Conlang Relay 18/Loknith

Loknith Text:

Ka niiklu stitt, wavv nekhwis vú uk na fissimigu. Íllin chæthiskiv, witt glu dorrikish vel báviv vo loy, jelchu é banu shech. Sheblin ghákk fu tégha shaalchu úv stivv, é váv sespin glu temyish, é váv fúskivyigu, é ka niiklu loy kuwa vú jarka róubina é óbliskiv. Herrilit paakti rellis glu græfta vi forlika. Hitt vi nal glu kiish rispa vikna: hitt glu éikyish vi hitt gill árkipit glu chommish herrilit.

Vocabulary:

árkip clothing, garment bani to start, to begin báviv embrace, hug chæth tree, wood chommich to clean, cleanse dorrikta to sleep é and, with éki to smile fissimin to come to life forlika attractive fu part of, made of (partitive) fúskivi to break up, disintegrate ghákk big, large gill with (instrumental) glu past tense of lom, “to be” græfta mocking, disdainful herrila face, countenance hitt he/she/it ílla dog, hound jarka roof, top of a building jellich to wake up, get up ka I kiish present participle of kina, “to know” kuwa female loy person na still, yet, another, again nal not nekhwis statue, figure/figurine niiklu past perfective of nokla, “to see” óbl snow paakti similar to, like rellis peach rispa manners, etiquette róubina broad, wide sespin for a long time shalich to arrive, get (somewhere) shebla cloud shech to vocalize, bellow, bark stitt that/this (demonstrative) stivv there, that place temmi to churn, be turbulent tégha smoke uk corner, point, vertex úv to, at váv they vel in vi but vikna normal, regular vo of vú on wavv how witt what, who, that (relative pronoun)

Grammar:

Word order is generally SVO, although verbal modifiers tend to come before the verb. Adjectives and prepositional phrases modifying nouns come after the noun.

Adjectives may be formed from nouns with the suffix –(i)skiv, which means something like “pertaining to”.

The past perfective is formed by inflecting the verb itself, whereas the past imperfective is formed periphrastically with “glu” and the present participle of the verb.

Verbs in –ta form their present participle by replacing –ta with –ish, verbs in –min form their past perfective by replacing –min with –migu, and verbs in –(i)ch form the past perfective by replacing –(i)ch with –chu, and the present participle by replacing –ch with –sh. Verbs ending in –i form their past perfective by replacing –i with –u, and the present participle by replacing -i with –yish. All of these changes may be accompanied by a slight spelling change in the stem (to preserve vowel length). Irregular forms are listed in the vocabulary.

Nouns pluralize by adding the suffix –in, which deletes a final –a. Personal pronouns have suffixed forms used as verbal objects and possessors. We see here only –(i)t, which is the suffixed form of “hitt”. A final –a becomes –i- before a suffied pronoun.