Etzdelima

Etzdelima is a language created by David Mason Barkhausen over the course of several years because he was bored. Etzdelima is highly efficient, most times limiting the number of characters in a sentence to the same number of words; if not fewer when inferred... Etzdelima is also specialized to be aesthetic in nature, as well as simple and easy to write. Each character must be efficient, easy to write, and aesthetically pleasing. As a result of trying to maintain such high standards, Etzdelima is constantly changing... but eventually someday the language will become simple and natural enough to the point that revisions will no longer be made; however that will take many years to accomplish and a lot of ironing out to do...

Every word in etzdelima has it's own [1] character, [2] meaning, and [3] pronounciation. It is a mix of phonetic symbols, logograms and pictoglyphs. Inspiration has been drawn from several languages; chiefly Hebrew, Chinese, English and Spanish. Some of it is also purely made up. (example: Lam -- people -- is just a totally random word...)

Etzdelima has possibly over 3000 words -- and growing... So it is hard for me to get all of the characters up on this site.

non-pictographic words in etzdelima usually arrive from a proto-etzdelima symbolic alphabets; which have phonetic radicals that still play a role in etzdelima to this day.

Personal Pronouns:

Other prounouns (?):

Noun examples:

lam: people

tam: man

mei: woman/ girl

koi: boy

meia: girlfriend

koio: boyfriend

go: dog

gat: cat

esh: flame

eshraza: blazing fire

ra: chaos, disorder

nom / mem: water

unom: ocean

mar: sea

margou: seal (sea-dog)

lu: bug

zu: animal

ton: head

des: face

sonir: ear

vir: eye

kan: appearance

sen: smell

gazne: nose

shi: yes

loi: no

ro: circle

rosh: ball

etz: land

ma: what

mama /ema: mama / mother

aba: father

meke: king

uchu: world, earth

shem: name

nar: where

gatsui: sad, poor

thui: happy

hara: angry / anger

Verb examples:

za, -z: is

yo: have

chum: eat

sko: walk

gai: jump

dal: talk, say

vie: see

kan: look

son: hear

chi: feel

edes: follow

sto: stand around, step

ste: stand up

sen: smell

shi: affirm, like

Preposition examples:

e: come, bring, take, get

a: do, make, to at, have

al: on, to, over, give

ov: over

shang: up

shya: down

t'shang: on top

le: to

ades: in front of

edes: behind

subi: under

rodes: around

 Adjectives: 

um: big, large

chi : little, small

mazda: excellent, good

ira: evil

bon: good

alte: tall

tod: short

lao: long

ro: round

sha: quick, fast

 

Rules:

plurals: -ei, -n (ex: goei = dogs)

past tense (verbs): -d (ex: mo vied ta = I saw him // mo vie ta: I see him)

Syntax and grammar in etzdelima are very lose: you can arrage a sentance any way you want as long as you use the right words, as long as it is comprehensible.

examples:

[1] nar za u? [2] u za nar? [3] nar u za? [4] za u nar? [5] za nar u? [6] u nar za?

All 6 of these examples mean the same thing; where are you?

It does become more complex when more than one object is involved; but logic is the general rule; for example: don't mix up your numbers, make sure, don't mix up sentances or logical thought patterns (He is believe, therefore I don't lying him), etc.

A recent development in my languague is that it can be written in any direction. All it requires is the correct punctuation so you can see what direction the sentace is going in ((sentances are trailed by .. which acts like a period (.) in english.))

Traditionally Etzdelima has been written from right to left, in keeping with this tradition, any examples given will also be written in this manner.

 Examples: 

Maz u shem? : what's your name?

Mo shem za Meizhi.. : My name is Meizhi (Mason).

I am sad. : Mo za gatsui (Moz gatsui)