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date: 2024-03-14
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title: quorientation
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tags: [lántas, conlangs]
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conlang: laantas
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summary: |
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in my latest art, i put some text in my conlang lántas. here is approximately
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too much detail about that.
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...
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<figure>
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<a href=http://gallery.niss.website/main/niss/2024-03-14-quorientation/>
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<img src=../images/quorientation.png>
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</a>
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</figure>
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in [this picture], what is q.t. saying? this:
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:::{.figure .bigscr}
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`{#suatł pattalal šilbari gulaigúšḿ fulla}` \
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`{#sá sá panísat igitḿ ǧunailam lám ušmináša nat lánášḿ fulla}` \
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`{#ǧisat fuhat siham iksaháš}`
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:::
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so. one sentence at a time.
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[this picture]: http://gallery.niss.website/main/niss/2024-03-14-quorientation/
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# one
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:::glosses
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- suatł pattalal šilbari gulaigúšḿ fulla
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- [ˌsuətɫ̩ ˈpatːɐləlʲ ˈʃilʲbɐɾɪ ɡɔˈlaɪɣɔːʃm̩ fʊɫːɑ]
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- sua-t-ł patta-la-l šil-ba-ri gulai-gúš-ḿ fulla
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- 2-GEN-PL door-INS-PL floor-SUP-PRL jump-2p can
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- use your warps to skip some floors
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:::
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you know! the thing! from the game!
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<figure class='floating right'>
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<figcaption> well. from the fan translation </figcaption>
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<img src=../images/skip-some-floors.png class=pixel alt=''>
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</figure>
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- out of context, `{!patta}` means door. i suppose a portal would be a magic
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door, an `{!ustaitł patta}`. but in the context of someone making one right
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in front of you, it is clear what kind of door we're talking about.
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:::{.aside .no-line}
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the word `{!ustail}` also means "songs". did you know there's an old english
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word for magic, `{ġealdor}`, that comes from the proto-germanic `{galdr}`,
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meaning both "song" and "incantation"? i thought it was cute.
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:::
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- the suffix pair `{!–bari}` together mean "over". there was something like this
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[last time](chrismas.html) too. since it is how the language expresses all
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spatial and temporal relationships, that's not very surprising.
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# two
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:::glosses
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- sá sá panísat igitḿ ǧunailam lám ušmináša nat lánášḿ fulla
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- [saːsɐ pɐˈniːsɐt ˈiʝɛtm̩ dʒuˈnaɪlɐ̃ ˌlãːm‿ʊʃmiˈnaːʃə ˌnat ˈlaːnaːʃm̩ ˌfʊɫːə]
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- sá_sá panísa-t igi(s)-t-ḿ ǧunai-la-m lá-m ušmi-náš-(j)a na(i)-t lá-náš-ḿ fulla
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- now blue-GEN crystal-GEN-DEF rod-INS-DEF do-DEF want-1p-REL one-GEN do-1p-DEF can
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- these days we can use the blue crystal rod for whatever we want
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:::
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babylon no longer exists, so it doesn't need protecting. go have fun
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- one `{!sá}` means "right at this moment". two `{!sá sá}` means "these days".
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the second one is actually pronounced with a short vowel.
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- `{!igis}` also means "ice". "crystal" more explicitly can be `{!kut igis}`,
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or "stone ice".
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- `{!nai}` means both "one" and "anything". phrased more literally,
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`{!lám ušmináša nat}` is "anything that we want to do".
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- the way auxiliary verbs like "can" work is a little strange. let's take
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a shorter sentence, `{!šanil gubam fulla}`, "flowers can grow". first you take
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the base sentence, `{!šanil guba}` "flowers grow", and add `{m}`, which
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when it's not part of a grammatical template, means "the", but makes the
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clause into a noun phrase. then that is used as the subject of the verb
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`{!fulla}`, or `{!bulla}` "must", etc. so more literally, these auxiliaries
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mean something like "is possible/necessary".
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"{flowers grow here} is possible".
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:::{.aside .no-line}
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the similarity of `{!fulla}` and `{!bulla}` is just a weird accident, in case
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you're wondering. i made the words at different times. no etymology puzzle
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here, sorry
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# three
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:::glosses
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- ǧisat fuhat siham iksaháš
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- [ˈdʒisɐt ˌfuxɑt ˈsixɑ̃m‿ˌiksɐxɑːʃ]
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- ǧisa-t fuha-t siha-m iksa-háš
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- fire-GEN breath-GEN remember-DEF IMP-2p
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- be careful with the fire breath
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- `{!iksa}` has the same grammatical structure as `{!fulla}` above. it makes a
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sentence into a request. it has one special feature: since in the
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vast majority of cases, it only makes sense for both `{!iksa}` and the main
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verb to be second person, when that _is_ the case, only `{!iksa}` needs to
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have the person marking. otherwise it would be `{!sihaham}` above.
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# abbreviation list
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:::{.twocol .abbr-list}
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DEF
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: [definite](https://lang.niss.website/laantas/nouns.html#definiteness)
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["the"]{.note}
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GEN
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: [genitive](https://lang.niss.website/laantas/nouns.html#corecases)
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["of"]{.note}
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INS
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: [instrumental](https://lang.niss.website/laantas/nouns.html#corecases)
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["using"]{.note}
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PL
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: [plural](https://lang.niss.website/laantas/nouns.html#number)
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PRL
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: [perlative](https://lang.niss.website/laantas/nouns.html#locational-cases)
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["through"]{.note}
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REL
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: [relative clause suffix](https://lang.niss.website/laantas/verbs.html#modifier-forms)
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["which/that"]{.note}
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SUP
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: [superessive](https://lang.niss.website/laantas/nouns.html#locational-cases)
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["above"]{.note}
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