Basics I
Unit 1.3
Unit 1.3
"Yoshik! Epu yoshike?"
Hello! How are you?
Yoshispeak has only a mere 9 pronouns when compared to English's 31**. Talk about simple.
The reason for this is that Yoshispeak's pronouns stay the same no matter in what situation they're in (Excluding plurals) and some are eliminated entirely, so the total number of them is lowered drastically.
Yoshispeak's pronouns are:
/Yoshio/
I (am), Me, My*, Myself
/Yoshike/
You (are), Your*, Yourself
[used when talking to a single individual]
/Yoshike'rs/
You {all are}, Your*
[used when talking to multiple individuals]
/Yoshihom/
We, Our*, Us, Ourselves [EXCLUSIVE]
(You'd use this if the individual you're speaking to is NOT "included")
/Yoshihom'rs/
We, Our*, Us, Ourselves [INCLUSIVE]
(You'd use this if the individual you're speaking to is "included")
/Yoshiyî/
He (is), She (is), They (are), His*, Her*, Their*, Himself, Herself, Themselves
[used when talking about a single individual]
/Yoshiyî'rs/
They (are), Their*, Themselves
[used when talking about multiple individuals]
/Yî/
It (is), Its*, Itself
[used when talking about a single object]
/Yî'rs/
They (are), Their*, Themselves
[used when talking about multiple objects]
*When paired with bubujletar
**Different sources say different things. This is the number I made myself.
Sources vary from as little as 9 to as much as over 100!
Great! Now for some simple greetings:
/Yoshik/
Hi, Hello
[A simple and generic greeting]
/Yoshim/
Bye, Goodbye, See ya
[A simple and generic way to bid farewell]
You can now say simple Hi's and Goodbyes, although it's looking a bit stale. Let's learn some more words to help spice things up; how about some interrogative/question words:
/Epu/
How
/Eke/
Where
/Ehom/
When
/Fo/
What
/Yoshioup/
Who
/Gyaægyu/
Why
/Gyaæ/
Because
[Not a interrogative word, but often paired with "Why"]
With those extra words, we can make a little bit more complex greetings and questions:
/Epu yoshike?/
How are you?
/Eke yoshike?/
Where are you?
/Yoshioup yoshike?/
Who are you?
We have a few more words at our disposal now, so we can say something such as;
/Yoshik, yoshio Jon. Yoshike?/
Hello, I'm John. You are?
A good part of a greeting is to tell the other individual about yourself, like your interests and that sort of stuff. For a simple way to say you like something, you use this word:
/Pubu/
Like, Love
What are a couple of things (most) of us like? Fruit and playing. Yes that's the best I could come up with but bear with me here.
/Gyaz/
Fruit
/Zhôr/
Play(ing)
So for example:
/Yoshio pubu gyaz/
I like fruit
/Yoshike pubu zhôr?/
Do you like playing?
Ah, we got ourselves a question there. While you could just respond with "I like playing", you would typically respond with a standard "Yes" or "No".
/Ahh/
Yes, Right
/Bu/
No, Not, Don't
We do also have some more words related to Yes and No which are easy to remember:
/Ahhahh/
Very, A lot, Many, Really
/Ahhahhj/
Big, Large, Beeg
/Ahhahhahhj/
Huge, Humongous, Gigantic, Ginormous
On the flip side:
/Bubu/
Few, Little, not very, not really
/Bubuj/
Small, Little
/Bububuj/
Tiny
/Ej/
Size
Clear patterns have appeared; 1. The developers of the language have lost their sanity long ago; 2. Words related to positive connotation have "Ahh" in them, and vise versa for "Bu". This helps in determining the meaning of a word, both by making words related to each other sound similar, but also by allowing you to determine if a word has a positive or negative meaning depending on the use of Ahh or Bu respectively. This rule is occasionally broken though, but it generally fits.
Here are some more words that may be useful:
/O/
Water
/Èsoup/
Food
/O`oup/
Drink [Noun]
/Osgyu/
Drink
/Èsgyu/
Eat, Consume
/Gyuz/
Vegetable
/Buyî/
Land
/Obuyî/
Island
/Kij/
In, inside, Within
/Kil/
Out, Outside
/Ahhô/
And
/Buô/
And not
/Æbu/
Hate, Dislike
And finally:
/Yoshi/
Yoshi
/Yoshio yoshi kij yoshi--obuyî/
"I'm a Yoshi in Yoshi's Island!"