Ditronó

[Levike]

Clever, though I have to say I can't recognize any letters. Either you've managed to modify them very well or your handwriting would guarantee you a job as a doctor.

My hand-writing was simply ugly.

Like the letter "a" looked exactly like the number "2" and "t" looked exactly like a capital "L".



If you look at the alphabet, you can see that the letter "t" is a "L" with a 90 degree turn.
Or I used to write the "m" and "n" as simply one lines, exactly like in Ditronian now.

On the stem. -i is the marker of the past tense, so if the stem already has "i", it just merges with the past tense: mietin + i = mietin, soin + i = soin and so on vs. olen + i = olin.

Confusion ensured.

Could it be so because O is a rounded vowel? But then you should also add U...
Does it work that way in Hungarian too?

Makes sense. "út" is easier than "ut".

I think Hungarian also follows this pattern to some extent.

I like your idea about the second/minute/hour etc. But how about phrases like "60 hours and 60 minutes"? Or "seven weeks"?

You simply say "seven sevens".
Like in Hungarian, hét means both "seven" and "week" and we would say "hét hét".

So if it works in a real language then it's okay.

And in Hungarian minute is perc and second is másodperc, so literally "secondary minute".
Same in Greek: λεπτό (lepto) = minute and δευτερόλεπτο (defterolepto) = second.

[Levike]

Some new words.

davdó - body ( David's statue by Michelangelo )
vensmiló - arm ( Venus de Milo, the armless statue )
monó - head ( Moai head-statues on the Easter island )
goghó - ear ( Ear of Van Gogh )
rapzeló - hair ( Rapunzel )
etó - finger ( E.T.'s red finger )

gurer - expert ( guru )

upsó - accident ( Ouuupps )
apló - art ( Appolo )
odpó - destiny ( Oedipus was predestined to kill his father and marry his mother, which he did)
delfó - future ( Oracle of Delphi )
karmó - revenge ( Karma )
medzó - statue ( Medusa )
gandó - peace ( Mahatma Gandhi )
igzó - shower ( Iguazu Waterfalls )
aró - war ( Ares - God of War )

gizós - old ( Pyramid of Giza )
tabós - prohibited ( Taboo )

vrigom - to fly ( Wright brothers )
sedom - to replace ( 'sed' command in Linux )
istótlom - to understand ( Aristotle )
sisfom - to repeat ( Sisyphus had to roll a boulder up hill and watch it fall, over and over again)

[Levike]

Okay, so again the problem of reflexive verbs.

I simply don't know how to express things like "She washes herself".

1. There are the Romance languages which simply say "I wash me", "You wash you",
and then the "se" thing for 3rd person.
2. There's English or Greek which put the word "self", so "I wash myself" or "eafto mou".
3. And then we have the Slavic ones that have one word like "se" which they put all over the place.
4. Or there's the better option of putting a prefix like "auto", like in to "auto-destroy".

íme virplom mesti - I wash me
íve virplóv vesti - You wash you
íte virplót ? - She washes ?

[Koko]

In Isyan, the definite article suffix is added on pronouns to indicate reflexiveness. This can be placed on either the nominative or oblique form(s).

Simple: Sen daryna.— I hit myself.
Emphatic: San daryna.— It is me who is me/myself.

Similarly, "Pen/poesen darynio" (the first option is specifically reflexive) means "(S)he hits her-/himself." You could employ a similar structure.

Or why not just do as the Slavic languages?

[Dormouse559]

4. Or there's the better option of putting a prefix like "auto", like in to "auto-destroy".

Why is this better?

[Levike]

4. Or there's the better option of putting a prefix like "auto", like in to "auto-destroy".

Why is this better?

I think it's more simple to understand as a concept.

Plus, I think most languages do this from time to time.
Like in English you put "self" in front of some verbs or adjectives.

I'll probably do something similar. Either that or I'll take the Slavic version.

[Levike]

Fixed.

The reflexive form of a verb is simply going to be formed by adding "óta" to the front.
Or after the verb.

It comes from the word "auto", so you could say it has Greek origins.

Ótavirplót - It cleans itself.

Lerdót óta. - He is drawing himself.

Zelgóv ja óta! - Protect yourself!

[voron]

How is the reflexivity expressed in Hungarian?

[Levike]

How is the reflexivity expressed in Hungarian?

In Hungarian reflexive verbs get different endings like: ödik, özik, ódik, ozik, etc.
Which also change according to person, number and tense.

mos - he washes
mosakszik - he washes himself

kapcsol - he connects (something to something)
kapcsolódik - it connects itself

Or here's a full table:

védek	I protect	védekezem	I protect myself
védsz	you protect	védekezel	you protect yourself
véd	he protects	védekezik	he protects himself
védünk	we protect	védekezünk	we protect ourselves
védtek	you protect	védekeztek	you protect yourselves
védnek	they protect	védekeznek	they protect themselves