Rhean text

Ora Amörhitum Karjo

Amörhitu o olec ki biaki ki föz yuc'in zoriz'as'na sööro c'e.
Amörhitu ot nuim ivrek mu remuna plok c'e.
Amörhitu ak'otis'na avar fkip mec ki inurec' ftir c'e.
Erdire k'odoir sondrud ot borom doreka his' e visnan zairinaku yen sace.
Eya bic'azu, Rhe yen modvas' ki zaari yei dembukin raskrivadve zmocaz.

Rhean glossary

Suffixes used:

-0	accusative case (consonant stems)
-a	genitive case (consonant stems)
-adve	adverbial gerund (-ak verbs; see notes)
-as'	third person singular present tense (-ak verbs)
-az	third person plural present tense (-ak verbs)
-e	third person singular present tense (alternate; -ek verbs)
-i	plural (replaces final -a)
-is'	third person singular present tense (-ek verbs)
-m	instrumental case
-n	accusative case (vowel stems)
-na	relative clause suffix
-r	genitive case (vowel stems)
-u	dative case (consonant stems)

Roots used:

ak'otek	v	hunt
amörhitu	n	rainy season
ava	n	bird
biaki	aj	sick, ill
bic'az	n	purpose, reason
boro	n	ground
c'e	v	(3rd person singular of c'ek)
c'ek	v	be
dembuk	n	grave, burial mound
dorek	v	dance
e	prp	(apposition, see notes)
erdire	av	despite that, nevertheless, even so
eya	aj	that (contra-this)
fkip	aj	sharp, pointed
föz	aj	young
ftir	n	claw
his'	n	time, occasion
inurec'	aj	adept, coordinated, dextrous
ivrek	v	reside, live, dwell
karjo	n	thought
ki	cj	and
k'odo	n	child
mec	n	beak
modvak	v	guard, protect
mu	av	(negates verb)
nui	pn	relative pronoun, "that/which"
o	prp	(object marker; accusative)
ot	prp	upon (instrumental)
olec	aj	aged, old, elderly
ora	prp	about (instrumental)
plok	n	rock, stone
raskrivak	v	(ras- "spread (out)" + krivak "cover")
rek	v	be able, "can"
remu	v	(1st person plural of rek)
Rhe	n	the Sun
sacek	v	make, cause (... to be/do, see notes)
sondrud	n	play, playing
sööro	n	monster
visna	n	spring(time)
yei	aj	our
yen	pn	(1st person plural accusative pronoun)
yuc'a	n	animal
zaar	n	flower
zairinak	v	remember
zmocak	v	grow, generate, flourish
zoriz'ak	v	steal

Rhean grammar notes

STRUCTURE: Rhean is a somewhat fusional, somewhat agglutinative language that usually uses head-last structure and a Subject-Object-Verb word order. Adjectives come before nouns, as do genitives and relative clauses. Adjectives do not inflect. There are no articles.

NOUNS: Nouns have five cases: nominative, accusative, genitive, dative and instrumental. Their uses in Rhean are pretty prosaic (eg genitive for possession etc), but feel free to email me if this is unclear.
Only the inflections used in the text are listed above. You'll notice I included "consonant stems" or "vowel stems" with the case endings: the case forms depend on whether the stem ends in a consonant or a vowel. Consonant-stem nouns, when they take -i for the plural (some don't, but luckily none of those are here), become vowel-stems:

jand    bell (nom)      jand-0          bell (acc)
jand-i  bells (nom)     jand-i-N        bells (acc)

The -0 represents no ending, and is used here to show the unmarked accusative case of consonant-stem nouns.
Prepositions cause nouns to take different cases; luckily all those used in this text take the instrumental, except one. That one, O, is an optional object marker.

VERBS: All verbs are listed in the infinitive (-ak or -ek) form. Only the conjugations used are listed above; there were two irregular verbs, C'EK and REK, and the conjugations used are given in the glossary. The verbs in this piece were all in the present tense, which makes things a lot simpler. Only a couple things need explaining:

THE ADVERBIAL GERUND: marked with -adve (or -idve), this has a sense something like "(while/by/in) doing..." or example:

Fis-0 las-am.                "I mow the lawn."
Fis-0 las-ADVE ganat-im.     "Mowing the lawn, I sing."

INFINITIVES: The infinitive form behaves like a noun (it's a consonant-stem) meaning something like "the act of..." and can take any case ending:

bekdec'-ek      to set out, leave         niir        day
bekdec'-ek-A niir        "the day of leaving"; the day to leave, the day when we 
set out

CAUSATIVE CONSTRUCTION: This one gets ugly. Observe:

y-DAT x-ACC sac-ek             "to make x into y"
verb-DAT x-ACC sacek           "to make x (do) verb"
y-ACC verb-DAT x-ACC sacek     "to make x 'verb' y"

OR:

horen-0 tafak     "to eat spinach" (horen = spinach; taf-ak = eat)
horen-0 tafak-U k'odoi-N sacek    "to make (one's) children eat spinach" 
(k'odo-i = children)
Kas' horen tafaku k'odoin sace.   "Mother makes the children eat spinach." 
(kas' = mother)

RELATIVE CLAUSES: A fully conjugated verb plus the -na suffix becomes a relative clause.

ürokin kun-is'            "(she) likes dogs" (ürok = dog; kunek = like)
ürokin kunis'NA c'eno     "the woman WHO likes dogs"

Where the noun is in a more "oblique" role in its relative clause, the relative pronoun NUI is used:

ver NUI-T ürok küpiomNA c'eno    "the woman FOR WHOM I bought a dog" 
(küpiom = "I bought"; ver [+ dative] = "for")

APPOSITIONS: the preposition E marks an apposition. Both sides of the apposition must be in the same case:

lai kas' e izuta        "your mother, the doctor" (your mother E doctor)
druz'-U e Jon-U         "to (my) friend John"

Smooth English translation

A thought about the Rainy Season
The rainy season is the monster that steals the old, sick, and young animals.
The rainy season is the rock on which we cannot live.
The rainy season is the sharp beak and skilful claw of the hunting bird.
Nevertheless, the play of children makes us remember the spring, the time for dancing on the ground.
For that reason, the Sun protects us and flowers grow covering our graves.

A note:
Steg’s Rokbeigalmki text referred to the Sun (sémoz) as "i-bard-a" -- (female marker) + "parent" + (definite article) -- which I took to mean "the mother". While the formerly polytheistic Rheans are no strangers to personification of things in nature (the Earth, Sairo, is considered female), they have always held the Sun to be beyond human attributes. This "intangible" nature of the chief deity Rhe was probably a big factor in their being receptive to the more recent monotheism. Even in the days when Rhe, the Sun, was at the centre of the Rhean pantheon, it was never assigned a sex. Eya bic'azu, I removed "mother" from the Rhean version.