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| Adan Aidan | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Type | |||
| polysynthetic | |||
| Alignment | |||
| Nominative-Accusative | |||
| Head direction | |||
| Initials | |||
| Tonal | |||
| No | |||
| Declensions | |||
| Yes | |||
| Conjugations | |||
| Yes | |||
| Genders | |||
| Yes | |||
| Nouns decline according to... | |||
| Case | Number | ||
| Definiteness | Gender | ||
| Verbs conjugate according to... | |||
| Voice | Mood | ||
| Person | Number | ||
| Tense | Aspect | ||
General information
Edit
Adan is an old language spoken by a small population. It has two writing system: Latin form and Mongolian script form. (Mongolian script is vertical) In this language, a word will only contain either masculine/feminine vowel based on the gender of the word.
PhonologyEdit
ConsonantsEdit
| Bilabial | Labio-dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post-alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Pharyngeal | Epiglottal | Glottal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | |||||||||
| Plosive | b | t | k g | ||||||||
| Fricative | s | ʃ | x | ||||||||
| Affricate | ts dz | tʃ dʒ | |||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | |||||||||
| Trill | r | ||||||||||
| Flap or tap | |||||||||||
| Lateral fric. | |||||||||||
| Lateral app. | l | ||||||||||
| Lateral flap |
VowelsEdit
There're five basic vowels but there're 7 (long/short) sounds.
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i: /i/ /i:/ | u: /u/ /u:/ | |
| Near-close | o: /ʊ/ /ʊː/ | ||
| Close-mid | ai: /ɛ/ | u: /o/ | u: /o:/ |
| Mid | e: /ə/ /ə:/ | ||
| Open-mid | o: /ɔ/ | ||
| Open | a: /a/ /a:/ |
"ai" is pronounced as /ɛ/ as "send" but not "bike"Edit
AlphabetEdit
Traditional script
Vowels: a e i o u (ai, ei, oi, ui)
masculine vo.:a, o, ai
feminine vo.: e, u, ei
neutral: i (can go into either gender)
Long vowel (for traditional script):
/a:/= -o/uga
/e:/= -ege
/i:/= -ii
/ʊː/= -agu
/o:/=-uge
/u:/=-ugu
Cosonants: (16 total)Edit
b(pronunciation:b or w based on dialect)
c(ts)
ch
d
g
h( like "kh")
j(dʒ)
l
m
n
r(trilled)
s
sh
t
y("yes")
z(dz)
Traditional script theoryEdit
Long vowel (for traditional script):
/a:/= -o/uga
/e:/= -ege
/i:/= -ii
/ʊː/= -agu
/o:/=-uge
/u:/=-ugu
Cosonants that can go after a vowel:
b d g l m n r s t
The rest of the cosonants need a vowel after them when they are ar the end of a word, but the vowel is silent.
When they're at the end, place an a/e after them based on their gender.
GrammarEdit
| Gender | Cases | Numbers | Tenses | Persons | Moods | Voices | Aspects | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Verb | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Nouns | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Adjectives | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Numbers | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Participles | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Adverb | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Pronouns | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Adpositions | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Article | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Particle | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
NounsEdit
VerbsEdit
SyntaxEdit
VocabularyEdit
| No. | English | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | I | — |
| 2 | you (singular) | — |
| 3 | he | — |
| 4 | we | — |
| 5 | you (plural) | — |
| 6 | they | — |
| 7 | this | — |
| 8 | that | — |
| 9 | here | — |
| 10 | there | — |
| 11 | who | — |
| 12 | what | — |
| 13 | where | — |
| 14 | when | — |
| 15 | how | — |
| 16 | not | — |
| 17 | all | — |
| 18 | many | — |
| 19 | some | — |
| 20 | few | — |
| 21 | other | — |
| 22 | one | — |
| 23 | two | — |
| 24 | three | — |
| 25 | four | — |
| 26 | five | — |
| 27 | big | — |
| 28 | long | — |
| 29 | wide | — |
| 30 | thick | — |
| 31 | heavy | — |
| 32 | small | — |
| 33 | short | — |
| 34 | narrow | — |
| 35 | thin | — |
| 36 | woman | — |
| 37 | man (adult male) | — |
| 38 | man (human being) | — |
| 39 | child | — |
| 40 | wife | — |
| 41 | husband | — |
| 42 | mother | — |
| 43 | father | — |
| 44 | animal | — |
| 45 | fish | — |
| 46 | bird | — |
| 47 | dog | — |
| 48 | louse | — |
| 49 | snake | — |
| 50 | worm | — |
| 51 | tree | — |
| 52 | forest | — |
| 53 | stick | — |
| 54 | fruit | — |
| 55 | seed | — |
| 56 | leaf | — |
| 57 | root | — |
| 58 | bark | — |
| 59 | flower | — |
| 60 | grass | — |
| 61 | rope | — |
| 62 | skin | — |
| 63 | meat | — |
| 64 | blood | — |
| 65 | bone | — |
| 66 | fat | — |
| 67 | egg | — |
| 68 | horn | — |
| 69 | tail | — |
| 70 | feather | — |
| 71 | hair | — |
| 72 | head | — |
| 73 | ear | — |
| 74 | eye | — |
| 75 | nose | — |
| 76 | mouth | — |
| 77 | tooth | — |
| 78 | tongue | — |
| 79 | fingernail | — |
| 80 | foot | — |
| 81 | leg | — |
| 82 | knee | — |
| 83 | hand | — |
| 84 | wing | — |
| 85 | belly | — |
| 86 | guts | — |
| 87 | neck | — |
| 88 | back | — |
| 89 | breast | — |
| 90 | heart | — |
| 91 | liver | — |
| 92 | drink | — |
| 93 | eat | — |
| 94 | bite | — |
| 95 | suck | — |
| 96 | spit | — |
| 97 | vomit | — |
| 98 | blow | — |
| 99 | breathe | — |
| 100 | laugh | — |
| 101 | see | — |
| 102 | hear | — |
| 103 | know | — |
| 104 | think | — |
| 105 | smell | — |
| 106 | fear | — |
| 107 | sleep | — |
| 108 | live | — |
| 109 | die | — |
| 110 | kill | — |
| 111 | fight | — |
| 112 | hunt | — |
| 113 | hit | — |
| 114 | cut | — |
| 115 | split | — |
| 116 | stab | — |
| 117 | scratch | — |
| 118 | dig | — |
| 119 | swim | — |
| 120 | fly | — |
| 121 | walk | — |
| 122 | come | — |
| 123 | lie | — |
| 124 | sit | — |
| 125 | stand | — |
| 126 | turn | — |
| 127 | fall | — |
| 128 | give | — |
| 129 | hold | — |
| 130 | squeeze | — |
| 131 | rub | — |
| 132 | wash | — |
| 133 | wipe | — |
| 134 | pull | — |
| 135 | push | — |
| 136 | throw | — |
| 137 | tie | — |
| 138 | sew | — |
| 139 | count | — |
| 140 | say | — |
| 141 | sing | — |
| 142 | play | — |
| 143 | float | — |
| 144 | flow | — |
| 145 | freeze | — |
| 146 | swell | — |
| 147 | sun | — |
| 148 | moon | — |
| 149 | star | — |
| 150 | water | — |
| 151 | rain | — |
| 152 | river | — |
| 153 | lake | — |
| 154 | sea | — |
| 155 | salt | — |
| 156 | stone | — |
| 157 | sand | — |
| 158 | dust | — |
| 159 | earth | — |
| 160 | cloud | — |
| 161 | fog | — |
| 162 | sky | — |
| 163 | wind | — |
| 164 | snow | — |
| 165 | ice | — |
| 166 | smoke | — |
| 167 | fire | — |
| 168 | ash | — |
| 169 | burn | — |
| 170 | road | — |
| 171 | mountain | — |
| 172 | red | — |
| 173 | green | — |
| 174 | yellow | — |
| 175 | white | — |
| 176 | black | — |
| 177 | night | — |
| 178 | day | — |
| 179 | year | — |
| 180 | warm | — |
| 181 | cold | — |
| 182 | full | — |
| 183 | new | — |
| 184 | old | — |
| 185 | good | — |
| 186 | bad | — |
| 187 | rotten | — |
| 188 | dirty | — |
| 189 | straight | — |
| 190 | round | — |
| 191 | sharp | — |
| 192 | dull | — |
| 193 | smooth | — |
| 194 | wet | — |
| 195 | dry | — |
| 196 | correct | — |
| 197 | near | — |
| 198 | far | — |
| 199 | right | — |
| 200 | left | — |
| 201 | at | — |
| 202 | in | — |
| 203 | with | — |
| 204 | and | — |
| 205 | if | — |
| 206 | because | — |
| 207 | name | — |
Example textEdit
Latin-letter Form:
Hral sohda ban irlend, ti nai nadbosnab.
Ji nai yahdonar jin norin lil eji!
Ben mini jichniga, eji ti norinb minig,
He minig, bonah alharn z’ari.
Elusul edehb! Eji mini!
Tibin gara dang shitanr tib.
Traditional script form with romanized translation Edit
(How to read the script: from lieft to right, top to bottom)
hral sohda ban irlen-du, ti nai nadbosnab. Edit
Ji nai yahdonar jin, norin lil eji!
Ben mini jichniga, eji ti noriinba minig,
He minig, bonah alhogarna zo ari.
Elusul ediyehbe! Eji mini!
Tibin gara dang shitoganra tib.
Translation:(not literally)
If you see the flower along the way, please don't pick it up.
Because it doesn't want to leave its mother's hug.
In my dream, mom you're hugging me,
and we're looking at the sky together.
Come quickly! My mom!
Your son miss you very much.
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