Since we have a larger pronoun table than English, how about we do ‘p’, ‘i’, and ‘a’ for neither, nonhuman, and inanimate and ‘g’, ʊ, and ɑ for male, female, and unknown?
that looks good
Can you send me a sound board/Series of videos that explains how these symbols are pronounced i have no idea if that sounds good or not
International phonetic alphabet
Edit: assuming it’s the ipa, I mean those are all ipa symbols, but what aren’t? It could be like some other system but that seems highly unlikely
The ʊ is the ‘oo’ in book, and the ɑ is like a deeper version of the ‘o’ in mom
The ‘i’ is the ‘ee’ in sheep, and the ‘a’ is the ‘o’ in mom
Those are the best non-ipa approximations I can make. I would recommend looking up ipa with sound.
The main problem I see with that is there is a few matches on the table that have two vowels (hardish to pronounce[iu{nonhuman female}]) and even some that are two constants (almost impossible[gp{neither male}])
Oh, I didn’t mean to imply that’s how those should be used, my bad. I meant that male pronouns should use ‘g’ for all of its variations (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 1st plural, 2nd plural, 3rd plural) I did write it a little confusing, sorry about that!
As a second thought looking at the chart maybe non human neither and inanimate might go better if it was a sub class of the male female and neither chart instead of their own unique pronouns for simplicity’s sake
What do you mean? I’m kinda confused
It really doesn’t matter all that much but I was thinking instead of having a two way chart with each block getting two modifications gender or species/tencd it would get three (species+gender+tense)
Just linking it here coz the last reply with it was quite a while ago and takes time to get to.
Alright, let me make that table, ill edit this reply with it when im done
I really do want to be part of this project more (considering it was conceived by me)i just keep forgetting to go onto these forums
sorrys
colors, how will they work?
colors? like the naming system of colors? i feel like we should try to finish up these pronouns and this **** so we can see how the language looks like first.
i see that is a good idea
you’re welcome if you want to pop a few ideas in here for the pronouns if you want though, the more peps we got the better and if we end up with two systems we can take a vote on witch one is better.
i feel like having pronouns for unknown and neither is a overcomplicating thing, in english we have pronouns that can be used for both and its they/them.
I feel like that it’s something a more alien and complex civilization would develop after achieving space fairing
so if they found sentient lifeforms then they could find appropriate means of referring to them