Angos

This language was co-developed by users Detectivekenny, Panglossa, and Razlem, with a little help from others. "Angy" ['aŋ.ə] simply means "Language".
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Phonology
Vowels: [a], [e], [i], [o], [u], y [ǝ]

Consonants: [p], [t], [k], [b], [d], [g], [m], [n], ng [ŋ], [w], [j], [h], [f], [s], [x], [r], [l]

Diphthongs: aw, iw, ow, yw, aj, ej, oj, yj

Stress: Penultimate

Syllable Structure
(C = consonant; V = vowel; S = semivowel)
 * V
 * VC
 * CV
 * SV
 * CVS
 * SVC
 * CVC
 * SVS
 * CCV
 * CSV
 * CSVS
 * CSVC

Language Characteristics
This language is designed to be an auxiliary language for English, Chinese, and the Romance languages; it features a balance between each language's complexity and expressive features. The idea is for it to be lightly inflected with a tendency to isolate. A few unique innovations are also present in the language:

Medial Vowel System
Drawing from similar IALs, this language features a classification system where the last vowel indicates the part of speech. Unlike Esperanto or Ido however, additional root consonants may succeed the medial vowel.

Nouns: o or y (see Noun Distinction below)

Verbs: a

Adjectives: i

Adverbs: e

Other (conjunctions, prepositions, particles): u

Angy is a noun-based language, with the majority of vocabulary being derived from a root noun:

The verb is always "to do/make": a noun, a noun that is verbed, or a noun that is adjective.


 * The verb is transitive and requires an object. Intransitivity is decided by the presence of the adverb "sem" in addition to there not being an object.

The noun is always:a noun, a noun that is verbed, or a noun that is adjective.

The adjective is always: like a noun, like a noun that is verbed, or like a noun that is adjective

The adverb is always: in the manner of (itmo) a noun, itmo a noun that is verbed, or itmo a noun that is adjective

Here are example inflections from a noun, a noun that is verbed, and a noun that is adjective:

mo - rice (natural)

my - rice (artificial)

ma - to do/make rice

mi - like rice

me - in the manner of rice

hon - something that is had (natural)

hyn - something that is had (artificial)

han - to do/make something that is had

hin - like something that is had

hen - in the manner of something that is had

fajhot - something that is green (natural)

fajhyt - something that is green (artificial)

fajhat - to do/make something that is green

fajhit - like something that is green

fajhet - in the manner of something that is green

Natural and Artificial Noun Distinction
In this language, nouns are distinguished as either "Natural" or "Artificial" (i.e man-made). Natural nouns take the medial vowel "o" and Artificial nouns take the vowel "y". There is no agreement between other parts of speech except the correlatives. The advantage of this system is a smaller root base.

Each root has a total of 4 semantic nouns associated with it:

Complete Natural

Aspectual Natural

Complete Artificial

Aspectual Artificial

Here is an example of the root "t-r" meaning "cow":

tor - cow (natural in all aspects, the mooing mammal)

tor - cow (natural in some aspects, something natural that is like a cow, i.e. a glutton or lazy person)

tyr - cow (artificial in all aspects, a mooing mammal that [for some reason] is artificial, e.g. a clone)

tyr - cow (artificial in some aspects, something artificial that is like a cow, i.e. an artificial glutton)

Another root "m-n" meaning "human":

mon - human (complete)

mon - human (aspectual)

myn - a human clone (complete, but artificial)

myn - golem/android (has the likeness of a human, but artificial)

One final example- "ligol-" meaning "tree"

ligolo - tree (complete)

ligolo - tree (natural aspectual)

ligoly - tree (as in a plastic Christmas tree or decoration)

ligoly - tree (like a branched diagram)

No Plural Inflections
This language does not include inflections for plurals normally found in other IALs. Rather, the indefinite correlatives "o" and "y" function as singular markers. To express number, these markers are omitted:


 * I see a/one cow - Wo vidka o/ju tor


 * I see cows - Wo vidka tor [lit. I see cow]


 * I see 5 cows - Wo vidka wu tor [lit. I see 5 cow]

Particles
Angy employs heavy use of particles to determine aspect, tense, mood, etc. Present tense is unmarked.

Control: wo ala - I cook

Passive Voice - tsu


 * mo tsu ala - The rice was cooked

Perfect Aspect - elu


 * wo elu ala - I have cooked

Tense:


 * Past Tense - mu


 * wo mju ala - I cooked


 * Future Tense - ku


 * wo ku ala - I will cook

Moods:


 * Interrogative - sung


 * wo sung ala? - Do I cook?


 * Conditional - ju (modal: tus)


 * wo ju ala us wo tus ekaf moo - I would cook if I had rice


 * Imperative - oru


 * oru ala! - cook!

Evidentiality - etinu


 * etinu wo ala - [one has evidence that] I cook

Comparison:


 * More - idu


 * wo idu fajhit fu ton - I [am] more green than you


 * Most - ididu


 * wo ididu fajhit fu aki - I am the most green than all (I am the greenest of all)

Polarity:


 * Yes - si


 * No/not - no

=Morphology=

Syntax
Word order is SVO, but there are a few oddities.

First of all, there is no verb "to be"-


 * I am a cow - Wo o tor [lit. I a cow]

The verb "have" is rendered like in Russian-


 * I have a cow - Nu wo o tor [lit. at me (is) a cow]

To form ergative statements, the particle "nus" is used.

So take the following English statements-


 * I turn on the light


 * The light turns on

In Angy, these sentences would be written-


 * Wo lapaka lyx


 * Lyx nus lapaka

Example Text
This is tentative, grammar/vocabulary is subject to change.

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Ty angy je mu tsu fytesa.

Nu taki bonito, hejbito, i stongisto, esy mu tsu vypar nu y fytesy.

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