Grammar:

Vihal has a very odd grammar by Western standards. The general order is

Object_Verb-Subject.

This is not to be confused with Object_Verb_Subject. In Vihal, verbs are not conjugated per se. The subject is added to the end of the verb. For example, "I sing" is "Vihaldi-na." Vihaldi is the verb "To sing," and "na" is the pronoun "I." "The man sings" is "Vihaldi-adal." When written in English characters, the verb and subject are separated by a hyphen (-). When written in Vihal script, they are not. When spoken, there is a (very) small break in speach to indicate separation.

To use an interjection such as "Yes" or "No" with a sentence, the word (Vihual or Bal) is placed at the beginning and end of a sentence.

Example: "Yes, I love you" is "Vihual nia haldi-na vihual."

To indicate tense, et cetera, add a prefix or suffix to the verb before adding the subject.

Condition	Affix
present participle	ila-
past	ma-
future	li-
may past	-ama
may future	-ili
negation	bal (after verb-subject)

To use a double-verb construction, such as "I need to fight," place the second verb in front of the "conjugated" verb. So "I need to fight" would be "kasa dimaldi-na."

When there's an object involved, it comes first.

Example: "I didn't need to fight you" is "Nia kasa ma-dimaldi-na bal."

Example 2: "I might not need to fight you." is "Nia kasa dimaldi-ili-na bal."

This construction was suggested by Glenn Kempf.

Example 3: "No, we may not have wanted to kill the king." is "Bal jual habaldi buldi-ama-nau bal."

Note: The vowel combination "au" is pronounced as a Tigerian "o." All the other vowels are pronounced as in Tigerian. Like I said, they're sister languages.

 

To pluralize nouns, add -ihan to the end of the word.

To use the word "and", add -al to the end of the last word in the list.

Example: "Love and life are" is "Si-hildin haldin-al."

Exception is when you're using verbs.

Example: "I live and I love" is "Hildi-na al haldi-na."

You want me to get on with the wordlist already? Okay, but you'll have to scroll through a big long table, there's not enough to put in separate Excel sheets.

Wordlist:

English:	Vihal:
to be	si
to live	hildi
to love	haldi
to sing / to speak	vihaldi
to walk	ialdi
to know	imildi
to see	inildi
to hear	akaldi
to touch	ildi
to smell	mialdi
to taste	minildi
to have	hiandi
to want	buldi
to need	dimaldi
to go	animi
to leave	anildi
to hide	nubaldi
to fight	kasa
to teach	hania
to be friends with	haildi
to father	hanadi
to take	anahaldi
to die	hadani
to kill	habaldi
man	adal
woman	adil
cat	asil
king	jual
water	vihalin
life	hildin
love	haldin
song	vihal
good	alhinalda
bad	jalduril
mighty	jin
north	muri
south	hiruni
east	avali
west	rilani
yes	vihual
no	bal
I / we	na / nau
you	nia
he / she / it / they	ni / nil / nin / nu

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