The second story written in Amadunia, and the first with the full A1 vocabulary behind it. Written the day the dictionary reached 300 roots.
Pagi. Du anak sini: Sol aur Luma.
Sol genc. Luma lebi genc dari Sol.
Ta-ta mau go pahar.
Mama ta-ta sema: "Pahar amik. Es bahaya."
Sol sema: "Mi-mi punya sabar aur umid."
Mama leta pan, akua, aur uan lampu por ta-ta.
Ta-ta anda. Tarik cang. Din garam, udara hafif.
Ta-ta lihat pohon-pohon yesil aur flor merah.
Kanis keci lai una ta-ta.
Din finis. Aksam lai. Asman siya.
Ta-ta lihat stela-stela. Ta-ta lihat bulan putih.
Luma sema: "Mi punya korku."
Sol sema: "Mi una yu."
Aur sukut lai.
Ates keci garam. Ta-ta lala in tanah.
Pagi baru lai. Sol asfar in asman.
Ta-ta upar in pahar. Ta-ta lihat dunia:
bahari baid, madina keci, hutan yesil, sungai hafif.
Luma sema: "Mi no punya korku sasa."
Ta-ta lai dom. Mama espera in pintu.
Mama tanya: "Yu-yu suda lihat ke?"
Sol sema: "Mi-mi suda lihat dunia."
Luma sema: "Mi-mi suda lihat mi-mi."
Line by line
| Amadunia | English |
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| Pagi. Du anak sini: Sol aur Luma. | Morning. Two children here: Sol and Luma. |
| Sol genc. Luma lebi genc dari Sol. | Sol is young. Luma is younger than Sol. |
| Ta-ta mau go pahar. | They want to go to the mountain. |
| Mama ta-ta sema: “Pahar amik. Es bahaya.” | Their mother says: “The mountain is deep. There is danger.” |
| Sol sema: “Mi-mi punya sabar aur umid.” | Sol says: “We have patience and hope.” |
| Mama leta pan, akua, aur uan lampu por ta-ta. | Mother brings bread, water and one lamp for them. |
| Ta-ta anda. Tarik cang. Din garam, udara hafif. | They walk. The road is long. The day is hot, the air is light. |
| Ta-ta lihat pohon-pohon yesil aur flor merah. | They look at green trees and red flowers. |
| Kanis keci lai una ta-ta. | A small dog comes with them. |
| Din finis. Aksam lai. Asman siya. | The day finishes. Evening comes. The sky is black. |
| Ta-ta lihat stela-stela. Ta-ta lihat bulan putih. | They look at the stars. They look at the white moon. |
| Luma sema: “Mi punya korku.” | Luma says: “I have fear.” |
| Sol sema: “Mi una yu.” | Sol says: “I am with you.” |
| Aur sukut lai. | And silence comes. |
| Ates keci garam. Ta-ta lala in tanah. | A small fire is hot. They sleep on the ground. |
| Pagi baru lai. Sol asfar in asman. | A new morning comes. The sun is yellow in the sky. |
| Ta-ta upar in pahar. Ta-ta lihat dunia: | They are up on the mountain. They look at the world: |
| bahari baid, madina keci, hutan yesil, sungai hafif. | the sea far, the city small, the forest green, the river light. |
| Luma sema: “Mi no punya korku sasa.” | Luma says: “I have no fear now.” |
| Ta-ta lai dom. Mama espera in pintu. | They come home. Mother waits at the door. |
| Mama tanya: “Yu-yu suda lihat ke?” | Mother asks: “What did you see?” |
| Sol sema: “Mi-mi suda lihat dunia.” | Sol says: “We saw the world.” |
| Luma sema: “Mi-mi suda lihat mi-mi.” | Luma says: “We saw ourselves.” |
What changed since the first story
The first story had 113 roots and could not say “and”, “not”, “again” or where anything was. This one has all four, and the difference shows most in the last line. Mi-mi suda lihat mi-mi — “we saw us” — was impossible before; the pronoun plural did not exist.
Aur sukut lai is the sentence the first story could not have written at all: it needs aur for the join and sukut for a thing that is an absence.
What the language still could not say
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No mark for a name. Sol genc is “Sol is young” and “the sun is young”, because sol is also the word for sun. Luma is likewise the word for light. The story leans on capital letters, which help a reader and do nothing for a listener. Whether Amadunia wants a particle before a name, or a rule that names are simply learned, is undecided.
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No “never”. Luma should be able to say “I will never forget this morning”. no saufa unut is “will not forget”, which is weaker and not the same.
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No ordinal. “The first morning” and “the second morning” cannot be told apart from “one morning” and “two mornings”.
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No reflexive. The last line, Mi-mi suda lihat mi-mi, works only because the plural pronoun repeats. “I saw myself” would be Mi suda kan mi, which reads as “I saw me” and is not clearly reflexive.
Gaps 2, 3 and 4 are on the open list already. Gap 1 is new, and it is the largest thing the language has been missing without noticing.
Roots used
76 of 300.