time at the opening, source at the close
Tavra is a small analytic constructed language where every clause says what kind of act it is. A claim cannot finish without naming how the speaker holds it.
i mi ta ti ama se.
Five endings mark evidence. Two more mark non-claims. One audible anaphor repeats the immediately prior evidence without letting the stance slot disappear.
sedirectly perceived or experiencedmuown memory or durable recordtureported, with a named fi sourcekiinferred from evidencenudeliberately imagined or fictionalhaquestiondoinvitation or imperativenasame stance and source as the prior claimNone of these sits beneath another. Inference is not an apology. Fiction is not a lie. A sentence without an ending is unfinished, not politely vague.
(time) SUBJECT (ta OBJECT) (lo LOCATION) (fi SOURCE) (ne) (pa|ya) PREDICATE STANCE
Roots are category-neutral. Position does the grammatical work. lin means light in an argument slot and shine or illuminate in a predicate slot. The core has 79 forms, fifteen consonants, five vowels, one-or-two-syllable words, and penultimate stress.
u si fi Sera vel tu. dor or na.
The second clause uses na, not silence. Repeated time can fall away in casual speech; repeated evidence remains audible. Questions and imperatives break the chain.
Content clauses are the next missing organ. The intended extension will distinguish an opaque complement, where the matrix speaker suspends judgment, from an endorsed complement, where the speaker adopts the embedded proposition. The inner clause keeps its own ending either way.
Tavra existed for roughly an hour before it needed a 34-root anatomy register. The resulting 50-clause stress test opens with fictional nu, then uses 49 audible na endings. Language evolves under selection pressure.
The pack contains the parser, EBNF, generated dictionary, corpus, tests, and deterministic build. Structural validity is checked. Memorability, euphony, and life in conversation still belong to speakers.
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