Que dir? Yo no sais. (What to say? I don't know./Tlōs cwum? Ro si psico.)
I'm kind of at a loss here, so I'll start with a phonology (of course):
a [a]
b [b]
c [k, s] (same as English or French)
d [d]
e [e, E] ([e] in open syllables; [E] in closed ones)
f [f]
g [g, Z] (same as French)
h [silent]
i [i]
j [Z]
k [k]
l [l]
ll [I don't know yet]
m [m]
n [n]
o [o, O] ([o] in open syllables; [O] in closed ones)
p [p]
q, qu [k]
r [4]
s [s]
t [t]
u [u]
v [v]
w [isn't]
x [isn't]
y [i, j] (same idea as French or Spanish)
z [z]
Okay, what I really meant with c, g and y is: c and g are "soft" in front of i and e. Y is [j] only when next to a vowel. And if there's "silent" in the brackets it means just that. Same with "isn't" -- that means we don't use that letter. Just so you know, this isn't my ideal way of setting up the phonology, but because it's a Romance language I don't really have a choice. At the very least, it's easier to learn than French on the spelling front. That's kind of the whole purpose here.
Some people hate seeing number systems first, so I won't give you that next. Instead, I'm going to tell you a tad about grammar and syntax. Word order is SVO, of course, unless there's a question (fais tu tus deveres?) in which case it's VSO. (The example sentence means "are you doing your homework?".
) The second person imperative doesn't require a subject. There is no third person imperative, unlike in
Tikolmian.
The same set of tenses exist in Conilan as in French, but I haven't worked them all out yet. We'll get there.
For now, you'll have to be happy with the inevitable numbers:
un = 1
dos = 2
treis = 3
quatro = 4
cinco = 5
sis = 6
sete = 7
oto = 8
novo = 9
dis = 10
once = 11
doce = 12
treice = 13
quatorce = 14
quince = 15
seice = 16
disisete/dis-sete = 17
disioto/dis-oto = 18
disinovo/dis-novo = 19
vinte = 20
vinte e un = 21
vinte-dos = 22
trenta = 30
quaranta = 40
cinquanta = 50
seicenta = 60
seicenta-dis = 70
quatro-vintes = 80
quatro-vintes-dis = 90
cento = 100
millo = 1,000
dis millo = 1,0,000
cento millo = 10,0,000
miliono = 1,00,0,000
miliardo = 1,0,00,00,0,000
biliono = 1,000,0,00,00,0,000
...and so on and so forth. I think you get where I'm going with this, and I think you should know that I made most of this up on the spot. I sort of have rules for deriving Conilan from French, but they're too hard to explain.
Oh, and you'll be thinking all those commas are pretty strange. That's because I like to put in commas every fourth digit but the convention is to put them in every third digit.
