Introduction

Ab'jarin Introduction

Ab'jarin is a constructed language (known as a conlang) that I have been working on since late May. I initially started working on thi...

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Sunday, August 21, 2016

Questions

Non yes or no questions in Ab'jarin (for yes/no questions, see Yes/no Questions)

Question in Ab'jarin are formed by placing the adverb that creates the question at the beginning of the sentence.

For example:

In English Sentence Structure:

How long did you run?

In Ab'jarin:

How run long you?

/hʌ eltsa mto go/ ?

Word English Translation
hi Who
ha Where
he What
ho Which
How

Yes/no Questions

How to form questions in Ab'jarin.

For yes/no questions, Ab'jarin has a system much like Latin. If the person posing the question is expecting the answer to be yes, then they would say the following (using an English example):

"Yes, you ran to the door?"

If the person asking the question did indeed run to the door, then they would answer in one of the following ways:

"Yes."

"Yes, ran."

"Ran."

If the person asking the question did not run to the door, then they would answer in one of the following ways:

"No."

"No, ran."

Here is what the above example would be, in Ab'jarin

The Question:

/miʃ, eltsa go nvet ty iʃ/ ?

The Answer:

/miʃ, eltsa/.

The same is true for questions expecting a negative response.