Ung is a really stupid name for a language, but it just means "speech" in the language that the people that speak it speak, so it kind of makes sense. It's spoken by about 300-500 people in a handful of tribes in central Borneo, and they really like their isolation. They have some weird practices as well, but I'm not gonna go into that since this is a board for languages, unless someone wants me to.
It's a language isolate (or at least seems like one) although it's phonetically pretty similar to some other Southeast Asian languages, but it has some weird grammar and things that I'm really not sure how to explain, that don't exist in other languages I'm familiar with. I have no idea what the language's origins are, or the people's who speak it, since all they say is that they descended from some immortal man-eating half-plant people, so yeah…
Some basic vocabulary:
>appaang = sky
>shwattak = river
>matwang = fruit
>koop = tree
>ngaph = flower
>yobul = eye
>pushang = ear
>muluung = mouth
>balaang = hand
>pataang = foot
>watak = edge
>balaangwatak = spear, knife, etc. anything with a blade that's used for hunting and such
>wattaal = boy
>yammaal = girl
>wambak = man
>yammak = woman
>yamwa = human (regardless of gender)
Here's how you say "the snake bit the man":
Pwagattaam taam bhaawambakpyang pranaamanglappungbyong anganglam papawal.
>wambak = man
>naamanglappung = snake
>anganglam = to eat
>-pyang = marks the object of an action done by the subject
>-byong = marks the subject doing an action
>bhaa- = kind of a diminutive, implies that the word it is attached to is lower in status
>pra- = kind of an augmentative, implies that the word it is attached to is higher in status
>papawal = a little
>pwagattaam = today (pwagat = this)
>taam = day, added to indicate past
Also, the way words are formed is pretty funny sometimes. For example,
>lappung = dick
>naamang = forest
So, snakes are literally called forest dicks.
Plurals are only used when there's a definite number of something. The plural suffix -shwa is used in addition to repeating the last syllable of the thing in question the amount of times that there are of that thing, for example if you wanted to say "three girls", you'd say:
Yammaalshwa maa maa maa.
"Those three girls are picking fruits from the trees by the river."
Shwattakjala kaamatwangpyang kooppyang pwaagit yammaalshwabyong maa maa maa patwallam.
>patwallam = to take, collect, etc.
>-jala kaa- = at, by, near, etc.
>pwaagit = that
As you can see, there is no plural for "this" or "that", and instead of prepositions there are suffix+prefix combinations.
>-jala maa- = inside
>-jala naa- = on top of
>-kara kaa- = far from
>-kara maa- = outside*
*For example, "pragtalkara maangattushmur" means leopard outside the village.
>pragtal = village
>ngattushmur = leopard
Verbs always end in m, and there are no conjugations in the typical sense. Suffixes exist to combine the meanings of multiple verbs or to restrict the range of a verb, and they have diminutives and augmentatives as I demonstrated earlier in the snake example with the particle "papawal". The augmentative particle is "maragwal".
>tarakram = to kill
>tarakram papawal = to injure
>tarakram maragwal = overkill, eg. mutilating a body after killing
Some suffixes to attach to verbs:
>-lung = "soft negation", recommendation to not do the action of the verb
Yamwa tarakramlung = you shouldn't kill people
>-kwung = "hard negation", an order to not do the action of the verb
Yamwa tarakramkwung = you must not kill people
I think that's enough for the first post, let me know if you're interested in more.