Draft:Qua
| Qua | |
|---|---|
| Kwa | |
| languant Qua | |
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| Pronunciation | /kwa/ |
| Created by | Biourey Langua |
| Date | December 18th, 2023 |
| Users | 1 (?) (2023) |
| Purpose | Constructed language
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Early form | Proto-Qua
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| Latin script | |
| Sources | Romance languages; Spanish, Italian, Catalan, French, Portuguese: IALs; Esperanto, Interlingua |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
Qua is one of the first eurocentric auxlangs to say that they are actually eurocentric, mainly towards Romance languages.
Phonology
Consonants
| Labial | Coronal | Dorsal | Laryngeal | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
Nasal
|
m | n
|
ɲ | ||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t
|
d
|
k | ɡ | ʔ | ||||||
Affricate
|
ts | t̠ʃ | d̠ʒ | ||||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | s | ʃ | ʒ | x | h | ||||||
| Approximant | (w) | l
|
j | (w) | |||||||||
| Trill | r
|
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Vowels
| Front | Back | |
|---|---|---|
| Close | i | u |
| Close-mid | e | o |
| Open-mid | ɛ | |
| Open | a | ä |
Orthography
| Number | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Upper case
|
A | Ä | B | C | Ĉ | D | E | Ë | F | G | Ĝ | GN | H | Ĥ | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | Œ | P | QU | R | S | Ŝ | T | U | V | W | Y | Z |
Lower case
|
a | ä | b | c | ĉ | d | e | ë | f | g | ĝ | gn | h | ĥ | i | j | k | l | m | n | o | œ | p | qu | r | s | ŝ | t | u | v | w | y | z |
| IPA phoneme | a | ä | b | t͡s | t͡ʃ | d
|
e | ɛ | f | ɡ | d͡ʒ | ɲ | h | x | i | ʒ | k | l
|
m | n
|
o | y | p | kw | r
|
s | ʃ | t
|
u | v | w | j | s |
<ä> is pronounced like English's bra.
<c> is pronounced like German's Zett.
<ĉ> is pronounced like Spanish's leche.
<đ> is pronounced like English's lads.
<ë> is pronounced like Portuguese's tempo.
<ĝ> is pronounced like French's adjonction.
<gn> is pronounced like English's canyon.
<ĥ> is pronounced like German's Bach.
<j> is pronounced like English's pleasure.
<œ> is pronounced like French's lune.
<qu> is pronounced like English's queen.
<ŝ> is pronounced like French's chien.
<y> is pronounced like English's yes.
Grammar
There's a lot of rules for grammar in Qua.
Definite article
If the sound preceding it is an oral vowel, it is al.
take al aqua, /al akwa/ the water.
If the sound preceding it is a nasal vowel, it is el.
take el äntidant, /el ãidã/ the help.
If the sound preceding it is an oral consonant, it is lante. /lãte/
take lante humana, /lãte humana/ the human.
If the sound preceding it is a nasal consonant, it is lan.
take lan nœĉa, /lan nyt͡ʃa/ the night.
Indefinite article
If the sound preceding it is a consonant, it is una.
take una peizonca, /una peisõt͡sa/ a fish.
If the sound preceding it is a vowel, it is un
take un aziba /un ast͡sːiba/, a bean.
Parts of Speech suffixes
Qua uses suffixes for most parts of speech.
| Nouns | Adjectives | Adverbs |
|---|---|---|
| -a (azcziba) | -o (grando) | -or |
| -ant /ã/ (äntidant) | -ont /õ/ (ebriont) | -orse /õ.se/ |
| -anc /ãt͡s/ | -onc /õt͡s/ (bonnonc) | -ond /õd/ |
| plural add -s or -es /s/ | ||
The verbs has way more suffixes.
Indicative
|
Imperfect | Perfect | Conditional | Infinitive | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Past | -ias | -int /ĩ/ | -iquänt /ikwã/ | -acorst /at͡sõ/ | -antgn /ãɲ/ |
| Present | -as | -and /ãd/ | -aquänt /akwã/ | ||
| Future | -es | -enc /ẽt͡s/ | -equänt /ekwã/ |
Copula
If the sound preceding it is an oral vowel, it is estas.
take lei estas aqua, /lei estas akwa/ she is water.
If the sound preceding it is a nasal vowel, it is quince. /kwĩt͡se/
take ilœncquean quince antidant, /ilỹkwã kwĩt͡se ãidã/ they are helping.
If the sound preceding it is an oral consonant, it is eŝtar. /eʃtar/
take il eŝtar humana, /il eʃtar humana/ he is human.
If the sound preceding it is a nasal consonant, it is ser.
take œile ser nœĉa, /yile ser nyt͡ʃa/ it is night.
Pronouns
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| first person | moirs /moĩ/ (I) | vous (we) | |
| second person | tu (you) | ||
| third
person |
masculine | il (he) | ilœncquean /ilỹkwã/ (they) |
| feminine | lei (she) | ||
| neutral | œile /yile/ (it) | ||
| indefinite | nule (one, they, you )
| ||
| reflexive | ëntreant /ɛ̃rã/ (self) | ||
Numbers
- nul (zero)
- uno (one)
- douz (two)
- trez (three)
- quartos (four)
- sinqua (five)
- siza (six)
- septa (seven)
- ruite (eight)
- nuevo (nine)
- dizes (ten)
- cente (hundred)
- mil (thousand)
Table of Correlatives
| Question
("What") |
Indication
("This/that") |
Indefinite
("Some") |
Universal
("Each, every") |
Negative
("No") | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| qu– | zu– | iĝ– | uin– | non- | ||
| Quality | –ant | quant
(what kind/sort/type of) |
zuant
(such a) |
iĝant
(some kind/sort/type of) |
uinant
(every kind/sort/type of) |
nonant
(no kind/sort/type of) |
| Reason | –anc | quanc
(why) |
zuanc
(for that reason, therefore) |
iĝanc
(for some reason) |
uinanc
(for all reasons) |
nonanc
(for no reason) |
| Time | –ars | quars
(when) |
zuars
(then) |
iĝars
(sometime) |
uinars
(always) |
nonars
(never) |
| Place | –and | quand
(where) |
zuand
(there) |
iĝand
(somewhere) |
uinand
(everywhere) |
nonand
(nowhere) |
| Manner | –ans | quans
(how, as) |
zuans
(thus, as) |
iĝans
(somehow) |
uinans
(in every way) |
nonans
(no-how, in no way) |
| Association | –es | ques
(whose) |
zues
(this/that one's) |
iĝes
(someone's) |
uines
(everyone's) |
nones
(no one's) |
Thing
|
–o | quo
(what) |
zuo
(this/that) |
iĝo
(something) |
uino
(everything) |
non
(nothing) |
| Amount | –ors | quors
(how much) |
zuors
(that much) |
iĝors
(some, a bit) |
uinors
(all of it) |
nonors
(none) |
Individual
|
–ont | quont
(who, which one; which [horse]) |
zuont
(that one; that [horse]) |
iĝont
(someone; some [horse]) |
uinors
(everyone; each [horse], all [horses]) |
nonont
(no one; no [horse]) |
Lexicon
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Suffixes
| -aĉa | Negative affect or a poor opinion of the object or action |
| -ano | a member, follower, participant, inhabitant |
| -ara | a collective group without specific number |
| -ebla | possible, "-able" |
| -eco | an abstract quality, "-ness" |
| -ego | augmentative; |
| -ejo | a place characterized by the root word |
| -ema | having a propensity or tendency towards an action |
| -enda | mandatory |
| -ero | the smallest part |
| -estreya | a leader, boss |
| -ico | diminutive |
| -ido | an offspring, young (of an animal) |
| -igi | to make, to cause (transitivizer/causative) |
| -iĝi | to become (intransitivizer/inchoative/middle voice) |
| -ilo | an instrument |
| -inda | worthy of |
| -inge | a holder, sheath |
| -oblo | multiplication by the root number |
| -ono | fraction |
| -opo | in a collective group of specific number |
| -ujo | a container, country, a tree of a certain fruit |
Prefixes
| dis- | separation, scattering |
| ek- | beginning, sudden, or momentary action (often perfective) |
| fi- | shameful, nasty, disgusting, filthy |
| mal- | exact opposite of the root word |
| mis- | incorrectly, awry |
| re- | over again, back again |