Ring A: 11/20: mabri

Clayton Cardoso

[ mabri | Grammar | Vocabulary ]

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mabri

yu du nala: yomazo

kadjo yomazon!

djo ga ze man buma.
so groprin hejodohe ga taze.
so ga ze-Képepe groprin hejodohe ga ni ga ze.
so ku zyafon so ga ve.
ku hwon la.
so ga ze-Tyétene zyayunekun heku.
zyaprin so po txiwa.
so fwetxodrin djo ga krotxohi.
so ga vegyo zyagwokun so.
so ga kimrakye zyaprin kimrakye po ladjo.
so ga no zyaprin ni po ni ga ze.
lyon kyo du voku po txote du gebro.
zyanon ladjo.
kyu kimrakye xikun!

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Grammar

Mabri is a SVO language; in noun phrases, it is head-initial;
Mabri is an analytic language; nouns and verbs are not morphologically inflected;
Number in nouns is marked by counters before the noun;
adjectival phrases have the formula "du + noun".

Vocabulary

Nouns

buma	language
hejodohe	twilight
heku	darkness
kadjo	we, us
kimrakye	virtue
krotxohi	hair
kyo	child
la	it, that
ladjo	they, them
nala	number two
ni	the whole quantity, everything
no	love
so	spirit
taze	you, thou
txiwa	lake
txote	hand
ve	plant
vegyo	tree
yomazo	song
yu	part, piece, section
ze	person

Counters

djo ga	(plural)
ni ga	all, every

Prepositions

du	makes the next word an adjective of the preceding one
ga	of
po	to, by, for

Verbs

fwetxodrin	blows
groprin	gets, receives
hwon	fights
lyon	guides, leads
man	says, speaks
xikun	lives
yomazon	sings
zyafon	sets on fire
zyagwokun	protects
zyanon	causes to love
zyaprin	gives
zyayunekun	dissipates

Adjectives

du voku	weak
du gebro	friendly, kind

Others

ku	not
kyu	let, may (optative mood)
ze	preffix that introduces a personal name