Re: "two be"

--You got the right idea.  I found that having five
vowels presented some convenient patterns, so I take
advantage of that a lot.  So my pronouns are:

a--I
e--you
i--it/she/he
o--we
u--they

The following are the reflexive forms, and are
pronounced with a glottal stop in between.
aa
ee
ii
oo
uu

Other pronouns follow the same idea in a slightly more
complicated fashion;
masa
mesa
misa
mosa
musa
are the posessive forms, and
mana
mena
mina
mona
muna
are the direct-object forms (can someone remind me of
the proper term for that--I want to say "accusative",
but that doesn't sound right.)

There you go!
Emesohaleka Yawehi--in case you want to know, I don't
exactly have an imperative form.  "Emesohaleka"
literally translates you need to go:
e
(second-person sing)
meso
("need")
hale
("go")
ka
(present tense)

Kalinida

--- Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Dec 2001 09:29:27 -0800 Clint Jackson
> Baker
> <litrex1@...> writes:
> > Emesohaleka Yawehi (I just realized that I've been
> > putting this in first person--amesohaleka--and not
> > second.  D'oh!)
> > Clint
> -
>
> So E is second person, and A is first?
> What are the other persons/pronouns?
>
> Rokbeigalmki (which, to merge with your other post,
> sounds like Arabic to
> my brother - i don't know enough different languages
> to characterize it
> as specifically like any) has pronouns in A E I O U
> and UH:
>
> az = i
> ez = you
> iz = she
> oz = he
> uz = it
> uhz = 'singular they' (animate common/epicene)
>
> My first conlang, ool-Nuziiferoi, which i worked on
> with my brother
> around 7 years ago for a few months, had the same
> pronouns (i borrowed
> them for R. later) except with AAZ instead of UHZ.
> The plural equivalents of the pronouns are made by
> inserting a M between
> the vowel and the Z.  Rokbeigalmki (i don't remember
> about ool-Nuziiferoi
> at the moment) also has non-subject pronouns, which
> are the same with the
> Z replaced with a SH.
>
>
> -Stephen (Steg)
>  "it is very blue and soft
>   like a big blue womb"
>      ~ a friend of mine describing her car

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