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Introduction
This is the page for the Eastern IAL project DouKeo, or alternately, Basa Dou. This language is intended to be a compromise between several different languages used in the eastern part of the world in contrast to all the ials that focus primarily on the western part of the world. The main languages that are taken into consideration in this project range from Finnish/Estonian to Turkish to Mongolian to Chinese varieties to Japanese and Korean to Austronesian and SEAsian languages to Slavic and even Indian languages. Whenever a new word is introduced into the language, comparisons of how the word was derived should be given so that if there is a better example that can be found or integrated into the language this can be shown as well.
Derivation of the Name
The word Dou means "east" as this is the eastern language. It is doğu in Turkish and by extension from Chinese it is something like Dou/Tou/Tong/Dong in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. In Mongolian it is something like dorno which is also fairly close.
The word Keo is used as a suffix for languages. In the Finnic languages the word keel, kieli, or something like it is used for language. In Mongolian it's something like xel. In Japanese, it's go and in Korean it's eo both being extensions of a related Chinese word. The alternative form "Basa Dou" uses the word Basa which is derived from the malayic languages and has been borrowed into several languages in the region such as Khmer.
Pronouns
So far we have derived the 3 base pronouns. Since there are no bound morphemes in this language, any changes to these such as plurals and cases and the like are formed by the addition of particles.
1st person: ben
2nd person: sen
3rd person1: tema, ta
Reflexive pronoun: se
1: The third person form is both a pronoun and a demonstrative. The first form is used in isolation while the second form is used before a noun.
Derivation of Pronouns
The first and second person pronouns are identical to those in Turkish. In Finnish they are minä and sinä while in Estonian they're mina and sina. These forms both use a labial in the first person and an s in the second. They also include an n and a front vowel in between. In Japanese one of the forms of the first person pronoun is 僕 (boku) which also starts with a b. The third person forms are identical to those in Estonian. In the Finnic languages at least the third person forms and the demonstratives are closely tied together. In Mandarin, the third person form is ta for all genders. Japanese uses this form ta as well, but it takes on a form similar to a demonstrative, something like "those other ones". Se is used as a reflexive pronoun in several different languages. It's very similar in most IE languages and is like the third person/demonstrative forms in the Finnic languages.
