Angos


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Overall Language Characteristics
This new language is designed to be an auxiliary language for English, Chinese, and the Romance languages; it features a balance between each language's complexity and expressive features. The idea is for it to be lightly inflected with a tendency to isolate. A few unique innovations are also present in the language:

Medial Vowel System
Drawing from similar IALs, this language features a classification system where the last vowel indicates the part of speech. Unlike Esperanto or Ido however, additional root consonants may succeed the medial vowel. Long vowels (indicated by double letters) are the same (taar, toor, teer, etc.)

Nouns: o or y (see below)

Verbs: a

Adjectives: i

Adverbs: e

Other (conjunctions, prepositions, particles): u

Natural and Artificial Noun Distinction
In this language, nouns are distinguished as either "Natural" or "Artificial" (i.e man-made). Natural nouns take the medial vowel "o" and Artificial nouns take the vowel "y". There is no agreement between other parts of speech.

No Plural Inflections
This language does not include inflections for plurals normally found in other IALs. Rather, correlatives are used to express the relative number and definitiveness.

Phonology
Vowels: a, e, i, o, u, y (^)

Long/Short: aa/a

Consonants: p, t, k, b, d, g, m, n, ng (ŋ), w, j, h, ' (ʔ), f, s

Dipththongs: aw, iw, ow, yw, aj, ej, oj, yj

Stress: Penultimate

Syllable Structure
(C = consonant; V = vowel; S = semivowel) (listing all possibilities, please discuss this item on the forum.)
 * CV
 * SV
 * CVS
 * SVC
 * CVC
 * SVS
 * CCV
 * CSV
 * CSVS
 * CSVC

Morphology
Proposal:

Declensions:

none?

Conjugations:

only for tense, probably infixes

Last letter determines part of speech. —Detectivekenny; (Info) Preceding text certified by R. Xun as of 02:04, May 28, 2010 (UTC)

Proposal
Declensions: Number

Conjugations: None, tenses expressed with particles OR some sort of affix system

Razlem 02:56, May 28, 2010 (UTC)

Vocabulary
Proposal: Roots from Chinese, Greek/Latin, German, Hindi, Arabic, and also self-originating. Probably a good starter for languages. However it may be a good idea to omit Hindi if the words end up being choppy and short. With my phonology system it would be possible to have a Vietnamese or Quai'op-like system, which would eliminate a lot of ambiguity that would arise in a non-syllabic system. However it would be difficult to include infixes. —Detectivekenny; (Info) Preceding text certified by R. Xun as of 02:04, May 28, 2010 (UTC)

For artificial nouns ("noodle", for example) we could borrow the word from the language form the country that developed it. In this case, "noodle" could be something like "mijaantij" from the Chinese 面条. Natural nouns can be a priori. Just thinking out loud. Razlem 18:10, June 7, 2010 (UTC)

Not a bad idea. But it's better not to just use google-translate-like translations in that case. Mian means bread or flour and tiao means something long, so we might use mjen or mjan to mean noodles rather than that gigantic word mijaantij. However, are we dealing with a large vocabulary or a small one? —Detectivekenny; (Info) Preceding text certified by R. Xun as of 23:20, June 7, 2010 (UTC)

Idioms
Proposal:

If this is an auxlang, better stay away from idioms. —Detectivekenny; (Info) Preceding text certified by R. Xun as of 02:04, May 28, 2010 (UTC)

Agreed. Razlem 18:16, May 28, 2010 (UTC)