Conlang

tenpo pini lili la, mi kute sin e lon pi toki pona kepeken sitelen pona ni tan jan Waputo. time finish small TOP 1 hear again OBJ existence ATTR Toki Pona by.means.of picture good DEM from person RobWords ‘I’ve heard again about Toki Pona recently via this nice video by RobWords.’ kama la, mi kama jo e olin lili lili tawa toki ni lon lawa mi. coming.up TOP 1 come.to have OBJ love small small toward language DEM in head 1 ‘I’ve come to have a little bit of an intellectual crush on the language since.’ ...

The text on the Ayeri website’s landing page (itself an anacronism these days?) with its evocation of strange, fictitious lands where the language is supposed to be spoken has long slightly bothered me, seeing that I haven’t come up with substantial world-building for this long-running conlanging project of mine so far. Thus, I have recently—and rather ad hoc—come up with a new text that is more plain about Ayeri. Just as with the old text, I’ve tried translating it into Ayeri to give a taste right off the bat. ...