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	Lxelxe	English
#16	Lxelxe by Lucy
	tatapej c'em muksirok'e kwap'ekaz k'ofogsacwa fanco zarigojweze aspej zaridet'u zop'usac tatapt'u tehit'u wojaz tehit'u... tehi tatapa tehit'u iwojik wasi gohim, tehit'u, wasisac konoej asimso zariaz, gil cawach	Their sour berry sings to the woman People in my world cannot swim Their time to swim is hidden underneath y'all's berry yall's... yall find yall's berry I run, yall's, In me their air swims using language, and salt
	/tatapej t͡sʼem muksirokʼe kwapʼekaz kʼofogsat͡ʃwa fant͡so zarigojweze aspej zaridetʼu zopʼusat͡s tataptʼu tehitʼu wojaz tehitʼu tehi tatapa tehitʼu iwojik wasi gohim, tehitʼu, wasisat͡s konoej asimso zariaz, gil t͡ʃawat͡ʃ/

Pronouns

1 – wasi
2 – tehi
3 – ejni

Dictionary

asim	language	(noun)
asp	time	(noun)
cawach	salt	(noun)
c’em	sour	(adj)
gil	and	(conj)
fanco	human/person	(noun)
gohu	run	(verb)
kono	air	(noun)
kwap’ek	sing	(verb)
k’ofog	world	(noun)
muksiro	woman	(noun)
tatap	berry	(noun)
woj	hide	(verb)
zari	swim	(verb)
zop’u	under	(adposition)

Nominal Morphology

Plurality is optionally marked with –wi, it is usually unmarked.

Nominative	–∅
Accusative	–ka (after vowel), –a
Genitive	–t’u
Allative	–k’e
Ablative	–laan
Locative	–sac
Comitative	–wia
Privative	–lxui
Instrumental	–so
Benefactive	–me
Referential	–k’at

Genetive constructions of pronouns are often done by cliticising it as –wa, –te, or –ej, i.e. “datna wasit’u homaz” is equivalent to “datnawa homaz”

Allative and Ablative have special roles in sentences with ditransitive valency. Agents are marked with ablative, themes the accusative, and goals the allative (the nominative is not used).

Verbal Morphology

Verb negator

-goj-

Tense

Past	–tix–
Recent Past	–xor–
Present	–∅–
Imminent Future	–fic–
Future	–aja–

Aspect

Inceptive	–te–
Perfective	–∅–
Terminative	–naj–

Mood

Indicative	–∅–
Desiderative	–shat–
Potential	–wez–
Obligative	–ad–
Optative	–kaw–
Conditional	–net–

Personal Agreement

1s	–im
2s	–et
3s	–az
1p(inc)	–an
1p(exc)	–us
2p	–ik
3p	–e

Other

The Trivial Nominalizer (i.e, eat (v) to eating (n)) is –de

i– acts to reverse a verb, i.e. sleep to wake, leave to come, learn to forget

Other

SOV, Highly Agglutinative, Noun Phrases are generally right Branching. Verbs ending in –u drop the –u in conjugated forms.