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== Example text == | == Example text == | ||
:''Rpadpa eqo seiqomiis nr eudnox nr cnosulil ln Qs u kiniup rambor ust velo qanan qamif fisnur lui  | :''Rpadpa eqo seiqomiis nr eudnox nr cnosulil ln Qs u kiniup rambor ust velo qanan qamif fisnur lui Andacikat rt u Telvisn mxar ust u mncibok bimir'' | ||
:[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. | |||
=== Glossing === | === Glossing === | ||
''Rpadpa eqo seiqomiis nr eudnox nr cnosulil ln'' | ''Rpadpa eqo seiqomiis nr eudnox nr cnosulil ln'' | ||
grandfather DAT-PRON.3SG farm.SING LOC countryside LOC vicinity-river be.3N | |||
''Qs u kiniup rambor ust velo qanan qamif fisnur lui'' | ''Qs u kiniup rambor ust velo qanan qamif fisnur lui'' | ||
[-] ACC vegetables grow.3SG and ACC-and geese duck herd.3SG PRES. | [-] ACC 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 | |||
=== 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. | |||
* Nouns are not declined, but a particle may fuse with certain pronouns and other particles. | |||
* Most nouns are by default plural, and the suffix -''is'' makes a noun singular. | |||
* There is only one locative particle, ''nr''. To express "near somewhere", for instance, it would be ''nr cnos''[somewhere], where ''cnos'' means "vicinity" by itself. Similarly, there is only one temporal particle, ''rt''. | |||
** Justification for this design choice (and others below) will be presented later. | |||
* ''Qs'' is a particle that only indicates the start of a sentence where the subject pronoun is dropped. | |||
* The tense-aspect auxiliary verb is flexible: it can govern a full sentence, as shown here, or apply only to the one verb before it. | |||
* A single concept corresponds to a single word, which is common in agglutinative languages. For example, "chat with" corresponds to ''bimi'', a single word. | |||