The following sentence had "te'ekenzop" instead of "te'ekenzop". In must be a case tag, not a verb. Yen wob rekes makes te'ekenzod casojosi = The chef is in...
In a message dated 7/2/2007 1:57:04 PM Central Daylight Time, ... Third try: The following sentence had "te'ekenzop" instead of "te'ekenzod". Yen wob rekes...
The following sentence now has "no'upros" instead of "no'urpros". Yen tazam rekos rezabos no'upros zer nojusi = The pilot is haggling with the merchant about...
Within the group of nine binary relational state classifiers there is no inherent order except that the "other binary relational state" (wu) and "opposite of...
In a message dated 7/13/2007 3:46:47 PM Central Daylight Time, ... Actually, there is the additional constraint that the derivative classifiers ("wa'u",...
In a message dated 6/6/2007 8:48:15 AM Central Daylight Time, ... The endings of verbs are derived differently from the closed/open endings of the other parts...
In a message dated 5/17/2007 7:31:20 AM Central Daylight Time, ... This is a direct result of Latejami. RAM used different classifiers, one (kop; Saweli "va")...
I've found some more errors in the example sentences of the dictionary. Note that all words with classifier "wo/wo'a" in the online files should be considered...
I have rearranged three suffix elements, the "a", "e", and "u" that can occur after v/w/x/y/z. I moved AP "e" to "i" (which was not used before), P "a" to "e",...
I've been using my Saweli dictionary to study other conlang dictionaries, and in the process have found a few words that were missing from mine. I have 4968...
I have changed a few words to make them more consistent. plumbing - rikis > risikis plumber - rekis > resikis sailor (on a boat) - rehyekis > rekis crew (of a...
*sigh* I should have checked the dictionary before making "rakos" the 'crew of a plane'. Since "rakos" already meant 'airline, passenger air company', I...
Zidranwap nuxes yarik nuxrosi zag re{John}sa = This dictionary was one of John's books. Parse: zidranwap = was one of nuxes = dictionary yarik = this nuxrosi =...
I'm trying out a new default for tense and aspect. It's based directly on the Katanda defaults at http://www.eskimo.com/~ram/Katanda/Katanda.html The main...
Here is a translation of a short excerpt from an arbitrary Wikipedia article. After the translation there is a vocabulary and a back-translation into English. ...
Hi, I didn't find something that sum up the basic features of Saweli, like the phonology and the bases of grammar. Is there a website or documents like this? ...
In a message dated 5/9/2008 11:20:38 AM Central Daylight Time, ... Did you find the dictionary in the files section? I just use Rick Morneau's Latejami grammar...
In a message dated 5/9/2008 17:05:58 PM Central Daylight Time, ... "w" and "y" are as in English "wet", "yet". "Aw" is like "ow" in "cow", "ay" is like "y" in...
The deictics in Katanda were divided into five classifiers with numerical modifiers to distinguish person and proximity/distance. The five categories the...