ŋaren crîþa 9 vlefto: Ŋarâþ Crîþ v9

Glossary

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Abessive case
The case that shows that a noun phrase is not used as an instrument or an accompaniment; that is, it is the negataion of the instrumental case.

Translations:

Arka
vitsame
Absolute head particle (aheadp)
A head particle that always occurs at the beginning of an independent clause phrase.

Translations:

Japanese
絶対文頭純詞
Arka
anoiosnreit
Accusative case
The case that, among other things, indicates the ‘direct object’ of a verb phrase.

Translations:

Japanese
対格
Arka
yulsame
Ancilliary object
In trivalent relationals, the less salient of the two objects.

Translations:

Arka
roxkomit
APN-irregular verb
An irregular verb whose finite forms are specified according to aspect, person, and number.
Applicative voice
The voice that promotes an oblique adjunct to the dative case, demoting the existing dative argument.

Translations:

Japanese
適用態
Aspect
A property of a conjugated verb that denotes how the action or state described by the verb extends over time. Ŋarâþ Crîþ has two aspects: imperfective and perfective. The imperfective aspect is used for ongoing (such as progressive or habitual) actions. The perfective aspect is used for completed actions. In conjugation, aspects can be labeled as direct or indirect. The direct aspect is imperfective for the present tense and perfective for the past tense; the inverse aspect is the other aspect.

Translations:

Japanese
Arka
nif
Aspectual auxiliary verb
An auxiliary verb that indicates aspect.
Attachment
Whether an attributive predicate is used adnominally or adverbially.
Auxiliary verb
A verb whose meaning fuses with that of another verb (the target) and cannot stand without it. It is a type of predicate modifier.

Translations:

Japanese
助動詞
Arka
freyuyuo
Base letter
Of a manifested grapheme phrase, the letter before whatever mutation, if any, resulted in the MGF.
Basic personal pronouns
A set of personal pronouns for first, second, and third persons, the last of which are distinguished by gender. They are defective and lack forms for the core cases.
Bias
A lexical property of a relational that determines whether adnominal or adverbial usage is unmarked.
Calculus affix
An affix that given a quantity, derives the derivative or integral of that quantity with respect to a certain variable. In Ŋarâþ Crîþ, they can manifest as suffixes or infixes depending on the nature of the derivation.
Canonical stroke order
The most common or accepted stroke order of a layer-2w* glyph.
Case
A feature of a declined noun indicating what role it plays in a sentence. Ŋarâþ Crîþ has eight cases.

Translations:

Ŋarâþ Crîþ
neris
Japanese
Arka
same
Cast affix
A marking used to use a relational in the attachment opposite of its bias. It is a suffix for celestial relationals and a prefix for terrestrial relationals.
Causative voice
The voice that adds a cause argument to a verb, demoting the other participants.

Translations:

Japanese
使役
Arka
sols
Cenvos
The script used by Ŋarâþ Crîþ natively.

Translations:

Ŋarâþ Crîþ
cenvos
Choice question
A question that asks for a choice between two or more options.
Clareþ
A lexical feature of a noun that dictates what numbers it may take. Ŋarâþ Crîþ has three claroþ: singular, collective, and mass.

Translations:

Ŋarâþ Crîþ
clareþ
Classifier
A suffix attached to a short numeral to indicate what kind of objects are being counted.
Clitic
An entity that acts like an affix phonologically but like a separate word syntactically. In Ŋarâþ Crîþ, all clitics are postclitics and are marked with a ŋos, ⟨’⟩.

Translations:

Japanese
接語
Clitic boundary
The boundary between a clitic and another word, or between two clitics. The boundary marked by the ŋos.
Common argument
The argument shared between the relative clause and the matrix clause (the clause in which it is embedded).
Complex coda
A coda that can be pronounced only word-finally. Instances of such codas in the middle of a syntactic word are simplified during the conversion to layer 1, and such instances immediately before a clitic boundary are simplified during the conversion to layer 2.
Component
A part from which an inflected form of a word is built.
Compound datum
A datum that is either a list or a key-value list.
Compounding
A word-formation process in which a noun or a verb is combined with a noun to form a noun whose meaning is related to both of its constituents.
Conjunct head particle (cheadp)
A head particle that usually occurs at the beginning of an independent clause phrase but may move after the end of a so-clause.

Translations:

Japanese
相対文頭純詞
Arka
noidosnreit
Consonant mutation
The systematic modification of a consonant, triggered by a morphological environment. Ŋarâþ Crîþ has two types of mutations: lenition and eclipsis.

Translations:

Japanese
子音変異
Arka
amisomiyu
Constant
A component that stays the same regardless of the lexical item being inflected.
Converb
A verb used in a converbal clause, which is used adverbially. Its use can often be translated to a verbal coordination.

Translations:

Japanese
動副詞
Arka
yuofreyu
Coordinand
The phrases being joined by a coordinator.
Coordinator
The conjunction of a coordinated phrase. In Ŋarâþ Crîþ, nominal coordinators appear as clitics and are sometimes fused with pronouns.

Translations:

Japanese
等位接続詞
Core case
A collective term for the nominative, accusative, dative, and genitive cases. In particular, basic personal pronouns lack forms for these cases.
Dative case
The case that, among other things, indicates the ‘indirect object’ of a verb phrase.

Translations:

Japanese
与格
Arka
alsame
Datum
A part of speech that is used to convey data. A datum can be used as a special independent clause phrase.
Degree auxiliary verb
An auxiliary verb that shows the extent to which the target action or state holds.
Demonstrative pro-form
One of the pronouns, determiners, or pro-verbs that is used to refer to something in a particular frame of reference.
Dependent clause
A clause that somehow modifies a constituent of another clause. This cataegory includes relative clauses, converbal clauses, so-clauses, and nominalized clauses.

Translations:

Japanese
従属節
Arka
roxkyav
Dependent special independent clause phrase (dsICP)
A special independent clause phrase that requires another ICP in the same sentence, such as ⟨cirtel⟩ by the way, incidentally or ⟨olasta⟩ in addition, furthermore, moreover.

Translations:

Japanese
従属特別主節句
Arka
roxkaallestyavsevet
Derivation
A word-formation process in which a noun or a verb is systematically modified to create a new related word.
Derivative
A string that can be derived systematically from the value of a theme for a given paradigm.

Translations:

Arka
leveol
Digit
One of the sixteen graphemes that may be used to write short numerals.
Direct aspect
In the conjugation of verbs, the morphologically unmarked aspect. The direct aspect receives shorter subject suffixes, and the verb is not eclipsed. It is imperfective for the present tense and perfective for the past tense.

Translations:

Arka
fremnif
Direct quotative
A quotative that describes speech exactly as it was or is expressed by someone.
Discretionary ligature
A ligature that is present in layer 2w*. These ligatures are not required to be used, nor can they be derived by simply connecting the ending stroke of one glyph to the starting stroke of another.
Ditransitive verb
A verb that takes a nominative argument, an accusative argument, and a dative argument.

Translations:

Japanese
二重他動詞
Arka
arkansyuo
Eclipsis
The mutation in Ŋarâþ Crîþ that tends to add voice to voiceless consonants and change voiced stops into nasals.

Translations:

Arka
veltem
Effective fricative
A manifested grapheme phrase whose base letter represents a fricative phoneme; that is, whose base letter is any of ⟦f v þ ð s š h ħ⟧. Such consonants may appear before ⟦r⟧ or ⟦l⟧ as an onset.
Effective plosive
A manifested grapheme phrase whose base letter represents a plosive phoneme; that is, whose base letter is any of ⟦p t d c g⟧. Such consonants may appear before ⟦r⟧ or ⟦l⟧ as an onset.
Emphatic pronoun
A pronoun made of a reflexive pronoun with a possessive clitic attached, which acts roughly like a personal pronoun with an independent form but places focus on the referent.
Gender
A lexical feature of a noun that dictates agreement with certain other words. Also called noun class. Ŋarâþ Crîþ has three genders: celestial, terrestrial, and human.

Translations:

Japanese
Arka
him
General independent clause phrase (gICP)
A clause phrase that falls into the typical pattern for Ŋarâþ Crîþ text, consisting of an independent clause and zero or more subordinate clauses.

Translations:

Japanese
普通主節句
Arka
leimlestyavsevet
Generic number
One of the five numbers of Ŋarâþ Crîþ, which is used on noun phrases that do not refer to a specific referent or referents.
Genitive case
The case that shows such things as possession, composition, description, or apposition.

Translations:

Japanese
属格
Arka
tilsame
Genus
A lexical property of a verb that includes a family of species whose participle forms are conjugated for in a similar way.
Glyph
The basic unit of representation in layers 2w, 2w*, 3w, and 4w. These represent the characters being written. Glyphs distinguish ligatures and final forms from their constituent letters.
Grapheme
The basic unit of representation in layers 0 and 1. Includes letters, digits, and punctuation.

Translations:

Japanese
書記素
Arka
haca
Head case (hcase)
The case of the common argument of a relative clause within the matrix clause. In Ŋarâþ Crîþ, this can be any of the eight cases.
Head gender (hgender)
The gender of the common argument of a relative clause within the matrix clause.
Head number (hnumber)
The number of the common argument of a relative clause within the matrix clause.
Head particle (headp)
A particle that occurs at the beginning of an independent clause phrase.

Translations:

Japanese
文頭純詞
Arka
osnreit
Imperfective aspect
The aspect used for ongoing (such as progressive or habitual) actions.

Translations:

Japanese
非完結相
Arka
reinnif
Impersonator stem
In some verbs, the participle forms use stems that are different from the possibly vowel-affected infinitive stem. A verb can have separate nominative-rcase and non-nominative-rcase impersonators.

Translations:

Japanese
真似幹
Indefinite auxiliary verb
An auxiliary verb whose truth of the action or state it describes makes no implication about the truth value of the action or state described by the target.

Translations:

Japanese
不定助動詞
Independent clause
A clause at the head of an independent clause phrase. If an independent clause ends in a verb, then that verb is in a finite form.

Translations:

Japanese
主節
Arka
lestyav
Independent clause phrase (ICP)
A unit of Ŋarâþ Crîþ text terminated by a gen, tja, šac, or cjar.

Translations:

Japanese
主節句
Arka
lestyavsevet
Independent verb (iverb)
A verb that is not an auxiliary verb.
Indirect quotative
A quotative that describes speech that is not necessarily the exact words used by someone but has an equivalent meaning.
Inexact numeral
A numeral that denotes a number that is only approximately known. Inexact numerals in Ŋarâþ Crîþ are represented in scientific notation.
Infinitive
The primary lemma form of the verb, which in Ŋarâþ Crîþ, ends in ⟦-at⟧ or ⟦-it⟧.

Translations:

Japanese
不定詞
Arka
iva
Instrumental case
The case that shows that a noun phrase is used as an instrument or an accompaniment; that is, it has comitative or instrumental function.

Translations:

Japanese
具格
Arka
konsame
Interjection
A word in the ‘interjection’ part of speech. This constitutes a special independent clause phrase.

Translations:

Japanese
感動詞
Arka
xivi
Interrogative pro-form
One of the pronouns, determiners, or pro-verbs that is used to ask a question.
Intransitive verb
A verb that takes only a nominative argument.

Translations:

Japanese
自動詞
Arka
reinoyuo
Inverse aspect
In the conjugation of verbs, the morphologically marked aspect. The inverse aspect receives longer subject suffixes, and the verb is eclipsed. It is perfective for the present tense and imperfective for the past tense.

Translations:

Arka
flonnif
Irregular verb
A verb that is not conjugated using the regular rules of conjugation.

Translations:

Arka
yuo alzettel
Kerning
The alteration of the distance between two glyphs to make their placement less awkward.

Translations:

Japanese
カーニング
Layer
One of the eight representations of Ŋarâþ Crîþ text. Each layer represents Ŋarâþ Crîþ text at a different layer of abstraction and exists in either the written or spoken mode.

Translations:

Ŋarâþ Crîþ
flef
Arka
hank
Layer-3w ligation
The joining of the last stroke of a layer-3w glyph with the first stroke of the next. This can happen only when the two glyphs have compatible join types on their respective ends.
Lenition
The mutation in Ŋarâþ Crîþ that tends to turn plosives into fricatives. Some consonants become null under lenition.

Translations:

Arka
hoomim
Letter
Either a true letter or a marker. A glyph that has a letter value.

Translations:

Ŋarâþ Crîþ
cenvos
Arka
hac
Letter number
A number assigned to each letter in layer 1.
Letter sum
The sum of the letter numbers of each letter in a word. This value is used for some noun declension paradigms.
Ligature
A composite of two or more graphemes that are somehow joined together.
Locative case
The case that shows the location or time of an object or an action.

Translations:

Japanese
処格
Arka
kasame
Long numeral
A class of numerals dating back to VE¹ENCS. Absent from NCS5 and NCS6 but present in ŊCv7 and v9. They are longer than the short numerals and cannot be abbreviated using digits. In Ŋarâþ Crîþ v9, they agree for case and sometimes gender, and they are limited to 16.
Long numeral
A class of numerals introduced in VE⁴ENCS. They are shorter than the long numerals and can be abbreviated using digits. In Ŋarâþ Crîþ v9, they show no agreement but usually require a classifier.
Main object
In trivalent relationals, the more salient of the two objects.

Translations:

Arka
lestomit
Manifested grapheme phrase (MGF)
A sequence of graphemes that is said to represent a single phoneme. Either a true letter not followed by a lenition marker (plain letter), any of ⟦p t d č c g m f v ð⟧ followed by a lenition mark (lenited letter), or, word-initially, one of the digraphs ⟦mp vp dt nd gc ŋg vf ðþ lł⟧ (eclipsed letter).
Marker
A letter that does not correspond to a phoneme but rather has a semantic role.
Mathematical relational
A relational that encodes a mtahematical relationship between two entities.
Modal auxiliary verb
An auxiliary verb that shows modality.
Morpheme boundary
The boundary between two morphemes of the same syntactic word. These are considered significant in layer 0.
Negative definite auxiliary verb
An auxiliary verb whose truth of the action or state it describes implies that the action or state described by the target is false.

Translations:

Japanese
負定助動詞
Nominalized verb phrase
A verb phrase used as a noun. This is formed by using the infinitive form of the verb, preceded by a nominalizing particle.

Translations:

Arka
yuoasa
Nominative case
The case that indicates the subject of a verb phrase.

Translations:

Japanese
主格
Arka
solsame
Number
A feature of a declined noun indicating how many of the referent is present. Ŋarâþ Crîþ has five numbers: direct, dual, plural, singulative, and generic.

Translations:

Japanese
Arka
alx
Numeric prefix
One of a set of derivational prefixes for forming a term for something related to an aggregate of definite size of another object. They are based on the prime factorization of the number.
Numquote
A digit immediately preceding text surrounded by quotation or grouping marks, mainly used for secondary purposes that lack any dedicated punctuation.

Translations:

Ŋarâþ Crîþ
menerevin
Arka
alxkert
Object
A non-nominative argument of a verb or relational.

Translations:

Japanese
目的語
Arka
omit
Orthographic word (oword)
A sequence of graphemes separated by spaces. A clitic is considered to belong to the same oword as the word to which it is attached.
Paradigm
A set of rules by which a lexical item can be inflected.
Paradigm (noun declension)
A lexical property of a noun that governs how it is declined for case and number.
Partial lenition
Lenition that does not delete ⟦f⟧, ⟦v⟧, or ⟦d⟧.

Translations:

Arka
vaikhoomim
Participation (ligation and shaping)
A layer-2w* glyph is said to participate in typesetting if its shape is eligible to be altered by the process. All letters participate, but no numerals do so, nor does the space.

Translations:

Japanese
参加
Arka
fakt
Participle
A verb that is inflected to be used in a relative clause to modify a noun phrase.

Translations:

Japanese
分詞
Arka
yuoayua
Perfective aspect
The aspect used for completed actions.

Translations:

Japanese
完結相
Arka
intnif
Polar question
A question that asks whether or not a statement is true.
Positive definite auxiliary verb
An auxiliary verb whose truth of the action or state it describes implies that the action or state described by the target is true.

Translations:

Japanese
正定助動詞
Possessive clitic
A clitic used on a noun phrase to mark possession.
Possessive construction
A double-marked construction to show possession, in which the possessee receives a possessive clitic and the possessor receives the clitic ⟨=’(e)þ⟩.
Predicate
A part of speech that describes an action or state.
Principal part
One of the inflected forms of a lexical entry that can collectively determine all other inflected forms.

Translations:

Japanese
主要形
Arka
tihmo
Punctuation
The class of glyphs that are classified as neither letters nor digits. Includes the clause-end punctuation ⟨.⟩, ⟨;⟩, ⟨?⟩, and ⟨!⟩; the clitic boundary mark ⟨’⟩; the lenition mark ⟨·⟩; the grouping brackets ⟨{}⟩; and the quotation marks ⟨«»⟩.

Translations:

Ŋarâþ Crîþ
dono
Japanese
句読点
Arka
valia
Quantifier
A pro-form such as the pronouns ⟨šino⟩ all or ⟨nema⟩ some, any, which acts as a quantifier over anything occuring after it.
Quotative
A construction that casts a string into a noun describing the string being conveyed (e.g. said or written). In Ŋarâþ Crîþ, this is achieved using a particle after the quotation.
Rational numeral
A numeral that denotes a rational number.
Reflexive pronoun
The personal pronoun cenþ, which has the meaning of oneself.
Relational
A type of predicate that encodes the relationship between two (or less often three) entities and resembles postpositions.
Relational of motion
A relational derived from a spatial relational that indicates motion of one entity to or from another entity.
Relative case (rcase)
The case of the common argument of a relative clause within the relative clause. In Ŋarâþ Crîþ, this can be the nominative, accusative, or dative, as well as the genitives of any of these separately.
Required ligature
A ligature that is present in layer 2w and is required to be used whenever possible.
Scaffolding verb
A form of ⟨eþit⟩ or ⟨telit⟩ on which a relational can be attached to use it predicatively.
Semblative case
The case that shows semblance in behavior. On a nominalized verb, it translates to ‘such that’, ‘as though’, or ‘to the point that’.

Translations:

Arka
yunsame
Semitransitive verb
A verb that takes a nominative argument and a dative argument.

Translations:

Arka
yakkokkolyuo
Sentence
A unit of Ŋarâþ Crîþ text terminated by a gen, šac, or cjar.

Translations:

Japanese
Arka
vok
Shifted subject
An argument selected to have a special role in the meaning of an auxiliary verb, such as carrying the volition for the performance or nonperformance of the target action. This role can be assigned to the nominative, accusative, or dative argument of the target.
Simple coda
A coda that is simple enough to occur mid-word.
So-clause
A clause containing an independent verb phrase followed by a so-particle.
So-particle
A conjunction such as ⟨so⟩ if, ⟨fose⟩ because, or ⟨dôm⟩ to the extent of, which is placed at the end of a so-clause.
Spatial relational
A relational that encodes a spatial relationship between one entity and another. These relationals have two additional relationals (relationals) derived from them.
Special independent clause phrase (sICP)
A clause phrase that has a structure different from that of a general independen clause phrase. Special independent clause phrases include interjections, vocatives, and data.

Translations:

Japanese
特別主節句
Arka
aallestyavsevet
Species
A lexical property of a verb that governs how a verb will be conjugated for its participle forms.
Stem
A variable that usually takes up a substantial part of the inflected form and is considered the essence of a lexical item.

Translations:

Japanese
語幹
Arka
veyutifl
Stress
A feature that was present in Ŋarâþ Crîþ v7 but in Ŋarâþ Crîþ v9 is used solely to calculate tone.

Translations:

Japanese
アクセント
Arka
caf
Stroke-order variant
One of the variants of a layer-2w* glyph that differs only in stroke order. All strokes must be preserved, and no loops may be introduced or removed, but the relative stroke order might be different, and some strokes may be written in the reverse direction; furthermore, a stroke may be split at a turn, and two strokes may be joined where one ends and another begins.
Stylistic variant
One of the variants of a topological variant, which may modify the strokes of the glyph themselves.
Subject
The nominative argument of a verb or relational.

Translations:

Japanese
主語
Arka
soi
Syntactic relational
A relational that is defined to be used to support a certain syntactic construction.
Syntactic word (sword)
A sequence of graphemes separated by either spaces or ŋos.
Tag question
A question that asks whether or not a statement is true but leads toward an affirmative answer, asking for confirmation on a statement.
Tail particle (tailp)
A particle that occurs at the end of an independent clause phrase, immediately after the verb (if present).

Translations:

Japanese
文末純詞
Arka
hetreit
Target
The verb modified by an auxiliary verb.

Translations:

Arka
lana
Temporal relational
A relational that encodes a temporal relationship between one entity and another.
Tense
A property of a conjugated verb that indicates the time in which an action or state occurred. Ŋarâþ Crîþ has two tenses: present (more precisely, nonpast) and past.

Translations:

Japanese
時制
Arka
mel
Theme
A variable that is short (almost always one letter long) and might have derivatives.
Tone
The phonological feature associated with the pitch of a syllable. Ŋarâþ Crîþ has two tones: high and low, with the former being more common. This distinction evolved from the absence or presence of creaky voice in Ŋarâþ Crîþ v7.

Translations:

Japanese
声調
Arka
eldem
Tone accounting unit (TAU)
The maximal unit at which tone is calculated. In other words, calculating the tone of a given syllable requires looking only at the syllables in the same TAU.
Topological variant
One of the variants of a stroke-order variant, which may join strokes together, cause two different strokes to touch each other when they did not (or vice versa), or introduce or remove loops. Lengthening or shortening strokes to alter ligation properties also falls under this level.
Total lenition
Lenition that includes the deletion of ⟦f⟧, ⟦v⟧, or ⟦d⟧.

Translations:

Arka
ilmhoomim
Transitive verb
A verb that takes a nominative argument and an accusative argument.

Translations:

Japanese
他動詞
Arka
kokkolyuo
True letter
A letter that corresponds to a phoneme.

Translations:

Arka
fohac
Type I genus
A genus in which the participle forms are distinguished for hgender but not for hnumber.
Type II genus
A genus in which the participle forms are distinguished for hnumber but not for hgender.
USR Letter
One of ⟨w⟩, ⟨x⟩, ⟨y⟩, or ⟨z⟩. These letters are dedicated to be assigned to phonemes in foreign languages that are absent from Ŋarâþ Crîþ.
Valency class
A lexical property of a verb or relational that governs how many arguments it can take and what cases they assume.
Variable
A component that depends on the lexical item being inflected. They can be either stems or themes.

Translations:

Arka
miyuvait
Verb
A part of speech that is inflected like a verb. That is, finite forms do not require a scaffolding verb, and adnominal forms require participle conjugations.

Translations:

Japanese
動詞
Arka
yuo
Vertical ligation
The practice of ligating two glyphs that lie on different lines.
Vocative
A noun phrase in the dative case used to address someone or something. This constitutes a special independent clause phrase.
Voice
A property of the inflected verb that modifies how the arguments of a verb map to the participants of the corresponding action. In Ŋarâþ Crîþ, voice is considered a predicate modifier.

Translations:

Japanese
Arka
xalt
Vowel
One of ⟦e o a î i ê ô â u⟧, or the phoneme represented by one of these.

Translations:

Japanese
母音
Arka
vesto
Vowel affection
A process by which the last vowel of the stem in some verbs changes in the present forms, past forms, or both, possibly with different vowels between the tenses.

Translations:

Arka
vestomiyu
Wh-question
A question that asks for an item in which an interrogative pro-form appears.