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This language is a direct offshoot of Rick Morneau's Latejami (L). The grammar/syntax and word types are identical.
I relexed his classifiers so that alphabetically they follow the outline of his Lexical Semantics, App. C.
In L words can have 1) prefixes, 2) modifiers, 3) one classifier (obligatory), 4) suffixes, and 5) a part-of-speech (POS)marker.  Saweli (S) words have exactly the same components, but they are arranged differently: 1) classifier, 2) modifiers, 3) "n" + suffixes, 4) POS marker, and 5) ending (= L prefix).

S modifiers and classifiers have no lexical connection.  This means that certain L words can't be mechanically converted to S.  

S also has a few more classifiers than L, because I split some that I thought were too broad.

cap>le (metal)/li (solid)/lo (liquid)/lu (misc, mixed, unknown)
fus>ne (general)/ne'o (musical instruments)
zip>pa (containers)/pe (conduits)
dev>qa (god)/qa'u (mind)

Throughout I have tried to be minimalist.  Thus CV is the normal shape for all morphemes except POS marker and ending.

One innovation I added was different endings for verbs depending on the argument structure of the classifier.  Thus P-s verbs end in "p", P/F-s in "b", A/P-d in "f" (tu), A/P/F-d in "v" (ta), and AP/F-d in "m" (we/we'a).

stevo