Seuna rubbish

In the terminology of Seuna, it is said that there are 37 (45 in base 8) possible "head-events". (The ampersand is the first letter of the Seuna alphabet. It is just a symbol that support the following vowel. So a word with @ initially, actually starts with a vowel.)

After the "head-event" there is the "initial-span-sound". The 11 possible "initial-span-sounds" are

AU O OI I IA A UA U EU E AI *

• Notice that no opening diphthongs allowed in initial position

vowel = span.sound ? = flow.sound ?

The above constitutes what in SEUNA terminology is called a "word". Most concepts in Seuna are represented by a "word". Many particles (and a few concepts such as cat = MEU) are represented by shorter "sound-strings" (called "mini-words" in Seuna terminology), but the vast majority of concepts are represented by "words".

GWO ……… member ... GAWO members UGO ………. group ... WAGO groups HALGO …… family – this is a good example of a compound word

GYA = man GAYA = men, male

BYA = woman BAYA = women, female

LA = person LAWA = people, human There are also forms used when the agent is unknown or unimportant. These forms are -oi- for the singular and -eu- for the plural. An obvious question is ... if they agent is unknown, then how do you decide which of the two forms to use.

The answer is that if the action is typically performed by one person you use the oi form.

Whereas if the action is typically performed by more than one person, you use the eu form.

bundeurin dwolo = they say a house was built

caito kludoirus = (I guess) the book will be written

skriver = 'writing happens' (on écrit) [IMPERSONAL] The equivalent of the English passive is expressed by using the impersonal _with a direct object_, e.g. skriver ul levr = on écrit un livre = a book is being written These forms roughly correspond to indefinite pronouns such as Swedish and German man, French on and English one a house is built = someone built a house