Conlang Relay 18/Emyt

Emyt language; by Milyamd

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Emyt text

Rokat elban ętov por-mośiuh. Otparboś-var'ątov ni virkinketboś-gutantǫtov.

Dezik ni daiveginśek rogỹtov saelbane sokiuh. Veginśek dyraptǫtovrak ni iśśantǫtov, ynrek pylmet rurintǫtov elbantorek. Sapylmet rurintǫtov ni kalrezętov, sav nuptątovrak ni terantǫtovrak. Mizan mukiś ętov porevoh. Samukiś rerątov bolka-kahliśinak ni tankaltǫtov mizan. Vą dezik ni daiveginśek nǫekkętov, yn nǫit satankal-solnįtov. Dezik teśarątov.

Translation

Smooth English

There is living statue in a corner of house. It tells (narrates) a story and hopes for pleasing.

A man and his little fox are sleeping near the statue. Little fox starts to wake up and shouts because smoke is rising from the statue. The smoke is rising and twisting, then becoming small and dissapearing. There is much snow on the big house. The snow is smooth like apple skin and very beautyful. However, man and little fox are the only ones, who see the beauty. The man laughs.

English translation of previous text

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Grammar

Emyt is highly synthetic language, using S O-V syntax. Some suffixes require previous consonant mutation, e.g. vegiś + -ek -> veginśek.

The most important cases in declension are genitive, possessive and verbial forms:

• Genitive is made from nominative by deleting final '-t' (only if root is ending with '-at -et -it -ut -yt');

  N. elban, elbanet -> G. elban, elbane.

• Possessive is made similar to genitive, but also by adding '-to' (if root is ending with '-p -v -r -l -k'), changing '-ot -h' to '-oto -to' and changing '-ś -j' to '-śi -zi';

  N. elban, elbanet -> P. elbanto, elbane.

• Verbial form is made from possessive by changing final vowel to nasal and changing '-śi -zi' to '-śę -zę';

  N. elban, elbanet -> V. elbantǫ, elbanę.

As you see, in most cases nominative and genetive have the same form.

Genitive is used in relation/possession constructions and as direct object. I should've admitted that genitive is placed before head noun or verb, and connected with hyphen.

In the second sentence there are implied subjects (pro-dropping).

Used lexicon

• bolkat - apple
• -boś (suffix) - abstractive noun / gerund ending

• dai- (prefix) - 3rd person masculine possessive prefix
• dezik - male, man, husband
• dyraptǫ - to wake up

• -ek (suffix) - diminutive suffix
• ekket - only
• -et (suffix) - augmentative suffix
• elban - statue, monument
• ę - to exist, to be located

• gutantǫ - to hope

• iśśantǫ - to shout

• kahliś - skin, peel
• kalrezę - to twist

• mizan - very, much, many
• moś - corner
• mukiś - snow

• -nak (suffix) - instructive/adverbial ending
• ni - and
• nǫ- (prefix) - plural prefix
• nǫit - they. 3rd person plural personal pronoun
• nuptat - small

• otparboś - story

• por - house, home
• pylmet - smoke, smog

• -rak (suffix) - perfective/inchoative ending
• -rek (suffix) - ablative ending
• rerat - smooth
• rokat - alive, living
• rogỹ - to sleep
• rurintǫ - to go up, to rise

• sa- (prefix) - definite prefix
• sav - then
• soki - near space, vicinity, neighbourhood
• solnį - to see

• tankal - beauty
• terantǫ - to vanish, dissapear
• teśarą - to laugh
• -tov (suffix) - 3rd person present tense ending

• -uh (suffix) - inessive ending

• var'ą - to narrate
• vą - but, however
• vegiś - fox
• virkinket - pleasing
• -voh (suffix) - adessive ending

• yn - that (relative conjunction)
• ynrek - because