Dêbiua
From Langmaker
| Conlang | D%26#234;biua |
| Author | Hans Straub |
| Year Began | 2003 |
| Language Type | personal language |
| Lexicon Size | 283 |
| Etymologies | No |
| Grammar | Yes |
| Sample Texts | Yes |
| Primer | No |
Dêbiua is a personal language and was designed by Hans Straub.
Language sources
Arabic (word building system), Euroclone (grammatical concepts).
Design principles
Dêbiua was inspired by the word construction system of Arabic, where roots are defined by consonant clusters, with vowels added according to a specific pattern to indicate fine meaning. Dêbiua uses a "dual" system, where roots are defined by vowel clusters and consonants are added for grammatical forms and fine meaning. Its sound system therefore contains an unusual high number of vowels.
The huge majority of roots are adjectival roots, defined by vowel clusters (mostly 3 or 4). There are a limited number of basic noun and verb roots, defined by consonant pairs. Most nouns and verbs are combinations of one of the base roots with an adjective. Concepts for cases, tenses, sentence structure are mainly borrowed from European languages, such as English, German, Latin and French.
Interest of others
A few people in the newsgroup alt.language.artificial.
