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Language Name Indo-Nugimian Language Author Tony Le Year Began 2001 Site Indo-Nugimian Broken Link No Site Language English Language Type personal language Uniqueness Indo-Nugimian was spoken by the aboriginal tribes of the continent of Nugimia. The word "Nugimia" comes from the aborginal phrase "kimiyo' ngu'ngimiyo'", which means "in the place of the people." The language allowed for free word order, as the subject and object were fully declined. Indo-Nugimians were able to create related words using basic roots and four grammatical genders: masculine, feminine, base vitality, and inverse vitality. For example, the words for "man," "woman," "person," and "dead person" were "ngu'ngiw," "ngu'ngiye," "ngu'ngi," and "ngu'ngin," respectively. Other interesting extensions of this system included the words for "land" and "landslide" ("diso't," "diso'tin"), "water" and "flood" ("nu'tsuk," "nu'tsukin"), and "sky" and "bad weather" ("tlo'nge," "tlo'ngen"). A rich set of verb aspects also allowed them to express compactly many different flavors in continuity, certainty, and necessity of action, for example, "He would have gone (by now)" was simply "Diyazhile," and "I need to go" was simply "Diyatus." Language Sources This language was mainly inspired by Esperanto; from the auxiliary language, Indo-Nugimian borrows the concept of correlatives. Its basic lexicon results from a list of transformation rules from Vietnamese. In fact, the two vowels that do not have English equivalents are borrowed from Vietnamese. By using this method, I hoped to make a vocabulary with its own "feel" without having to describe exactly what that feel was. Some words may be familiar (e.g., "di" means "go" in both languages) while others only share a hint of similarity (e.g., "ca'ch" became "katis," and "hoa" became "mbuwa"). Dictionary No Etymologies No Grammar Yes Sample Texts No Unique Script No Primer No Babel Text Yes Submitted By Tony Le Date Submitted Saturday, January 04, 2003 Date Edited Saturday, January 04, 2003 Date To Headline Saturday, January 04, 2003 < Indika  Indo-Nugimian  Ini >
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