Conlang Card Exchange 2012e

Ní âre premye babik Yeu ve shapâmet premyeron nenon.

Ossí premyeron nenon wo' a?

Ossí ya dacha pidya údna binnya bina ve milt pena woha.

Ossí pena shapâma premye babik Yeu ve dúde latette nilimwege.

Daka kembí sha.

make.IMP you together

May you do likewise.

The final line of the Conlang Card Exchange is an admonition.  Daka is an imperative, 'make!', 'do!'  The pronoun modifies it to a jussive, 'may you do!', and sha is a useful adverb that adds emphasis, 'very', 'the same', 'just'.

I think one of the reasons for conlanging is putting things together, quite literally, like models. One of the early names for the Secret Vice on the internet was Model Languages.  What I think we are modelling, ultimately, is the universe.  Language shapes perception of the world we live in.  So go play and show what you come up with!

Fiat lingua!

Conlang Card Exchange 2012d

Ní âre premye babik Yeu ve shapâmet premyeron nenon.

Ossí premyeron nenon wo' a?

Ossí ya dacha pidya údna binnya bina ve milt pena woha.

Ossí pena shapâma premye babik Yeu ve dúde latette nilimwege

CONJ in command.INF first grandfather Y. NONPRESENT gave order in.world.DAT

And in speaking First Grandfather Yeu gave order to the world.

Sorry to take so long over this.  One last line which I hope to post tomorrow.

Conlang Card Exchange 2012c

Ní âre premye babik Yeu ve shapâmet premyeron nenon. 

Ossí premyeron nenon wo' a? 

Ossí ya dacha pidya údna binnya bina ve milt pena woha.

CONJ COM do.INF ask.INF one.NEUTER:PL thousand.ADJ:NEUTER:PL thousand.NEUTER:PL NON:PRESENT come:to.3PRES in be.INF

And with the asking of the (first) question a thousand thousand things came into being.

It seems to be an appropriate line to end this chiasma.  I return to completing this translation after the interruption of the holidays.  I would have returned to it earlier except that I pushed my way through making notes from Describing Morphosyntax by Thomas Payne.  The next challenge I have set myself is to create a coherent language out of my notes.  I hope you remain with me as I rally and compile my thoughts.