= = = Sámaltolcən = = =
A constructed language by Saperoi
at sapero.neocities.org

A personal conlang focused on composite words.
Mainly Germanic, Italic, and some Edo root words.
Because I like words to sound certain ways, there will be many synonyms.

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PHONOLOGY + ORTHOGAPHY
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a: /ɑ/
ai: /ɑi̯/
aw: /ɑu̯/
á: /aː/
â: /a/
ái: /aːi̯/
e: /ɛ/
é: /eː/
i: /i/
ī: /iː/
o: /o/
ō: /oː/
u: /ʌ/
ú: /y/
y: /ɪ/
ə: /ə/

j: /j/
r: /r/ + /ʀ/
w: /ʋ/

b: /b/
c: /k/
d: /d/ | /t/ if final consonant
f: /f/
g: /ɣ/
h: /ɦ/
l: //
m: /m/
n: /n/
p: /p/
s: /s/
t: /t/
v: /v/
z: /z/

sj: /ʃ/
zj: /ʒ/

Consonant clusters may be pronounced with a /ə/ in between but that's up to preference

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MORPHOLOGY
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Verbs are suffixed with [-ən]. To conjugate it, the ən gets dropped first, and suffix by [n] if the stem ends with a vowel.
In present tense, you suffix [ə] for the 1st and 2nd singular, [ət] for the 3rd singular, and [ən] for the plurals
    (smurfən:) smurfə, smurfə, smurfət; smurfən, smurfən, smurfən
    (smuraən:) smuranə, smuranə, smurant; smuanən, smuranən, smuranən
To make the past participle, you prefix with [gə] and suffix with [də]
    gəsmurfd, gəsmurad
A request is said by ommitting the subject of the sentence.

Adjectives are prefixed to the nouns
Between adjectives, -(n)i(n)- is infixed

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DICTIONARY
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Pronouns
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-wen: my
-úwe: your
-ere: 3rd person singular possessive adjective
-ima: our
-úwa: your (plural/formal)
-ihan: 3rd person plural possessive adjective
Each displaces the vowel from the previous part of the composition

menə: mine
jawə: yours
zenə: 3rd person singular possessive pronoun
onə: ours
urə: yours (plural/formal)
henə: 3rd person plural possessive pronoun

Prepositions get prefixed to these, and that gets suffixed with [-s]

Transtypal modifiers
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-īrən: forms causative verbs from adjectives and nouns, displaces previous vowel

də: definite particle
də <verb without -ən>: the <verb>-ing, "noun-style"

Nouns
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assə: axis, axle
berəg: mountain
bundəl: bundle
cambər: room
dambə: dam (as in a water blockade)
ege: time
ésipal: lizard
hágədis: lizard
hond: dog
ízé: rice
máná: hand
oge: person, someone

Adjectival prefixes
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acs: inclined
áicwos: equal
af: away
án: on
andər: other
anté: before, previous, earlier (time)
awən: old
cwáiən: angry
idem: same
fan: from
nov: new
osan: divine
on: un-
tə: at
təfōr: in front of, before (place)
sámal: together
sub: under
sum: some, quelques
syn: identical
syməl: forever
zjənan: embarressing

Verbs
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byndən: to bind
bundəlen: to bundle
segən: to say
setsən: to put
séwən: to see
tolcən: to speak
telən: to count
váhən: to catch

EXAMPLE COMPOSITIONS AND SENTENCES
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áicwosīrən: to equalise
afīrən: to remove
awənīrən: to age up
andərīrən: to change
antīrən: to revert, to undo
cwáiənīrən: to anger
idemīrən: to copy (attempt, imperfectly)
fanīrən: to derive
novīrən: to refresh, to create from a blank slate, to invent; to recreate; to start over
osanīrən: to bless
osansegən: to pray
sámalīrən: to combine
sumīrən: to produce multiple (like factory production)
syməlīrən: to make immortal
syməltelən: to count up to infinity
synīrən: to clone (perfectly)
synsegən: to repeat
unáicwosīrən: to make unfair
unandərīrən: to undo
unantīrən: to redo
unbyndən: to unbind
uncwáiənīrən: to calm down
unosanīrən: to curse (after blessing), to unbless
unsámalīrən: to seperate

gəantīrdə: preceeded
gəosanīrdə: blessed
tənurəs: at yours
təmenəs: at mine
tənoge: at someone's
təmanwens: in my hands

setsə manuwə təmenəs: place your hand in mine