Lexicon of babā
the words

This is a dictionary of words within babā. There is some influence from English, Spanish, French, and Mandarin; however, this is an a priori language, i.e. the vocabulary is not directly based on any existing language.

a /a/
verb
to be, can be omitted in places where it can be inferred

aizо̄ /aɪ'zo/
verb
to love, to care for, to appreciate

āto /'ato/
noun, ideophone
state of being here; can be used as the "sound" of someone silently remaining present in a location, similar to an interjection that one person simply "exists" in a location, and nothing more
can be reduplicated for a more "cutesy" affect

babā /ba'ba/
noun
babble, spoken language, song; this is the name of the language itself

ci /ɕi/
conjunction
but

diŕēi /di'reɪ/
noun
dream, hope, desire, fantasy

dzu /d͡zu/
pronoun
second person singular

dzurā /d͡zu'ɻa/
pronoun
second person plural

ēsu /'ɛsu/
noun, ideophone
state of being there; can be used as the "sound" of someone silently remaining present in a location, similar to an interjection that one person simply "exists" in a location, and nothing more
can be reduplicated for a more "cutesy" affect

ido /ido/
noun
nothing; used to mean hollow, empty, lonely

latun /latun/
noun
place

mu /mu/
noun
happy

o /o/
interjection
an spacer, similar to english "oh"

ra /ɻa/
noun
the state of being okay, safe, balanced

rei /ɻeɪ/
conjunction
so

sa /sa/
pronoun
third person singular

sādr /'sadɻ/
pronoun
third person plural

sei /seɪ/
conjunction
if

su /su/
verb
to think, to wonder, to ponder upon

tŕo /tro/
noun
state of being correct, true

tŕeil /treɪl/
verb
to speak, to declare

tsa /t͡sa/
conjunction
that

va /va/
pronoun
first person singular

vamī /va'mi/
pronoun
first person plural

vamāŕa /va'mara/
noun
the world, the universe; inclusive of the speaker (a 1st person plural)

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