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-* LOCV is a concept I made up to describe the role of ''ni'' ...
 * ''rumxud'' is ''ru·mxu·d'', "come-down.3N" ...
+* ''Fnri'' is from ''fntu'' + ''-ri'', meaning "before the beginning"; ''nokr'' "chief, lord" is the name of a megacorporation and has negative connotations, and ''cirom'' "gods" indicates polytheism.
-=== Text 2024014 and glossing ===
+* The two exclamation particles, ''nozn'' and ''zinbn'', come from two speech registers.
+* LOCV or "virtual locative" is a concept I made up for the preposition ''ni'', meaning "in a specified context/situation/state".
-''Rpadpa eqo seiqomiis nr eudnox nr cnosulil ln''
+* Hwnic has an unusual form of negative concord. For example, "The house is nowhere to be found" requires a negative marker on "is" and a suffix meaning "currently does not exist" on "the house", whereas "I'm not going to build the house" requires a negative marker on "build" and a suffix meaning "will not exist in the future" on "the house".
-grandfather DAT-PRON.3SG farm.SING LOC countryside LOC vicinity-river be.3N
-''Qs u kiniup rambor ust velo qanan qamif fisnur lui''
-and ACC category-vegetables grow.3SG and ACC-and geese duck herd.3SG PRES.CONT
-''Andacikat rt u Telvisn mxar ust u mncibok bimir''
-time-leisure TEM ACC television watch.3SG and ACC neighbors chat_with.3SG
-"[My] grandfather has a farm in the countryside near a river. He grows vegetables and keeps geese and ducks. In [his] spare time, he watches the television and chats with [his] neighbors."
-=== Notes ===
 * LOC, ACC, DAT all refer to particles.
 * Hwnic is head-final. The broadest category comes first and the most specific comes last. This order applies to qualifier sequences, compound words, and more.