Avb'el

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Avb'el is a conlang that is currently work in progress.

History
I came up with the idea of creation of a new language without any particular reason... But, it doesn't make me stop creating it. Because I know English and Ukrainian and am learning Chinese, some words might be partly based on these languages. But, mostly, I want it to be unique one. Also, I'm trying to keep it simple and don't add a lot of declensions. I am using modified Latin alphabet for it.

Alphabet
Adding macron to a vowel will make it a double vowel (i.e. a -> ā or ɣ-> ɣ̄)

Some sounds are expressed through two letters (lh and ph).

In "tg", the "t" is not read, leaving only a "g".

Letters n, r, k, l, b, m can be doubled.

x is only lowercase because it cannot be found in beginning of any Avb'el word.

Stress/Accent
Every word of Avb'el stresses the first vowel, unless the word is foreign and has another stress.

Fore example, Yoɣra is read like /'jɔurɑ/, not /jɔ'urɑ/ or /jɔu'rɑ/

Word order
Word order in Avb'el is only SVO (subject-verb-object) because nouns and pronouns are not declining to any cases. Thus, to make it clear where is which part of sentence, only SVO is used.

Example: Yoɣra namʓe namʓ. - You eat food.

Adjectives are added before nouns or gerunds.

Example: Yoɣra namʓe bagsali namʓ. - You eat loud food.

Adverbs are added before verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs.

Example: Yoɣra rɣpɨa namʓe namʓ. - You speedily eat food.

In addition, all adpositions are prepositions.

Example: Yoɣra namʓe ka dodê. - You eat on bed.

Also, time-place-manner order is used. ENG example: I today [time] to Germany [place] ride train [manner].

Tenses
Avb'el has 4 tenses: present, past, future, and absolute.

Present tense
Present tense shows an action that is going on in the present. To write in present form, do not add any extra particles.

Example: Tomora tapkite lop ekepase soll bora mobb bora. (They walk and listen to each other.)

Absolute tense
Absolute present tense shows an action that is going on at the moment. To write in absolute form, add ngɣ particle before the first verb.

Example: Tomora ngɣ tapkite lop ekepase soll bora mobb bora. (They are walking and listening to each other.)

Past tense
Past tense shows an action that was going on before. To write in past form, add hor particle before the first verb.

Example: Tomora hor tapkite lop ekepase soll bora mobb bora. (They walked and listened to each other.)

Future tense
Future tense shows an action that will be done. To write in future form, add hal particle before the first verb.

Example: Tomora hal tapkite lop ekepase soll bora mobb bora. (They will walk and listen to each other.)

Mixing tenses
To mix tenses, add the corresponding particle before the verbs.

Example: Tomora hal tapkite lop hor ekepase soll bora mobb bora. (They will walk and listened to each other.)

Another example: Tomora hor tapkite lop ngɣ ekepase soll bora mobb bora. (They walked and are listening to each other.)

To mix with present tense, add met̆ particle.

Example: Tomora hor tapkite lop met̆ ekepase soll bora mobb bora. (They walked and listen to each other).

Lexicon
See Avb'el/Lexicon

* It is not done yet and will be improved in future.

Parts of speech
Avb'el has the following parts of speech:
 * 1) Noun (n.) - thing, person, place, quality, or idea.
 * 2) Verb (v.) - action, occurrence, or state of being.
 * 3) Pronoun (pron.) - replaces nouns.
 * 4) Adjective (adj.) - describes nouns.
 * 5) Adverb (adv.) - describes verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs.
 * 6) Gerund (g.) - noun form of a verb.
 * 7) Preposition (prep.) - expresses relationship of objects in time and space.
 * 8) Interrogative (interrog.) - used to ask questions.
 * 9) Particle (part.) - helps to establish meaning to word or phrase.
 * 10) Conjunction (conj.) - helps joining words or phrases.
 * 11) Interjection (interj.) - expresses feeling or reaction.

Transforming words
In Avb'el, adjectives and adverbs are formed by adding special suffixes to a noun. Thus, they can be easily identified from other words by the suffixes.

Making adjectives
To form an adjective, add -i suffix to a noun.

Example: Dok (doctor, n.) + i = Doki (doctor, adj.)

If some words that are borrowed from other languages (names, places, other borrowed words) end on 'i' already, then an 'ɇ' is added to the end. When transforming these words, the ɇ is removed and the i is doubled.

Example: Bɣlhiɇ (bully, n.) + i = Bɣlhī (bully, adj.)

Adding -like suffixoid to noun makes it an adjective meaning similarity (i.e. cat -> cat-like). Same thing can be done in Avb'el, adding suffixoid -goɇ to the end of the word. It can be added only to nouns.

Example: Patit (father, n.) + goɇ = Patit-goɇ (father-like, adj.)

Making adverbs
To form an adverb, add -pɨa suffix to a noun.

Example: Et̆rod (exception, n.) + pɨa = Et̆rodpɨa (exceptionally, adv.)

If the word already ends on a 'p', then add only -ɨa.

Example: Rɣp (speed, n.) + ɨa = Rɣpɨa (speedily, adv.)

Making verbs
To form a common verb, add -e suffix to noun.

Example: Dakk (touch, t.) + e = Dakke (to touch, v.)

To form a modal verb, add -ɣnh suffix to noun.

Example: Yek (need, n.) + ɣnh = Yekɣnh (to need, v.)

There are only two exceptions for this rule: ɣ̀an (to be) and ɯab (to like).

Making gerunds
To make a gerund, add -sɨ suffix to a verb.

Example: Milenne (make, v.) + sɨ = Milennesɨ (making, g.)

Group suffix
To show a group of things, add -or suffix.

Example: Namʓ (food, n.) + or = Namʓor (group of foods, n.)

The difference between grouped and ungrouped namʓ is that the usual one is not saying exactly if there is only one food or a group of it, while the grouped version specifies that it is a group.

Plurality
To change a singular noun to a plural noun, add -s suffix.

Example: Ersa (human, n., sing.) + s = Ersas (humans, n., pl.)

You can even make a grouped word plural.

Example: Naɣsor (group of sciences) + s = Naɣsors (groups of sciences)

If the word ends on following (ʓ, z, ɯ, t̆, sɇ, ʓɇ, zɇ, ɯɇ, t̆ɇ), suffix -ês is used instead.

Example: Lenʓ (lens, n., sing.) + ês = Lenʓês (lenses, n., pl.)

Diminutive
To make diminutive (as in ENG: cat -> kitty), add suffix -olh.

Example: Loy (drink, n.) + olh = Loyolh (small drink, n.)

It can even be added to names!

Example: Aleks (Alex, n.) + olh = Aleksolh (Alex, but smaller and cuter, n.)

If the word already ends on o, then double it.

Example: Bordo (Bordeaux, n.) + olh = Bodrōlh (small Bordeaux, n.)

It CANNOT be added to gerunds, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, verbs, prepositions, and other parts of speech other than nouns.

Particles
The particles help arranging the words and identifying the types of sentences and tenses.

Gender
There are four genders in Avb'el: masculine, feminine, neuter, and indeterminate.

Masculine gender
Masculine gender is used in male animals (including humans).

So, words like husband, man, tom cat, and father automatically become masculine.

Feminine gender
Feminine gender is used in female animals (including humans).

So, words like wife, woman, she-cat, and mother automatically become feminine.

Neuter gender
Neuter gender is used in plants, fungi, prokaryotes, and non-living objects.

So, words like mushroom, tree, bacteria, stone, and air automatically become neuter.

Indeterminate gender
Indeterminate gender is used when you do not specify if an animal (including humans) is a male or a female.

It is also automatically set to words that can be either female or male. Those words include spouse, human, cat, parent, and student.

Complex numbers
To make complex numbers like twenty-two and four hundred eighteen, you should use the simple numbers combined.

Example: Lō zeno lō [Two ten two] (Twenty-two) 22

Example: Ɣ̀lō keno mêno zeno [Four hundred eight ten] (Four hundred eighty) 480

Example: Êtno keno zeno gem [Thousand hundred ten one] (One thousand one hundred eleven) 1111

Example: Sllō gemnê trō zeno êtno rsō keno ɣ̀inyo zeno phlhō [Six million three ten thousand seven hundred nine ten five] (Six million thirteen thousand seven hundred ninety-five) 6013795

Positive adjectives
Adjectives without prefixes da- or eph- are automatically classified as positive. They are used as base adjectives for transforming into either comparative or superlative form. They are never used for comparison.

Comparative adjectives
To change the adjective to comparative form add da- prefix.

Example: da + Ersai (Human, adj., positive) = Daersai (Humaner, adj., comparative)

Sentence example: Hora ɣ̀an daersai omt eɯonn (He is humaner than alien)

Superlative adjectives
To change the adjective to superlative form, add eph- prefix.

Example: eph + Naɣsi (scientific, adj., positive) = Ephnaɣsi (the most scientific, adj., superlative)

Sentence example: Sora ɣ̀an ephnaɣsi omt tomora. [It is the most scientific than them] (It is the most scientific compared to them)

Swadesh list
Basic Swadesh list with Avb'el, its IPA, English, Ukrainian. [not done yet]