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ranahan · 8 months ago

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General

On Mando’a terminology: affixes and clitics

Phonology

IPA chart (I’m going to be reworking this, but it’ll suffice for now)

C, cy, yc—why are they pronounced like that? — Pronunciation of y — A theory of -yc, -cy-, -cya and -cye — More palatalisations — More palatalisations & how they could explain the problem of murmured sounds (my overarching theory on how to explain all the weirdness of Mando’a orthography)

Phonotactics & epenthetic sounds

Loanword phonology (discussion)

Concordian Mando’a

Morphology

Mando’a nominal suffixes & a work in progress on how they might be chosen

*da-, ‘out’ (prefix)

*je-, ‘false, un-’ (prefix)

*she-, ‘behind’ (prefix)

u(r)-, ‘less’ (prefix)

Re- in Mando’a? (reduplication again)

Syntax

Mando’a prepositions

Habitual aspect (fanon)

Articles: eyn, te, haar

Relative pronouns, relative adverbs, interrogatives (question words)

Etymology (canon words)

*ara-/*aru-, ‘away’ or ‘against’? & again here

*ak-, ‘mission’ (aka, akaan, etc.) & hokaanir, ‘to cut’ (+ related words)

*ay(l)-, ‘sweet’ & ‘sticky’

*bin-, ebin, bintar, bines

*bid-, *bi-, *bin-, *bir-

briikase, ‘happy’

dadita (the best analysis not by me, scroll to the end)

*da-, ‘out’ (dayn, davaab, dajun)

eyn & solus

*je-, ‘false, un-’ (jekai, jehaat, jahaatir, jaal, jehavey’ir)

kelita, dab’ika, keldab

*nar-, ’move, action, act’ (nari, narir, lonar, shonar, jenarar, cetar’narir, muninar, naritir, narser, nasreyc, ashnar, nar’sheb, ca’nara)

oyu’baat

ramikad, ‘commando’ & ori’ramikad, ‘super commando’

rejorhaa’ir, ‘to tell’ (not solved, tell me your ideas)

*she-, ‘behind’ (shebs, sheber, shekemir, shereshir, shereshoy)

sterebiise & geroya be haran, alii’jaate, naast

u(r)-, ‘less’ (ures, umaan, urakto, urmankalar, utreeyah, utreyar, utrel’a)

English etymologies in Mando’a (not my post, but I’ve added several more in the replies)

Open etymology questions (gimme your ideas!)

Non-canon vocabulary

Also in the reblogs of the above etymology posts!

alii’gai, alii’gaise, alii’gaila; extended definitions

doyust, ‘bridge’

gi’gaide, ‘fish scales’ (here’s another idea for the same pattern, not mine)

mana, ‘origin, source; mine’

*ram-, ram’ika, ramikad, ramikaar

shiik, ‘noodle’

taylaar, ‘book’

Te Yaim’ol & Naak’tsad

utra, ‘emptiness, void’ (not sure this is mine, might have adopted it from someone else’s dictionary)

“Bless you” or “gesundheit” in Mando’a

Loanwords in Mando’a (headcanon)

#History, #culture, #religion, #philosophy, #headcanons, &c.

History of the Mandalorian peace movement (conjecture & headcanons)

The Mandalorian Proletarian Uprising (complete and unabashed headcanons)

New Mandalorians and armour (headcanons)

Kad Ha’rangir & slash and burn agriculture

Stuff I’m working on

Mando’a Derivational Dictionary — current priority

Canon Mando’a analysis: project outline — sometime this century

@mandoxember — coming, hopefully maybe next year

FAQ

Blog runs mostly on queue and I’m currently pretty busy at work (and not spending a lot of time hanging out here). Send me a dm if you want to hail me.

If I liked it, likely I also queued it. Or put it in the drafts because I had something to say that I had to mull over a bit.

Why haven’t you answered my comment/ask/question? It’s either in my queue, lost in my drafts, eaten by my inbox, or I forgot. Feel free to resend/ask again/send me a dm.

Do you do translations? Feel free to send me asks if you have something fun but don’t expect a speedy reply.

You seem very confident in your analyses, what’s your source? Just canon, some interviews by Traviss and Harlin, and Traviss’s blog and comments in some forum threads. No special word of god here! Just a lot of extrapolation and some previous linguistics and conlanging knowledge. I have made a (atm incomplete) systematic analysis of Mando’a, but I’m just a human and I might have drawn incorrect conclusions—you’re very welcome to debate me and add your contradictory opinions. Most of the stuff I post are my own interpretations which you’re welcome to adopt, but I can’t claim to hold the one and only truth. And yes, the title of this blog is picked because I know I can be an annoying little mir’shebs when I think I’m right. But I do genuinely enjoy hearing other opinions and getting my own ones challenged, even if the tone does not always come across in text. If I haven’t reblogged your contrary opinion, it’s because the reply got long and it’s in my drafts somewhere, or else I’m still mulling it over.

Please don’t send me asks for money. I don’t currently have any to spare, nor do I have time to vet gofundmes. I do what I can, and donate what I can, when I can, to effective humanitarian organisations. Sorry I can’t help more.

Mando’a masterpost

Most of my Mando’a linguistic nerdery you should be able to find under the hashtags #mando’a linguistics and #ranah talks mando’a. Specific topics like phonology and etymology are tagged on newer posts but not necessarily on older. I also reblog lots of other people’s fantastic #mando’a stuff, which many of these posts are replies to.

I also post about #mandalorian culture, other #meta: mandalorians and #star wars meta topics, #star wars languages, #conlangs, and #linguistics. I like to reblog well-reasoned and/or interesting takes on Star Wars and Mandalorian politics, but I am not pro or contra fictional characters or organisations, only pro good storytelling. You can use the featured tags to navigate most of these topics. Not Star Wars content tag is #not star wars, although if it’s on this blog, likely it’s at least tangentially related.

Currently working on an expanded dictionary and an analysis of canon Mando’a. Updates under #mando’a project. Here are my thoughts on using my stuff (tldr: please do). My askbox is open & I’d love to hear which words, roots or other features you want to see dissected next.

#Phonology

Mando’a vowels

Murmured sounds in Mando’a

Ven’, ’ne and ’shya—phonology of Mando’a affixes

#Morphology

Mando’a demonyms: -ad or -ii?

Agent nouns in Mando’a

Reduplication in Mando’a

Verbal conjugation in Ancient Mando’a & derivations in Modern Mando’a

-nn

Adjectival suffixes (this one is skierunner’s theory, but dang it’s good and it’s on my post, so I’m including it)

e-, i- (prefix) “-ness”

#Syntax

Middle Mando’a creole hypothesis — Relative tenses — Tense, aspect and mood & creole languages — Copula and zero copula in creole languages — More thoughts about Mando’a TAM particles

Mando’a tense/aspect/mood (headcanons)

Mando’a has no passive

Adjectives as passive voice & other strategies

Colloquial Mando’a

Alienable/inalienable possession — more thoughts

Translating wh-words into Mando’a

#Roots, words & etymology

ad ‘child’—but also many other things

adenn, ‘wrath’

akaan & naak: war & peace

an ‘all’ + a collective suffix & plural collectives

ba’ & bah

*bir-, birikad, birgaan & again

cetar ‘kneel’

cinyc & shiny

gai’ka, ka’gaht, la’mun

jagyc, ori’jagyc & misandry

janad

*ka-, kakovidir & cardinal directions

ke’gyce ‘order, command’

*maan-, manda, gai bal manda, kir’manir, ramaan & kar’am & runi: ‘soul’ & ‘spirit’

*nor- & *she- ‘back’ (+ bonus *resh-)

projor ‘next’

riduurok, riduur, kom’rk, shuk’orok

*sak-, sakagal ‘cross’

*sen- ‘fly’

tapul

urmankalar ‘believe’

*ver- ‘earn’

*ya-, yai, yaim (& flyby mentions of eyayah, eyaytir, gayiyla, gayiylir, aliit)

Regional English in Mando’a

#Non-canon words

Mining vocabulary

Non-canon reduplications

Many words for many Mandalorians

What’s the word for “greater mandalorian space”?

Names of Mandalorian planets

Dral’Han & derived words

besal ‘silver, steel grey’

derivhaan

hukad & hukal, ’sheath, scabbard’

*maan-, manda, kar’am & runi: ‘soul’ & ‘spirit’ & derivations

mara/maru, ‘amber-root’

*sen- ‘fly’ derivations

tarisen ‘swoop bike’

*ver- ‘earn’ derivations

#mando’a proverbs

#mando’a idioms

Pragmatics & ethnolinguistics

Middle Mando’a creole hypothesis

History of Mando’a — Loanwords in Mando’a

Mando’a timeline

Mandalorian languages

#mandalorian sign language

Kinship terms

Politeness in Mando’a: gedet’ye & ba’gedet’ye — vor entye, vor’e, n’entye — vor’e etc. again — n’eparavu takisit, ni ceta

Mandalorians and medicine, baar’ur, triage

#Mandalorian colour theory (#mandalorians and color): cin & purity, colour associations & orange, cin, ge’tal, saviin & besal, gemstone symbolism

#Mandalorian nature, Flora and fauna of Manda’yaim

starry road

Concordian dialogue retcon

A short history of the Mandalorian Empire

Mandalorian clans & government headcanons

Mando’a handwriting guide: part 1, part 2, part 3

What I would have done differently if I had constructed Mando’a

FAQ

Can you answer a question about combat medicine? May I direct you to my post about Free tactical medicine learning resources.

Can I use your words/headcanons in my own projects? Short answer: yes please.

Do you do translations? If I happen to be in the mood or your translation question is interesting. Feel free to bomb my inbox, but don’t expect quick answers.

What’s your stance on Satine Kryze and the New Mandalorians? They’re fictional and I don’t have one beyond their narrative being interesting & wishing that fandom would have civil conversations about them without calling each other names.

Why do you portray Mandalorians as multi-racial and gender-agnostic when they’re all white men in canon? Because that’s the power of transformative works: to create the kind of representation we want to see in a world where it’s lacking.

LGBTQIA? I don’t stand for any shade of discrimination. If I say something insensitive, rest assured it’s because I temporarily misplaced my other brain cell, not because of malice.

NSFW? No. This is a linguistics blog, so cursing and some frank vocabulary should be expected, but no porn here. I don’t believe in nudity or sex in themselves being taboo topics, but I’ll try to keep things family-friendly. I was a medic for a good chunk of my life, so frank discussions about medical/anatomical/trauma topics might also happen, which may or may not be tagged.

Asks under #ranah answers

P.s. Let me know if the links don’t work or something else is wrong (some items don’t have links, they are articles in my draft folder/queue which I’ve listed here so they don’t get lost—sorry for the tease!). Also please tell me if you need me to tag something I haven’t so you can filter it: this blog is for readers—if I was writing just for myself, I wouldn’t bother to edit and publish—so let me know what I can do to make it work better for you. Thanks!

#star wars #mandalorians #star wars meta #mando’a #mandoa #mando'a #mando’a language #conlang #mando’ade #mandoa language #ranah talks mando’a #mando’a linguistics #mandoa resources

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jackiesjailbreak · 5 years ago

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how would the brothers react to a s/o who already has a kid in the human world from a toxic relationship

A/N: i hope this is what u were looking for eek i tried making it good!! <3 thank u for the request nonnie. (most boys will b under the cut!)

BEEL:

honestly? would love to meet your kid

i have a huge hc that beel loves kids, and kids love him because he’s so big. he’ll have them on his shoulders and it’ll be super cute. plus, the fact that the kid came from you, the person he loves most on this earth? added bonus

i also have a hc that beel generally isn’t the possessive or angry type so when he hears the circumstances under which said child was born

he really just wants to take care of you, paying absolutely no attention to the asshole who screwed you over

because you’re his now, and he’ll do anything in his power to make you happy/make sure both you and your child are doing alright

also very very accommodating to your separation anxiety, always comforting you and constantly bugging lucifer to let you bring the kid down

LEVI:

i genuinely cannot see this boy as more than a little incel teenager so bear w me here

he’s more envious than anything that someone got to have you and have a family with you before him (avatar of envy)

but once you tell him the circumstances he’s. he feels awful for being jealous.

he just wants you to be happy and knowing someone could be like that to you makes him see red

you really want him to meet your kid, though, and for a second he really loves the idea of you three being a family

before he like stops for a sec and is like wait why isn’t the child here WITH YOU?! LUCIFER!

SATAN:

lit rally one of the most perfect fathers

wants to make ur kid into a little nerd and honestly you’re all for it

also ready to kick the ass of whoever abused you, whoever made you feel like anything less than the absolute princess that you are

naturally, he asks who it is, where they live, everything about them, but you refuse. you want that part of your past to stay there

he gets it, and agrees, just wanting to protect you at this point -- and the kid he now knows you have. he’ll try and take you on trips up to the human world frequently, and when you introduce him to your kid as your “boyfriend” the kid is really confused, but easily won over when satan offers to show them magic

ASMO:

asmo hates kids i swear. he thinks they’re gross, messy, and little balls of dirty

but he loves you. he loves you enough to like your kid.

sure he wants to kill the guy (or girl) who made you feel awful, who gave you trauma. but he wants to care for the kid.

once he meets your kid he’ll shower them in the finest bubble baths, hair products, and the absolute cutest clothes

kind of thinks of your kid as his little doll and you’re not completely down with that but it’s better than him being grossed out

MAMMON:

so jealous. so, so jealous. he wanted to be all of your firsts. therefore, he almost kills the person who put you through so much and took away his opportunity to give you your first kid

but again, you don’t want to acknowledge it. you just want it to be left in the past where it belongs.

mammon also isn’t too big on kids, thinks they’re kind of a nuisance, so he originally warms up to the idea of your kid by thinking of how many schemes he could pull off with someone as adorable as you in baby form. also someone who could fit in tight spaces

of course, you cut that shit off quick. but once mammon actually meets the kid, he melts. big eyes looking up at him like he’s their new daddy, like someone took the cutest parts of you and put it into a little ball of sunshine.

immediately best dad. showering the kid in clothes, jewelry the kid doesn’t even need, expensive baby cars, the works

always finds a way to take you up to the human world to see the little one. not because he wants to, pfft, never. strictly for you. obviously.

BELPHIE:

probably the least understanding at first ??? the whole “ew humans” thing still comes out at times so he’s like ew a child, but it’s getting a lot better.

honestly, he loves whatever comes from you. cuz it’s you. so of course he’ll love the little thing.

loves taking naps with the kid and buying them cute night lights/pillows/plushies

family naps always

prefers to just ignore the toxic person aspect. this is basically his kid now, and the kid doesn’t have to know that they came out of such a toxic relationship.

he wants to make both of you feel safe, because that’s what you did for him at one point.

strives to be the best “dad” he can be, even though he slips up at times

LUCIFER:

oh mama mans is mad once you tell him how it happened

definitely killed the person. like. even if you told him not to. he had someone do it for him.

tries to get diavolo to let the kid down into the devildom with you, but that’s obviously way too risky. because of that, he lets you go up to the human world whenever you want, provided you’re keeping up with your studies and keeping diavolo happy

one time he goes up with you and is absolutely floored by what he sees

this kid is literally the most beautiful thing he’s ever seen, aside from you of course.

it looks just like you. but miniature

and suddenly lucifer has this overwhelming need to take care of you and the kid.

so now he comes up with you regularly, and he’s your boyfriend “luca”, because god forbid this child tells the kids at school his dad is named lucifer.

sometimes he sees you stressed about missing your kid and waives some assignments/tasks for the day, knowing he misses them as well

overall just. takes so much pride in his little family. loves you both to death

#my inbox is empty now gimme more stuff ):<#this was also lowk cute #lucifer x reader #beelzebub x reader #satan x reader #leviathan x reader #asmodeus x reader #belphegor x reader #mammon x reader #obey me #obey me headcanons #obey me imagines

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peachiimilquetea · 3 years ago

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what tf have i been doing for like 8 months???

that’s a good question isn’t it

well first off i want to remind y’all that my inbox is open!! i wanna talk to you guys!!!

as for life updates uhhhh??? nothing too crazy has changed???

• boys are stupid as always if i got into it i would be here all day

• i got into college!!!! vv excited to start that journey but i have no idea how i’m gonna pay for it AHAHAHAHAHAHA

• prom is literally next week and i ATTEMPTED to dye a wig myself and it did not work (story time under the cut!)

first i dyed it with regular black fabric dye (it is a synthetic wig so this is normal) and it turned lavender so then after doing some more research i tried with synthetic dye today and it came out seafoam green 😀 no i am not ok

for reference this is what i was aiming for lol

so that was an epic fail!!! and now i have to figure out what i’m going to do for prom and i am STRESSED but it’s ok bc everything is gonna work out just fine and i’m gonna be ok bc i said so

• other than that everything else for prom is eating!!!

this is my dress!!!! i’m very very happy with it! i would show y’all my makeup but it’s not face reveal time just yet 😭

• my classes end in may so after that i’ll have a lot more free time to catch up and fall back into writing for fun! maybe i’ll even post some of my work from class! writing for a grade really took a lot out of me this year so hopefully classes ending will motivate me to create for myself again

• i’ve missed you guys dearly and i still see all your lil likes and reboots and stuff i promise i pop in all the time 😭 i still read fanfic myself 😭😭😭

i don’t wanna make any empty promises or say i’m gonna come back for sure but chances are when my life frees up i will be writing more and sharing more with yall, maybe even pushing my ordinal stuff to the forefront if anyone would be interested in reading or hearing abt that? i’ve got a fantasy graphic novel in the works and i never talk about my ocs so where better than my personal blog right?

anyways, come say hi and gimme updates yourselves! i wanna know what everyone has gotten up to so far this year!!!

#[🍑]#feels good to address the masses again #love y’all to bits

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