Taneikyan Selaneodarei

General information
A conlang developed for experimenting with a strange way for handling verbs. The concept behind the language is that every noun (for the most part) is marked with a verb which changes depending on whether the noun is the subject, actor or object of the clause. It allows for a different approach to relative clauses and adpositional phrases. While some languages try to modify a clause's verb to build in a noun (for example, in Latin, 'amo' means I love, and 'amas' means you love), in Taneikyan Selaneodarei the verb is built into the noun. View the grammar section for more information.

Phonotactics
No consonant clusters are allowed. Syllables must end in a vowel, an 'n', or in special informal cases a 't'. The following syllable form must be used: (C)(y)V(n).

Verbs
Verbs are used as noun suffixs. For example, 'senzya' means someone/thing who/that eats, and 'senzyen' means someone/thing who/that is eaten. 'senzyei' means someone/thing whom/that I eat. Here is a full table of these forms (note how hyphens can be used to show the seperate sections): There are a few verbs that do not follow this pattern. Any tritransitive verbs will be irregular, and the verb 'to be' is also irregular.

Copula
The copula in Taneikyan Selaneodarei is 'ba'. It only performs one function, while English's can perform many. Here is a table describing how to use the different jobs of English's 'to be': Here are the forms of the irregular verb 'ba': For example, 'John-da' would mean 'I am John'. (Hyphen side note: When English words are used, they are always attached to the rest of the word with hyphens, however they can be used to make the parts of the word clear.)

Nouns
Nouns on their own are not too complicated. The standard format for a noun phrase is as follows:. The number is most interesting part here. Instead of using a normal singular/plural system, one can either use a precise number (see the vocabulary section) or use one of the following: -na = few, -ne = lots, -nene = loads, -nen = all.

Pronouns
When pronouns are introduced, there are usually a lot less words. This is because pronouns can change the suffixes to create new ones. They can also be treated as actual nouns, but view the following table for using them normally: The extra 'te's are optional, but are recommended for formality.

Since the pronouns modify the suffix, one must attach them to a noun. The suffix's meaning changes to the opposite. See the examples below:

nafei-cosenzya = He eats the fish. (The suffix becomes an object suffix because the 'co' is the actor.)

ga-osenzyenei = The man eats it. (The suffix becomes an actor suffix because the 'o' is the object.)

If one wants to create a noun phrase on its own,  one must use the noun equivalent. For example, 'osenzyenei' on its own is illegal so one must use 'bo-senzyen'.

Numbers
Taneikyan Selaneodarei uses a hexadecimal number system. To create numbers with more than one digit, just read out the digits one by one, left to right.

0 = sei, 00 = sesei, 000 = serei, 0000 = secan, 00000 = seba, 000000 = seben, 1 = ca, 2 = ban, 3 = zo, 4 = sa, 5 = bana, 6 = zan, 7 = ce, 8 = bon, 9 = che, A = se, B = bano, C = chera, D = cei, E = barei, F = nena.

For example, the number 124 is 7C in hexadecimal, so it is 'cechera'; the number 4096 is 1000 in hexadecimal, so it is 'caserei'.

To create a position from a number, e.g. first from one, add -re to the end of the number. To create a number of how many times an action was performed, e.g. once from one, add -ra. To create an age from a number, add -ga to the end of the number. To create a date from a number, add -reka to the end of the number. To create a month from a number, add -raka to the end of the number. To create a year from a number, add -rako to the end of the number. For example, the 11th of April, 2010 is 'banorekasarakaceceiserako'.

Days and Times
Monday = kanada, Tuesday = kabana, Wednesday = kazoda, Thursday = kasada, Friday = kabada, Satuday = kazana, Sunday = kakeda.

Times are written as 'hours + to + minutes + tei + seconds' using the 24 hour clock. For example, 19:20 is 'cazotocasa'.

Example text
"He liked to see his wife." = "cota asega fen senkye." (literally, "He thought wife good see.")

"He killed the dog who was trying to kill him." = "conatennezenteraconezanein." (literally, "He dog killed try he killed.")

"There were lots of animals at the tree." = "teken oganezan." (literally, "Tree at animal lots existed.")

"I am bace1000 and I created Taneikyan Selaneodarei." = "bace1000-da at Taneikyan-Selaneodarei-yerei." (literally, "Bace1000 I'm and Taneikyan Selaneodarei created I."