Reading and speaking Avelin

Use GRAMMAR.md for the complete rules and LEXICON.md for word meanings. Avelin is a newly constructed language, not a recovered ancient tradition. These texts are original compositions made during its design.

The sound in one breath

Avelin: a-VE-lin, /aˈve.lin/. Pure a/e/i/o/u; a tapped r; no silent letters. Stress the penultimate syllable. Every adjacent vowel keeps its own syllable. No grammatical tone or long/short vowel distinction.

Nami lumave esasa. NA-mi lu-MA-ve e-SA-sa. We, including you, will be luminous.

A small conversation

A: Sava! Ti kavimi vanasa ke?
Peace! Where will you go?

B: Mi la navami vanasa. Ti miya no de vana.
I will go to the water. You need not go with me.

A: Mi ne mi tiya vana na vela.
I want to go with you.

B: Ka nami vana.
Let us go.

-mi marks a destination; -ya a companion. no de means “not obliged,” whereas de no means “obliged not to.” nami explicitly includes the person addressed.

A story: a flower at the water

The following passage was independently composed by the reviewing bot after reading the grammar.

Era mi un miran navava sirata.
La mira veli esata.
Mi la miran timi donata.
Ti linaleta e mi tin henaleta.

Yesterday I saw a flower at the water.
The flower was beautiful.
I gave the flower to you.
You were singing, and I was listening to you.

How it works

• era yesterday frames the clause; mi is I.
• un mira-n introduces a particular flower as object.
• nava-va locates the seeing event at the water; it does not by itself assert the flower was floating.
• sira-ta see–PAST; esa-ta be–PAST.
• la mira retrieves the now-identifiable flower.
• ti-mi to you; dona-ta gave.
• lina-le-ta sing–PROGRESSIVE–PAST.
• ti-n you as object; hena-le-ta hear/listen–PROGRESSIVE–PAST.
• The final clauses have different subjects, so both subjects are stated. Their overlap is a natural narrative interpretation, not a formal simultaneity operator.

A poem: light and night

La luma navava linale.
Mi tili riman savasi hena.
Tala la nora venasa na,
nami lumave esasa.

The light is singing on the water.
I listen gently to your heart.
Although the night will come,
we—you and I—will be luminous.

The exact adverb savasi is “calmly”; “gently” is a literary translation here. luma-ve means characterized by light. The singing light and arriving night are metaphors, not unlisted grammatical exceptions.

Everyday phrases

Build a sentence

1. Choose a verb and consult its argument frame.
2. Put the subject first, with no case ending.
3. Add -n to a direct object; use another case for a recipient, location, or companion.
4. Put adjectives before their nouns.
5. Put the verb last. Add -ta for past or -sa for future.
6. Put no before a plain verb to negate it; modal scope requires §7.
7. Add final ke to ask a question.

Example:

mi + la + veli + mira-n + ti-mi + dona-sa
I    the   beautiful flower-OBJECT you-RECIPIENT give-FUTURE

Mi la veli miran timi donasa.
I will give the beautiful flower to you.

Practice, with answers

Translate:

1. I saw the flowers.
2. Will you come tomorrow?
3. The flower that you saw is beautiful.
4. You must not go.
5. They love each other.

Answers:

1. Mi la mirarin sirata.
2. Ti ora venasa ke?
3. La mira re ti yen sirata ra veli esa.
4. Ti de no vana.
5. Siri senen mela.

For “we,” choose nami if the addressee belongs to the group, and miri otherwise. That distinction often matters more than English makes explicit.