JARRAPUA a COMMON-SPEECH

Suffix Inflection

All words in JARRAPUA are either Verbs, Nouns, Adjectives or Adverbs.

There are two of what I call “cases”, namely nominative and accusative 11.  Words inflected so as to be about doing the action are nominative.  Words inflected so as to be about receiving the action are accusative.  Nouns, Adjectives, and Adverbs all have case.

Root verbs can be inflected into other parts of speech and cases by addition of a vowel or dipthong suffix as below.  (XXX represents a root)

 

XXX+no suffix:  an infinitive or imperative verb has no suffix

XXXA:  indicates a verb in the present tense continuous. 

It’s approximately equivalent to the suffix –(e)s in English

Example:  MERA= amuses

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XXXE :  indicates an accusative adjective.

Its approximate equivalent is the suffix –ed in English

Example:  FERE=heated=hot

XXXU indicates a nominative adjective.

Its approximate equivalent is the suffix –ing in English

Example: TUNU=giving

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XXXAE indicates an accusative noun.

Its approximate equivalent is the suffix –ee in English

Example: TUNAE=give=recipient

Note: The dipthong “AE” can also be spelled with the letter “I”

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XXXAU indicates a nominative noun.

Its approximate equivalent is the suffix –er in English

Example: TUNAU=giver=donor

Note: The dipthong “AU”can also be spelled with the letter “O”

 

XXXUE indicates an accusative adverb.

Its approximate equivalent is the suffix –edly in English

Example: RUNUE=acceleratedly=quickly

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XXXEU indicates a nominative adverb.

Its approximate equivalent is the suffix—ingly in English

Example: MEREU=amusingly

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XXXEA indicates an adjective derived accusative noun.

Its approximate equivalent is the suffix—edness in English

Example: TASEA=sweetenedness=sweetness

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XXXUA indicates an adjective derived nominative noun.

Its approximate equivalent is the suffix==ingness in English

Example: PAKUA=obeyingness=obedience

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Compound Words

Inflected roots can be put together to make compound words.  The final suffix inflects the entire word.  Internal suffixes can be elided, removed through contraction.  When writing, elidable suffixes can be left out, or they can be included in parenthesis.

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Example:  JAR(E) RAPUA =share(ed) speakingness

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Composing short but evocative compound words is an art.  I refer you to the word list at the end of this work for thousands of examples. 

Essentially, the roots are pretty vague and simple concepts.  By adding another concept to qualify, you can vastly expand or vastly narrow what you are saying.  “KAM(E)FEJO”  narrows the field of all plants to just small ones.