Words:
- ni: separates subject from object and object from verb.
- su: diminutive. You can use high tone to mean “large”.
- mi: location indicator.
- fu: inside, within. You can use high tone to mean “outside”.
- lja: past tense marker. You can use high tone to indicate future tense.
- ja: and.
- cu: with, including. You can use high tone to mean “without, needing”.
- fulu: hole, pit. You can use high tone to mean “hill, mountain”.
- luni: ground, dry, dirt, earth, world, land. You can use high tone to mean “water, lake, sea, swim, wet”.
- misa: person, exist, to be.
- fulju: nasty, bad, useless, dirty. You can use high tone to mean “nice, good, usable, clean”.
- lulu: snake, slither.
- fela: smell, sniff, nose.
- sica: sit, chair, rest, sleep, bed, comfortable, comfort. You can use high tone to mean “stand, pain, discomfortable”.
- nimu: eat, food, consume, swallow, digest. You can use high tone to mean “starve.”
Translation so far:
- In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. mi fulu fu luni ni lja misa ni su misa.
- Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort. fulu ni lja -misa ni fulju ja fulju ja luni, cu su lulu, ja fela fulju. fulu ni lja -misa ni luni -cu sica ja nimu. fulu ni lja misa ni fulu su nimu sica.
