Höuldar
This is my old project of artificial language. It was called Höuldar, the word means “Holy-Language-Gift”.
The word and the sense were created on the basis of the English words “holy”, “soul”, Sanskrit name of their alphabet - Devanagari - the Gift of Gods, and Russian word “dar” - gift.
There were two main phrases: Hja tejo lajarajn and Hjo teja lajorojn. Both of them mean “I love you”. But instead of English and many other languages my language has special forms of all words depending on the genders of those who speak and those who are spoken of. I’ve made it in order to mark the energetic and aesthetic difference between men and women. Language has all three gender forms.
The first phrase in this sample is made by a woman who speaks to a man, and the second is a man’s form.
The letter “j” sounds as Finnish “j” or like “I” in the word “coin”. The stress falls as in the Finnish language also, on the first syllable.
So, I think that you may agree that womanlike form sounds “better” than male one.
Also this language has lots of pronouns depending on gender again. Like: Hja (I, Me - feminine form), Hjo (masciline) and Hje - when we don’t know the gender of speaking person.
Thente - neutral form of they (all letters sound, th sounds as in the word “underneath”), thante - feminine, and thonte - masculine.
Verbs and other words conjugate depending on gender and number.
E.g. Thente lajerenne - They (neutral) love (neutral, plural)
Thante lajaranna - they (feminine) love (feminine, plural).
Thus, usual dialogue looks like this:
He: Allor! (greetings!) Hjo osho sharo be teja lajorojn (I want {to} tell that {I} love you, reverse order of two last words in fact)
She: Aihh?! (Oh) Hja tejo lajarajn’ta! (I love you then/too).
Note that the verb for “love” has a lot of changes except the first syllable, simply because this verb has initially female nature.
The language doesn’t have irregular forms, except some occasional words, but it’s more synthetic rather than analytic. The lexicon is based mostly on the Welsh language with many additions and general energy is inspired by Finnish and Quenya.
So, what can you tell?
The word and the sense were created on the basis of the English words “holy”, “soul”, Sanskrit name of their alphabet - Devanagari - the Gift of Gods, and Russian word “dar” - gift.
There were two main phrases: Hja tejo lajarajn and Hjo teja lajorojn. Both of them mean “I love you”. But instead of English and many other languages my language has special forms of all words depending on the genders of those who speak and those who are spoken of. I’ve made it in order to mark the energetic and aesthetic difference between men and women. Language has all three gender forms.
The first phrase in this sample is made by a woman who speaks to a man, and the second is a man’s form.
The letter “j” sounds as Finnish “j” or like “I” in the word “coin”. The stress falls as in the Finnish language also, on the first syllable.
So, I think that you may agree that womanlike form sounds “better” than male one.
Also this language has lots of pronouns depending on gender again. Like: Hja (I, Me - feminine form), Hjo (masciline) and Hje - when we don’t know the gender of speaking person.
Thente - neutral form of they (all letters sound, th sounds as in the word “underneath”), thante - feminine, and thonte - masculine.
Verbs and other words conjugate depending on gender and number.
E.g. Thente lajerenne - They (neutral) love (neutral, plural)
Thante lajaranna - they (feminine) love (feminine, plural).
Thus, usual dialogue looks like this:
He: Allor! (greetings!) Hjo osho sharo be teja lajorojn (I want {to} tell that {I} love you, reverse order of two last words in fact)
She: Aihh?! (Oh) Hja tejo lajarajn’ta! (I love you then/too).
Note that the verb for “love” has a lot of changes except the first syllable, simply because this verb has initially female nature.
The language doesn’t have irregular forms, except some occasional words, but it’s more synthetic rather than analytic. The lexicon is based mostly on the Welsh language with many additions and general energy is inspired by Finnish and Quenya.
So, what can you tell?