Conlang Relay 17/Khangaþyagon

Text

glaf ukhrin

halut modut dahiuf glaf u sulving yi rik. belut modut hrabvlantingar iður glafuz, beb rafking rik yi. halilðen omtapinguf rik glafol. miryaging glaf beb yetolwaning dahingufar glafar dirsar allbkannit glafart, beb kiratingar yir lormont. trinning glaf rik halutar damzutar. belbanut kharmlbanut anguding rik.

Smooth English

The evil horse

Once there was a horse that belonged to a man. One day the horse's eyes grew red, and the man killed it. Afterwards the man was attacked by the horse. The horse called and suddenly there were a thousand other horses with it, and they chased the owner. The horse bit the man many times. On that fateful day the man died.

Grammar

VSO, agglutinating. Adjectives follow the noun they qualify and agree with them. Numerals do not inflect for plurality, since they are already intrinsicly plural. Predicative adjectives compound with the verb. Adverbs agree with the verb.

Morphology

Nouns

Nouns may be followed by segunakar (suffixes, literally follow-parts) of six ranks, given in the order which they follow the rood, of which the following are found in the text modsegunakar(1st rank)- deixis markers

il

this

ban

that

densegnunakar (second rank)- Proximity markers. Indicate how closely the marked noun is associated with another noun

ut

at

art

with

radsegunakar (third rank) - relative position

ðen

beyond

karvsegunakar (fourth rank) - sense of motion. Not used in this text sintsegunakar (fifth rank) - abstract.

uz

of

ol

by (istrumental)

bantsegunakar (sixth rank) - number

(a)r

plural

Verbs

Verbs are obligatorily followed by a person, participal or infinitive segunak

i

3rd person

ont

present participal (can also act as an agent noun)

The following segunakar appear in the text Tense

ng

past

Voice

uf

passive

Number

(a)r

plural

Derivational affixes

l

forms adjectives in the sense "Characterised by"

wan

forms adverbs in the sense "in such a manner"

Compounding

The head of a compound appears last

Vocab

(in bukhstav order)

beb

and

bel

day

u

such that

ukhrin

wicked, evil

kharm

fate

sulv

belong to

trinn

bite

allb

ten

angud

die

vlant

become

omtap

attack

hal

time

hrab

red

dah

be

damz

many

dirs

other

mod

one

mir

call (n)

rafk

kill

rik

man

iðu

eye

kannit

hundred

kirat

chase, pursue

lorm

own

glaf

horse

y+person ending

personal pronoun

yag

say

yetol

sudden