Re: Ethnologue exercise (was: Conlang StandardLanguagesv.Dialects)

> > saha ya, Viaeti sene casiiho.
> > Rišuli insult: You don't look very edible today.
As I look again, it should be 'saha ya, keViaeti sene casiiho.

saha ya
this day
(This isn't grammatical.  Properly, it'd be 'saha-li ya-ci' or
'sa-ya-ci', this-<4p sing. neuter>  day-<locative neuter>,
this-day-<locative neuter>.  It's a form stolen from a neighboring
language.)

ke- Via-    e-                 ti           se-      ne
casii-             ho
neg-appear-<masculine speaker>-<2p neuter> <1p masc>-accusative
edible/appetizing-<intensive aspect>
(Personal affixes can be omitted from modifiers with aspects.  Without
this omission, 'casiiho' would take the form 'casiietiho', which is
rather cumbersome.)


> I forgot to ask in my last post:  could you provide morphological
> glosses for these? It's looks interesting. :)
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