Senjecas - Sample Texts
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Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field. - President Eisenhower
Pronunciation table
(labial) |
riisűko (dental) |
muitűko (alveolar) |
vainűko (palatal) |
ṡ̨uuše̋nos (vowels) |
nı̋þo ṡ̨uuše̋nos (weak vowels) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| b | f | v | m̃ | m | t | d | þ | ð | ɫ | l | ṡ | ż | s | z | r | n | k | g | x | ƣ | h | ȝ | š | s̨ | i | e | a | ǫ | o | u | ĭ | ĕ | ŭ | |||||||||||||
| /p/ | /b/ | /ɸ/ | /β/ | /m̥/ | /m/ | /t/ | /d/ | /θ/ | /ð/ | /l̥/ | /l/ | /ʦ/ | /ʣ/ | /s/ | /z/ | /ɾ̥/ | /n/ | /k/ | /g/ | /ç/ | /ʝ/ | /j̊/ | /j/ | /sʷ/ | /sʲ/ | /i/ | /e/ | /ä/ | /ɒ/ | /o/ | /u/ | /ɪ/ | /ɛ/ | /ʊ/ | ||||||||||||
Glossing abbreviations
| 1s/p = 1st person singular/plural | ABL = ablative suffix | COL = collective | EQU = equative degree | INS = instrument | PRF = perfect | SUP = supine |
| 2s/p = 2nd person singular/plural | ABS = absolutive (an unmarked modifying adjective) | CONV = conversive | F = feminine | INT = intensive prefix | PRV = privative prefix | TRZ = transitivizer |
| 3 = 3rd person | ADV = adverb | DES = desiderative | FRQ = frequentative | LAT = lative suffix | PST = past | VOC = vocative particle |
| A(.s/p) = accusative (singular/plural) | AG = agent | DIM = diminutive | FUT = future | LOC = locative suffix | Q = interrogative particle | |
| G(.s/p) = genitive (singular/plural) | AP = agent (active) participle | ELIS = elision | IMP = imperative | M = masculine | QUOT = direct quotation | |
| N(.s/p) = nominative (singular/plural) | AUG = augmentative | ELT = elative | INC = inchoative | OCC = occupation suffix | RPR = recent perfective | |
| V(.s/p) = vocative (singular/plural) | CAUS = causative | EP = epenthesis | IND = indicative | PP = patient (past) participle | SBJ = subjunctive |
| Senjecas | Gloss | Grammar |
|---|---|---|
| zǫðsa̋a̋r̈a sílvi vőda ka̋ȝa—téni tu-ƣ̨a̋nlo ȝarm̃ı̋po e̋sa da tu puurvaaȝős áfa t̨umpeda̋m t̨űmo vűűa: | zǫð.sa̋a̋r̈-a síl=vi vőda-Ø ka̋ȝ-a téni tu=ƣ̨a̋n-l-o ȝar.m̃ı̋p-o e̋s-a da t-u puur.vaaȝ-ős áfa t̨um.ped-a̋m t̨űm-o vűű-a | farm.knowledge-N.s extreme=ADV easy-N.s look-IND when your=plow-INS-N.s write.stick-N.s be-IND and 2s-N wheat.field-G.s from thousand.step-G.p thousand-N.s be-IND |
