Mela

Mela is a language which I am constructing for my family, I use it to talk to my wife and children. It is constructed to be easy to memorise. It is attained by constructing words as Lego's. Of course, international words could be used, but they need to be short in order to create new words with them. It would be ideal if we can know 1 000 words by memorizing only a hundred roots.

1. The vocabulary is based on the list of the most frequently used words. It gives us the opportunity to start speaking the language right away, also it gives us an idea of what words are more important, what are the building blocks of the language. 2. All antonyms are created by the "mirror rule", for example - ANAY - high, YANA - low. 3. Words are selected from the international vocabulary, however if a word doesn't sound good, another word could be chosen. Anyway the most basic words become artificial because they consist of other words. 4. There are some special affixes, they help to make even more words on the basis of already known ones. For example, the ending -Le shows the result of an action, for example - SAY - to look at, SAYLE - to see, also MASAY - to look for, MASAYLE - to find. I found this beautiful principle in Chinese. 5. All words avoid two consonants in a row, it makes it very comfortable for people to pronounce. Alphabet consist of 18 Latin letters - E, T, Y, U, I, O, P, A, S, D, F, G, K, L, V, N, M, W. As you can see Mela doesn't use the sounds difficult to pronounce such as Z, R, B, and the Slavic - Ж, Ш, Щ, Ц, Ы etc. 6. Grammar. I think it is very simple as in Tokipona or Glosa, or, yes, in English! However I use a special mark (E) to show an object if it is needed but not if there is SVO. No plural ending, as in Chinese just add -many- and voila you have a plural. The same with tense, past - du, future - va, present doesn't have any special mark. Grammatical mood - would - vu, imperative - ta.

It is an analytic type of a language. The normal word order is SVO, however, if there is a need to use object in different place in a sentence, then E is used to indicate it.

All words could be used as any part of speech, if it makes sense in a sentence. If there is a chance of misinterpretation, then A is used in front of the word to indicate a verb, ME - an adverb, and LI as an affix to indicate an adjective. But it should be avoided as much as possible. 

Present tense doesn't have a mark. Past tense is indicated by the DU mark. Future tense is indicated by the VA mark. Conditional/subjunctive mood is indicated by the VU mark. Imperative mood is marked by the TA mark. These marks could be put in a sentence before the verb or after, but they should be close to the verb. Continious aspect is indicated by the LAY mark. Inceptive aspect is indicated by the NAY mark. All other aspects are indicated by different words which are self-explanatory by their meaning. 

Pronouns - mi - I, me, my; vi - you, yours; ni - he/she; misu - we, ours; visu - you pl.,; nisu - they, them, their.

Plural is indicated by the ISU mark.

Verbs can be transative and intransative depending on the place in the sentence.

       

A – verbalizer, tay – leader, a tay – to control	E - accusative	I – question, cxu?	O – honor, high style, politeness	U - something
Da – to give	De – of, possessive	Di - 2	Do – cause, reason	Du – past tense
Day - for	Dey – must, -inda-		Doy - bush	Duy - mushroom
Daw – 1) tree 2) stay	Dew - half
Ta – 1) let, imperat. 2) First, one	Te – 1) child, -ido- 2) a result of the action	Ti – 1. As ending -small, -et- 2.Just (in “just do it”), simple.	To – tool, -il-	Tu – 1) to, towards 2) to become tu+
Tay – leader, -estr-	Tey – quality, water is liquid – voytey - liquid		Toy –all,everything	tuy – too much
Taw – 1.Result of emotions (loytaw – to smile). 2.If it is a part of body, taw means interaction with others (lipitaw – kiss)	Tew - side
Va – future tense, to come, coming	Ve - time	Vi - you	Vo	Vu – would, cond.tense
Vay	Vey – moment, -ek-		Voy – water, liquid	Vuy - fish
Vaw – wow, surprise	Vew – woe, sorrow
Fa – to do	Fe – from, out of	Fi - birth	Fo – work, job	Fu – away
Fay – to use	Fey – she, fem.,-in-		Foy - flower	Fuy - disrespected
Faw - 5	Few
Ga – big, -eg-	Ge – thing,object	Gi – gender	Go – to go	Gu -
Gay – again, -re-	gey		Goy – going to, собираться сделать	Guy – very bad word
Gaw - 4	gew		(Gow – to go, colloq.)
Ka - take	Ke – que (Sp.),what	Ki – part,-er-	Ko – with, and, co-	Ku –container,-uj-
Kay – color	Key – where (colloq.)		Koy – group,-ar-	Kuy – snail-like, slug-like
kaw	kew
La – to say, word	Le – definitive, resultative	Li – 3 / adjectivisation if in the ending	Lo – part of body	Lu -
Lay–continuity,-ad-	Ley – place,-ej-		Loy - joy	Luy - happy
Law – good, positive (LAVI) 2) 7 seven	Lew - grass
Ma – to want	Me – instrumentalis, -per-, adverbisation	Mi – I, me	mo	Mu – masculine, male, man
May – to have	Mey - measure		Moy - animal	Muy - very
Maw – to like	mew
Na – to think, thought	Ne – 1) no, not 2) Number, used as ending to distinguish numbers and nouns – tane – 1, sawne – 6, lawne 7	Ni – he/she	no	Nu - new
Nay – start,-ek-	Ney – opposite,-mal-, no (colloq.)		Noy -without	Nuy-new(colloq.)
Naw - 9	New – 0, zero
Pa – can, to be able	Pe – person,-ul-	Pi	Po – member, -an-	Pu – may,-ebl-
Pay – to pay	Pey – 1. over, trans. 2. Full, plenty (joyfull – loypey)		Poy - body	Puy – shrimp-like
Paw – 1) insect 2) 8 eight	Pew - bird
Sa – to know	Se – 1. That 2. As ending makes word passive voiced (le say – a look, le sayse – a view)	Si – this, near	so	Su - 10
Say - look	Sey – there (colloq.)		soy	Suy - more
Saw – 1) 6 SIX 2) reptile	Sew – abstract notion

Green – words could be used as parts of self-efficient words, not compound ones. The same are crossed words.

1 – ta, 2 – di, 3 – li, 4 – gaw, 5 – faw, 6 – saw, 7 – law, 8 – paw, 9 – naw, 10 – su, 100 – siu,

1 000 – susiu, 1 mln – siusiu, 1 mlrd – gigasiu

                 

Correlatives

ke - what	se - that	tuy - everything	u - something	neke - nothing
kepe - who	sepe - this one	tuype - everyone	upe - someone	nepe - no one
keli - which	seli - this kind	tuyli - all kind	uli - some kind	neli - none of a kind
keye - where	seye - there	tuye - everywhere	uye - somewhere	neye - nowhere
keye tu - where to	seye tu - there	etc	etc	etc
keve - when	seve - then	toyve - always	uve - sometime	neve - never
kesu - how much	sesu - so much	toysu - all	usu - some	nesu - no amount
keme - how	seme - this way, so	toyme - in every way	ume - somehow	neme - no way
kedo - why	sedo - therefore	toydo - everey reason	udo - for some reason	nedo - no reason
de kepe - whose	de sepe - that one's	etc	etc	etc