Neuhic Lingue

Neuhic Lingue borrows much of its vocabulary from English and some Chinese dialects.

=Basic Grammar= Neuhic Lingue is a SVO language, which means subjects come first, then verbs, then objects. Words that modify other words, such as adjectives, abverbs, and prepositions come before the words they modify. To indicate a question, the subject and verb is simply switched, e.g.: Ni laicas fuuden. You like food. vs Laicas ni fuuden? Do you like food?

Nouns change form depending on tense, gender, and whether they are singular or plural. Verbs change form depending on tense. Adjectives change form based on intensity. Noun bases generally end with vowels indicating their plurality level, gender, and place in the sentence, basic verbs end in s, and abjectives ends with ic.

The language has 3 grammatical cases: nominative, accusative and genitative; 2 genders: male and female, as well as a lack of gender case; and 7 tenses: they are exemplified at the verb section.

Negatives
There are only three. They are nu- not, mu- not have, and bu- do not. They can be added to the fronts of nouns, verbs and adjectives to affect the meaning, but these prefixes cannot stand alone as independent words.

Articles
There are only two used in this language, u and ju, corresponding with a/an and the, respectively.

Pronouns
1st person /1st person plural /2nd person /2nd person plural /3rd person /3rd person plural /interrogative

Nominative male     nge             ngie                   ni                nei                      hi               ei                       se

female  nge             ngie                   ni                nei                      si               ei                        se

undef. nge            ngie                   ni                nei                      i                 ei                       he

Accusative male     ngem           ngiem                 nim               neim                    him             eim                      sem

female  ngem           ngiem                 nim               neim                    sim               eim                      sem

undef. ngem          ngiem                 nim               neim                    im                 eim                     hem

Genitative male      ngez           ngiez                  niz               neiz                   hiz              eiz                      sez

female  ngez           ngiez                  niz               neiz                   siz              eiz                      sez

undef.  ngez          ngiez                  niz               neiz                   iz                eiz                     hez  

this          dse

these       dsie

that          ne

those        nie

which        he

Nouns
All nouns can be changed to the format of the following example. Male endings are -i and -o, female endings are -a, and undefined endings are -e and -u. To make endings plural, for male endings add -e before the ending, for female endings add -i after the ending, and for undefined endings add -i- before the ending.

e.g.

fire feh-

each box contains singular and plural, respectively.

Verbs
All basic verbs end with -s. They all can be conjugated by adding certain endings to alter their tenses.


 * Verb Conjugation

The following chart illustrates which endings are used for the tenses in Neuhic Langue.

eat chides

The endings used above can be used with any verb.


 * Passive Verbs

Simply add be- in front of the verb to make it passive.

e.g. eat chides vs. be eaten bechides


 * To Indicate Something to Be Possible

Simply add ke- in front of the verb to indicate it is possible.

e.g. drink drenkas vs. can drink kedrenkas

Numbers

 * Counting Numbers

The language has a multiplicative number system, so each numbers place consists of a basic number (1-9) and it's place. The system is similar to that of Chinese.

lim zero

i    one                               den   ten

er  two                               bai    hundred

san   three                          tsien  thousand

phor four                             milio  million

ngou  five                            bilio    billion

liu     six                             trilio    trillion

chet   seven

ba      eight

nan    nine

To create complex numbers, refer to this example:

342,534,635,149 would be:

sanbai-phorden-er bilio ngoubai-sanden-phor milio liubai-sanden-ngou tsien ibai-phorden-nan

the literary translation would be:

three-hundred four-ten two billion five-hundred three-ten four million six-hundred three-ten five-thousand one-hundred four-ten nine

a simpler example:

3,234

san tsien erbai-sanden-phor

three thousand two-hundred three-ten four

Note: In order to form counting numbers for objects, just add -c at the end of the sentence.

e.g.

twenty-four horses

erden-phorz horsie

=Dictionary= ...

=Example text= JU HERO SEI SLAYAST JU GIANTO

''Taihen duohic yearie en ju pastem, u gigantic mani beyouhast, hiz name est Roberti'm. Dse gianto aist kilas biehic renem, inwe hi est taihen cruelic. Hi shuyos bestopast, dan at ne shiganem, nefa muyouhas iz persone kehindres Roberti'm. Hi seemast dsunbeihas destroyas ju landem. U hero beniedast stopas Roberti'm kilas ju folkem.''

literary translation

THE HERO WHO SLEW THE GIANT

Very many years in the past, a gigantic man be-had, his name was Robert. This giant loved kill other people, because he was very-cruel. He need be-stopped, but at that time, that-place not-have of-one person can-hinder Robert. He seem to-be-ready destroy the land. A hero be-needed stop Robert kill the folk.

translation into proper English

THE HERO WHO SLEW THE GIANT

A long time ago, there was a giant whose name was Robert. He loved to kill other people, because he was very cruel. He needed to be stopped, but at that time, there was not anybody who was able to hinder Robert. He seemed ready to destroy the land. A hero was needed to stop Robert from killing the common people.