6 posts tagged with "Asian Languages"

In this post you will learn how to conjugate and declinate every noun and verb in the Arusian language. Since the language is mostly analytic/isolating (actually halfway), most of the declension and conjugation will be based on glueing other morphemes to the base root.

Roots Ending in -ara or -uwa​

Arusian root system is extremely flexible, therefore you can build your own words for things that the Arusian dictionary still doesn’t have a name for. Despite the flexibility, there are a few rules you should follow to make your words sound native and natural. With less than 600 roots, you can describe anything in Arusian, although, sometimes, some speakers might prefer borrowings. In Standard Arusian, however, there is a preference for native roots over borrowings, given that borrowings are hard to adapt due to the restrictive nature of Arusian phonology. There is a limited set of syllables/moræ based on the initial consonant + rhymes structure, similar to many Asian languages, like Mandarin, Cantonese, Vietnamese, only to name a few.

U and WEI are “special” pronouns in Arusian, because they don’t behave like other words and personal pronouns. In this article, we will explain their functions and why they can be considered resumptive pronouns.

Resumptive pronouns are a category of pronouns that simply refer back to an element already mentioned before. They are quite common in languages like Arabic, Hebrew, and Brazilian Portuguese. Although in Portuguese they are mostly optional, albeit common in speech, in Arabic and Hebrew they are mandatory in certain syntactic structures. In Arusian, the pronouns u and wei are also mandatory, as their omission can lead to ambiguity. Resumptive pronouns in Arusian allows you to make longer and more complex sentences.

This post aims to investigate how word order in Arusian, which is considerably freer than English, affects formality and characterises colloquial and formal registers.

INTRANSITIVE VERBS​

Arusian distinguishes transitivity and voice in verbs morphologically.

Intransitive verbs are characterised by the morphemes -a and -ei (depending on the voice). Later, we will see that they often function as nouns, and not as verbs. We will explain why this happens.

This post is the second out of a series of posts on which we will compare Arusian to some Asian languages to test and seek features that might be similar. In this post, we will be comparing Arusian to Cantonese by taking into consideration five main features:

• Morphology and word building
• Topic-Comment syntax
• Adpositions
• Relative Clauses
• Copula

Please check out the comparison between Arusian and Vietnamese here!

This post is the first out of a series of posts on which we will compare Arusian to some Asian languages to test and seek features that might be similar. In this post, we will be comparing Arusian to Vietnamese by taking into consideration five main features:

• Morphology and word building
• Topic-Comment syntax
• Adpositions
• Relative Clauses
• Copula