# katlani official hackmd

## Grammar
- Verb always goes at the start of the main clause
- The rest of the main clause can be any of the following components, in any order:
- Tense marker
- One of:
- `ni` - present
- `pas` - past
- `fy` - future
- Maximum one tense marker per main clause
- Can be omitted and inferred from context (if the whole story is in past tense, it's unlikely to change). With no context, generally assumed to be present-tense
- Normally goes directly after the verb
- Adverbs
- Noun phrases, composed of (in order):
- First, an optional case marker:
- `ta` - subject (nominative). Should be used to disambiguate only as necessary
- `su` - direct object
- `lia` - indirect object; place to which; time when
- `my` - genitive (see below for possessives)
- If there is no case marker, it is presumed to be nominative
- The noun itself
- Pluralisation ending:
- None for singular
- `i` for a few
- `ii` for many
- `iii` for *too* many
- Adjectives
- Optionally, if the noun is the possessee:
- Another noun phrase representing the possessor; its case marker must be `my`

## Tips

If you want to say one thing is another, you use si [thing1] su [thing2]

## Prefixes and Suffixes

- `no-` - Negation prefix
- `-i` - Intensification suffix
- `-u` - Negation suffix

## Nouns

- `abail` - house
- `baka` - fool, idiot
- `banli` - vegetable
- `bit` - bit (binary digit)
- `borsh` - soup
- `byt` - byte
- `diga` - ninja
- `dogo` - dog
- `fylo` - later
- `fyrus` - tomorrow
- `gogi` - meat
- `gorlb` - apple
- `hyp` - nerd
- `inglish` - English
- `isa` - here
- `ita` - there
- `kat` - chat
- `katlani` - "chat words" (this conlang)
- `kivsk` - parent
- `ksik` - child
- `kod` - code
- `komy` - monkey
- `ktaf` - book
- `ktomish` - food
- `lan` - word
- `mak` - person
- `matiks` - math(s)
- `motkop` - corn
- `naita` - internet
- `ngoirfo` - bread
- `nilo` - now
- `nirus` - today
- `o` - cat
- `ogig` - park
- `onion` - opinion
- `paslo` - earlier
- `pasrus` - tomorrow
- `polr` - salad
- `rak` - place, location
- `rno` - fruit
- `rus` - shor
- `saman` - part of day
- `shor` - language
- `sokit` - connection
- `tipstor` - thief, impostor
- `toto` - rain
- `uboiac` - tomato
- `y` - thing (any thing or person)

## Verbs

- `alo` - to jump
- `aksi` - to come, approach
- `avaza` - to make a sound
- `fara` - to go
- `fobl` - to give
- `gangip` - to guess, assume
- `golf` - to try to do shortly
- `gus` - to like
- `hada` - to say something
- `iz` - to bite
- `kahidai` - should
- `kailan` - to need
- `kaminar` - to walk
- `kata` - to chat
- `kbam` - to create
- `kiro` - to want
- `klok` - to play
- `ksoi` - to know
- `ktom` - to eat
- `nai` - to do (anything)
- `nistaha` - to look
- `onin` - to think
- `oto` - to own, to have
- `partshana` - to read
- `pluvyt` - to rain (impersonal, doesn't take a subject)
- `sabao` - to cause
- `sitsyli` - to laugh
- `shinpai` - to worry
- `si` - to be
- `sitsyli` - to laugh
- `srik` - to write
- `susin` - to have suspicions about
- `varis` - to be defined as

## Adjectives

- `bakil` - foolish
- `isp` - small
- `izl` - bitey, dangerous
- `forl` - sad
- `fos` - good
- `fyla` - late
- `holt` - fast
- `holtsh` - true
- `intarnit` - cursed
- `iso` - odd, strange (`shor iso`: esolang)
- `izl` - bitey, dangerous
- `kun` - cute, pretty
- `lomu` - surprised
- `nila` - current, now-ish
- `nilvan` - obvious
- `nosos` - no (as in nobody, nothing, no such)
- `op` - big
- `oro` - bad
- `pasla` - early
- `po`- okay (a feeling/emotion)
- `poi` - happy
- `shin` - new
- `siksy` - hot
- `sos` - any
- `sus` - arousing suspicion
- `tiksias` - cold

## Interjections

- `aaaaa` - I am in pain
- `bai` - Bye!
- `baia` - Bye! (sometimes spelled `biya`)
- `bomy` - Ooh!
- `foka` - ಠ_ಠ
- `fosaksi` - Welcome!
- `hai` - Hi!
- `haia` - Hi! Hey! (sometimes spelled `hiya`)
- `hobla` - okay
- `hyhy` - laughing
- `lol` - lol!
- `nilvan` - Obviously
- `no` - No
- `no gust` - I don't like it
- `sy` - Yes
- `sy gust` - I like it
- `yps` - Oops!

## Adverbs

**Tense:**

- `pas` - past
- `ni` - present (optional)
- `fy` - future

**Relative:**

- `tshadom` - When

**Other:**

- `imi` - instruction, command
- `ama` - too, in addition
- `mogusi` - maybe

**Time:**

- `pasrus` - yesterday
- `nirus` - today
- `fyrus` - tomorrow

**Particle:**

- `li` - makes an adjective into an adverb (`li fos`: well)

## Conjunctions

- `a` - and
- `kashi` - but
- `ov` - or
- `pat` - that ("I said that...", also used similarly to the "to" in "I want to...")
- `shushu` - because

## Pronouns

**Personal:**

- `ma` - I
- `mai` - us (non-inclusive)
- `ka` - You
- `kai` - You (plural), y'all
- `maka` - You and I
- `makai` - Us (inclusive)

**Demonstrative:**

- `nimak` - Last person brought up
- `pasmak` - Second-to-last person brought up
- `niny` - Last inanimate object brought up
- `pasny` - Second-to-last inanimate object brought up

**Interrogative:**

- `vmak` - Who? Which person?
- `vy` - What? Which inanimate object?
- `vop` - Where?
- `vash` - When?

## Particles

**Casing:**

- `ta` - subject/nominative (optional)
- `su` - direct object/accusative
- `lia` - indirect object/dative
- `my` - possession/genitive

**Other:**

- `sik` - "The word..." (`sik pluvyt` is "the word 'pluvyt'", not "it rains")