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Foundations

Introduction to ODODU

Overview of ODODU

Technical Summary


The ODODU Language

Ododu is a derivational language that is continually evolving towards the goal of a universal language.  It is based on the assumption that the universe is comprised of conscious entities, like you and I, which communicate and interact with each other using many different languages, each of which is a partial reflection of an optimal universal language.  It is further assumed that the most fundamental concept in the universe, and the conscious entities and languages that comprise it, is the concept of relation.  This very general view of relation will be used to pragmatically build Ododu as a language that will continually change through its use as it steadily approaches the goal of a universal language.

Ododu will use the letters of the Roman alphabet and the digits 0, 1, 2, and 3.  There will be eight vowels designated by the letters U, I, E, A, O, Q, Y, and H.  The 16 letters, D, P, R, B, C, L, T, K, S, G, F, X, N, M, W, and Z, will be designated as consonants.  V and J will not be used as integral elements of Ododu but will serve as variables.  Unless specified otherwise V will denote a vowel and J will denote a consonant.  Vowels will be derived as relational constructs while consonants will signify universal and archetypal concepts.

All words will begin and end with vowels that will specify the grammar and syntax of Ododu.  The meaning of the words will be determined by the interior consonants and vowels.  These will be called the core of the word.  The sequence of letters in cores will alternate between consonants and vowels so that no consonant follows another consonant and no core vowel follows another core vowel.

Ododu will also contain a convention for using local, non universal and non archetypal concepts as names.  Names can be represented and used within the Ododu grammatical structure or they can be used as themselves in cases where their identity as names and their usage within the grammar are obvious and not ambiguous.

Ododu will evolve through a pragmatic process.  As new information, experience, and observations emerge pertaining to the derivational argument for any given word, the meaning of that word may change as a result of this new information.  When this occurs it may influence the meaning of some or all of the other words in the lexicon.  Thus Ododu will be continually changing as its lexicon changes but it will always stay internally consistent within that lexicon as it exists at any given time.

Finally Ododu will contain numbers and mathematics as fundamental components of language.  Mathematics will be viewed as integral to language and as evolving from the same creative process that generates language.  It cannot stand as a separate discipline or field of study but only exists within, and as a part of, language itself.

Each letter in Ododu will be assigned a fundamental archetypal meaning, a morpheme, that will be derived to the maximal extent possible from a symbolic form, a grapheme, which illustrates this meaning and how it might have evolved from the relational nature of the universe.  Each letter will also be associated with a unique phoneme that governs how it is pronounced and incorporated into a phonetic spoken language.


There are several different ways of presenting Ododu and I will offer two of them here.  Both will begin by using the four fundamental types of relation, self relation, linear relation, relational relation, and interrelational relation (see Relational Systems), as the first four Primary Vowels.  The simplest presentation is presented as follows.

Exemplify the first four Primary Vowels as:
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Exemplify the next four Secondary Vowels as:
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In these choices the graphemes assigned to the vowel letter symbols actually do illustrate the relational nature of their respective morphemes.  This is described in more detail in  The Derivation of Archetypal Meaning in Ododu.

The sixteen consonants are then derived from an interaction between a Primary and a Secondary Vowel.  They can be represented diagrammatically as:
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Thus the consonant D derives from an interaction between U and O.

The second presentation of Ododu again begins by using the four fundamental types of relation, self relation, linear relation, relational relation, and interrelational relation, as the first four Primary Vowel letter/concepts in Ododu.  This approach is as follows.
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These first four vowels describe the relational or space-time framework of the universe from my personal perspective.  Now introduce the concept of distinction and consider the rest of the universe external to myself. I can describe this external universe in terms of the next four Secondary Vowel letter/concepts as:
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These last four vowels describe the relational or space-time framework of the universe from an external perspective.  Thus the vowels can be viewed as describing a four dimensional personal space and a four dimensional external space, or who I am and how I view and interact with the rest of the universe.

These two sets of vowels are used to construct the consonants.  This is done in a manner similar to how events are described in general relativity theory.  Here the description of a space-time point as seen from two distinct reference frames in relative motion with respect to each other is expressed in terms of 16 relations or transformation functions.  These relate how each one of the four dimensional descriptors in one frame change with respect to changes in each one of the four dimensional descriptors in the other frame.  The same procedure is used to generate 16 consonants from the four primary vowels representing my (the observer's) perspective relative to the four secondary vowels representing your (the observed) perspective. 

This can again be represented diagrammatically as:
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At this point all human experience is generalized into 16 archetypal concepts which are assigned to the 16 consonants defined above.  The generalizations and assignments seem arbitrary at first but since they are embedded within an experiential pragmatic methodology they will gradually change as a function of usage as they evolve towards towards the Universal Language.

The completed alphabet, an illustration as to what each letter might mean as a morpheme when it is used in word construction, and a phoneme or guide to pronunciation, are presented below.
Letter            Meaning           Pronunciation

U              self relation        long u as in too or shoe


I             linear relation       long i

E            relational relation    long e

A         interrelational relation  long a

O               distinction         long o

Q                  cross            awe


Y                   mark            eh or yeh

H                 operation         ah or hah

D               consciousness       du, as in do

P                will, want         pu

R                  emotion          ru

B                  decision         bu

C                    body           chu

L                   action          lu


T                  sensation        tu

K                   creation        ku
 
S              sign,word,symbol    sue

G                  derivation       gu

F                     image         fu

X                    thought        shu

N                     thing         nu


M                  interaction      mu
 
W                    property        wu

Z          covariance,communication  zu, as in zoo


    Given the preceding derived and defined alphabet a procedure has been developed to use the alphabet to construct words.  This procedure is based on the fact that the vowels have been constructed as relational concepts whereas the consonants have been constructed as universal archetypal concepts representing our experience with the universe.  The vowels will be used to begin and end each word and these beginning and ending vowels will specify a grammar.  Thus the grammar will consist of 64 uniquely determined pairs of the eight vowels of ODODU as follows:

UU     UI     UE     UA     UO     UQ     UY     UH
IU     II     IE     IA     IO     IQ     IY     IH
EU     EI     EE     EA     EO     EQ     EY     EH
AU     AI     AE     AA     AO     AQ     AY     AH
OU     OI     OE     OA     OO     OQ     OY     OH
QU     QI     QE     QA     QO     QQ     QY     QH
YU     YI     YE     YA     YO     YQ     YY     YH
HU     HI     HE     HA     HO     HQ     HY     HH


These 64 two vowel pairs will form the grammatical words of ODODU.  We can represent these 64 words with the symbol VV where each V stands for any one of the eight vowels.  In the first sections of the dictionaries words will be constructed by placing a consonant between the two vowels of the grammatical words.  This can be represented as VJV where the two Vs stand for vowels and the J can be any one of the 16 consonants.  The first vowel will determine the part of speech, noun, verb, modifier, etc. of the word.  The last vowel determines how the word is used in a sentence.  The meaning of the word is determined by the interior consonant, J,  which is defined as the core of the word.  In the future additional cores will be constructed by alternating consonants and vowels so that cores with only one letter will represent the most general concepts while cores with increasing numbers of letters will represent increasingly specific and detailed concepts.  This process can be codified with a number of general rules as follows:

All words begin and end with vowels.

All consonants are preceded and followed by vowels.

The lead vowel in a word specifies the part of speech which the word is.

The middle consonants and vowels indicate the meaning or idea of the word. This is defined as the core of the word.  The meaning of the core is derived from the meaning of its core consonants and vowels.

The last vowel specifies how the word is to be used in a dialogue or communication.

The first vowel followed by a consonant classifies the word as follows:


U     noun

I     active verb

E     modifier, adjective or adverb

A     relational, pronoun, connective, preposition, etc.

O     noun representing idea or form

Q     progressive verb, form ending in ing

Y     number

H     interrelational or mathematical


 

The last vowel indicates how the word is used as follows.

 

UU     noun used as a subject

UI     noun used as a direct object

UE     noun used as an indirect object

UA     noun used to indicate possession or qualification

UO     plural noun used as a subject

UQ     plural noun used as a direct object

UY     plural noun used as an indirect object

UH     plural noun used to indicate possession or qualification


 

IU      infinitive verb, to be

II      present verb, is

IE      past verb, was

IA      future verb, will be

IO      perfect infinitive verb, to have been

IQ      present perfect verb, have been

IY      past perfect verb, has or had been

IH      future perfect verb, will have been


 

EU      adjective modifying noun or pronoun used as subject

EI      adjective modifying noun or pronoun used as object

EE      adjective modifying noun or pronoun used as indirect object

EA      adjective modifying noun or pronoun used as possessive

EO      adverb, modifying adjective

EQ      adverb modifying verb

EY      adverb modifying other adverb

EH      adverb modifying relational word


 

AU      singular perspective

AI      singular connective

AE      singular directive

AA      singular integrative

AO      plural perspective

AQ      plural connective

AY      plural directive

AH      plural integrative


 

OU      idea used as a subject

OI      idea used as a direct object

OE      idea used as an indirect object

OA      idea used to indicate possession or qualification

OO      plural of idea used as a subject

OQ      plural of idea used as a direct object

OY      plural of idea used as an indirect object

OH      plural of idea used to indicate possession or qualification


 

QU      progressive infinitive verb, to be being

QI      present progressive verb, is being

QE      past progressive verb, was being

QA      future progressive verb, will be being

QO      progressive perfect infinitive verb, to have been being

QQ      present progressive perfect verb, have been being

QY      past progressive perfect verb, has or had been being

QH      future progressive perfect verb, will have been being


 

YU      integer

YI      rational number, fraction

YE      real number, representable with exponents, logarithms,

YA      complex number

YO      number that uses zero as placeholder

YQ      negative number

YY      complex number 

YH      number that is a matrix or spinor


 

HU      abstract or mathematical concept used as a subject

HI      abstract or mathematical concept used as a direct object

HE      abstract or mathematical concept used as an indirect object

HA      abstract or mathematical concept used to indicate possession or qualification

HO      plural of abstract or mathematical concept used as a subject

HQ      plural of abstract or mathematical concept used as a direct object

HY      plural of abstract or mathematical concept used as an indirect object

HH      plural of abstract or mathematical concept used to indicate possession or       qualification



Words can now be constructed by combining meaning, as specified by cores consisting of one consonant or combinations of consonants and vowels, with grammatical and syntatical usage which is specified by the beginning and ending vowels of the word.  All of these meanings and usages will be derived from the relational nature of the ideas and concepts which the letters represent.

 
To illustrate how the consonants are incorporated into the grammar  The Grammar Dictionary contains all possible three letter (one consonant) words beginning with the vowels U, I, E, A, O, and Q and ending with any of the eight vowels U, I, E, A, O, Q, Y, and H.  These words all have the VJV format.  Words beginning with Y and H will be included in The Grammar Dictionary with U endings only as they either follow their own criteria, as is the case for numbers, or they will follow the conventions for nouns as is the case for mathematical words. Both will be discussed in detail in the mathematical section.  To illustrate the expanded grammar and how it combines with the 16 consonants all of the VJU words are presented below.  Note that only the three letter one consonant words ending in U are presented here.  The rest of the VJV words are listed in The Grammar Dictionary.

First the nouns, words beginning with the letter U.  These words have a UJU format:

UDU      consciousness

UPU      will, desire

URU      emotion, feeling

UBU      decision, choice, belief

UCU      body

ULU      action

UTU      sensation

UKU      creation

 
USU      sign, word, symbol

UGU      derivation, meaning

UFU      image

UXU      thought, idea

UNU      thing, system, perspective, particle

UMU      interaction

UWU      property, characteristic

UZU      covarinace, connection


 

The infinitive verb forms (format IJU) and their meanings for the sixteen consonants are:

IDU       to be

IPU       to want, to will

IRU       to feel, to love

IBU       to choose

ICU       to have, to exist physically, to be physically

ILU       to do

ITU       to sense

IKU       to create, to make


ISU       to speak, to name, to mark

IGU       to derive

IFU       to show, to reflect, to image

IXU       to think

INU       to place, to locate

IMU       to go, to interact, to force, to push or pull

IWU       to recognize, to characterize, to identify

IZU       to connect, to communicate covariantly


The modifiers begin with the letter E and follow the EJV format. If the ending vowels are U, I, E, or A then the word is an adjective (modifies nouns or pronouns).  If the ending vowels are O, Q, Y, or H then the word is an adverb (modifies a different adjective or a verb, other adverb or a relational). The U endings indicating adjectives are shown here.  A more detailed listing of the different forms of adjectives and adverbs can be found in  The Grammar Dictionary.

EDU      conscious

EPU      desirable

ERU      emotional

EBU      chosen, good

ECU      physical

ELU      action as adjective

ETU      sensory

EKU      creative


ESU      symbolic

EGU      meaningful

EFU      imaged

EXU      thoughtful

ENU      located

EMU      interactive

EWU      characteristic

EZU      covariant, connected


 

The relational words which begin with A and end with U are:

ADU      I

APU      you

ARU      third person (he, she, it)

ABU      who

ACU      and

ALU      or

ATU      implication

AKU      comparison


ASU      the

AGU      this

AFU      that

AXU      what

ANU      when

AMU      where

AWU      how

AZU      why


 

The nouns representing ideas, OJU format, are shown below:

ODU      the idea of consciousness used as a subject

OPU      the idea of will used as a subject

ORU      the idea of love used as a subject

OBU      the idea of choice used as a subject

OCU      the idea of body used as a subject

OLU      the idea of action used as a subject

OTU      the idea of sensation used as a subject

OKU      the idea of creation used as a subject


OSU      the idea of sign used as a subject

OGU      the idea of derivation used as a subject

OFU      the idea of image used as a subject

OXU      the idea of thought used as a subject

ONU      the idea of thing used as a subject

OMU      the idea of interaction used as a subject

OWU      the idea of property or characteristic used as a subject

OZU      the idea of connection or field used as a subject


 

The perfect verb forms (verbs ending in "ing"), with QJU format, are shown below:

QDU      to be being aware

QPU      to be wanting

QRU      to be loving

QBU      to be deciding

QCU      to be having

QLU      to be acting

QTU      to be sensing

QKU      to be making


QSU      to be speaking

QGU      to be deriving

QFU      to be picturing

QXU      to be thinking

QNU      to be locating

QMU      to be interacting

QWU      to be characterizing

QZU      to be connecting


 

Numbers will be technically derived in a later mathematics section. The counting numbers or positive integers (words beginning with Y and ending with U, YJU format) are listed here. Note that the "first" number is a period and this stands for a basis point that specifies what kind of natural number system is being used. For example base ten is the system that is most commonly used but in Ododu base four and base sixteen systems are used most frequently.

Full        Shorthand                  Numeral                     Numeral

Name        Convention                 Base Ten                    Base Four


YDU           .                                .                                .

YPU           P                                1                                1

YRU           R                                2                                2

YBU           B                                3                                3

YCU           C                                4                               10

YLU           L                                5                               11

YTU           T                                6                               12

YKU           K                                7                               13

YSU           S                                8                               20

YGU           G                                9                               21

YFU           F                               10                               22

YXU           X                               11                               23

YNU           N                               12                               30

YMU           M                               13                               31

YWU           W                               14                               32

YZU           Z                               15                               33

 

The conceptually abstract or mathematical words which begin with H and end with U, HJU format, are:

HDU           point

HPU           line

HRU           surface

HBU           space, volume

HCU           set

HLU           operation

HTU           equivalence relation

HKU           combination/cancelation


HSU           set of relations

HGU           relational cross

HFU           relational mark

HXU           relational combination/cancelation

HNU           element of a set

HMU           association

HWU           intersection

HZU           union


 

Any word which begins or ends with a consonant is a name. Names are not derived as are ODODU words. Instead they are locally defined and hence their meaning is arbitrarily assigned. This meaning cannot be derived from the archetypal meanings of the names’ constituent letters. Any word containing a "v" or "j" is also a name as are words containing two or more consecutive consonants or two or more consecutive interior vowels.

All names are assumed to be nouns, either used as subjects in a sentence, or as identifiers in lists, titles, signage, or other uses not dependent on a grammar for understanding or interpretation. However, there are many times when it is desirable to use a name in an Ododu grammatical context. To do this begin the word with Y followed by the classifying vowel for noun, verb, modifier, etc.. Then insert the name and end the word with the final vowel that specifies usage (subject, tense, etc.). For example to use the English word "table" as a real noun serving as the subject of a sentence in Ododu you would write "yutableu".


The ability to use any word from any language within the ODODU grammar as a name allows for the inclusion of all the other languages within the ODODU paradigm.

The presentation of ODODU will be continued by using the grammar to create words for the initial eight concepts represented by the eight vowels.  This entails creating a new category of three letter words  for words containing only vowels.  Because of the uniqueness of the relational concepts, no all vowel word having more than three letters will be recognized as meaningful in ODODU.  The three vowel words can be represented as VVV where any of the Vs can be any of the eight defined vowels.  This contrasts with the VJV format used so far in which the first and last V are vowels but the center letter J is a consonant.  As was the case for the VJV words, the first and last V in a VVV word specifies the part of speech and how it would be used in a sentence as presented in the grammar.  The middle vowel will be the foundational concept as it was initially defined. Thus a foundational relational concept signified by a vowel could be used as a noun serving as a subject of a sentence by using;


UUU       self relation

UIU       linear relation

UEU       relational relation

UAU       interrelational relation

UOU       distinction

UQU       cross

UYU        name, mark

UHU        operation, interaction, interrelation


 

The IVU format verb forms are:

IUU       to self relate

IIU        to linearly relate

IEU        to relationally relate

IAU        to interrelationally relate

IOU        to make a distinction

IQU        to cross

IYU        to name, to mark

IHU        to operationally interact


 

The EVU format adjectives are:

EUU       self relational

EIU        linear relational

EEU        relational relational

EAU        interrelational relational

EOU        distinguished, bounded

EQU        crossed

EYU        named, marked

EHU        operational, interrelational


 

The AVU format relational forms are used  to include some of the most universally expressed concepts in language into single sound, single letter words.  These words will be used as the single vowel letters but their formal definition will be as follows:

AUU         U;  hello

AIU         I;  me

AEU         E;  yes

AAU         A;  no

AOU         O;  other, outside of me, hence you or universe

AQU         Q;  cross, opposite, reflection

AYU         Y,  name, mark

AHU         H,  question


 

The OVU format idea words are:

OUU        the idea of self relation

OIU        the idea of linear relation

OEU        the idea of relational relation

OAU        the idea of interrelational relation

OOU        the idea of distinction

OQU        the idea of cross

OYU        the idea of name, mark

OHU        the idea of operation, interaction, interrelation


 

The QVU format progressive verb forms are:

QUU       to be self relating

QIU       to be linearly relating

QEU       to be relationally relating

QAU       to be interrelationally relating

QOU       to be distinguishing

QQU       to be crossing

QYU        to be naming

QHU        to be operationally interacting


 

While most of the grammatical forms of these words follows closely with what has been done previously with the consonant cores special note should be made for the following definitions concerning numbers and abstract concepts, words beginning with Y and H.  The YVU words (numbers) are;

YUU        .

YIU         1   

YEU         2

YAU         3

YOU         0

YQU          -  negative number

YYU          i  square root of minus one

YHU          (     )   matrix


 

HUU           addition

HIU            division

HEU            multiplication

HAU            subtraction

HOU            association

HQU            equivalence relation

HYU            function

HHU            equation


 Additional discussions can be found in The Derivation of Numbers and Mathematics.

Consistent with the concept that the four fold relational nature of the universe should be fundamental to any language describing that universe, ODODU considers all core concepts to be four dimensional.  Thus each core concept itself is viewed as having four relational components or characteristics.  For example, the word UDU, which means consciousness, can be viewed as embodying the concepts of existence, experience, memory and life.  These are then viewed as relational characteristics or manifestations of consciousness and so are defined as extensions or dimensions of the core concept of consciousness.


These relational manifestations are incorporated into ODODU by adding a vowel to the one consonant J core, thereby generating four new cores of consonant-vowel, JV, form.  However, this core expansion is restricted to adding only one of the vowels U, I, E, or A, to a consonant core J.  Each of these four new expansion or dimensional cores illustrates some aspect of the original one consonant core.  The new consonant-vowel, JV (where V can only be one of U, I, E, or A),  core can then be inserted into the two vowel grammatical words in the same manner as was used to create the one consonant core words.  This generates a new class of VJVV format words.  It is important to stress that in a VJVV format the first and last vowel can be any of the eight vowels U, I, E, A, O, Q, Y, or H while the interior vowel following the consonant can only be one of the letters U, I, E, or A.  For the consciousness example just discussed they can be presented as;

UDU          consciousness

   UDUU      existence

   UDIU      experience

   UDEU      memory

   UDAU      life


In a similar manner more complex cores with VJVJV and VJVJVV formats and can be constructed.

A complete listing of all of the one consonant, one consonant-one vowel, and one vowel cores is contained in the The Core Concept Dictionary for all three and four letter words beginning with U, I, E, A, O, and Q and ending with the vowel U.  As cores with two consonants and one or two vowels are derived they will be added to this dictionary.


This page and its related links completes the presentation of ODODU as I understand it, and as this understanding exists today.  It will continue to change and evolve and as it does those changes will be documented in this site.


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