Toaq, But Easy, at Least in the Beginning

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Hıo ka! Hello and welcome to Toaq, But Easy, at Least in the Beginning. Mı Mıao jí. I am Mıao (Moon).

1 - Nıq paı! - A new friend!

Mıao: Jadı. Mı Mıao jí. Chua hí súq?

Nuaq: Jadı. Mı Nuaq jí. Foa súq hí?

Mıao: Foa gı jí. Ma foa gı súq?

Nuaq: Foa gı máo jí.

Mıao: Chuq súq hí?

Nuaq: Chuq jí shámu.

EnglishMoon: Hi. I’m Moon. What’s your name?

Night: Hi. I’m Night. What are you feeling? (i.e. “How are you?”)

Moon: I’m feeling good. Are you feeling good?

Night: I’m also feeling good.

Moon: What are you eating?

Night: I am eating an apple.

Vocabulary

chua ◌ is the name of ◌
foa ◌ feels ◌
which / what
jadı hi
I/me
máo also
X the one called X
shamu ◌ is an apple
súq you (singular)

1.1 - Tones

The falling tone, which isn’t marked by any diacritic, is generally used for verbs. However, as you can see, it is also used for some other things, for example jadı. The rising tone rising tone is used for nouns, pronouns, and determiners.

1.2 - Word order

The most simplest word order in Toaq is VSO — verb - subject - object. Notice how “Chuq jí shámu” literally translates to “Eat I apple”.

1.3 -

is prefixed before the names of things and people (and others), i.e. proper nouns.

  • Foa* gı mí Mıao. = “Moon feels good.”

* We will talk about why it’s not foa mí Mıao gí later in Lesson [TODO].

1.4 - Ma

Ma is used to ask yes-or-no questions.

  • Ma mı Mıao súq? = “Are you Moon?”

2 - O jıbo! - Oh my!

Mıao: Tao súq hí tî ní foto?!

Nuaq: Haha! Pu kıaqtoe jí kíaq bụqbuaı po kúne jıbo!

Mıao: ...

Nuaq: Hóı mí Mıao ꝡa naı noaq jí kúe ꝡë súq hóa.

Mıao: É? O. Neaochıaqca ní…

EnglishMoon: What are you doing in this photo?!

Night: Haha! I cut my dog’s long fur.

Moon: …

Night: Moon, I’m reading the book which you wrote.

Moon: Huh? Oh. That’s embarrassing…

Vocabulary

buaı ◌ is long
buq- prefix: very
hóa
hóı vocative
jıa ◌ happens in the future
jıbo ◌ is mine
kıaq ◌ is hair/fur
kıaqtoe ◌ cuts the hair/fur of ◌
kue ◌ is a book
naı ◌ happens now
neaochıaqca ◌ is embarrassing to ◌
noaq ◌ reads ◌
po of
pu ◌ happened in the past
tao ◌ does ◌
◌ is at ◌
ꝡa
ꝡë

2.1 - Prepositions

Oh hey! New tone! The rising falling tone hiatus tone is used for prepositions and adverbs. Prepositions in Toaq use the second slot of a verb.

  • = ◌ is at ◌
  • Tı jí búajıo. = “I’m at the house.”
  • Kuq jí tî búajıo. = “I talk at the house”

2.2 - Tense

Toaq has words for tense, but unlike in English, they’re not mandatory.

pu past
naı now
jıa future

2.3 - Adjectives

Adjectives come after the nouns they modify, similar to Spanish. Only the first word of a noun phrase gets the rising tone tone though, so adjectives get a falling tone tone like verbs.

2.4 - Possession