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Published: 2012-05-08 00:29:18 +0000 UTC; Views: 268; Favourites: 1; Downloads: 1
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A Yemayan/hattakak revolutionary propaganda poster. The top reads "Say "Hello" to the Tsewa Empire the Yemayan way: With gunshots!"and the bottom reads "Life and Liberty". The hattakak has a rifle in one claw and the decapitated head of a Tsewan aristocrat on the other.
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I like the spanish influence on this alien language. It's odd they picked up the Spanish preposition "kon," though.
Maybe this is something like "long" in Tok Pisin?
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Could be. I learned that Quechua has Spanish words like "pero" (but) in it, so it made sense to use "kon". Alternatively, their language could have a ridiculously ornate set of grammatical genders/noun classes. If so, there might be a noun class for "foreign/alien things", with which "kon" might be used.
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I didn't know Quencha had imported "pero." That's really cool.
You know, thinking more about this, I remembered the Japanese has imported what might seem a very fundamental English pronoun: "my"
My didn't replace the Japanese possessive system (watashi-no, ore-no, etc.), but was imported to express a particular kind of ownership. "my wife, my house, my car."
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Yup. Looking back at it, it's spelled differently, I guess made to conform to the Quechua vowel system, but still imported: "piru", along with "bwenu" (bueno/good), and "burru" (burro/donkey)
That bit about "my" is very interesting. I always make snippets of languages, just enough to allude to their speakers, but not enough to actually have fully-developed languages.
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