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Re: Atlantean Corpus

From:Paul Sherrill <sherril2@...>
Date:Thursday, July 5, 2001, 21:41
From what I understand of the Atlantean verbal system, verbs take two
suffixes, one which denotes tense and aspect and another that denotes
person and number.  In the Disney Adventures magazine, the word "KWEE-
yim" (or in my method of spelling, quiiyim) is glossed as "Have fun!"
and "KWEE-yim-limik" as "I had a great time!"  (The verb KWEE-yim
must then be a verb meaning "enjoy", etc.) We also find the suffix -
lim in _SOH-lesh-tem MOO-tih-lihm-kem!_ which is translated as "All
is lost!" although I think a more accurate translation is "We have
lost all" as -kem is seen in other places as a first person plural
ending.  Thus -lim seems to be a present perfect ending, leaving
only -ik to be the first person singular suffix.  In the other
example of a first person singular statement, _MOH-khit GWEH-noag-loh-
nick!_ we find -ik after -on (-oan, -ohn, etc.), which I'm confident
is a future tense marker from other examples, like _SOH-lesh MAH-toh-
noat_ "All will be well."

The verbal endings I've discerned so far are:
1st Person: -ik (sing.) -kem (plur.)
2nd Person: -en (sing.) -ekh (plur.)
3rd Person: -ot (sing.)

I'm also fairly certain on the tense endings -lim (present perfect), -
en (present), and -on (future).  Sometimes the tense endings do
assimilate a bit, like -en + -kem > -ekem and -en + -ot > -etot, but
so far I don't have any examples of the personal endings doing so.

I've established another e-group for discussing Atlantean, at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/atlantean_language and have some of
what I've learned about its grammar up at
http://brad.tcimet.net/atlantean/index.html although at the moment it
isn't a very comprehensive or intelligable resource.