riojan fanlang construction | MCDM | Page 1

stray hill Sep 12, 2025, 3:41 AM

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my notes for a riojan fanlang, may or may not be complete i'm super inconsistent, this is just to dump my notes

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oh he pronounces it [rio.xa]/[rio.ha]

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i was gonna make the j a dz sound, so it'd be [ˈriodza]

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https://youtu.be/THtUhV_616s?si=qgPYwIPVhXi8Rq5j this video an immense help

YouTube

Matthew Colville

Worldbuilding: The Lords of Capital Part One

Let's figure out who is in charge of Capital: The City of the Great Game!

Here's the product of the previous stream:
https://mcdm.gg/YouTube/Gods_and_Saints_of_Rioja.pdf

And here's the whole stream on twitch in case you want to watch three and a half hours of mostly nonsense.
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/343251310

▶ Play video

pastel vine Sep 12, 2025, 3:57 AM

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Yessss the worldbuilding streams for Capital are gonna be huge for you

stray hill Sep 12, 2025, 6:07 AM

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speaking of, the first thing that i really wanted to solidify was a dual number case being mostly archaic or lost

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the high case is for godly beings

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still deciding on how grammar works

stray hill Sep 12, 2025, 7:06 AM

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stray hill speaking of, the first thing that i really wanted to solidify was a dual number ...

i'm for sure undoing this in the morning btw

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but uhhh, my idea was that riojan doesn't have a copular verb, instead materializing as an affix to the noun, and that nouns act as adjectives

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so "i am warm" would be pegódio whereas "i might be warm" would be gódío i pehié as subjunctive doesn't conjugate as an affix, requiring you to put the pe- verbal suffix into a locative case (-hi), and conjugate it for subjunctive, it literally means "i might be at warm"

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i'll see how i feel about this in the morning

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this might not be interesting enough, it kind of reminds me too much of how some conlangs work, so i'll have to sleep on it

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i wanted it to look italian or spanish but be grammatically completely different

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