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#3Ikhōam by salpfish
IkhōamEnglish

Trhọa ng zēa wētc orh i tsēpụ̄ fi cẹapa no s, xāqhqọ thēn no jūt jūt i pur.

The end of the start-up noise indicates that the collective lives of us have finished booting up.

know CAUS GNOM end-NOMZ GEN noise GEN turn_on 3SG-PSV, boot_up PERF 3SG life life GEN 2P

  • cẹapa — v. to open, to turn on
  • jūt — n. life, existence, livelihood
  • no — pn. 3sg
  • pur — pn. 2pl
  • trhọa — v. to know, to understand, to grasp the idea of
  • tsēpụ̄ — n. sound, noise
  • wētc — v. to end
  • xāqhqọ — v. to awaken, to come into view, to begin functioning
  • ang — causative
  • i — genitive
  • orh — nominalizer
  • s — passive
  • thēn — perfective
  • zēa — gnomic

VSO, head-initial.

Genitive constructions go possessed-possessor.

Some vowel-vowel sequences are broken by an epenthetic consonant, others merge into one vowel.

Relative clauses are not directly marked, but the noun being “dropped” must be replaced with a pronoun.

Reduplication marks collective plurals.