Pretty much what the title says. What’s a feature in your conlang that you find especially cool?
Something neat about my conlang, Hip’alŭk’, is how it handles demonstratives (e.g., “this” & “that”). Demonstratives have both a three-way distinction between persons (speaker, addressee, and both) and a three-way distinction between distances (near, slightly far, and far).
This results in 9 different demonstratives (that I haven’t nailed down words for yet):
meoproximal
DEM.PROX.1— “this near me”
tuoproximalDEM.PROX.2— “that near you”
omniproximalDEM.PROX.1+2— “that near us both”
meomesialDEM.MES.1— “that slightly far from me”
tuomesialDEM.MES.1— “that slightly far from you”
omnimesialDEM.MES.1+2— “that slightly far from us both”
meodistalDEM.DIST.1— “that far from me”
tuodistalDEM.DIST.2— “that far from you”
omnidistalDEM.DIST.1+2— “that far from us both”Interesting. Could you combine them? As in, could you use this system to really simply say like “this far-me near-you book”?
Hmm, I imagine you wouldn’t need to. For your example, just using the tuoproximal demonstrative (i.e., that near-you book) would imply that the book is far away from the speaker — otherwise, they would’ve used the omniproximal. I could see two being used for emphasis though.
