Rac,mamoqei
| DATE | 2006-2018 |
| RELATED |
Eloa world-building page Bys-sáma Xema Aŝan |
Rac,mamoqei is one of my oldest conlangs, created for an epic fantasy world I was creating in middle and high school. I wrote a lot of stories in that world and reworked the languages extensively multiple times over the years. I won't go into too much world detail, just enough to give you context, but the basics are that the continents are called Legends and the Tipa Empire are the Elvish colonists of this world.
Rac,mamoqei means "the language of the people". It is spoken by the Taulan people of Qana Aumi, the smallest and southern-most continent and country in the Legends. Qana Aumi is among the most recent country to be colonised by the Tipa Empire and its territory is slowly shrinking as Tipan outposts pop up along its coastline.
Pronouns
| SUBJECT |
OBJECT/ REFLEXIVE |
POSSESSIVE | PERSONAL PRONOUN | |
| 1st person (single) | fau- | -fe | falmeir | mafal |
| 2nd person | fec- | -fec | fecmeir | mafec |
| 3rd person (single, male) | reu- | -ro | reumeir | mareu |
| 3rd person (single, female) | reu- | -rua | rilmeir | mari |
| 1st person (plural) | ual- | -ualte | uameir | mauar |
| 3rd person (plural) | dram- | -dar | drameir | madar |
Verbs
Von't conjugate according to person (eg. faumarta, "I am"; dram-marta, "they are").
A negative is indicated by a -qoch suffix, any tense suffix always precedes the negative (eg. faumartaqoch, "I am not").
| AFFIX | TENSE | EXAMPLE |
| none | present | faumarta, "I am" |
| -deiquan- | future |
faudeiquanmarta, "I will be" |
| -uan | past |
faumartauan, "I was" |
| -ruy | present conditional |
faumartaruy, "I would be" |
| -qoc | present progressive |
faumartaqoc, "I am being" |
|
I: fautan-[...]-qa you: fectan-[...]-qa he: reuteq-[...]-na she: rilteuraq-[...]-na we: ualteir-[...]-qa they: dramqa-[...]-qa |
past progressive (eg. description, weather, completed action) |
fautanmartaqa, "I was being" |
|
I: faudeuraq-qa[...]-uan you: fecdeuraq-qa[...]-uan he: reudeuraqna[...]-uan she: reudeuraqna[...]-uan we: ualdeuraq-qa[...]-uan they: dramdeuraq-qa[...]-uan |
past perfect |
faudeuraq-qamartauan, "I have been" |
|
(V)-deuch (C)-ach |
imperative | martadeuch, "be!" |
Nouns
Plurals are formed by adding -ei (or -qei if the final letter is a vowel) to the end of the noun.
Compound nouns can be formed with the ,ma ("of") form. The name Rac,mamoqei is a perfect example: rac, "language"; moqei, "people"; rac,mamoqei, "language of the people".
Numbers
| 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |
| pi | naq | deuq | tiren | fauren | mein | leimen | teuriq | falmic | chauc |
| 10 | -mal |
| 100 | -hic |
| 1,000 | -dam |
| 10,000 | -choq |
| 100,000 | -bar |
| 1,000,000 | -qeuna |
- 48: faurenmal falmic
- 3629: tirendam leimenhic deuqmal chauc
- 1/2: naq,madeuq
- 8/37: falmic,matirenmal teuriq
Example Sentences
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English: She was talking to Tiatala
Rac,mamoqei: rilteuraqracuaqnache tiatala
Transliteration: she.past1.speak.past2.with tiatala -
English: I would sing many songs
Rac,mamoqei: fauricruy raceqireiline
Transliteration: i.sing.conditional song.plural.emphasis -
English: I will have seven candles
Rac,mamoqei: faudeiquandeuraq cincaqei teuriq
Transliteration: i.future.have candle.plural seven