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The alphabet, organized into three groups, vowels, constants, and auxiliary:
The vowel transliterations into English are as follows:
y(before a constant or auxiliary),a,eh,i,o,u
The constant transliterations into English are also as follows:
y(before a vowel),th,b,d,f,ch,h,sh,g,j,k,s,l,m,n,ss(sharp s),p,r,t,v,w,z
The auxiliary letter transliterations are as follows:
mj,ize,kwi,bri
They are organized in their alphabetical order, and are pronounced:
ny,na,neh,nin,no,nu,yu,thu,bu,du,fu,chu,hu,shu,gu,ju,ku,su,lu,mu,nu,ess,pu,ru,tu,vu,wu,zu,mju,nize,kwi,bri
Words themselves are spelled vertically, while sentences form left to right.
Triangles facing outward begin and end all regular sentences.
Ones with half circles end questions.
Regular exclamation points can end exclamations.
There are ten, irregular verbs that make up most of what you might want to say.
These correspond to:
have,be,want,need,finish,start,go,receive,change,remove
They don't have infinitive, and also can take on double meanings, for example, in english we have a possessive case of pronouns, e.g. "my", "our", "his", etc. However, here, the conjugated verb can take the place of one of these.
For example:
'ver' = 'cat'
'verpe' = 'He/she has a cat.' or 'His/her cat.'
'verpa' = 'I have a cat.' or 'My cat.'
'verpu' = 'There is a cat.'
The statements 'I have' and 'My' for example, are the same.
This also applies to the other nine irregular verbs, however comparing them to english is more difficult because we don't have locative or receiving, or any of the other cases for our pronouns.
Also, there are conjugation for time that apply to all verbs, for example:
(grev = eat)
Nothing - grevna - "I eat."
i - grevnei - "I am eating."
kwi - grevnekwi - "I ate."
kwis - grevnekwis - "I was eating."
bri - grevnebri - "I will eat."
bris - grevnebris - "I will be eating."
brit - grevnebrit - "I will eat." (SUCCESSIVE)
kwit - grevnekwit - "I ate." (SUCCESSIVE)
The successive are used in statements with a series of events right after each other, their actual time span doesn't matter.
And there's a ton more I could tell you, but this is just to be part of a fad, so I'm not sure how much effort I should put into this topic.
EDIT:
dros arentpa
