Conlang Relay 19/Sandic

This is the Sandic torch from Conlang Relay 19's Overflow ring.

Sandic text

Sriitnia pal onj irenia jee pelan wwak oxbamo.

Pelania ta jee baxmii- "Fian emaxsin frn kia batoka pal onj uxle:niali ba ire."

Ba juti ta jee baxmii- "Gator awwtesa."

Otiab oxbra thiiaa wii nibo keei, inee oxmii:

Le:ee ta pelan, also awwtefeed onjian ba juti ba ire, wii inee ejj awwtefeed, wii le:ian awwtemii frn kiab awwraug, aan le:eetesa."

Ta pelan oxahl jee oxade, wii ba thiiaa wii ba nibo keei oxfeed.

Gre sriitnia keei, ejj baxfeed ba thiiaa, wii baxmii:

"Onjian ba juti ba ire exle:anee, wii inee exraug lorabin maoain, grateebin ameein, jeeuumeebin kjjain."

Ba treei ta pelan oxahl juti inee baxmii- "Jeed oteraug."

Ba juti ta jee baxmii, "Fii aan awwteziald, jilain awwteahl."

Gre mohn, ejj baxfeed ba nibo keei, wii baxmii:

"Onjian ba juti ba ire fele: extreekaa, a wwak exraug graoamab, baxahlso wwhee ba graoam zum pal aww- iamabin beracoin, elcabin beracoin."

Ba treei ta pelan baxmii, "Awwwiic ra aan raug otiab."

A ba juti baxmii, "Zum awwahl le:ain- otawwneot ma ziald."

Vocabulary

• a - but
• ahl - to be
• also - standalone pronoun "we"
• ameei - green
• aan - that, to (hard to translate, helper word)
• aww - us
• ba - singular article
• bamo - lie, rest, repose
• beraco - identical, the same, very similar
• bra - listen to, hear, overhear
• ejj - again
• elca - insect, bug
• fele: - standalone pronoun "I"
• fian - to-me
• frn - about, of
• feed - to go, to travel
• *feed ejj - return, come back
• fii - if, considering that, should (potential)
• graoam- grass
• gratee - valley
• gre - after
• iama - a seed, seed
• inee - behold, look
• ire - a hill, hill
• irenia - some hill, a hill
• jilai - sad
• juti - other, different
• jee - two
• jeed - that
• jeeuumee - a tree, tree
• kia - what, who
• kiab - what, acc.
• kjjai - tall
• keei - small, itty bitty, little
• lor - a plain, a field
• le:ai - happy, content
• le:anee - to fly
• le:ian - plural/respectful direction ("to You")
• le:ee - plural/respectful vocative- "O you guys"
• ma - do, act in a way like
• maoai - wide, expansive, big
• maxsin - to think, to imagine, to wonder
• mohn - a day, day
• mii - say, speak, tell
• neot - not
• nibo - a mouse, mouse
• oka - happen, go on, exist
• onj - side, a side
• otiab - them, accusative.
• pal - at
• pelan - stones
• pelania - some stone, a stone
• raug - see
• sa - know
• sriitnia - some time, a time, once upon a time
• ta - plural article
• thiiaa - a bird, bird
• treekaa - walk
• uxle:niali - hidden, unseen, unknown
• wwak - there, in that place
• wwhee - like, as
• wii - also, as well
• ziald - voyage, travel
• zum - here

Grammar notes

Verbs

Sandic uses verb markers for conjugating verbs. These are shortened forms of the stand-alone pronouns. Here are the ones used in the torch:

• fele: (standlone "I") - e- (verb marker "I") ; Example - emii, I say.
• ---- (standalone "you" sing.) - pee- (verb marker "you.sing") ; Example- peemii, you.sing say
• Ba (standalone "it" sing.) - ba- (verb marker "it") ; Example- bamii - it says
• Also (standalone "we") - aww  ; Example- awwmii - we say
• --- - le:ee ; Example- le:eemii -you.pl/respected say
• --- - o- ; Example- omii - they say

Verbs are marked for time with infixes and prefixes.

Infixes

• -x- past tense (Example, emii- I say, exmii - I said, I have said)
• -te- - future (Example, emii- I say, etemii- I will say)

Prefixes

• o(t)- desiderative, suggestive (Example, emii- I say, otemii- I should say, let me say)

Verbs can also be marked for truth of comparison-

"baahlco" - "it is just like"

versus

"baahlto" - "it is as though"

Nouns

Nouns decline by both number and case.

Number:

• mii, a speech, a saying-
• miin, speeches, sayings

• thiiaa, a bird, bird-
• thiian, birds.

Case:

• mii, a speech, a saying
• miib, a speech (acc.)
• miibin, speeches (acc.)

• thiiaa, a bird, bird
• thiiab, bird
• thiiabin, birds (acc.)

There exists, additionally, a "towards-" declination for nouns-

• "miiian", to the speech, to a speech
• "miinian" to the speeches
• "thiiaian", to the bird, to a bird
• "thiianian", to the birds

Adjectives

Adjectives are formed by adding an -i to the base form.

• gleen, "black" (noun)
• gleeni, "black" (adj)
• gleenin, "black" (pl.adj)

Adjectives do not decline by case.

Posession

Things being posessed by a pronoun have the short "verb marker" form of the pronoun following them.

(example, nax - cat ; nax aww - our cat)

A noun posessing another noun will have the thing being posessed listed first and the posessor listed second-

"(ba) stee ba nax"

"(the) paw the cat"

"(the) cat's paw"

Most of the time, adjectives which follow a noun are *not* posessing the noun before it.

"keema ba juti"

"person the other"

"the other person",

NOT "the other's person".