making a lang and... o...

-exj -/ɛxʲ(ɪ)/ :: Groups together physical concepts [always final] (and)

-exjiya -/ɛxʲjɐ/ :: Marks final word in a group of physical concepts {-exj + a2}

-akj -/akʲ(ɪ)/ :: Groups together abstract concepts [always final] (and)

-akjiya -/akʲjɐ/ :: Marks final word in a group of abstract concepts {-exj + a2}

(the - at the beginning means they're suffixes)

(Also, for context about a2:

A1 /a/ :: or

A2 /a/ :: emphatically connects clauses without specific meaning

)

if you dont get it, this is the beginning of grammatical gender O_O what have i done

although this isnt masc/fem(/neut) grammatical gender. in fact, due to a lot of in mating between different species that are closely related, so many biological sexes have evolved that it would be EXTREMELY unlikely for social gender based grammatical gender to be distinguished.

instead of masculine/feminine(/neuter), this language uses physical/abstract. It's not the stuff that we have in romance languages (Anglo-Saxon for da win), but it's still painful...uh.... basically physical is for any physical object (obv) and abstract is for things like emotions, sounds, basically anything you can't see and touch. I imagine that air will have a different gender in different dialects like how that creamy corn stew is in Ojibwe lol... oooooofff.... and i cant change this btw, this language is naturally developing in my world, so the change in the language has already happened...

the idea was probably influenced by the differentiation between "ser" and "estar" in spanish, but im still not removing it. It makes perfect sense to evolve in the proto-language of the settlement this language is for.

wish me luck ;<; happy pixelling