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Tai laana akka falje biddit laana akka mwinjanga veire affe.
Nada aa aremwappja wap.
Tai affea czeffinns.
Tai laana akka heikkezsa hai biddit laana feinje.
Tai laana kkile!
Tai xaila laafeja kaat cze me feil.
Tai leina aremwap siva bifalem.
Tai leina czes karim, czes falfe, czes keipt.
Tai czimpa cze czeifaa lein.
Tai laan czeidje.
Tai faarezsa meine veire affe:
tai @mpi ep maine ep lein.
Kkileji laafe, tai lain czes aa laive.
Kkileji laafe, tai lalla meip.
Tai laana kkile!
Tai laana akka tarri hai siva
Tai laana akka tarri hai siva eilw@.
Tai laana biddit lein arai czes hai fali.
Tai laana patti.
Tai falja cze me laan. |
Smooth translation: |
I wonder while walking beneath the trees.
Deception is the same as belief.
The trees are wild.
I fear the horror of death as I wander.
I am alone!
Suddenly, a divinity moves onto the path
He lies and so waits.
He is unskilled. He is faultless. He is unharmed.
Something unknown moves towards him.
He waits.
There is a bed of grass beneath the trees:
A feather on a cushion on it.
O loneliness, life is long
I am alone!
We fear reason because we drink.
Because we eat, we fear reason.
I believe that there is no fearing good.
I think.
Good moves onto me. |
Glossary/mini dictionary |
nada <Particle: (see below)>
arai <Particle: can>
tai <Particle: normal sentence>
ep <Particle: on>
me <Particle: onto>
aa <Particle: Present; Copula>
akka <Particle: Progressive>
czeifaa <Particle: towards>
veire <Particle: under, beneath>
laan <Pronoun: First Person>
lein <Pronoun: Third Person>
bittid <Relative Pronoun>
kkile alone
czimp an unknown, a something to fear
meine bed
wap belief
maine cushion
xeikke death
eilw@ eat
falfe fault
xai fear(s)
@mpi feather
xail god(dess)((e)s); divinit(y)(ies)
fali good
faare grass
kept harm
aremwappi lie, untruth (noun)
lall life
kkilei loneliness
meip long
kaat make. (see also below)
cze move
czes no; not
feil path(s)
tarri reason
karim skill
siva so (because of that)
laafa that, there. (see also below)
patti think
affe tree(s)
bifalem wait
czeidje wait, doesn't move
mwinjanga walk
feinje wander
czeffinns wild
falje wonder
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Grammar notes |
-A phrase begins with a particle. Anything before it is mearly
introductory---establishing who or what is ebing talked to.
- 'Tai' is used for normal sentences.
- 'Dai' is used for Qs.
- 'Nada' is used for the first sentence of a retelling of a story,
something the speaker is unsure about, a conditional sentence etc.
-'maak' (make) before the verb is used to express that something happened
suddenly or unexpectadly.
-'laafa' is used as a vocative marker, like english 'O'.
(In order on nouns, as particles, on verbs:)
-'-i', 'ai' and 'j-' mark future tense
-'-a', 'aa' and '0-' (nothing) mark present tense or the copula ('to be')
-'-w@', 'ei' and 'w-' mark past tense.
With the copula and two nouns ('Life is death', say), the particle method
of marking tense/copulas is preferred.
For more info about tense, read that email.
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