Draft:Qua

Qua
Kwa
languant Qua
Pronunciation	/kwa/
Created by	Biourey Langua
Date	December 18th, 2023
Users	1 (?) (2023)
Purpose	Constructed language IALs Eurocentric Romancelangs Qua
Early form	Proto-Qua
Writing system	Latin script
Sources	Romance languages; Spanish, Italian, Catalan, French, Portuguese: IALs; Esperanto, Interlingua
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–

Qua is one of the first eurocentric auxlangs to say that they are actually eurocentric, mainly towards Romance languages.

Phonology

Consonants

	Labial				Coronal					Dorsal			Laryngeal
	Bi­labial		Labio­dental		Alveolar		Post­alveolar		Palatal		Velar		Glottal
Nasal	m				n				ɲ
Plosive	p	b			t	d					k	ɡ	ʔ
Affricate					ts		t̠ʃ	d̠ʒ
Fricative			f	v	s		ʃ	ʒ			x		h
Approximant	(w)				l				j		(w)
Trill					r

Vowels

	Front	Back
Close	i y	u
Close-mid	e	o
Open-mid	ɛ
Open	a	ä

Orthography

Number	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33
Upper case	A	Ä	B	C	Ĉ	D	E	Ë	F	G	Ĝ	GN	H	Ĥ	I	J	K	L	M	N	O	Œ	P	QU	R	S	Ŝ	T	U	V	W	Y	Z
Lower case	a	ä	b	c	ĉ	d	e	ë	f	g	ĝ	gn	h	ĥ	i	j	k	l	m	n	o	œ	p	qu	r	s	ŝ	t	u	v	w	y	z
IPA phoneme	a	ä	b	t͡s	t͡ʃ	d	e	ɛ	f	ɡ	d͡ʒ	ɲ	h	x	i	ʒ	k	l	m	n	o	y	p	kw	r	s	ʃ	t	u	v	w	j	s

The current alphabet of Qua

<ä> is pronounced like English's bra.

<c> is pronounced like German's Zett.

<ĉ> is pronounced like Spanish's leche.

<đ> is pronounced like English's lads.

<ë> is pronounced like Portuguese's tempo.

<ĝ> is pronounced like French's adjonction.

<gn> is pronounced like English's canyon.

<ĥ> is pronounced like German's Bach.

<j> is pronounced like English's pleasure.

<œ> is pronounced like French's lune.

<qu> is pronounced like English's queen.

<ŝ> is pronounced like French's chien.

<y> is pronounced like English's yes.

Grammar

There's a lot of rules for grammar in Qua.

Definite article

If the sound preceding it is an oral vowel, it is al.

take al aqua, /al akwa/ the water.

If the sound preceding it is a nasal vowel, it is el.

take el äntidant, /el ãidã/ the help.

If the sound preceding it is an oral consonant, it is lante. /lãte/

take lante humana, /lãte humana/ the human.

If the sound preceding it is a nasal consonant, it is lan.

take lan nœĉa, /lan nyt͡ʃa/ the night.

Indefinite article

If the sound preceding it is a consonant, it is una.

take una peizonca, /una peisõt͡sa/ a fish.

If the sound preceding it is a vowel, it is un

take un aziba /un ast͡sːiba/, a bean.

Parts of Speech suffixes

Qua uses suffixes for most parts of speech.

Nouns	Adjectives	Adverbs
-a (azcziba)	-o (grando)	-or
-ant /ã/ (äntidant)	-ont /õ/ (ebriont)	-orse /õ.se/
-anc /ãt͡s/	-onc /õt͡s/ (bonnonc)	-ond /õd/
plural add -s or -es /s/

The verbs has way more suffixes.

	Indicative	Imperfect	Perfect	Conditional	Infinitive
Past	-ias	-int /ĩ/	-iquänt /ikwã/	-acorst /at͡sõ/	-antgn /ãɲ/
Present	-as	-and /ãd/	-aquänt /akwã/
Future	-es	-enc /ẽt͡s/	-equänt /ekwã/

Copula

If the sound preceding it is an oral vowel, it is estas.

take lei estas aqua, /lei estas akwa/ she is water.

If the sound preceding it is a nasal vowel, it is quince. /kwĩt͡se/

take ilœncquea quince antidant, /ilỹkwa kwĩt͡se ãidã/ they are helping.

If the sound preceding it is an oral consonant, it is eŝtar. /eʃtar/

take il eŝtar humana, /il eʃtar humana/ he is human.

If the sound preceding it is a nasal consonant, it is ser.

take œile ser nœĉa, /yile ser nyt͡ʃa/ it is night.

Pronouns

		singular	plural
first person		moirs /moĩ/ (I)	vous (we)
second person		tu (you)
third person	masculine	il (he)	ilœncquea /ilỹkwa/ (they)
	feminine	lei (she)
	neutral	œile /yile/ (it)
indefinite		nule (one, they, you)
reflexive		ëntreant /ɛ̃rã/ (self)

Numbers

nul (zero)

uno (one)

douz (two)

trez (three)

quartos (four)

sinqua (five)

siza (six)

septa (seven)

ruite (eight)

nuevo (nine)

dizes (ten)

cente (hundred)

mil (thousand)

Table of Correlatives

Table One

		Question ("What")	Indication ("This/that")	Indefinite ("Some")	Universal ("Each, every")	Negative ("No")
		qu–	zu–	i–	uin–	non-
Quality	–ant	quant (what kind/sort/type of)	zuant (such a)	iant (some kind/sort/type of)	uinant (every kind/sort/type of)	nonant (no kind/sort/type of)
Reason	–anc	quanc (why)	zuanc (for that reason, therefore)	ianc (for some reason)	uinanc (for all reasons)	nonanc (for no reason)
Time	–ars	quars (when)	zuars (then)	iars (sometime)	uinars (always)	nonars (never)
Place	–and	quand (where)	zuand (there)	iand (somewhere)	uinand (everywhere)	nonand (nowhere)
Manner	–ans	quans (how, as)	zuans (thus, as)	ians (somehow)	uinans (in every way)	nonans (no-how, in no way)
Association	–es	ques (whose)	zues (this/that one's)	ies (someone's)	uines (everyone's)	nones (no one's)
Thing	–o	quo (what)	zuo (this/that)	io (something)	uino (everything)	non (nothing)
Amount	–ors	quors (how much)	zuors (that much)	iors (some, a bit)	uinors (all of it)	nonors (none)
Individual	–ont	quont (who, which one; which [horse])	zuont (that one; that [horse])	iont (someone; some [horse])	uinors (everyone; each [horse], all [horses])	nonont (no one; no [horse])

Lexicon

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Suffixes

-aĉa	Negative affect or a poor opinion of the object or action
-ano	a member, follower, participant, inhabitant
-ara	a collective group without specific number
-ebla	possible, "-able"
-eco	an abstract quality, "-ness"
-ego	augmentative;
-ejo	a place characterized by the root word
-ema	having a propensity or tendency towards an action
-enda	mandatory
-ero	the smallest part
-estreya	a leader, boss
-ico	diminutive
-ido	an offspring, young (of an animal)
-igi	to make, to cause (transitivizer/causative)
-iĝi	to become (intransitivizer/inchoative/middle voice)
-ilo	an instrument
-inda	worthy of
-inge	a holder, sheath
-oblo	multiplication by the root number
-ono	fraction
-opo	in a collective group of specific number
-ujo	a container, country, a tree of a certain fruit

Prefixes

dis-	separation, scattering
ek-	beginning, sudden, or momentary action (often perfective)
fi-	shameful, nasty, disgusting, filthy
mal-	exact opposite of the root word
mis-	incorrectly, awry
re-	over again, back again