LCC4 Relay/Naeso

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Warning: there are spoilers below! Do not read if you will participate in the LCC4 Relay.

This is the Naeso torch of LCC4 Relay's Ring B.

Bendiza Tthuy

• mina'am ku ona jensi mym tampfy fao bvya.
• minaja tsia ku bendiza.
• jia ku bendiza pan “ona! jensisie bu tha! kaminhtogy ku tha pan si!”.
• jia ku ona pan “nugoli ku pae pan bam kaminhto ku si pan pae? ni! baumni ku pae pan teono sibi!”.
• jia ku bendiza pan “teono thabi? nugoni ku si pan bam jia ku tha pan teono!
• nugo ku si pan bam kaminhto ku tha pan si. jia ku tha pan ‘ni!’!”.
• jia ku ona pan “jiani ku si pan inna!”.
• tsam pan bveo bendizabi kim kemga.
• jia ku bveo so bvya pan “jiatsun ku tha pan ‘ae!’?”.

Vocabulary

• ae — yes
• -am — progressive aspect
• bam — preposition for subordinate clauses
• baum — to know
• bendiza — goat
• -bi — genitive
• bu — neutral agent preposition
• bveo — head
• bvya — bridge, stairs
• fao — across, through
• -gy — imperative mood
• inna — that
• ja — cessative/perfective aspect
• jensi — beautiful
• jia — to say
• kaminhto — to marry
• kemga — body
• kim — out of, away from
• ku — agent preposition
• -li — interrogative mood
• mina — to go
• mym — instrumental preposition
• ni — no
• -ni — negative
• nugo — to ask someone to (bam) do something
• ona — woman
• pae — you (singular, addressing someone who recently joined the conversation)
• pan — focus preposition
• si — I, me
• -sie — very
• so — locative preposition
• tampfy — elephant
• teono — name
• tha — you (singular, addressing someone who has been part of the conversation for a while)
• tsam — to cut
• tsia — fast
• tsun — intention mood
• tthuy — evil

Grammar

• All Naeso sentences start with the verb phrase.
• After the verb phrase, you may list one or more prepositional phrases. The prepositions denote the grammatical role of the noun in the sentence.
• Adjectives follow the noun.
• Mood and aspect are marked using suffixes on the verb.
• Vowel sequences like "aa" are broken by liaison if they are formed at morpheme boundaries. The liaison consonant is a glottal stop, written as an apostrophe.
• The focus preposition introduces direct speech.
• Comparison is marked using suffixes on adjectives.
• A noun with a genitive suffix is treated like an adjective.

The Evil Goat

• A beautiful woman is riding an elephant over a bridge.
• The goat stopped running.
• The goat said, “Lady! You are very beautiful! Marry me!”
• The woman said, “You ask me to marry you? No! You do not know my name!”
• The goat said, “Your name? I don't ask you to say the name!
• I ask you to marry me, and you said 'no'!”
• The woman said, “I didn't say that!”
• and cut the goat's head off its body.
• The head on the bridge said “Does this really mean that you say ‘yes’?”