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10. Aitoliste by Aidan Aannestad

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Aitoliste

Ókenw stw

Røti ønø ii ø wne io ii. Ẃnw esw itekame my. Ẃnw oke sedazw, à ehw Éri ste: 'Uzwi! Ua w e ivw!'
Ẃnw oke yŋazw, à ystw: 'Raity zaiókø stu?'
Énw stw: 'Ia, raity zaiǿ stu; Ẃnw riase wnavw stẂre reisi!'
Reini Ẃnw ystw: 'I w yvw Éhwre íri daste?'
Énw stw: 'Vyí e ehw? Ie i stw 'ia', ie Ẃni i e ehastw.'
Ẃnw inatw havuti riani Énw stw reiste reini, raiva itekame my Ẃnw oke yŋeŋazw. Ua røti iǿneniw sanw reine nw.

Smooth English

"A Rock Talked"

All years for the past. I walked by the lake. I kicked a rock, and hear its speech: 'Stop! I don't like it!'
I picked up the rock, and asked: 'Can all rocks talk?'
It said: 'Yes, all of them can talk; I remembered how to talk!'
Then I asked: 'Do you want me to hear your life story?'
It said: 'Do you want to hear it? If you say 'yes', then I will tell it to you.'
I became angry when it said that, so by the lake I threw the rock. Many months did not pass since then.

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Grammar

Stress (yes, this is grammatically important)

Stress always falls on the middle syllable of the word, or if there's an even number of syllables, on the middle one nearest the end. Stress does not change because of affixes, and is always marked with an acute accent if there is an affix (even if the affix wouldn't affect stress anyway). It's there to let you know there's an affix on a word, and where that affix is.

Word order

Aitoliste has a strict SOV word order. If an indirect object is involved, it comes before the direct object.

Nouns

All nouns end in '-e' (except personal pronouns). To pluralise, round the -e to make -ø. Tense, mood, and aspect are all noun affixes (with the exception of 'ua', it's a particle), tenses and aspects go at the end of the word, moods at the front. The tenses/aspects you need to know are as follows:

-ni - future tense
-niw – past tense, perfect aspect
-nw – past tense
The moods are:
vy- - optative mood ('want to')
zai- - potential mood ('can')
ua – negative mood ('not') (it's a particle that goes before the subject of the sentence which it modifies)

Also, -ri turns the noun into a possessive adjective.

Verbs

All verbs end in '-w'. To pluralise, round the -w to make -u. One mood is a verbal affix - imperative. It makes the final -w/-u into an -i diphthong (resulting in -wi or -uì).

Adjectives

All adjectives end in '-i', to pluralise, round the -i to make -y. Adjectives come immediately before the word they modify, always. Nouns ending in -ri work exactly the same way.

Dependant Clauses

Dependant clauses work this way: A pronoun (beginning in 'ria-') is put where the whole clause would go in the sentence. The clause is created after the ria- pronoun. A pronoun beginning in 'rei-' is inserted where English would leave out a word.

There are no articles in Aitoliste.

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Lexicon

Verbs are not given in infinitive form, so the translations aren't either.

(pron) stands for pronoun; (post) stands for postposition; (aff) stands for affix.

à - (conj) 'and'
daste - (n) life story
e - (pron) it (3rd person, singular, no gender)
ehastw - (v) tell
ehw - (v) hear
esw - (v) walk
havuti - (adj) angry
i - (pron) you (2nd person, singular)
ia - (interj) yes
ie - (part) if, then
ii - (part) begins and ends comparative clauses
inatw – (v) become
io - (post) for (as in 'for you')
itekame - (n) lake
ivw - (v) like (as in 'I like it')
my - (post) by (as in location)
-ni - (aff) future tense
-niw – (aff) past tense, perfect aspect
-nw – (aff) past tense
nw – (post) after
oke – (n) rock, stone
-re – (aff) makes infinitive
reine – (pron) this time/that time
reini – (pron adj) then/now, placeholder for 'riani'
reiste – (pron) this word or phrase/that word or phrase
raiva – (pron) therefore, so
-ri – (aff) shows possession
riani – (pron) clausal 'when'
røti – (pron adj) all
sanw – (v) pass, as in time ('ne sanw', 'time passes')
stw – (v) speak, say
ua – (part) makes negative mood ('not')
uzw – (v) stop
vy- - (aff) makes optative mood ('want to')
w – (pron) me, I (1st person, singular)
wnavw – (v) remember
ystw – (v) ask
yŋazw – (v) pick up, lift
yŋeŋazw – (v) throw
zai- - (aff) makes potential mood ('can')
ø – (pron) they, them (3rd person, plural)
øne – (n) year

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