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Write your first sentences in skylang


The sentence structure


In skylang, the basic sentence structure follows the subject-verb-object (SVO) order. for example, let's write the sentence "I eat a fruit" in skylang.


Your first words



First, let's translate the 3 words individually :

i symbol

The subject "I" is represented by the symbol above. It is made of 4 keys : ground, person, claws and ground again. A good memo is "when I look at the ground, I see my own claws".

eat symbol

The verb "eat" is represented by the symbol above. It is made of 3 keys : claws, sun (mouth) and food. The claws mean that it is a verb (action) conjugated at present tense. The food symbol is in the mouth, which make it easy to understand.

fruit symbol

The object "fruit" is represented by the symbol above. It is made of 3 keys : ground, food and ground again, because the fruits come from the soil, the ground.


Building the sentence



Once you have the 3 symbols, building the basic sentence is pretty easy : just put the subject symbol first, then the verb symbol, and finally the object symbol :

i eat fruit sentence

Pronouncing the sentence



Here's how to pronounce the different words and the full sentence :


"I" (me) : [kɑtɸɑ]


"eat" : [bɔdɔɛ] (the verb root is [bɔdɔ], meaning the mouth)


"fruit" : [pɑk]


Full sentence "I eat a fruit" : [kɑtɸɑ bɔdɔɛ pɑk]