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Ring B: 7/20: Ikanirae Seru
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esa tu kenie na sitisu se arai kotako huoke ro onoehi one eki a
ta meeki ro huoke ayayi nariera ha koimu tayuho se roha ha ira ma eki a
eki ha yesoku kata oriki, haye neose sarako a sumari ti suata eaho ha
tana ra tokema ro eki a eki ha hakime rike eka eaho toma tokema one
nona yika ara eaho ha amote tote aku kamino ma tayuho ro keyumora se
roha ari a nariera ha nesatu kesoku toma ari ro eka tayuho a huuta ro
eki ha reke sarako, ara roha ha tu noku hamu a nariera ha tu ihi ti
eaho ha ukoi ma kata oreruka ro eki a ara naka ari haye ro tayuho ro
keyumora, nariera ha tu miri rika sora tesa ro nome a
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This is a story about a youth that one discards the winter of sadness
with:
In the middle of a winter month, a student saw a sleigh that was going
to him. He stayed in the garden, near a snow wall. A small and black
raven sat on his shoulder. He tried to take that raven off his shoulder
with all his strength, but the raven clung so that it could look
closely at the teacher's sleigh that was coming. The student became
worried by the coming of that sleigh. His hand touched the wall, but it
was very cold. The student was still, and the raven climbed into his
bookbag. But after the coming near of the teacher's sleigh, the student
was happy through the other part of the day.
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esa tu kenie na siti-su
this be story about youth
se arai kotako huoke ro onoehi one eki a
that person discard winter of sadness with 3PRS .
ta meeki ro huoke ayayi
at middle of winter month
nariera ha koimu tayuho se roha ha ira ma eki a
student PA see sleigh that 3IA PA go to 3PRS .
eki ha yesoku kata oriki, haye neose sarako a
3PRS PA stay in garden, near snow wall .
sumari ti suata eaho ha tana ra tokema ro eki a
small and black raven PA sit on shoulder of 3PRS .
eki ha hakime rike eka eaho toma tokema one nona yika
3PRS PA try take that raven from shoulder with all strength
ara eaho ha amote
but raven PA cling
tote aku kamino ma tayuho ro keyumora se roha ari a
so.that 3AN gaze to sleigh of teacher that 3IA come .
nariera ha nesatu kesoku toma ari ro eka tayuho a
student PA become worried from coming of that sleigh .
huuta ro eki ha reke sarako, ara roha ha tu noku hamu a
hand of 3PRS PA touch wall but 3IA PA be much cold .
nariera ha tu ihi
student PA be still
ti eaho ha ukoi ma kata oreruka ro eki a
and raven PA climb to in bookbag of 3PRS .
ara naka ari haye ro tayuho ro keyumora,
but after coming near of sleigh of teacher,
nariera ha tu miri rika sora tesa ro nome a
student PA be happy through other part of day .
Abbreviations used in interlinear glosses:
3AN = third person animate pronoun
3IA = third person inanimate pronoun
3PRS = third person personal/rational pronoun
PA = past tense
Morphology:
The only inflection in Ikanirae Seru is a plural marker, which does not
occur in this text. Word class in Ikanirae Seru is quite flexible;
nouns, adjectives, and verbs with similar semantics are often
identical. For example, |okosa| may mean either "anger" or "angry", and
|metani| may mean either 'pray" or "praying, prayer".
Pronouns, articles:
There are no articles.
Third person pronouns distinguish 4 genders or animacy classes, broadly
characterized as "personal/rational" |eki|, "animate non-personal"
|aku|, "living inanimate" |sera| and "non-living" |roha|. However,
there are complications. Among other variations, the
"personal/rational" pronoun |eki| is used for stories, books, and other
works of literature. The word |arai| "person" may be used
semi-pronominally with the meaning "one, you".
Syntax:
Sentence-type markers:
Every Ikanirae Seru sentence ends with a sentence-type marker, which
takes the place of sentence-final punctuation; thus, periods and
sentence-initial capitalization is not used. The only such marker used
here is |a|, which marks statements, and would generally be punctuated
in English with a period or a colon.
Word order:
Word order is strictly SVO. Adjectives precede nouns. Adverbs and
auxiliaries precede verbs. Prepositions, not postpositions are used.
Tense:
Past tense is marked by the particle |ha| preceding the verb. Present
is unmarked.
Relative clauses:
Relative clauses are introduced by |se| "that". Ikanirae Seru really
doesn’t like leaving out subjects or objects, so the relativized
element is represented by a pronoun in the relative clause. Here are a
couple examples:
rao se uti koimu eki
boy that I see him
"(the) boy that I see"
rao se eki koimu uti
boy that he see me
"(the) boy that sees me"
a - statement marker (see grammar notes)
aku - it (3sg animate; see grammar notes)
amote - cling
ara - but
arai - person
ari - come, coming
ayayi - month
eaho - raven
eka - that
eki - he/she (3sg personal; see grammar notes)
esa - this
ha - past tense marker (see grammar notes)
hakime - try
hamu - cold
haye - near
huuta - hand
huoke - winter
ihi - still, motionless
ira - go
kata - in
kamino (ma) - gaze, look long or intently (at)
kenie - story
kesoku - worried
keyumora - teacher
koimu - see
kotako - discard, throw away
ma - to (a destination, not a recipient)
meeki - middle
mire - happy, glad
na - about
naka - after
nariera - student
neose - snow
nesatu - become
noku - much, very
nome - day
nona - all, whole
one - with
onoehi - sadness
oreruka - bookbag
oriki - garden
ra - on
reke - touch
rike - take
rika - through
ro - of
roha - it (3sg inanimate; see grammar notes)
sarako - wall
se - that, which (introduces relative clause; see grammar notes)
sitisu - teenager, youth
sora - other
suata - black
sumari - small
ta - at (a point in time)
tana - sit
tayuho - sleigh
tesa - part
ti - and
tokema - shoulder
toma - from
tote - so that, in order that
tu - be
ukoi - climb
yesoku - stay, remain
yika - strength
