| Ring B next: | Proto-Kame |
| Ring B previous: | Lusitanian |
A woman was afraid. She said to me, "There is a lynx in my house."
"Why is it there?" I asked.
"I believe it is hungry. I had opened the cellar. May he not eat Thomas!"
"Was Thomas in the cellar?"
"No, Thomas is in a large tub."
It seemed that Thomas was only a fish.
"You know that cats like to eat fish".
virring poh. yaging yi yaakh, "dahiuf fikhos relgip ya'uz."
"bengdauaug dahi fikhos zhelbanip?" bashtrang ya.
"samnaga ya yiku ronpedahi yi. ustapafœng ya wavet. treshilt yi Tomas."
"dahingdau Tomas wavetip?"
"sheshe, dahi Tomas bultanip mœzaip."
rashuring enil Tomasku, misuwaning dahing yi kulb.
"ve ye mihyukur, kuldeekdahi tresho kulbar yiungar."
Word order is VSO. Pronouns are never dropped. However, infinitives have no subject. Attributive adjectives follow the noun they qualify, as do possessors and subordinate clauses. Reported speech is expressed with a topic comment structure
Grammatical categories are marked with suffixes (called segunakar in Khangaþyagon). They follow the root in a fixed order
Verbs The following segunakhar occur on verbs in this text. They are given in the order in which they follow the root.
Subject person/Infinitive
a 1st
e 2nd
i 3rd
o Infinitive
Aspect
fœ Perfect
Tense
ng Past
Voice
uf Passive
Mood
lt Imperative
dau interrogative
Negation
she negative
Subject number (a)r Plural
Nouns may carry segunakar of six ranks, which occur in the following order after the root
modsegunakar - deixis
ban that
dau what
densegunakar - proximity
Not used in this passage
radsegunakar - relative position
ip in
karvsegunakar - direction of motion
Not used in this passage
sintsegunakar - abstract
akh recipient
uz possessive
ku about, topic
aug goal, purpose
ung benefactive
bantsegunak - number (a)r plural
Attributive adjectives agree with the noun they qualify, and take all the same segunakar. One exception to this is that cardinal numbers are not marked for grammatical number. Predicative adjectives compound with the verb.
Adverbs agree with the verb, and take all the same segunakar
ek forms adjectives from nouns in the sense of "like".
wan forms adverbs from adjectives. Compounds are head last
| bultan | barrel, tub |
| bashtr | ask |
| beng | reason |
| ust | open |
| samnag | believe sincerely or well-foundedly |
| Tomas | proper name |
| tresh | eat |
| ap | make, cause |
| v | know |
| virr | fear |
| poh | woman |
| dah | be |
| en | thing |
| fikhos | lynx |
| misu | alone |
| mihyu | cat |
| mœza | great |
| rashur | seem, appear |
| ronpe | hungry |
| relg | house |
| kulb | fish |
| kulde | personal best |
| zhel | place |
| y+person ending | pronoun |
| yag | say |
| wavet | storage pit, cubbyhole, cellar, alcove |
page started: 2018.Jan.07 Sun
current date: 2018.Feb.15 Thu
content originated by Pete Bleackley
form originated by qiihoskeh
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