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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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Root-only words of Logooli

 A word in Ururogōri is defined as a unit of meaning with only one root. The unit can be as simple as an exclamation or as complex as an agglutinated doing word. A root carries the basic word meaning. 

The following words for instance are root-based. There are no affixes added. 

1. Vivāmbaririzi [Adverbs] 

These words do stand alone, their roots are not extended by affixation. The examples are:

  • - Garaha [Ugēnde garaha udūke eua uzyizā]
  • - Rigari [Akori egāsi erahi rigari]
  • - Kitarēta [Niahāmbiki amanya amoromerera kitarēta]

2. Vihugi [Interjections]

They also have only one unchanging root word, these expressions of surprise. The example words are:

  • - Ma! [Umuana aakomera ma!]
  • - Esu! [Reka zimbēmba, esu!]
  • - Korikokooo! [Edāywa eragurānga korikokooo!]

3. Vikorwa viniga [Imperative Verbs]

When doing words are addressed directly in speech, the speaker tends to drop any affixes. Here the word ‘heard’ is largely a root, of intended message. 

  • - Rima [rima kutāge zinguza]
  • - Kera [kera kunyōre mavēre]
  • - Hurira [hurira zinzuki zivūyā]

4. Virānge via kase [Common nouns]

These nouns, by continual use, dropped their prefix morpheme and it might be assumed they never had. They include:

  • - [mu]bāba [Vuuchyē bāba] 
  • - [mu]kōza [Kōza vadūki vurahi]
  • - [mu]gūku [Aaivura bāba ni gūku]



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