English Valikari Part of Speech
About Dalan Preposition
Above Babil Preposition
Act Ka Verb
Act Kair Noun
Action Kair Noun
After Kos Preposition
Afternoon Kosratha Noun
Air Thun Noun
All Ros
Alright Asio Adjective
Am Bo Verb
And Zi Conjuction
Are Bo Verb
Are I Verb
Are Ri Verb
Are Al Verb
Around Dushan Preposition
As Ko Adverb
As well as Enta Conjuction
At Chu Preposition
Audience Vehinilira Noun
Average Asio Adjective
Bad Oril Adjective
Be Al Verb
Be I Verb
Be Ri Verb
Be (negative) Vei Verb
Be (positive) Lei Verb
Because Ganu Conjuction
Before Fyl Preposition
Below Balan Preposition
Big Oso Adjective
Blessed Bole Adjective
Blow Thyr Verb
Blower Irthyr Noun
Blown thing Thyrira Noun
Book Osoveran Noun
Boy Dusin Noun
Bread Kae Noun
Brother Kusien Noun
Can Dzer Verb
Cause Ganuir Noun
Cause Irka Noun
Child Din Noun
Chill Lin Verb
Citizen Nyeval Noun
Cold Irlin Noun
Cold Linir Noun
Cold Linira Noun
Content Bole Adjective
Cultural Dzakorani Adjective
Culture Dzakoran Noun
Daughter Kuran Noun
Day Jhe Noun
Desire Kise Verb
Desire Kiseir Noun
Did Ka'an Verb
Do Ka Verb
Door Kashan Noun
Drifter Thryira Noun
Drink Ris Verb
Drink Risir Noun
Earth Chun Noun
Eat Ras Verb
Effect Kaira Noun
Eight Ku Number
Either No Adjective
Eleven Tuna Number
Evening Akaru Noun
Expression (facial) Baranir Noun
Eye Irssho Noun
Family Olan Noun
Father Thus'an Noun
Female Sura Pronoun
Fire rejho Noun
Five Jhu Number
Food Rasir Noun
Fortunate Bole Adjective
Forty Shivtu Number
Four Jhi Number
Friend Vanya Noun
From Ganu Preposition
From (origin) Kora Preposition
Get Suil Verb
Girl Durin Noun
Give Shrolin Verb
Good Ngil Adjective
Good afternoon Ngil kosratha Greeting
Good day Ngil jhe Greeting
Good evening Ngil akaru Greeting
Good morning Ngil ochin Greeting
Good night Ngil ashan Greeting
Happy Bole Adjective
He Dza Pronoun
He Dzasa Pronoun
Heat Mena Verb
Heat Menair Noun
Heater Irmena Noun
Her Dza Pronoun
Her Dzara Pronoun
Here Momari Adverb
Hers Dzari Pronoun
Him Dza Pronoun
Him Dzasa Pronoun
His Dzari Pronoun
Historical Vrenili Adjective
History Vrenil Noun
Hope Luir Verb
Hot Menaira Noun
How Dzuka Interrogative
hundred Tuvtu Number
Hunger Chiseiras Noun
Hungry Chiseras Adjective
I Jha Pronoun
In Des Preposition
Information Ranto Noun
Is Al Verb
Is I Verb
Is Ri Verb
It Fal Pronoun
Its Fali Pronoun
Land Eran Noun
Language Surielin Noun
large Oso Adjective
Learn Rashil Verb
Less Til Adverb
Less Til Adjective
Letter Osiveranir Noun
Listen Vehenil Verb
Listener Vehinilira Noun
little Osi Adjective
Look Baran Verb
Look Baranir Noun
Love [brother] Kusimir Verb
Love [brother] Kusimirir Noun
Love [mankind] Nyemir Verb
Love [mankind] Nyemirir Noun
Love [romatic] Mira Verb
Love [romatic] Mirair Noun
Love[family] Olmir Verb
Love[family] Olmrir Noun
Love[friend] Vanmir Verb
Love[friend] Vanmirir Noun
Love[things] Ranmir Verb
Love[things] Ranmirir Noun
Lover Irmira Noun
Lover Miraira Noun
Lust Kisecharan Verb
Lust Kisecharanir Noun
Male Susa Pronoun
Man Sa Noun
Man Susa Pronoun
Many Tal Adjective
Maybe Lavala Adverb
Me Jha Pronoun
Meat Vreldt Noun
Medium Asio Adjective
Middle Asio Adjective
Midnight Asioashan Noun
Mind Nisse Noun
Mine Jhari Pronoun
More Tal Adjective
Morning Ochin Noun
Most Tal Adjective
Mother Thur'an Noun
My Jhari Adjective
Name Ran Verb
Name Ranir Noun
Need Chise Verb
Need Chiseir Noun
Negative Va Adverb
Neither Vo Pronoun
Night Ashan Noun
Nine Ta Number
No Va Adverb
None Vek
Noon Rada Noun
Nor Vo Conjuction
Not Va Adverb
Object [thing] Rangur Noun
Obtain Suil Verb
Of Nya Preposition
Okay Asio Adjective
On Dalan Preposition
One na Number
Or No Conjuction
Other Otanda Adjective
Ours Ari Pronoun
Over Babil Preposition
Page Osiverani Noun
Parent Tholan Noun
Place Mo Noun
Pleased Bole Adjective
Portal Kashano Noun
Positive La Adverb
Question indicator Dzu Interrogative
Read Sshoveran Verb
Reason Ganuir Noun
Regarding Dalan Preposition
Require Chasahar Verb
Requirement Chasaharir Noun
Run Ontara Verb
Satisfied Bole Adjective
Saw Sshoan Verb
Say Tulan Verb
Seat Kesanir Noun
See Ssho Verb
See Ssho Verb
Seen Sshoan Verb
Seven Lo Number
Sex Charan Verb
Sex Charanir Noun
She Dza Pronoun
She Dzara Pronoun
Sibling Kien Noun
Sight Sshoir Noun
Sight Sshoira Noun
Sister Kurien Noun
Sit Kesan Verb
Six Ro Number
Sky Ila Noun
small Osi Adjective
Sneeze Itcha Verb
Son Kusan Noun
Soul Kohise Noun
Speak Tulan Verb
Speaker Irtulan Noun
Speech Tulanir Noun
Spirit Kohise Noun
Sweet Shu Adjective
Take Stroyan Verb
Tell Tulan Verb
Ten Tu Number
That Fal Pronoun
That's Fali Pronoun
The A Article
Theirs Dzaesi Pronoun
Them Dzaes Pronoun
There Mofal Adverb
They Dzaes Pronoun
thing Rangur Noun
Think Doran Verb
Think Hise Verb
Think Hiseir Noun
Thirst Chiseiris Noun
Thirsty Chiseris Adjective
Thirteen Tuni Number
Thirty Nivtu Number
This Mari Adjective
Thought Doranir Noun
Thought Hiseir Noun
Three Ni Number
Through Brajhi Preposition
Time Dilin Noun
To Vil Preposition
Today Jhemari Adverb
Tomorrow Jhekos Adverb
True Tenel Noun
Truth Tenel Noun
Tumbleweed Thryira Noun
Twelve Tuba Number
Twenty Bavtu Number
Two Ba Number
Two-hundred Bavtuvtu Number
Under Balan Preposition
Us A Pronoun
Vision Sshoir Noun
Voice Tulanir Noun
Walk Doka Verb
Wander Thyr Verb
Wanderer Thryira Noun
Wandering, a Thyrir Noun
Want Kise Verb
Want Kiseir Noun
Warm Mena Verb
Was Boan Verb
Was Ian Verb
Was Ian Verb
Was Rian Verb
Water Suhar Noun
We A Pronoun
Welcome Shantal Interjection
Well Enta Conjuction
Were Boan Verb
Were Ian Verb
Were Ian Verb
Were Rian Verb
What Dzura Interrogative
When Dzudilin Interrogative
Where Dzumo Interrogative
Who Dzudza Interrogative
Why Dzuganu Interrogative
Will be Boel Verb
Will be Iel Verb
Will be Iel Verb
Will be Riel Verb
Wind Thyrir Noun
With So Conjuction
Woman Ra Noun
Woman Sura Pronoun
Write Veran Verb
Writing Veranir Noun
Yes La Adverb
Yesterday Jhefyl Adverb
You Su Pronoun
Your Suri Adjective
Yours Suri Pronoun
Zero Vek Number
Definition
On. About. Regarding.
Above/over
act/action/do
act/action
act/action
After
Afternoon
Air
All
Meduim, middle. Average. Okay. Alright.
Am/are. Verb "to be" refering to self or group including self.
And
Am/are. Verb "to be" refering to self or group including self.
Be/are/is. Verb "to be" referring to: inanimate object.
Be/are/is. Verb "to be" referring to: other than self or addressee.
Be/are/is. Verb "to be" referring to: addressee or addressee group.
Around
As
As well as.
At
Audience, or one who listens.
Meduim, middle. Average. Okay. Alright.
Bad
Be/are/is. Verb "to be" referring to: addressee or addressee group.
Be/are/is. Verb "to be" referring to: inanimate object.
Be/are/is. Verb "to be" referring to: other than self or addressee.
Verb, infinitive: being, existing or living in a negative state.
Verb, infinitive: being, existing or living living in a positive state.
Because; caused by
before
Below/under
big/large
Emotional feeling of being pleased, happy, blessed, satisfied, content or fortunate.
Blow. Wander.
Blower. That which causes something to wander.
Something which is cast aside or blown by the wind. Tumbleweed. Wanderer. Drifter.
Book
Boy
bread
Brother
Can
Reason/cause
Cause
Child
To chill or make cold.
Citizen
That which makes things cold.
The cold
That which is cold.
Emotional feeling of being pleased, happy, blessed, satisfied, content or fortunate.
Cultural
Culture
Daughter
Day
want/desire
want/desire
act/action/do. Past tense.
act/action/do
Door
Something which is cast aside or blown by the wind. Tumbleweed. Wanderer. Drifter.
To drink
A drink
Earth
To eat
Effect
Eight
Either/or
Eleven
Evening
A look. An appearance.
Someone/something looking. Eye.
Family
Father
You woman/female.
Fire
Five
Food
Emotional feeling of being pleased, happy, blessed, satisfied, content or fortunate.
Forty
Four
Friend
Because; caused by
Origin or starting point
Get. Obtain.
Girl
Give
Good
Good afternoon.
Good day.
Good evening.
Good morning.
Good night.
Emotional feeling of being pleased, happy, blessed, satisfied, content or fortunate.
That person (sex is neutral)
That male person
To make warm or hot.
The heat.
That which makes things warm or hot.
That person (sex is neutral)
that female person
Here
That person's
That person (sex is neutral)
That male person
That person's
Historical
History
Hope
That which is heated.
What act/action
Hundred
hunger
Hungry
I/me
In
Information.
Be/are/is. Verb "to be" referring to: addressee or addressee group.
Be/are/is. Verb "to be" referring to: inanimate object.
Be/are/is. Verb "to be" referring to: other than self or addressee.
It/that
its/that's [possessive]
Land
Language
big/large
To learn
Less. Comparative of little.
Less. Comparative of little.
Page/letter
Listen
Audience, or one who listens.
small/little
Look
A look. An appearance.
Love [brother]
Love [brother]
Love [mankind]
Love [mankind]
Love [romatic]
Love [romatic]
Love[family]
Love[family]
Love[friend]
Love[friend]
Love[things]
Love[things]
Lover, one who loves.
Lover, one who is loved.
Lust
Lust
You man/male
A/that man or male person.
You man/male
More. Many. Most.
Maybe. Yes-no-yes.
I/me
Meat
Meduim, middle. Average. Okay. Alright.
Meduim, middle. Average. Okay. Alright.
Midnight
Mind
Mine
More. Many. Most.
Morning
More. Many. Most.
Mother
my
To name something or someone
A name
Need
Need
No/not/negative
Neither/nor
Night
Nine
No/not/negative
Zero. None.
Noon
Neither/nor
No/not/negative
Thing/object
Get. Obtain.
Of
Meduim, middle. Average. Okay. Alright.
On. About. Regarding. With respect or regard to.
One
Either/or
Other
Ours
Above/over
Page/letter
Parent
Place
Emotional feeling of being pleased, happy, blessed, satisfied, content or fortunate.
Portal
Yes/positive
Question indicator
Read
Reason/cause
On. About. Regarding.
Require
Requirement
Run
Emotional feeling of being pleased, happy, blessed, satisfied, content or fortunate.
Seen/saw
Speak/tell/say
seat
having to do with the eyes or seeing.
See.
Seen/saw
Seven
Sex
Sex
That person (sex is neutral)
that female person
Sibling
Vision or sight.
A sight or something seen.
Sister
Sit
Six
Sky
small/little
Sneeze
Son
Soul/spirit
Speak/tell/say
Speaker. One who is speaking.
Voice. Speech.
Soul/spirit
Sweet
Take
Speak/tell/say
Ten
It/that
its/that's [possessive]
The
Those person's
those persons
There
those persons
Thing/object
Think
Think
Thought/think
thirst
Thirsty
Thirteen
Thirty
This
Thought
Thought/think
Three
Through
Time
To
This day.
Tomorrow
True/truth
True/truth
Something which is cast aside or blown by the wind. Tumbleweed. Wanderer. Drifter.
Twelve
Twenty
Two
Two-hundred
Below/under
Us
Vision or sight.
Voice. Speech.
Walk
Blow. Wander.
Something which is cast aside or blown by the wind. Tumbleweed. Wanderer. Drifter.
Wind. A wandering.
want/desire
want/desire
To make warm or hot.
Was/were. Past tense of the verb "to be" refering to self or group including self.
Was/were. Past tense of the verb "to be" refering to inanimate objects.
Was/were. Past tense of the verb "to be" referring to other than self or group not including
self.
Was/were. Past tense of the verb "to be" refering to other than self or addressee.
Water
We
Welcome
As well as.
Was/were. Past tense of the verb "to be" refering to self or group including self.
Was/were. Past tense of the verb "to be" refering to inanimate objects.
Was/were. Past tense of the verb "to be" referring to other than self or group not including
self.
Was/were. Past tense of the verb "to be" refering to other than self or addressee.
What thing
When
What place
Who
what cause
Will be. Future tense of the verb "to be" refering to self or group including self.
Will be. Future tense of the verb "to be" refering to inanimate objects.
Will be. Future tense of the verb "to be" referring to other than self or group not including
self.
Will be. Future tense of the verb "to be" refering to other than self or addressee.
Wind. A wandering.
With
A/that woman or female person.
You woman/female.
Write
Writing
Yes/positive
Yesterday
You. Sex is neutral.
Your
Yours
Zero. None.
General Information:
The written language of Valikari is logical and phonetic in the sense that every Valikari letter represents one
sound only. Every sound used in Valikari is represented by a single letter.
What does this mean?
In English, many letters represent more than one sound. For example, the letter C can sound like an S or
like a K . (Perversly, it has no sound of its own.) This means that there are two letters that sound like an S
and, if you count Q , three letters that sound like a K . In Valikari, you have one character that sounds like an
S and one character that sounds like a K .
Also, in english there are sounds represented by multiple letters that are not a culmination of the sounds of
the individual letters. In Valikari, the sound for the English CH is represented by a single character. As is
SH, TH (hard,) TH (soft) and NG . Since multiple letters do not assume a different sound, successive vowels
are pronounced individually.
The Valikari Language utilizes 34 unique sounds and therefore, the alphabet contains 34 unique characters:
9 vowels and 25 consonants. The number of vowels may surprise you until you realize that in English, the
letter A alone represents at least 4 seperate vowel sounds.
When writing Valikari words with English characters, it will be neccesary to try to spell it phonetically in
English. Since some of the sounds don't exist in English, a bit of flexibility is required, such as using JH for
the soft J sound. Since this sound so closely resembled a ZH I opted to only use one of them in the
language.
The script at the top says "Valikari Surielen." Surielen [su-ri-el-en] is the Valikari work for "language."
I have created a true-type font using the Valikari alphabet. Since we only have 26 letters in our alphabet
(actually 52, since we have upper and lower case letters) as opposed to the Valikaran 34, you cannot blithely
type away with the new font and have it work for you. In Valikari, there is no difference between upper and
lower case letters. In most cases, using upper or lower case will produce the same result using this font.
However, some of the letters have been assigned to upper case keys. Therefore, it would be advisable to
review the key before using the font. Also, it is imperative that you disable any autocorrect feature of your
word processing software to prevent letters from being capitalized without your knowledge.
Another option would heve been to incorporate pronunciation symbols for the English characters and have
them specifically correspond to the Valikari character. I elected not to do this since most people don't know
how to utlize pronunciation symbols while typing. If some scholarly type wishes at some later date to define
the Valikari sounds using English characters and pronunciation symbols to correct my English spelling of
Valikari words I have no objection.
Language Rules:
The following are some of the established language rules for Valikari:
Pronouns and Masculine/Feminine:
One difference to note between Valikari and English is that while the language will allow you to
specify gender, Valikari also provides non-gender specific personal pronouns. If one needs to specify
"that male person" or "that female person" he/she may do so. However, the Valikari word su simply
means "that person" without regard to gender, replacing most instances of "he" or "she." This avoids
the clumsy "he/she" method of showing that either or both genders are indicated. This attitude is
carried forward and there are no distinctive masculine or feminine forms for words.
When combining roots or adding orefixes/suffixes to create new words: when doing so created a
double letter, the letters may be seperated by an apostrrophe.
Verb handling:
Present tense, gerund and the infinitive forms are identicle.
There is no differentiation between past tense and past participle.
Tense: Positive/Negative forms:
Past tense: -an Positive: la-
Future tense: -el Negative: va-
Whereas positive is often implied, the negative rarely is. Use of
the positive suffix assists for emphasis.
Adverbs:
"-ly" equivalents are not used. Instead of adding this suffix, the word is preceded by the word so,
which means "with."
Adjectives:
The suffix to attach in formulating an adjective is -kash.
Noun handling:
Plural: se-
Possessive: -i or –ri
Sentence Structure:
Sentences follow the general subject + verb + object sequence. Passive voice allows for an object
+ verb sequence.
Utilizing verb tenses we can get the following constructions:
I was seen.
Jha boan sshoan
"to be" past tense "to see" past tense
I was seen
I saw.
jha sshoan
"to see" past tense.
I saw
I was seeing ...
Jha boan ssho
"to be" past tense "to see"
I was seeing …
Articles:
Articles are usually implied, but may be stated for clarification or emphasis. Usually a singular noun is
sufficient without stating "a" or "the."
Questions
Dzu can be used as a prefix to indicate a question. It can also be placed at the beginning of a
sentence (followed by a comma) to indicate that a question is being asked.
Are you thinking what I am thinking?
Dzu, al su doran ko jha bo doran
"to be" you "to think as I "to be" "to think"
? Are you think as I am think
However, since forms of the verb "to be" indicate the subject of the verb, the subject may be
omitted.
Dzu al doran ko bo doran. question + are/be (you) + think + as + am/are (I) + think
"Who are you?" could be correctly stated in either of two ways:
Dzudza al su? "what person" + are/be (you) + you
Dzudza'al? "what person" + are/be (you)
Pronunciation:
Pronunciation is most similar to Japanese or Spanish. Some of the sounds do not exist in one or the
other of the languages.
Compound word structure:
Jhe Day
mari This
Jhemari Today
Oso Big/large
Verani Something written
Osoverani Book
To transform a word into a
noun: Examples using ssho , which means "to look or see."
fix affects the word being transformed: -ir Sshoir : vision or sight
Suffix affects object: -ira Sshoira means "a sight or a vision. Something seen."
Prefix affects subject: ir- Irssho means "something that sees or provides vision or sight;
visionary; eye.
Suffix refers to all of the above: Sshoijh refers to the one seeing, the act of seeing, that which is
seen, and the inter-relationship of the three.
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Sounds and the
Alphabet
The charts below show which keyboard values are assigned to the Valikari
characters and the sounds that the characters represent. Above each
Valikari character is the key to which the character value is assigned.
Below the Valikari character is a pronunciation hint. Note that some of the
characters are assigned to more than one keyboard key.
You will note that Valikari utilizes neither silent letters nor dipthongs. Every
letter receives full pronunciation.
You must have the font installed on your machine to see the correct
symbols below.
Key Valikari Letter Sound
Vowels:
“a” “A” ah
a
“i” “I” ee [meet]
i
“e” a [pay]
e
“E” eh [met]
E
“o” “O” o [go]
o
“u” u [rude]
u
“U” oo [put]
U
“Q” uh [gut]
Q
“y” ih [sit]
y
Consonants:
“b” “B” b [boy]
b
“C” ch
C
“d” d [dish]
d
“D” dz
D
“f” “F” f [fish]
f
“g” “G” g [go]
g
“h” “H” h [hello]
h
“j” “J” jh/zh
j
“k” “K” “q” k [kite]
k
“l” “L” l [live]
l
“m” “M” m [milk]
m
“n” n [now]
n
“N” ng [song]
N
“p” “P” p [pipe]
p
“r” r [Spanish
r /Japanese]
“R” er [English “r”]
R
“s” “c” s [see]
s
“S” sh [show]
S
“t” t [talk]
t
“T” th [soft – thank]
T
“Z” th [hard – these]
Z
“z” z [zoo]
z
“v” v [video]
v
“w” w [watch]
w
“Y” y [yellow]
Y
“x” “X” ks
x
Symbols:
0 vek
0
1 na
1
2 ba
2
3 ni
3
4 jhi
4
5 jhu
5
6 ro
6
7 lo
7
8 ku
8
9 ta
9
10 tu
10
11 tuna
11
12 tuba
12
13 tuni
13
20 bavtu
20
30 nivtu
30
40 jhivtu
40
100 tuvtu
100
" [quote]
"
. [period]
.
, [comma]
,
+ [plus]
+
- [minus]
-
= [equals]
=
? [question mark]
?
Valikari letters.
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