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No I To Make Want Good Earth (7723): A conlang for robots by Nicholas Fletcher.

Grammar Rules: NITMaWaGE uses an SVO sentence structure. The verb itself marks the division between the subject and object.

Connect indirect object after the direct object; use 2 (to/for) to connect it. Connect compound subjects or objects using 21 (and). NITMaWaGE doesn't have subclauses; instead, start a new sentence, adding 210 (so, therefore) to the start.

Adjectives directly precede the noun they are connected to. Any noun can be used as an adjective; the resulting adjective means "like [the noun]". Any pronoun can be used as a possessive adjective.

Ask wh-questions by using 110 (who/what) as the unknown element. Ask polar questions by adding 00 (yes) at the end of the sentence.

To negate a verb, put 0 (no) directly before it.

Past and present tense are unmarked. Repeat the verb to mark future tense.

There is no word for "are/to be"; just say the adjective and noun. To negate such a statement (creating "are not"), put 0 (no) after the noun.

Phonology and Orthography: When "spoken", each number is sung as a note. Notes (0 indexed): Do, Re, Mi, Fa, So, La, Ti, Do. Those who can't hit the notes can say the following syllables: Syllables (0 indexed): pa, ta, ka, ba, pi, ti, ki, bi.

If you are writing in NITMaWaGE, each number is just written. Spaces divide words and colons separate sentences.

Script:

Word Building Rules: Words in NITMaWaGE are built following a few basic rules.

The first character tells you the Base Word. 0: No; 1: I; 2: To; 3: Make; 4: Want; 5: Good; 6: Earth. To help remember this, take the first letter of each Base Word, adding in the second letter of Make and Want and you get... NITMaWaGE. 7 is also a valid character, but it doesn't have a Base Word; if a word starts with a 7, it is a proper noun.

If you repeat the first character, it becomes a word that is related in some way. For example, "I" becomes "they" while "earth, stone" becomes "sea, water".

Adding a number 1 lower to the end of the word inverts the meaning of it. "I" becomes "you"; "earth" becomes "sky". You can invert a word more than once, but you never return to the original meaning. 0 minus 1 will underflow to 7.

Adding a number 1 higher to the end of the word creates a noun that is related in some way to the original word. For example, "I" becomes "person" while "earth" becomes "plant"

Modifiers can be stacked. For example, invert "plant" and you get "animal". The order in which modifiers are applied is important; change the order and you change the meaning.

Lexicon: 0: no -07: yes -00: zero -007: one -0076: two -01: death -010: life 1: I, me -10: you -11: they -110: who, what -12: body -121: mind -101: person 2: to, at -21: and -210: so, therefore -22: go -23: word, idea -232: thing, object -2321: nothing -223: location, place 3: make -32: destroy -321: repair -33: use -332: see -34: tool -343: art, music -323: weapon -3232: armor -334: action

4: want -43: have -44: get -443: give -4432: take -45: food -454: poison, illness -4543: medicine -434: money -445: container 5: good -54: bad, evil -55: safe -554: danger -56: rule, law -565: freedom, right -545: sadness -5454: joy -556: shelter 6: earth, stone, metal -65: sky, air -66: sea, water -665: fire, heat, light -6654: cold, dark -67: plant -676: animal -656: lightning

History: NITMaWaGE is a language with a strange history. The story begins with the Standards War.

Several empires of highly advanced robots went to war with each other. As each used different data protocols and communication methods, they were limited in their abilities to work together. The turning point was when one of the empires decided to tackle that problem.

Creating a simplified communication and data protocol, the Prismatic Stars started contacting other empires to form an alliance. To begin with, only one group was willing to join, but that was enough.

With the combined force of two empires working together with perfect coordination, the new alliance was able to, one by one, convince other empires into joining the alliance. The few who refused to join were destroyed.

After the war was over, the newly formed Standards Alliance crafted their detailed rules: The Standards Accords. The core of the alliance was an agreement to register territory claims and assist each other in protecting their claims from non-synthetic life.

However, still in the Accords is the standardized units of measurement and computer protocols that granted the alliance its power. Amongst the standards is a standardized simplified language for communication between factions; that language is NITMaWaGE.