Tetengu; apparently unique structure?
Hi! I was wondering if folks could help me with a little organizational thing.
I know there's a bunch of programs to handle custom alphabets, and even a couple that handle abugida's. But my conlang works differently to most other languages I know of and I can't find anything that really handles it in app form. I've been stuck writing on paper, scanning in and saving images, with a spreadsheet tracking the morphemes.
So the language works as follows;
Every word is made of at least 2* morphemes: Noun, and Verb(and a tense sound, which is a click consonant). The word can also have "noun modifiers"(mostly adjectives), and "verb modifiers"(mostly adverbs).
So you could express a word as: Noun_(adj)_t_Verb_(adv)
An example 'word' is: jeʃaziǂjoʃknoç
Which is (first person pronoun)_(is drunk)_(present)_(to drink)_(many);
"I, drunk, am in the state of drinking many"
"I'm very drunk"
The slots themselves carry some semantic information. So the morpheme's themselves adjust based on the slot they're in.
The word "kewkew‼kew" is (Tree)_(Big)_(Future)_(Protect); "The big tree will protect".
So if I wanted an app to handle this, I'd need to be able to list a morpheme as having those general meanings for each slot.
As for the actual conscript. Attached is the drunk example, and a 'quadrant' thing showing the "word shape"(?)
I asked elsewhere for suggestions on a program to handle this(On Linux) and was told the only one anyone could think of is PolyGlot(which is very obtuse/unintuitive to me, but I'm trying)
Mostly just wanted to share this again to others who might enjoy!
