Fourth Linguifex Relay/Sceptrian

Óphi fatipap Lingwifekson Lushakha:

Léhkodé pai ko qhóqhøkos,
mjul' keeweshtsozh oil qotitlóo;
daremu soi slopapu'os,
jak rajidhé mitupurpóo.
Pé,
,
 ;
.

Glossed

1. léhkod-é pai ko qhó~qhøk-os
   

   ADVZ\fast-VOC MIR DIST.SG SUBJ~\is_broken\-3SG.INCEP
   

2. léhkod-é pai keewesht mjula-n
   

   ADVZ\fast-VOC MIR mosaic life-GEN
   

3. léhkod-é pai qhó~qhøg-ho klo
   

   ADVZ\fast-VOC MIR SUBJ~\is_broken\-3PL.FUT PRO.3PL
   

4. léhkod-é pai qhó~qhøk-l tshel-o
   

   ADVZ\fast-VOC MIR SUBJ~\is_broken-3PL.GNO sand-LAT
   

• léh-ko-d-é might be glossed as ADVZ\leg-LAT-VBZ.MVT\ADJZ-VOC, but the core was translated for simplicity
  
• verb particles don't always require verbs
  
• Sceptrian has several ways of indicating possessive forms
  

1. mjul(a) keeweshtsozh oil qot<i>~t-l-óo
   

   life mosaic-PL.COM-POSS.3SG.INAL as rock~DIM-PL-LAT
   

2. qhó~qhøk oil qot<i>~t-l-óo tshel-o
   

   SUBJ~\is_broken as rock~DIM-PL-LAT sand-LAT
   

3. mjul(a) keeweshtsozh oil qot<i>~t-l-óo
   

   life mosaic-PL.COM-POSS.3SG.INAL as rock~DIM-PL-LAT
   

• See prepositions for the effect of noun case.
  

daremu soi slop<a>~p-u-os
Ruler on chair~AUG-LOC-POSS.3SG.ALIEN

jak rajidhé mitup-u-r-p-óo
away (ADVZ\)sudden-VOC sea-LOC-VBZ.FREQ-NMZ-LAT

Pé=ma saitu-sh sek-l qópapa!?
2PL.VOC=FOC DEM.PROX.ANIM-PL come-GNO act-ABL

• On relative clauses of Sceptrian
  

Notes

Sceptrian is a head-initial, ergative-absolutive language, i.e. the word order in clauses is VAO and the head of the noun phrase is followed by adjectives and demostratives. Both prepositions and postpositions are used, however. The cases of nouns are utilized in derivative morphology.