Kharos S'fik

Introduction

Kharos S'fik was created 1/2006 by Pascal A. Kramm.

It is used in Conlang Relay 13.

Grammar

Sentences have SOV order. All words consist of sound units which are usually made up of CV (consonant-vowel) pairs, though vowel-only or consonant-only units are also possible. Final consonants are tacked onto the preceding unit. Every unit takes the same time to pronounce.

Alphabet and Phonology

This table presents the alphabet (khakra) in its proper order.

Sound	Ipa	Initial	Medial	Final	Unit by itself
a	a	O	O	O	O
ä	æ,E	O	O	O	O
i	i	O	O	O	O
u	u	O	O	O	O
au	aU	O	O	O	O
e	e,E	O	O	O	O
ei	aI	O	O	O	O
o	o,O	O	O	O	O
eu	oI	O	O	O	O
k	k	-	O	O	-
kh	ç	O	-/-	-/-	-/-
kh	x	-/-	O	O	-
kr	kʁ	O	O	O	O
ch	ç	O	O	O	O
cj	ʝ	O	O	-	-
nj	ɲ	O	O	-	-
z	ts	O	O	O	-
t	t	O	O	O	-
d	d	O	O	-	-
n	n	O	O	O	-
p	p	-	O	O	-
f	f	O	O	O	O
w	v	O	O	-	-
m	m	O	O	O	-
j	j	O	O	-	-
r	ʁ	O	O	-	-
l	l	O	O	O	-
q	kw	O	O	-	-
x	ks	O	O	O	-
sh	ʃ	O	O	O	O
s	s	O	O	O	O
h	h	O	O	-	-

• h is also used to indicate long vowels
• kr is regarded as a single consonant

Babel text

Bereshit (Book of Genesis) Chapter 11, 1-9

• 1 Tep khanaz mira en s'parakh de sam khotop ta ha.
• 2 In futesh ch'mas til osot, umanen in Shinara falakh ta tarof okh dä kholoni ta ch'mas.
• 3 Etin til s'jäl ta tal: "Nu f'rokhot! Lata fokin tichel ch'mas okh etin taxan s'cjikrat!" Etin tichel f'samen ishi okh tajära f'samen morat ta fenutaz.
• 4 Tokrat etin ta tal: "Nu f'rokhot! Lata fokin s'tat de toran til nebo fa fokin s'dani, s'da fokin nei sufa khanaz jorat s'ka kha s'farakh."
• 5 Fut HaShem ch'ta ta f'rokhot fa fidet s'tat okh toran ch'toen in ta s'dani.
• 6 HaShem ta tal: "Fal khom en ch'toen de en s'parakh etin khon tata fechin ch'mas, nada etin khikak ch'mas s'ka ise nei wos'mosh fa etin.
• 7 Nu f'rokhot! Lata fokin ch'ta iti okh s'parakh af etin s'mush'cjen, s'da etin nei s'jäl s'ka f'seh."
• 8 S' HaShem etin sufa khanaz jorat s'farakh, okh etin ta f'rek s'dani s'tat.
• 9 Dakha s'tat Fafel ta kha nam, khara HaShem dä s'parakh af khanaz mira s'mush'cjen; til dä, HaShem etin sufa khanaz jorat ta s'farakh.

Translation:

• 1 Now the whole world had one language with the same words.
• 2 Journeying eastwards, men found a plain in Shinar and settled there.
• 3 They said to one another: "Come! Let's make brick and burn it thorougly!" They used bricks instead of stone and tar instead of mortar.
• 4 Then they said: "Come! Let's build a city for us with a tower up to the sky, to make a name for us, so that we are not scattered over the whole earth."
• 5 But HaShem came down to see the city and the tower men were building.
• 6 HaShem said: "If as one people with one language they have begun doing this, nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.
• 7 Come! Let's go down and confuse their language, so that they will not understand each other."
• 8 So HaShem scattered them over the whole earth, and they stopped building the city.
• 9 Therefore the city was named Babel, because there HaShem confused the language of the whole world; from there HaShem scattered them over the whole earth.

Lexicon

Kharos S'fik	English
A
af	of
CH
ch'mas	to make, to do
ch'ta	down, downwards
ch'to	man, person
D
dakha	therefore
dä	there
de	with
E
-en	plural suffix (infrequently used)
en	one
et	it
etin	they (mixed gender)
F
fa	for
fal	if
falakh	flat; a plain
fekhin	begin; beginning
fenutaz	use
fidet	see
fok	I
fokin	we
f'rek	stop
f'rokhot	come
f'samen	instead (of)
f'seh	understand; understanding
fut	but
futesh	journey
H
ha	have
I
iki	go
in	in; continuous action particle
ise	to be; being
ishi	stone
J
jorat	earth
KH
kha	passive particle
khanaz	whole
khara	because (of)
khikak	plan
kholoni	settlement, colony
khom	as
khon	this
khotop	word
L
lata	let
M
mira	world
morat	mortar
N
nada	nothing
nam	name
nebo	sky
nei	not
nu	imperative particle
O
okh	and
osot	east
S
sam	same
s'cjikrat	burn; fire
s'da	so that
s'dani	build; building
s'farakh	spread, scatter
s'jäl	self, oneself, one another
s'ka	future particle
s'mush'cjen	confuse; confusion
s'parakh	language
s'tat	city, town
sufa	over
T
ta	past particle
tata	perferct particle
tajära	tar
tal	say
tarof	find
taxan	much, many, a lot
tep	now
tikhel	brick
til	until, to, towards
tokrat	then
U
uman	man, human
W
wos'mosh	possible