Rigavie Sutanio

Rigavie Sutanio in one of the four official languages of Riegab, the others being Japanese, German, and Latin. Originaly the language was completly isolated to a small region in ancient Riegab and remained unchanged for hunderends of years, but soon after many Greeks, Germans and in general Europeans discovered this land many of thier words entered the language, the biggest number of loan words comes from Japanese which is amazing partily due to the fact that they only recently started migrating here. To this date there are no known relatives of this language, but regional dialects are starting to pop up all over. Below is some more basic infromation on Rigavie Sutanio.

General Information

Rigavie Sutanio is a conlang created for the use in nationstates as the official language of Riegab, the grammar is simple enough but there are many abstract ideas incorporated into the language, like for instance there are two words meaning to forget, Mufanii meaning to forget temporarily, and Gusomanii meaning litteraly Delete Mind, formed by the roots Gusi-mind and Mani-delete, both of these are linked together by the letter o which is used to link together differnet words. Also as you may have noticed the contruction of that word is subject verb, any word that is made up is constructed this way. For all intenst and pourposes the "invented" technical information can be found below.

Spoken mainly in: Riegab
Region: The Zanziik Republic (Aegean Sea)
Total Speakers as of June 12st, 2005: Approx. 1.5 Billion
Ranking: Not Known
Genetic Classification: Language Isolate

Official Staus:
Official Language of: Riegab, Nova Latium
Regulated by: Rigavie Sutanie Dagakio (Academy of Rigavie Sutanio)

Language Codes:
ISO 639-1.....rs
ISO 639-2.....ril (B), rso (T)

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Alphabet and Pronunciation

• A- father
• D- them
• E- fate
• F
• G- pleasure
• H- hit
• I- deep
• K- loch, bach (but less guttural)
• L
• M
• N
• O- vote
• R
• S
• T- theory
• U- oo in food
• V
• Z

The letter names are as follows, Anu, Demo, Eni, Fisu, Gona, Hano, Io, Kalo, Luno, Masu, Neri, Onu, Rasu, Sa, Tunu, Umo, Vesu, Zani.

Here you can find a recording of what each sounds like so you can get an idea for how to truly pronounce them: http://rapidshare.de/files/4197357/rsalpha.wav.html

Grammar

All words are created from a root word, various endings are added to change the word around. Stems all end in an "i".

• Geni-(note: sometimes the root word may be used as names for people)
  
  

Verbs

To make a verb add another "i" to form the infinitive. (note, the only difference in pronunciation is that the letter "i" sound is elongated.)

Genii-to succeed

Conjugations

To conjugate the verb take the infinite form, then take away the last "i" then add the following ending for singular o plural ending, more explanation for this will come later.

Singular ending- "si"
Plural ending- "ni"

Now to distinguish between 1st, 2nd, and 3rd person add the following words before the verb.

1st person---La
2nd person---Na
3rd person---Sa

Below is a comprehensive explanation of the process.

La genisi---I succeed
Na genisi---You succeed
Sa genisi---He, She, It succeeds
La genini---We succeed
Na genini---You (pl.) succeed
Sa genini---They succeed

Tenses

To turn the verb between past, present, and future tense you change the beginning like so.

Le, La, Lo
Ne, Na, No
Se, Sa, So

Each of the above represent the person indication words (herein refered to as "Person Indicators") in a given tense, past, present, and future, respectivly.

An example of the preceeding.

Le genisi---I succeeded
So genini---They will succeed

And to negate the sentence add "le" right after the verb.

La genisile---I don't succeed.

Past Participles and Gerunds

For a past participle add "ere" right after the infinitive and for the gerund add "da" right after the infinitive.

Examples

Geniere---Succeeded
Genida---Succeeding

Used in a sentence. Also note that the verb goes last no matter what, so the participle goes directly in front of the verb.

Le malisi genida.---I was succeeding.
Lo avisi maliere geniere.---I will have been succeeded.

Commands and Questions

To command someone, for example, to succeed, one would add "ga" to the end of the person indicators, example sentences are below.

Naga genisi---(You understood) succeed.
Saga genisi---(Us understood) succeed. (Note, this phrase is non existant in English)

To turn the sentence into a question add "ma" in the same place as we did with "ga" in the previous area. Examples below.

Ne genisi---You succeeded.
Nema genisi---You succeeded?
Doko na malisi---Where you are... (is good, is a store, etc.)
Doko nama malisi---Where are you?

Now also to show exclamation add the word "lume" to the very end of any sentence.

Ne genisi lume---You succeeded!
Nema genisi lume---You succeeded?(Rhetorical)

Conditional, Subjunctive and Others

To express the ideas of could, should, would and shall add the following words right after the person indicator and right before the verb.

Fari---Could
Teri---Should
Gari---Would

La gari genisi---I would succeed
Sa fari avisi geniere---He could have succeeded

A quick description in English of the subjunctive tense is somthing that may or may not happen in the future Example: Were I over there, I could have died. Were in the sentence is in the subjunctive form. Also visible in: If he were good, you'd know buy now. Were is in the subjunctice tense.

To form the subjunctive tense add "so" for singular and "no" for the plural to the end of the infinitive, examples are below.

La maliso ta, la gari molisi vonire.---Were I you, I would do well. (If I were you,...
La gari segikini, ki sa malino genii .---We would win, if they were to succeed.
Le avisi segikiso, la gari malisile koko.---Had I won, I would not be here.

As you see it can be written with the word if "ki" or not, but notice the inverted syntax of the English in each form.

Nouns

To turn the root into a noun you add "o" to the end to make plural you add "oru". Also to indicate indefinite and definite articles add "i" before the word to show indefinite, and "iru" to show definite.

Genio---success
Genioru---successes
I genio---A success
Iru genio---The success
I genioru---Some successes
Iru genioru---The successes

Declensions

Nouns are declined by changing the end of the noun from "o" to something else (note, in old Rigavie Sutanio they used to decline nouns by altering the article, but that is no longer in use except in several older works, many classical songs, and in school papers, students are asked to use those, they will NOT be disscussed here. The list of declensions below is to help grasp the fact a bit better.

Nominative-(subject)
Genitive-(showing what possesses)
Dative-(indirect object)
Accusative-(direct object)
Ablative-(expresses the means or tools by which one accomplishes something, ie. you shoot with a gun)
Vocative-(when addressing a person, this is only used when greeting or talking to a person)

Below is each declension with examples.

1st Declension: Used for everything except names.

Nominative---o
Genitive---e
Dative---no
Accusative---nea
Ablative---anu

2nd Declension: Used only with names.

Nominative---sea
Genitive---ze
Dative---zea
Accusative---lu
Ablative---elu
Vocative---(zero affix)

Genisea se nemisi Rigavilu lumianu.
Geni killed Rigavi with a gun.

Adjective

Add "se" to form an adjective.
Also note that to say I'm not something, then instead of negating the verb you negate the adjective with "le"

Genise---successful
Genisele---not successful

Adverbs

Add "re" to form an adverb.

Genire---succesfully

Personal Pronouns

In the following personal pronouns you will notice the last four have something in parentheses, this indicates, plural, masculine, feminine, and neuter, respectivly.

Mi/Ma/Me/Mea---I/Me/My/Mine
Ti/Ta/Te/Tea---You/You/Your/Yours
Ohi/Oha/Ohe/Ohea---He/Him/His/His
Ahi/Aha/Ahe/Ahea---She/Her/Her/Hers
Hi/Ha/He/Hea---It/It/Its/Its
Miru/Maru/Meru/Mearu---We/Us/Our/Ours
Tiru/Taru/Teru/Tearu---You/You/Your/Yours(pl.)
Ohiru/Oharu/Oheru/Ohearu---They/Them/Their/Theirs(m.)
Ahiru/Aharu/Aheru/Ahearu---They/Them/Their/Theirs(f.)
Hiru/Haru/Heru/Hearu---They/Them/Their/Theirs(n.)

Example of usage:

La malisi sefunoida e ta ---I am going to you.
La malisi sefunoida genii are maru---I am going to succeed for us.

Demonstratives

Demonstratives show the place of things and also are used in reffering to them.

Koko---Here
Soko---There
Noko---Over there
Doko---Where

Kono---This
Sono---That
Nono---That over there
Dono---Which

The following are only used if the subject is understood whereas the above must be used with a subject ie. that dog.

Kore---This
Sore---That
Nore---That over there
Which---Dore

Numbers

The number system is desribed below, I will add more place value numbers as time goes.

0-10: si, isi, tei, sodo, anu, lame, enesu, seme, sine, mino, de
100-ti
1000-su

Examples:
13-de sodo
54-lamede anu
800-sineti
637-enesuti sodode seme

Note to form the words first, second etc. add an "a" to the end.

Examples:
1st-isia
22nd-teide teia
25th-teide lamea
554th-lameti lamede anua

Sample Text

Tower of Babel
English Standard Version(2002): Work in progress

1. Gisomu, iru loseno terio se deronisi isi sutaninea ie iru sinio mininea.
2. Ie asi gosoninea se migatini ro iru rosilinea, se nomalini i nosinea numo Sinarie terio ie se hanini soko.
3. Ie se kalini e loseno vutise, "Naga furanini, lo hogini viruninearu, ie lo omugire unini haru." Ie se deronini viruninearu numo iru lugario hitumo sutininearu, ie kolinearu numo iru lugario hitumo isuvilinearu.

Links

Rigavie Sutanio Denosio(Dictionary)
Kore sa malisi Natanio(More Sample Text: Note this contains the aformentioned "Article Declensions")