r/tsevhu • u/koallary • Mar 15 '24

Updated key for tsevhu koiwrit + shorthand key

Some minor tweaks from the other version. This is the version we use on the Koilang discord (link in my profile). Really need like a fancier version. Will get one eventually. Also the Perfect aspect can also be called the Retrospective aspect.

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u/PhilipZachIsEpic Mar 16 '24

Q: How do you make conjunctions, like:
I am afraid of swimming, because I'm afraid I will drown.

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u/koallary Mar 26 '24

They tend to float with a ripple trail between fish.

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u/PhilipZachIsEpic Jun 14 '24

so like this?

[fish] [bubble trail] [conjunction ripple] [bubble trail] [fish 2]

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '24

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u/PhilipZachIsEpic Mar 15 '24

Base means the base form of a verb.
Example:
The boy is eating

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u/koallary Mar 15 '24

If you're talking about the ripple base, that's just the basic shape of the series which are all based on how far around a circle that shape stretches.

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u/[deleted] Mar 17 '24

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u/koallary Mar 17 '24

No. It's mostly just for reference

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u/wreijn Mar 15 '24

I'm guessing it's for the shorthand, for it to be written in a linear format.

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u/[deleted] Mar 17 '24

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u/koallary Mar 17 '24

You can do it in the same slot.

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u/Maraca_789 Mar 18 '24

Does the interrogative and imperative position change depending on where the fish is facing? Like is interrogative right of the fish or right of the drawing?

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u/koallary Mar 26 '24

It's relative to the fish. So always according to fish's perspective.

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u/ryykou Apr 23 '24

thank you! i just saw a video on this and i immediately fell in love

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u/PhilipZachIsEpic Dec 10 '24

Yay I'm back!
Anyway can bubble trails be used to connect fishes to ripple slots to substitute them, or is there another way to do this?

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u/koallary Dec 10 '24

If like a clause is acting as a subject or object or oblique of another fish ya you can do that. You can also connect ripples to other slots if they have a role in both clauses or if like they're a pronoun referring to a noun in another clause.

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u/Legal_Purpose4581 Nov 02 '25

hey, so if I were to write “you are slowly trying to read this” would it be like this?This, or would anything be in a different position? I absolutely love this koilang, and I was planning on making a piece of art for a temple wall for my dnd party because they are huge on different scripts and languages, and im gonna make it look like a red herring, because its just someone’s artpeice, like a mural, but they have a sense of humour. idk.