LotM - Jun 15: Faljüdax
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Happy June! Faljüdax is spoken by a bunch of humanoid reptiles from another planet, and recently, CWSP too. With an inviting phonology and extreme noun-heading morphology, Faljüdax is alien and homewordly.
This public article was written by [Deactivated User], and last updated on 24 Jun 2015, 01:13.
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[top]Faljüdax
The brain child of Marris Ues, Faljüdax (known natively as Pyayk Faljüdax) is an a priori language spoken by a horde of space-faring reptilian aliens. Initially an attempt to Finnicize (make Finnish? Fennosize? hmmm...) an existing language (
Metarxi), Faljüdax has taken hold as its own entity as the most widely-spoken language of the Fals' homeworld.[top]Phonology
Despite being spoken by a bunch of space lizards, Faljüdax has a familiar quality to its phonology that makes completely pronounceable by humans. The usual repertoire of stops makes their appearance /p t k b d g/, plus a buddy from the uvular side of the tongue /q/. /θ/ and /ʝ/ round out the fricatives as less-common phones. Neither of these has a respective voiced/voiceless counterpart. Interestingly, /ʋ/ and /v/ are distinguished (unfortunately for me, since I can't pronounce [ʋ]).
The vowels are a bit odder, at least in respect to gaps in the system. All vowels come in long-short pairs (except for /e/ and /a/), giving us: /y(:) u(:) ɪ(:) e o(:) ɛ(:) ɔ(:) a ɑ(:)/. I find it rather interesting that there is no /i/ but there is /ɪ/, including a length distinction.
Also worth mention is that the letter <j> doesn't represent just /j/, but [je].
[top]Morphology
Faljüdax has fun with morphology. As opposed to declension in nouns, it employs a slew of postpositions that convey both semantic and grammatical functions. (check them all out here). Faljüdax is exceptionally right-branching when it comes to nominal morphology: there are postpositions, plus nouns are followed by genitive constructions, adjectives, determiners, numerals, etc. Marris was kind enough to provide the following as an example of its right-branching-ness:
Seitemot siy kefsir taalurim.
girl-three that lonely quite-3PLUnknown code
Those three girls are quite lonely.
In this example we can also see that adjectives agree in number and person.
Verbs are also interesting - there are four tenses: past, present, future, and immediate future (yet no immediate past!), and most fun of all, have polypersonal agreement! Verbs also conjugate for plenty of moods, such as necessitative and debitive (exotic!).
[top]More on Faljüdax
Craving more reptilian aliens? If you're feeling tables, check out the verbal paradigm here.
[top]A Note on LotM
Got suggestions for how the next LotM should be written? See something in Faljüdax that wasn't covered and you wish it had been? Hate my guts and want to tell me? Feel free to shoot me (argyle) a PM with your thoughts, suggestions, and hate mail. Also feel free to drop by the LotM clan if you have other feedback, want to join in the voting process, or nominate a language!
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