Talbas out-of-universe notes

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• Version history

Version history

1. #2017-04-15: first version (89 words)
2. #2017-06-28: +40 words (129), a lot more information on nouns, some more information on grammar in general, start adding audio
   • new words: bal "time", dala "jump", dila "happy", do, don "some", 'embal "often", 'endo "much", 'eyle "hope", -ime, ken, konay "house", lomi "learn", mama "mom", maso "need", -me "plural", -mel "optative", mes "soon", molno "be okay", mondi "leave", moy "up", neme "hear", 'o "only", petipe "butterfly", pyeye "play", qaye "table", q'ılbi "appreciate", sa, sambal "twice", san, sin "foot", sini "down", sinso "know", somo "behave", soy "how", talbas "language", -ti "diminutive", t'oki "tree", tsokoses "man-made", tsokoti "baby", yan "cat"
   • change lo from a suffix to a particle; change -ken to be instrumental case (rather than just an adverbializer)
   • more information on nouns: explain declension stuff and add something that's not quite grammatical gender
   • start phrasebook
   • add another sentence to donkey beater story and a bunch of test sentences and one miscellaneous sentence
   • add sections about sentence-level grammar and numbers
   • add some audio
   • change how adjectives are described (adjectives that require -i are now listed as nouns, and pyo is now listed as pyol)
3. #2017-08-30: +10 words (139), and worked backwards a bit to a proto-language
   • new words: baba "dad", kos "who", molde "can", sinlo "can't", son "or", sonyo (polar question), tso "any", yo "no"
   • changed: pronouns li (nominative) and sal (accusative) → sa (nominative) and -li (accusative) (also -ili- → -isa), pyeye -> pyepi, qaye -> qay; sana → nali "boy"; lo from an irrealis particle to an adverb "maybe"; accusative of pronouns ending in -te from -tey to -ti
   • add proto-Talbas

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