#isiska

[the-skia-projekt]

First time posting an actual text of conlanging.

The Language is called Samtan (or EmSamta [emsamˈta])

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nerdy lingo stuff under cut

for ease I'm first gonna post the text again:

"Faktsaqiqmimayka itnoitno stina kcè, vneiyo mahòtholhakva imuvè. Isiska ika isiska ika esphi ika esphi, Mòsla cyoy kuitka, mòsla qnèga. Òtholhakyo lhunummayka ayena, sahiyo êktavmimayka kfòt, alhònkalhònkyo aukmimayka ika deimekyo tumsnèlsnèlpicê. Manae inas esisk òtis – karayona ika muyopmayka. Lhurò-saqiqyamkteka lulhi ika, aukthèyusyona, cimdê-cimdê lha, ika êktavmimayka hayè pai esmupto. Tyofokmikte hutakayo. Tyofokmikte skèrapyo rupta-sikatiyo lha, cètyofokmikte òphòphmiida el lha, cètyòna-kuitmikte òphòpholtu imuyo."

and a gloss:

"BEC-allow-SBJ-1-PLR world like DET.DIST, spirit-PL INFR-cruel CON-evil. wander INTS wander INTS day INTS day, mòsla.PN home so.called, mòsla.PN wasteland. storm-PL pull-SBJ-3a-PLR lifeform, river-PL eat-SBJ-3a-PLR soil, wind-PL howl-SBJ-3a-PLR INTS tree-PL GNO-cower-OBJ-3i. place DEM.PROX NEG-exist NEG – crow-PL INTS fear-OBJ-3a-PLR. hold-stand-PST-SBJ-1-PLR after INTS, wolf-PL-DEF, bird.of.prey~COL and, INTS eat-SBJ-3a-PLR little thing NEG-take. see-SBJ-1 foreign-PL. see-SBJ-1 kalapian.PN-PL four-kingdom-PL and, CONJ-see-SBJ-1 P3~PL-joy iron and, CONJ-return-say-SBJ-1 P3~PL-prize CON-fear."

(most abbreviations follow convention. "BEC" is a prefix loosely translatable as "because", "CON" is a generic marker for verbs that aren't the main verb of the clause)

some things of note:

the words "mòsla", "skèrap" and "rupta-sikati" are proper nouns and refer to places or nations within the world building

"ika" is glossed as an intensifier. in the text it comes up a lot, and serves different purposes. it can be found as a means of enumeration (like in English "day by day"), a anaphorical pronoun and an equivalent of English "even".

Samtan is an unwritten language, the orthography used here is strictly out-of-universe, and for me to document the language.