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jalco Draft

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jalco is a Lojbanic conlang. It’s a modified form of the acronym YALC “yet another lojban clone”

Its spelling and phonology is basically Lojban but it also has /θ/ for “q” and additional vowels ö [ø̞] and ü [y].

There are two parts of speech: verbs and particles. Particles themselves are sorted into classes, which show how the particle belongs in a sentence. They’re typically named after a random particle in that class and written all capital. The classes are generally meant for particles, but verbs have the assigned classes JALCO and NINGKATOFQ respectively.

Verbs (vribi)

There are 3 types of verbs: root verbs (geuvi’is), compound verbs (kauvi’is), and appendix verbs (zaivi’is). Root verbs are always in form CCVCV or CVCCV. They are generally created algorithmically. The algorithm is basically the same as lojban but the weights are like this:

“english”: 0.3357,

“mandarin”: 0.2462,

“hindi”: 0.1365,

“spanish”: 0.1253,

“russian”: 0.0577,

“turkish”: 0.0985

Here is an example root verb gudno:

x1 is good in aspect x2 by amount x3 by perspective/standard x4

No two root can have its first consonant, and its vowels identical for affix (geupiös) making reasons.

Compound verbs are made up from a repetition of CVV, CV’V or CV, and always end in a consonant. The last consonant indicates how many affixes the verb carries: “s” for 2, “c” for 3 and “x” for 4.

Affixes are formed from roots like this: Take the first consonant, add the first and second vowels to it, and you have your affix. Example: xufla (flower) becomes xua.

To determine if the vowel pair will get an apostrophe between, look at this allowed vowel pair chart:

	a	e	i	o	ö	u	ü
a	a’a	a’e	ai	ao	a’ö	au	a’ü
e	ea	e’e	ei	eo	e’ö	eu	eü
i	ia	ie	i’i	io	iö	iu	iü
o	oa	oe	oi	o’o	o’ö	ou	o’ü
ö	ö’a	ö’e	öi	ö’o	ö’ö	ö’u	öü
u	ua	ue	ui	uo	uö	u’u	uü
ü	üa	üe	üi	üo	ü’ö	üu	ü’ü

For this reason, the maximum amount of roots possible is 882. Some particles also have affixes but they are not regular.

Appendix words are just fu’ivla. They just have to start with a consonant and end in a consonant cluster.

Particles

I’m just gonna list them group by group, with nearest lojban equivilants

BI (before verbs, verb to noun)

1. ba (the [la])
2. be (event of [lonu])
3. bi (some [lo])
4. bo (property of [loku])
5. bu (this [loti])
6. bö (amount of [loni])
7. bü (truth value of [lojei])
8. by (statement of [lodu’u]
9. bau (some (plural) [losuo’i])
10. bi’i (all [loro])
11. bi’u (all (plural) [loro’oi])
12. bai (which? [≈ma noi ke’a]

MATH

PA (number)

1. pa, re, ci, vo, mu, xa, se, ki, so, no (1234567890)
2. pi (point), böi (frac slash),
3. xi, va, xiu, vau (all [sing], some [sing], all [plu], some [plu])