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About stars:
There are four types of stars:
The first, the stars that wander in the night sky, are called "walking
stars".
The name of the second [type] is "stationary stars". They are
far from our sun.
The name of the third is (called) "dying stars" or "falling stars".
They are rocks that fall from the night sky.
The name of the fourth is "foreign stars". They become visible
only briefly in the night sky. They are the suns of worlds destroyed
by C’ikal.
Ora zvisim:
Bai zvisim tar pik’i anc'ez.
Mezurz, östrud c’eraza telom s’efibmizna zvisi aze, "anduazna
zvisi" mos’ibza.
Lakk’emurza mena "blovakribac’ zvisi" c’e. Kra yei Rher anüs’ak
c’ez.
C’ank’emurza mena "s’inizna zvisi" li "kaec’azna zvisi" mos’ibza. Kra
c’eraza telor kaec’azna ploki c’ez.
Tark’emurza mena "beknutrenec’ zvisi" c’e. I c’eraza telom pugritas’om
ganitie miribzat nelez. Nap C’ikal-om irekec’ie hakyibza vös’ir rhei
c’ez.
(Apostrophes should be haceks over their preceding consonant, e.g., s’ = š.)
Ora zvis-i-m:
Bai zvis-i-m tar pik’-i anc’-ez.
Mez-urz, östrud c’eraz-a telo-m s’efibm-iz-na zvis-i aze, “andu-az-na
zvis-i” mos’-ibza.
Lak-k’em-urz-a mena “blovakribac’ zvis-i” c’e. Kra yei Rhe-r an-üs’ak
c’ez.
C’an-k’em-urz-a mena “s’inizna zvis-i” li “kaec’-az-na zvis-i” mos’-ibza.
Kra c’eraz-a telo-r kaec’-az-na plok-i c’ez.
Tar-k’em-urz-a mena “beknutrenec’ zvis-i” c’e. I c’eraz-a telo-m pugritas’om
ganit-ie mir-ibza-t nel-ez. Nap C’ikal-om irekec’-ie haky-ibza vös’-i-r
rhe-i c’ez.
Suffixes:
-a
genitive case (consonant stem): of, from, out of, belonging to.
-ek
an infinitive ending
-ez, -iz, -az verb ending: plural third person, present tense.
-i
one of the ways to form plural
-ibza passive
form; makes an adjective “having been... ~ed”
-ie
makes an adverb
-k’em forms
ordinal numbers
-m
instrumental case (vowel stem): in, on, at, around, with, by, etc.
-na
turns a verb into a modifying clause
-om
instrumental case (consonant stem)
-r
genitive case (vowel stem)
-t
dative case (vowel stem); to, into, towards
-urz
"that which is ...", "the ... one"; makes an adjective into a noun
Stems:
an-
very, much (prefixed to adjectives)
anc’.ek to exist
andu.ak to walk
aze
to be -- present participle (“~ing”)
bai
among (instrumental)
beknutrenec’ foreign
blovakribac’ stationary, motionless
C’ikal C’ikal,
a name (see below)
c’an
three
c’e
to be -- third person singular
c’eraz night
c’ez
to be -- third person plural
ganit brief,
short
haky.ek to destroy
i
in (instrumental)
irekec’ angry
kaec’.ak to fall
kra
from (genitive)
lak
two
li
or
mena
name
mez
first
mir.ek to see
mos’.ek to name, call
nap
by (instrumental)
nel.ek to become
(object takes the dative)
ora
about (instrumental)
östrud about,
around (instrumental)
pik’
type, class, kind
plok
stone
pugritas’om merely, at the very most
Rhe
the Sun, Sol
rhe
a sun
s’efibm.ek to wander, drift
s’in.ek to die
tar
four
telo
sky
üs’ak
far
vös’
world
yei
our
zvis
star
Some notes:
Rhean (Rheava Izka) is a language with relatively “free” word order,
but with a strong “preference” for the Subject-Object-Verb (SOV) construction
in simple sentences. Unfortunately this piece doesn’t allow me to show
how things like imperative verbs and subordinate clauses cause sentences
to convolute themselves. Adjectives usually come before the noun
to which they refer, as do modifying clauses. When an adjective used finally
as a predicate (as in “something is [adjective]”) one usually omits the
verb “to be”, as I have done here.
There are no articles (the, a, an). The verb “to be” is irregular (of
course!) so I gave the forms for it when it appeared. Note also where it
has been omitted.
Nouns have five cases: nominative, accusative, genitive, dative, and
instrumental. The accusative wasn’t used in this text. I have given the
cases taken by nouns following the prepositions used here. The genitive
case used ON ITS OWN without any preposition indicates possession. You’ll
notice I included “vowel stem” and “consonant stem” for the genitive and
instrumental endings. If a plural ends in –i (some don’t) then it is obviously
a “vowel stem” in the plural, regardless of what it was in the singular.
(zvis – zvisa; zvisi – zvisir)
Rhe, when used to refer to our sun, is capitalized. The Rheans hold
it in high enough esteem to have named their country and language after
it. Otherwise, when referring to another sun, it is just rhe. I do
not know who C’ikal is. This is not even the original name: Amber converted
the original name to fit the sounds of Cenlatorre, so that’s the name I
used, and that’s the name you get :)
Good luck!