Dêbiua - Conlang Profile

Dêbiua - Conlang Profile

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Language Name	Dêbiua
Language Author	Hans Straub
Year Began	2003
Site	Dêbiua
Broken Link	No
Site Language	English
Site Author	Hans Straub
Language Type	personal language
Uniqueness	Dêbiua was inspired by the word construction system of Arabic, where roots are defined by consonant clusters, with vowels added according to a specific pattern to indicate fine meaning. Dêbiua uses a "dual" system, where roots are defined by vowel clusters and consonants are added for grammatical forms and fine meaning. Its sound system therefore contains an unusual high number of vowels.
Language Sources	Arabic (word building system), Euroclone (grammatical concepts).
Design Principles	The huge majority of roots are adjectival roots, defined by vowel clusters (mostly 3 or 4). There are a limited number of basic noun and verb roots, defined by consonant pairs. Most nouns and verbs are combinations of one of the base roots with an adjective. Concepts for cases, tenses, sentence structure are mainly borrowed from European languages, such as English, German, Latin and French.
Interest Of Others	A few people in the newsgroup alt.language.artificial.
Dictionary	Yes
Etymologies	No
Grammar	Yes
Sample Texts	Yes
Unique Script	No
Primer	No
Babel Text	No
Lexicon Size	283
Submitted By	Hans Straub
Date Submitted	Saturday, July 03, 2004
Updated By	Hans Straub
Date Edited	Sunday, November 28, 2004
Description Of Update	Dictionary added
Date To Headline	Tuesday, November 30, 2004

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