Ravoswen

Ravoswen is a language I created to be the holy tongue Zetherism, a religion I created. It is spoken on Deutschland II, a planet exaxtly like Earth, with the exception of the Ravoswen, a species of turtles about a million years ahead of humans in pretty much all fields. It was the language of turtles, and adapted to the human mind by the Ferdieth. You see, the Ravoswen Turtles communicate by exchanging energy, and the language followed by inspiration of humans. The Ferdieth tried their best to preserve the way The Turtles /would/ have spoken, if they were forced to use human language. But they are mere humans, and naturally adapted it to suit human consiousness and human experiences, in addition to that of Ravoswen. It has exactly 116 words, as of right now, and a very basic grammar that I hope to expand. It is easily adapted into the Latin alphabet, but has its own script. I am tempted to copy-paste the files I've got, But I will restrain myself.

Basic Grammar
Informal Grammar of the Ravoswen language

Basic sentence structure

The basic order is O(v)S(V)

The verbs along with all their cases and tenses and such, are as suffixes to the nouns. Verbs have two basic forms, one for adding at the front of the object, another for the subject. Verbs are generally marginal, usually found as suffixes to nouns, and are often dealt away with.

Adjectives and prepositions are also usually added as suffixes. Indeed, suffixes tend to get out of had rather quickly. It will become a habit, and they will become managable after a while of using them, so worry not.

Questions:

To make a question, add “ma” to the end, and/or fa to the beginning. If both are added, you have yourself an open-ended question of some sort. If you only “ma” you have an interrogative sentense,  if you ad “fa” you've got a wh- question, and if you have a series of two or more nouns sandwiched between the two words means the adressed one is being offered those.

Alternatively, add “mi”as a prefix when you don't care to be to specific, or add “mi” to the end after a sentence hastily since you should have added “fa” at the beginning, but didn't feel like it.

Gender

Nouns generally don't have gender, but if you want, you can add “ban” to make something overtly masculine or “hai” to make it femenine.

Possesion= ”of” suffix

Existential case: Originally used for questioning the effability of existance and adding something of a dark mood to everything bearing it,  it may now be used whenever there is a blatant philosophical undertone you want to convey through ordinary words. -Ponwi-

Something I don't Know the Name of

When you are reciting news of an event, you must add one of the following suffixes to the first sentence of the description if it is not something you experienced firsthand.

1.schnee                               used to talk about a person/event someone who witnessed the event firsthand told you personally

2.snegi                                  when you where told something and don't know the teller's source of info

3.telej                         events you read about, or heard impersonnaly

4.salag                                              when you want the source discreet, and/or bluntly unkown.

Mood

Mood is indicated by one of the following suffixes, each of which is also a word for an emotion.

1.chaf                         imperitive affix

2.kin             hopeful affix

3.gerit            joyful affix

4.yap                          fearful affix

Tense

Very simple, and rather arbitrary. Something of a joke, albeit a terrible one

1.id                             past tense

2.ga                           present tense

3.di                                         future tense

4.ga

5.chim                        passive periphrastic

The 'affixes' are almost always suffixed, with the following exceptions:

1.When the sentence leads to something dramatic, and you want to avoid the anticlimax of having to recite the necessary suffixes after you have delivered your 'bang'

2.The pluralisation suffix, fa, is always a prefix. This is the last remnant of Ferdieth; the predecessor of Ravoswen

3.Possession (see below)

Possession

In any  situation involving ownership, there are two parties—the owner and the owned. The Possessive affix can put those two parts together, beginning with the object being possessed. For example:

muut'fod'macha

The beaver's death ray

A principle follows:

A sentence, as I have referred to it, is a statement, it has only to purvey one concept. Muut'fod'macha, for instance, could mean “the beaver's death ray,” but it might also translate as “The beaver owns the death ray” So pretty much anything qualifies as a sentence, and you don’t need a subject, an object, or a verb, just so long as you have something that, in the end, purveys at least one concept

On creating new words and expressing thoughts inexpressable prior

This language's grammar is meant to be very freeing. It's rules allow for as much specificity, vagueness, order, or mayhem as the thinker in this language pleases. It might also someday be able to open the thinker's mind to ideas and concepts that wouldn't be possible as far as words are concerned. Indeed, if you, beloved reader, should actually learn Ravoswen, and you keep thinking to yourself “There should be a word for X,” feel free to make a Ravoswen word for X. I have but two requests: one, please don't anglify the language; any words, grammatical structures, or shades of meaning that are unique to English, leave them the fuck out of Ravoswen. The same for things from Latin or Romance languages. Nothing wrong with them. Nothing wrong with English either. I just don't want them in Ravoswen. It would be best to use existing Ravoswen roots, or make up your own Ravoswen-sounding words and roots, but I'm down with German, Scandanavian, Arabic, Turkish, Chinese, Korean, Bantu, or any other language whose lexicon can be assimilated to sound Ravoswen-isch

When a suffix begins with a vowel, and the stem or previous suffix also has a vowel, the two vowels shall now hence be separated by a “'.” You may pronounce this either as a [j] or as a glottal stop, depending on how you feel.

More coming up

Not really a dictionary, just a list of words in no order
Words taken into Ravoswen from misc. languages.


 * 1.     dachs                                                            badger


 * 2.     tag                                                     one rotation of the earth


 * 3.     ar/bin                                                 to be


 * 4.     mann                                                 male


 * 5.     kwinnar                                             female


 * 6.     wumbo                                              wumbo


 * 7.     kleine                                                            small


 * 8.     Pravda                                              truth


 * 9.     ve                                                       and


 * 10. fu                                                       where


 * 11. vos                                                    what


 * 12. fe                                                      an expression of disgust


 * 13. oi                                                      oy!


 * 14. Daraus                                             however


 * 15. eval                                                   ergo


 * 16. spielzug                                           child's plaything


 * 17. long                                                  dragon


 * 18. vey                                                    pain


 * 19. north                                                 nordlich


 * 20. east                                                  mizrach


 * 21. west                                                  mayrev


 * 22. south                                                sudlich


 * 23. hagaf                                                passion


 * 24. hub                                                   love


 * 25. hayam                                              passionate love


 * 26. raram                                                           infatuation


 * 27. wajd                                                  platonic love


 * 28. hawk                                                 missing a loved one


 * 29. isk                                                     the highest form of love

Grammatical words:preposition, fuffixes, etc.


 * 30. pim                                                               First person personal pronoun


 * 31. vlask                                                 second person personal pronoun


 * 32. ar/bin                                                to be


 * 33. ub                                                                 subjunctive particle


 * 34. --n--                                       negative particle


 * 35. chaf                                                  imperitive affix


 * 36. kin                                   hopeful affix


 * 37. gerit                                      joyful affix


 * 38. yap                                                   fearful affix


 * 39. fi                                                        past tense


 * 40. ga                                                     present tense


 * 41. di                                                      future tense


 * 42. chim                                                 passive periphrastic


 * 43. sim                                                   “I am”


 * 44. ponwi                                               existential tense (originally used for questioning existance and its effability, but may now be used for any blunt deepening of meaning)


 * 45. fa                                                      plural prefix


 * 46. there                                     rug


 * 47. this                                                    richt


 * 48. here                                                  reich


 * 49. by                                                      ront


 * 50. on                                                     rav


 * 51. er/fid                                     to do/make/give


 * 52. fod                                                    possesive affix


 * 53. ve                                                      and


 * 54. mot                                                   with


 * 55. ni                                                       by/in


 * 56. ub                                                     to

l       The Rest


 * 57. cha                                       fish, aquatic creatures, and beavers


 * 58. macha                                  beaver


 * 59. chal                                       eel


 * 60. zem                                      A mysterious word (I don't quite know what it means myself. It's kind of just...there)


 * 61. rabla                         to kill (original conitiation is as homicide: killing of just one, but also a euphemism for genocide and other things worse than murder)


 * 62. twug                                      friendship, fellowship, comeraderie, etc.


 * 63. niymiach                  Hatred/enemy


 * 64. Uthatwan                              Love, far more powerful than passion, at once fills the soul with peace and fire, that gives joy and strength (other, more practical words for love upcoming!)


 * 65. tuf                                                      words


 * 66. uthi                                        power


 * 67. anu                                                   abrasion


 * 68. mu                                                    breath-


 * 69. ut                                                       life


 * 70. chro                                      fire


 * 71. fabwoch                                           lake


 * 72. fimech                                              city


 * 73. migfwoch                                         town


 * 74. ralza                                     strength


 * 75. wask                                     palace


 * 76. zeth                                       light (eg. “The green light at the end of the dock”)


 * 77. chaka                                               lower level saint


 * 78. Rot                                                    higher level saint


 * 79. Ü                                                      Angel


 * 80. Zwoom                                             Archangel


 * 81. lob                                                    tortoise


 * 82. muut                                     death ray (breath of light)


 * 83. nemyow                                           book


 * 84. odepgid                                           pickle


 * 85. tegipa                                               quince


 * 86. dafxi                                     apple


 * 87. adiyma                                             peach


 * 88. avkani                                              citrus


 * 89. mosdow                                           dignity


 * 90. pwuk                                     in the beginning


 * 91. pwak                                    to begin


 * 92. xaw                                                   equal


 * 93. fid                                                     to do/make/give


 * 94. watbimafbaj                         admire


 * 95. wom                                                 to fall in love


 * 96. tinuti                                      heroism


 * 97. Mien                                     human being


 * 98. giomchoz                                         born


 * 99. ugpazta                                            beautiful


 * 100.                 twugcha                                              dolphin


 * 101.                 dow                                         tulips


 * 102.                 bas                                          color


 * 103.                 bal                                           eat


 * 104.                 lab                                           feed


 * 105.                 nafon                                       pain


 * 106.                 xam                                         insect


 * 107.                 chen                                        later


 * 108.                 alber                                       to die


 * 109.                 ie                                                         would


 * 110.                 yuss                                        therefore


 * 111.                 kayon                                      a day in gods' time


 * 112.                 at                                             next


 * 113.                 Fogom                                                food


 * 114.                 wowitkwaj                               joy


 * 115.                 miftach                                                Something that makes you feel better at the expense of others


 * 116.                 azlar                                        weak


 * 117.                 aalberak                                             capital


 * 118.                 anorjak                                               air,  weather


 * 119.                 kuwp                                       in the end


 * 120.                 dwoma                                               rights