Conlang Relay 15/Khangaþyagon/Ring C Final

Khangaþyagon

by Pete Bleackley

The Text

iðuzhafœ ya yiku ginsing yi

englamang ya enil u dahiuf hol u roling yi beb isting yi khlem yenguz yiuz beb elrushe u witingar holar dirsar de. voshtrugifœ holshe yi ginso, shosh rugi yi ginson yiuz holungar suungar. aksovliuf enil ginsnazku sasaku yiuz, analekdahi yi beb analrugi yi holar sur. rolovli yi ultoshtash beb tlinifœuf gins yiuz. torsidi yi nazol þelonuz. analekapir þaðar yiuz yi arra holar dirsar sur, lol þaðovli yi yir. shosh bengilaug vrimalapifœ beb orweapifœ gins sasa yiuz yi. apifœ enil en u beb kakstandahi yi beb tirzdahi yi holyatar dirsyatar.

Smooth English

I have seen that he danced

I perceived that there was a person who moved and used the sound of his voice and not music played by other people. Nobody has taught him to dance, but he gives his dancing for everybody. It can be assumed that his usual dance style is joyful and pleases everyone. He can move without hindrance and his dance has been shown. He turns himself like one alive. His deeds make him as joyful as everyone else, because he can do them. But because of this his usual dance has made him beautiful and sad. This has created something that is both complicated and different from other people.

Grammar

See the original text. A topic-comment structure is used for reported speech and similar things. Below are listed the segunakar found in this text

Morphology

Nouns

modsegunakar (1st rank) Deixis

il

this

she

no

densegunakar (2nd rank) Proximity

ash

without

radsegunak (3rd rank) Relative position Not used in this text

karvsegunakar (4th rank) Sense of motion Not used in this text

sintsegunakar (5th rank) Abstract

aug

for (goal,reason)

ku

about (topic)

uz

of

ol

by (instumental)

yat

against

bantsegunak (6th rank) Number

(a)r

plural

Verbs

Verbs may be followed by the following segunakar

Person/infinitive/participles (obligatory)

a

1p

e

2p

i

3p

o

infinitive

on/ont

Present participle. For many verbs this has the sense of an agent noun. If the sense normal for the verb is not the one required, the present participle compounds with another nouns to form the required sense.

osht

Past participle.

Reflexiveness

d+reduplication of person affix

Reflexive

Continuous aspect

Not used in this passage

Perfect aspect

fœ

Perfect

Tense

ng

Past tense

Present is unmarked

Voice

uf

passive

Mood

Not used in this passage

Negation

she

Number

(a)r

Plural

Derivational Morphology

ek

Forms adjectives from nouns, usually in the sense of like

l

Forms adjectives from nouns, usually in the sense of characterised by