Franny Speak

[mayamaia]

I was bored on BART last night and I didn't feel like writing, so I invented a language.

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Grammar:

nominative: suffix attached directly after verb
1st: -i (pronounced ee)
2nd: -u (pronounced oo)
3rd: -y (pronounced yeh)
plurals: add an s to the end of 1st, 2nd, 3rd
formal: pluralize party to be given respect

accusative: suffix attached after nominative suffix

1st acting on self: -ii (pronounced ee-ee)
1st acting on 2nd: -iu (pronounced ee-oo)
3rd acting on 1st plural: -yis (pronounced ye-ees)

dative: suffix attached to adverb or preposition following verb

Nouns and names: Defined by placement at the beginning of related suffix. Will usually also be other words if placed differently.

Vocabulary

root verbs: plosive (put mouth in the shape of the consonant and release air with a pop)

p: kiss
t: talk
d: think
th: make
k: strike
ch: break
f: defecate

exclamations: short vowels (singing vowels? ah eh ee oh oo ur). Can be used alone. Can be repeated for emphasis. When placed at the beginning of the sentence, set the tone.

a: pay attention
e: stop
i: Really?, question or surprise
o: uh-oh
u: awesome
r: perhaps

(not sure what to do with other consonants yet)(but s should indicate together)(maybe some of them are tenses)(l could be future because it's similar to r and d!)(aha!)

modifiers:

l: future
m: past
n: present
s: together
sh: experienced / real
z: lonely
zh: unreal or lost

word-creation: root verb followed by modifiers that have their own meaning. Earlier sounds should bear most of the meaning. Harsher sounds should have harsher meanings: two plosives in a row should be a rude word.

pa: to love affectionately / affectionate love
pu: to love romantically
po: to worry
pr: to make out
ps: to have sex
purs: to make love
psk: to fuck
p'k': to rape

da: to have an idea / agree
dazh: to dream

tha: to live
the: to die
thezh: to sleep

ka: to slap
-ka-: emphatic
ku: to win
ko: to defeat
ke: to quit
k'f': to hate
kech: to destroy

che: to fix
chek: to subdue
cheks: to make peace
ches: to improve together

ta: to call
to: to warn
ti: to identify
t'f': to swear disgustingly (literally to talk shit)

f't': to fart

key: quit it thing, enemy
tak: to vilify
tayk: to alienate

"P'iu." I kiss you.
"I p'ius." May I kiss you?
"P'usi" / "Pusi." Please kiss me / I am in love with you. (Oh that's awesome, that really is awesome.)("A uy, uuy.")
"Pursusi." Make love to me.
"Pskui." Fuck me.
"Pskasis." Let's have sex dammit. Hee hee, I like -ka- as an emphatic.

"A cheksis." We announce armistice.

"Tiifrani." My name is Fran. (which, now that I think about it, is a very perturbing name in this language, oops.)(Maybe I should just call myself "Cheska": Let's get better dammit.)("Tiicheskai.")

(I could call the language Frani, since I am just pulling this out of my ass.)(Hahahaha.)("Tiifraniy." I name this 'I'm just pulling this out of my ass.')

-ra-: only

"Kopuei." / "Kop'uei." The lover defeated me. / The one you kissed defeated me.

"A paranu." You only feel affection.

"Odzhim theey." He's dead, Jim.

Comments

[nsandik.livejournal.com]

"Odzhim theey!" I'm rolling on the floor here! This is great fun!

So...the, die... and e, and y (ye?) Are you making it reflexive? Did he commit suicide? ;-)

What fun. :-) You probably speak Klingon.

[mayamaia.livejournal.com]

Well, I have "to die" but not "to kill" yet... but I think "to kill" would have to involve violence, so... thekyy would be "he killed him".

I don't speak Klingon, actually, but I do speak German and I took one quarter of Latin. I liked Latin grammar quite a bit, so I started there, decided genders are annoying and then used onomatopoeia. And this came out!

[nsandik.livejournal.com]

Oh, forgive me. Ye is nominative. My bad.

[mayamaia.livejournal.com]

But note that accusative is the same, but following nominative. ...which means I need to figure out passive voice.

[nsandik.livejournal.com]

LOL! Totally awesome. Good job!