Re: Spoken Cat (was Brithenig)

Am 04/03 13:38  BP Jonsson yscrifef:

> Could you give us a tidbit?
>
Here's something to get your whiskers around:

mow                        The Cat
mow 'aow row mew.          The little Cat is cold.
ma`row 'Rowow pwah row.    The pretty coat is wet.
uh rrow uh rowb pwah row.  The whiskers and tail are wet.
mow 'RRaow row.            The Cat is lonely
mow merowwap.              She is hungry.

an interlinear:

mow
Cat

mow 'aow   row mew
Cat little is  cold

ma`row 'Rowow pwah row
coat   pretty wet  is

uh  rrow     uh  rowb pwah row
and whiskers and tail wet  is

mow 'RRaow  row
Cat  lonely is

mow merowwap
Cat is_hungry

This is a lullaby Cats sing to their young.  There are three pronouns,
mow Cat, mowuh you/Cat, ma` non-Cat.  The language is tonal and ma`
alters to indicate plurality, mow is always singular - Cats do not use
the Royal We!  Verbs also alter in tone following ma`.  Adjectives can
come before or after nouns.  Adjective strings are prohibited, either
separated by a noun or the conjunction uh.  There are three classes of
verbs: stative, active and impersonal or Acts of Goddess.  Some verbs
are defective (non-Cat only, like must) or perfect (Cat only, like
grant).  Verbs are altered for Voice: Flattery, Fantasy, and Offended.
Past and Future markers are optional.  There are 15 Consonants and 10
Vowels.

Phew!  That was a quick skim through Grammar, not looking at the
sections on Tonality; Music, Myth and Legend; or the section called
Einstein's Cat.

BTW Sally, the .sig is from Pseudo-Dionysus the Areopagite.

- andrew.
--
Andrew Smith, Intheologus                       hobbit@earthlight.co.nz

   The sacred writers have clothed God in a human form, like gleaming
  amber or fire, and have spoken of its eyes, and ears, and hair, and
 face, and hands, and wings, and pinions, and arms, and back, and feet.
                                   - The Divine Names, 1.8