Source: Grammar/en/main.md
Blaken
This is my conlang, the language of the Blakenian people. This language is young but it is eager to grow and bloom into a beautiful network of human thought.
Blaken Manifesto
1. What happens matters more than who someone is
2. Blaken must reflect a worldview of non-attachment, clarity of intention, compassion, and awareness of mind
3. Blaken avoids
- Reification, processes are not rigid objects
- Ego anchoring
4. Possession is a relationship, not control
5. Events are lived, not classified
6. Blaken aligns its grammar with emotional intelligence
7. Blaken exists and other languages exist
8. Blaken changes like the tides and the phases of the moon
9. Blaken does not believe in pronouns, because there are open classes
10. Blaken allows the expression of frustration and deep sadness in a centered way
11. One should resist automatic moral judgement, speech, and identity
12. In Blaken one cannot judge the feelings
13. In Blaken there is no automatic speech, judgment, or identity
Glossing conventions
| Abbrev | Meaning |
|---|---|
| AGT | volitional / attentive subject (-blum) |
| PAT | non-volitional / receptive subject (-prum) |
| LOC | locative / internal postposition (tin) |
| DAT | dative / lative postposition (os) |
| COM | comitative / associative postposition (to) |
| ABL | ablative / source / separative postposition (ex) |
| IPFV.DIR | imperfective direct evidential (-ken) |
| PFV.DIR | perfective direct evidential (-tan) |
| IPFV.INF | imperfective inferential evidential (-bu) |
| PFV.INF | perfective inferential evidential (-tu) |
| REP | reportative evidential (-bla) |
| NEG | negation (free pu or bound -wɨ) |
| ADJ | relational adjectivizer (-ko) |
| RES | resultative state (-blom) |
| POT | latent potential / affordance (-blø) |
| ADV | adverbial (-vom / reduplication) |
| EVT | event nominal / bare root used eventively |
| EXIST | situative / locative existence predicate (dom-) |
| APPEAR | inherent / apparent state predicate (om-) |