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Eru - Su Trmr Dem-Sum

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Andrew Nation
Software Engineering Student and Polyglot

Eru trmr dem-sum. Vej sa vom krmr pai-deg sos. Aru-dem trmr dem sa luk.

Fna-Aru osa Fna-Bra-Sel. Mai-Eru osa Rezenderu osa Hu osa Endric u trmr dem-sum sa Eru. Dem das u kamse dem-sum pus.

Arara-Vek Payr Fna-Aru

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Andrew Nation
Software Engineering Student and Polyglot
Juweya
Astrophysics Graduate

Fna-Aru kamr arara-vek u payr tara otras. Su-dewei delr su-pei deweis u remr arara-vek fus. Tem sa gauge u trmr 1435mm. Arara-vek tus u kamse fna pus.

JUWAI SA ARARA-VEK U PAYR FNA-ARU:

Juwai sa Arara-vek u payr Fna-Aru

Ara-lo tus u sa so-dewei-pei u remr arara-vek sa TGV Duplex. Tara sa umu-lo u trse arara-vek fus.

KEJ SA ARARA-VEK U PAYR FNA-DEL:

Kej sa Arara-vek

Historical Linguistics - Lenition in Arusian

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Andrew Nation
Software Engineering Student and Polyglot

During Arusian's evolution, lenition was a constant and strong process that affected several roots, leading to the weakening or disappearance of consonants in the middle. This process also happened in languages like French and Danish, causing many sounds to vanish and words to sound way shorter than their etymological equivalents in the previous stages.

In Arusian, lenited consonants that don't vanish usually become fricatives -- more specifically, an uvular fricative.

Examples:

Eru/Early Middle ArusianArusian
mandeimarei
kamt erkamr
acleiarei
segzasera

Complex NPs in Arusian - Nominalised Clauses

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Andrew Nation
Software Engineering Student and Polyglot

Complex NPs in Arusian, that is, NPs that don't have only a single noun/root inside, are usually nominalised CPs. Unlike in English, many NP structures with a noun, a determiner and an adjective are actually clauses in Aru. Beware that they often don't translate word for word between the two languages, so literal translations are extremely likely to fall apart.

Clauses in Aru usually have the form X sa Y (SA can undergo allomorphy to -S which is enclitic to the noun or Ø when the second element is a VP). Su delras is a CP meaning "he rules". If one wants to nominalise it and use it as if it were an NP, meaning "the one who rules" -- which is basically a "ruler", "governor" or "king" -- you replace the SA copula by Ø, which is the nominaliser. It yields su-delra, which can be used as a noun.

Some Minimalistic Program trees of both structures:

CP[Su delras]

CP Tree

NP[[CP su delras]]

NP Tree

An Intro to Arusian Pragmatics

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Andrew Nation
Software Engineering Student and Polyglot

In this post we will show you some peculiarities of Arusian Pragmatics across the three dimensions: person, time and place.

In Arusian, you can order elements in the sentence to promote or demote the persons (actors). Promoted words come first in the sentence, and demoted words come closer to the end of the sentence. Arusian has a so-called hierarchichal word order based on the aforementioned concept.

  • Tei sa lu amr: The speaker is focusing on the listener and is partially promoting themself.
  • Tei amse lu: The speaker is focusing on the listener and is demoting themself.
  • Lu sa tei amse: The speaker is focusing on themselves and partially promoting the listener.
  • Lu amr tei: The speaker is focusing on themselves and demoting the listener.
  • Tei amreis: The speaker is focusing on the listener and demoting everything else.
  • Lu amras: The speaker is focusing on themselves and demoting everything else.
  • Eramra-tei lus: The speaker is focusing on the action performed onto the listener.
  • Eramrei-lu teis: The speaker is focusing on the action performed onto themselves.

Nominal Declension and Verbal Conjugation Charts

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Andrew Nation
Software Engineering Student and Polyglot
Juweya
Astrophysics Graduate

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​

Rootduwa — wastelara — arrowluwa — water
Transitive Agent Verbduwar — to wastelarar — to point toluwar — to wetten
Transitive Patient Verbduwase — wasted bylarase — pointed at byluwase — wetten by
Nominalised Agent Verbduwaa — act of wastinglaraa — act of pointingluwaa — act of wetting
Nominalised Patient Verbduwaai — being wastedlaraai — being pointed atluwaaai — being wet
Agent Nounsu-duwaai — one who wastessu-laraa — one who pointssu-luwaa — thing that wettens
Patient Nounsu-duwaai — thing that is wastedsu-laraai — one who is pointedsu-luwaai — thing that is wet

Neologisms and Word Building in Arusian

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Andrew Nation
Software Engineering Student and Polyglot

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.

Kluwa-Ara (Edra-Dem)

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Andrew Nation
Software Engineering Student and Polyglot

Jara sa Lucas osar ma sus u payr.

“Puwei-kei sa leyek sa kluwa-ara, u-ma?” u puweise luk.

Andrew teyauwr “vai-bel keyr so”.

“Nepa-kluwa-ara belreis sasa da?”

“Su beis, u-luk!” u demse Andrew. “Tei touweis sasa otras!” u mose so sasa aru.

Keyem-dem sa Kut u sa Arujei-dem

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Andrew Nation
Software Engineering Student and Polyglot

Keyem-dem sa kut u degreis u segr 1990 u wemr juwa-tek sa Noam Chomsky semr. Keyem pus u sa puwei sa 2 wei tuwause: Puwei-dem? Puwei-kei sa so kamr jef pus? X-Bar peyekse keyem pus u wemr Bare Phrase Structure (Deyau-Arek Auwekreis). “Move” (Ak) osar “Agree” (Dlai) u sa so oremr sasa ag.

Deg sa Lei-Kei oremr C++

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Andrew Nation
Software Engineering Student and Polyglot

Su-su, u-su-tekra-pei! C++ sa lu telr u sa tei-pei edse u sa tra pus. C++ ayeis u osa su agreis. Lei–kei-dem pus u oremse vot sa nuweyei-rem (software) u sa gau sa la-2026.

Vot sa lei-kei (program) degse wet sa function. "int” ramr function pus wei pruwr integer.