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• A word for "AFAIK"
• idk

fluffykitty wrote: November 23rd, 2020, 9:28 pm Post ideas for hypothetical conlangs here.

• A word for "AFAIK"
• idk

no need for conlangs here
Indonesian has "setahuku" for "AFAIK"

Im sure some natural language with subject verb agreement has a one word "IDK" sentence as well but I dont know any. Probably gonna be something like
know-NEG-1S
(with different ordering)

Saka wrote: November 24th, 2020, 8:02 am no need for conlangs here
Indonesian has "setahuku" for "AFAIK"

Im sure some natural language with subject verb agreement has a one word "IDK" sentence as well but I dont know any. Probably gonna be something like
know-NEG-1S
(with different ordering)

Can you break down "setahuku"?
Ideas:

• All suffixes about people have variations based on gender.

• All family members are gender-neutral, you have to put male/female before it to specify.

• Consonant harmony.

Schiaparelliorbust wrote: November 24th, 2020, 9:39 am
Can you break down "setahuku"?

It's derived from
se-tahu-ku
I'm not really sure how to explain the "se-" prefix here, but a clunky equivalent is "as [x]", like sebanyak = as much as, where "banyak" means "a lot".
The -ku indicates a 1st person singular.

"seingatku" also means "as I remember", or to be more fitting to the "AFAIK" example, "IIRC". "Ingat" means "to remember".

conlang where the word for "AFAIK" is <afaik>

Saka wrote: November 24th, 2020, 8:02 am Im sure some natural language with subject verb agreement has a one word "IDK" sentence as well but I dont know any. Probably gonna be something like
know-NEG-1S
(with different ordering)

Latin nescio, "NEG-know-1S"