| shelnaki šlnaki | |||||||||||||
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| Type | |||||||||||||
| Alignment | |||||||||||||
| Head direction | |||||||||||||
| Tonal | No | ||||||||||||
| Declensions | No | ||||||||||||
| Conjugations | Yes | ||||||||||||
| Genders | Two | ||||||||||||
| Nouns decline according to... | |||||||||||||
| Case | Number | ||||||||||||
| Definiteness | Gender | ||||||||||||
| Verbs conjugate according to... | |||||||||||||
| Voice | Mood | ||||||||||||
| Person | Number | ||||||||||||
| Tense | Aspect | ||||||||||||
| Meta-information | |||||||||||||
| Progress | 4% | ||||||||||||
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| Creator | matershelnaki | ||||||||||||
Classification and Dialects[]
There are ways of formal and informal speech. Besides this, there are no dialectical differences in the simple tongue.
Phonology & Writing System[]
Consonants[]
Those in () are for condensed and professional use.
| Bilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Post-alveolar | Velar | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | |||
| Plosive | p | t | ch (č) | k, g | |
| Fricative | v | s | z | sh (š), zh (ž) | |
| Affricate | ts (ŧ) | ||||
| Approximant | w | l | j (i) |
Vowels[]
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High | i | u | |
| Mid | e | o | |
| Low | a |
Phonotactics[]
Grammar (incomplete)[]
Nouns[]
Plurals of nouns are formed by simply adding the suffix "-im" to the stem.
Honorifics[]
In shelnaki, there is an honorific system akin to the French's vous for the singular second person, the Japanese suffix system, and the vocative.
Respect is denoted via the -o'i suffix (masculine) or the -oa suffix (feminine), where the ' indicates a gluttural stop.
For example:
Names: Ari -> Aro'i, Maks -> Makso'i, Sara -> Saroa
Words: knesa -> knesoa, kal -> kalo'i
Verbs[]
Verbs are identified by taking the stem of the word and adding the following prefixes or suffixes, demonstrated via the words "knes" (hunt, gather) and "tot" (complete, finish):
*note that j would be written i in actual script
| shem sheladam (pronoun) | a'antetam (past) | asettam (present) | a'akertam (future) |
|---|---|---|---|
| ani | knesti | totti | knes | tot | jiknes | jitot |
| te, yu | knesta(sh)* | totta(sh) | knes(h) | tot(esh) | jitot('esh) |
| li, il | knestan | tottan | knes(en)** | tot(en) | jiknes | jitot |
| nu | knestam | tottam | knesim | totim | jiknesim | jitotim |
| vu, ja | knestae | tottae | knese | tote | jiknese | jitote |
| li, il | knestao | tottao | kneso | toto | jikneso | jitoto |
the infinitive is denoted by -te
- the "-sh" suffix is used in writing and foral speech only. It is not spoken or used in casual conversation.
- the "-en" suffix is only used in the present progressive.
Syntax[]
Noun - Verb - Direct Object - Indirect Object / Prepositional
Lexicon (incomplete)[]
- There are 137 words in shelnaki. This is the entire extent of the language. Adama (feminine) forms are formed by adding the suffix "-a"
| shem (word) | šhm nan šhlnaki | adam (masc) | adama (fem) | shem shelratz (verb) | ali (other) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| adam | adam | man, humankind, dirt, ground | woman, earth, mother nature | till, farm, dig | |
| aeo | a'o | ||||
| ai | ai | ||||
| ale (al) | al | ||||
| alifu | alifu | ||||
| ame | am | ||||
| amon | amon | ||||
| ani | ani | ||||
| anko | anko | ||||
| blazo | blazo | ||||
| bouzhizo | boužizo | ||||
| chichi | čiči | ||||
| cozi | cozi | ||||
| dako | dako | ||||
| dati | dati | ||||
| de | d | ||||
| desu | dsu | lower part | below | place under, go under, tunnel | |
| detevan | dtvan | ||||
| disupa | disupa | nothing | absence | remove, eradicate | |
| dobin | dobin | ||||
| doso | doso | two, even | duality | duplicate | |
| ekado | 'kado | one, God, odd | one, unity | unite, bring together | |
| emete | 'mte | a life, truth | experience | ||
| ensiku | 'nsiku | ||||
| ensu | 'nsu | ||||
| eshi | 'ši | ||||
| esupu | 'supu | ||||
| ezumewado | 'zumwado | ||||
| filupaia | filupaia | ||||
| fulo | fulo | ||||
| fuwiku | fuwiku | ||||
| fuwontu | fuwontu | ||||
| gaku | gaku | ||||
| Gashem | Gašm | ||||
| guchizhi | gučiži | ||||
| gulan | gulan | ||||
| gumi | gumi | ||||
| guwande | guwand | ||||
| i / e | i / e | ||||
| iagen | iagn | ||||
| iu | iu | ||||
| izhimu | ižimu | ||||
| kadesu | kadsu | ||||
| kalos | kalos | ||||
| kaonu | kaonu | ||||
| kashucheshu | kašučšu | ||||
| kebilu | kbilu | ||||
| kel | kl | ||||
| komu | komu | ||||
| konko | konko | ||||
| kopu | kopu | ||||
| kose | kos | ||||
| kuleo | kul'o | ||||
| lakan | lakan | ||||
| lanuyo | lanuyo | ||||
| leko | l'ko | ||||
| li (il) | li (il) | ||||
| longuii | longuii | ||||
| lozho | ložo | ||||
| lumpu | lumpu | ||||
| lun | lun | ||||
| ma | ma | ||||
| mai | mai | ||||
| mashu | mašu | ||||
| menso | mnso | ||||
| mepo | mpo | ||||
| minioni | minioni | ||||
| mishtameshu | mištamšu | ||||
| moku | moku | ||||
| moluso | moluso | ||||
| muli | muli | ||||
| mulu | mulu | ||||
| muotsu | muoŧu | ||||
| naki | naki | purity, orderliness, logic, goodness | beauty, aestheticness, heartwarming | organize, make pure, adorn | |
| nan | nan | ||||
| nezo | nezo | ||||
| no | no | ||||
| nome | nom | ||||
| nowo | nowo | ||||
| nuli | nuli | ||||
| o | o | or | |||
| ola | ola | ||||
| opo | opo | ||||
| osefu | osfu | hunter, strategist | thinker, collector | hunt, gather, absorb | |
| ovedi | ovdi | ||||
| pakan | pakan | ||||
| palan | palan | ||||
| pi | pi | ||||
| pilanfulu | pilanfulu | ||||
| pili | pili | ||||
| pizu | pizu | ||||
| pokatu | pokatu | ||||
| pol(u) | pol | ||||
| pu | pu | ||||
| pulido | pulido | ||||
| sefa | sfa | ||||
| selan | slan | ||||
| shishum | šišum | ||||
| shoen | šo'n | ||||
| shone | šon | different thing, mutation | different idea, vision, dream | to differentiate, to change, to dream | |
| shozu | šozu | ||||
| shuku | šuku | shop, store, vendor | sell, vend | ||
| sin | sin | ||||
| sofu | sofu | ||||
| sutako | sutako | ||||
| sudate | sudat | ||||
| sulone | sulon | ||||
| sumikuse | sumikus | ||||
| supidoso | supidoso | ||||
| supuloi | supuloi | ||||
| tagoto | tagato | ||||
| taimo | taimo | ||||
| tan | tan | a wait | wait, remain | ||
| tenmun | tnmun | ||||
| tomu | tomu | ||||
| totu | totu | full, entire amount, c. physical world | entire, whole, possible whole, c. theorhetical | complete, finish | |
| tsevu | ŧvu | ||||
| tu | tu | ||||
| tun | tun | ||||
| ven | vn | ||||
| wasuki | wasuki | ||||
| wasupilu | wasupilu | ||||
| waza | waza | ||||
| we | w | ||||
| wilai | wilai | ||||
| woko | woko | ||||
| wovoko | wovoko | ||||
| yoli | yoli | ||||
| zakudu | zakadu | ||||
| zenchi | znči | ||||
| zendo | zndo | ||||
| zhame | žam | ||||
| zhilu | žilu | ||||
| zhu | žu | ||||
| zili | zili | ||||
| zon | zon | ||||
| zulu | zulu |
Number System[]
Shelnaki utilizes a base ten numbering system with a full range of numbers. While it is fully possible to communicate in the language without using numbers, there are a number of derived compounds from the stemlist that create all numbers up to 1,000. From that point on, loaned SI prefixes are used to increase number. The word for "ten" uses the honorific form "-o'i" as it refers to a "minyan" - the minimum number of adults required to carry out religious acts in Abrahamic faiths.
The words utilized are "ekado" for one, "doso" for two," "blazo" for five, "kebilu" for ten, and "konko" for one hundred. "kebilu" is derived from a minyan which is a group of ten people while "konko" is derived from being the square of "kebilu"
| kaonu | shlnaki |
|---|---|
| 1 | ekado |
| 2 | doso |
| 3 | ekadoto |
| 4 | dosoto |
| 5 | blazo (ekadote) |
| 6 | dosote |
| 7 | ekadone |
| 8 | dosone |
| 9 | ekadono |
| 10 | kebiluo'i |
| 11 | (ke)biloiekado |
| 12 | bilo'idoso |
| 20 | dosokebil(u) |
| 21 | dosokebekado |
| 22 | dosokebidoso |
| 30 | kebilto |
| 40 | dosokebiluto |
| 50 | blazokebilu (kebilute) |
| 60 | dosokebilute |
| 70 | kebilune |
| 80 | dosokebilune |
| 90 | kebiluno |
| 100 | kebilukonko |
| 200 | dosokonko |
| 300 | ekadotokonko |
| 400 | dosotokonko |
| 500 | blazokonko |
| 1,000 | KILOkonko |
| 1,000,000 | MEGAkonko |
| 1,000,000,000 | GIGAkonko |
| 1,000,000,000,000 | TETARAkonko |
Example text[]
When God began to create heaven and earth...
Altaimo Gašm vntn kul'ot manaki'ma....
(at the time God began to create paradise and land...)
the earth being unformed and void, with darkness over the surface of the deep and a wind from God sweeping over the water -
Ma disupa kopu, imdak ads muoŧušlsupiloi'a'o d Gašm a'o'n ads liku -
(earth lacked form, with dark over the surface of depth and wind from God breathing over water)