Gelota

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Gelota (/gɛˈlota/, word which signify "language") is a conlang created in 2013. It is based upon triliteral roots which carry the sense of the word, whereas the vowel choice carries the grammar.

For example, we can take the name of the language. GLT is the root, which carries the general sense of language. The vowels specify that this word is a noun (e) of indefinite gender (o) in the nominative case (a); GeLoTa.

The majority of the documentation about Gelota is in French. If you want to know more, you can see this list of French pages.

Alphabet
The alphabet of Gelota is in fact a kind of abjad. It contains 25 letters, only consonants, which are completed in real words by diacritics, which represents vowels.

The difference with a true abjad, like Hebrew, is that the vowels are necessary for understand words.

In order to write it with our computers, and to read it without learn a new alphabet, a system of transcription was created. But some letters are also diacrited, and some computers can't write or even read it. So, a replacement system was created too:
 * for the consonants, we add an "H" (for example, Ð = DH; Ḟ = FH; Ĥ = HH);
 * for the vowels, we can replace the macron ( ̄ ) by a circumflex ( ̂  ), easier to obtain (ō = ô); and if even the circumflex is too difficult to obtain, the "ō" can become "oi", the "ā" "ai" and the "ē" "eu".

This system of transcription may seem illogical, as I use sometimes circumflex (Ĥ), sometimes points (Ḟ) and even a rare letter (Ð). The reason is that I seek to use only Unicode precomposed letters, and for example, F with a circumflex does not exist.

Grammatical category
First vowel.

Gender
Second vowel.

Declination
Third vowel.

Tense
Second vowel.

Persons
Third vowel.