Ikanirae Seru text

na heosini neya e

heosini neya tu ooko
se aku rike utoku ti nea ti oru yerano a

heosini neya tu katoka
se yuti ka heko uone ra roha a

heosini neya kohumu hiko
one nokoki ti siroko ro hikoseremi a

ara ikoku sumere ra ronu a
esa rokiya yuti ikemahi na hurine a

eka tu kerasia ekaiti
hano ariya sikoku yuti a

ti iresa rakoni ikuraamo ro uti
one isera ranai a

Ikanirae Seru interlinear

na heosini neya e
about storm season :
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heosini neya tu ooko
storm season be beast

se aku rike utoku ti nea ti oru  yerano a
that he/it take sick and old and young animals .
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heosini neya tu katoka
storm season be rock

se yuti ka heko uone ra roha a
that we not can dwell on it .
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heosini neya kohumu hiko
storm season cruelly hunt

one nokoki ti siroko ro hikoseremi a
with beak and claw of bird-of-prey .
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ara ikoku sumere ra ronu a
but children play on Earth .

esa rokiya yuti ikemahi na hurine a
this make us remember about spring .
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eka tu kerasia ekaiti
that be dance time

hano ariya sikoku yuti a
because sun protect us .
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ti iresa rakoni ikuraamo ro uti
and flowers cover barrows of us

one isera ranai a
with they grow .

Ikanirae Seru glossary

a sentence-type marker used for statements; see grammar notes
aku 3rd person animate pronoun (singular)
ara "but"
ariya "sun"
e sentence-type marker, used for exclamations and incomplete sentences; see grammar notes
eka "that"
ekaiti "time"
erano "animal"
esa "this"
hano "because"
heko "can, be able to"
heosini "storm"
hiko "hunt"
hikoseremi "bird of prey, hunting bird"
hurine "spring" (season of year)
ikemahi "remember"
ka "not" negative marker precedes the element it negates (usually verb or modal)
katoka "stone"
kerasia "dance"
koku "child"
kohumu "cruel, cruelly"
kuraamo "barrow", from kura "grave" + amo "hill"
na "about"
nea "old"
neya "season"
nokoki "beak"
one "with" (this is often a preposition, but it is also used to introduce adverbial clauses; see grammar notes.)
*ooko "beast" (large dangerous animal, e.g. tiger, bear, dragon)
oru "new, young"
ra "on"
rakoni "cover" (as with a blanket)
ranai "grow" (of plants)
resa "flower"
rike "take"
ro "of" (usually indicates possession)
roha 3rd person non-living pronoun
rokiya "make, create, cause"
ronu "Earth"
se "that"(relative clause marker; introduces a relative clause; see grammar notes)
sera 3rd person living pronoun
seremi "bird"
sikoku "protect"
siroko "claw, talon"
sumere "play" ("sumere" is used mainly to refer to active play, e.g. playing tag, playing explorers, climbing trees etc. It is not used for, e.g. playing cards or computer games.)
ti "and"
tu "be"
uone "dwell, live"
uti 1st person pronoun (singular)
utoku "sick"

Ikanirae Seru grammar notes

Inflections:

Ikanirae Seru has exactly one inflection: nouns and pronouns are pluralized by prefixing y- before a vowel and i- before a consonant. This is entirely regular.

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|. It's actually messier than that, but the messiness doesn't show up in this text. There are no masculine/feminine distinctions, and animacy classes are not distinguished in first and second person pronouns.

Syntax:

Sentence-type markers:

Every Ikanirae Seru sentence ends with a sentence-type marker, which takes the place of sentence-final punctuation. The two used here are |a|, which marks statements, and |e|, which is used to mark both exclamations and incomplete sentences (sentences that do not contain both a subject and a verb). This text does not contain the question marker |i|, the imperative marker |o|, or the formal statement marker |u|.

Word order:

Word order is strictly SVO. Adjectives precede nouns. Adverbs and auxiliaries precede verbs. Prepositions, not postpositions are used.

Tense:

Ikanirae Seru has three tenses, past, present and future. Past and future indicated by particles preceding the verb, and do not appear in this text. 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"

Clauses introduced by |one|:

I'm not quite sure how to explain these, but I'll try, since I used one. I think they're what is known as adverbial clauses. They are usually loosely associated with the rest of the sentence, and their English equivalents often contain a verb in the present participle; for example, the English sentence "staring at the beast, I did not see my friend" could be translated as:

uti ka ha koimu tiuu ro uti one uti koimukaimo ma ooko a
I not PAST see friend of me with I stare to beast STATEMENT

Here, the |one| clause (staring at beast) is the cause of the main clause (not seeing friend), but this is not always the case. This example also shows how tense in |one| clauses is relative to the tense in the main clause - present tense in |one| clauses refers to the time of the main clause, past tense refers to time before that of the main clause, and future tense refers to time after that of the main clause.

Smooth English translation

About the stormy season

The stormy season is a beast
that takes sick and old and young animals.

The stormy season is a rock
that we cannot live on.

The stormy season hunts cruelly,
with the beak and claw of a bird of prey.

But children play on the Earth.
This makes us remember Spring.

That is dancing time,
because the sun protects us.

And flowers cover our barrows
with their growing.

Smooth English translation of previous language

About the season of rainstorms

The season of rainstorms is a predator
that seizes sick, old and young animals.

The season of rainstorms is a rock
that we cannot live on.

The storm season hunts cruelly
with his beak and claw of a predatory bird

However, children play upon the earth
because of that we remember about the springtime,

about the time for dancing, that is;
because the sun protects us,

and flowers cover our grave hills
by growing.