2012-08-22

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2012-08-22 09:53 pm

Conlanging for the Opal Mask - Class and Case suffixes

Both case and noun class/gender are indicated by suffixes. The basic structure is root-gender-case. Some infixes go between root and gender - these are infixes like -te- from the previous post. Certain adjectives such as big and small are also infixed here - I'll deal with these as we go. I still haven't decided what to do about adjectives in general.

So let's deal with suffixes for case and gender.

Gender:

  • Spirit -ago
  • Physical/Animate -pʰak (I really need a better orthography).
  • Material/Inanimate -dzla
  • Abstracts -eka
Case:
So let's use the four dance related nouns and decline them (note - not all nouns have a vocative form).


 Magical Dance
Magical DancerMundane DanceMundane Dancer
Ergative
blanagoadablanteagoadablanekaadablantepʰakada
Accusativeblanagotsoblanteagotsoblanekatsoblantepʰaktso
Absolutiveblanagoblanteagoblanekablantepʰak
Genitiveblanagowatblanteagowatblanekawatblantepʰakwat
Dativeblanagodyakblanteagodyakblanekadyakblantepʰakdyak
Vocative-blanteagola-blantepʰakla

Now that I've got that sorted out I can start turning these roots I've made into words. So hopefully there really will be some vocab for tomorrow.