Specialty Particles

In quanafi the words for the parts of speech fulfil grammatical purposes as well and act as words in their own right

anila- noun

this makes a word or phrase into a noun and lets it behave as a noun

literally: object

with ri - to nominalize

 

ri- verb

this makes a word or phrase into a verb and lets it behave as a verb

literally: to happen, to occur

with anila = occurance, happening, event

 

chiv - adjective/adverb

this makes a word or phrase into a modifier and lets it behave as a modifier

literally: descriptive

with ri = to modify, to describe

with anila = modifier

 

ya - preposition

literally: on

with anila = location

with ri = to place

An example of how to use these:

English speak anila is common. Anila is the latest lingua franca. Quanafi don't ri. Chiv people live in many countries. Ya monolingualism is common. 

alphabet - balapara (first two letters of the quanafi alphabet, of course :P)

talk, speak = an

language, dialect = anan

unalia = conlang (note that this is its own unanalyzable root)

aimu = writing (paper echo)

negative, no = rel (i may change this, too similar to rele [bad]

positive, yes = chel