Keleñ

Introduction

Keleñ is an artificial language created by Sylvia Sotomayor. Keleñ has nouns, pronouns, adjectives (sort of), articles, particles, but no verbs. The language has its own script.

The verb

There are no verbs in Keleñ. Instead it has relationals, a closed class of four words, roughly expressing "is", "has", "does-to", and a three-part relation hard to briefly translate.

Sample

Now the whole earth had one language and one speech.

p'ja	naer	maruw	il-alle	an	tashaon	anyth	an	a	soreñ	aneñ
rel. +art.	"whole"	"earth"	time- phr. "now"	obj. part.	"language"	"one"	obj. part.	pl. part.	"speech"	"one together"
PA +	OBJ 1		IL- phrase	OBJ 2			OBJ 2