fúk scratchpad

[bbbosborne]

hello everyone
this is my jokelang

"phonology"
consonants
ʘ ǀ ǁ ! ǂ ʞ <b c x ! y g>
pʰ pʰ^: p' tʰ tʰ^: t' kʰ kʰ^: k' qʰ qh^: <p pp p' t tt t' k kk k' q qq>
ɸ ɸ: θ θ: s s: ɬ ɬ: ʃ ʃ: x x: voiceless uvular fricative voiceless uvular fricative: h h: <f ff θ θθ s ss ł łł š šš j jj x̌ x̌x̌ h hh>
l̥ l̥: ʍ ʍ: <l ll w ww>

/h/ does not occur after non-ejective plosives
/ɸ/ after /p/ turns into /f/
consecutive identical sounds have short pauses between them

whistle-nemes
tones: high, low, rising, falling <ū u ù ú>
whistles can be long or short <ūū uu ùù úú>
consecutive whistles of the same tone and length have short pauses between them

hyphens separate cluster with like conjoined letters, e.g. p-pplsxk-kk-s-swwp-p
hyphens always separate whistles

lexicon
bcx!yg click
bphθšłwk' consonant
ū-u-ù-ú whistle
pff laugh, giggle
b kiss
šš quiet
uu-u-ú-uu-u-ú-ūū-u-u-ū-ū-u-ù-ù-ù-u-u-u-uu star
ff anger
hh-hh pleasure
h-h breath
ss sizzle, bomb
pɬɬ to dive into water
úú-ú-ù attractive
jwjwjwjwjw siren, alarm



btw fúk is just the working title

[bbbosborne]

morphology
nouns
nouns have 29 cases

ablative: -h-h-ú
accusative: -h-h-ss
addessive: -ccccc
adupessive: -p
allative: -swswswsw
aversive: -hh
benefactive: -fú
causal: -ūū
comitative: -qqcq
dative: -qqcc
delative: -tt-tk
elative: -x
equative: -u-u
essive: -u-ū-u
genitive: -!!!!!!
illative: -ss-ss-ss-f
inessive: -ū
instrumental: -hjθw
intrative (plural only): -ccθ
locative (location, no motion): -ú-ùù
nominative: -kwkwfc
pegative: -f
perlative: -tlpc
pertingent: unmarked
postessive: -šùj
privative: -t't'
semblative: -wwj
subessive: -hh-hh-hh-hh
sublative: -ffs
superessive: -s

and 12 genders:
male, female, dead, happy, sad, cool, lame, awesome, boring, cold, tool, animal

plurality is marked by reduplicating the word 3 times (4 total)

definiteness is marked by reduplicating the first consonant 5 times for definite and 6 times for indefinite

nouns also decline according to:
edibility on 10 degrees: tastes good and edible, not food but tastes good, don't know but still tastes good, edible and tastes okay, not food but tastes okay, don't know but still tastes okay, edible and tastes bad, not food and tastes bad, tastes like one's self, don't know, nostalgic taste
ability to be declined: if yes, -ú-ú-ú-úú; if no, -ù-ù-ù-ùù

verbs
verbs have aspect and mood
aspects: imperfective, perfective, intellectual
imperfective is used for imcomplete actions, perfective for complete, and intellectual for smart wordy sentences
moods: indicative, interrogative, relatable, and internal
indicative is used for facts, interrogative is used for questions, relatable is used for relatable sentences, and internal is used for sentences describing the internet (unmarked)

verbs also conjugate to agree with nominative, accusative, dative arguments
lame, boring, and tool arguments do not get agreement

verbs must also agree with themselves:
1 aspect, 1 mood: reduplicate the 3rd stem consonant once and then remove the last stem consonant
2 aspects, 1 mood: same as above, but add a sniffing sound at the beginning of the sentence and at the end


the overall verb template is this:
MOD - stem - NOM - ASP - DAT - ACC

[bbbosborne]

syntax
word order
word order comes in many shapes and sizes
standard sentences are in OSV order
if you're playing poker sentences must be in VSO order or else you will look like a hustler

if you are mad the sentence must gradually decrease in volume (marked at the beginning of the sentence with a & sign)

if you're a salesman you have to talk in SOV order or else you will look like a scammer
while talking about secrets and classified info use SVO order and alternate V and O every 2n
d sentence and S and V every 3rd sentence, until your 9th sentence which by then you must switch to OVS completely unless it's raining in which case just pick any order

if you are in the intellectual aspect you can do whatever you want

noun phrases
there are no conjunctions; nouns are conjoined by concatenation

you can negate nouns (e.g. not animal) by reduplicating the first two consonants. if the noun is only two consonants, add pssw- and reduplicate the two consonants

prepositions must follow and precede the noun and must suffix and prefix onto the noun

there are no articles either

verb phrase order
verbs are conjoined constructed by joining the verb stems together into one amalgamated verb. all inflections must then migrate together into a separate word which precedes the verb. something like this:

ASP-ASP-MOD-ASP-ASP-MOD-MOD-ASP VERB-VERB-VERB-VERB-VERB

if you are in the intellectual aspect you don't have to do this unless you wanna look like an ass-kisser

verbs can be augmented by reduplicating the sentence and diminutives are formed by reduplicating the sentence twice.

questions
question words precede the entire sentence and must agree to every noun for gender and number, and verbs for valence in the sentence.
noun agreement precedes the question word and verb agreement follows it unless you're in the intellectual aspect then make them affixes

[bbbosborne]

pronouns
ㅤㅤㅤsg.ㅤpl.ㅤpolite
1
2
3m
3f
3d
3h
3s
3c
3l
3a
3b
3cl
3t
3an
4

[bbbosborne]

more noun phrase order
adjectives always precede nouns, except in the intellectual aspect wherein they must both precede and follow the noun.
that should be the closest word to the noun.
after that, prepositions must follow and precede the noun and must suffix and prefix onto the noun

possessives
possessives are formed through zero-marking. the possessor's respective pronoun is inserted between the possessor and a preceding possessum. e.g. box 3m man man's box
pronominal possessives are formed by using the plural form of the pronoun, deleting the last consonant, and prefixing it to the actual pronoun. if the original pronoun is already plural, you reduplicate it.

conjunctions
as mentioned before, there are no conjunctions.
negated nouns can act as the phrase "but not [NOUN]." e.g. dog cat snake rabbit=rabbit dog, cat, and snake, but not rabbit

verb phrases
infinitives
the infinitive is formed by annexing before the verb 10 consecutive whistles according to the intensity of the infinitive
high: very intense (written *-)
rising: intensifying (written /-)
falling: mellowing out (written \-)
low: boring, not intense (written _-)

next the infinitive is placed before the main verb which receives the same whistle intensity particle

adverbs
adverbs are just adjectives with an optional whistle intensity particle for another layer of meaning

[Xwtek]

Where is the vowel? Also why you analyze the geminated consonant as separate consonant? And your possessive and conjunction system is too ambiguous.

[bbbosborne]

Where is the vowel?

there are no vowels.

Also why you analyze the geminated consonant as separate consonant?

i'm not sure what you mean by this

[Xwtek]

Where is the vowel?

there are no vowels.

That would be extremely unnatural. Just add the vowel

Also why you analyze the geminated consonant as separate consonant?

i'm not sure what you mean by this

After reading more carefully. It turns out you treat a gemination as intrinsic property of a consonant rather than an attribute added to a phoneme. Hence geminated consonant in your conlang is indeed separate phoneme.

[Vardelm]

there are no vowels.

That would be extremely unnatural. Just add the vowel

this is my jokelang

[Tropylium]

pronouns
ㅤㅤㅤsg.ㅤpl.ㅤpolite
1
2
3m
3f
3d
3h
3s
3c
3l
3a
3b
3cl
3t
3an
4

What, no 2.5th person?

[bbbosborne]

nope, but i was considering a 5th person. twice as good