Ditronó

[Levike]

So I didn't really do many on my conlang.
But after watching Game of Thrones and hearing their Valyrian conlang I got a wanderlust for this.

what	who	how many	where	when	why
ho / lego ho	intler ho	? ho	tavró ho	kliko ho	próma ho / próma lego ho

I changed the question words.
But the one for "how many" is still unknown, because I didn't find a word for "number".

I decided to keep the long o /o:/,
but I don't know when to use it, since a want some rules otherwise I'll forget it.
Currently I put it whenever it follows 2 or more consonants.

Ex:
tavró = land /tavro:/
lanstró = family /lanstro:/
zestróm = I have /zestro:m/

[Levike]

Is [ts] considered a single sound or the combination of two?

[Koko]

Depends. With a double inverted breve, it's more specifically one consonant. Without it, at least in the case of English, it can be either depending on the speaker or it's placement.

[Levike]

I deleted the gender for most of the adjectives to make it sound more normal thus less vowel-ish.

So for example likus/likas/likes/likos -> liks
But I still kept it where it makes pronunciation easier: amprus/ampras/ampres/ampros

And I included [ts] amongst the accepted sounds.

Problem 1: Is thus the opposite of because?
I still don't have a word for these in Ditronian and I'm not sure how to create them.

Problem 2: I don't know how to make the plural for pronouns in Acc, Dat, Gen and Voc.
So which sound better: metsti, metmu, metma, methe or mestit, memut, memat or mehet?

[Koko]

ampros could become ampers.

Solution 1: thus is similar to "therefore." So no, not the opposite of because.

Solution 2: I like mestit, metmu, metma, and mehet. Better to my ears, especially mestit: metsti sounds weird.

[Levike]

ampros could become ampers.

The adjective itself is ampr- to which I added the gender endings -us/as/es/os.

That could be a solution.
But for the sake of simplicity I won't move letters around 'cause I won't be able to keep track of it.

And it's more interesting this way: some adjectives will have gender while others won't.

Solution 2: I like mestit, metmu, metma, and mehet. Better to my ears, especially mestit: metsti sounds weird.

Done then, I'll put the case ending first and then the plural one.

Solution 1: thus is similar to "therefore." So no, not the opposite of because.

Too bad.

But, instead of having separate words for because and therefore,
could I build them this way:

because = the cause being that
therefore = the result being that

[Koko]

That could work (that last thing), but "therefore" isn't always announcing the result; just as "because" doesn't always announce the cause.

[Levike]

I'm dropping the current numbers
to make new ones from logos/flags/coat of arms/other stuff that remind me of those numbers.

Finally completed.

Numbers	Ditronian	Source
0	omkró	Greek Omicron
1	ló	the letter "l" looks like 1
2	espó	Spanish coat of arms has 2 columns
3	mero	Mercedes logo's circle is devide into 3 parts
4	avdó	Audi's 4 circles
5	olgó	Olympic Games
6	davdó	David's star has 6 edges
7	erdló	Erdély = Transylvania = Seven Castles
8	mergó	3+5 => meró+olgó
9	memró	3*3 => mero*mero

[Levike]

Finally I decided to make a definite article:
I'll attach it to the end so it'll resemble Romanian.

	Basic	With article
Masculine	-ur	-urg
Feminine	-ar	-arg
Neutre	-or	-org
Inanimate	-o	-og

And also making these words:

somebody	somewhere	sometime
ajló intler	ajló tavró	ajló kikló

anybody	anywhere	anytime
aja intler	aja tavró	aja kikló

What I don't know is if these ajló/aja words should function as adjectives or not.
Because if yes then I should put some kind of -s ending.

[Koko]

I think it'll be a good idea to leave ajló/aja. They look and sound nice as they are.

[Levike]

Okay, I'm keeping them without special endings.

Just realised that ajló is gramatically wrong, fixing it.

somebody	somewhere	sometime
kraja intler	kraja tavró	kraja kikló

Also creating these, by adding the word for zero.

nobody	nowhere	never
omkró intler	omkró tavró	omkró kikló

[Levike]

masculine	-ur
feminine	-if
neutre	-er
inanimate	-o

Since I kind of like Greek and I hear it all the time
I ended up liking that its feminine words end in -I.

So I'm changing the Ditronian noun ending to -if.
The f is from the Romanian femeie,
which means woman.

Ex: intlif = woman

[Levike]

Ditronian is going to have words that express feelings just like we use emoticons in written language.

Some of them:

Ahó - , ,
Nó - , ,
Honó - , ,
Hó - ,
Anó-

Borskómut aja legósti ló, ahó!
( Let's go and drink something! )

If these things actually existed, what would their name be? Or would they be categorised as some weird interjections?

[Dormouse559]

These sound a lot like discourse particles to me. Conlangery made an episode about them a couple years ago. They start getting into the topic at about 5:00.

[Levike]

Made names for every country.

Just add the internet domain to the word tavró which means land.

Examples:
(ro) Rotavró = Romania
(hu) Hutavró = Hungary
(pl) Plotavró = Poland
(ru) Rutavró = Russia
(us) Ustavró = United States
(de) Detavró = Germany
(en) Entavró = England

Plotavró jar Hutavró zestrótut prutósti ima rolkó
Poland and Hungary once had a common border.

[Dormouse559]

What happens with country codes like jp, cz and tt?

[Levike]

What happens with country codes like jp, cz and tt?

Good question indeed.

Japtavró = Japan (Adding a vowel to facilitate pronunciation)

Tsetavró = Czech Republic (Because Ditronian doesn't even have the letter "c")

tt. - Let's forget about them.

[Levike]

I googled Extremes of Europe and found a couple of maps.
So I finally got an idea how to name the cardinal directions.

North = Rejkó ( Reykjavik is the northernmost capital of Europe )

South = Gavdó ( Island of Gaudos in Greece is the southernmost point )

West = Lisbó ( Lisbon is the westernmost capital of Europe, kind of )

East = ???

I don't really know after what to name the East, any good ideas?

[Kshaard]

Ural mountains?

[Levike]

Ural mountains?

Good idea! Urló shall it be.

North = Rejkó
South = Gavdó
West = Lisbó
East = Urló

Also added new words with geographical etymology:

up/high = Ebró ( Ebros mountain in Georgia )
down/low = Turdó ( Turda is a beautiful cave in Transylvania )
around = Karpta ( I live surrounded by the Carpathians )
through = Gibra ( Gibraltar strait )