Re: first native text!

>From: FFlores <fflores@...>
>Reply-To: Constructed Languages List <CONLANG@...>
>To: Multiple recipients of list CONLANG <CONLANG@...>
>Subject: Re: first native text!
>Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 19:14:55 -0300
>
>J. Barefoot <ataiyu@...> wrote:
>
> > On a long car trip last Sunday, I finally discovered the first connec=
ted
> > _native_ text in Asiteya. It's a classical hymn, though the melody is=
=20
>not
> > forthcoming. Probably in a minor key. Anyway:
>
>Congratulations! Don't mind the melody. It's already difficult to
>compose in English.
And thank you for all the kind comments.
> >
> > -eseh iganu
> > cloak the-sky.gen
> > The sky's cloak,
> >
> > -yerad@ wa hoyanal om@ ikoas@
> > mist-COL TOP drape-MID on the-mountain-DIS
> > mists [are] draped on every mountain,
>
>I love your middle voice. Actually I love middle voice. :)
>I think I'm going to translate this if you don't mind, since
>my own MV fits exactly there.
>What is DIS? Oh, forget that, I just saw the abbrev table
>below. Nice feature, distributive plural, did you come up
>with it yourself? I'd never seen it before!
No. Actually, I lifted it from Boreneasian (it never get's spelled right,=
=20
does it?) during the translation relay. I think lots of Native American=20
langs have it.
>
> >
> > -si wa ei xya
> > you TOP much beauty
> > You are so beautiful.
>
>This looks like _haiku_. How do you pronounce _xya_?
[Sya] S =3D alveo-palatal fricative, y =3D palatal semivowel, a =3D low m=
id open=20
vowel

> >
> > -kate aralu nao
> > cloud distance.gen INS
> > From a distant cloud,
>
>Is this Abstract_Noun.gen =3D Adjective the standard way to
>form adjectives? Cool!
Yes it is.

>
> >
> > -baiya sa baiyanal om@ imoiya
> > lightening AGT flashes-MID over the-sea
> > Lightening flashes over the sea,
> >
> > -si wa ei xya
> > You are so beautiful.
> >
> > -si wa ei xya
> > -ikatek@ wa ihw@ isamnu
> > the-cloud-PL TOP feather the-sun.gen
> > The clouds are the sun's feathers
> >
> > -ta ais@
> > at dusk
>
>[snip]
> >
> > So what d'yall think?
>
>I like it. Oh yes. I'm gonna try a translation right now.
>The word order and some metaphors will suffer, though...
>
>
>         Naines paol,
>         kafaktherg graiss=FCr fn=E1rarsel soimarth,
>         t=E0qgaser giad.
>         Lif nefars tumbas
>         suek rros i sl=E0t g=FCf tanq=FCap,
>         t=E0qgaser giad.
>         Baisbr=E1mornot qek tumbass
>         baises f=E1lihadh.
>
>
>GEN =3D genitive
>PL  =3D plural
>CMP =3D comparative
>LOC =3D locative
>GRP =3D group plural
>AUG =3D augmentative
>  *  =3D here _i_ marks an object (idiomatic with this verb)
>
>
>         Naines  paol,
>         sky.GEN coat
>         'The sky's coat,'
>
>         kafaktherg   graiss=FCr      fn=E1rarsel  soimarth,
>         cloth.PL.CMP mountains.LOC lying_down mists
>         'on the mountains like pieces of cloth mists lying down,'
>
>         t=E0qgaser         giad.
>         AUG.beautiful.2s you
>         'you are very beautiful.'
>
>         Lif  nefars    tumbas
>         from far-being cloud
>         'From a faraway cloud'
>
>         suek rros i sl=E0t  g=FCf     tanq=FCap,
>         over sea  * sword make.3s lightning
>         'lightning draws a sword [both meanings of 'draw' here!] over t=
he=20
>sea,'
>
>         t=E0qgaser         giad.
>         AUG.beautiful.2s you
>         'you are very beautiful.'
>
>         Baisbr=E1mornot qek   tumbass
>         sun-fall-time be.3p clouds
>         'At dusk the clouds are'
>
>         baises  f=E1lihadh.
>         sun.GEN feathers.GRP
>         'the feathers of the sun.'
>
>Hope you don't mind that I messed with it... Are you putting it up
>in your website? I'd like to link to it.
>
>
>--Pablo Flores
I don't mind at all. Whatever fits your language. The word order is such =
in=20
Asiteya because classical poetry is supossed to have some kind of paralle=
l=20
structure, which is broken in the last stanza. And yes, it'll be on my=20
website, with myriad other updates once I can have the computer to myself=
=20
for long enough to do anything. Sigh. And less than three weeks till scho=
ol=20
starts... Will your's be on your website? I'd like to hear it.

Jennifer


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