Ring E: 8/22: Xara

Jim Taylor

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Xara

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xolatem gaminodeyilmeyar jaran

evanedmeyer sean na bavoles:

jar derivar
gisam
kar
dulom lopinajmeyar
tek karadar
xolid
vagef falan
xaromit
parexel
seren solumar

goru merayeder jiyeled:

jarer xu xolider xu xaromiter ja kejuhudes.
merayeder ja jiyeledes xo jar xu dulom lopinajmeyar xu xolid xu vagef falan xu xaromit xu parexel xu seren solumar.
evanedmeyer sean ja solimes do duruj.

goru gaminoder jiyeled:

gaminoder ja jiyeledes xo gisam xu kar xu dulom lopinajmeyar xu tek karadar, evanedmeyer sean si a solimes xoyol.
herulijmeyer dunan ja jiyeledes gaminodur, feyotmeyer esan si a umiles.
samudmeyer foran xu rahuyan ja jiyeledes herulijmeyur, funormeyer esan si a umiles.

goru gaminodeyilmeyer tigov:

merayeder ja keveres rofo herulijme gaminodar, bokoliver si a umiles.
fuleyudmeyer ja mevedes xoyol.
asmeyer ja keveres rofo feguliv garevalan jiduloman.
asmeyer ja keveres rodo oxiyelid xu asmeyer ja gareval.
xeon gaminodeyilme si a orasme golan, seon asmeyer xi ja pimives.

zu tuliv:

jarer derivar da oxodes xo rolaj esan aran jarar, jehulol garelar u zonovar u garatejar.
parexeler da oxodes xo rolaj esan aran femezmeyar.

Smooth Translation

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A Recipe For Meat Pasties

You will need these ingredients:

beef
flour
water
olive oil
sea salt
onion
white pepper
garlic
cumin
lemon juice

To make the filling:

Chop the meat, onion and garlic.
Make a filling with the meat, olive oil, onion, white pepper, garlic, cumin and lemon juice.
Mix all these ingredients in a bowl.

To make the pastry:

Make a pastry with flour, water, olive oil and sea salt by mixing these ingredients together.
Make small balls from the pastry using your hands.
Make big flat circles from the balls using the palms of your hands.

To assemble the pasties:

Place the filling on the circles of pastry using a spoon.
Pinch the edges together.
Place them on an oiled baking tray.
Put them in the oven and bake them.
When the pasties are brown, eat them.

Note:

You could replace the beef with your own choice of meat, such as snail, rabbit or mushrooms.
You could replace the cumin with your own choice of spices.

Grammar

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Xara is an inflectional language, which makes much use of sets of regular suffuxes.

Nouns

There are no definite or indefinite articles.

Prepositions govern the nominative case.

All nouns are declined using the following suffixes:

(no suffix)	nominative singular
-er	accusative singular
-ar	genitive singular
-ir	dative singular
-ur	ablative singular
-me	nominative plural
-meyer	accusative plural
-meyar	genitive plural
-meyir	dative plural
-meyur	ablative plural

Adjectives

The suffix –an typically indicates an adjective and may be added to nouns or verbs to form adjectives.

Adjectives are invariable and do not decline for number or case.

Adverbs

The suffix –ol typically indicates an adverb.

Pronouns

These are declined with the same suffixes that are used for nouns.

The suffix –an may be added to a personal pronoun to create a possesive pronoun.

Verbs

Verbs are conjugated by adding a personal eddings to the verb stem. In the above text the 2nd person singular ending ‘–es’ and the 3rd person plural ending ‘-asme’ are used.

The conjugated verb is preceeded by a tense indicator, such as ‘a’ (present tense) and ‘da’ (conditional, or indicating possibility).

The tense indicator is often preceed by a mood indicator, such as ‘xi’ (affirmative and emphatic mood indicator) or ‘si’ (relative clause and continuous mood indicator).

The mood indicator ‘si’ is always used with verbs in relative clauses and in making an extra clause to represent the English use of a continuous participle (the ‘–ing’ verb ending).

The verb stem on its own translates as the infinitive.

Word Order

The usual word order in Xara is as follows: object – verb – subject – adverb/ adverbial phrase/ relative clause

Because of the inflectional nature of the language word order can be fairly flexible.

Idiomatic Constructions

Xara contains many idiomatic phrases. The following construction is an example from the above passage:

‘xeon (with the mood indicator ‘si’) …. seon (with the mood indicator ‘xi’).’

This indicates: ‘if or when (such and such happens), then (such and such happens).’

Vocabulary

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a	present tense indicator
aran	own, respective
as	3rd person pronoun
bavol	need
bokoliv	spoon
da	possibility and conditional tense indicator
deriv	cow, bull
do	in
dulom	oil
dunan	small
duruj	bowl
es	2nd person pronoun
evaned	ingredient
falan	white
feguliv	tray
femez	spice, seasoning
feyot	hand
foran	big
fuleyud	edge
funor	palm (of hand)
gaminod	pastry, dough
gaminodeyil	pasty, empanada
garatej	mushroom
garel	snail
gareval	bake
gisam	flour
golan	brown
goru	to, in order to
herulij	sphere, ball
ja	imperative mood indicator
jar	meat
jaran	meaty, meat
jehulol	for example
jiduloman	greasy, oiled
jiyeled	make
kar	water
karad	sea
kejuhud	cut up, chop
kever	put, place
lopinaj	olive
merayed	filling, stuffing
meved	squash, pinch
na	future tense indicator
or	be
oxiyelid	oven, kiln
oxod	replace, substitute
parexel	cumin
pimiv	eat
rahuyan	flat
rodo	into
rofo	on to
rolaj	choice
samud	circle
sean	this, these
seon	then
seren	juice
si	relative clause and continuous mood indicator
solim	mix, combine
solum	lemon
tek	salt
tigov	assemble, put together
tuliv	note, annotation
u	or
umil	use
vagef	pepper
xaromit	garlic
xeon	when
xi	affirmative and emphatic mood indicator
xo	with
xolatem	recipe
xolid	onion
xoyol	together
xu	and
zonov	rabbit
zu	behold, here is