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It's my 10 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳

Suzhe, lomo thes ar’shäj’u ker’it-ïd uram’isem’ikä aksuzhecushalepa-ïz noke. 🥳

(Today, here it 3S.be.EVI year-the(NAT) ten.ADJ.NAT of-blog-the(ART) this.) suʒɛ lomo θɛs ar̥ʃaʲj̥u kɛr̥it-ɪd uram̥isɛm̥ikaʲ aksuʒɛǀuʃalɛpa-ɪz nokɛ

(WTF 10 years?!! I know I’ve kind of let this blog die, and it took me a while to write this sentence because I needed to get back into the language, but, yay! I’m not dead!)

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A "corpus" of Ajatsian text that I've been writing over the years.

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@ice-cream-samdwich Thank you! I am a little out of practice, but it’s nice getting back into it. :-D

@conlangprompts​ 

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@conlangprompts​ 

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naqadrä zherenä-ïl noke, rä pörarä thes.

na.ǁad.ɹaʲ ʒɛ.rɛ.naʲ 

ɪʲl no.kɛ ɾaʲ poʲ.ɾa.ɾaʲ θɛs

difficult.ABST love.DEF(ABST) this, but real.ABST 3S.

Translate: "This love is difficult, but it's real."

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@het-stille-woud replied to your post “A man makes a house out of wood”

Are you going, then, with a literal translation of “man makes a wood house” rather than “man makes a house out of (instrumental or similar) wood?”

I think so. Of course, I may end up deciding I don’t like doing it that way, and coming up with something else...

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A man makes a house out of wood

qudij ar'tensen'j'u puse zhalzhä

ǁudij ar̥tɛnsɛn̥j̥u pusɛ ʒalʒaʲ

man 3S.make.IDRE house wood.ADJ

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With a good friend, we learn a lot.

shecegar ärutsol'ä, thes ar'l'upej'u am'ako dhodhoga.

ʃɛǀɛgar aʲrut͡sol̥aʲ θɛs ar̥l̥upɛj̥u am̥ako ðoðoga friend-COM good-G1, 3S 3S.PRE-learn-IDRE a lot of PLUR-thing And thus I discovered that the indefinite pronoun in Ajatsian is “thes”, which is also the regular 3rd singular person. Agreement is also ar-/ar’.

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Remember to speak with kindness

puser'r'an et n'uten'aj' can edhemiaran qudäzhu et

pusɛr̥r̥an ɛt n̥utɛn̥aj̥ ǀan ɛðɛmiaran ǁudaʲʒu ɛt Remember-IMP SBRC FUT-2S NCSS 2S-speak-IMP kind-ADV SBRC.

This literally translates as: “Remember that you must speak kindly.”

Notes: -Indeed, -r’an/-ran is used for marking the imperative. -”et” introduces (and closes) a subordinate clause. -"You must do something” is translated with the following structure: FUT-2S NCSS 2S-do-IMP . The Ajatsian word “can” is the “must” auxiliary (or whatever it is); the verb after it takes the usual person prefix and the imperative mark, and no evidential. -Reminder that the adverb goes after the verb and is often formed by suffixing -zhu/-shu to an adjective.

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A quick note that you can find more text translation samples of Ajatsian by clicking the link above. I will eventually add them here and possibly add the conscript version, but by now you may have noticed that “eventually” can mean “in over a year"...

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And of course there needed to be a version in the original Ajatsian script as well!

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I am on fire! For the first time ever, you can now hear spoken Ajatsian. The text is the stanza from this post. Pronunciation is not 100% accurate but it is the best I could manage. The version in the Ajatsian conscript is here.

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Also while I am at it, I might as well list the things I came up with to translate those 5 lines:

-kad/-gad is used for “about” and related meanings (gloss: REF)

n’ut-/nud- is the subject prefix indicating future tense (as a reminder, past tense is indicated by m’en’-/men- on the subject)

“ethe” is the interrogative “who” (and takes tense prefixes like an ordinary subject... but I am considering only allowing the l’aj’-/laj [hypothetical] affix instead)

some new vocabulary, CWS dictionary is updated but not the spreadsheet because I am too lazy to make the same entry three times (CWS, AJA>EN and EN>AJA)

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@nhvz replied to your post “zhö icisen’ eqasungad-id teteshibeggä u*f böbogad-id agzhuzhupe-id u*f...”

I'm always admirative of how you conlangers can build a grammar, like that. This is awesome.

Oh, thank you! To be honest, I am always nervous about posting stuff because I feel my conlangs are far too simple and laughable compared to those of other people who actually know what they are doing. But I am having fun nonetheless. :-D

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zhö icisen’ eqasungad-id teteshibeggä u*f böbogad-id agzhuzhupe-id u*f lilithungad-id gegebegä n’utethe arbeldaju ko saräneje-iz? n’utethe aruraju ko beruneje-id?

I sing about the burning sun And the shade of trees And the tall mountains Who will walk on the road? Who will swim in the waterfall? 

ʒoʲ i|isɛn̥ ɛ‖asungad id tɛtɛʃibɛgːaʲ u↓f boʲbogad id agʒuʒupɛ id u↓f liliθungad id gɛgɛbɛgaʲ n̥utɛθɛ arbɛldaju ko saɾaʲneje iz n̥utɛθɛ aɾuɾaju ko bɛɾunɛjɛ id

PRE.1S sing-SENS sun-REF NAT.DEF.ART PPART-burn-NAT.ADJ and shade-REF NAT.DEF.ART GEN.PLUR.tree NAT.DEF.ART and PLUR-mountain-REF NAT.DEF.ART PLUR-tall-NAT.ADJ FUT-who 3S-walk-IDRE INTERR road-LOC ARTF.DEF.ART FUT-who 3S-swim-IDRE INTERR waterfall-LOC NAT.DEF.ART

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Maybe my good resolution of 2018 will be to work more on this conlang (and Davrâd possibly).

Maybe.

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etak thes araden’pu am’ako kuno ko? ɛtak θɛs aɾ̥adɛn̥pu am̥ako kuno ko

Why does it hurt so much? (Why it 3S-cause-EVI much pain INTERR)