Sryanonese: A brand new language

See how many phrases "Líon" - the present tense of "A" - the indefinite article comes up in compared to the other tensed indefinite articles of "Puí" (past tense) and "Chóy" (future tense)

Erqui ton rild - Around the world
Toogias iet ei - Do it again
Feinoirtimis norf uai - Focus on me
Uai deos kín líon tabash gut gontuí - I was a king under your control
Uail maug dest plakill phai - My heart is in you
Phaint maug dest plakill uai - Your heart is in me
Liélei cheartis tiammían líon agomi - Let's make a new tomorrow
Uail maug tian shilíon norf - My heart will go on
Uai s'eoaril mámí slío tia timirtstuorn mogafia - I want a mom that will last forever

ShooterSF wrote: »

I just love this mis-mash of holidays Keep up the good work OP. I'm actually studying another conlang in Esperanto which thankfully is a lot easier But fair play to you its cool watching a complex (intentionally) language being built from the ground up.

Out of curiosity do you often have to look up vocab that you have forgotten and if so do you store it in the old pen and paper method or searchable tables in excel or something?

Oh and also fair play for knowing all these tenses and terminology!

I have to often look up vocabulary but for me grammar points, I know the language so well. However, it doesn't not always go grand - even for the maker :pac:.

There are plenty of mistakes I keep making that I don't notice until sooner or later. Then I correct them and this is because of the grammar not being accurate and is very easy to make a mistake.

Thanks, yes I do know my tenses very well. Sometimes when I forget, I look up in a document with all my endings and rules about the tenses when conjugating a verb. However, most of the time I know them. The future tense is very easy to form once you know the verb Tias very well in the present tense. Like I said:

The formation of the Future Tense (Nontíot Luíc) (this is used rather informally)

Pronoun + present tense of Tias + infinitive of verb

Uai tia shilíon - I will go
Rei tian éloin - He will be
Treie tiane arrangíon - They (feminine) will arrange

The Perfect Future Tense (recap) (Luíc Prileft) (this is used formally)

Pronoun + coíp + infinitive of verb

Coíp literally means = Will

Uai coíp poutis - I will ask

^ See how some of the things in Sryanonese aren't that complicated.

The things that could confuse most people would be the difference between the Perfect Tenses and the Informal Tenses as well as Modal Verbs (which are exceptionally complicated to form, particularly "Must")

Since you're new here, I will tell you when you use the Perfect Tenses compared to the Informal Tenses which you see most often on this compared to the others.

Informal Tenses (Nontíot Luím, Luíp, Luíc) are used when talking informally like "I am gonna", "What's the crack?" etc.

Perfect Tenses (Luím, Luíp, Luíc Prileft) are used when talking formally like "Good day" or used in functional writing like formal letters (Letter of complaint, application etc) and speeches etc.

The point of Perfect Tenses is so that you don't need to know any rules such as using correct phrases or words like "Dear sir / madam" - although you can use these if you want to. For example, the slang "Gonna" cannot be translated into the Perfect Tenses as it is an informal word (thus, slang).

So Sryanonese is not all easy for the maker either as he needs to remember all grammar points for forming sentences and phrases like the ones he gives on this (Better to have loved than to have never loved at all etc).

Yes, it was very hard researching all these grammar terminology. Now because of that, I know nearly every single one there is - I say this because I know there are still a few more I have to cover but I can't find them.

Contractions - I'm, You're etc
Modal verbs - Must, Might etc
Verbal nouns - Singing, Doing etc
Verbal adjectives - Breakable, Stressful etc
Adverbs - Quickly, Badly etc
The copula - Is ("Dest" in Sryanonese)

^ See all these terms I had to learn just for making a language?

If you ever want something translated, it would actually help considering then there's more sentences / words / phrases translated.

Remember this proverb always for the modal verb "Must"

Modal niem dest líe fia íacain dest líe - You "must" form "must" by idiomatic forms

^ See how this proverb cannot be translated at all and that it is as complicated as Irish proverbs such as "Is maith an scéalaí an aimsir" (Only time will tell)?

Rei tian ahna louvien phai míon uai cain - He'll never love you like I can
Phai baespoutan rein nimtem iet? - Did you not ask him to take it?
Ton nale muail daubqui - The other way round
Rei baesdest retocó líon - It's not an option

The passive tense is when we say:

The past tense of the verb To be with another verb that can be used in any of the other tenses. These are examples of the passive tense in English:

We were told
I was going

In Sryanonese, these are very simple to form. All you have to do is:

Pronoun + past tense of Éloin (To be) + a conjugation form of the verb

Uai deos shilín - I was going

^ It's as easy as that!

Notice in the Sryanonese translation for passive: Luímpissío - Luím is used? Remember Luím = Past - so there's a bit of a clue.

Sorry that I haven't been doing much on my language. It's because I have been very busy with stuff such as my mock exams.

You have already learned how to form "Gonna" in Sryanonese in which you treat the irregular verb Shilíon (To go) as a regular verb instead.

"Gotta" is much the same formation (of a different verb of course) but it might be a different type of verb (irregular, regular, abnormal or modal).

Allegíon is the verb To get in Sryanonese and is an abnormal verb. To simply form "Gotta" you treat Allegíon as a regular verb instead.

Full conjugation:

Uai allegtil - I gotta
Phai allegtim - You gotta
Rei allegtil - He's gotta
Trei allegtil - She's gotta
Lei allegatomi - We gotta
Luie allegatomu - You (plural) gotta
Reie allegatol - They (masculine) gotta
Treie allegatol - They (feminine) gotta

Uai allegí - I get
Uai allegtil - I gotta

^ See the difference

Semester of learning Sryanonese begins again in September. (See how I treat this thread like a school :pac: except longer holidays)

tokima wrote: »

Your language seems horrendously complicated; is it still a going thing?

No it's not, I lost interest since the last post in 2016. Have a lot more things to worry about these days anyway than creating my own conlang.

And indeed, it was incredibly complex. Reading the conlang a few years later, I myself struggle to understand what I set out.