Re: Poijpohloneny

Jeff Jones wrote:

>On Mon, 2 Jun 2003 18:58:13 -0400, Jonathan Andrew Beagley
><jbeagley@...> wrote:
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>>I wrote this poem in my language, Hloneno.
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>>Tayone, la ruvy to ev?
>>Sva la to redady!
>>Nu, to la topoko!
>>Vali, to cvojeji juvepolu
>>Vlin to alace jvoinas,
>>Tayothunovyne!
>>Vlin carymon sva lujetam
>>Jtu to sva la ruvy.
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>>Oh rabbit, are you brown?
>>You are not slow!
>>Nay, you are the opposite!
>>Alas, you may die in time,
>>And you will be missed,
>>Oh dear rabbit!
>>And persons will not know
>>That you are not brown.
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>Hi Jonathan
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>I don't have the vocabulary to translate right now, but
>let's see if I can figure out what's what.
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>-ne -- Vocative
>to -- 2nd person (singular ?)
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Yes, to is the 2nd person singular pronoun. The 2nd person plural is uvon.

>la -- copula
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Hm... I'm not quite sure what a copula is, but I think from what I've
read "to be" in English is the copula, but not in all circumstances,
such as in the sentence, "The book is on the table."

>ev -- question particle
>sva -- negation particle
>Vlin -- and
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Yes, "vlin" is "and" but only when used as a co-ordinating conjunction.

>Tayo -- rabbit
>thunovy -- dear
>ruvy -- brown
>redady -- slow
>Nu -- Nay
>Vali -- Alas
>lujetom -- know
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It's "lujetam", which is "to know" in the simple future tense.

>carymon -- person.plural
>topoko -- opposite of (anaphoric)
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>The other 4 words, I'd have to guess which is which. I notice that the
>adjectives and in "y" here.
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All the adjectives end in "y" (pronounced [ai]).

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Jonathan Beagley