The unnamed Goblin language is one of the few languages in Innworld.
Overview[edit | edit source]
Lexicon[edit | edit source]
(Conjecture is marked with *)
| Word | Translation | |
|---|---|---|
| Aho | ||
| Ahoro | [plural of aho? Both are found in initial position; *this/that?] | |
| Aimaste | *Imposter | |
| An | (possessive determiner) [always following a group (Fraershi an, Ihumina an, Mirake an, zelmalaile Velan an, Naga an), so it might just be denoting a collective instead] | |
| Arek | Dead | |
| Aspat | *(Expletive) | |
| Cha | [found in final position; possibly adverb or pronoun] | |
| Elame | Friend | |
| Elame Mirake an | Friend of Goblins | |
| Elame-Mirak | Goblinfriend | |
| Elame-Mirake | Goblinfriend [only Niers uses this version, so maybe he got it slightly wrong, but there are apparently many ways to say this] | |
| Faira | Want | |
| Fasna | Kind (adj.) | |
| Fraershi | Fraerling / Fraerlings | |
| Funu | Only | |
| Gredathe | Greydath | |
| Hairó | River | |
| he | (copula) | |
| i / -i- | *and [might just be a regular infix in number formation] | |
| Ihumina | Human / Humans | |
| Is | she | |
| Kanadith | (name) | |
| kava | speak | |
| Kinita | Earth | |
| Kinita-shónu | Earth-girl | |
| kiskai | *enemy | |
| kopo | tree | |
| kos | rock | |
| kótómehie | appreciate | |
| kru – | *can/*need [initiates a question] | |
kufa
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| masku | *what if [initiates a question and similarity to 'sku'] | |
| Mirak | Goblin | |
| Mirak-Elame | Goblinfriend | |
| Mirake | *Goblins | |
| Mota | ||
| Na | [Located in final position, possibly adverb or pronoun] | |
| Naefoma/Nӕfoma | Help [n. and v.?] | |
| Naga | Naga [sg. and pl.?] | |
| o | you [only singular?] | |
| Pach | [adjective or noun] | |
| Pasai | *Goblin Lord | |
| Pexa | *wait | |
| Razivin | [noun or verb] | |
| se | [found in initial position, possibly modal verb or adverb] | |
| seh | *they [could also be a verb instead] | |
| s'ho | [might be a contraction of 'se' and 'aho'] | |
| Shónu | Girl | |
| Shu – Water | Shuli | Ocean |
| Shush | Wet | |
| Si | -(incomplete) – | |
| Sif | three | |
| Sku – *if [seems to initiate the antecedent clause of a conditional sentence] | ||
| Smak | very | |
| Smak shush | Drenched [lit. 'very wet'] | |
| Stan | [possibly a verb] | |
| Tarek | [possibly a verb] | |
| Te | - | |
| Tere | [plural of te? comparative of te? Both seem to initiate the consequent clause of a conditional sentence] | |
| Tilhatan | Titan | |
| Tizan | [possibly a compound of 'ti' (one) and 'zan'; *oneself? *once (=one time)? But from context it seems to be a verb] | |
| To | *and / *but [initiates a possible ellipsis] | |
| Tok | *need | |
Uro
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| Va | I | |
| Van | We | |
| Viti | [possibly preposition] | |
| Zan | [possibly reflexive pronoun or preposition] | |
| Zelmalaile | Tribe | |
| Zifu | [found in final position, possibly adverb or noun] | |
| *-li | *(collective noun? derivation suffix) | |
| *-sh | *(adjective derivation suffix) [part of 'Fraershi'?] |
Numbers[edit | edit source]
- Ti = One
- Fa = Two
- Sif = Three
- Keta = Four
- Mien = Five
- Pru = Six
- Hast = Seven
- Hax = Eight
- Chur = Nine
- Pir = Ten
- Pir-i-ti = Eleven
Sentence Structure[edit | edit source]
- Verb-Subject-Object
- Kótómehie va o → Appreciate I you
- Auxiliary/ModalVerb-Subject-Verb-(Object)
- Faira o kava? → Want you speak?
- Subject-Copula-Predicative Expression
- O he Elame-Mirake →You are Goblinfriend
- Questions don't modify word order
- Is he elame Mirake an! → She is friend of Goblins!
- O he elame Mirake an? → You are friend of Goblins?
- Adjectives and attributes are postnominal
- Mirak-Elame kufa – Goblinfriend false
- Velan Fasna → Velan Kind
- Gredathe Pasai – Greydath Lord