TW0 –  A Constructed Language

TW0 Glyph Construction

Legend: Definitions, Terms, <Text>, [IPA], -Tags-, and "Glosses".

Glyph Components

The glyph components are shown in the table to the right; there are 20 each of the tall and short components. Each glyph consists of 2 short components, one on top of the other, with a tall component to the left. Some glyph samples are shown in the 1st image.

Numeric Glyphs

Numeric glyph values are determined by the short component pairs. The tall left component is always 0 (the 1st glyph). Short components have numeric values from 0 to 19 (base 20); each glyph represents a base 400 digit. The top short component represents the more significant part of the pair.

Whole numbers consist of sequences of 1 or more numeric glyphs, with the largest place-value being leftmost. If the number is negative, the negative number glyph appears to the left of the sequence. There may also be an exponent consisting of a positive or negative exponent glyph followed by a sequence of at least 1 numeric glyph; omitted exponents have the value 0. The additional glyphs are shown in the table to the right.

Some number samples are shown in the 2nd image.

Quoted Strings

A quoted string is a sequence of glyphs starting and ending with the quote glyph. The sequence may contain any glyph in any order except the quote glyph.

Indexes

An index consists of the index glyph followed by another glyph (the ranges of which haven't been determined yet). Indexes are used as nicknames.

Glyph Compounds

Alignment will be with the 1st (head) glyph of a compound.

Extended Glyphs

Extended glyphs are sequences of 2 or more glyphs. Each glyph but the rightmost is always one with the tall component = 19; these are typically classifiers. The rightmost glyph has any other value (7600 are possible).

Extended glyphs are used for specialized vocabulary, especially foreign nouns.

						coffee (drink)
						cat (animal)

Participant Nouns

Participant nouns are derived from verbs using prefixes; these are shown in the following table:

Participant Prefixes

Glyph				Tag	Description
				Agt-	agent, donor, or positive scalar
				Pat-	patient, recipient, or negative scalar
				Thm-	3rd argument
				Ins-	instrument
				Loc-	location
				Tmp-	time when

Noun Modifiers

The following glyphs convert the following nouns into modifiers of the preceding head nouns (verb roots are treated as action nominals):

Participant Prefixes

Glyph				Number	Head	Modifier	Example
				2.0.4	set	element	house row
				3.0.4	element	set	row house
				4.0.4	entity	detail	apple pie
				5.0.4	detail	entity	car tire
				6.0.4	source	product	coal mine
				7.0.4	product	source	beeswax
				8.0.4	cause	effect	tear gas
				9.0.4	effect	cause	water mark
				10.0.4	inhabitant	location	table lamp
				11.0.4	location	inhabitant	family land
				12.0.4	action	object	game hunting
				13.0.4	object	action	huntable game
				14.0.4	instrument	activity	tennis ball
				15.0.4	activity	instrument	table tennis
				16.0.4	protective device	something undesirable	gas mask
				17.0.4	something undesirable	protective device	mask gas
				1.0.5	entity	resemblance	cherry bomb
				2.0.5	genus	species	pine tree
				3.0.5	entity	selecting type	soldier ant
				5.0.5	analogous part	whole	tooth root
				7.0.5	entity	override material	stone lion
				9.0.5	instrument	energy source	wind mill
				10.0.5	container	substance	tea cup
				11.0.5	measuring entity	something measured	cup of tea

page started: 2016.Dec.02 Fri
current date: 2016.Dec.11 Sun
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