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Alìm Tsamsiyu

Irayo, ma Taronyu. Aylì'ul ngayä meuiät oeru txìm.

Irayo also for correcting my corrections! Ayoeng nuerme...

I used to work as an editor part time - it is enjoyable to challenge my Na'vi and editing skills together!

I can't believe I didn't notice the -a at the end of ikran, for some reason I thought ikrana was the word for it.
Also, thank you for clarifying the prepositional object / direct object thing, I had forgotten that, but it nagged at the back of my mind even as I wrote that suggested correction.
Oeyä ayswizawri tswayon alìm ulte takuk nìngay.
My arrows fly far and strike true.

hiyìka fyawìntxu

Irayo, Taronyu.

A few comments on the Affixes – Subject/Object worksheet.
In the narrative, the line is "Po mì Iknimaya ke tok." but the Answers section says "Tarok mì Iknimaya ke tok."
Also in the narrative, the first instance of "Thundering Mountains" is misspelled "Inknimaya".

For #9 "She kills with a spear" and #10 "A leonopteryx hunts him", the pronoun "po" is used. If the gender is specified in the English sentences, shouldn't poe and poan be used?

Lastly, and this may just be a problem with my PDF viewer (Preview in OS X), the case marker for the subject of an intransitive verb is displaying as "Æ" instead of "Ø". This is the navi_grammar_1.4_erg.accu.pdf. The case marker displayed correctly on the older ergative1.3.1.pdf.

Taronyu

Alìm, ke tìkawng. I think you meant to say "tìng", not txìm, though. Hahaha. :D

I'll look over those worksheets again, thanks hiyìka. :)

Alìm Tsamsiyu

Rofl.  Your words BUTT me honor! :D

I was typing that on my iPhone so I could barely see what I was typing anyway :|

Anyway, yes, I meant tìng, lol.
Oeyä ayswizawri tswayon alìm ulte takuk nìngay.
My arrows fly far and strike true.

Plumps

Thanks so much for your effort in putting these materials together! I think they are a great help as well.

I've only started with the affixes1.1 file and already have a question. I haven't read anything that somebody else spotted that.

You mention lenition after ay- but why isn't it happening in ay- + taronyu ? I thought t is affected by lenition as well to s. So, it would be aysaronyu or saronyu (hunters), wouldn't it?
Same with tukru (spear) => aysukru or sukru

Please, correct me if I'm wrong - I just don't want to start memorizing the wrong 'rules'.

Irayo, kìyevame.

mO_Tan

Quote from: Plumps83 on January 03, 2010, 12:22:04 PM
Thanks so much for your effort in putting these materials together! I think they are a great help as well.

I've only started with the affixes1.1 file and already have a question. I haven't read anything that somebody else spotted that.

You mention lenition after ay- but why isn't it happening in ay- + taronyu ? I thought t is affected by lenition as well to s. So, it would be aysaronyu or saronyu (hunters), wouldn't it?
Same with tukru (spear) => aysukru or sukru

Please, correct me if I'm wrong - I just don't want to start memorizing the wrong 'rules'.

Irayo, kìyevame.



i might be wrong, but i believe that lenition (in this case) will only occure with "ts"

tsmukan - aysmukan OR smukan

i dont think lenition takes place with only a "t". like tukru and taronyu
"Guys, come on. Whats wrong with this picture? Wheres my cigerette?"

damp

Quote from: mO_Tan on January 03, 2010, 12:44:37 PM
Quote from: Plumps83 on January 03, 2010, 12:22:04 PM
Thanks so much for your effort in putting these materials together! I think they are a great help as well.

I've only started with the affixes1.1 file and already have a question. I haven't read anything that somebody else spotted that.

You mention lenition after ay- but why isn't it happening in ay- + taronyu ? I thought t is affected by lenition as well to s. So, it would be aysaronyu or saronyu (hunters), wouldn't it?
Same with tukru (spear) => aysukru or sukru

Please, correct me if I'm wrong - I just don't want to start memorizing the wrong 'rules'.

Irayo, kìyevame.



i might be wrong, but i believe that lenition (in this case) will only occure with "ts"

tsmukan - aysmukan OR smukan

i dont think lenition takes place with only a "t". like tukru and taronyu

In the places I read they say that are t and ts
kaltxí ngaru lu fpom srak?

Skxawng

Quote from: Plumps83 on January 03, 2010, 12:22:04 PM
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EXCELLENT CATCH

yes indeed it would lenit to aysaronyu, or simply saronyu. Thanks for pointing this out. I think today I need to learn lenition and then update all my sheets accordingly.


"prrkxentrrkrr is a skill best saved for only the most cunning linguist"

Plumps

@ damp
So am I, damp

From Frommer's article in the Language Log

QuoteLenition. Following certain adpositions and prefixes, initial consonants mutate as follows:
   px, tx, kx    ⇒    p, t, k
   p, t/ts, k    ⇒    f, s, h

Glottal stop:
   '    ⇒    Ø

8 C's participate in rule: px, tx, kx, ', p, t, ts, k
*My emphasis

The language that I know of that has lenition makes no exceptions which letter/sound follows... If a particle/prefix requires lenition the following sound must be changed...

@Skxawng: glad I could help ;)

mO_Tan

WHAT! ARE YOU SERIOUS! ALL THAT I KNOW IS A LIE!!! *dies*

;D sorry about that!

and Irayo!
"Guys, come on. Whats wrong with this picture? Wheres my cigerette?"

Taronyu

Quote from: Skxawng on January 03, 2010, 12:56:29 PM
Quote from: Plumps83 on January 03, 2010, 12:22:04 PM
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yes indeed it would lenit to aysaronyu, or simply saronyu. Thanks for pointing this out. I think today I need to learn lenition and then update all my sheets accordingly.
Sorry Skxawng, I've been a bit busy with the dictionary, haven't gotten to that work-sheet yet.

Beduino

Quote from: Skxawng on January 03, 2010, 12:56:29 PM
Quote from: Plumps83 on January 03, 2010, 12:22:04 PM
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EXCELLENT CATCH

yes indeed it would lenit to aysaronyu, or simply saronyu. Thanks for pointing this out. I think today I need to learn lenition and then update all my sheets accordingly.

I feel ignored  :'(
I poited you lenition that day! buaaa buaaa!
tsun ngal tslam fì'uti srak?

Plumps

Quote from: Beduino on January 03, 2010, 01:04:25 PMI feel ignored  :'(
I poited you lenition that day! buaaa buaaa!

Sorry, didn't mean to... Just did a quick search and couldn't find anything that was pointing to that. In that case, you deserve the 'honour' of having found the error ;D

Skxawng

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Quote from: Beduino on January 03, 2010, 01:04:25 PM
I feel ignored  :'(
I poited you lenition that day! buaaa buaaa!
Quote from: Beduino on January 03, 2010, 01:04:25 PM

yeeg sry! Thanks beduino!

Quote from: Skxawng on January 03, 2010, 12:56:29 PM
Quote from: Plumps83 on January 03, 2010, 12:22:04 PM
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EXCELLENT CATCH

yes indeed it would lenit to aysaronyu, or simply saronyu. Thanks for pointing this out. I think today I need to learn lenition and then update all my sheets accordingly.

I feel ignored  :'(
I poited you lenition that day! buaaa buaaa!

Quote from: Taronyu on January 03, 2010, 01:03:32 PM, haven't gotten to that work-sheet yet.

No worries. I actually decided to write up one on lenition today anyway.. its about rough draft 80% complete...

so you might need to choose a different topic :P


"prrkxentrrkrr is a skill best saved for only the most cunning linguist"

Toruk Makto

Is there enough reliable information on the triggers for lenition for a worksheet?  I thought it was still kind of gray.

Lì'fyari leNa'vi 'Rrtamì, vay set 'almong a fra'u zera'u ta ngrrpongu
Na'vi Dictionary: http://files.learnnavi.org/dicts/NaviDictionary.pdf

Skxawng

Quote from: Txepäsiyu on January 04, 2010, 12:30:19 PM
Is there enough reliable information on the triggers for lenition for a worksheet?  I thought it was still kind of gray.

well the worksheet so far is pretty simple, since, to my knowledge there are only 3 or 4 things that actually trigger lenition. (Please correct me if I'm wrong here)

ay+
me+



"prrkxentrrkrr is a skill best saved for only the most cunning linguist"

Toruk Makto

According to the only source labeled "reliable" by Dr. Frommer (the wiki), I think you are correct.

Lì'fyari leNa'vi 'Rrtamì, vay set 'almong a fra'u zera'u ta ngrrpongu
Na'vi Dictionary: http://files.learnnavi.org/dicts/NaviDictionary.pdf

Taronyu

Quote from: Skxawng on January 04, 2010, 07:04:10 PM
Quote from: Txepäsiyu on January 04, 2010, 12:30:19 PM
Is there enough reliable information on the triggers for lenition for a worksheet?  I thought it was still kind of gray.

well the worksheet so far is pretty simple, since, to my knowledge there are only 3 or 4 things that actually trigger lenition. (Please correct me if I'm wrong here)

ay+
me+



You're forgetting pe+.

Tskxäozì Ewaoe

#78
Wow, nice. TY. Haven't looked at some of these yet. I'll do them ASAP ^^

Are there still more to come, skxawng?

Skxawng

Thanks, taronyu :D

Quote from: Tskxäozì Ewaoe on January 05, 2010, 05:39:02 AM
Wow, nice. TY. Haven't looked at some of these yet. I'll do them ASAP ^^

Are there still more to come, skxawng?

ideally. However now that I am no longer sitting around at my parent's house all day for the holidays and am instead working 9-5 the rate of my production will probably get slooowed dooown. That said, tonight I want to finish up the lenition sheet and get it up here for proofreading.


"prrkxentrrkrr is a skill best saved for only the most cunning linguist"