New Maiya Animacy
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2. New Maiya Animacy
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3. New Maiya Classes
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honestly i just want to write an article to make that orange box go away "Your language's status is NEW!" yeah i get it
Anyway, New Maiya features animacy, but not through declining, conjugating, etc.. Animacy is subtly conveyed through vowels. More specifically, certain vowels are associated with living organisms, and others are associated with nonliving things. This is not a specific rule or anything, just a trend I observed in my own work while creating new words. The vowels that a noun contains and/or ends with hint at the animacy of the word.
Examples!
Animate Vowels
O ... bako (dog), mao (cat)
EI ... keigo (hawk)
Inanimate Vowels
E ... ore (mountain)
AI ... zai (sun), wai (water)
U ... lu (moon), moru (blood)
Exceptions
gue (turtle)
mine (woman)
woho (wheel)
Neutral Animacy- Some vowels have no association with animacy. When a noun ends in I, it is almost always because it is plural. When a noun ends in A, it is usually an adjective.
I ... mui (time), hisi (tail), koli (tree), ohi (pore)
A ... lina (line), pada (task)
Things that are alive but do not move are still considered animate. Dead things are not considered animate. Things that are dead but still move are considered animate. For example-
Living Animate: bako (dog)
Dead Animate: heya (ghost)
Nonliving Inanimate: pauwo (smoke)
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