Pretty much what the title says. What’s a feature in your conlang that you find especially cool?

  • ThatOneKirbyMain2568@kbin.socialOP
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    9 个月前

    Something neat about my conlang, Hip’alŭk’, is how it handles demonstratives (e.g., “this” & “that”). Demonstratives have both a three-way distinction between persons (speaker, addressee, and both) and a three-way distinction between distances (near, slightly far, and far).

    This results in 9 different demonstratives (that I haven’t nailed down words for yet):

    meoproximal DEM.PROX.1 — “this near me”
    tuoproximal DEM.PROX.2 — “that near you”
    omniproximal DEM.PROX.1+2 — “that near us both”
    meomesial DEM.MES.1 — “that slightly far from me”
    tuomesial DEM.MES.1 — “that slightly far from you”
    omnimesial DEM.MES.1+2 — “that slightly far from us both”
    meodistal DEM.DIST.1 — “that far from me”
    tuodistal DEM.DIST.2 — “that far from you”
    omnidistal DEM.DIST.1+2 — “that far from us both”

    • Xoriff@kbin.social
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      9 个月前

      Interesting. Could you combine them? As in, could you use this system to really simply say like “this far-me near-you book”?