The Relay Museum

"Ailzh tza'Gub Sudgubdim"
Ja'waur azu-mwair ta'Nythra
i azu-elyeb wa'taur gub.
Akh thwel-a tzii-a uzu-oubd a-ku
i azu-brol elikuh-dimwa.
I sa'aurdzaasht sudpihkht azu-thab.
Ra'aurdzaasht-a tzii-a ^reng^oktadhm uhmzu-k z ash.
Azu-dasyem sha'ailtzii ta'malreb-a
i azu-solg zad guptubm fa'sem-a tzii
nga'gaur ^nethegh^mlreb az .

"Power of Whispered Speech"
Without destination I walked within Void
and I came into a sound.
But my hearing became lost at that moment in that place
and I exited silently.
And with a forest far away I became trustworthy.
Outside of my forest a company of warriors found me.
I named myself in the wilderness
and I sang many blessings for my name
because I was the planter of Wilderness.

(*note: the marking "|" means that the morpheme is attached directly,
without any orthographic separation)

|A- = present immediate tense
-A = the.
AILTZII = myself.
AILZH = a Power, or Spirit; anything from from what a non-Rokbeigalmkidh
would consider a god (but the Rokbeigalm don't, they only have one
Creator-Deity) to the little sock-stealing things that haunt laundry
machines. ('ailz' "power" + '-dh')
AKH = but.
ASH = me, first-person singular non-subject.
AURDZAASHT = forest, jungle, expanse of trees too thick to move through
easily.
AZ(|) = i, first-person singular subject.
BROL = exit; leave an enclosed area; come out.
DA| = causative prefix
-DH = agentive suffix, 'one who...'
DIMWA = (n.) silence; (v.) to become silent.
ELIKUH = adverbial prefix
ELYEB = (v.) to come.
FA' = for.
GAUR = short form of 'ga'', the relative marker "that, which"
GUB = (n.) a vocal sound expressing meaning; (v.) to make such a sound.
GUBDIM = (n./v.) whisper.
GUPTUB = (n./v.) praise, blessing, well-wishing.
I = and.
JA' = without, lacking.
KZ = (v.) to find.
KU = then&there; that situation.
|M = plural suffix
MALREB = wilderness; expanse of pristine and unpredictable nature.
MWAIR = (v.) to walk, tread, move on one's feet.
NETHEG = (n.) newly planted sapling or seed; (v.) to plant.
NGA' = from.
NY THRA = (anthropomorphized common noun) 'no-site', 'no-place'.
OKTA = war.  fighting and destruction on a massive scale.
OUBD = (v.) to become lost.
PIHKHT = (v.) to become distant; to go far away.
RA' = outside of. (no movement implied; opposite of 'ta'')
RENG = (v.) to become ordered; (n.) an ordering, arrangement, rigid
placement of units relative to eachother.
SA' = next to, with, together with, mutually.
SEM = (n.) a name.
SHA' = direct object
SOLG = (v.) to sing (as opposed to chanting); (n.) a song.
SUD| = adjectival prefix
SYEM = (v.) to have a name.
TA' = inside.
TAUR = (n.) inside, inner part, cavity, innards.  (long form of 'ta'')
THAB = (n.) trustworthiness.  (cf. causative form 'dathab' "to believe,
trust, put faith in")  used for exchanging vows, making promises,
swearing oaths, or fulfilling them
THWEL = (n.) hearing; (v.) to hear passively (as opposed to listening
actively).
TZA' = of.
TZII = my, mine.
|U- = past simple tense
UHMZ(|) = they, third-person epicene/neutral/common plural subject.
UZ(|) = it, third-person inanimate singular subject.
WA' = to, towards.
WAUR = (n.) destination, heading; (v.) to orient oneself.  (long form of
'wa'')
ZAD = many, much, very.

1. Rokbeigalmki is agglutinative, and has relatively free word order.
2. To create a conjugated verb, you take a "subject tense complex" of a
subject pronoun and a tense vowel, and attach it to the front of a
verb-noun root.
for example: IMZ (they-female) + II (future) + KHAZ (sight/see) =
IMZII-KHAZ (they-female will see)
3. When a subject tense complex is not attached to a verb-noun root, it
is marked with an accent on the (last, if compounded) tense vowel and
assumes an automatic meaning of TEZAT (be) TZAT (exist) NETZ (be located
at) WAZ (do) or MWE (move); mostly it's just a copula or a pro-verb.
4. Tense vowels can also be attached to other words having to do with
time and place.
for example: OI (present-routine) + PAZ (here) = OI-PAZ (here, and all
the area around here; here in a general sense)
5. Rokbeigalmki has a definite article, '-a', but no indefinite article.
6. Common nouns can sometimes be used as proper names - when that is
done, their accented syllable is marked with an accent like names are.
for example:  BAHHIHR (an ocean) can become BHHIHR (Ocean, personified)
7. Adjectives can come either before or after the noun they modify; but
when they come after, they must agree with it in number, gender, and
definiteness if any of those qualities are marked.  Definite nouns *only*
come before their adjective.
8. Construct compounds are marked with the symbol '^', which in the
Rokbeigalmki alphabet actually comes over the first letter of each
word-part.
for example: WAJU (house) + GAHEISHM (elders) = ^WAJU^GAHEISHM (house of
elders; elders' house)
9. The agent suffix |DH blends with most consonants.
for example: YAG (to fish) + DH = YAGH (fisherman)
10. Case-prefixes can be doubled up, in which case the second one
detaches from the noun and assumes its long form, which is usually also
the form of a related noun.
for example: NGA' (from) + TA' (in) = NGA'TAUR (from inside, out of)
11. The tilde on the O in KZ doesn't mean anything grammar-wise; it just
marks it as an ultra-long vowel.  Rokbeigalmki has such things, and
they're phonemic - HET (smell) and HE~T (nostril) form a minimal pair.