The Ouxu Language
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The Ouxu Language

Definition and Reference

Jay Scott

<jay@satirist.org>

Abstract

The official definition of the artificial human language Ouxu, covering writing, pronunciation, word formation, grammar, meaning, and usage. This book plus the dictionary are the complete language definition.

List of Figures

4.1. The Form of a Clause

List of Tables

1.1. The Word Parts
1.2. Translating the Six
1.3. Another Suffix
1.4. Even More Blue Ink
2.1. The Vowels
2.2. Examples of Vowel Sequences
2.3. Consonants
3.1. Hyphens in Dictionary Entries
4.1. The Word Parts
4.2. Agentive Coordinating Inflections
4.3. Eventive Coordinating Inflections
4.4. Descriptive Coordinating Inflections
4.5. Subordinating Inflections
4.6. Subordinated Coordinating Inflections
4.7. Emotional Dividers
4.8. Belief Dividers
4.9. Objective Dividers
4.10. The Most Important Derivational Suffixes
4.11. The Conjunctions
4.12. Whole Sentence Modifiers
4.13. The Sentence Modifier Tags
4.14. The Discourse Connectives
4.15. Conversation Management Words
4.16. Exclamations
5.1. The Digits
5.2. The SI Magnitude Prefixes
5.3. Date and Time Words
5.4. Pronouns
5.5. Comparative and Superlative Suffixes
5.6. Tense and Aspect Proper
5.7. Time Conversions

List of Examples

1.1. Six Sentences
1.2. Six More Sentences
1.3. A Slightly Longer Sentence
2.1. T
2.2. Clustered Consonants
2.3. N+C
3.1. Stress
3.2. Some Loan Roots
3.3. Albuquerque
3.4. Two-Word Group
3.5. Three-Word Group
3.6. Five-Word Group
4.1. A Simple Sentence
4.2. Agentive Sentences
4.3. Eventive Sentences
4.4. Independently Agentive and Eventive
4.5. Agentive vs. Eventive
4.6. Vocative
4.7. Viewpoints
4.8. Not Interchangeable
4.9. Beneficiaries
4.10. Repeating an Inflection
4.11. Attributes and Associations
4.12. Having Control
4.13. Labels
4.14. Measurements
4.15. Using -ko
4.16. Using -pon and -hon
4.17. Using -hito
4.18. Using the Subordinator
4.19. Stringing Together Subordinates with -ko
4.20. Stringing Together Subordinates with -i
4.21. Blue Endings
4.22. Woodcutter
4.23. Topic Examples
4.24. Omitting the Divider
4.25. I Love You
4.26. Questions and Answers
4.27. Negation and Opposites
4.28. This
4.29. A Generic Statement
4.30. Compound Roots
4.31. Compound Roots With Suffixes
4.32. Giant Robots
4.33. Space Aliens
4.34. Clause Modifier
4.35. I Said
4.36. Two Linked Sentences
4.37. List of Conjuncts
4.38. Joined Sentences
4.39. The Divider in Joined Sentences
4.40. More Joined Sentences
4.41. Weak Negation
4.42. Weak Proposal
4.43. Woohoo
5.1. Two
5.2. Using the SI Prefixes
5.3. Tuesday
5.4. Indirect Questions
5.5. Time as Space

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