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Word Classes

Lojsk utilizes three classes of words:

key:

|           "or"
+          "and"
[ ]         "optional or special circumstances"
"..."       "actual letter"   

cmen    

proper names of persons, animals, places or things

this group may take on any morphology.

kfeirt    

the core vocabulary of Lojsk. This category includes all (of what other languages would define as...) nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs.

this group (excepting numerical kfeirt) has the following morphological structure:

c|cc|ccc + v|vv + c|cc|ccc

numerical kfeirt have the following morphological structure (see section on Numbers):

c|cc|ccc + [L] + v|vv + ["2"] + c|cc|ccc

grar    

the grammatical markers of the language, holding it together and stringing together concepts to form logical phrases and sub-phrases.

this group has the following 'base' morphological structure (see section on Grar):

c|cc|ccc + [L|"r"] + v|vv

Using the symbols (c) to identify cmen, (k) to identify kfeirt, and (g) to identify grar, let us examine the following example: 

Mark eats the apple.

:a manj le ii.'ma2k.ii xe pom q:

 :a(g) manj(k) le(g) ii.'ma2k.ii(c) xe(g) pom(k) q:

Note the cmen in the phrase: 

ii.'ma2k.ii (Mark)

This is the proper name of this phrase's jba6k vi le6 or 'executive' or 'subject'.

Note the kfeirt of the phrase:

manj (eat)

pom (apple)

These two words, and the cmen, give us the core concepts of the phrase. Their actual functions are defined by their respective grar

The grar of the phrase:

a     (denotes the fanc or 'function', 'verb', 'action-in-focus', or 'state-in-focus' of the phrase)

le     ('le' denotes the jba6k vi le6 or 'executive'/'initiator'/'subject' of the activity)

xe     ('xe' denotes the jba6k vi bek or 'object' or 'recipient' of the activity)

These three words give us the 'structure' of the phrase. They are the 'string' that holds the phrase together in a logical manner.

The following sections expand on the various word types.

kfeirt / keywords

grar / grammatical markers

cmen / names

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