I created this list to have a place to put my Saweli info online so that I could reference it when I'm away from home, or so that others could see it. The one...
Tabov rejus yafas nos zidek zok. = The painter asked me for one piece of furniture. Tabov renos yafas henos vosok zok. = The pilot asked me for a fast ...
The three new words are "vanandas", "vuhap", and "vu'ahap": vanandas - anger, wrath, ire, choler. vuhap [P-s] - grow, enlarge, expand, spread, wax, become...
This language is a direct offshoot of Rick Morneau's Latejami (L). The grammar/syntax and word types are identical. I relexed his classifiers so that...
In L there is no connection between the shape of classifiers and their meaning. In S, not only are the classifiers ordered alphabetically according to a grand...
The classifiers are straightforward except "ya" (deictics), "yo" (epistemic modals), and "yu" (deontic modals). In L the deictics are based on the person...
Most S modifiers are direct equivalents of L modifiers. Exceptions include colors, which were matched to numbers, and the addition of "zu", used to mark a ...
When a POS has two endings, the first (unvoiced) is for the closed form, the second (voiced) is for the open form. The different endings for verbs roughly ...
These endings follow the POS consonants. I anticipate problems when more than one is used at a time, but I am not worrying about it yet. a - name e - mnemonic...
Suffixes are separated from modifiers by "n": zanvub 'have'. be = mass noun bo = count noun da = quality de = process do = event ga = interrogative ge =...
The following kinship modifiers are used with classifier "wa-". kinship terms fa/fi/fu fa/mo/fo ka/ki/ku bro/si/bri pa/pi/pu hu/wi/hi ta/ti/tu so/da/sa...
L has a couple of dozen words that have sound mnemonics. Rather than create a mnemonic modifier for such words, I simply keep the English word intact. I can...
The following list includes all the L words that consist of only a classifier and POS. The S words marked "! mods" have a modifier added. "! class" marks S...
The following list contains words that in L have a modifier and in S don't have a modifier. In most cases the L modifier is "bye-". The exceptions follow....
Stress in S carries no real meaning, but it can indicate to the user whether a word is basic or derived. There are a couple of rules for stress in S: 1) If...
In a message dated 5/27/2006 7:14:56 AM Central Standard Time, ... The "syllable ending in 'n'" should be the "final syllable of the stem", which precedes the...
I have split 1) "fu" ('nine/knowledge/wisdom/correct') into "fu" ('nine') and "ye'u" ('knowledge/wisdom/correct'). 2) "fo" ('eight/writing') into "fo"...
I have changed some of the voice suffixes to be either more symmetrical (passive/middle) or more informative/analytical (all the rest). ka = inverse la =...
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Does this mean you have 4177 entries already? Wow! Bye, Stephan ... From: saweli@yahoogroups.com To: saweli@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, June 10, 2006 7:07...
In a message dated 6/10/2006 10:22:52 AM Central Standard Time, ... Yes, but of course. All of the words are the same as ram's in Latejami. Whenever he makes...
I'm contemplating changing the way I treat words like 'krill', which is "WHALE + arthropod", i.e., words which are derived from other whole words, not just ...
... which is ... words, not just ... I may ... (here "bo">"byo"), so that ... other mods as ... borrowings in ... pronounce ... seldom, I think it's ... ...
I have changed the modifiers. They are essentially in the same order with the same meanings, but where before I had started using apostrophe-plus-vowel to ...
There are currently 3225 stems in the dictionary. Since there are 4177 entries, that's about 1.30 words per stem. Since there are actually more like 4400...
I have changed the meaning of the verb endings slightly. They used to mark whether a classifier's default was +/- F and s/d, with a special ending for the F/P...
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