Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Evidentials
a'u interest no interest repulsion ka'u I know by cultural means
ai intent indecision refusal pe'i I opine
Discoursives
o'a pride modesty shame mi'u ditto
o'e closeness detachment distance mu'a for example omitting examples end examples
o'i caution boldness rashness pa'e justice prejudice
o'o patience mere tolerance anger pe'a figuratively literally
o'u relaxation composure stress po'o the only relevant case
Emotions
Modifiers
greetings (“Hi!”) virtue (zabna) sin (mabla)
da'oi assign attitude/emotion to the listener se'i self-orientation other-orientation
dai assign attitude/emotion to someone (empathy) ri'e release restraint control
di'ai well-wish curse fu'i with help/easily without help
Categories
je'e roger, OK couldn't get your message ro'e mental mindless
ju'i attention at ease ignore me/us ro'i emotional denying emotion
ke'o please repeat no repeat needed ro'o physical denying physical
ki'e appreciation/gratitude disappreciation/ingratitude ro'u sexual sexual abstinence
mi'e self-identification non-identification re'e spiritual secular sacrilegious
mu'o completion of utterance more to follow
nu'e promise release promise non-promise bi'u new information old information
Misc
pe'u request bu'o start emotion continue emotion end emotion
re'i ready to receive not ready ge'e non-specific indicator
ta'a interruption
vi'o will comply will not comply kau indirect question
Question
pau question premarker rhetorical question
pei attitude question
xu true-false question
neutral a little medium extreme
cu'i ru'e sai cai
weaker than previous as previous stronger than previous open close
me'ai dau'i mau'i fu'e attitudinal scope fu'o
bridi affirmer bridi negator lo'u quote (questionable/out-of-context) le'u
Scales
sa'ei next cmevla or zoi-quote is an onomatopoeia lo'ai (text to be replaced) sa'ai (replacement text) le'ai
Mistakes
ki'ai next cmevla or zoi-quote is a nonce interjection/attitudinal sa erase complete or partial utterance
za'e next word is nonce-creation si erase last word
ze'ei create a nonce word binding two words su erase everything and start over