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Arcadian Vocab Recap #1

Now let’s bring Lesson 1 to a close with a recap of all the words we learned in this lesson. The yellow ones were featured on their own, the others were either used in the Grammar lessons, example sentences or as additional vocab.

See you next time!

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Arcadian Vocabulary #003

One of the most important differences you have to learn early on are the verbs “volai” and “kærai”.

While both can be translated as “to love”, their meaning is greatly different. While “kærai” can be used to anyone, especially friends and family members, “volai” is strictly romantic. Saying “Vola sa” to a close friend would admitting your crush on them; while saying it to your siblings is simply creepy.

So spreading love is important, but be careful how and who to!

Note; the noun “vola” refers to both kinds of love. 

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Arcadian Lesson #1.3

Here is our final table of Lesson 1.

Verbs in arcadian decline for person (amongst many other things). This table should give you a very rough overvew of what that entails; usually the person is marked through an ending at the very end of the verb form.

On the left you can see the most common and very irregular verb “vai”, which may look like a regular -ai Verb, but is far from it. Most of its present tense forms actually feature the stem “e-”.

Also pay attention to the two forms “mava”. While they look identical; they actually have a different origin. 1st Person Singular doesn’t have any ending, so the bare -a of the stem is exposed. 3rd Person Singular on the other hand always ends in -a. For verbs of this class, these forms look the same.

In Arcadian, the singular pronouns an/ne and su/se are usually dropped, since their existence is implied by the form of the verb. The pronoun le is also usually omitted. Leios, leia and lo are always written/spoken.

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Arcadian Vocabulary #004

“volai” is a very important verb in many ways.

Obviously, the meaning is important to human interaction.

But also, because it is completely regular in all tenses and forms! So be ready to see it a lot in grammar tables for its conjugation class.

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Arcadian Vocabulary #003

And here is our first noun!

You can see the possessive particle “-ni” (my) in action here.

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Arcadian Lesson #1.2

Let’s start with pronouns. Here’s a few explanations to what might be unclear from the table alone:

Alignment in Arcadian

Without going to deep into the details; Arcadian uses a pure Tripartite Alignment system. (More on that in the future). The subject of a sentence may appear in the Intransitive Case or the Ergative case, depending on the kind of verb it operates with.

Partitive vs Accusative

Arcadian does not distinguish direct vs indirect object, but it has a different distinction that is similar, but not exactly like the one in Finnish. To keep it brief for now; the Partitive is used when an action is not complete or it does not change the object in any tangible way. The Accusative is used when the action is complete or changes the object into something else. The two forms are usually very similar, and for Singular Pronouns they even merged. So no need to worry about the differences just yet.

Possessive

If the possessor of a thing is only indicated by a pronoun (and said pronoun is a person or animal), it is not marked via the Genitive, but a Possessive suffix to said word. Inanimate possessors have a completely different process of marking possession that will be explained at a later date.

3rd Person Pronouns

Like English, Arcadian has a three way distinction between genders. (le - leios -leia ~ they - he - she). However, in Arcadian the gendered pronounce leios and leia are only rarely used and when needed specify. Only in the possessive are those forms used regularly.

Furthermore, inanimate objects use the pronoun “lo”. Similar to how “it” works in English.

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Arcadian Vocabulary #002

And here is our second word - our first verb.

Don’t worry about all the grammatical bits that are still confusing and unexplained. Future grammar lessons will guide you through those as time comes.

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Arcadian Vocabulary #001

And here is our first word in Arcadian. And probably the first word you will ever use in any language.

A short explanation of the layout of these vocabulary cards:

- the word in Arcadian - the type of word - (for verbs and nouns) principal parts

- an English translation

- an example sentence (Arcadian, Gloss, English)

- related words - the etymology of the word (if one exists) - the number

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Arcadian Lesson #1.1

In this table you can see a rough overview over the standard pronunciation of Arcadian. On the left the phonemic transcription of all the consonants, on the right the vowels and most common diphthongs.

As you may be already able to tell, most letters match their corresponding symbol in the IPA. If you are unsure how to read or use the IPA, Wikipedia has a great resource for it.

This table also teaches the standard Orthography/Romanisation of Arcadian.

It features three special characters not found in the standard English Version of the Latin alphabet: þ, ç and æ. The former two can be changed to the digraphs th and ch in order to be more accesible for people who cannot type the special letters or devices that cannot display them.

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Learning Arcadian

Welcome to my little blog about Arcadian (also called Amosa); a conlang that I have been working on for quite some while.

What is Arcadian?

Arcadian is a semi-naturalistic conlang, inspired by real world languages but not meant to be canonically related to them. It is more a personal artistic language meant to reflect aspects of language I personally find inspiring or beautiful. Therefore it derives features from languages I personally enjoy. In future posts, I will go into detail about which languages and how the influenced this project.

Arcadian is still under construction, but I have reached a point where I am mostly happy with the state of it; so I feel confident about posting my results here.

Who are you?

My name is Cato Black, but I do go by other pseudonames around the web. I am a amateur conlanger and linguistics university student with some years of conlanging experience.

I use they/them pronouns.

What is the purpose of this blog?

This blog is meant to be a window into the world of Arcadian. Giving grammar lessons, teaching vocabulary and interesting features.

This is not a comprehensive learning experience, since I am not a real educator. But, if one was interested in learning about Arcadian; not only from a theoretical point of view, but a more in-depth experience, this blog would be a good place to start.

Can I talk to you about Arcadian or literally anything else?

Please do. Feel free to message me or ask any questions. I also take requests. Please just be civil.

What now?

Now have fun and explore the blog. And have a nice day, of course.