Ghenid Language
Ghenid frequently forms compound words. Cra = Blood, war, fight. Ua = Ghost, immortal. Crua: Ghostblood - Ghenid Liquor of fermented milk and meat, toxic or sickening to humans. -Ua is the eternal form. Ub- prefix that designates "future". -ib ( past)
Ghenid is a polysynthetic morphology language.
A single Ghenid is a Ghenu. Many are Gheno. A ghost ghenid is a Ghenua.
Adjectives used as names or titles accentuate the first letter.
bata - idiot, fool. B'ata (Fool, Dummy).
Tenses:
-ua: Eternal/ ghost
-rha: shaped (made)
-Vsi: found as, unshaped, natural
sa - one, first.
S'ua - The First Ghosts/Immortals.
S'Oang= Matriarch = first of band/ group
Hingu = sister. Hingo = sisters
Padv = brother
Sluzcrahnee = Flesh & blood mother
Eicrazhnee = old blood mother (grandmother)
eizhnee = nonblood oldmother, other clan grandmother
M'zhnee = their old mother ( aunt ) Numbers:
Sa, Heh, Dao, Yebo, Ngao
Ngadeo-sa ( Five with one = six) ngadeo-heh, Ngadeo-dao, Ngadeo-yebo, Heh-Ngao (two-fives = 10)
Dao-ngao (three-fives = 15), Efesa (also Yebo-ngao) = 20, Efesa-sa = 21, Heh-efesao = two twenties= 40, Efesadeo-hehngo = 30, Ngao efeso = 100.
-o: plural
adeo = and or with
Verbs:
To do/ be =Rhae
to keep/hold/ possess = Tenue
to have/take = Nif
To pull/ draw; ahna
Mau = to cover/ wear (item or feelings)
To think: Apna. Smart, clever = Apa
to eat = Umye
to hear/ listen =Ogkuv
to live/ breathe = Tla
To find / happen = isna
Lae = to go/ to move
La = from, away
Vi! = To meet/ to gather
Na= to. towards
to kill = erUmdtu
Aghim - To wound ( scratch): also indicating something is approximately right/ good enough.
Umtenue - To Bite: also something right
Leue - to hit/ strike
Meat (dead) = Umslu
Slu =body/ flesh
Esueh = Strength/ power
chigh = Negation/ not
Khi = dirt/ground
Aeng =
Aedo - to bind/ tie. or with
Oahk = surrender/ give up submissively
Oagn = to pay/ give (superior to inferior)
- Hnegn: honorific superior
- Rhejd: allied Sae = fat
Ht = little/ small
M' -they. Me (Meh)
T' - I/mine/me. Te (Teh)
V' - you/ yours. Ve(Veh)
Li (Lih) - It ( Nonghenid/ nonperson). Liho = = they (plural)
Ngheru m'oagn V’mueo (Ngheru they pay (to an inferior) you sons)
T'aedoteerua ahna V'angrhu, ikhi esueh cra pda mau!
Akr = water
Akrht = little water ( pond, pool)
akrsaelae. Water go fast. (river rapids). Akrlae - river, moving water. Akrlae-ht- creek
Akra’ap: water up, above. (rain). also Akra-onn. (Sky water).
Akrteer = hard water (ice)
huer = soft cord/ rope
Ukeech = dominon/ domain/ property / household
Teneer = prey/ claimable/ resource/ takable
errha - shaped a found thing. ( carved)
errha - Made a thing
Ikhi - useful
Haerrha - valuable, important object. Haerrhao = important objects
Ikhikhaen (useful dirt thing (slave))
Ub-ikherrha: something useful in the future
M'ikhi ub-rhae = They are useful in the future
M'ub-ikhi. = They will be useful ( but implies are not now).
Rhu’onn - night darkness. ( black sky)
Ub-Rhu'onno dao. - three nights in the future. ( future black skies three)
-Un = past.
T'posyuejo-ib lal lae. "i went there last winter" ( I winter (cold time) past there to go)
T'posyuejo-ib heh lal lae = I went there 2 winters ago
Ghaev - bright/ lighted
Ghaev'onn - bright sky = day.
Pda - here
Lal - there
Yedv (Ydv) = that. (those = ydvo)
This = Pael. (those = paelo)
Oip = Every/ All
duhoahv (vagina).
Ghenid is a polysynthetic morphology language.
A single Ghenid is a Ghenu. Many are Gheno. A ghost ghenid is a Ghenua.
Adjectives used as names or titles accentuate the first letter.
bata - idiot, fool. B'ata (Fool, Dummy).
Tenses:
-ua: Eternal/ ghost
-rha: shaped (made)
-Vsi: found as, unshaped, natural
sa - one, first.
S'ua - The First Ghosts/Immortals.
S'Oang= Matriarch = first of band/ group
Hingu = sister. Hingo = sisters
Padv = brother
Sluzcrahnee = Flesh & blood mother
Eicrazhnee = old blood mother (grandmother)
eizhnee = nonblood oldmother, other clan grandmother
M'zhnee = their old mother ( aunt ) Numbers:
Sa, Heh, Dao, Yebo, Ngao
Ngadeo-sa ( Five with one = six) ngadeo-heh, Ngadeo-dao, Ngadeo-yebo, Heh-Ngao (two-fives = 10)
Dao-ngao (three-fives = 15), Efesa (also Yebo-ngao) = 20, Efesa-sa = 21, Heh-efesao = two twenties= 40, Efesadeo-hehngo = 30, Ngao efeso = 100.
-o: plural
adeo = and or with
Verbs:
To do/ be =Rhae
to keep/hold/ possess = Tenue
to have/take = Nif
To pull/ draw; ahna
Mau = to cover/ wear (item or feelings)
To think: Apna. Smart, clever = Apa
to eat = Umye
to hear/ listen =Ogkuv
to live/ breathe = Tla
To find / happen = isna
Lae = to go/ to move
La = from, away
Vi! = To meet/ to gather
Na= to. towards
to kill = erUmdtu
Aghim - To wound ( scratch): also indicating something is approximately right/ good enough.
Umtenue - To Bite: also something right
Leue - to hit/ strike
Meat (dead) = Umslu
Slu =body/ flesh
Esueh = Strength/ power
chigh = Negation/ not
Khi = dirt/ground
Aeng =
Aedo - to bind/ tie. or with
Oahk = surrender/ give up submissively
Oagn = to pay/ give (superior to inferior)
- Hnegn: honorific superior
- Rhejd: allied Sae = fat
Ht = little/ small
M' -they. Me (Meh)
T' - I/mine/me. Te (Teh)
V' - you/ yours. Ve(Veh)
Li (Lih) - It ( Nonghenid/ nonperson). Liho = = they (plural)
Ngheru m'oagn V’mueo (Ngheru they pay (to an inferior) you sons)
T'aedoteerua ahna V'angrhu, ikhi esueh cra pda mau!
Me hardbinding-eternal to pull your ambition/ hunger useful power blood to wear here.
Whaerso" who are the waste of skin/hide. The Clan "Whalua" who are the Ghost-hide. The -ua designating a ghost aspect/ eternal. Whal or Wha becomes "hide". Ersoa is "worthless/ wasted"
Akr = water
Akrht = little water ( pond, pool)
akrsaelae. Water go fast. (river rapids). Akrlae - river, moving water. Akrlae-ht- creek
Akra’ap: water up, above. (rain). also Akra-onn. (Sky water).
Akrteer = hard water (ice)
huer = soft cord/ rope
Ukeech = dominon/ domain/ property / household
Teneer = prey/ claimable/ resource/ takable
errha - shaped a found thing. ( carved)
errha - Made a thing
Ikhi - useful
Haerrha - valuable, important object. Haerrhao = important objects
Ikhikhaen (useful dirt thing (slave))
Ub-ikherrha: something useful in the future
M'ikhi ub-rhae = They are useful in the future
M'ub-ikhi. = They will be useful ( but implies are not now).
Rhu’onn - night darkness. ( black sky)
Ub-Rhu'onno dao. - three nights in the future. ( future black skies three)
-Un = past.
T'posyuejo-ib lal lae. "i went there last winter" ( I winter (cold time) past there to go)
T'posyuejo-ib heh lal lae = I went there 2 winters ago
Ghaev - bright/ lighted
Ghaev'onn - bright sky = day.
Pda - here
Lal - there
Yedv (Ydv) = that. (those = ydvo)
This = Pael. (those = paelo)
Oip = Every/ All
duhoahv (vagina).
Writing System
Ghenids have no written language. Oral history is drawn from tales by Shadows when desired.
Phonology
Spelling & Phonology
Consonant inventory: b d f g h j k l m n p s t v w z ħ ǂ ǃ ɣ ɭ ɲ ʁ ʂ ʙ ʤ ʧ| ↓Manner/Place→ | Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Palato-alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Pharyngeal | Glottal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | |||||||
| Stop | p b | t d | k g | |||||||
| Affricate | ʧ ʤ | |||||||||
| Fricative | f v | s z | ʂ | ɣ | ʁ | ħ | h | |||
| Approximant | j | |||||||||
| Trill | ʙ | |||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | ɭ | ||||||||
| Click | ǃ | ǂ |
| ↓Manner/Place→ | Labial-velar |
|---|---|
| Approximant | w |
Spoken by
Looks like a nice start! You might want to continue by collecting all the sounds of the language in a table (if you haven't already) and figuring out what kind of syllables are possible. To me it looks like the language has mostly open syllables (CV), but some words like 'akrht' have long consonant clusters that seem a bit out of place. Also, what do you use ' for? I think it separates subject prefixes from roots in some cases, but it seems to be used elsewhere as well. I'm happy to provide conlang feedback, and there is also a very nice conlang channel (fictional languages) in the WA discord ^^
Years later I reply. This conlang holds a special place for me as the one that is really more of an evolving con-lang. It is a bit of a mess. One aspect is compound built words somewhat like german. Aedoteerua. - hard binding/ tied eternal. ‘ (stop) is both a vowel use and used after the first sound of a word makes it. a title. Bata = foolish/ stupid. B'ata is a name or the title "fool/ idiot". I'm not sure why pronouns do this, except as pointing at the speaker vs object. "T'posyuejo-ib m' lal lae. "i went there last winter (with) them" ( I winter (cold time) past there them to go). M''posyuejo-ib t'oahk lal lae - "They went there last winter with me (submissively) or "They took me there last winter" implied forced or as a follower).
Trying to force Vulgarlang to take the shape..but I'm not able to tame the beast to do as I wish.