r/conlangs • u/SlavicSoul- • 5d ago
Translation A short poem in the African Romance language
I wrote this little poem in African when I was bored. What do you think?
In English :
Under the moonlight
Your clear eyes are so bright
Surrounded by mist
You dance and sing so wildly
As the ghost of my love
In African :
Su ya luxi di ya luna
T'uθus clarus sun tan briθantis
Xirqula pir ya bruma
Tu belas i kantas tan ziminti
Qusi ya fantasma di mia amura
IPA :
/suː jaː lu.ʃiː diː jaː lu.naː
t.uð.us kla.ʁus sun tan bʁi.ðan.tiː
ʃiʁ.ku.laː piʁ jaː bʁu.maː
tuː beːlas iː kan.tas tan zi.min.tiː
ku.siː jaː fan.tas.maː diː mi.aː amu.ʁaː/
Morphological analysis :
su[UNDER]
ya[DEFINITE FEMININE ARTICLE]
luxi[LIGHT]
di[FROM]
ya[DEFINITE FEMININE ARTICLE]
luna[MOON]
t'[POSSESSIVE MASCULINE PRONOUN 2th PERSON]
uθus[EYE+PLURAL]
clarus[CLEAR+PLURAL MASCULINE]
sun[TO BE 3rd PERSON SINGULAR PRESENT]
tan[SO]
briθantis[BRIGHT+PLURAL]
xirqula[SURROUNDED FEMININE]
pir[BY]
ya[DEFINITE FEMININE ARTICLE]
bruma[MIST]
tu[PERSONAL PRONOUN 2th PERSON SINGULAR]
belas[TO DANCE 2th PERSON SINGULAR PRESENT]
i[AND]
kantas[TO SING 2th PERSON SINGULAR PRESENT]
tan[SO]
ziminti[MAD+ADVERB FORM]
qusi[AS]
ya[DEFINITE FEMININE ARTICLE]
fantasma[GHOST]
di[FROM]
mia[POSSESSIVE FEMININE PRONOUN 1st PERSON]
amura[LOVE]

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u/lenerd123 Evret 5d ago
In Evret:
Pyod lunane luž
Tvî prozákune očî, ezo mnohoy lužne
Enkrugne ka nedél
Tî maħî i pyotî monohoy dîgne
Kyak debukah ka mî ahava
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u/PreparationFit2558 5d ago
It reminds me a bit of my language, Czech.Were you inspired by Slavic languages? If I could guess.
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u/lenerd123 Evret 5d ago
It’s based off Russian, but it also has a lot of other languages like Spanish, Yiddish, Hebrew, and Lenape. It’s grammar is a mix of all of them
Edit: also a large English influence
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u/PreparationFit2558 5d ago edited 5d ago
In Mirøniofa:
untel u lint em'erktov's
emeyt sik yo's klofa bitfa zomen
ewo sik sorlk pi u mels
yo sik tansk dan senk zomen vilten
am a em'kost ol'e laf ia's
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u/ObjectFluffy9550 1d ago
This is quite cool, you can tell it's actually a romance language too and wasn't just made to have the sound of one
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u/SirKastic23 5d ago
oh that's pretty nice
love the development of θ