Examples of Gabwe

I mentioned a while ago my Goblin language inspired by my Live Action
Role Playing group.
Here's an example of it.
My character can cast a few spells, and i wrote out my spell chants in
Gab-we (Goblin) for various In Character historical reasons to do with my
character growing up in the land of Ti-Er'-r'e (Tiere).

The orthography is like IPA, except:
Everything is creaky voiced.
Capital letters mark nouns, pronouns, and nouns/verbs being used as
adjectives.
Accent marks show lengthening, which marks nouns, adjectives, and verbs.
{Y} is /j/
{E} is /E/
{R} is /alveolar tap/flap/
{R'} is /velar approximant/
There are certain inter-morpheme gemination rules that aren't written
here in this orthography (but they are superscripted in my index cards):
/pp tt kk/ are [p<h> t<h> k<h>]
/44/ (tap/flap) is [r] (trill)
/RR/ (vlr apr) is [G] (vlr vcd frc)
/jj ww/ are [Z v]

The way spells work is that each one has a certain number of words for a
chant.

The Raise Dead spell takes 50 words, and three "Heal Limb" ribbons
braided together.

INTERLINEAR:
Yáw-Yáw Pwét-et-Kért –
You-You Person-(obj)-Kill
You, dead person –

Ék-r'i yaw-tr'éy-yip-Yáw!
Me-to you-listen-yes-You
Listen to me!

Yáw-kért-wad,
You-kill-leave
You were killed,

ah Dú-k háy-yúg-Yáw.
but Two-like live-can-You
But you can live again.

Tárt-Trí-Hír'
Ribbon-Three-Here
These three ribbons

Yáw-wáy-yúg-Dá.
You-help-can-They
[They] can help you.

Yáw-bríw-yúg-Dá!
You-health-can-They
They can make you healthy!

Yáw-húw-yúg-Dá!
You-whole-can-They
They can make you whole!

Yáw-háy-yúg-yip-Dá!
You-live-can-yes-They
They can truly make you live!

yaw-Yáw-réyd-Yáw,
you-You-rise-You
Raise yourself,

i yaw-háy-Yáw –
and you-live-You
and live –

yaw-tá-Yáw
you-arrive-You
Come

Wúr'd-r'i-Hír' Tá-Dú!
World-to-Here Arrive-Two
Back to this world!

Most of the words are blatant thefts from English and other languages.
Pretty much all of the vocabulary i have is stuff that i've needed to
make spell chants with.


-Stephen (Steg)
 "Language is the dance of abstraction
  on the shifting ground of the particular."
     ~ TwinkleBelle @ IRC DALnet