About Pynic

Hello. This is the website for my current conlang, Pynic. Or in Egl, PYNIC! Pynic, pronounced /pi.nɪʃ/, was originally called Japancant, pronounced /jɒp.ɒn.ʃɒnt/, which meant "not Japanese." However, the premise has changed from opposite of Japanese to just a conlang I guess.

Phonology

The phonology is below.

Letter	IPA
A	/a/
E	/ɛ/
Ø	/ø/
I	/ɪ/
Y	/i/
O	/o/
U	/u/
C	/ʃ/
D	/d/
F	/f/
G	/χ/
H	/h/
J	/j/
K	/k/
L	/l/
N	/n/
P	/p/
R	/ɹ/
S	/s/
T	/t/
V	/v/
W	/w/
Z	/z/
AU	/aʊ/
UI	/œy/

Alphabet

Pynic uses an alphabet called Egl, written EGL. It' s a bit hard to read, sorry about that. However, I'm sure one could get accustomed to it. Now, below is a pangram. Look at it. It's been made big so you can read it easier. Look at it. Gun to your head. Look at it.

JAPANCA IG HASZPØKAFAC LEY YKKA, GUTØ RAVWYKØ ANHEDARØ TRAUL.

Latinized, that would be "japanca ig haszpøkafac ley ykka, gutø ravwykø anhedarø traul." How wonderful! This sentence literally translates to "Japanese is spoken(fem.) by me, good great not bad idea." Truly a good great not bad sentence. If you don't know what a pangram is, think of that one quick brown fox whom jumps over lazy dogs, or that big sphinx of quartz that jackdaws love.

Words

Below are the words and their meaning. Sorry if it gets confusing.

Egl	Latin	English
KNAGY	knagy	person
VRAKDU	vrakdu	bread
WETØR	wetør	water
CADAG	cadag	hate (noun)
KATTY	katty	cat
PARKA	parka	dog
WERT	wert	word
PYN	pyn	language
HUUS	huus	house
ZLOK	zlok	sun
NUNNE	nunne	moon
DALG	dalg	day
NEGT	negt	night
SALGT	salgt	noon
TIKKAK	tikkak	time
TRAUL	traul	idea
ØDRAC	ødrac	eat
UNKFAG	unkfag	drink
IG	ig	be / is / are
HATTAC	hattac	hate (verb)
GA	ga	go
ZPØKA	zpøka	speak
JAZT	jazt	test
GUT	gut	good
HEDAR	hedar	bad
GOHØK	gohøk	stinky
WANK	wank	gross
JAN	jan	boring
OHEG	oheg	stupid
NYW	nyw	new
RAVWYK	ravwyk	great
ANN	ann	and (nouns)
ERN	ern	and (verbs)
WRØG	wrøg	but
UR	ur	or
DUNSER	dunser	because
TRAG	trag	thus / therefore
WRA	wra	yes/no question marker
WRED	wred	what
WØRL	wørl	where
HASWAL	haswal	when
HAUD	haud	how
WRO	wro	who
WRIP	wrip	why
AD	ad	male article/pronoun
AF	af	female article/pronoun
AR	ar	neuter article/pronoun
YKKA	ykka	I
JAD	jad	you (singular)
JADRAN	jadran	you (plural)
WEY	wey	we
ØNSA	ønsa	us
PYNIC	pynic	pynic
JAPANCA	japanca	japanese
NEDERLANNIC	nederlannic	dutch
NYWØLATINYN	nywølatinyn	french
LATINYN	latinyn	latin
ENNLIC	ennlic	english
DUITTIC	duittic	german
SWEDIC	swedic	swedish
NORWEGIC	norwegic	norwegian
DEYNIC	deynic	danish
YSLANNIC	yslannic	icelandic
ITALYN	italyn	italian
SPANYN	spanyn	spanish
FAROSSIC	farossic	faroese
FRYSIC	frysic	frisian
TCYNCA	tcynca	chinese
GORYCA	goryca	korean
VYTNACA	vytnaca	vietnamese
UKRYNSK	ukrynsk	ukranian
RUSSK	russk	russian
POLSK	polsk	polish

Did you get all that? Hopefully you did. Anyways, onto the grammar. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA GRAMMAR SO SCARY AAAAAAAAA

Grammar

Below is the full documentation of the grammar. Enjoy!

Word Order

Word order is SVO. Look up the fancy grammatical terms if you don't know them. Adjectives go before nouns, you saw in the pangram. An example sentence would be:

AF KNAGYFI IGFAC JAD.

Latinized: "af knagyfi igfac jad."

The above sentence literally means "a person(fem.)is you." Or more naturally in English, "You are a girl." How true! You may wonder what any of that means, but we'll get to that later.

Nouns

You already saw the the vocabulary, I shan't repeat it. That took up a ton of space, and it'd be a pain to update everything TWICE. anyhow, let's explain how nouns work

There are three types of nouns. Animate, inanimate, and abstract. Animate nouns are things that are typically animate, such as people, animals, and corpses. Inanimate nouns are everything else, besides abstract. Abstract nouns are, get this, abstract. I know, that's crazy. They're things like. [checks notes] They're words like cadag, tikkak, traul, and proper nouns also get the treatment, such as language names. Pyn and wert are not abstract though. Anyhow, below is a list of things.

Verbs

Verbs in Pynic are simple. Actually that's a lie. Verbs in Pynic aren't that simple. Verbs are comprised of four things at most. The tense prefix, the verb itself, the gender ending, and the plural ending. The tenses are the most simple part. There's HAS- (has-) for past, WAL- (wal-) for future, and none for present. Fun fact, the word for when, HASWAL (haswal), is comprised of these two words. That's where it comes from. #etymology

Next, is the verb itself. Recall the pangram from earlier, "JAPANCA IG HASZPØKAFAC LEY YKKA, GUTØ RAVWYKØ ANHEDARØ TRAUL." Look at "HASZPØKAFAC", and. Wait you probably don't know egl yet lemmejustrestart.

Look at "haszpøkafac" and you'll find it's made of three parts. First is "has-", which we just discussed. Next is "zpøka", which you may've seen in the list of words. Or maybe you didn't, we all skip over things. But anyways, zpøka is the verb itself. Go back and look at it if you'ven't. And finally, we have "-fac", which is the feminine verb suffix.

If it were multiple girls speaking, it'd be "haszpøkafacfan.". That last part is the feminine plural. For more than just verbs. It's the feminine plural for nouns as well! With boys and neuters, it's -dan and -ran respectfully.

Now, you may wonder how plural verbs of mixed gender groups work. They don't. Say boys and girls are speaking. You'd say "af knagyfifan zpøkafacfan ann ad knagydidan zpøkadacdan." Also, there are two words for "and." There's ann for nouns, and ern for verbs. For instance, say a boy is eating and drinking. You'd say ad knagydi ødracdac ern unkfagdac. Simple, isn't it?

Adjectives

Adjectives are simple. They go before nouns. When preceding gendered nouns, they have -e, and if neuter, they have -ø. You already probably saw the adjectives in the list of words earlier, I shan't repeat them. Anyways, TODO: FINISH LATER