Miscellaneous

Usually, the word order is VSO, and it’s SVO after an “if sentence”: “if did I it, then I did it.”

In sentences where the subject and object are the same, it’s verb last.

In sentences that start with “I just” or “I have”, the adverb joins with the subject, turning it into Yoda talk in English.

Ão contractions

Ão has its own forms of “GROUP’all,” “PERSON’ll”, and NOUN/VERBn’t which will all be explained here.

The y’all

You can address a group of people by adding an “ee” to the end of a word. (i.e the “we” in “Õõ” or the “us” in “Ãã” can turn into “w’all” by turning it into “Ããee” or “Õõee”.)

The you’ll

A group of people or one person “will” do something after you add an oE to the end of a word (i.e. you can say “ÃoE” which basically means “I will”.)

The don’t

When uncapitalizing (or capitalizing) the second letter of a word, you negate it*. (i.e the following sentence “aAOÕÃo,” which translates to “I speakn’t Ão” literally.

*if you want to negate a word with less than two letters, add the negatory word specified in the lex after said word.

The number system I employ.

Ão counts in base 4.

0 = o

1 = a

2 = aa

3 = e

4 = oea

From 4 to the next 4, it’s “oea+number”

From then on, it’s “amount of times oea has been counted + oea + number”

From “oeaoeae” onward, it’s “oeaoeaoea + number”

Any number greater than (decimal) 2 will have an infix; the number will be spoken (or written/typed) before the plural suffix. If the number is (again, decimal) 2 or lower, the number will be given as a suffix at the end of the word.

Can’t be simpler.

The “did”s and events alike:

Basically, sentences like “Did you do it” or “Where did you go”

When used in question to describe a second person’s event, such as “did you do it?”, you would shorten it to “do you it?” because of the word order. You’d get something like “]ÕAAo[Eo?”

The “if” events

When making a sentence constructing an “if” event, add “eee” after the starting letter of the subject, so you’d get something like this: “]eO[Eeeeoẽ” literally translates to “wasn’t iift you,” which means “if it wasn’t you.”

For an emphasis on an adjective (or stressing of a verb), duplicate the word in question (big big = very big, stop stop = seriously stop) You can add a “so at the start of the string to emphasize it even more (so big big)

If a company, non-Ão name or even a language name I didn’t specify, you may say it in its original pronunciation, but still refer to using the /j/ whenever the opportunity strikes.

What has changed from before:

• removed the fingersnap consonant
• added ã, ẽ, and õ consonants
• changed the language name from A-aaaAaAAAa-o to Ão
• replaced – and + with ] and [
• word order understood better
• /ɐ/ in “a” changed to /a/
• /ɑ/ in “o” changed to /o̞/
• “jokelang” is slightly closer to “artlang” now
• “oeoe” no longer means “I am a mass murderer and you should run, like, right now.”

There are no palindromes greater than four letters.

There are also no words greater than 24 characters long.

Orthography of Ão

In Ão, we can add a /j/ to, or capitalize a certain segment of a word to alter it.

We’ll use the Ão word for get, “eAoA”

Leaving the starting letter (the “e” in this case”) uncapitalized and adding a /j/ consonant will make it temporary.

So now ẽAoA means “borrow”

Capitalizing the starter letter will change the meaning or intensify the word. “EAoA” becomes “take.”

In the case of the starting letter already capitalized, a /j/ accent may be added to further intensify it.

The word “AÃeAOo,” meaning “disease”, will turn into “plague” by replacing the initial A with a Ã.

In the temporal system in this language, we may change the pitch to change its timing.

If just one word has a decrease of pitch and then reverts back to normal (]eAoÃ[,) the word “inherit” becomes “inherited.”

If the word has a higher pitch than the rest ([eAoÃ],) “inherit” becomes “will inherit”

If the first and last letters of a problem word (eg, AÃeAOo -> oÃeAOA) are swapped, the new word is its solution/opposite (disease -> cure)

You can turn a word in to its opposite in a similar function to turning a problem into a solution. Here you’d add accents to the swapped letters (if one or more of the swapped letters are already accented, remove the accent.”

Present tense has no pitch changes.

Associating verb words with persons:

Past tense: If left be, it’s 3rd person male, or 3rd person neutral.. If a Õ is added to the end of the word (before past tense ends) it’s a 3rd person female. If a à is added to the start of the word, it is first person. If it starts with ÃÃ, it is first persons (we, us) If the word starts with Õ, it refers to second person.                                                              

Future: If left be, it’s 1st person, or 1st persons. If a Õ is added to the end of the word, it is 3rd person (gender neutral). If a õ is added to the end of the word, it is 2nd person/s

Present simple correlates with the subject, and as such there is no need to alter it.

Present continuous is like present simple, however you have to add “eoẽẽ” as a suffix to both subject and verb.

Conjugating a noun into a verb or vice versa can be done when adding/removing a /j/ + the last letter to the start of the word and removing the last letter (eg. ÃÃeAOo – > õÃÃeAO; plague (illness) – > plague (harass/cause trouble)

Turning a singular noun into a plural noun is done by elongating the last “syllable” by duplicating the last letter (if the last letter has an accent, add the unaccented version of the corresponding letter)

By adding an eoeo as a suffix onto a verb from any tense, it turns it into a perfect tense.

Making an adjective can be done by turning a verb into past tense ([])

Adding an adjective to a word is to be done by adding the body of the subject/object + the aforementioned adjective (i.e: the words “ẼẼÃ, ẼÃẽ” would both work for “you are good,” depending on the speaker’s state, and as a description (the green apple,) adjectives are placed before the noun.

Adverbs are placed before adjectives, but after verbs.

Giving possession to nouns:

Replacing the last letter of a noun with its accented counterpart will make that noun belong to a singular gender-neutral 3rd person (i.e oãoOoee “hands” turns into oãoOoeẽ “someone’s/its hands”)

For any specified noun, the possessed item will have the suffix “of (such and such.)”

Removing the last letter (or the last two letters if plural, where you then follow the same procedure just with the previous letter.) of a noun makes it belong to the 1st person (e.g oãoOoee “hands” turns into oãoOoo “my hands”)

2nd person possessive nouns are relatively straightforward, as you just add a ẽ to the end of your word. (i.e oãoOoee to oãoOoeeẽ “your hands”)

If you want to make an adjective based on multiple nouns:

Turn the words you want to make into an adjective past tense, and add the first letter of the first word to the last letter of the last word (don’t replace them!) “]OaaOÕaAOaõO[” is derived of the words from “cotton” and “eye”, meshing them together makes “cotton-eyed.” Turning one noun into an adjective simply involves turning it past tense.

Infinitive “to”:

To do a verb is to add a Õ to the start of the word and replacing the last letter with “a.” (if the last letter already ends with “a,” no need to change it). There is one exception to this, and that is “ẽ̃,” “to be.”

Participle verbs are made like infinitive verbs and then adding past tense.

Ão phonology

Its phonology is simple, with very little vowels:

a ( /a/ )

e (/ɛ/ )

and o (/o̞/, Mid back rounded vowel.)

(There is also a glottal stop / ʔ / which is used only in the word “to be”)

And it only has one consonant.

/j/

While it isn’t used specifically like that,* the point is you add a tilde accent to a vowel to get:

ã turns /a/ into /ja/

ẽ turns /ɛ/ into /jɛ/

and õ turns /o̞/ into /jo̞/

Every capital letter in the language becomes louder than its uncapped relative. In the word “Ão” for example, you say the “Ô louder than you would have said the “o”. This counts for every letter. If it were “ãO” you would have said the “O” louder.

You would also come across a time where you have to alter your pitch when speaking Ão. This is an important part of the phonology.

Opening a bracket ( [ ) is the prompt for you to increase the pitch. Don’t increase it by too high, but enough to make it noticeable,

while closing a bracket ( ] ) would be telling you to decrease the pitch. Again, not too much, but noticeable.

*except for the word for “to be” which is ẽ̃ (pronounced jejʔ)

An introduction to an updated language.

About two years ago, I made a language, which was bad. I’m gonna try to make it so that it’s slightly less bad.

It was a language called “A-aaaAaAAAa-o.”

Here was its graph:

The new language will have little to none of these, besides the orthography/phonology which I will alter slightly.

So this is an introduction to…

Ão, the loud language.

As you may have noticed, there’s a new letter that I haven’t had in my previous iteration.

This will be explained later.

Here’s the information you’ll need, and chances are I’ll add more later:

Its phonology

Its orthography

Lexicon ordered by English Glossing

Miscellaneous

If you want to insult me directly on poor linguistics, please refer to:

Reddit: /u/jahdhjksasthmor
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