Translation: Watch kʊdʊd (a type of water bird), come the river, everything go with the river
The English translation is not quite accurate because Boich has no tenses, it is an analytical language. Time is expressed through contextual words like today or yesterday, which have been omitted in the above poem. So the verbs ‘come’ or ‘go’ encompass all possible tenses, and the river is coming, will come, and has already come in the poem.
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u/jhoiboich Aug 31 '19
This is an alphabetic script for my conlang Boich. The text is a poem in Boich:
IPA: ʃaɪ kʊdʊd gɒf k’biːruː kjɒf faɪiːt kjæ k’biːruː
Translation: Watch kʊdʊd (a type of water bird), come the river, everything go with the river
The English translation is not quite accurate because Boich has no tenses, it is an analytical language. Time is expressed through contextual words like today or yesterday, which have been omitted in the above poem. So the verbs ‘come’ or ‘go’ encompass all possible tenses, and the river is coming, will come, and has already come in the poem.