/r/conlangs Chat Network Relay Game - Discord Conlangers Relay the Sixth

⇐ Previous step (Carisitt) | Full Relay | Next step (Lxelxe) ⇒

#15??? by Cecci
???English

Býnno xua txálit kut ponát xas pxóni.
Táp raan sa txamópa síwa nóbadi.
Ak píni jonót xua nóbi, pik býnno jót raa nati.
Jót raa, býnno jót raa so jót raan kxápi!
Síni kási, jót raa, síni ak txabáno xiját xua nóbi, ni máno.

Its berry bitter sang near her.
They didn’t go swimming at my world.
They swam, with eyes of time, they hid under your berry.
Yours, you found your berry!
I run, yours, with intelligence, I swim with tongue of the air, with salt.

/ˈβynno çwʌ ˈtʰɑlit̚ ʔut̚ ɸoˈnɑt̚ çʌs ˈpʰoni/
/ˈθɑp̚ ɾɑːn sʌ tʰʌˈmoɸʌ ˈsiwʌ ˈnoβʌði/
/ʌk̚ ˈɸini joˈnot̚ çwʌ ˈnoβi , ɸik ˈβynno ˈjot̚ ɾɑː ˈnɑθi/
/ˈjot̚ ɾɑːt̚ , ˈβynno ˈjot̚ ɾɑː so ˈjot̚ ɾɑːn ˈkʰɑɸi/
/ˈsini ʔɑsi , ˈjot̚ ɾɑː , ˈsini ʌk̚ tʰʌˈβɑno çiˈjɑt̚ çwʌ ˈnoβi , ni ˈmɑno/

1s2s3sp
nom./acc.sinijoxaraan
dat.sinsjosxasraas
gen.siwajowaxuaraa
  • ak – with/using/by means of (preposition)
  • bano – tongue (noun)
  • bynno – berry (noun)
  • jono – time (noun)
  • kasi – to run (verb)
  • kxapi – to find (verb)
  • kut – near (preposition)
  • mano – salt (noun)
  • mopa – place/land (noun)
  • nati – to hide (verb)
  • ni – with/accompanied by (preposition)
  • nobi – to swim (verb)
  • pik – underneath (preposition)
  • pini – eye (noun)
  • pona – woman/lady/girl (noun)
  • pxoni – to sing (verb)
  • sa – in (preposition)
  • so – (postposition marking the object of a sentence)
  • tap – person/human (noun)
  • txa- – large (prefix)
  • txabano – language (noun)
  • txali – sour (adjective)
  • txamopa – world/realm (noun)
  • xija – air (noun)

Word order is OSV, with the object marked by a postposition ‘so’. Indirect objects are marked with prepositions and usually follow the subject. Adjectives can be spoken of as nouns unmarked, but take a final -t when used as adjectives (postpositional). Genitive pronouns are also postpositional.

Pronouns can be merged with nouns, which will cause them to take final syllable stress and a final -t (‘sinót sini’, ‘I the king’; ‘ponát xa’, ‘that lady’/‘she’). Similarly, pronouns can be merged together in this way in order to create the plural equivalents, whereas raan is otherwise considered third-person (‘sinót raan’, ‘we’; ‘jó raa’, ‘your’). A subject must not necessarily be reintroduced unless it has become ambiguous. If a pronoun follows a preposition, it takes the dative.

The -adi suffix negates the verb.