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#10	Agup by Luke
Agup	English
isġatṡ um namoniṡ honṡ. anu kąp vestu cividu uṡarum tcąsum, su yot isċer ṡairu netcasum. fora honṡ, usma ifatsum, usma iċer oyasąbayum, itcasum vestu civid. fora, anu eri yot i baiyum, i bipit.	death is the saddest thing. if everyone is destroyed with the ground’s blanket, i too wanted to be destroyed. but the thing which all believe, wanted to kill you, destroys the ground’s blanket but, if they also won’t die, it isn’t acceptable.
	isġat-ṡ um na-mon-i-ṡ hon-ṡ death-NOM.DEF is SUP-sad-SUP-NOM.DEF thing-NOM.DEF anu kąp vesta-u civid-u u-ṡaru-um tcąsum su yot is-ċer ṡairu ne-tcasum if all ground-ten blanket-INST IRR-become-3sg.SBJ destroy.IRR 1sg.NOM also 1sg.ABS-want.PFV become.PFV PFV-destroy fora hon-ṡ usma i-fats-um usma i-ċer o-ya-są-bai-um i-tcasum-um vesta-u civid-d but thing-NOM.DEF REL 3sg.P-believe.IPFV-3pl.A REL 3sg.ABS-want.PFV 3sg.ABS-PFV-CAUS-die-3sg.ERG ground-ten blanket-ACC fora anu eri yot i bai-i-um i bip-it but if 3pl.NOM also NEG die.IPFV-FUT-3pl.SBJ NEG accept-ADJ

#10

Agup by Luke

Agup

English

isġatṡ um namoniṡ honṡ.
anu kąp vestu cividu uṡarum tcąsum, su yot isċer ṡairu netcasum.
fora honṡ, usma ifatsum, usma iċer oyasąbayum, itcasum vestu civid.
fora, anu eri yot i baiyum, i bipit.

death is the saddest thing.
if everyone is destroyed with the ground’s blanket, i too wanted to be destroyed.
but the thing which all believe, wanted to kill you, destroys the ground’s blanket
but, if they also won’t die, it isn’t acceptable.

isġat-ṡ um na-mon-i-ṡ hon-ṡ
death-NOM.DEF is SUP-sad-SUP-NOM.DEF thing-NOM.DEF

anu kąp vesta-u civid-u u-ṡaru-um tcąsum su yot is-ċer ṡairu ne-tcasum
if all ground-ten blanket-INST IRR-become-3sg.SBJ destroy.IRR 1sg.NOM also 1sg.ABS-want.PFV become.PFV PFV-destroy

fora hon-ṡ usma i-fats-um usma i-ċer o-ya-są-bai-um i-tcasum-um vesta-u civid-d
but thing-NOM.DEF REL 3sg.P-believe.IPFV-3pl.A REL 3sg.ABS-want.PFV 3sg.ABS-PFV-CAUS-die-3sg.ERG ground-ten blanket-ACC

fora anu eri yot i bai-i-um i bip-it
but if 3pl.NOM also NEG die.IPFV-FUT-3pl.SBJ NEG accept-ADJ

Lexicon

anu - if
bai/ibai/ubai - die
bipit - accepted, acceptable
civid - blanket
eri - they
fats/yafats/ufats - believe
hon - thing
i - not, no
isġat - death
kąp - all
mon - sad
sąbai/yasąbai/usąbai - kill
ṡaru/ṡairu/uṡaru - become
tcasum/netcasum/tcąsum - destroy, break (tr)
ter/ċer/uter - want
um - is
usma - what, that
vesta - ground
yot - also, too

Grammar

SYNTAX:

Agup is mostly SVO, though occasionally becoming SOV, with syntax leaning towards head-initial.

NOUNS, ADJS:

Nom:

-Ø indef, -ṡ def

Acc:

-d indef, -d def

Genitive/Instrumental:

-u indef, -u def

Adjectives agree with the case of the noun.

na-i - Superlative

VERBS:

Verbs have 3 “modes”: imperfective, perfective, and irrealis. These modes are indicated a variety of ways, with the imperfective being the default, the perfective being indicated with consonant mutation/apophony or prefixes and the irrealis with apophony or prefixes. As the forms are not predictable, each verb where knowing the different forms is important has all 3 listed, in the order given here. The present and future tenses use the imperfective, the past tenses (with the exception of the past progressive) use the perfective, and conditional statements and certain moods use the irrealis.

Verbs mark for both agent and patient, with the present tense patient markers serving as absolutive markers for the past tense. The agent takes suffixes, the patient takes prefixes.

Patient:

1sg:	(i)s-
2sg:	o-
3sg:	i-
1pl:	us-
2pl:	to-
3pl:	ċ(a)-

Agent:

1sg:	-(s)a
2sg:	-o
3sg, 3pl:	-um
1pl:	-utṡ
2pl:	ut

The present and past tenses take no suffixes, but the future takes the suffix -i which comes directly after the stem.