Angos

Angy 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.

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

Consonants: [p], [t], [k], [b], [d], [g], [m], [n], [w], [j], [h], [f], [s], [r] (rhotic is allowable), [l], [v]

When followed by a vowel, the digraph ng is pronounced [ŋɡ]

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
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.

Nouns: o or y (see Noun Distinction below)

Verbs: a

Adjectives: i

Adverbs: e

Other (conjunctions, prepositions, particles): u

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.

Word Derivation
Angy is a noun-based language, meaning every non-particle has a noun root.

What? Impossible you say? Maybe. But I've found a way (kinda) to make it work with traditional verbs. Each verb is "to [noun]"

For example, the inflection of the word myrojy meaning "market".

Now for a usual English/Spanish verb, "to have". The noun for this is "grip" or "hold", bo

A word of caution: words in this language are meant to be ambiguous as to facilitate conversation. The reasoning behind this system is the equation (VERB + noun), where the verb is whatever the context allows. The first example myroja "to market", can be taken as "go to the market" or "to shop at the market". The second example verb is "to have a grip of something" or "to get a grip of something", as in to make something in your grip or hold, to have it in your grip or on your person.

"But wait Razlem! What about 'to be'?"

Omitted. Completely. Yeah, you heard me.

I am a [noun] = Wo [noun]

I am [adjective] = Wo [adjective]

See the Vocabulary section for more examples.

Other Derivatives

Person who is doing VERB = endocentric compound (giomo = runner)

Person who does VERB habitually = seme (seme giomo = runner)

Person who does VERB professionally = profe (profe giomo = professional runner)

Place with lots of NOUN, Place where VERB is done = -oj- (arbojo = forest) (alojy = kitchen)

Person - omo

Male - na-

Female - ni-

Man = naomo

Male runner = nagiomo

Woman = niomo

Female runner = nigiomo

No Plural Inflections
This language does not include inflections for plurals normally found in other IALs, nor does it include traditional articles. The particle "lu" functions as a plural marker. Demonstrative adjectives are used in place of definite articles.


 * I see a cow - Wo via tyro [lit. I see cow]
 * I see cows - Wo via lu tyro [lit. I see (more than one) cow]
 * I see the cow - Wo via fogu tyro [lit. I see this cow]
 * I see the cows - Wo via fogu lu tyro [lit. I see this (more than one) cow}

Particles
Angy employs heavy use of particles to determine aspect, tense, mood, etc. The polar particles si and nu can be attached to other particles to emphasize or negate.

Tense:


 * Present tense is unmarked
 * Past Tense - mu
 * Wo mu ala - I cooked
 * Wo mu ala - I cooked


 * Future Tense - ku
 * Wo ku ala - I will cook

Moods:


 * Interrogative - tsu (must always begin the question): Tsu wo ala? - Do I cook? (this is only used if there is no interrogative correlative)


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 * Modal Particles
 * Positive
 * Translation
 * Negative
 * Translation
 * Ability
 * sialu
 * can
 * nualu
 * can not
 * Permission
 * sistu
 * may
 * nustu
 * may not
 * Necessity
 * simu
 * must, have to
 * numu
 * must not
 * }
 * The negative necessity modal numu means explicitly "must not" as in "You must not cook": To numu ala. To say something like "You do not have to cook", you would place a negative marker in front of the positive modal: To nu simu ala (You no must cook)
 * Directive commands can be expressed with just the verb: Ala! (Eat) Nu ala! (Don't eat)
 * Volitive commands are expressed with -vamu: Sivamu gia! (Let's go!) Nuvamu gia (let's not go)
 * The negative necessity modal numu means explicitly "must not" as in "You must not cook": To numu ala. To say something like "You do not have to cook", you would place a negative marker in front of the positive modal: To nu simu ala (You no must cook)
 * Directive commands can be expressed with just the verb: Ala! (Eat) Nu ala! (Don't eat)
 * Volitive commands are expressed with -vamu: Sivamu gia! (Let's go!) Nuvamu gia (let's not go)
 * Volitive commands are expressed with -vamu: Sivamu gia! (Let's go!) Nuvamu gia (let's not go)

Evidentiality and Epistemic Modality:


 * Wo sitinu ala - I evidently cook


 * Wo nutinu ala - It is doubtful that I cook


 * Lu lo sitinu mu gia - They evidently walked


 * Lu lo nutinu mu gia - It is doubtful that they walked


 * Lo ansa to nutinu ba viameky - He doubts that you have a TV [lit. he says you [doubt] have TV]

Comparison:


 * Less - nuru: Wo nuru fajhi du to - I [am] less green than you
 * More - siru: Wo siru fajhi du to - I [am] more green than you


 * Least- nufu: Wo nufu fajhi du osiju - I am the least green of all
 * Most - sifu: Wo sifu fajhi du osiju - I am the most green of all

Polarity:


 * Affirmative - si
 * Wo si gia - Yes, I am going


 * Negative - nu
 * Wo nu gia - I am not going

Particle Placement
Particles go before whatever they enhance, so there is no standardized placement in terms of word order. Some placement examples have been shown above.

Syntax
Word order is strictly SVO

Verb Transitivity
Transitive and intransitive verbs are unmarked.

Transitive: Wo kambia [object] = I change [an object]

Intransitive: Wo bala = I dance

Compounding
Angy uses endocentric compounding, in which A+B denotes a special kind of B.

Store
 * myr = merchandise
 * oj = place
 * myr + oj + Part of Speech Marker = myrojy = store [lit. merchandise place]

Windmill
 * kas = product
 * oj = place
 * kas + oj + POS marker = kasojy = factory [lit. product place]
 * fyn = wind
 * fyn + kasojy = fynkasojy = windmill [lit. wind product place]

Television


 * vi = eye


 * mek = machine, mechanism


 * vimeky = TV [lit. eye machine]

Telephone


 * jam = sound


 * mek = machine, mechanism


 * jammeky = telephone [lit. sound machine]

Computer


 * nabr = brain


 * mek = machine, mechanism


 * nabrmeky = computer [lit. brain machine] (in this case, a reduced vowel may separate the first and second syllables)

Vocabulary
This isn't terribly organized, and doing full inflections would require a tremendous amount of space, so just bear with me for the time being :)

Particles (prepositions, conjunctions, other)

Verbs

Nouns