u/Akangka

How does your language form caveman speech.

How does your language form caveman speech.

I'm curious how your language forms a register used to imitate a caveman speech or in TvTropes lingo Hulk Speak. Let's start with my conlang Gallecian.

One of the obvious ones are the lack of declension. All nouns take the nominative singular version, and adjective takes the weak masculine singular (note that weak declension refers to strong declension in other Germanic languages). Verbs also take either the infinitive -an, or the imperative -0, depending mostly on style and not the actual functionality.

Weirdly enough, words are ordered in SVO manner, despite Gallecian being usually an OVS language. Maybe this is influenced by the surrounding languages and its creole languages. Pronouns are now obligatory, just like how other pro-drop languages immitates caveman speech.

>Grug hetada. Mammoth nanohantsia. Mimmammoth micilani
Grug call-PSVL. Mammoth 3SG.M-PROG-hunt-1SG. 1SG-mammoth big-COP-3SG
Ic Grug. Ic hantsian mammoth. Ic mammoth micil
1SG COP Grug. 1SG hunt mammoth. 1SG mammoth big
I'm grug. I'm hunting mammoth. My mammoth is big.

u/Akangka — 6 days ago