User:Re.min.a/Sandbox

To-do list (Yaettengma)

 * Can we prepare a table like the ones in Seriyedang? Are we borrowing more from  or from ? Is  at all relevant? What features of  are good to borrow without overdoing it?  and Seriyedang are seemingly poorer than Japanese in phonemes, so there shouldn't be anything notable to borrow. (I wonder if  will be of any use here.)
 * A list of all the translated Chinese characters thus far (AKA all non-native Japanese/Yaettengma words) as well as their original form would be very much appreciated. We can then use the clarified phonemic inventory to revise and perfect the loanwords. While Old Japanese is too old for inspiration, this corpus of Old Japanese could help us with identifying, which I believe should outpower Chinese loanwords due to distance and conservatism. Let us try to keep Chinese loanwords to (for a lack of a better word) "advanced terms" (society, architecture, warfare, culture, politics, valued goods) and outside of the "basic realm" (food, animals, feelings, tradition, occupations, spirituality). Ainu loanwords can definitely be more commonplace; see digital dictionary here.
 * Things about Japanese and Japonic languages: Subject-Object-Verb order, head-final (means the main meaning of a noun comes last, is preceded by other nouns or adjectives) and is thus left branching (e.g. "book the of cover the"; "table the underneath"; "me than bigger" are to be grammatically sound). Topic prominence. I'm really just citing here. Respect forms; do we keep or throw away? Suffixes is where Yaettengma's originality can shine; we can simplify or complicate Japanese grammar where we see fit. Let's cover the first two bullet points, then discuss grammar more intensively.

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