Pablang

Here we are: Adjectives. This one's quite simple. No funky conjugations or declensions. The only part we have to worry about in Adjective-Noun Agreement. In some language, adjectives have to agree with the nouns they modify. This can be agreement of number, case, or class. And these don't have to be so clear cut: take German articles for example. While not adjectives, it serves as a great example of how natural languages are messy. Just like these articles, are adjectives don't have to have a clean, easy agreement pattern. Well, technically, you don't need to have them agree at all, but for the sake of learning I want to. If you remember back to Pablang's nouns, it doesn't have any noun classes to worry about. My chart can be seen here. Wow, quick and easy! See you next time!

Let's start making sentences! I'm going to use words and forms I have already made, of course, just focusing on the words, their order, and how they interact. The first decision is the order of the subject, object, and verb of the sentence. Here are the frequency of each order in natural languages, taken from Wikipedia : Here, I notice a few things. First of all, having the subject before the object is always more common. The subject being first in the sentence for that matter is by far the most common. Proto-Indo-European (PIE), the ancestor of all European and Indian languages (duh) is SOV! No wonder so many languages are like that. Languages aren't locked into one or another. English is pretty obviously SVO, but we switch to VSO when asking questions. Think "Where am I, at school?" versus "I am at school." Other than that, English doesn't change much because the word order encodes meaning. In the sentence "The cat caught the mouse,...