Fleeting Thought
Last night I had an interesting fleeting thought on the topic of constructed languages, or conlangs. Esperanto--the reigning king of kings of the conlangs--is certainly not without its flaws, but it is probably the best conlang. So then I got thinking of all the changes I would make to Esperanto if I were to make a new dialect of it, and the I came up with a realllly interesting idea. What if I were to make a radically agglutinative version of Esperanto (an already highly agglutinative language), or what if I were to make a radically analytic version of Esperanto? Well, I think agglutinativeness is way cooler than analyticness in languages, so here's what I came up with in about of idle thought 15 minutes this morning.
Alphabet
c ---> ts
ĉ ---> tc (t∫)
ĝ ---> dj (d3)
j ---> y (j)
ĵ ---> j (3)
ĥ --->h/k
ŝ ---> c (∫)
ŭ ---> w
Pronouns
Sing.
1 - mo
2 - vo
3 - lo (m), co (f), djo (n)
indef. - uno
reflex. - so
Plur.
add 'y' to each for plural
Noun/Adjective
(this is where it gets really funky)
word formation: prefixes-root-suffixes-preposition-grammatical ending-number-[accusative]
ex: "of the old large female pigs" ---> praporkinegdeoj
adjectives take same declension as nouns
Verbs
verb formation: prefixes-root-suffixes-[participle time]-[voice]-[tense]-mood
I am walking - Mo piedirantas
It had been known - Djo stsiitis
verbs aren't changed for person, because that's just cruel.

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