how
Okle – do*

*‘do’ is different than the verb ‘to do’ in this context.
It is only for questions – such as: “[Do] you like pancakes?”
The verb is only used to reinforce – such as: ‘I [do] like pancakes.”
In which instance you would leave out the verb entirely as it is understood.

‘vi’ makes things plural.

cat – mio
cats – miovi

‘se’ is used for connecting adjectives and amounts to nouns,
adverbs to verbs, and prepositions to their objects.

A happy cat – A evaesidai se mio
Four cats – Fove se miovi
The cat ran quickly – Ja mio chijali se klike.
The cat ran under the chair– Ja mio chijali bene se ja dedkes.

It doesn’t matter what order the words are in; ‘se’ is always in-between.

The cat quickly ran under the chair – Ja mio klike se chijali bene se ja dedkes.

‘me’ is added to the end of a verb infinitive to make it a noun if applicable.

a chijame – a walk

‘ma’ is used after verb markers to make commands.

hesaloma we – hear me

'ni' is placed on the end on verb infinitives to show continuous action.

writing - saepjani

For passive voice, take the infinitive of a verb and add ‘i’ on the end of it.

All verb infinitives end in an ‘a’. There are no exceptions.

Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 11:37 pm

Greeting Words and Phrases

Hello – búmas
Good Morning – opimónin
Good Afternoon – opiafúnin
Good Evening – opimshen
Good Night – opinínin
Goodbye – komas

How are you? – sosóte pu?
What are you doing? – mose’mose pu?
Are you alright? – noi’am pu?
When will you come/be back? – tomjani’ai pu?
What’s your name? – Darsoyo klilos pu?
Nice to meet you – ankatta iyo

Welcome – chu’nam
Welcome back – chu’nami
Come back soon – soko’it

Thank you – lasúide
You’re welcome – monoshie
Pardon me / sorry - koyawe
No problem / my pleasure – rolashti

Pronouns and Conjunctions

I – wo | Me – we | My – wa | Mine - wai

Us - za | We - zas | Our – zai

He – zu | Him – zush | His – zushi

She – ze | Her – zesh | Hers –zeshi

You – yo | Your – yor | Yours – yorsi

It – poi | Its - pois | They – zash

Them – zashi | Their – zosh | Their’s – zoshi

That – klizh | This – kesh

And- ci | Nor- nan | But- do | Or- oi

Yet- doi | So- n | *The- ja

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Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 11:38 pm

Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 11:39 pm

Verbs One

Verb Ending Markers

(li-lo-lu)

past-present-future

..::[Verbs never have accents!]::..

*To Be* - soja

was - sojali | are - sojale | am - sojal
will be - sojalu | is - sojalo | were - sojala

Regular ‘ja’ verbs: TO-

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