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Vocabulary

Roots

teld- happen
ge true
þangush event
klov type
wenu "Indeed not"
gog or
ngip "On the contrary, yes"
tesr- care
ulev child
dah- be
y (+person affix) personal pronoun
poh woman
vrima beauty
gel- go
relg house
parushk purpose
u such that
leng- sing
owl- might
lot father
wit- play
beb and
de alternative 3p pronoun, used to disambiguate where yi might be taken to mean a person referred to earlier than the one referred to by de
ukhrin wicked
shrak tear to pieces
tresh eat
en thing
tra strong
slon- want, wish, desire
den two
khipl- confuse
amit- think
yag- speak
grikht- irritate
gœmwe jealous
hol person

Khangaþyagon (*)

Peter Bleackley

Ring B

teldidaur gewanidaur þangushar kloviluz? wenu gog ngip? tesrifœng ulev. dahi yi poh vrimal. gelifœng yi relgipam, parushkilaug u lengowli lot yi'uz ya'ung. witihafœ beb lengihafœ de de'ung. bengilaug u ukhrindahing lot, shrakifœng beb treshifœng en tra yi. slohakhar yar den. slonakhar yar den. khiploshtwanfœshe amitafœshe ya yagonku grikhtontku gœmweku ue'uz, yagafœng ya holshetuk þangushkur.

Do such events as these truly occur? Indeed not, or on the contrary yes? The child cared. She was a beautiful woman. She had gone into the house, so that her father might sing for me. He had been playing and singing for himself. Because the father was wicked, a strong thing had torn him apart and eaten him. We both shall wish. We both shall wish. Confusedly, I have not thought about your irritating, jealous speech. I had spoken of this before noone.

Some notes on grammar

VSO, agglutinating. Adjectives follow the noun they qualify, and agree with them. Adverbs agree with the verb, and there is some freedom in their positioning. Affixes are suffixes, and compounding is head-last. Adjectives used as predicates compound with the verb. wenu and ngip are usually used in answer to negative questions, but here seem to indicate uncertainty on the part of the speaker. Apostrophes in the romanisation simply mean that two letters are to be pronounced seperately. They do not correspond to any feature of the bukhstav runes natively used to write Khangaþyagon.

Affixes

Verbal affixes
Person
a e i	1st 2nd 3rd
Aspect
ha fœ	continuous perfect
Tense
ng kh	past future
Interrogative
dau
Negative
she
Plural
(a)r
Participles
on/ont osht	Present Past

Nominal affixes
Relative
il she	this no
Position
ip tuk	in before, in front of
Motion
am	to
Abstract
uz akh ku ung aug	of to (recipient) about for (benefactive) for (goal)
Plural
(a)r

Derivational affixes
l wan	Forms adjectives in the sense "characterised by" Forms adverbs from adjectives