The Relay Museum

Tialo Hosh

Tialo u rrovok dorr. Horonarae gisrad yeb tialo. Kezatialosuqe rrovok tialo.
Kebohtaqe tialo rrovok. Rrovok vrvimgaq se. Kevrvoqraqe tialo. Tialo vaisoq
zamgaq se. Keshoqe tialorad rrovok. Kemeslesuishkibrie tialorad rrovok.
Vrvibajvonqe rrovok.

The Evil Horse

Once upon a time a horse belonged to a person. The eyes of the horse were red.
The person mounted the horse. The horse attacked the person. The person went
away from it. The horse made a noise. A thousand horses came to it. The horses
chased the person. The horses bit the person over and over again. The person
died.

bajvon: to be alive
boht-: to be attacked
dorr: evidentiality marker for fictional narratives
gis: eye
horon: to be red
hosh: bad, evil
mesle: tooth
-mg-: at
rrovok: person
se: he, she, it
-shk-: to be cut
sho: to be chased
tialo: horse
u: of, belonging to
vaisoq: thousand
vrvoq: sound, noise
yeb: part of (used for inalienable possession)

Word order is VSO, Noun-Modifier. Tense is not marked. Prepositions can be used
without a verb to form a sentence. Suffixing –su to a noun X forms a verb with
the meaning “that which is done do using X.” Suffixing –ra to a noun X forms a
verb meaning “that which is done which creates X.” The prefix za- on a verb
makes the verbs dynamic, AKA it indicates a change into the state indicated by
the root verb. The prefix vrvi- does the opposite, it marks a change out of the
state indicated by the root verb. The suffix –ara on verbs indicates the
habitual aspect, and all conjugated verbs end in a final –e. The suffix –ibri-
marks the iterative aspect (also placed before –e). Prefixing ke- to a verb
makes it active, and suffixing –(a)q- (before the final –e) marks the perfective
aspect. The perfective aspect may be marked on prepositions as well. Two verbs
may be joined with –i- to form a single, composite verb. The suffix –rad on
nouns indicates a group of the noun. Hyphens at the beginning or end of a verb
simply mean that the form listed in the lexicon does not, on its own, comply
with karrev’s phonotactics