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Re: Latejami/Saweli

In a message dated 6/8/2008 05:49:58 AM Central Daylight Time, veoler@hidden.email writes:


How do you say "hi" or "hello" in Latejami/Saweli?

The closest that I know of is using the vocative suffix with the generic root: tomwe/zol.
Rick says in Lexical Semantics, 24.3:
The true generic "Tomwe" can be used as a general way to get someone's attention, and is equivalent to English "Say there!", "Hey!", or even "Ahoy!". Thus, it is, in effect, a stand-alone sentence. We can also consider it to be a disjunct for whatever sentence that follows it.

There is no equivalent yet of phrases like "Good morning", "Goodbye".

I suggest using a complete sentence, such as 1) "We are having pleasant weather" or 2) "I hope that you will enjoy this morning".

1) Dasu zoykopa covi tindafepi dinkemo tomo.
Yen vapib yarsas has vupek zok.
('Weather' [tindafepi/has] may be better in the generic than in the indefinite.)

2) Dasu jekopa bavi jevu zoykopa xevi cikifemi baso.
Yen vaslub yaras ye'on vapib yasas quhaslis yarik.

stevo