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#11Lorošae by Yatalac
LorošaeEnglish

Rxrebsu
Rxrexrebsu mošut
lamlmma.
Xinortsu nesustawa
omma

Ližiin, kaikiin,
alsiin, čariin,
eelts.
Nxalsu mošut

geliin nazukik laniin
žoykbet.
Suknö nxalseilor.
Čarksnu,

Cammanans.
Amatoonsis.

He/she is harvesting
The other person harvests
during the summer
He/she plucks the vegetables
going back and forth

The cyan, the blue
the green, the red ones
are the same
The other person grows

like a small plant
so that he/she might get strong
We expect you to grow
They help

They lie down for a bit
It (the sun) shines on them

r-xreb-s-u
ANTPASS-harvest-EVI-3S.h.A

R-xre~xreb-s-u mo-šu-t
ANTPASS-HAB~harvest-EVI-3S.h.A other-person-A

laml-m-ma
summer-COP-CVB

Xi-nort-s-u nesusta-wa
3yP-pluck-EVI-3S.h.A vegetable-PL

o-m-ma.
go.to-CURS-CVB

liž-iin kaik-iin
turquoise-PTCP blue-PTCP

als-iin, čariin,
green-PTCP red-PTCP

eelt-s.
same-EVI

N-xal-s-u mo-šu-t
MID-grow-EVI-3S.h.A other-person-A

gel-iin nazuk-k lan-iin
similar-PTCP plant-DAT small-PTCP

ž<ö>yk-bet
strong<IMP>-CVB2

suk-nö n-xal-sei-lor.
expect-1p.A MID-grow-NMZ-2s.POSS.INAL

Čark-s-nu
help-EVI-3p.h.A

cam-ma-nan-s
PVB-3p.h.P-lie-EVI

a-ma-toon-s-s
PVB2-3p.h.P-shine-EVI-3s.y.A

Nouns:

  • laml “summer”
  • nazuk “plant”
  • nesusta “vegetable” (y-class)
  • šu “person”

Verbs:

  • a- -toon- “to shine on”
  • -als- “green”
  • cam- -nan- “to lie down a bit”
  • -čar- “red”
  • -čark- “help”
  • -eelt- “same”
  • -kaik- “blue”
  • -gel- “be similar to (sth)” (takes the dative)
  • -lan- “small”
  • -liž- “cyan, turquoise”
  • -nort- “pluck (something)”
  • -o- “go to (something)”
  • -suk- “wait for, expect”
  • -xal- “grow (sth), raise (sth)”
  • -xreb- “harvest (something)”
  • -žyk- “strong”

plz note that a- and cam- are preverbs! and shall be treated accordingly

Nominal morphology:

  • -(i)k dative ending
  • -m “to be (the noun)”
  • -t agentive ending
  • -lor “your (inalienable)”
  • -wa - plural ending

Verbal morphology:

  • C(C)V~ - habitual stem formant
  • -bet converb - “so that X may happen” (attaches to the imperative stem)
  • -iin participle, “the thing/one that is X”
  • -(i)s 3d person singular y-class agent
  • -m goes on motion verbs - conveys a roundtrip meaning
  • -ma adverbial converb “while doing X”
  • ma- 3rd person plural human object
  • -nö 1st person plural agent
  • -nu 3nd person plural human agent
  • n- middle voice
  • <ö> imperative stem formant
  • r- antipassive voice
  • -s personal knowledge evidentiality
  • -sei verbal noun
  • -u 3nd person singular human agent
  • xi- 3nd person y-class patient
  • -∅ 3nd person singular x-class agent

Other stuff:

  • mo- “other”

Grammatical notes:

Lorošae is a fluid-S active-stative language - intransitive verbs may take either subject or object marking, depending on the context.

Verbal morpheme ordering is something like this (for the relevant bits of this text):

preverb- -object marking- -voice- -stem formant (if prefix)- ROOT<stem formant if infix> -evidentiality- -subject marking