Conlang Relay 17/Nesheti
by Tony Hogard
Nesheti text
Anizu muzke hulat asin eti krespak aswas. Bir aswa meshatut, ge antuza heyihan. Femest, an niharkut antuzak is weredit kus amidan adek. Anda antuza hular fesnun, supala wapiyat is panut nap aten. Pravine, an baruzat zalyenikak is wenizit adek. Tepitalaba is panulaba kus patalan adek, aswa kweyat muzkek. Uskilaba, sfinal anda harunak sfisine is kivane rad.
Translation
English
English translation of previous text
(Ndok Aisô, by Jan Strasser)
A horse is angry
Once upon a time, a peasant tried to sit on the back of his workhorse. But the horse did not let him ride; instead it shook him off and hurt him severely. When the man tried to run away, the animal screamed and kicked at him. Indeed, it attacked that unfortunate person and struck him down! By trampling on him and kicking him with its feet, the horse killed the peasant.
On seeing this, the pigs in the stable squealed and rejoiced.
Vocabulary
| amid | N | strength |
| an | PRON | 3SG common pronoun (ACC adek; DAT aten; GEN ates) |
| anda | PP | within, during |
| anizu | ADV | one time, once |
| antuza | N | person, man |
| asin | V | to sit |
| aswa | N | horse |
| baruzan | V | to attack |
| bir | CJ | but, however |
| wapiyan | V | to roar, to wail |
| wenizin | V | to knock down, to defeat |
| weredin | V | to injure |
| ge | ADV | relative particle |
| eti | PP | on, atop |
| is | CJ | and |
| -k | case | ACC marker |
| kweyan | V | to kill |
| kivan | V | to become |
| krespa | N | back (of body) |
| kus | PP | with, via, by means of |
| -l | number | plural marker |
| -laba | aspect | active participle |
| meshatun | V | to stop, to prevent |
| muzke | N | peasant, commoner |
| -n | case | DAT marker |
| nap | PP | to, towards |
| -ne | aspect | 3PL conjugation |
| niharkun | V | to throw away, to throw off |
| panun | V | to kick |
| pata | N | foot |
| pravine | ADV | truly, indeed |
| -r | aspect | S past conjugation |
| rad | ADJ | happy |
| -s | case | GEN marker |
| supala | N | animal |
| sfina | N | pig |
| sfisin | V | to squeal |
| -t | aspect | 3SG conjugation |
| tepitan | V | to trample, to stomp |
| uskin | V | to see |
| femest | CJ | instead, rather |
| fesnun | V | to escape, to flee |
| haruna | N | barn |
| heyihan | V | to ride |
| hulan | V | to attempt |
| zalyenik | N | pitiable person |
ABBREVIATIONS: ADJ adjective ADV adverb CJ conjunction N noun PP preposition PRON pronoun V verb case nominal case affixes number nominal number affix aspect verbal aspect affixes
Grammar Notes
Common gender nouns include people, animals, fire, moving water, and astronomical and meteorological phenomena. Other nouns are neuter.
Nesheti usually has SVO word order. Adjectives and adverbs follow the nouns or verbs they modify.
Nouns are declined for accusative, dative, and genitive cases.
Verbs are conjugated for future, present, past (imperfective, habitual or continual action), and preterite (perfective, completed action), and agree with their subjects in person and number.
