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Welcome to the language of Vihal. This language is a relative of Tigerian, deriving in part from the language of Avihalli.

I haven't gotten much done, but already there's enough to be interesting. Check it out.

To see its alphabet, click here

To hear a poem recited by the one and only Mithithana Avalinai, click here. To read the poem and its translation, click here.

Grammar:

Vihal has a very odd grammar by Western standards. The general order is

Object_Verb-Subject.

This is not to be confused with Object_Verb_Subject. In Vihal, verbs are not conjugated per se. The subject is added to the end of the verb. For example, "I sing" is "Vihaldi-na." Vihaldi is the verb "To sing," and "na" is the pronoun "I." "The man sings" is "Vihaldi-adal." When written in English characters, the verb and subject are separated by a hyphen (-). When written in Vihal script, they are not. When spoken, there is a (very) small break in speach to indicate separation.

To use an interjection such as "Yes" or "No" with a sentence, the word (Vihual or Bal) is placed at the beginning and end of a sentence.

Example: "Yes, I love you" is "Vihual nia haldi-na vihual."

To indicate tense, et cetera, add a prefix or suffix to the verb before adding the subject.

Condition

Affix

present participle

ila-

past

ma-

future

li-

may past

-ama

may future

-ili

negation

bal (after verb-subject)

To use a double-verb construction, such as "I need to fight," place the second verb in front of the "conjugated" verb. So "I need to fight" would be "kasa dimaldi-na."

When there's an object involved, it comes first.

Example: "I didn't need to fight you" is "Nia kasa ma-dimaldi-na bal."

Example 2: "I might not need to fight you." is "Nia kasa dimaldi-ili-na bal."

This construction was suggested by Glenn Kempf.

Example 3: "No, we may not have wanted to kill the king." is "Bal jual habaldi buldi-ama-nau bal."

Note: The vowel combination "au" is pronounced as a Tigerian "o." All the other vowels are pronounced as in Tigerian. Like I said, they're sister languages.

 

To pluralize nouns, add -ihan to the end of the word.

To use the word "and", add -al to the end of the last word in the list.

Example: "Love and life are" is "Si-hildin haldin-al."

Exception is when you're using verbs.

Example: "I live and I love" is "Hildi-na al haldi-na."

You want me to get on with the wordlist already? Okay, but you'll have to scroll through a big long table, there's not enough to put in separate Excel sheets.

Wordlist:

English:

Vihal:

to be

si

to live

hildi

to love

haldi

to sing / to speak

vihaldi

to walk

ialdi

to know

imildi

to see

inildi

to hear

akaldi

to touch

ildi

to smell

mialdi

to taste

minildi

to have

hiandi

to want

buldi

to need

dimaldi

to go

animi

to leave

anildi

to hide

nubaldi

to fight

kasa

to teach

hania

to be friends with

haildi

to father

hanadi

to take

anahaldi

to die

hadani

to kill

habaldi

man

adal

woman

adil

cat

asil

king

jual

water

vihalin

life

hildin

love

haldin

song

vihal

good

alhinalda

bad

jalduril

mighty

jin

north

muri

south

hiruni

east

avali

west

rilani

yes

vihual

no

bal

I / we

na / nau

you

nia

he / she / it / they

ni / nil / nin / nu

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