User:RemosPendragon/Sandbox

I believe this is practice here too.

"Completed" templates:

Construction/rewrite:

Ownership:

Ja sit se syntaksi:
 * Kti

I'd like to note that as an author, whose native language is Finnish, I have added at some points not only English (Eng) to Sarot (Srt) translation but also to Finnish (Fin) translation. I believe this does not make anyone's day worse than it was, even if Finnish isn't really "wide spoken" language. Thank you for your understanding.

Phonotactics
Core of every word is formed as displayed below:


 * (S[V{C}])(C)V(C[VT])(T)


 * C - z, g, b, p, d, h, n and r
 * S - z, ʃ and ʒ
 * T - d and n
 * V - a, e and o

Grammar
There are X cases in Sarot language. These are
 * Nominative
 * Accusative (which resembles genetive)
 * Genetive

Pronouns
Pronouns, like nouns, decline according to case and number. Pronouns, in general, are the most important pieces to form Sarot language, as they affect both nouns (except numerals) and verbs. The usage of pronouns by themselves is not neccessary and not even customary, because it could alter the meaning of a sentence completely.

Sarot language does not recognize "he" vs. "she" (or even "it"!) so all translations with "he/him/his" should be treated as gender neutral. Another feat of Sarot is the fourth person "some", which acts only as singular. As all verbs require person who undergoes the doing in question, fourth person serves as null-person (which is by all means regarded here as "some other") form for verbs. Same for inanimate nouns, which require "owner" when they act as object. For example "I write a book" needs that the book belongs to someone, if it is written for public usage (for example) or for sale, it can be said "I write a book(-which_belongs_to_someone)". It might seem easy enough, but turns out really troublesome when the sentences become more elaborate. For example:
 * Eng - I write my customer 's book ("customer-my book-his write-I")
 * Srt - shoberon-an zoro-ar zorodn-a
 * Fin - asiakkaani kirjaansa kirjoitan

Animate things, when acting as object, do not need owner. However, do note that separation between animate-inanimate things is not always sensible. To note few, a dead animal (or human) is inanimate as are slaves, trees and basically anything that could belong to someone. Then again, sea, wind, sun or fire are animate objects that can not be owned. Wild animals are animate but then again a dog, as a domestic animal, is not.

Subject Pronouns
Still, the pronouns do exist as words on their own. Below is given the chart of pronouns. They are displayed in a form -x/x where -x is the core of each pronoun which is added after verb, and /x which is the end of pronoun itself. For example:
 * I read (something)
 * Shre-a (here "shre" → "to read" in present tense, with "-a" → "I (do)")

Possessive Pronouns
As with all nouns in Sarot, pronouns' accusative form resembles that of genetive. Because of it, pronouns here are presented in a way -x/x where -x is the accusative-noun ending, and /x the end of possessive pronoun itself. Also, because this is the case, Sarot does not recognize invidual possessive-pronoun, but treats it as accusative. For example:
 * My book
 * Zoro-an (here "zoro" → "book", with "-an" → "my")

and
 * I kiss him
 * Aren sharon-a (here "aren" → "him" (literally his), "sharon" → "to kiss", "-a" → I (do))

Meaning you can't use possessive pronoun by itself, except when it is the object of the sentence. See also:
 * I kiss his lips
 * Zab-ar sharon-a (here literally; "lips-of_his kiss-I)

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Nouns
Nouns decline in case and number.

When noun acts as an objective, it is in accusative and receives "-ges", if it ends in a vocal, or "-es", if it ends in consonant, ending.
 * Eng - I eat a man (man-accusative eat-I)
 * Srt - shara-ges hod-a
 * Fin - miestä syön

but when it turns into inanimate object, such as dead man, it follows rules as laid down in pronouns-section, see:
 * Eng - I eat a (dead) man (man-someone's eat-I)
 * Srt - shara-zen hod-a
 * Fin - (kuollutta) miestä syön

Verbs
Sarot verbs conjugate according to mood, number, person and tense.

Tense
In Sarot language there are X tenses.


 * Present Tense

Present tense divides into two separate forms. First one is "currently ongoing act" such as:
 * Eng - I am eating
 * Srt - hod-a
 * Fin - syön

As you can see, only way to see if the act is ongoing, is from the context. The second purpose is for an act which has not yet concluded but is not neccessarily ongoing at the particular moment, such as:
 * Eng - I only eat chicken
 * Srt - bangiva-zen zha hod-a
 * Fin - syön vain kanaa

It would sound a bit funny to say "I am eating only chicken (at this particular moment)" so one can easily understand the actual meaning of this. However, even if present tense is said to divide into two forms, ongoing and undergoing, it in fact does not. To separate "I walk there" and "I am walking there" is purely a question of context.


 * Future tense

Future tense describe an action which will be done. Then again, in Sarot one cannot just say that something is going to be done, the action always needs actor. For this the fourth person is utilised. For example:

Syntax
no is n+word, when I will not eat -> not-will-eat-I

Vocabulary
Now don't lose your wits because of following formatting. I'll change it when I find it topical.

Nouns
 * Bangiva - chicken [loan from south, "v" is commonly jumped over]
 * Shara - man
 * Sharohd - people/language of Sharodh
 * Shoberon - customer
 * Zab - lips [only in plural form]
 * Zoro - book

Verbs
 * Hod - to eat (something)
 * Sharon - to kiss (someone/something)
 * Shre - to read (something)
 * Zorodn - to write (something)