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#10Loshelekor by TurtleDuckDate
LoshelekorEnglish

jaitotu. lakathosheani otalasipa.
thathaharlila jor mushisho sukipo sukipo sotosano sotosano tuisi tuisi

  • thathaharlilo sejarkomi, tuisi sohoto, taka sejarkomi meti taka sejarkomi
  • thathaharlilo sejarkomi, tuisi sohoto.
  • lathathaharlilole midihe tuisihe sulihe jor
  • lanuolale taka sejarkomihe lir "kenoto"

thiki jaitotu. jaitotu.
thathaharlitho orher osipola tipesita
Haha. thiki lathathaharlijo orher tipesita "tulu".
jaitona orher. thiki ketetu "tulu".

- I understand. It obviously happened.
- Because Sukipo Sukipo Sotsan Sotsan Tujsi Tujsi, she insulted her.

  • Tujsi Sohot, two people with two other people, we insulted someone.
  • Tujsi Sohot, we insulted.
  • Midis, Tujsi, Suris, tried to insult them.
  • TWo men calling themselves Kento.

- Do I understand? I understand.
- We insulted them when they left.
- Haha. You insulted them then "turu"?
- Then you understand them. Everything "turu"?

Dictionary

  • athoshear (v)
    • To happen.
  • jaitor (V)
    • to understand
  • ketetu
    • Everything.
  • mushisho
    • Because.
  • otalasipa (ADV) - (Lit. Brightly)
    • Obviously.
  • sejarkomi
    • By itself it refers to an unspecified but finite amount of people ("some people").
  • tipesi
    • Time, instance
  • thathaharlir (V)
    • To insult, to confront, to call out
  • meti
    • With, as well as, also

Loshelekor is a agglutinating VSO language with a bit of fusional-ness on the verbs.

Phonology

It is (CV) with an optional <r> at the end of a CV chunk. This <r> may not precede a vowel sound. All consonants besides /r/ may start a CV chunk. Vowels are pronouned in hiatus and there are no dipthongs (except for the two "vowel" sounds that are dipthongs...)

ConsonantsLabialCoronalPalatalVelarGlottal
Stopptk
Fricativeθ <th>sʃ <sh>h
Nasalmn
Approximantrlj
VowelsFrontBack
Highiu
eɪ̯ <e>oʊ <o>
Opena

Where a prefix is attaching to a word starting with a vowel, the final vowel of the prefix is dropped and the first vowel of the root word is taken by the final consonant of the prefix.
For example: paji + olaka = pajolako

Nouns.

Ablative +naEnd
Accusative +shoEnd
Dative+koEnd
Instrumental +hashi/ hash_Start
Locative +taEnd
Nominative +heEnd
Plural +se/+sel_Start
Genitive +kemiEnd

The locative handles both physical and metaphorical movement towards the (pro)noun, "give it to me". "roll it to me". It also may be used to indicate similarity, "He is like you" would be "he.nom to be.1sg you.loc".

Pronouns

Loshelekor is a pro-drop language meaning that often times nominative pronouns are left out as the end of the verb conjugates for person and number.

The 3rd person accusative pronouns are jor, lir, orher, representing singular, dual, and plural respective.

Verbs

Verbs come in two categories one of which being "r" verbs.

R verbs1st person2nd person3rd person
Singularjasher > tulajoshur > naejo r > ni
Dual (exclusive)shomer > thoshuor > joshilino change
Dual (inclusive)mermer > lo
Plural (exclusive)thamor > thiorshe +neashor > la
Plural (inclusive)oherher > li

Conjugation of R verbs mostly involves replacing the final R with a syllable. As with O verbs, the third person dual exclusive uses the infinitive of the verb. The second person plural exclusive adds the syllable `ne' to the end of the verb rather than replacing the `r'.

(Example table)

Pualakar1st person2nd person3rd person
Singularjashepualakatulajoshupualakanaejopualakani
Dual (exclusive)shomepualakathoshuopualakajoshilipualakar
Dual (inclusive)mermepualakalo
Plural (exclusive)thamopualakathiorshepualakarneashopualakala
Plural (inclusive)oherhepualakali

Tense

Loshelekor marks for future and past, having a near and a distant version of both.

Distant past +ne/ +net_Start
Close past +la/lak_Start
Close future +su/sup_Start
Distant future +ma/+mal_Start

Counting

Loshelekor is a base 8 language.

0Ji8Jati16puli
1Puko9jatipuko24nita
2Taka10jatitaka32kutu
3Hala11jatihala40mola
4Koje12jatikoje48susu
5Leto13jatileto56nepi
6Mutha14jatimutha64keteki
7Totu15jatitotu72lale

There is also a complex system of directions given in three dimensions based around the number system and some number words have lexical meanings as well.

Other

Questions are indicated with the word "thiki" at the start of a sentence.

The suffix "le" indicates an attempt to do something.