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Terminology ​

English names these grammar pages use. Each entry is a short gloss plus a link to the teaching section. The teaching page is the source of truth for how the form works.

This is not a dictionary of roots. For word senses, use the Lexicon.

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Closed labels ​

SMALLCAPS tags and series names as the lessons print them.

Mood tags ​

SMALLCAPS labels as morph lines print them: psychological moods, evidentials, emotion-compose pieces, and span / island / name groups. Mood words are stance /th/, not ordinary adverb /h/. Each example is a form from the teaching page.

LabelGlossExampleTeach
ABILHostless can / can’t (no single verb)hodaxolCan and can't
AIMEDEmotion locus: aimed at a targetwawethumelFeelings and permission
ASIDEAn aside spanth(hugowul)Spans
ALLOWSay word answer: yes, allow (may, they agreed)hwuvamFeelings and permission
ATTEMPTTry mood: committed / unstated / trial runhowamDecision and try
AWAYEmotion locus: moving off from a targetwawethumumFeelings and permission
CAUSEMechanism-framing mood (make X do)thewomIff and CAUSE
CIRCUMEmotion locus: the atmosphere of the situationwuwathuraerFeelings and permission
CITEA cite span: quoted wordingd[azozon]Spans
CLUESEvidential: reasoned from clues about this casetheyomEvidentiality
CHOICESay word answer: their callhwuvemFeelings and permission
COLLAPSEEmotion locus: out of fight, giving upwawethumualFeelings and permission
DECISIONPick-firmness moodthogemDecision and try
DEDUCEDEvidential: must hold if the premises holdthanamEvidentiality
FAWNEmotion locus: placating a targetwawethumaomFeelings and permission
FLOWINGEmotion motion: steady, a current you can ridewawethumomFeelings and permission
FORBIDSay word answer: no, forbidhwuvulFeelings and permission
FORMEREpisode standing: not the climate claimed nowhelamNotional and standing
INTERNALEmotion locus: mine, held insideguwathamarFeelings and permission
INTUITIONEvidential: gut sense you cannot fully spell outthabemEvidentiality
LIVEEvidential: sensed now, by any sensethugemLive and memory
MAYPotential mood (could be; find out / default / who knows)thomamKnowing
MEMORYEvidential: firsthand, remembered (reconstructive)thevumLive and memory
MENTIONMention marker: the span is a word or phrase as spellingglegol z[odoze] gamezem.Mention and islands
MIRATIVENews against expectation (it turns out, to my surprise)thememNotional and standing
NAMEA package titled with -nzobodel zubudal zan.Join islands
NOTIONALAs-if / pretense moodtheyumNotional and standing
ON-BEHALFEmotion locus: felt for someone's sakewawethumomFeelings and permission
OPAQUEAn opaque span: foreign or raw writingd<kimchi>Spans
PATTERNEvidential: from regularitythubomEvidentiality
PLANIntention-framing moodthagomIntention
REPORTEDEvidential: said or written by someone elsethebamEvidentiality
REQUIRESay word answer: require, ask for (must)hwuvolFeelings and permission
RESIDUEEpisode standing: outcome still on the current tallyharamNotional and standing
RESISTINGEmotion locus: pushing against a targetwawethumuorFeelings and permission
SAMEIdentity copulagorelPredication
SCOPEScope island { … }{ hogugem zodozel gerulol }Mention and islands
SEEKINGEmotion locus: turning to someone for comfortwawethumoemFeelings and permission
STILLEmotion motion: not moving (held, frozen, numb)wawethumelFeelings and permission
SURGINGEmotion motion: in waves or spikeswuwathuraerFeelings and permission
UNPLACEDEmotion locus: can't place where it comes fromwuwathuruemFeelings and permission
WANTDesire mood: lasting / unstated / passingthalomDecision and try

Compare with: quasi (-e-xROOT) is not NOTIONAL.

Join-vowel names ​

English names for set / rank join vowels (joins):

NameVowelGloss
additiveaand (inventory)
rankoearlier outranks later
sequenceaoordered path: first item is the start, not the top
negationunot / none of / standalone no
counteradditiveuaeverything but
counterrankuorank reversal
choiceeexclusive or
cochoiceaeinclusive and/or
corankoeequal rank / tie
counterchoiceueanything but

Number marker identities ​

From Number shape: scalar (+ / -), ordinal / rank from the start (#), end-relative ordinal (#-), digit-string / label (_).

A–Z ​

Ability / incapability ​

Hosted can / can’t (xa / xe / xo / xu) and hostless ABIL.

Can and can't

Act word ​

The written /y/ word: yal / yel / yol / yul and soft -m.

Firm and soft

Compare with: speech act is the setting (statement / question / command / prohibition). Polar stance particles are not act words.

Address set ​

Listener special plus -x: the current addressees (no speaker).

Plurality

Adjective extra (/w/) ​

Detail on the following adjective, not the whole clause.

Clause

Compare with: a restrictor says when the host applies. Default /w/ on sakes is sakes.

Adverb ​

Ordinary manner /h/.

Clause

Compare with: mood tags are closed psychological stance /th/, not /h/.

Ambient magnitude ​

Casual claim that an omitted exponent inherits a discourse order of magnitude; Ne0 asserts OoM 0.

Stacked markers

Antecedent ​

The word a -r form points back to.

Pronouns

Arity (list / single-item / standalone) ​

How many items sit before a join: list (2+), single-item (1), standalone (0).

Joins

As-for ​

Complex /h/ + /b/ (hehugom) as for X: a frame for one sentence.

People and places

Compare with: sake met / unmet on /ɡ/ is how a sake stands toward a noun, not as for. Now, about X sets the topic.

Aside ​

A parenthetical comment span (th(…) on the sentence; g(…), w(…), or h(…) on a noun, a word, or the action).

Spans

Associative ​

-x = named anchor plus associates. On a kind word (-lx) or a resume (-rx), an indefinite group.

Plurality

Bare OoM ​

Digitless exponent naming a magnitude band (g+e0, grawagel).

Digitless and exponents

Bar ​

A /th/ stance word in the comparee slot of a rank join: the value you rank against (than planned, enough, than usual).

Comparative scales

Binder ​

Inside a scope island: scope-taking /h/ or /th/ and/or a join.

Mention and islands

Body (utterance) ​

Clause content after the left-edge /y/ cluster.

Speech moves

Break / rest ​

Silence counted in beats at a sentence edge with no word: a break puts the next beat half a beat late (around a scope island), a rest is one silent beat (a period).

Singability

Capacity ​

A slot-part role compound on /h/ (hwozeduyol): the role the act is done in (as a teacher).

Viewpoint and landmark

Compare with: resemblance is the similative (hewem blwozeduyol like a teacher). Classification on /ɡ/ says someone is that role (gwozeduyol).

Invited / offered / trial ​

Prescription endings on sake the: why a move is welcome. -l invited, -m offered to serve the sake, -r a trial, worth trying to see whether it serves the sake.

Ought for a sake

Changeability ​

Endings on unmet thu, DECISION, and ability can’t.

Sakes, Decision and try

Cell logic ​

The reusable mapping of ending letters -l / -m / -r / -n on a scale. Ending series reuse a scale’s cell logic the way vowel series reuse leftover-logic. Unused cells are an em dash.

Consonants cheat sheet

Citation / prefix-less citation ​

Root + ending with no role letter, outside a sentence.

Word endings

Classification ​

Kind / role as predicative /ɡ/ (no to-be verb).

Predication

Compare with: identity uses SAME. Equative is as ADJ as, not kind-ascription.

Clause pole / NP pole ​

Condition vs outcome as NPs vs full sentences after blarl. Clause pole is the causation reading. Concession hezem uses the same NP vs clause split (despite Alazun vs although Alazun walks). Intended outcome hovam uses it too (for a money-bag vs so that Alazun sits).

Causation, dependents

Clusivity ​

Who counts as we / you when names are unavailable.

Plurality

Collective ​

-x on /v/ (one shared act) vs on /ɡ/ (property of the group as a unit).

Collectives, plurality

Command / request / prohibition ​

Speech act yol / yom / yul / yum.

Firm and soft

Comparative / superlative / equative ​

Rank join + SHARED scale (/ɡ/ quality or /h/ manner); single-item = superlative; oe = equative.

Comparatives

Complex adjective / complex adverb ​

/ɡ/ or /h/ plus immediately following /b/.

Clause

Confirming a negative ​

Polar patterns that confirm a denied body.

Polar inventory

Content of the event ​

A role word whose part consonant names a quality of the event (dwuhowurol a way of walking, dwuher the way it was done), not a person in it.

Viewpoint and landmark

Continue (/x/) ​

Same-speech-act forward motion.

Dependents

Compare with: a sentence linker is the therefore / however subclass of continue, and a topic word is the now, about X subclass.

Conventional (number -n) ​

Number ending -n.

Number shape

Compare with: content -n is named. Phrase join -n is a named list. Clause join -n is a sequence.

Cross-role recast ​

Resume with a different PoS letter than the antecedent.

Pronouns

Dependent clause ​

A full sentence that fills a stand-in slot (darl / barl / derl …). Last in the host slot; the dependent follows immediately.

Dependents

Compare with: English the dog that runs (which dog) is which person or thing, not a stand-in. Intended outcome so that is hovam plus blarl or a noun /b/.

Digitless ​

Number word with marker and ending but no digit groups.

Digitless and exponents

Digitless exponent ​

Advanced free-number specials (+e, -e-, +0e, …). Just short is free -e-.

Number stance, just short

Compare with: quasi is the numeric prefix -e-xROOT. NOTIONAL is the as-if mood, not a number.

Distributive ​

Set a + singular SHARED = both/each are ADJ.

Amounts, sizes and time

Kind reference ​

zuan plus a SHARED kind: the kind itself as one individual, not its members (the dodo is extinct).

Universals and domains

Domain / generic / every K ​

SHARED kind plus invert / standalone joins; a SHARED word after the join can bound the set (zual gwedanam blayan everyone we know).

Universals and domains

Closed -l allows no exceptions; open -m leaves the exceptions open (as far as I know, as a rule). A channel on the clause says how you know the general claim.

Echo ​

A memory-aid pointer from a root-tail kind to a letter job. Grammar does not read it.

Root tails, consonants cheat sheet

Empty-allowed ​

Plain o + -m: or none.

Joins

Ending / word ending ​

Final -l / -m / -n / -r (plus optional -x). Word endings names the content-word table.

Word endings

Epistemic because ​

Reason for the could be (MAY), not a because about the world (thahum).

Reasons and plans

Equative ​

oe SHARED scale = as ADJ as.

Comparatives

Evidence strength ​

Endings on an evidential channel: -l strong evidence, -m default, -r weak evidence. How much the claim rests on, not how likely it is.

Evidentiality

Evidentiality ​

Closed /th/ how-you-know roots: seven channels, two direct (LIVE, MEMORY), three reasoned (PATTERN, CLUES, DEDUCED), one received (REPORTED), one internal (INTUITION).

Evidentiality

Frame (carried channel) ​

A channel, NOTIONAL, or holder that keeps covering your later claims with no channel, until a new frame, a written statement word, by the way, or a goodbye.

Evidentiality

Already / still / not yet / no longer ​

Four /h/ words for how a change stands now, not when it happened.

Already and still

Residue / former climate ​

Closed /th/ episode standing: leftover on the tally, or usual weather you are not claiming now. Not past tense.

Notional and standing

Fault ​

Endings on because: -l the reason broke a rule, -m plain cause, -r one share among others. The act sits in /b/, not the person.

Fault

Extra noun (/b/) ​

Hosted: noun bolted onto a complex /ɡ/, /h/, or /th/. Unhosted: recipient or addressee of the verb.

Clause

Label scope ​

Mid-word th plus a vowel on a content root, or the vowel right after w on a role word: this episode (thu), practiced role (tho), this pair (the), type across scenes (tha), or a stacked vowel.

Label seams

Compare with: restrictor names the occasions, not the kind of claim. Usual role is practiced-role o on a role compound.

Locative relation ​

Place how (in, at, on, from, toward, through, out of; frame -m amid / near / over / away from / in the direction of / out from among / by way of) as extra-noun hooks plus landmark /b/. Between is hosted /h/ or /ɡ/ plus a /b/ join. A from A to B path is two hook extras (source, then goal).

Of-relations

Means ​

Extra-noun hook aol plus implement /b/ (using / with a tool). Not join-relation with. To name a kind of tool as its own noun, use a compound with a head root (places, tools, and times).

Extra nouns and whose

Simile (like) ​

Hosted hewem / gewem plus model /b/ (like a duck / like Azozon’s); with -l, hewel / gewel is exactly like. Not SAME, not equative as … as, not NOTIONAL as if, not join-relation on a par with.

Relations, Of-relations

Exchange (for) ​

Hosted heham / geham plus consideration /b/ (in exchange for a hammer). Not recipient /b/, not sakes motive tho, not intended-outcome hovam.

Relations

Proxy (on behalf of) ​

Hosted hanem / ganem plus principal /b/ (on behalf of Alazun). Not hook instead, not recipient /b/.

Relations

Of relation ​

Hosted /h/ or /ɡ/ plus /b/ for English of that is not ownership or a place: part of, contents of, made of, origin from.

Of-relations

Factivity ​

Whether if vs because treats the dependent as asserted.

Reasons and plans

Fill-ask / fill-all ​

Under question, join -r is a blank; several -r = fill all.

Questions

Firm / soft ​

Speech-act ending -l vs -m.

Firm and soft

Forecast ​

A claim that something will happen: an evidential channel plus the later offset blral. There is no forecast word, so a forecast always names how you know it.

Evidentiality

Greeting / conversation length ​

A named citation is a hello (azozon.). Add mid-word x plus a / e / o / u to say how long the conversation is expected to last: open-ended, a few minutes, one slot, or passing. At departure, xon means leaving soon, xen about to leave, and xun leaving now. When people set different lengths at arrival, the lesser bid holds.

Word endings · Compound families

Hold ​

MAY find-out / who-knows endings / NOTIONAL play endings.

Knowing

Hang cue ​

Why a series reuses a parent scale’s leftover-logic or cell logic, in one affirmative sentence. On a scale, the hang cue is that leftover-logic or cell logic itself. Cell cues stay in Cue columns.

Vowels cheat sheet, consonants cheat sheet

Holder ​

Whose view a clause reports. The name is fused onto an evidential, MAY, or NOTIONAL after that word's own ending letter (theyomazozon). The fused word is the speaker's warrant; every other stance in the clause is the holder's.

Whose view

Compare with: a person in hosted /b/ after an evidential is the source you heard it from, not the holder. The ON-BEHALF locus is your own feeling about someone else's stake.

Hangs on ​

A series has its own slogans; its letters and leftover-logic or cell logic come from a parent series or scale.

Vowels cheat sheet, consonants cheat sheet

Host ​

Content root a sake th-stance or an ability x-stance attaches to.

Can and can't, sakes

Compare with: a measure unit is not a host. Classification names the classified noun, not a host.

Identity ​

Closed SAME + /b/.

Predication

In progress ​

An event root on /ɡ/: the noun is in the middle of that event, as its doer (a walking dog, Azozon is walking).

Predication

Compare with: a role compound names a participant, with no claim that the act is under way.

Invert ​

Join stacks ua / uo / ue.

Rank joins

Join / conjunct ​

Right-close list closer; conjunct = listed item.

Joins

Join-act verb / join-relation ​

Content /v/ or /ɡ/ /h/ + join vowel + -n.

Join across roles

Join series ​

a and / o rank / e choice / u not; the prefix picks the table.

Joins, vowels cheat sheet

Left-bound adjective ​

/ɡ/ with second letter l: adjective before the next noun.

Adjectives first

Left edge ​

Vocative → polar stance → act word, then body.

Speech moves

Letter job ​

What a consonant does in a position: first letter is a role letter, last letter is an ending cell, mid-word is a seam or compound.

Clause, consonants cheat sheet

Concrete / abstract / named / resume ​

Content endings -l / -m / -n / -r.

Word endings

Loan / opaque span ​

PoS + optional ~ / @ / ^@ on <…> (exact omits the mark; no letter after >).

Spans

Map resolution ​

PLAN endings: -l atlas / -m itinerary (default) / -r sketch.

Intention

Measure phrase / unit ​

Amount + lexicon unit noun (published abstract = unit name).

Numbers in use

Met / unmet / motive / prescription (sakes) ​

Sake stances tha / thu (Beginner); the (Beginner ought); tho (Intermediate motive). Prescription the on the clause is deontic on the host act (ought to … for this sake), not a performance report with a separate norm tag. The ending marks whether the move is invited, offered, or protective, not how firmly you address them.

Sakes

Compare with: as-for is hehugom, not a sake stance.

Thanks and sorry ​

A lone /th/ met word is thanks (my sake is met). Sorry is unmet plus a bl- word for whose sake was hurt.

Thanks and sorry

Named handle ​

Short -n label for a long title.

People and places

Named list ​

Phrase join -n.

Join islands

Compare with: a titled phrase can use that join -n while members keep ordinary endings.

Sake inventory ​

Six closed psychological sakes under /ɡ/ /th/ /w/.

Sakes

Number as verb / adverb / interjection / discourse ​

Number word under /v/ /h/ /th/ /y/ /x/.

Number shape

Numbered alternatives ​

Number problem / solution / goal candidates with free ordinals.

Amounts, sizes and time

Compare with: clause so that is hovam, not the goal noun oval.

Numeric prefix ​

Role letter + number body + x (or mx for an approximate number) + root: a kind of the root, named by a number idea (zrawaxolamal essence of love, zragexezuyol a three-part dialogue). Like English quasi-, proto-, multi-, tri-.

Numeric prefixes

Occasion ​

Listed pieces before a restrictor (when the host applies).

Restrictors

Offer (question) ​

Single-item -m under question (How about X?).

Polar inventory

Generic pronoun ​

eyen: any person, as a rule. English one, generic you.

Pronouns

Compare with: awan is always the person actually listening; umen is one unidentified individual.

One of a name ​

Ending -ln (span mark ^@): one thing a name applies to, such as one unit of a brand or one copy of a work (dazozoln an Azozon).

Names and titles

Ordinary compound / lexical compound ​

FIELD × KIND with mid-word x; closed stem with join letter and no x.

Compounds

Compare with: a Hook compounds is a citation plus an extra-noun hook (owurolul leave), still with no x.

Overlay / sense-form ​

Special reading of a published root under a PoS.

Lexicon

Compare with: a number under /v/ /h/ /th/ /y/ /x/ is Number shape, not an overlay. Lexicon abstract -m stays abstract.

Placement ​

Where a consonant sits picks its letter job: first, last, or mid-word. Same letter, different job by placement.

Consonants cheat sheet

Polar stance ​

Closed /y/ particles yaol / yuol / ….

Questions

Preference standing ​

Motive tho endings.

Prescription and motive

Prominence ​

Singling out one word against others: the contrast mark &. Word order adds no prominence.

Emphasis, Tone marks

Quasi ​

Numeric prefix -e-xROOT (and quasi-N): the shape of a kind, not the real thing (zruwuxahuyayel a quasi-friend).

Numeric prefixes

Range / ray ​

Numeric from–to with a hook between the ends (al / ul); a ray has ±∞ as one end. The same idea on any ordered line is the range hook.

Numbers in use, Initials and rays

Range hook ​

Stacked hook between same-role words on an ordered line: oel through, ual strictly between, uol outside.

Ending grids

Rank join / set join / SHARED ​

Material after the join closer; SHARED scale.

Joins, comparatives

Relative clause (English who / that / which) ​

Identify a noun with two sentences (then resume), a hosted /ɡ/ + /b/ relation, or a role compound on /ɡ/.

Dependents

Restrictor ​

Join-shaped /h/ /w/ when the host applies.

Restrictors

Compare with: English who / that / which on a noun is which person or thing, not a restrictor.

Resume ​

Content / number -r pointing back. A content resume spells the earlier word’s whole stem.

Pronouns, Number shape

Compare with: join / restrictor -r is an unspecified member. English the dog that… is two sentences, then this resume (which person or thing).

Hook ​

Prefix-less including / rather / instead / except, discourse glue, extra-noun in / on / at / toward / from / out of / through / for / using / against (frame -m amid / over / near / in the direction of / away from / out from among / by way of / used by (whose) / by / contrary to; placement decides the job; uom before a /th/ stance is contrary to that stance), and fused Hook compounds (citation plus extra-noun hook). Optional /w/ immediately before the free hook grades that hook (including restrictors); /b/ sits immediately after the free hook. Stacked discourse, somewhere / here / there, resume -r, parallel chains, and extra placements are discourse hooks.

Hooks

Discourse hooks

Hook prefix ​

Role letter + extra-noun hook vowels + x (or mx for the hook's -m frame) + stem: something in that hook's relation to the stem (guoxuvuvul anti-fighting, gamxohalal mid-ocean). Like English anti-, in-, trans-, -ward.

Hook compounds

Hooked join ​

Role letter + extra-noun hook vowels (+ m for the frame or r to point back) + x + a join, with the hook's landmark as the bl- word after it: the join's set, bounded by that relation (zexual blohehal everyone at the house, doxar bluwen something for me). On /h/ it bounds which times a restrictor covers (huxal blanulul never since the thunderstorm).

Hooked joins

Role compound / agent / patient / recipient ​

Role letter + w + scope vowel + part consonant + stem (zwuzeduyol). The part consonant is the role letter the participant had in the event: z the doer (agent), d what it acts on or makes (patient), b the extra party (recipient, or the other party on a relation stem). On /h/ a slot part is capacity. A content part names a quality of the event.

Role compounds

Compare with: a guard who sits is this stem on /ɡ/ with a non-resume ending, and teacher takes scope e for the usual role (which noun, with resume and kinds). Resume -r is the one teaching (this instance), not the usual role.

Role pointer ​

Role letter + w + scope vowel + part consonant + pointer vowel + ending (zwuzer): a participant of an earlier event (e the latest one with that role, a the other one, u the one the event left unsaid) or of this sentence (o, a reflexive). -r names the participant, -l a new one of the same kind (zwuzel), and -m the participant’s part in the event (zwuzem).

Pronouns · Role compounds

Role letter ​

Word-initial job letter.

Clause

Root tail ​

The last two letters of a root: a consonant for the kind of thing and a vowel for its job. A memory aid only.

Root tails

Scale ​

A sibling parent map with no parent of its own. On a o e u, size is amount (biggest to smallest) and order is sequence (first to fourth). On -l -m -r -n, the five are content, exactness, completeness, reference, and settled-to-passing. Series hang on a scale; sibling scales do not hang on each other.

Vowels cheat sheet, consonants cheat sheet

Scope island ​

{ … } with binder inside.

Mention and islands, Join islands

Sentence linker ​

/x/ therefore / however / meanwhile.

Sentence linkers

So that / event purpose ​

Clause-pole hovam: intended outcome of the host (so that Alazun sits; NP for a money-bag). Not locative toward, not sake tho, not discourse therefore.

Dependents

Sequence ​

Clause join -n (xan and then; xen or maybe; xun and then not).

Clause sequence

Settled-to-passing scale ​

The shared -l / -m / -r ladder on many stance endings: -l the most settled (cue: lasting), -m the default, -r the most passing (cue: right now). Neither end is better. Each slot gives the three endings its own meaning.

Sakes

SHARED scale ​

After-join /ɡ/ (quality) or manner /h/ in comparatives.

Comparatives

Span / span open ​

Written cite […], aside (…) and opaque <…> fences, with a role letter before the bracket.

Spans

Compare with: a numeric or ordered from–to is a range, not a span.

Stance ​

/th/ role letter: how the speaker stands toward the whole claim (how sure, how known, why, as if), plus asides.

Clause

Compare with: adverb /h/ says how, when, or where the event happened.

Stand-in ​

Short word in a role slot (darl / barl / derl / dorl / durl, open -rm) that stands for the following sentence. Same vowels as speech acts; not a join (joins close a list already said).

Sentence linkers

Compare with: unspecified join -r (dar) is something with no following clause. Clause poles (thahum, thohem) name the relation; the stand-in fills /b/.

Special pronoun ​

uwe / awa / aya / ume.

Pronouns

Compare with: the generic pronoun and the topic pronoun are also marked pronoun rows.

Speech act ​

Utterance setting: statement / question / command / prohibition.

Firm and soft

Compare with: sake prescription warrant is invited / offered / trial, not speech act. Polar stance is a left-edge particle.

Sufficient / necessary ​

If (enough) vs only if (needed) vs because / iff.

Causation

Tail suffix ​

A dictionary word whose head is a bare root tail instead of a second root (zahuyayel a friend: hug + a person tail).

Root tails

Tag ​

yel plus a polar stance word as its own turn after a sentence: asks the listener for that answer (yel yaol. …, right?, yel yael. …, okay?, yel yuol. …, or am I wrong?).

Polar inventory

Tag pronoun ​

Role letter + w + a tag vowel (A, E, O, U) + ending: a label the speaker assigns to a phrase (zodozel zwal a dog, call it A) and recalls in any role (zwar), or shares with -m (zwam what A did).

Tag pronouns

Time horizon ​

Met-sake tha endings: -l lasting, -m unstated (default), -r immediate. Neither end is better.

Sakes

Titled phrase ​

A proper-name phrase whose -n sits on the hook, join, or span; inner words keep their own endings.

Names and titles

Threshold ​

Single-item rank with a number = bound on a line.

Numbers in use

Topic ​

What the talk is about from here on, set only by an /x/ word: introduce (xazozon), return (xazozor), or clear (xevewom / xavedam).

Topic

Compare with: as-for frames one sentence and sets no topic. A topic stretch restarts the role pointer anchors.

Topic pronoun ​

alen: the current topic, in the same form in every role (zalen / dalen / balen).

Topic

Topic stretch ​

The talk between two topic changes. Each starts the role pointer anchors over; tags carry across.

Topic

Turn (/y/) ​

New speech move.

Speech moves

Under question ​

Join readings when the speech act is question.

Polar inventory

Unspecified member ​

Join / restrictor -r (something / sometimes); fill-ask under question. With -x, an unnamed group (zarx some ones).

Joins

Usual order ​

The default word order of a body, set by its speech act: verb late in a statement or prohibition, verb second in a yes/no question, verb first in a command, blank first in a fill-ask. Any other order means the same.

Speech moves, Questions

Usual role ​

A role compound with practiced-role scope o after its w (zwozeduyol): the role as the office they inhabit (a teacher). With scope u, a role compound makes no claim about how often.

Role compounds

Channel on a generalization ​

A channel on a clause with a universal fence or restrictor: how you know the general claim.

Universality

Sakes ​

Sake + stance. /ɡ/ = speaker’s belonging; unowned noun = goyom + /w/ need.

Sakes

Viewpoint laterals ​

DIR × ANCHOR; the anchor sets the facing frame (person or oriented object, or a role pointer on -r); the ending refers to the anchor, not DIR.

Viewpoint and landmark

Vocative ​

Left-edge /y/ addressing.

Speech moves

Vowel pitch ​

The fixed, optional pitch of each vowel: u high, e mid-high, o mid-low, a low. It backs up the vowel's sound and adds no meaning.

Phonology, Singability

Vowel series ​

A four-cell English map on a o e u. The leftover-list map is the join series; other series hang on size or order, or on join. Ending series are the parallel on -l -m -r -n: own slogans, cell logic from an ending scale.

Joins, vowels cheat sheet, consonants cheat sheet

Audible start ​

Prefer an audible left /y/ rather than implied yal.

Emphasis

Yes/no ​

Question type with no join -r.

Questions

Compare with: polar stance is yaol / yuol / …, not the yes/no question type.