Rhean
Nihil Sum

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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 :)

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