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imbecilica · Joined:Sun 19 Apr 2009 8:37 am Posts:176

Yondae'eo [ 윤데어 ]

Yondae'eo or simply Yondae is a new take on the old conlang I started years ago. The conlang is written in Hangeul and can easily be romanised using a system very close to that of modern Korean. However, since many words are borrowed from Chinese or via Japanese Kanji, a mixed script similar to that of Korean Hanja-Hangeul can be used.

More coming soon...

Sample:

나가 크 오리나 대학창 네? or
나가 去 오리나 大學場 네?
[ Naga keu ori-na daihakchang nae? ]
( Do you go to my university? )

VROOR · **Posted:** Sat 21 Nov 2009 10:16 am

imbecilica wrote:

나가 크 오리나 대학창 네? or
나가 去 오리나 大學場 네?
[ Naga keu ori-na daihakchang nae? ]
( Do you go to my university? )

Is the chang in daihakchang pronounced as jang (with the j as in "just") or chang (with the ch as in "change")? Also, how do we pronounce the words "keu" "nae" and "Yondae"?

Talib · Joined:Sun 19 Apr 2009 8:22 am Posts:768 Location: Canada

Also, why is the term for university 大學場 when it's just 大學 in Chinese? As I understand it 場 means market.

VROOR · **Posted:** Sat 21 Nov 2009 8:02 pm

Talib wrote:

Also, why is the term for university 大學場 when it's just 大學 in Chinese? As I understand it 場 means market.

Actually, in Chinese 場 does not mean market, it means place. 市場 is one of the Chinese combo-words for market (keep in-mind that Chinese is a multi-syntax language). Thus, 大學場 is valid which means "place of the greater learnings"; this would also be valid for the Chinese but, such usage never survived into the mordern age.

The Korean and Japanese have kept this usage however, as in 道場 "place of practice" or "place of training".

Talib · Joined:Sun 19 Apr 2009 8:22 am Posts:768 Location: Canada

VROOR wrote:

Actually, in Chinese 場 does not mean market, it means place. 市場 is one of the Chinese combo-words for market (keep in-mind that Chinese is a multi-syntax language). Thus, 大學場 is valid which means "place of the greater learnings"; this would also be valid for the Chinese but, such usage never survived into the mordern age.

Thank you for clarifying. I thought it meant that based on association with 市.

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The Korean and Japanese have kept this usage however, as in 道場 "place of practice" or "place of training".

Isn't 道 the same word known in English as Dao/Tao? As in the religion of Daoism?

Neqitan · Joined:Fri 17 Apr 2009 9:59 pm Posts:397 Location: Canada

Maybe that <eu> is /ɯ/, and <yon> is /jon/, but yeah Imbecilica, why ㅐfor <ai> /aj/(?)?

If you're following older Korean pronunciation, maybe you would have also kept a diphthong for ㅔinstead of... /æ/(?) (In case that <ae> is an /æ/.)

Other than that, it's very nicely done. It inspires to make some similar conlang, but oh, the work.

Serali · Joined:Sun 28 Jun 2009 1:28 pm Posts:248

I love you. :mrgreen:

It's good to see something like this being done. I love Korean.

Also didn't Yondae have another Korean like script? Could you post it again?

kaenif · **Posted:** Sun 22 Nov 2009 10:14 am

Neqitan wrote:

Maybe that <eu> is /ɯ/, and <yon> is /jon/, but yeah Imbecilica, why ㅐfor <ai> /aj/(?)?

If you're following older Korean pronunciation, maybe you would have also kept a diphthong for ㅔinstead of... /æ/(?) (In case that <ae> is an /æ/.)

Other than that, it's very nicely done. It inspires to make some similar conlang, but oh, the work.

Also the 윤 for Yon :?:

VROOR · **Posted:** Sun 22 Nov 2009 10:20 am

Talib wrote:

Isn't 道 the same word known in English as Dao/Tao? As in the religion of Daoism?

Yes but, Daoism/Taoism is more correctly referred as 道教 (the religion) or 道派 (the philosophy), or as 道學 (the specific taoistic practices).

imbecilica · Joined:Sun 19 Apr 2009 8:37 am Posts:176

Oops it should be 욘데어!

Neqitan wrote:

Imbecilica, why ㅐfor <ai> /aj/(?)?

I'll try to post up a phonology list soon. The reason why ㅐ is for /aj/ is simply because the phonology of Yondae'eo doesn't match that of Korean's 100% and think about it, if you join ㅏ and ㅣ you get ㅐ (a + i) which is roughly /aj/.