A comprehensive Grammar of the Pomum language

Written by Dr. Barry Gold and Prof. Pomum Pomum for the „Introductory Pomum Course“

“Words? Who needs words?”

        -Pomum from Orange

Table of Contents:

1.Introduction

1.1 The History of the Pomum people

1.2 The History of the Word „Pomum“

1.3 The History of History

X. Phonology

X.1 Pronunciation of the Pomum language

                X.1.1 Differences in High Pomum and Colloquial variants.

X.2 How words are constructed

2. Word Types

2.1 Noun

2.2 Verbs

        2.2.1 Personal Suffixes

                2.2.1.1 The fourth person (Nonexistant, Theoretical Party)

        2.2.2 Tenses

        2.2.3 The Passive Particle "-hasatamika“

        2.2.4 Verb structure

        2.2.5 The verb “tama”

        2.2.6 The verb “a””

        2.2.7 The verb “uniminadayapoyokoposupitasen”

2.3 Adjectives

        2.3.1 Comparison

        2.3.2 The adjective „dai“

2.4 Adverbs

        2.4.1 The “-poyo” Suffix

        2.4.2 Other Adverbs

2.5 Pronouns

        2.5.1 Declination

        2.5.2 Formal

        2.5.3 Usage

3. Sentences and their structure

3.1 Sentence structure

        3.1.1

1.1 The History of the Pomum people

The Pomum People are an ethnic group with a population of approximately ~100 000 commonly found living near supermarkets and fruit-bearing-plants.The people of Pomum are well known for their interest in Philosophy, and many Pomum people often ponder about the various different things in life, and It is a highly respected profession to sit on a rock all day, look into the sky, and come up with a decent idea from time to time.

1.2 The History of the Word „Pomum“

One of these highly respected procrastinators philosophists was Pomum of Orange, who was one of the most respected personalities from the Pomum peoples, back when they were called Sohtyamat. Pomum from Orange, while sitting on his favorite rock on a decent Thursday morning, had noticed, that languages spoken by different Nations around the Sohtyamat Kingdom had used words that covered a wide variety of meaning using only one word( e.x Latin using Pomum to refer to every fruit that exists and their mother). This was in direct contrast with the language of the Sohtyamat, Sohtirm, which had extremely specific words for things one doesn’t even grasp with their pitiful minds.

Pomum deduced from this that if you could use one noun to have multiple meanings, you must be able to do the same for all meanings. With this in Mind, he created his own language and gained a fair amount of followers.(It might be because only one Noun = less of a language to learn, which is maybe also why most people are so into Esperanto.)

1.3 The History of History

I don’t know the history of history, as I sadly am not a history teacher.

X.1 Phonology

The Pronunciation of the Pomum Language has been described as very straightforward and relatively easy to pronounce due to its compact phonemic inventory. Words in general are always either accented on the first syllable (hárumoraida) or left completely unaccented (harumoraida, similar to the Japanese mora system). no i am not a weeb i only watch like 3 animes per day

Vowels:

Dipthongs:

Consonants:

If you have no idea what these IPA signs mean, look them up.

X.1.1 Differences in High Pomum and Colloquial variants.

The Pomum one usually encounters in an informal setting can differ greatly from the set Standard. Unfortunately, despite the active research the CIFLP has conducted on the Pomum language, a full documentation of all dialects has yet to be finished. The following paragraphs under this subchapter are a mere indication of the pronunciation in this particular dialect, and are not in any way representative of the dialect differences in words or sentence structure as a whole.

Northern Pomum(Pomom pomom):

The most noticeable difference in this particular Dialect is that /u/ is near nonexistent and has been largely replaced with /o/, as well as /i/ and /æ/ merging to /e/. Furthermore, Pomom retained the consonant /b/ which is characteristic of Middle Pomum. The accenting of words in Pomom is on the second syllable. (harúmoraida).

Vowels:

Dipthongs:

Pomum Standard for the deaf and hard of hearing(ʔ):

This particular dialect has a characteristic pronounciation which makes it easy for deaf and hard of hearing people to pronounce.

X.5 Phonological constraint

Every word in the Pomum language follows a certain phonological constraint, to which syllables must abide(like slaves):

(C)V(m, n)

(Optional Consonant) + Vowel + (optional „m“,“n“)

2.1 Noun

Characteristic for the Pomum language, there exists only one noun, which can take on every meaning, which is Pomum.

Pomum  isn't modified through declination, although it can be modified using certain affixes(e.x -mida).

Also, Pomum is, without fail, always spelt with a capital P, no matter where it is located in a sentence

2.2 Verbs

Verbs are seen as the main carriers of meaning in Pomum, as well as the most important aspect of the Pomum language. A verb can be conjugated depending on Tense and Person and whether the verb is in passive or not.

The vast majority of the verbs are regular, with the exception of „tama“ to be, „aaa“ to need help and „uniminadayapoyokoposupitasen“, to pretend somebody is dead (literally translated „to ignore and loudly say to die“, which might have made sense in context like 3000 years ago)

2.2.1 Negation

Verbs can simply be negated by adding an (no) before the verb.

E.x

Pomum an tamayokosoku.

The <Pomum> doesn't exist.

2.2.2 Personal Suffixes

Pomum's personal suffixes work as follows:

The tense is appended to the verb after the tense and the passive particle (see 2.2.4).

2.2.2.1 The fourth person (Nonexistent, Theoretical Party)

The fourth person in Pomum referrers to a party which is nonexistent or theoretical (for example talking about a fictional character, even through 3rd person would be just as acceptable).

E.x

Pomum uniminadayapoyokoposupitasenmoraida, pomum an tamayokonika

I pretend that that <pomum> is dead, <Pomum> never existed.

2.2.3 Tenses

The Pomum Language possesses of 7 Tenses, which are added before the passive particle and the personal suffix:

Prepast: Used to talk of an action that happened before the action the past tense refers to. (Depending on context, if this Tense is used, it can be translated with „Before“) The infix used is -yoru- .

Ex.

tamamasaida, an tamayoruida.

“Before I existed, I didn't.”

Past: Refers to a action that has been completed. The infix used is -masa-

Ex.

tamamasaida, an tamayoruida.

Before I existed, I didn't.”

Present: Is used to describe a temporary state of things, a current action or an action that has been continuing and currently is. The infix used is -mora-

Ex.

Pomum unimimoraida.

„I am ignoring <Pomum>“

Prefuture: Used to describe an action happening before the action the future tense is referring to. (Depending on context, if this Tense is used, it will be translated with „Before“) The infix used is -riku-

Ex.

Pitasensikaida, an Pitasenrikuida.

Before I die, I won't.

Future: Used to describe an action that will happen, is predicted to happen or could happen. The infix used its -sika-.

Ex.

Pitasensikaida, an Pitasenrikuida.

Before I die, I won't.

Imperative: A nontemporal tense used to issue a command. The infix used is -ita-

Ex.

Pomumida unimitaka!

Ignore me!

Note: We will learn of Pomumida in Chapter 2.5

Nontemporal: Used to describe a permanent state of being, as well as describing actions without describing when it happened. The used infix is -yoko-

E.x

Pitasenyokoaka.

You are dead.

2.2.4 The Passive Particle "-hasatamika-“

The Passive Particle is used when the action described by the verb affects the subject. Its is placed before the tense and the personal suffixes. (2017 Nicholas said this cause am copying this shit into excel and i dont want to edit too much ffs)

Unimimorahasatamikaida.

I am being ignored.

2.2.5 Verb structure

The structure of a verb is as follows:

Root Verb + Tense (+Passive)+Personal Suffix

If a part of a verb ends with the same vowel as the beginning vowel of the next part (ex. Unimi- and -ita-), the resulting double vowel is replaced with a single vowel. (so Unimita- instead of Unimiita-).

2.2.6 The verb “tama”

The Pomum language is fairly regular, and verbs conjugate mostly evenly. However, there are three Irregular Verbs that have certain conjugation patterns.

In the case of the verb "tama" ,which translates to "to be" or "to exist", "tama" cannot be conjugated into the passive.(The ball is being been by me, that doesn’t even make sence in English, and lots of shit’s allowed in English). In all other aspects, through, "tama" is conjugated like any other verb.

2.2.7 The verb “a”

In the case of "a",which means "to need help", it is conjugated like a normal verb except that the imperative of the verb is the same as the infinitive "a" .

2.2.8 The verb “uniminadayapoyokoposupitasen”

The same applies to the verb "uniminadayapoyokoposupitasen“ , which means „to pretend <Pomum> is dead.“ (literally translated „ignore-and-loud-ly-say/proclaim-death/to die“). The imperative of "uniminadayapoyokoposupitasen“ , is, again, the same as the infinitive.

2.3 Adjectives

While not the most important part of the Pomum language(Try making a full sentence with only adjectives!), adjectives are very important for the language, because they can be used to explain what exactly the Pomum is you are talking about. Adjectives are inflexible, and only affixes related to Comparison can be attached to the Adjective.

2.3.1 Comparison

Comparison in Pomum is similar to that of many languages, and as such has a Positive, a Comparative and a Superlative. Comparison works through the appending of a suffix onto the adjective, which works as follows.

Whereas -mida is the plural suffix (as seen in personal suffixes), and -damida, which is a suffix used more often in Adjectives but can be used on the Noun (which would translate to "All/Everything of <Pomum>").

2.3.2 The adjective „dai“

I have absolutely no idea why I wanted to make a subchapter for "dai", but I'll find the written idea later :D

2.4 Adverbs

Adverbs are the part of a language that describe a verb, similar to adjectives describing Noun(s in other languages). In Pomum, they must always be put in front of a verb, and are not appended to the verb.

2.4.1 The “-poyo” Suffix

The role of the "-poyo" suffix is to turn an adjective into an adverb. It is attached do the adjective Positive.

Ex.

daya (loud) --> dayapoyo (loudly)

2.4.2 Other Adverbs

I'll come up with the words later, the grammar is more important.

2.5 Personal Pronouns

Pronouns are deemed allowed in Pomum because they are technically not nouns. They can be created by attaching a Pronoun Suffix to Pomum.

2.5.1 Declination

For those of you who didn't understand the last paragraph, let me spell it out for you!

For those of you who STILL don't understand this, you are probably too retarded to learn a language can contact me on whatever social medium you know me on!

2.5.2 Formal

In a formal setting, the honorific suffix -dasyo can be used. It is appended after the personal suffix.

2.5.3 Usage

As the subject is always implied in verbs (through the personal suffix), the usage of Personal Pronouns should be restricted to usage as an object in a sentence, or to formally refer to another person.

3.1 Morphosyntax

sample text

i have no idea what to write here just ignore this shit

lorum ipsum blabalbalblablablalba sdfjfajsflksjfk

3.1.1 Word order

The basic word order for Pomum is SOV(Subject-Object-Verb).

E.x

Pomum Pomum unimimorasoku.

The Pomum ignores the Pomum.

3.1.2 Order of Adjectives and Adverbs

Adjectives and Adverbs always come before the object they refer to.

E.x

daya Pomum

The loud Pomum

Pitasenpoyo Pomum tamayokunida

A theoretical Pomum is deadlike ( no freaking idea what that means but it works as a sentence theoretically so I don't care.)

Appendix A: Wordlist

an - Negation

pomum - Noun; a word which refers to everything(historically, the word litteraly ment “atom”)

unimi - Verb; to ignore

tama - Verb; to be

a - Verb; to need help

I’ll add more of this later. I want to get hold of the Grammar first. :)