Angos

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This language was co-developed by users Detectivekenny, Panglossa, and Razlem, with a little help from others. "Angy" ['aŋ.ə] simply means "Language".
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Phonology
Vowels: [a], [e], [i], [o], [u], y [ǝ]

Consonants: [p], [t], [k], [b], [d], [g], [m], [n], ng [ŋ], [w], [j], [h], [f], [s], [x], [r], [l]

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

Stress: Penultimate

Syllable Structure
(C = consonant; V = vowel; S = semivowel)
 * V
 * VC
 * CV
 * SV
 * CVS
 * SVC
 * CVC
 * SVS
 * CCV
 * CSV
 * CSVS
 * CSVC

Language Characteristics
This 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.

Nouns: o or y (see Noun Distinction 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 except the correlatives. The advantage of this system is a smaller root base.

Each root has a total of 4 semantic nouns associated with it:

Complete Natural

Aspectual Natural

Complete Artificial

Aspectual Artificial

Here is an example of the root "t-r" meaning "cow":

tor - cow (natural in all aspects, the mooing mammal)

tor - cow (natural in some aspects, something natural that is like a cow, i.e. a glutton or lazy person)

tyr - cow (artificial in all aspects, a mooing mammal that [for some reason] is artificial, e.g. a clone)

tyr - cow (artificial in some aspects, something artificial that is like a cow, i.e. an artificial glutton)

Another root "m-n" meaning "human":

mon - human (complete)

mon - human (aspectual)

myn - a human clone (complete, but artificial)

myn - golem/android (has the likeness of a human, but artificial)

One final example- "ligol-" meaning "tree"

ligolo - tree (complete)

ligolo - tree (natural aspectual)

ligoly - tree (as in a plastic Christmas tree or decoration)

ligoly - tree (like a branched diagram)

No Plural Inflections
This language does not include inflections for plurals normally found in other IALs. Rather, the indefinite correlatives "o" and "y" function as singular markers. To express number, these markers are omitted:


 * I see a/one cow - Wo vidka o/ju tor


 * I see cows - Wo vidka tor [lit. I see cow]


 * I see 5 cows - Wo vidka wu tor [lit. I see 5 cow]

Particles
Angy employs heavy use of particles to determine aspect, tense, mood, etc. Present tense is unmarked.

Tense:


 * Past Tense - mu


 * wo mju ala - I cooked


 * Future Tense - ku


 * wo ku ala - I will cook

Moods:


 * Interrogative - sung (must always begin the question)


 * Sung wo ala? - Do I cook?


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 * Modal Particles
 * Positive
 * Translation
 * Negative
 * Translation
 * Ability
 * siju
 * can
 * nuju
 * can not
 * Possibility
 * situ
 * possibly
 * nutu
 * impossible, can not possibly
 * Permission
 * sisu
 * may
 * nusu
 * may not
 * Necessity
 * simu
 * must, have to
 * numu
 * must not
 * }
 * The negative necessity modal numu means explicitly "must not" as in "You must not cook": To numu ala. To say something like "You do not have to cook", you would place a negative marker in front of the positive modal: To nu simu ala (You no must cook)
 * numu
 * must not
 * }
 * The negative necessity modal numu means explicitly "must not" as in "You must not cook": To numu ala. To say something like "You do not have to cook", you would place a negative marker in front of the positive modal: To nu simu ala (You no must cook)

Evidentiality - etinu


 * etinu wo ala - [one has evidence that] I cook

Comparison:


 * More - idu


 * wo idu fajhit fu ton - I [am] more green than you


 * Most - ididu


 * wo ididu fajhit fu aki - I am the most green than all (I am the greenest of all)

Polarity:


 * Yes - si


 * No/not - nu

=Morphology=

Syntax
Word order is strictly SVO

Verb Transitivity
Transitive and intransitive verbs are unmarked.

Transitive: Wo kambia [object] = I change [an object]

Intransitive: Wo bala = I dance

Compounding
Angy uses endocentric compounding, in which A+B denotes a special kind of B.

kas = produce

oj = place

kas + oj + POS marker = kasojy = factory [lit. produce place]

fyn = wind

fyn + kasojy = fynkasojy = windmill [lit. wind produce place]

Vocabulary
It's not organized atm, just bear with me >.<

Example Text
This is tentative, grammar/vocabulary is subject to change.

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Ty angy je mu tsu fytesa.

Nu taki bonito, hejbito, i stongisto, esy mu tsu vypar nu y fytesy.

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