Weird New Language - Some Grammar and A Text
From: | Anthony M. Miles <theophilus88@...> |
Date: | Saturday, July 19, 2003, 5:53 |
Structural Rules
1) There may be only two words in the basic sentence (i.e,, no adjectives,
no adverbs, nothing but V S O I). This is where the combination of elements
arises.
2) There is a hierarchy of elements, which is from the top down: V S O I.
The lower element vocalizes.
V-S O
Positive
V S-O
Negative
V-O S
Question
V-S O-I
Positive
V-I S-O
Negative
V-O S-I
Question
Noun Adj (Adjectives are VCVC, not CVCV)
Girl beautiful (A beautiful girl)
h`i?a. i..manhy
[X\i_0?a:\_0 i:_0ma:\_n_0j_0]
Possessed Possessor
House boy (House of the boy)
guu..hnya.. guu..hwa
[gu:J_0a:_0 gu:Wa_0]
A Tragic Love Story
A boy loves a land-girl. The land-girl does not love the boy. The boy seizes
the girl. Water kills the girl (the girl drowns).
(lit. Love-boy girl land; love girl-boy land; seize-boy girl; kill-water
girl)
1. wii..buu..cuhma h`i?a. a..muhy
[wi:bu:Cu_0m_0a_0 X\i_0?a:\_0 a:_0mu_0j_0]
2. wuu..cu.. h`ii..hyuu..?uhha
[wu:Cu: X\i:j_0u:?u_0h_0a_0]
3. nyii..hwu..hhu?a h`i?a.
[Ji:Wu:_0h_0u_0?a_0 X\i_0?a:\_0]
4. hyaanhnyaabannyaan h`i?a
[j_0a:\_n_0J_0aba_n_0Ja:\_n X\i_0?a_0]
Glossary
Beauty k-m-hng-hy
Boy g-b-hw-h`
Girl h`-hy-?-hh
Kill hy-hny-b-ny
Land ?-m-hw-hy
Love w-b-c-hm
Seize ny-hw-hh-?
Water ny-h-hny-ny
"commune id vitium est, hic vivimus ambitiosa
paupertate"
"this is our common fault; here we live in ostentatious poverty"
Juvenal, Satires 3.182-3
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