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Preliminary data on language "Eastern" [For Valles' fantasy project]
 
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Zera sosori yonumon, su thara tuda. -- "Come with me if you want to live." or, more literally, "Because you want to continue to breathe, come with me."

zera -- pron. "you," lit. "your person"

sos- -- v. "to breathe, to live"

yon- -- v. "to want (something)"

t- -- v. "to come, to travel" (subject to tweaking)

su -- 'prep.' "with"

thara -- pron. "I" feminine, mid-level formality

-da -- verb suffix for imperative statements
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''

-- James Nicoll
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