I wonder if there are any language communities...like, general language...
Anywho...
When I say gibberish, I mean, the words have no linguistic roots whatsoever. Even in Ido or Esperanto, you can see roots (i.e. 'ben' always somehow means good in both of them, 'libr' for book, ect.). Here, they have no roots at all - it's just random syllables...at least, in theory.
Like, the word for 'sex' is 'artus', officially has no rhyme or reason to it, just like all the original languages waaaaaaaaaay back, like even before Latin type things - as there was no language period before that point, the words would be random syllables.
Unofficially, 'artus', is 'sutra' backwards.
It gets even more abstract, how 'to read' (zhurte) originates from me scrambling 'treasure'.
On the flipside, I do also have words which really don't have any rhyme or reason. 'Doctor' - 'shapoc' - just felt nice rolling off my tongue at the time, so it stuck. ^_^
That's what I mean by gibberish.
As for persons, the basics are 1st, 2nd, and 3rd. Now, they each usually have plural forms, and many languages include versions for addressing by gender and formality and whatnot. But it all boils down to those three.
A few have a 4th - usually meaning, 'no person' in singular form (lack of subject/passive voice), and meaning the world at large (lack of particular subject) in plural.
I have the basic first three, singular and plural, then I added a 4th...and then a 5th. In most languages (even English), third person is used to refer to objects, but in Anyael, it will only be towards people and animals (and occasionally used as a form of deference to an object, like calling a ship 'she', but that's another can of worms all together) - the 5th person will be used to refer to objects.
So, there we have the persons.
As for gender - well, this is in the future, and gender is weird now as it is, so in the future, well...:D There's male, and there's female, as most of the human population does happen to fall into one of those. There's "extra gender", meaning any specific gender that happens to fall outside male/female (i.e. third gender, both gender, specifically without gender, ect.). And then there's neutral gender - regardless of what the actual gender of the person is, you are not identifying them as such.
:D
As for what I mean by learning...well, because of the design of the language, you kind of need to know another language first. Anyael has no intrinsic subject-object-verb order, and verb tenses/conjugation is fluidic, which means there are multiple ways it can be done - but there's no set 'standard' or intrinsic system. How you do it is based on what your native language is.
But on the flipside, because it's all encompassing and so fluidic, you end up learning all the ways it can be spoken, even if you ultimately only use one system.
Like, nouns - many languages have declension (like Latin, German, Russian, ect.), many do not (English, Chinese, Spanish...). Because of the system of articles and case in Anyael, you can either 'decline' nouns, or not. A native Russian speaker will use it like that, a native English speaker will go the other way, with non-declined nouns. But because the English speaker learned about declension in Anyael, even though they don't use it in either of their languages, when they try and learn Russian, the Russian noun system will be easier for them to grasp.
Also, Anyael is so international in the future that is the default translation language - everything that is translated, i.e. a movie, has only the native and Anyael - they don't bother with anything else. :D
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I wonder if there are any language communities...like, general language...
Anywho...
When I say gibberish, I mean, the words have no linguistic roots whatsoever. Even in Ido or Esperanto, you can see roots (i.e. 'ben' always somehow means good in both of them, 'libr' for book, ect.). Here, they have no roots at all - it's just random syllables...at least, in theory.
Like, the word for 'sex' is 'artus', officially has no rhyme or reason to it, just like all the original languages waaaaaaaaaay back, like even before Latin type things - as there was no language period before that point, the words would be random syllables.
Unofficially, 'artus', is 'sutra' backwards.
It gets even more abstract, how 'to read' (zhurte) originates from me scrambling 'treasure'.
On the flipside, I do also have words which really don't have any rhyme or reason. 'Doctor' - 'shapoc' - just felt nice rolling off my tongue at the time, so it stuck. ^_^
That's what I mean by gibberish.
As for persons, the basics are 1st, 2nd, and 3rd. Now, they each usually have plural forms, and many languages include versions for addressing by gender and formality and whatnot. But it all boils down to those three.
A few have a 4th - usually meaning, 'no person' in singular form (lack of subject/passive voice), and meaning the world at large (lack of particular subject) in plural.
I have the basic first three, singular and plural, then I added a 4th...and then a 5th. In most languages (even English), third person is used to refer to objects, but in Anyael, it will only be towards people and animals (and occasionally used as a form of deference to an object, like calling a ship 'she', but that's another can of worms all together) - the 5th person will be used to refer to objects.
So, there we have the persons.
As for gender - well, this is in the future, and gender is weird now as it is, so in the future, well...:D There's male, and there's female, as most of the human population does happen to fall into one of those. There's "extra gender", meaning any specific gender that happens to fall outside male/female (i.e. third gender, both gender, specifically without gender, ect.). And then there's neutral gender - regardless of what the actual gender of the person is, you are not identifying them as such.
:D
As for what I mean by learning...well, because of the design of the language, you kind of need to know another language first. Anyael has no intrinsic subject-object-verb order, and verb tenses/conjugation is fluidic, which means there are multiple ways it can be done - but there's no set 'standard' or intrinsic system. How you do it is based on what your native language is.
But on the flipside, because it's all encompassing and so fluidic, you end up learning all the ways it can be spoken, even if you ultimately only use one system.
Like, nouns - many languages have declension (like Latin, German, Russian, ect.), many do not (English, Chinese, Spanish...). Because of the system of articles and case in Anyael, you can either 'decline' nouns, or not. A native Russian speaker will use it like that, a native English speaker will go the other way, with non-declined nouns. But because the English speaker learned about declension in Anyael, even though they don't use it in either of their languages, when they try and learn Russian, the Russian noun system will be easier for them to grasp.
Also, Anyael is so international in the future that is the default translation language - everything that is translated, i.e. a movie, has only the native and Anyael - they don't bother with anything else. :D