Ring E: 7/22: Ikanirae Seru

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Ikanirae Seru

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na rokiya iketuneroka e

otu nako ki yesa ihino a:

ketu e: mumuketu ko sinekaketu ko huasuketu ko hioriketu e
esoha e
ratini e
moyosimeo e
miirasouta e
tasino e
ate sanehu e
aiko e
kumina e
akemitakakuu e

[otu tera hoori ro ketu to esa mekano o:__________]**

[otu tera hoori ro yiroku to esa mekano o:__________]

katatemeti e

otu nitani ketu ti tasino ti aiko o
otu rokiya katatemeti one ketu ti moyosimeo ti tasino ti ate sanehu ti
aiko ti kumina ti akemitakakuu o
otu tosa nona yesa ihino kata naiso o

teike e

otu rokiya teike one esoha ti ratini ti moyosimeo ti miirasouta ke kasimasi isera o
otu rokiya teike nesatu sumari imirari one ihuuta o
otu rokiya imirari nesatu rako otaa yoimi one isaa o

haro e

otu ruta katatemeti ra yoimi ro teike one yasako o
otu amuma yekota haro o
otu ruta isera ra tuikanaiso se otu ruta meo to roha o
otu ruta isera kata tuika ti tuikatosa isera o
kori isera nesatu morisa, otu tame isera o

**About the bracketed sentences: in transmitting this text to the next participant in the Relay, you may translate your hoori; you may wish to offer similar ihoori of iketu and yiroku, or those of your own rokiya.

Smooth Translation

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About making meat-wraps

You must have these things:

meat: beef or snail-meat or rabbit-meat or mushroom-meat
flour
tap water
olive oil
sea salt
onion
white pepper
garlic
cumin
lemon juice

[Write choice of meat in this place:___________]**

[Write choice of spices in this place:__________]

Filling

Cut meat and onion and garlic.
Make the filling with meat and olive oil and onion and white pepper and
garlic and cumin and lemon juice.
Cook all these things in a pot.

Dough

Make the dough with flour and tap water and olive oil and sea salt by mixing them.
Make the dough into small balls with your hands.
Flatten the balls into big circles with your palms.

Together

Put filling on circles of dough with a spoon.
Pinch edges together.
Put them on a baking-pan that you put oil on.
Put them in the oven and bake them.
When they become brown, eat them.

**About the bracketed sentences: in transmitting this text to the next participant in the Relay, you may translate your choice; you may wish to offer similar choices of meat and spices, or those of your own making

Grammar

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Inflections

Ikanirae Seru has exactly one inflection: nouns and pronouns are pluralized by prefixing y- before a vowel and i- before a consonant. This is entirely regular.

Pronouns, Articles

There are no articles. Third person pronouns distinguish 4 genders or animacy classes, broadly characterized as "personal/rational" |eki|, "animate non-personal" |aku|, "living inanimate" |sera| and "non-living" |roha|. It�s actually messier than that, though. For example, stars take the “personal/rational” pronouns, while foods take the “living inanimate” pronoun, as do other materials clearly derived from dead plants and animals, such as wood and leather. There are no masculine/feminine distinctions, and animacy classes are not distinguished in first and second person pronouns.

Compounds

Ikanirae Seru makes a lot of use of compound words. In many cases I've only given vocabulary entries for the separate elements in the compounds, and not for the entire compound. I think it's fairly straightforward, but if it isn't and it gives you trouble, email me.

Syntax

Sentence-Type Markers

Every Ikanirae Seru sentence ends with a sentence-type marker, which takes the place of sentence-final punctuation. Three of these are used in this text: |a| marks statements, and corresponds roughly to periods, colons and semicolons in English punctuation; |e| is referred to as an exclamation marker, but it is used to mark both exclamations and incomplete sentences; |o| marks requests and commands (i.e. imperatives). In imperatives, the 2nd person subject is not omitted. (This text does not contain the question marker |i| or the formal statement marker |u|.)

Word Order

Word order is strictly SVO. Adjectives precede nouns. Prepositions, not postpositions are used.

Relative Clauses

Relative clauses are introduced by |se| "that". Ikanirae Seru really doesn't like leaving out subjects or objects, so the relativized element is represented by a pronoun in the relative clause. Here are a couple examples:

rao	se	uti	koimu	eki
boy	that	I	see	him
(the) boy that I see

rao	se	eki	koimu	uti
boy	that	he	see	me
(the) boy that sees me

Vocabulary

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a	STATEMENT MARKER (see grammar notes)
aiko	garlic
akemi	lemon
amuma	pinch, squeeze
ate	white
e	EXCLAMATION/INCOMPLETE SENTENCE MARKER (see grammar notes)
ekota	edge
esa	this
esoha	flour
haro	together
hino	thing
hiori	mushroom
hoori	choice, choose
huasu	rabbit
huuta	hand
iroku	spice, herb, strong flavouring
kasimasi	mix
kata	in
katatemeti	filling (literally, in-food)
ke	by, by means of
ketu	meat
ki	have
ko	or
kori	when
kumina	cumin
mekano	place
meo	oil
miira	sea water, salt water
mirari	ball
morisa	brown
moyosi	olive
mumu	cow
na	about
naiso	pot, pan
nako	must, have to
neroka	wrap
nesatu	become
nitani	cutok
nona	all, whole (‘all’ before plural, ‘whole’ before singular)
o	IMPERATIVE MARKER
oimi	circle
one	with
otaa	flat
otu	you
ra	on
rako	big, large
ratini	household water, tap water
ro	of
roha	it (‘inanimate’)
rokiya	make, create, cause
ruto	put
saa	palm (of hand)
sanehu	pepper
se	RELATIVE CLAUSE MARKER (see grammar notes)
sera	it (‘living’)
sineka	snail
souta
sumari	small, little
takakuu	liquid food without pieces (e.g. custard, juice, blended
soup)
tame	eat
tasino	onion
teike	dough
tera	write
ti	and
to	at, PREPOSITION INDICATING LOCATION
tuika	oven
yasako	spoon