Board Thread:Linguistics/@comment-4924435-20141231044420/@comment-25410520-20141231064112

Do some research! I'll give you some things to start with :)

~IPA (international phonetic alphabet; I suggest learning what each term means first, like labio-dental or post-alveolar)

~Grammar (What I mean is noun cases, verb tense, aspect, mood, and other stuff)

~Language Family (We speak English; a west germanic fusional indo-european language)

~Language Type (How the language is set-up. for example: English is a fusional language with a nominative-accusative allignment and head initial; It's sentences are SVO [subject-verb-object])

FYI:

-Verb (the most important part of speech of almost if not all indo-european languages)= what the subject is doing (be it running, being, yelling, eating, drinking, having something)

-Noun = an object (dog, rain, pillow, person). Another definition is a person, place, or thing

-Adjective = describes a noun (quick rabbit, beautiful queen, etc)

-Adverb = modifies or describes a verb, usually ends in -ly in English (I ran quickly, I went forcibly, etc)

If you want you and I could work on you're language together :)

(if - conjunction; you - pronoun; want - verb; and - conjunction; I - subject; could - verb; work - verb; on - preposition; you - pronoun; are ['re] - verb; language - noun; together - adverb)

Note: Thank you to AKsroa4a for reminded me. English becoming more and more analytical meaning that English doesn't show grammtical ideas with affixes (ex: John, John's). Many Indo-European languages are fusional (ex: French, Russian, Spanish, etc), another common type in Indo-European languages is agglutinative; meaning that the language express 1 grammitical aspects in combined affixes (like one affix would represent past tense, another the nominal accusative case). Two examples of some indo-european agglutinative languages are German, and Armenian.

Also thank you to Meuser2 for the thumbs-up :) I try to keep a certain quality with everything I do.