narethanaal
nicole dobrowolski

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about conventional stars...
the stars were arbitrarily classified...
a type was and continues to be named "stars of walking"... they wander the night's sky...
another type is "stars without movement"... they are always far away from our star...
others are named "stars of dying"... another name is "falling stars"... each time they fall from the night's sky they become
stones...
another type is "outside stars"... they possess the night's sky's vision briefly... C*ikal angrily destroyed those planets' stars...

jujular tanaden froge rese to ziathaa...
ziathaatomt froge frent mlai soud... to thare kide kya muetos andor rogferath sokraa...
ziathaanehfefeealm frent yest pajo soud... thare afek sol toled thundre sokraa...
ziathaababasti froge frent mlai reguala... ziathaalelepa frent yest pajo lamlai... to thare kide kya loked tlak lepa sokraa... laolaiatha tlak nethem sokraa...
alenreth ziathaa frent yest pajo soud... sausaf tanaden thare sokraa thare to thare kide kya keto... garg tanaden thare matale uesha sola froge brosat jiven cikal...
nehhlet ziathaa preend...

ju-jular tanaden froge rese to ziatha-a...
ziatha-a-t-omt froge frent mlai soud... to thare kide kya muetos andor rogferath sokra-a...
ziatha-a-neh-fe-feealm frent yest pajo soud... thare afek sol thundre sokra-a...
ziatha-a-ba-basti froge frent mlai regual-a... ziatha-a-le-lepa frent yest pajo la-mlai... to thare kide kya loked tlak lepa sokra-a... la-olaiath-a tlak nethem sokra-a...
alenreth ziatha-a frent yest pajo soud... sa-usaf tanaden thare sokra-a thare to thare kide kya keto... g-arg tanaden thare matale
uesh-a sol-a froge brosat jiven cikal...
neh-hlet ziatha-a preend...

-a         plural marker
afek       we
alenreth   outside (not as in outdoors- more like foriegn)
andor      for the time being
arg        violent/destructive anger
cikal      a name (the c should have a hacek on it- names in narethanaal aren’t forced to conform to the orthography or phonology so all i did was not capitalize it)
basti      to die
brosat     final ‘tense’ indicates something that has been completed and cannot be easily undone
feealm     to move
frent      present tense
froge      past tense
hlet       unconventional
jiven      to destroy
jular      arbitrary
keto       vision
kide       night
kya        sky
loked      from (prep.)
lepa       to fall
matale     that (adj.)
mlai       to be named (by someone other than oneself)
muetos     constantly
neh(-)     no/not/un-
nethem     to become
olaiath    stone(adj.)
omt        to walk
pajo       additional/another
preend     about
regual     other
rese       to classify
rogferath  to wander
sokra      3rd person singular pronoun
sol        star (must have at least one planet orbiting it)
soud       type/kind
tanaden    with
thare      possessive marker- follows the formula "thare possessor possessed"
thundre    to be distant/far away from
tlak       when (each time)
to         the
toled      always
uesh       planet
usaf       brief
yest       to be
ziatha     star (planet status unknown)

notes:
-word order is OVS... postpositions (with postpositional phrases coming at the beginning of the sentence)... modifiers (adjectives, adverbs, etc.) come before the word they modify
-the title comes at the end in narethanaal so what should be the opening line is instead the closing line
-compound words take the form “_____ of _____” (i.e. munkathnatova = book munkath of words natova)
-words of other parts of speech can be made into nouns by reduplicating the first consonant to be followed by a vowel and the vowel that follows it and prefixing them (spritsh = rispritsh)... if there is no consonant with a vowel following it then only the last consonant is reduplicated and prefixed (uit = tuit)...
-a combination of the past and present tense indicates that something was and continues to be performing the action of the verb...
-the “thare possessor possessed” thing gets a little complicated (i know i promised a simple grammar but i forgot how wacky the possessive can get) in the sentence starting “sausaf tanaden...” i’d recommend starting with the innermost possession and moving outwards...