Conlang Relay 15/Sora Suraetua
by Lars Finsen
The Text
Hihwaihinaumach dedasa chohiqariht, aharachentawaunaithwana wangurautha qamhanan olthwawqemachnaberesader. Hihwainawa wanagasedir ihischendumachqewana - hitaharmach hikuriwajusa herawejasaimhi - wedaren hihwainawamachnaqe qarderahicha hartatanwangurahichaimhi hihwainawalamihisa ahiahmadjan. Ahara hichuraranwara machsader chodarmuna. Hichurawarochasamihisa hizwaldamach, hitaharmach. Ahara wanangwaha machari hachandamarmuna. Hakswa hihwaihinawarawqe hilar aksonadarug qardera hiqinchwa, tahanarug laqnasa, bere wananghwahauthasaimhi?
Smooth English
See how they dance, undirected and without music except their own voices! Although they have mastered dancing fully until now - moving with desire and rejoicing - at the same time their dance becomes ever more like the most beautiful and harmonious of dances. There is not a student more dexterous than them. They turn and move as if with one mind. No move is impossible to them. Are there any other dancers who make greater beauty with less exertion, and without a single wrong step?
Grammar
Syntax generally SOV.
Attributes precede heads if separate words, otherwise they are attached to the end of the word.
Pronouns do not have possessive forms, the personal ones act as possessives if they are attached to nouns.
Affixes are attached in the following order:
Nouns: root-plural-possessive-case(s)-demonstratives/determinatives- their case-endings
Verbs: aspect-tense-root-subject.pronoun-mood-object.pronoun-nominaliser
A copula (be) if used, will attach to the subject, if specified. Attaching a suffix with a leading vowel to a word with a final vowel will lead to the loss of that final vowel. Attaching a suffix with a leading consonant to a word ending in a 'w' will turn that 'w' into a 'u'.
Relevant nominal morphemes
- -(i)qe
- ergative - marks subject of transitive sentence
- -(a)wqe
- plural
- -na
- genitive
- -sader
- ablative - origin, also of comparison
- -sa
- instrumental
- -imhi
- comitative - used instead of "and"
- -ren
- temporal, adverbialiser
- -(a)la
- terminative - goal of movement or action
- -(h)ari
- dative
Comparison
- -(a)rug
- comparative
- -hicha
- superlative
Relevant verbal morphemes
- -(i)ht
- imperative
- -wana
- perfective, completive
- ahi-
- continuous
- ihis-
- perfect
- -(i)thwa
- antipassive
- -(i)thwana
- verbal adjective
- hil-
- interrogative
- -chwa
- relative
Pronouns
- 2s
- hiqar
- 3s
- muna
- 3p
- mach
Vocabulary
- ahara
- no, not, un-
- ahmadjan
- become
- aksonada
- great
- (a)r
- be
- bere
- single, sole, own
- chendu
- master, accomplish, know, be able to
- chentawauna
- - direct, lead, command
- cho
- look, see
- choda
- supple, dexterous
- dedasa
- how
- hachandama
- difficult
- hakswa
- other, different
- hartatanwangura
- harmonious
- heraweja
- rejoicing, happiness
- hichuraranwara
- student, pupil
- hichurawara
- mind, memory
- hihwaihinaw
- dance (v)
- hihwaihinawara
- dancer
- hihwainawa
- dancing, dance (n)
- hikuriwaju
- desire
- hiqin
- make, do
- hitahar
- move, touch, come, go
- hizwalda
- turn
- laqna
- effort, work
- mihisa
- -like, similar to
- ocha
- 1, one
- olthwa
- voice
- qamhanan
- apart, except (+abl)
- qardera
- beautiful, beauty
- tahana
- little
- utha
- without, empty, -less
- wanagasedir
- hitherto
- wanangwaha
- step
- wangura
- music, game
- weda
- same, self
