An original story, written with 34 roots — of the 113 the language had on September 2, 2026 — and no grammar beyond Lesson 13.
Din. Anak keci otur. Sol upar.
Sol kabir. Sol garam. Sol beri luma.
Anak kan upar. Anak sema: "Sol, yu es kim?"
Sol beri luma.
Anak sema: "Yu es rafiki mi?"
Sol beri luma. Din cang. Sol beri luma.
Rat lai. Sol go. Dunia barid.
Anak espera. Anak espera cok.
Angin lai. Yuki lai. Anak keci sini.
Din baru lai. Sol lai upar.
Anak kimbia. Anak sema: "Salam! Mi suda espera yu!"
Sol beri luma.
Anak faham: rafiki go, rafiki lai.
Anak otur. Anak kan sol. Anak hao.
Line by line
| Amadunia | English |
|---|---|
| Din. Anak keci otur. Sol upar. | Day. A small child sits. The sun is above. |
| Sol kabir. Sol garam. Sol beri luma. | The sun is big. The sun is hot. The sun gives light. |
| Anak kan upar. Anak sema: “Sol, yu es kim?” | The child looks up. The child says: “Sun, who are you?” |
| Sol beri luma. | The sun gives light. |
| Anak sema: “Yu es rafiki mi?” | The child says: “Are you my friend?” |
| Sol beri luma. Din cang. Sol beri luma. | The sun gives light. The day is long. The sun gives light. |
| Rat lai. Sol go. Dunia barid. | Night comes. The sun goes. The world is cold. |
| Anak espera. Anak espera cok. | The child waits. The child waits a lot. |
| Angin lai. Yuki lai. Anak keci sini. | Wind comes. Snow comes. The small child is here. |
| Din baru lai. Sol lai upar. | A new day comes. The sun comes above. |
| Anak kimbia. Anak sema: “Salam! Mi suda espera yu!” | The child runs. The child says: “Hello! I waited for you!” |
| Sol beri luma. | The sun gives light. |
| Anak faham: rafiki go, rafiki lai. | The child understands: friends go, friends come. |
| Anak otur. Anak kan sol. Anak hao. | The child sits. The child looks at the sun. The child is well. |
What the language did well
The sun never answers in words, and it did not need to. Sol beri luma repeated four times carries the whole weight of the story. A language with no way to say “the sun replied warmly” has to find another way, and repetition — which every oral tradition on Earth uses — was there waiting.
Nothing had to be invented. Every sentence is subject-verb-object, adjectives follow their noun, es appears only before a noun, and suda appears exactly once, where the child looks back at the waiting. The rules held for a whole story without a single exception.
What the language could not say
Writing this found four gaps that thirteen lessons had not:
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No “and”.Angin lai. Yuki lai. should have been one sentence — “wind and snow came”. There was no conjunction in the language at all. Closed September 3, 2026: aur, see conjunction.md. The story is left as written, from before the word existed. -
No “not”.The story contains no negation because none was possible; the sun’s silence had to be shown by what it did instead. Closed September 3, 2026: no, see negation.md. The silence is better as it stands, so the story keeps it. -
No “again”.Rafiki lai is “friends come”; “friends come back” needed a word the language did not have. Closed September 3, 2026: tena, Swahili. Rafiki lai tena. -
No place marking.Sol lai upar leaned on word order alone. Closed September 3, 2026: in, dari and por, see place.md. All four gaps this story found are now closed; it stands as written.
Gaps 1 and 2 are grammar decisions for the founder. Gaps 3 and 4 are partly vocabulary.
Roots used
34 of 300 in the dictionary today — and 34 of the 113 that existed when this was written. They were: angin, anak, baru, barid, beri, cang, cok, din, dunia, es, espera, faham, garam, go, hao, kabir, kan, keci, kim, kimbia, lai, luma, mi, otur, rafiki, rat, salam, sema, sini, sol, suda, upar, yu, yuki.