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Conlang Club Aux Lang

Goals - easily learned by everyone - not overly biased to a particular pre-existing language - few enough roots to be easily memorized but not so few that cirumlocutions have to be memorized - highly rigid word order

Notable Points - no inflectional morphology - SVO word order - No cases, gender, or grammatical number - ~2000 roots words - two delimiters, one to seperate S, V, and O, the second to seperate subordinate clauses

Phonology Consonants: mnptkswlj (copied from toki pona) Vowels: iua

Sentence Structure Subject, verb phrase, and object phrase are all seperated by a delimiter (DEL) The main sentence structure is: subject DEL verb DEL object (prepositional phrases) (subordinate clauses)

Noun Phrase Structure (number) noun (adjectives, demonstratives) (SUBDEL subordinate clauses) The number before the noun can be a marker for singular, paucal, plural, or a numeral

Verb Phrase Structure The verb phrase structure is very simple: verb (adverbs) adverbs can be things like quickly, but also tense or mood markers.

Subordinate Clause Structure Subordinate clauses are seperated from the noun they modify by a subordinate clauses delimiter (SUBDEL). They have the same structure as main clauses but with a pronoun that referes to the noun that the subordinate clauses modifies. eg. English: The man who I met. Auxlang: Man the SUBDEL I met him.

Vocab undecided (sample of languages? completely new?)

Example Translation English: My mother took the old picture of Fred that I found in the drawer a few years ago Auxlang: mother my DEL take ago few years DEL picture the old SUBDEL it contains Fred SUBDEL I found it in the drawer

Unresolved Issues - nested subordinate clauses (NP [SUBDEL sub1][SUBDEL sub2] vs NP [SUBDEL sub1 [SUBDEL sub2]] - where does negation go - are there articles? temporal demonstratives? - ambigious pronouns (She hit the girl that bit her -> She hit the girl SUBDEL she bit she)