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Region: Council of Constructed Languages

AUR: Hei je tarvellanet Rakenkila Nojvusta, Luottola, Renna, Manjoola!
ARU: Tara je tarakazhnii, Lötsolla, Rennaya, Manjöla!

Hello and welcome to the Council of Constructed Languages, Luthoulia, Renway, The maniolas!

Not too late for greetings?

The maniolas wrote:Share something interesting about your conlang

Maniolan conjugates its verbs using a variety of ways. One is something ike "delicious > de-freaking-licious", another like "diverse > divers-ify", and "light > en-light-en." You can also repeat a syllable, but that doesn't exist in English. Thus, we can conjugate something like "light" to "en-li-li-bloody-ight-en-ify" or something

kampi 参 "to participate; join" > kinakakampikampihan 키나카参参한 "would be being forced to join in for a while"

Nice, and it sounds familiar to me for some reason.

Something interesting...

I'll try to do two of my conlangs.

Aurun
(Copied from an earlier post)
- Following the Uralic tradition of having a lot of cases, Aurun has 17 in total.
- Vowel harmony is slightly different where ü [y] is a neutral vowel but ˙ (üü) [y:] is a front vowel.
- The ˙ deserves a special mention as the long ü, which is written as üü in some languages but in Aurun, it has its own letter.
- The y can be pronounced in different ways but it's usually [i:] and in some cases it's [j] if it's at the start of the word.
Example:
Ya (yes) is ['ja]
Ya (I/me) is ['i:a]
In some Aurun dialects, ya (yes) is written as ja.
- Forming compound words usually has the connecting -n- between the two words if the former ends in a vowel. Sometimes it's not the case like in keikakö (cake month), because of phonology and stuff.
- It features sentence-final particles and one dialect uses it extensively.
>> That dialect is the Karalinne dialect.
- The Nörjänlappi dialect has two plural forms for two and more than two of said noun.
>> Example: Käivhä (Coffee) > Käivhäkäit (Two coffees) > Käivhäkäitet (A lot of f------ coffee)
- Long numbers, long words. Due to the heavy agglutinating feature of the language.
- Aurun is related to Aruzhin, Tälevani, and Kuyonnen.

Aruzhin
(Also copied from an earlier post)
- Influenced Aurun, canonically.
- It is where Aurun got the ˙ with extensive use.
- There are 45 noun forms total, not counting the plural forms.
- The definite article "the" is a suffix in the form of -ke and "is" is a prefix as... well, ke-.
- Numerals alternate between the -imi (-ini) and -iri endings that's leftover from a system in (Old) Aruz / Proto-Aruzhin where the endings determine between light / kuipiri and dark / kiitenimi (even and odd) numbers. With the literal meaning of "_ of light" and "_ of dark" respectively.
- Aruzhin writing system has the logographic Zuikiinti and a syllabic Röna that is used alongside the Latin script after it was introduced through contact.
>> Old Aruz used a runic alphabet that was adapted from the nearby Germanic areas and modified to fit the Aruz orthography.

Some of these might not be interesting and it's alright.

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