Rakadi & Ahe'eyo: A Quick & Dirty Guide

I mentioned in my author's note for Rakadi & Ahe'eyo: The Language Barrier that I created two entire languages for use exclusively in my story. I figured I'd put out there exactly how the two languages function (or, at least, how the bits of it function that were relevant to the story).

Rakadi's Language: Yamnaic

The vocabulary of Rakadi's language is primarily based on Proto-Indo-European words. For example, the PIE words for horse are kabōn (which became Caballo in Spanish), markos (which became Marcra is Irish), or ekwos (which became Equus in Latin). In Yamnaic, it's ekwabon (ekwos + kabōn).

Here's a brief break-down of how the language functions in the story. The word order is SVO (like in English). Adjectives come after nouns, but possessive words come before (i.e. "my little pony" becomes "my pony little"). Making nouns plural just involves putting an -s at the end. Turning a pronoun into a possessive pronoun involves inserting "-ay-" before the final vowel or diphthong. Making a singular pronoun into a plural just involves adding an -s.

Verbs are a bit more difficult, so stick with me here. Past, present, and future tense verbs are preceded by the prefixes Wa'-, E-, and O', respectively. The subject of a verb is denoted at the end, with first, second, and third person being -o, -e, and -iki. Imperative verbs have no prefix, and end in -eo. Negating a verb involves putting the particle "Ne" before it. To help explain more, I'll conjugate one of the verbs from the story in different ways.

ROOT: Bidwa ("to fear")
Ne bidweo! = Do not fear!
O'bidwe = You will fear
Ebidwo = I fear
Wa'bidwiki = They feared

If you want the subject to be plural (we, they, y'all), then you just add an -s at the end (i.e. "Ebidwos" = "We fear"). SIDE NOTE: There is one verb in the story that is irregular, and has -enke in place of -e.

And here's a short dictionary of words both used in the fic and terms that I created, but went unused.

1. Aimeenka - Friend
2. Akwoda - Water
3. Ama - Love
4. Ami - Beloved (noun)
5. Amordu - Death
6. Bidwa - To Fear
7. Dennu - Good
8. Du - To, Toward, At
9. Dyu - Day
10. Edyu - Today
11. Ekwabon - Horse/Pony/Equine
12. Esta - Some
13. Hai - Yes
14. Haskya - Food
15. Iho - I/Me
16. Kyanna - To Sing
17. Kyasa - Beautiful/Pretty
18. Kyeya - To Need
19. Kyun - And
20. Mo - But
21. Ne - Not
22. Noma - Name
23. Nya - No
24. Oda - Hatred
25. Palua - Little/Small
26. Sa - To Be
27. Shetwa - Life
28. Ska - To Eat
29. Skyoda - To Hurt
30. Tyu'e - You
31. Yawa - To Help

Ahe'eyo's Language: Equestrian

Ahe'eyo (Rarity) has a much less developed language, with fewer solid rules. Also, I lost my notes when my computer crashed ages ago. All I can really do is give you some direct translations of individual words.

1. Aha! = Oh!
2. Febbaye = Anything
3. Febbohe = Something
4. Go- = Verb negator
5. H'hena = You
6. H'heni = Your
7. H'henoya = For you
8. Kekuyu = Heal (verb)
9. Mohomo = Name
10. Moma = I
11. Momi = My
12. Nyahi = Darling
13. Wahihi = Sorry
14. Ya = That
15. Yayan = Have (verb)
16. Zeyahe = Want (verb)

Comments

[The Mountaineer Brony]

This is a lot of fun! I really like Yamnaic, and look forward to anything you use it for in the future!

I'm on a Discord server that is working on an MLP conlang. If you're interested, or if you'd just like to chat with some fellow linguist bronies, it's my pleasure to extend an invitation to you. https://discord.gg/MVw4vDV

[Genesis1212]

Ohh this sounds beautiful! I love the sounds of languages in general.

For Yamaic this sounds beautiful when read aloud!

The prenuniation sounds pretty straight forward.

My Accent I give it is unintentionally Swahili-ish hard sounds mixed with airy vowels.

As for Raritys' language it reminds me of the few native american languages left and japanese. The way I pronounce it, it comes off in long breaths, 'sacred' sounding almost in words like 'Nyahi' Or H'heni and hard japanese for words like 'Kekuyu.'

Very lovely and not easy to make actually, hopfully in future stories you will expand upon it?

[JazzyWaffles]

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Perhaps! I don't have projects planned just yet for that, but some time in the future, when I'm more free... I will consider it.