Sumoli

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Sumoli
Sumoli
Created by	Ananthakrishna Kaithalayil
Date	2021
Purpose	constructed language Auxiliary language Sumoli
Early form	Proto-Sumoli
Writing system	Latin script
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–

Sumoli is a social constructed auxiliary language. It is a pidgin of various Indian languages, naturally evolved through the Discord platform. The name 'Sumoli' comes from two words: 'Su' comes from the Sanskrit 'sukha' – easy/convenient, and 'Moli' comes from the Tamil 'mozhi/mozhli' – language. Sumoli was created with the purpose of forming a neutral Indian language, focusing on uniting the Indo-Aryan and Dravidian language families. It was first conceived by Ananthakrishna Kaithalayil as an experiment to see if people would develop a new communication system if they were mutually unintelligible. This was tested through the Sumoli server where English is forbidden. Therefore, various speakers of Indian languages used a combination of emojis, GIFs, and pictures to associate meanings to words taken from their native languages. It was made a rule that there would be no official Sumoli dictionary except a bare-bones lexicon. Members were required to maintain personal notes on the language. Within a week, a primordial form of grammar evolved, and within two weeks, vocabulary kept by a few users exceeded 200. This led to comfortable communication between members. Sumoli is a work in progress; i.e., it will never be completed. It is constantly evolving, and as it evolves, the documentation is updated.

Syntax

The Sumoli language currently leans towards fusional in type, so one morpheme usually carries many grammatical features.

Sentences in Sumoli are rendered in the SOV word order (subject–object–verb). Example: Me Sumoli pes thu. (I speak Sumoli.)

Particles

Particle	Part of Speech	Usage
Ku	Postposition	Marks the indirect object of a verb or means with.
Ga	Conjunction	Connects the adverb before it to the verb after it.
Il	Postposition	Means in, inside.

Pronouns

	Singular	Plural
First Person	Me (I, me)	Exclusive : Ham (We, without you) Inclusive : Manam (We, I and you)
Second Person	U (you)	Un (You all)
Third Person	Ye, Ve (This, that He, him She, her)	Ye sab, Ve sab (These, Those They, Them)

Verbal Root The-

	Singular	Plural
First Person	Thu	Thui
Second Person	Tho	Tho
Third Person	Tha	Thai

Causative marker -aa

Suffixing -aa to the verbal root turns the verb into a causative.

For example,

thin → thinaa

eat → feed (to cause to eat)

chal → chalaa

go → drive (to cause to go)

The object of the causative verb takes the ku postposition if there is a secondary object.

For example,

me rotika thin thu → me u ku rotika thinaa thu

I eat bread → I feed bread to you (lit. I cause for you to eat bread)

Lexicon

This is a bare-bones dictionary of Sumoli. These words are meant to be used to familiarize yourself with basic Sumoli. Advanced words are to be learned through immersion.

Lexicon

Sumoli	English	Part of Speech
aa	yes	particle
nai	no	particle
na	what	pronoun
jam	understand	verb
u	you; one	pronoun; numeral
me	me, I	pronoun
naamam	hello	interjection
eku	why	interrogative adverb
ka	how	interrogative adverb
chal	walk	verb
ten, thin	eat	verb
annam	rice	noun
rotika	bread	noun
nal, par	like	verb (nal is also an interjection)
ishtam	love	verb
ante	be	verb
laga	be like, be similar to	verb
pes	talk, speak	verb
sad, pese	word	noun
yepo	now	adverb
ya	here; obsolete: passive voice form of ye	adverb; determiner
il	in, inside	postposition

References

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