New Language Project, 04.20.00.09.14.15.05

Malt§egj Project

An Exploratory Journal into the Creation of a Neo-Ancient Runic Tongue.

I've decided to start a new project from scratch here. This will be a bit like dlaci, but more free-form, with room for creativity over mathematics, but not bound to a language subgroup as are tsœxisca and latinova.

Prepositional suffixes. I got this idea indirectly from Tolkein, not because of something he created but rather because i misread a little runic dwarf tablet, and thought "wow, that's cool," before i realized that i was reading it wrong. I'll present a list of the endings i've created here with a cross-reference in german, french, and esperanto for more specific accuracy.

about	über	de	pri/koncerne	-eloi
after	nach	après	post	-av
around	um	à l'entour de	ĉircaû	-eð
before	bevor	avant	antaû	-om
before	vor	devant	antaû	-ið
behind	hinter	derrière	post, malantaû	-it
for	für	pour	pro, por	-ic
in	in	dans, en	en	-um
next to	neben	près de	apud	-ili
of	von	de	de	-ul
on	auf	sur	sur	-ap
on	an	sur	al, apud	-alh
out of	aus	au dehors	el	-ut
over	über	au dessus	super	-em
to	zu	à	al	-at
under	unter	au dessous	sub	-iþ
until	bis	jusqu'à	ĝis	-eci
with	mit	avec	kun	-oc
without	ohne	sans	sen	-alm

This list is of course merely preliminary, and may and most likely will be changed many times, but this is just an idea for now. Prepositions will be added to the end of the word they modify, as in chinese or case endings in latin.

E.g., "The book is on the table"
"Klagul ec teflðapul"

Just in translating that last sentence, numerous chapters have been added to this log. Foremost is the definite article, which is the suffix –ul, and suffixed prepositions precede it. Why? Because i just said so. –apul sounds infinitely better than –ulap, don't you think? In the case of the phrase "of the," –ul will be used twice, only because i happen rather to like it. It has a lovely rolling sound, i think. (E.g. "of the table" "teflðulul")

New Words so far:

klag	book
-ul	the
ec	is (I don't want to start thinking about verbs yet. I like it for now.)
teflðu	table

I just decided that the word for table is teflðu, rather than just teflð, which would be monstrously difficult to pronounce, so henceforth, when a vowel ends in a noun, the noun will be supplanted by the adjoining suffix. (It's already hard enough to pronounce if you don't know that the l is broad.)

I'm going to be keeping a lexicon as i write this, because as i've already found with every other language i've ever worked on, if you don't keep up with it from the start it will quickly become a near-impossible task.