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Basic present tense construction
Yóo _____ ví
LOC ____ to.be

Yóo tu siheé ví “there are two 🔴"

Yóo pni ____ ví
LOC end
(action that just completed)

We'a ____ ví
NEG
We'a waaho çiiki vï
There aren't any chickens

Uyyé ___ ví
Stand
Persisting, containing
Uyyé téeyo fi'u ví
Its raining, there is rain

Yóo panaá ___ ví
Just starting

Misc

Ahe-contrast, else
Inuú-Or
Ye- particle marking subject
Ée - and
Htsa - inside
Ken- capacity
Kí - too, also, modifier
Le- contexual phrase glue
Yóo - LOC
Htsi - ass end
Pni - tip
Utte - many
Tso - only, sole
Tan- origin, cause
Semm - same, like
Okka- next to
Bi - GEN
Ni - this, that
Twa- ABL
Súuhi - above
Mbáa-below

Yóo panaá ví ye uyeé mba-sleep uyeé
I just woke up and im still laying in bed

okka súuhi semm, mota ye mua fumeé wiyee

Like yesterday, I want to smoke weed

Pohok coofí ye si paáyi
She made a pot of cofee

Should the question form take after
French with

Vi ne'ahe pohok coofí ye si paáyi?

Or Cantonese?

Pohok coofí ye si paáyi bon we'a bon ?
(coffee pot) DO 3sg make good NEG good
Or
Pohok coofí ye si we'a paáyi we'a? / Pohok coofí ye si paáyi, we'a paáyi we'a?
(coffee pot) DO 3sg NEG make NEG

Mbe-kaunha hlu makina ye, pohok tu coofí si paáyi
With the machine under the counter she made coffee (for us two)

Ahe ni suhu, yuhi şí coofí víş
COMP DEM sun, gross COMP_new cofee COP
But today, the cofee was gross

Twa Şúuhu siiye wiyye bon we'a bon ?
ABL shop 2Sg want good NEG good
Do you want to go out to the shop?

Ne ni hyo ne
What DEM CL WHAT
What is the stuff? What do you want

Ksií şí coofí utte (mua wiyye)
CL_plantitem COMP_new coffee more (1st want)
(I/we want) more new cofee beans

General constraints
(C) (L) (V) (ʔ) (V) (L)
Possible vowels
a aa áa aá á
u uu úu uú ú
i ii íi ií í
e ee ée eé é
o oo óo oó ó

Introducing vowel rounding harmony mutation
áa úu íi ée óo - > ua ú ue ué uá /aːʷ uː↘ øː   øː ↘ aːʷ↘ /
aá uú ií eé oó - > ae ue í é ue /aː↗ ɯ iː↗ ɛː ɯ/
á ú í é ó - > ae ú í é ue

Round vowels
u o ua ue
Unround
ae e i ie

So with that, grouping what verbs there are
Ahaasa - gather/hunt
Uyyue - wait/stay
Şie - ruin/worsen
Yua - contain/LOC
Kamma - give/take
Kaahama - cry/wail/sound/play
Kamae - come, go, leave ABL
Kamua- come, go, arrive ALL
Ken - capacity
Wiyué - to want
Wiyue - to shall/need to do
We'a- remove NEG
Walua - lighten
Uhayya - fight
Umfaa- fuck
Toohi- talk
Tueyo toyo- sprinkle, water
Twaa - to go, move, travel ABL
Swí - to be sweet
Súhi suhi- enlarge
Zna- understand, know
Sişé- draw, paint, write
Şí si - renovate, renew
Şehi şe- heat, warm
Pni - end TERM

Cont
Pneyya-yya -darken
Panae - send, eject ALL
Panue-pa exchange, transfer
Pahaya- ruin, hurt, damage
Opue - open
Opae - turn on
Nasaa-saa - make weirder, stranger, wilder
Namanyo-nyo- embellish, stimulate
Utte-tte- multiply
Múşuu - entertain, have fun
Muhe-mu - to die
Móku-mo - to eat
Luhok - look, watch, see
Víş- to be COP_essential
Lilí li -to lessen
Hşé şe- to chill
wwa- to think, command, decide
wú - to think, react, guess
Ahmfé- to wake
Amfue- to sleep
Şé - listen
Şue - hear
Kwéken- use

Ni-conlang bon kamua yua mwa víş
This conlang is taking shape nicely

Kó sueho okka utte ye mwa uyyue wwa
I think imma take a break for the next couple days

Hmm, so so far the only real pronouns are
ni (inanimate general demonstrative 'that/this')
nae (animate general demonstrative, 'that/this)
By default decribe something far, nae hokka would be something closer to speaker
Mwa is general 1st person me/my/our/we
Saeyye general 2nd person you/your/ya'll /yalls
Si is general vague 3rd

Reduplication, or using okka or another locative bit to mark alienable vs inalienable possession?

Or like huka is hand, so hm...

Htsa tabhee, pohok tobaako ye mwahukka víş
Your pouch of tobacco is inside the table

Mwahukka being something specifically touched by hands?

By extension

Seyekke

Seukke

Neukke

?

I typoed that phrase, it would be parsed 'my pouch of tobacco (that hands have been on) is inside the table'

So what distinguishes that phrase between my or our is your relationship to the speaker, or what they have their hands on

Yuássúhi kwé tooshte ye kó beuyye víş
LOC_top CL_tough toast TOP CL_semisolid REAL
The butter is top of the slice of toast

What is rather than 'to be' vís was the realis mood indicator, paving way for
kó beuyye veşnáha
IRR
There is no blob of butter
kó beuyye wiyyue
Opative
A dot of butter is wanted,expected
Kó beuyye wiyyué
Conditional-Deontic
There shall be butter
Kó beuyye winyáha
Subjunctive
Not expecting butter

Sué will mark evidentiality

Linya núhul utte ye tohok mwahkkae sué

There are lots of noodles in my/our cup (I hear)

tohok núhul utte ye mwahkkae sué
There are lots of cups of our noodles (I hear

Tohok núhul ye sóhne
There aren't any cups of noodles (I heard)

Linya núhul utte vís
Linya núhul utte veşnáha
Linya núhul utte (mwa) wiyyue
Noodles are coming/I want noodles
Linya núhul utte mwahkkae wiyyué
There shall be lots of noodles (I will make some)
linya núhul utte winyáha...
There shouldn't be noodles ...

Twa
Progressive
Twa kó beuyye ye si panue
They are buying some butter

Twanáha kó beuyye ye si panue
Perfective
They bought some butter

Kamae kó beuyye ye si panue
Recent perfective
She just bought some butter
Kamue kó beuyye ye si panue
Inceptive
She just bought some butter (went out to do)
Kammahe kó beuyye ye si panue
Frequentive
They are the one that buys butter

Twanáha kapitaala ye mwa pahaya wiyyué
PERF capitalism TOP 1st ruin DEO

Capitalism will be destroyed

Denotes that would be a completed action that is desired/acted upon but is in the indefinite future

Also two more moods I wanted to add

Tsae
Gnomic/evidentiality through education
Rutín ye ekhsú tsae
Eggs have protein
Ken
Inferential, potential
Twanáha kapitaala pahaya ken
(If) capitalism was destroyed ...