Dalma

Dalma is a "peaceful" language, meaning that it is pronounced with no "forceful" sounds, like t, k, f, etc. They are written in Dalma scripts, but are devoiced to d, g and v respectively.

=Setting= Dalma (pronounced dæ:lma) is spoken on the fantasy world Dolmer (pronounced dɔlmør), a world that "evolved" from a microscopic piece of magic rock that, over time, would expand while exerting pure magical energy. When Dolmer evolved, out of its base of pure magic, beings of pure energy, made up of magical dust, appeared. They were the gods. These gods made Dolmer into a Utopia. They made life perfect, by making the land rich and fertile so they could grow crops to survive, but there was no-one to work the land, so they created people. They worked enough to make their lives fruitful and prosperous, but there was one problem. There was no communication between people and Gods, so the Gods made Dalma. They "engineered" Dalma in such a way that even when it was being used for bad, it would still sound peaceful. To do this, the Gods made the alphabet, but eliminated "forceful" sounds bearing what is called "attack".

=Basic Grammar= When the gods engineered Dalma, they structured words, phrases and sentences as follows:

Nouns
Common noun - (article) (noun) e.g. ke tome, the book

Plural noun - (noun)-(plural "trigger") e.g. toma-ss, the books (when -ss occurs after a word [while hyphenated] it means the noun is in the plural form)

Collective noun - (noun)-(trigger)-(word "collection") e.g. ke toma-ss-pemen, the library

Plural collective noun - (noun)-(trigger)-("collection")-(collective noun plural "trigger") e.g. toma-ss-pemen-ar, the libraries

Verbs
Regular verb (e.g. to see, to think, to drink etc.) - (verb in infinitive)-(verb "trigger") e.g. tefac-it, to see

Irregular verb (to be, to have) - (irregular infinitive)-(verb trigger) e.g. pelar-it, to have

Past tense - (verb (ir)regular infinitive)-(tense trigger) e.g. pelar-sa, to have had

Future tense - (verb (ir)regular infinitive)-(tense trigger) e.g. pelar-ain, to have in the future

I (verb) - mi (verb)-in

You (verb) - si (verb)-is

He (verb) - es (verb)-it

She (verb) - e (verb)-it

It (verb) - sat (verb)-it

We (verb) - mei (verb)-imus

You (verb) - sei (verb)-ist

They (verb) - eis (verb)-itin

Articles
The - ke

My, your, his, her, its - min, sin, ei, ès, sa (mẽ, sẽ, ɩ, ɛ:s, sʌ)

Our, your, their - mein, sein, vi (m The pronounciation of Dalma is not always as it seems.... Take pelar-ain (to have-future tense) for example: {written pelar-ain			pronounced (devoiced)pɛlʌr-ɔn} {written si pelar-in			pronounced zɩ pɛləʀ-ĩn} The letters p, t, k, s and f are devoiced to b, d, g, z and v respectively, as well as having quasi-nasals (an, en, in, on and un pronounced ã, ẽ, ĩ, ɔ̃ and ũ̃) The triphthongs ain, ein, oin, and uin are pronounced ɔn, ɩn, øn and wɛjn

Numbers
Hi,

Excuse me because I asking you for my demand (numbers from your conlang(s)) in this page. I think to send my message on your e-mail. But nowhere I didn't seeinformation

about your e-mail. First introduce: My name is Janko. I'm collecting numbers from various systems in different languages. You can found information about my self and my work on:

http://janko.gorenc.googlepages.com/home

http://janko.gorenc.googlepages.com/collectionnumbers

Please you tell me if you'll have numbers in Dalma, or from your others conlang(s) in future.

Could you please send me numbers from 1 to 10 (as in English: 1 –one, 2 – two, 3 – three,…) in Dalma, or from your others conlang(s) on this page or my e-mail address: "j_gorenc@yahoo.com"?

Please you delete my text with your page when you'll have numbers.

Thank you for your help!

I wish you a lot of success at your work!

JANKO GORENC

=Dictionary= Yes - man

No - main

=Example text= ...