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Lesson 34: Rewriting to reintroduce TKK books; the changes in brief

Some of the TKK books now rewritten Rewriting TKK series Lulogooli books has helped to structure words that a reader would miss out or be mixed on pronouns, tenses, intonation and native’s applied accent. An L2, reading Book 2B; “Lidiku lia kiitu” /lidiku Lyechitu/, would easily find the words in a diction search as one good user earlier belaboured English translations of the words using a pencil. Primarily, the rewriting has harmonized the letters “ts, dz and z” to “z”, “r and l” to “l”, noun class “e and i” to “i”, second person object “mo and mu” to “mu”, third person object referred by “o” (ololi) 1 , “u” (uvuuki) 2 and “a” (avee) 3 to “a” and a few more others. From this chart you can identify some changes in title names Secondly, agglutination has been checked. In instances of over separation or over agglutination of morphemes that makes the word not only unnatural but ungrammatical too. From the book, “Ingoko Iagota” /Engoko Yagota/, page 24 paragraph 2 has the sentence: “Ni...
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Syllable [-Nya], slippery [-Nya] & [Inflection -Nya]

You can also watch the video for this lesson. 

Syllable Ny.a can be found in words as Enyama, Manyego, Vunyuki, Runyovo, Nyagula, Nyaha etc. It can also be found at the end of the word as Menya, Kenya, Gōnya, Sinya etc. This article is interested in inflection of the verb when the end syllable is -nya. 

In inflection, Ururogōri expands on verbs in a way to outlay how specifically the action is happening. When a verb is inflected with syllable -nya, it would mean the action is repeatedly ongoing - even at a more active rate with causation - with a leaning to bad doing. Observe the examples below

  • kuba beat; kuba+nya = kubanya 
  • seka laugh; seka+nya = sekanya
  • vōra say; vōra+nya = vōranya 
Interest is drawn to verbs that end with -ny.a, which also have to be inflected with -ny.a. This is for us to learn the kind of end consonants expected in writing in line with sounds. Observe the words below.
  • Menya live; menya+nya = menyanya
  • Sinya abhor; sinya+nya = sinyanya
  • nyānya eat; nyānya+nya = nyānyanya

Slippery sound y is caused by dipthong ia [ia='y] as in the cases of ria~rya eat, zia~zya go, nia~nya defecate etc when the word is not a combination of morphemes. Words as ria of and zia of do not take the slippery as the noun class syllables [ri/zi etc] are pronounced separately from possessive adjective '.a'. When these /n'y.a/ end verbs are inflected with -ny.a, we get the examples as below. 

  • nia = nya; nya+nya = nyanya
  • sagania = saganya; saganya+nya = saganyanya
  • togonia = togonya; togonya+nya = togonya

The above three sounds : frontal nya /ny/, palatal /ny'/ and slippery /n'y/ are responsible for the beauty of Rurogōri [the three ny.a sounds] which shall keep being expanded as the language keeps being studied.

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