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Pi
Pi is the proto-conlang created collaboratively during Sai Emrys' talk on Conlanging 101.
Social media tags: #26c3 #conlang @saizai (and emails are nice too)
If you want to expand the conlang, please feel free to edit this page!
News: the paper will be in the next Monochrom book!
Grammar
- Aesthetic: weird; negations are reversed; minimize voiced Cs
- Phonetic inventory: p t k ʀ ǃ ʒ x v z ʙ [s ʃ] q oj [ɯ ɔ] a i
- Romanization: p t k r x g h v z b s q o u a i
- Phonotactic: CV
- Phonological rules:
- s -> ʃ / _V[+front] a, i
- ɯ -> ɔ / q_, ʀ_
- ǃ -> k / V_V
- 0 -> ɯ / C_#
- Morphology: agglutinative
- Syntax: V S O, head-initial
Translations
- Hello world! -> I greet you, World!
- ʀixa oj ǃa, ǃakakaʙɯ
- riha o xa, xakakabu
- The old hacker fixed Georg's code.
- pitikiaaxi pitiki xi pitiʒiʀɔʒɯ
- pitikiaahi pitiki hi pitigirugu
Vocab
| English | Pi |
|---|---|
| you | ǃa |
| world | /ǃaǃaǃa/ [ǃakaka] |
| Georg | ʒiʀɔʒɯ |
| I | oj |
| letter | pi |
| code (letter-command) | piti |
| hacker ([someone who] inalienably possesses letter-commands) | pitiki |
| fix (hacker.FUT - some sort of anaphora?) | pitikia |
| greet | ʀixa |
| command (also IMPerative?) | ti |
| old | xi |
| DEFinite | -0 |
| alienable POSSessive | [fuse: possessor_possession] |
| FUTure | -a |
| PaST (FUT.old) | -axi |
| VOCative | -ʙ |
| inalienable POSSessive | -ki |