Conlang Relay Nineteen Paragraph Four

Last paragraph:

Nidolgon poslí merega, luk ve dâyet lúb a kashte:

“Bodú ve seft nisha benan, dok bodú ve bint títíg haní, títíg bishí, ye títíg dúdwan.”

Premye habot ve kashte “Na'dâ wolenshim bina ten.”

Tal ve bonte, “Nas shradyega budet shaten nipana.”

Nidolgon poslí merega, luk ve dâyet lúb a kashte:

A long time after some days, the mouse came back and said:

locative.long-time after day.plural mouse.nominative non-present come.past return associative say.past

“Bodú ve seft nisha benan, dok bodú ve bint títíg haní, títíg bishí, ye títíg dúdwan.”

"I went beyond the mountain, and I saw the same grasses, the same seeds, and the same insects."

1s non-present gone.past locative.beyond mountain.accusative, then 1s non-present see.past demonstrative-plural.same-plural grass.plural demonstrative-plural.same-plural seed.plural associative demonstrative-plural.same-plural insect.plural

Premye habot ve kashte “Na'dâ wolenshim bina ten.”

The first rock said, "We don't want to see that."

first rock non-present say 1p.here want.present.plural.negative see.infinitive demonstrative.neuter

Tal ve bonte, “Nas shradyega budet shaten nipana.”

The other answered, "Our hearts will be happy forever."

other non-present answer.past our.plural heart.plural will-be.present happy locative.ever

Good night

Conlang Relay Nineteen Paragraph Three

Back again, thanks for waiting.  While I've got time before Doc Who and the Last Gunslinger I can post another paragraph.

Pet poslí kata deng ve plogete lúb a kashte:

“Bodú ve ploget nisha benan, dok bodú ve bint bradí surutí, wôda ría ye aotoka dradra.

Premye habot ve kashte “Magarí kem na'dâ ve gabinten ten.”

Tal ve bonte “Nas shradyega budet sús nipana.”

Pet poslí kata deng ve plogete lúb a kashte:

Soon after a time the bird flew back and said:

soon after time.genitive bird.nominative non-present fly.past return associative said.past

“Bodú ve ploget nisha benan, dok bodú ve bint bradí surutí, wôda ría ye aotoka dradra."

I flew beyond the mountain, and I saw broad streams, green brooks and tall trees.

1s non-present fly.past locative.beyond mountain.accusative, then 1s non-present see.past broad.masculine.plural stream.masculine.plural, green.neuter.plural brook.neuter.plural associative tall.neuter.plural tree.neuter.plural

"Premye habot ve kashte “Magarí kem na'dâ ve gabinten ten.”

The first rock said, "Perhaps we could see that."

first rock.singular non-present say.past perhaps relative 1p.here non-present conditional.see.past demonstrative.neuter

Tal ve bonte “Nas shradyega budet sús nipana.”

The other answered, "Our hearts will be unhappy forever."

other non-present answer.past 1p.possessive.plural heart.plural future-be troublesome locative-ever

Have a good evening.

Conlang Relay 19 Paragraph Two

Second Paragraph:

Deng a lúka ve'de. Pena kúhya, brekí ve kashten, “Ya botí, na'dâ pochen shodya nisha benan. Na'dâ ve kashoden ye dâya lúb, dok gúya pena Sei ei petten so bina wa nastrí, dok kembí ve kawidet.” Botí ve shahente, dok deng a lúka ve shodyete bôt.

Deng a lúka ve'de.

A bird and a mouse were there.

bird.nominative associative.s mouse.genitive non-present be-at.past.

Pena kúhya, brekí ve kashten, “Ya botí, na'dâ pochen shodya nisha benan.

On hearing, they said, "O rocks, we can go beyond the mountain.

locative hear/listen.infinitive 3p non-present say.past.plural vocative rock.plural 1p.here can.present.plural go.infinitive locative.beyond mountain.accusative.

"Na'dâ ve kashoden ye dâya lúb, dok gúya pena Sei ei petten so bina wa nastrí, dok kembí ve kawidet."

We will go and come back, and tell to you about what we see, and you will know.

1p.here future.go.plural associative.p come.infinitive return then tell.infinitive locative reflexive topic what.dative which-is see-infinitive instrumental 1p.genitive then you non-present future.know.3s.

Botí ve shahente, dok deng a lúka ve shodyete bôt.

The rocks agreed, and the bird and the mouse went away.

rock.plural non-present agree.past then bird associative.s mouse.genitive non-present go.past away.

Conlang Relay 19 Paragraph One

I see my connection to Blogspot has fixed itself.  I can start posting on a translation exercise that I've recently finished.  I was working on a translation of Amanda Babcock Furrow's Merechi text.  The first papagraph reads as follows:

Ten ve âte yilí botí nirúmbe benas. Údnon premye habot ve kashte “Gak súda petten âyet nisha bena?”

Tal ve bonte “Na'dâ ve kawiden shame.”

To translate:

Ten ve âte yilí botí nirúmbe benas.

There were two rocks on the slope of a mountain.

3s.neuter non-present  be-at.past two.plural rock.plural locative.slope.dative mountain.genitive.

Údnon premye habot ve kashte “Gak súda petten âyet nisha bena?”

Once the first rock said, "I wonder what is beyond the mountain?"

one.neuter first rock non-present say.past guess self.genitive what.accusative be-at.present locative.beyond mountain.dative.

Tal ve bonte “Na'dâ ve kawiden shame.”

The other answered, "We shall never know.

other non-present answer.past 1p.here non-present future.know.plural never.

McGuffey 1:7-13

Since I have time it is worth posting the next page from the McGuffey Reader.  Especially since I have worked them out, and I can see the number of hits you gave me for posting.  Please feel free to comment, question or complain.  Maybe I can improve the messy presentation that blog-composer gave me last time.  Cross fingers!

[7] Binú tag' ume! See the man!
[8] Binú tago taknok as umena! See the boy and the man!
[9] Ta ume tent údnon pillon, The man has a hat.
[10] A tent ta taknok údnon pillon? Has the boy a hat?
[11] Ta taknok pohat kúrina, The boy can run.
[12] A pohat ta ume kúrina, Can the man run?
[13] Ta ume pohat bina tago taknok kúrina, The man can see the boy run.

Binú is the imperative of bina to see.

Tago drops the final -o before a noun beginning with a vowel.

Ume means man, husband.  In the genitive form of the noun after as the stem is umen-.

Tent is the form of the verb to have, to hold, when the subject is a noun.

Údnon is the neuter form the indefinite article.  It comes before the neuter noun pillon, hat.  The neuter noun and the indefinite article have the ending -on in the Eclectic Tongue.

Kúrina means to run.

A is the question marker.  It comes at the beginning of a sentence. When it is used the sentence changes order so that the verb comes directly after it, and then the subject of the sentence.

McGuffey 1:1-6

The Journal of an Eclectic Tongue has been dormant for the first half of 2012.  Did you miss it?  I needed an exercise that would give this project some life.  McGuffey's First Reader seemed like a good exercise to challenge me.  It's available from Gary Shannon's website Fiziwig.  Here's a go at the first page.

[1] Bodú bin údnígo taknok,  I see a boy.
[2] Bodú bin údnan kalkan,  I see a girl.
[3] Bodú bin tago taknok ís kalkas,  I see the body and the girl.
[4] Ta taknok pohat bina dan kalkan,  The boy can see the girl. 

[5] Bodú poham bina dan kalkan as taknoka, I can see the girl and the boy.

[6] Bodú poham bina dan kalkan, I can see the girl.

That's a lot of information.

Bodú is the usual word for the pronoun I.

Bin is the word for see, look at.  The infinitive form of the verb is bina.

Poha is the stem for the auxiliary verb can, be able to.  If the subject of poha is bodú then the ending is -m.  If the subject of poha is a noun then the ending is -t.

Údnígo and údnan are both articles meaning a (certain one).  Údnígo is masculine animate accusative, and údnan is feminine accusative.  The Eclectic Tongue is heavily inflected and the inflections have to be learned.

Taknok means child, boy.  It is a masculine noun in the Eclectic Tongue.  Masculine nouns do not alter in the ending in the nominative and accusative forms.  After as in sentence [5] taknok takes the genitive ending -a.

Kalkan means girl, with the accusative ending -n, which is added to feminine nouns.  Feminine nouns in the Eclectic Tongue do have a separate accusative form of the noun, unlike masculine nouns.  The nominative form, kalka, is not used in this group of sentences.  After ís in sentence [3] kalkan replaces the accusative ending with the genitive ending -s.

Ta is the definite masculine nominative article.  Ta takes the ending -go before an accusative masculine noun.  Dan is the feminine accusative definite article.

Ís and as are conjunctions and both mean and-the.  After both conjunctions the noun is always in the genitive form, although it is not always a possessive.  In these sentences it is understood to accompany the previous noun, not to be the possessor of it.

That's enough for this lesson.  Bye for now.

Summer Greetings

This is the greeting that I sent out on the Conlang Exchange Cards. I should record it as I found the text in my wastepaper basket without making a record of it. Especially since the language after two years has not standardised.

Hastâ uba, sole ya, nin yule
Ya tai ten íhí shúa shradiim e nas
Sha ko kem mera ya lastes hastât
Pocheno piedí ye nas dansa lechon nin gâ
Nin nuan lehú penan shaklútí ye kata
Údin kuatok a lastes brat raran!

Kam ten ítí shim pena wiô ye (yí) kembí, tai laston dâyet lúb.

Stand still, O sun, in the sky
Let there be light in our hearts
As long as summer's day lasts
May our feet dance lightly on the earth
In the dark forest at the end of time
A summer flower brings joy!

If there is winter in your life, then summer returns.

Note to self, the phrase sha ko kem literally means 'only because that'.

All three forms of the accompanitive preposition ya, ye, yí are used here. Ya for the masculine and neuter possessor in a nominative and accusative phrase; ye for the masculine and neuter possessor in an oblique phrase; and yí for the feminine possessor. It took me a while to master this so there is some variation in grammar of the cards.