G³S³L³
Getman's Generic Genuinely Silly Stupid Semitic Language 3: Semperanto / Vocalized Acronym Creole
Introduction
This is a reboot of GeSeL 1: Semitic Japanese and might be my 1st apriori grammar ever. It follows generally an E-A-I-U-O pattern as indices 0 to 4. (May make a jokelang with EIEIO pattern.) The focus is placed on loanwords (L), Semitic roots (S), and Japanese words (J), similarly to GeSeL 1, with loanwords playing a bigger role. It's noticeably simpler, almost like a microlanguage, even though I've managed to fit a whole Slavic verb conjugation system in there. GeSeL 2 and 3 resulted from competing interests in GeSeL 1 to either more closely resemble actual languages or to create something more consistent from the ground up. That doesn't mean GeSeL 1 is to be abandoned, it will continue to japanify.
Fully isolating version of this grammar ought to be called Vocalized Acronym Creole and consist only of acronyms (A), telegraph codes (Q) and ICAO and IATA airport codes (I), which span the entire root space. This is to be considered a mutually uninelligible dialect of GeSeL 3, however since the vocalization is one less, it can be mixed in quite conveniently. Airport codes also mean I don't have to invent proper names for cities, however 5 vowels are smashed into 3 consonants ' Y W, so there will be some homonyms.
Alphabets
Same as GeSeL 1 and 2, preferring to pronounce C as Ts, G as G, J as J, and ' as a stop. To keep the syllable structure CSVSC, some stops mutate to fricative, which can be indicated by dots and macrns above the letter, like dagesh and rafeh. C̄ refers to the Th/Dh pronunciation, Ḡ is Ghayn, J̄ is Polish Ṡ/Ż, ` as an exception is 3ayn, ´ can be used for explicit ´alef. The vowel E is no longer banned and thus GeSeL 3 has full 5-vowel system of the usual AEIOU kind, with E and I being more aback.
The most important scripts here are Latin, Cyrillic, and maybe Greek, Old Latin or Futhark. Socialist lingo in USSR was quite heavy on acronyms. There is no reason to use any other garbage squiggles with questionable levels of software support on one side, or insignificant market size on the other.
Chinese - unsuitable model, more characters than fits in a font.
Arabic - opposite direction, cursive joining, vowel accents, go to GeSeL 2.
Devanagari etc. - ligatures and vowel accents, go to Neogetmanic.
Kana - nonstandard (han)dakuten, obsolete syllables, go to GeSeL 1.
Hangul - complex positioning, writing linearly like GeSeL 1 is wrong.
Ge'ez - well actually, but more of a GeSeL 2 thing.
Hebrew - opposite direction, confusing vowels, go to GeSeL 2.
Armenian & Georgian - too few users, too deviant from Greek, go to GeSel 1.
Mongolian - vertical writing with opposite column direction to CJK.
' A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Ǎ Ě Ǐ Ǒ Ǔ
Ъ А Б Ц Д Э Ф Г Х И Ч К Л М Н О П Ґ Р С Т У В Ў Ш Й З Я Е І Ё Ю
' Α Β Θ Δ Ε Φ Γ Η Ι Ξ Κ Λ Μ Ν Ο Π Ψ Ρ Σ Τ Υ Ω Ϋ Χ Ϊ Ζ
Ⳁ Ⲁ Ⲃ Ⲑ Ⲇ Ⲉ Ⲫ Ⲅ Ϩ Ⲓ Ϫ Ⲕ Ⲗ Ⲙ Ⲛ Ⲟ Ⲡ Ⲯ Ⲣ Ⲥ Ⲧ Ⲱ Ϥ Ⲩ Ϣ Ϯ Ⲍ
𐍊 𐌰 𐌱 𐌸 𐌳 𐌴 𐍆 𐌲 𐌷 𐌹 𐍁 𐌺 𐌻 𐌼 𐌽 𐍉 𐍀 𐌵 𐍂 𐍃 𐍄 𐌿 𐍈 𐍅 𐍇 𐌾 𐌶
𐌙 𐌀 𐌁 𐌈 𐌃 𐌄 𐌚 𐌂 𐌇 𐌉 𐌜 𐌊 𐌋 𐌌 𐌍 𐌏 𐌐 𐌒 𐌓 𐌔 𐌕 𐌖 𐌅 𐌞 𐌎 𐌝 𐌆
ᛌ ᚨ ᛒ ᚦ ᛞ ᛖ ᚠ ᚷ ᚺ ᛁ ᛃ ᚴ ᛚ ᛗ ᚾ ᛟ ᛕ ᛩ ᚱ ᛋ ᛏ ᚢ ᚡ ᚹ ᛪ ᚣ ᛎ
አ * በ ጠ ደ * ፈ ገ ሀ * ፀ ጸ ከ ለ መ ነ * ፐ ቀ ረ ሰ ተ * ጰ ወ ሠ የ ዘ
Cyrillic has special iotated vowels. Some Belarussian extensions were used.
With Greek, Ϝ and Ϳ can be used instead of Ϋ and Ϊ. There is also Ύ and Ί, but that looks ugly. Coptic and Gothic are mostly fonts of Greek with some better suiting letters. Coptic ran out of letters for the U-Y range, so V uses a letter for F and Y uses a letter fot Ti which looks like a crossed letter for I. Gothic fits perfectly with 27 letters, there are ' and J, and there are coincidentally 2 numeral-only letters left.
Old Latin is to be written LTR like encoded in Unicode Old Italic block, not RTL as done by Etruscans. Not sure about 𐌚 and 𐌅, one would assume what is F, but Unicode says otherwise. All of F,V,U,W,Y come from Waw which looked like Y. Incidentally, W looks like Sheen.
Futhark was copied from GeSeL 1. Some Futhark runes like ᛟ and ᛋ may be banned in some countries, sort of like D on Twitch or Z by Ukrainians. QWX, the useless letters for Slavs and also Turks, were once illegal in Turkey to persecute Kurds and Kurdish names.
Ge'ez is the one syllabary with enough consonants, and ties in to Old South and North Arabian, but that is RTL so it creates a mess.
Encoding of Attic Greek would be welcome. Linear B, Cypriot, and Cypro-Minoan don't have enough consonant rows and there is no (han)dakuten. They were a horrible fit for Greek even, but at least had independent vowels. The alphabet is truly a lazy invention, only had to replace some vomitting sounds in Phoenician's abjad, instead of putting dots and squiggles around, which had to travel all the way to Korea to get fixed.
Morphology
Each long word has a CVCVCV structure, where C are consonants or its clusters and V are vowels. Cs constitute a semitic-style 3-consonantal root, while Vs constutute a vocalization vector, encoding various declensions to certain parts of speech.
Declension list
A table would probably have to be 3D. "Gesele" means roughly "being spinning", as the ġ-z-l root means yarn spinning, metaphorically used in gazel.
Semperanto
A. Instrumental (with, using, by)
O. Accusative (on, onto, whom)
A. Singular
I. Dual
U. Plural
A. Nouns
I. Adjectives and Abverbs
A. Positive
I. Comparative
O. Elative
O. Adverb
-> same as above
U. Verbs-Perfective
A. Indicative Past
I. Indicative Present
O. Subjunctive
O. Indeterminate forms
E. Infinitive
A. Gerundium (-ing) -> Noun cast
I. Gerundivum (being -ing) -> Adjective cast
O. Transgressive Present
-> same as Verbs-Perfective
Vocalized Acronym Creole
E. Verb extension
E. Passive
A. Self
I. Passive self
U. (reserved)
O. (reserved)
A. Nouns
E. Nullar
A. Singular
I. Dual
U. Plural
O. (reserved)
I. Adjectives and Abverbs
E. Adverb Comparative / Superlative
A. Positive
I. Comparative
U. Superlative
O. Adverb Positive (also use "more" and "most" to grade)
U. Verbs-Perfective
E. Imperative / Infinitive
A. Indicative Past
I. Indicative Present
U. Indicative Future
O. Subjunctive
O. Verbs-Imperfective (Continuous)
-> same as Verbs-Imperfective
Short words
They have less than 3 consonants. Note: "'amaze", of root '-M-Z or M-Z (Japanese for water) is not the same as "amaze". But for decreased confusability short words should stick to CV, VC, CVC, VCV and CVCV. Given 21 consonants (no ') and 5 vowels, that gives over 10000 possible short words.
Pronouns
As you may have noticed, the root declension system doesn't conjugate verbs for person by default. You need to repeat that verb with the extension vocalization or use a short pronoun word.
kababo tobaru tebaru. - I will be eating kebab myself. - Budu si pojídat kebab.
Compare that to GeSeL 1: ana il kababon witbarusi.
All pronouns follow the VCV pattern, with the center consonant determining the type of pronoun:
M. Possesive pronouns
T. Pointing
W. Interrogative pronouns - who
C. Interrogative pronouns - what
L. Articles
S. Self
Y. Any
R. Every
J. Each
X. All
After an article and before the noun itself, a CV pattern denoting a root package letter can be specified: 'a, ba, ca, da, 'e, ...
E. Nullar
A. Singular
I. Dual
U. Plural
O. (reserved)
Second vowel, right of:
E. Nominative
A. Instrumental
I. Genetive
U. Dative
O. Accusative
Therefore, alternatively: ana kababo afu tobaru.
Numerals
CV pattern. Like adjectives, numerals don't decline because screw that. There may be some long numerals in the lexicon which decline like nouns.
To pronounce large numbers longer than 6 digits, concatenate CV syllables per each 2 digits in a 20*5 fashion. See GeSeL 1 for 16*4 base64-like, HashTalk for 32*8, and Budhót'n/Gudhót'n for 64*16*64.
'=0; B=5; C=10; D=15; F=20; G=25; H=30; J=35; K=40; L=45; M=50; N=55; P=60; Q=65; R=70; S=75; T=80; V=85; X=90; Z=95;
E=0; A=1; I=2; U=3; O=4;
4206661337 = kibeqacuji
0000000000 = 'e'e'e'e'e
9999999999 = zozozozozo
Sign and imaginary indicators (place between whole and fractional part):
we, wa, wi, wu, wo - negative absolute, real, imaginary, quaternion j, quaternion k
ye, ya, yi, yu, yo - positive absolute, real, imaginary, quaternion j, quaternion k
Prepositions
Mainly for Locative case emulation. CVC pattern.
bin - from, of - Gentitve
din - into
Postpositions
CV pattern. Some GeSeL 1 things may be kept.
Conjunctions
CV pattern.
la - NOT (or use Nullar)
wa - AND
wo - OR
fa - for all
te - there exists
to - there exists only one
ix - except
That's all you need.
te 'aleho ix lalahe. - There exists no god except God.
Particles
CVCV pattern.
d_s_ : desu cupola, as in verbs imperfective, without the leading O.
Exception: desu as a wildcard for all tenses and cases.
Syntax
Again as in all my other conlangs, SOV for indicative, VSO for question, SVO for imperative.
Examples
GeSeL 1-J: ajado msawhakr al adakin sa yaxehrayu takino sanyido hakcato zacmac nazamins nayibo apatans.
GeSeL 3-J: ijada msowhokra ali adaki xehreyi-xohraya tikona sinyoda hikcata zocmoca nazumi niyoba 'aputa.
English: Exact weighing of poison pays out especially during blanket extermination of mice in apartments.
Czech: Přesné vážení jedu se vyplatí hlavně při plošném hubení myší v bytech.
Lexicon
The lexicon is the same for all GeSeLs, each dialect or version just prioritizes different sets. There can be over 9000 3-consonantal roots and over 200000 4-consonantal roots. 2-consonantal roots, of which there are over 400, are treated as 3-consonantal roots starting with '. GeSeL 3 supports long roots as long as words formed from them obey the CSVSC syllables, which means sometimes letters may switch places within the consonant cluster or be pronounced differently.
