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+---
+title: "L'ewa development"
+date: 2020-08-05
+series: flightJournal
+---
+
+In May I created a draft of L'ewa, a draft for a conlang that I was
+going to use personally/in my diary. This ended up not happening like
+I would have liked, but I have actually found a good use for this
+language. I want to use it to help build out a fantasy world for a
+novel I want to write. As such, I'm going to treat L'ewa as a
+protolanguage and then start evolving it into a more ornate and
+detailed language.
+
+=> https://lewa.within.website L'ewa: A Personal Language
+
+One of the main things I want to write about in the novel is how
+hierarchies corrupt meaning from the pure into a distilled form of its
+former self. I would like to have L'ewa be a part of this. I built
+L'ewa to be a more freeform magicky language, but I would like to try
+and bake a few things into it:
+
+* A formality system that inflects nouns into formalized forms (with
+  some irregular forms to spice things up)
+* Moving some things from an analytic system of particles to a case
+  system that works on agglutination (like Esperanto or Russian)
+* Make kirta (Creator) and other spirituality terms into swear words
+* Maybe introduce a gendered grammar system
+* Use a Latin-inspired script instead of the more witchy pictoral one
+
+## Case Marking
+
+Right now, sentence role marking is done with the ka, ke and ku
+marking the subject, verb and object of the sentences. I'd like to
+change it to something else like:
+
+* -ka -> marks a nominative argument (all parts of the noun phrase get
+  marked like this)
+* -ku -> marks an accusative argument
+
+I need to rejigger the pronoun system for this. I may also reintroduce
+binary gender as a concept and make part of the core conflict of the
+novel be related to the gender (or lack thereof) of the main character
+Divae (name still WIP).
+
+## Tense Marking
+
+By default, every verb is seen as either past, present, future or
+perfective with the actual meaning either specified explicitly or
+inferred via context. Consider this sentence:
+
+```
+mi madsa spaloku
+```
+
+This could be "I ate an apple (in the past)", "I am eating an apple",
+"I will eat an apple" or "I ate an apple", but which one it is would
+be inferred from context.
+
+The old tense markers are qu (past), qa (present), qo (future) and qe
+(perfective). Perfective doesn't really make sense to me as a tense
+anymore, so I'm going to drop it. This should end up with a system
+like this:
+
+* -qa -> present tense
+* -qu -> past tense
+* -qo -> future tense
+
+So the following sentences would be something like "I am eating an
+apple", "I ate an apple (in the past)" and "I will eat an apple":
+
+* mi madsaqa spaloku
+* mi madsaqu spaloku
+* mi madsaqo spaloku
+
+This is still all a work in progress, and I will probably change this
+a lot to make it a bit less bad in the future. Right now this is a set
+of ideas I've been thinking out, and I'm going to work at making this
+better for the future. I need to do some reading up on languages with
+case systems.