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- Miscellany
- Tuesday, May 1st, 2012 at 11:08:10pm MDT
- Neoquux is an FT version of the quuxish ideals
- There are modifiers and relations.
- Relations are combined of two objects by interleaving syllables of the two
- terms. Many specific relations have their own words though. In regular
- forms, the more animate term is used first. The levels of animation are (body
- parts of a creature of a specific level are in an implicit class below it):
- 1. Quuxa deities
- 2. Quuxa
- 3. foreign deities
- 4. sapient foreigners
- 5. pets
- 6. beasts of burden
- 7. other beneficial animals
- 8. carnivores and omnivores
- 9. herbivores
- 10. plants
- 11. bacteria, viri and other microscopical lifeforms
- 12. technologically powered vehicles
- 13. vehicles which are powered by quuxa, or aninmals
- 14. tools
- 15. other man-made objects
- 16. furniture
- 17. abstract concepts
- 18. natural features
- 19. houses, settlements, infrastructure
- 20. food
- In the quuxa dictionary, these terms will have a number after them to
- indicate their hierarchical position.
- Orthography and Phonology:
- Vowels:
- X-SAMPA written as
- i: ii
- y: yy
- I i
- Y y
- e: ee
- 2: 11
- E e
- 9 1
- M: vv
- u: uu
- U_c v
- U u
- 7: 44
- o: oo
- V 4
- O o
- a: aa
- a a
- Consonants:
- X-SAMPA
- m m
- n_d n (becomes N when clustering with another velar consonant)
- J nj
- N\ nh
- t_d t
- t_d_> th
- tS tx
- tS_> thx
- ts\ tz
- ts\_> thz
- k k
- k_> kh
- q q
- q_> qh
- p\ p
- f f
- s_d s
- S x
- s\ z
- x c
- X ch
- r_d r
- l_d l
- j j
- L jh
- L\ lh
- w wh
- ? '
- Syllables have no coda.
- stress is on the first syllable.
- Grammar: Basic sentences are relation verb
- ie: q11rantuu thxeeguch4: the mother plays/played/will play with her children
- Verbs carry no tense.
- There are no personal pronouns. Instead the following is used:
- For yourself you use a term that describes you in a relation (I personally
- would use "woman" or "woman of the family"). So I would say:
- kaapaathx1 jalh4th44 (the woman of childbearing age flees into the wilderness)
- while my father would say:
- whoolta'ee jalh4th44 (the man of high age flees into the wilderness)
- if we wanted to say: I flee.
- For the person you are speaking to, use a term/relation that fits with how
- you perceive him. For politeness, use words/relations which include a high
- ranking.
- For a group you belong use the group and either imply or explicitely state
- in a new sentence the relation.
- Modifiers do not apply to verbs but to relations and have aspects of tense
- and mood.
- The modfiers are:
- 'eejee: both parts of the relation and the relation itself still exist (this
- is only used for emphasis)
- k11'a: the relation has existed in the past but does no longer even though
- both parts still do
- q44lh4: the relation no longer exists and parts of it no longer exist.
- lhalhaa: the relation existed but no longer does. The individual parts might
- or might not exist
- thzii'11: the relation might or might not have existed, does no longer, the
- individual parts do not exist or do not exist anymore
- thsaa'oo: the relation might or might not have existed, does now however
- julra: the relation might or might not have existed, does no longer, the
- individual parts still exist
- taaji: the relation did exist in the past and that it or its components no
- longer exists fills the speaker with joy
- munt1: the relation did exist in the past and that it or its components no
- longer exists saddens the speaker
- 'yyku: the relation currently exists and that fills the speaker with joy
- 'aam1: the relation currently exists and that saddens the speaker
- thyyty: the relation did not exist but it would have filled the speaker with
- joy if it did
- chaanh1: the relation did not exist but it would have saddened the speaker
- if it did
- zaa'a: the relation did not exist and the speaker is not having specific
- emotions towards its nonexistance (general hypothetical about the
- past)
- xaa'e: the relation did not exist but given a previous hypothetical would be
- a consequence
- chvvlhy: the relation exists or existed as consequence of another sentence
- lhychvv: the sentence is a justification of a previous sentence
- lhyyji: the relation is likely to exist in the future, its components
- already exist
- faaj1: the relation is unlikely to exist in the future, one or several of
- its components do not exist
- txy: the relation is a wish for the future
- rh1: the relation is a fear about the future
- lhekhu: the relation is a revelation, dream, prophecy or hallucination (to
- indicate attitude, you can prefox rh1 or txy here)
- 'v: the speaker is uttering a command
- 'vvqhv: the speaker is uttering a suggestion
- prefixing '4 indicates that the tense is from the time of narration.
- There is no negation. The quza do not describe what is not but what is
- (thus, instead of "Laura is not here" use "Laura is at another place") or
- for negative imperatives use an if then structure ("Keep off the grass"
- becomes "If you step onto the grass, you deserve punishment").
- Numbers are prefixed to the verb. The procedure works as follows: there are
- verbs which indicate a relation (like "flow through"). In front of them, a
- number is prefixed (numbers are in the dictionary) and at the end of it, a
- relational suffix. This last thing is the difference between: "Five rivers
- flow through that plane", "This river flows through 5 planes" and even "the
- fifth river that flows through that plane"
- These suffixes are:
- -'athza: numerous smaller objects facing the speaker or listener (think of
- the streetlights on a road)
- -'ee'ee: numerous smaller objects are in a line (think of books on a
- bookshelf)
- -thz44'1: numerous small objects are in random order (cows on a pasture)
- -thz4'11: a heap of smaller objects
- -'iirlii: small objects contained in x large objects (three bottles of water)
- -'eqa: one small object in relation to several large ones (I have lived in
- three countries)
- -kiiki: a temporary relation from an implicit start point on, small to large
- (the first people in the valley)
- -qithzii: a temporary relation from an implicit end point on, small to large
- (the second-to-last day of vacation)
- -che'a: a temporary relation from an implicit start point on, large to small
- (the first valley the people settled into)
- -ca'1che a temporary relation from an implicit end point on, large to small
- (the third-to-last war of the soldier)
- To indicate how Neoquux works, here a translation of the Babel story and a
- few comments about whay things are as they are.
- 1 Now the whole world had one language and a common speech.
- 1 Munt1 caarhe'a'achy laa. Munt1 quurhexa'achy laa. Munt1 quza m44thza.
- the relation between planet and language existed fortunately. The quuxa and
- the planet existed fortunately. One quuxa spoke to another quuxa.
- Quza does not refer to all quuxa unless it is indicated like in the way I
- did here. You do not say that the language was of the quuxa grammatically,
- you imply it via laa constructions.
- 2 As men moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.
- 2 Q44lh4 quulyyxalha'e syjiwha zaaxokhi. Q44lh4 quufiixaqhuca zaaxokhi.
- the relation between quuxa and the rising sun existed but does no longer.
- Quuxa moved to the rising sun (east) and settled there. Quuxa settled in a
- plane landscape.
- Rising sun can indicate the literal sunrise or just the direction.
- 3 They said to each other, Come, let's make bricks and bake them thoroughly.
- They used brick instead of stone, and bitumen for mortar.
- 3 Q44lh4 quza m44thza. "'vvqhv lhektvmee keeca. 'vvqhv lee'4chv 'eewhaa"
- '4k11'a lvvruute kuu. '4k11'a quuteexakupi kuu. Chvvlhy quuj4xathzvpo kuu.
- Chvvlhy quukhexathamii kuu.
- The quuxa spoke to one another: "It is a suggestion to mix sand and clay and
- to burn bricks in a kiln." Earlier they used stone, earlier they used mortar
- for construction. As a consequence they used bricks and they used bitumen.
- 4 Then they said, Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that
- reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be
- scattered over the face of the whole earth.
- 4 Q44lh4 quza m44thza. "'vvqhv maa'ijv jupa. 'vvqhv quukhuuxaqata jupa.
- 'vvqhv taakhuufiqalheta taakhuu. Xaa'e maa'ijv peekace. Xaa'e maa'ijv
- zaaxokhi luuqach44."
- The quuxa spoke to one another: "It is a suggestion to build a city. It is a
- suggestion to build a tower. It is a suggestion that the tower and the sky
- are equally tall. It is a result of that that the city and its inhabitants
- are well known. It is a result to settle and remain here."
- The opposite of being scattered is to remain in one place. Thus the negation
- here poses no big difficulty. Note the use of xaa'e since the tower is not
- built yet at the time of the suggestion.
- 5 But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the men were
- building.
- 5 Q44lh4 jeetaa'ofiwhalhe suuca. Q44lh4 jeemaa'ojvwhakuu ciit1. Q44lh4
- jeekhuu'oqawhata ciit1.
- The monotheistic human god left the sky. It looked at the city. It looked at
- the tower.
- 6 The LORD said, If as one people speaking the same language they have begun
- to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.
- 6 Q44lh4 quujeexa'owha m44thza. "Caarhe'a'achy laa. Chvvlhy maa'ijv jupa.
- Rh1 qu'1nja syjiwha."
- The monotheistic human god spoke to the quuxa. "A relation between language
- and planet exists. Thus the city is constructed by its inhabitants. Thus it
- is my fear that the calling(s) of the quuxa will be reached."
- Wow, this is quite elegant.
- 7 Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand
- each other.
- 7 "'vvqhv jeetaa'ofiwhalhe suuca. 'vvqhv jeecaa'o'awha kap11. Chvvlhy quza
- naajuche."
- "I suggest that the monotheistic human deity leaves the sky. I suggest to
- poison the language of the quuxa so that as a result they fail to perceive
- each other."
- I felt these metaphors are more quuxy, which is strange since quuxy culture
- has not yet been outlined.
- 8 So the LORD scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped
- building the city.
- 8 Q44lh4 quujeexa'owha torhent1. Chvvlhy quufiixaqhuca suuca. Chvvlhy
- quurhexa'achy laa zaaxokhi. Chvvlhy maa'ijv 'anha jupa.
- The monotheistic human god distributes the quuxa. As a result the quuxa
- leave the plane. As a result the quuxa exist and settle the planet. As a
- result the construction of the city by its inhabitants is stopped.
- The first sentence actually does not makes it clear except by context who
- distributes, thus the long clarification later.
- 9 That is why it was called Babel because there the LORD confused the
- language of the whole world. From there the LORD scattered them over the
- face of the whole earth.
- 9 Mafiicoqhusx1ca tiiti. '4k11'a jeecaa'o'awha kap11. '4k11'a quujeexa'owha
- torhent1. Chvvlhy quufiixaqhuca suuca. Chvvlhy quurhexa'achy laa zaaxokhi.
- The place is associated with confusion because here the monotheistic human
- god spoiled the language earlier. As a result the quuxa leave the plane. As
- a result the quuxa exist and settle the planet.
- The grandfather and the dragon:
- rhvjuurlaltaaj1
- When my great-great-grandfather was a young man, he travelled out into the
- world.
- 'vvqhv quza m44thza cetalv. Thzuuza jvvthzy. Lhychvv lvnhaata jvvthzy. Q44lh4
- lhirhv'yyrla'4 cee. Q44lh4 lhirhe'yy'a'4chy lerh4zathsa menthsantii.
- SUGGESTION A-quuxa/other-quza speak tell-story. Great-grandfather/child
- is-derived-from. Because father-son is-derived-from. PAST acestor/young-quuxa
- is-equivalent. PAST young-quuxa/planet travel-to examine.
- The first sentence is a kind of introduction to the kind of speech which is
- to follow. The idea of a great-great-grandfather does not exist natively and
- so is composed out from "the father of the great-grandfather."
- First he went west; there was only sand there.
- Q44lh4 lhily'yylhaa'4thsee syjiwha. Q44lh4 lhirhyy'yythz44'4z4 ciit1. Q44lh4
- lhithzv'yyjv'4rhvv naajuche.
- PAST young-quuxa/setting-sun go-toward. PAST young-quuxa/sand see. PAST
- young-quuza/set-of-natural-features fail-to-perceive.
- Then he went north; there was only snow there.
- Q44lh4 lhily'yylha'4che jaalh1th11. Q44lh4 lhika'yykhe'4xa'ise ciit1. Q44lh4
- lhithzv'yyjv'4rhvv naajuche.
- PAST young-quuxa/sun-at-noon flee-from. PAST young-quuxa/snow see. PAST
- young-quuza/set-of-natural-features fail-to-perceive.
- Then he went east; there the mountains were too high and
- great-great-grandfather couldn't climb them.
- Q44lh4 lhilyy'yylha'4'e syjiwha. Q44lh4 lhime'yyntu'4ji ciit1.
- Menmentatuujvvji so'e. Q44lh4 mentilhy jv'vv'e. Q44lh4 lhimen'yyta'4jvv
- lathakhi jii'yy.
- PAST young-quuxa/sun-at-noon flee-from. PAST young-quuxa/range-of-mountain
- see. range-of-mountains/mountain consist-of. PAST mountain/height
- is-excessive. PAST young-quuxa/mountain climb-over fail.
- At last he decided to travel south, on foot, on horseback, by cart and by
- boat.
- Q44lh4 lhily'yylha'4che syjiwha. Q44lh4 qunixithza je. Q44lh4 jalikhaxuu je.
- Q44lh4 juu'ikaa je. Q44lh4 cee'ixakalyy je.
- PAST noon-sun/young-quuxa go-to. PAST quuxa/its-feet use. PAST
- kathsaxu/quuxa use. PAST quuxa/riksha use. PAST quuxa/small-boat use.
- In the south he saw the largest city in all the world.
- Chvvlhy lhimaa'yyjv'4kuu ciit1. Maarhejv'akuuchy zekitu. Maakajvmvkuultv
- RESULT young-quuxa/city see. City/planet being-known-in. City-size exceeds.
- A Quuxa story
- Suggestion: A quuxa addresses a group of humans and tells a story.
- SUGGESTION quuxa/humans speak tell-story
- 'vvqhv qusatithz44 m44thza cetalv.
- This is a typical way to introduce a story.
- The valley with the river used to belong to quza.
- PRESENT valley/river exist. UNC=PAST quuxa/valley beings-settle-in.
- 'eejee jejek44'1 laa. Thzii'11 quujexathzak11 zaaxokhi.
- These quza called themselves the first quza.
- thoughts: These Quza had a language. Quza refer to quza. Quza/valley
- initially-settle.
- But the mountain quza referred to them as
- fisheaters. The valley quza called the mountain quza the second ones. While
- the mountain quza called themselves the grindstone people because they used
- mills to make bread. The quza did not like each other. The valley quza said
- the mountain quza were crazy because they would harvest grain and make
- alcoholic drinks out of them. The Mountain quza thought that the valley quza
- were without creativity and without music. A young, quza, just on the age to
- give birth, from the valley wanted to know whether it was true what they
- said about the mountain quza. So one day, she took three arrows, two spears
- and a bow and went towards the mountains. She used the arrows to hunt, and
- the spears to fish. Eventually, she arrived in the mountains but she could
- not understand the quza there because their language was like the wind. And
- the quza there cound not understand her because her language to them was
- like the ocean. Despite that, she was allowed to stay at a farmer, worked on
- the farm or fished in the river and learned their language. She learned that
- the quza were not crazy and that being drunk is only temporary. She also
- learned what the quza said about the valley quza. She told them what the
- valley really was like and brought them songs. She also returned to the
- valley and brought the quza there information about the mountains. Neither
- the mountain quza nor the valley quza liked being proven wrong and so this
- quza spent the rest of her days near the shore, away from both sides which
- chose to despise her.
- Vocabulary:
- Number prefixes:
- catv: one
- juu'v: two
- qiithza: three
- Relations:
- cee'ixakalyy: quuxa and a small boat
- jalikhaxuu: quuxa and kathsaxu
- jejek44'1: valley and river/flowing water
- juu'ikaa: quuxa and riksha
- kaapaathx1: woman in childbearing age and wilderness
- lhektvmee: clay and sand
- lee'4chv: brick and kiln
- lvnhaata: father and child
- lvvruute: person and stone
- maa'ijv: a settlement and its inhabitants
- mentilhy: mountain and the concept of height
- nheetha'4: man who is not fully adult, adolescent and law enforcer
- q11rantuu: mother and one or several of her children
- qu'1nja: quuxa and its calling, goal
- qunixithza: a quuxa and his own feet
- qusatithz44: a quuxa and a group of humans
- quza: a quuxa and several other ones
- thxuxe: grandfather and child
- thzuuza: great grandfather and child
- tzaakhaj11: woman in childbearing age and the law enforcer
- whoolta'ee: man of high age and wilderness
- Components (these never appear freely):
- caa'a: language (abstract concept)
- fiiqhuca: plane, flat landscape (natural feature)
- jee'owha: human monotheistic god (alien deity)
- jethzak11: valley (natural feature)
- juultaaj1: monster, dragon (carnivore)
- j4thzvpo: brick (man-made object)
- kakhexa'ise: snow (natural feature)
- kamvltv: the concept of size (abstract concept)
- kathsaxu: Kathsaxu, vaguely similar to a donkey (beast of burden)
- khethamii: asphalt (man-made object)
- khuuqata: tower (building)
- lhi'yy'4: young, male quuxa (quuxac)
- lylhaathsee: the setting sun (natural feature)
- lylhache: the sun during noon (natural feature)
- lyylha'e: the rising sun (natural feature)
- maajvkuu: city (man-made object)
- macosx1: confusion (abstract concept)
- mentuuji: mountain range (natural feature)
- mentajvv: mountain (natural feature)
- paa'11: hand
- quuxa: Quuxa (quuxa)
- rhe'achy: planet (natural feature)
- rhvrla: ancestor (quuxa)
- rhyythz44z4: sand (natural feature)
- taafilhe: sky (natural feature)
- teekupi: mortar (man-made object)
- thzvjvrhvv: a setting with diverse natural features (natural feature)
- Verbs:
- 'anha: indication that the following action is stopped
- 'eewhaa: to heat substance in device
- cetalv: being tells a story to others
- cee: to be the same
- ciit1: being looks at thing
- chatha: the seemingly inferior person/animal kills the superior one
- jalh4th44: to flee into
- jaalh1th11: to flee from
- je: to use
- jii'yy: to fail at something
- jupa: beings create, build, construct
- juu'vl1: being picks object up, being understands concept
- jv'vvje: to be inappropriate, excessive
- jvvthzy: to be descended from/to have the offspring
- kap11: being spoiled, poisons thing
- keeca: substances are mixed together
- kuu: being uses material for construction
- lathakhi: to climb over, to get through an obstacle by getting over it (instead of around for example)
- laa: to exist
- lerh4zathsa: sentient being moves in/on natural feature
- luuqach44: beings remain in place
- menthsantii: being examines
- m44thza: to speak to someone
- naajuche: to fail to perceive
- nii'y: to exceed
- peekace: to be well known
- qhiithzachi: to swear
- so'e: to consist of
- suuca: being leaves place
- syjiwha: animate being or thing moves to
- taakhuu: all components in the relation are equally tall
- tiiti: thing or being is associated with concept (closest to being named)
- torhent1: being distributes things
- thxeeguch4: animate beings play
- zaaxokhi: animate being settles in
- zekitu: thing is famous
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