except final vowels from the mid-to-high rule in tsÿressa, to allow for -os in the s-gender.
metasthetise stop-s initials to s-stop.
final long vowels suffix -x; this takes stress, but is silent.
the irregular verb forms:
nu-l
nu-ls
nu-lf

tu-l
tu-ln
tu-lv

ka-l
a-lm
a-lv

nu-zhk
nul-t
nuf-k

tu-zhk
tul-k
tuv-k

ka-zhk
ang-k
av-k
posted by Shreyas Sampat at 4:44 PM

Some Nrit poems:

Cân varrane s.an.ni zenaqâ;
Chastra sidaniv va rastnâ arra.
Liànihha lauâ pakk,
Hazdròn Rûnâtsa pvellâkûn.

The sword sings a sweet song;
Blood glitters red in the moon.
Liànih falls,
And the Rûnâ actors bow.

This here is a sort of haiku in 11/13 beats. A short syllable is one beat, a long syllable two.

Nut orrid dzanv kîrrisûk,
Nu tsan.n.e dainionôlìì,
Nut nul orridde saraxalìì,
Nu dzanv lauanî tiras.a.

My heart is mad with pain,
I will never see her* again,
My love will never speak to me again,
I am blinded by agony.

*: Nrit pronouns are genderless; I'm assuming a male author.

Ainùn dalilana haììlikxalììn.
Nu laharrâssasni,
Laharrâssasni sin,
Laharrâssasni sin,
Nu dalilanê jasani sin.

May the gods have mercy.
I have sinned
And sinned
And sinned.
And I deserve no mercy.

That last is without the proper Dragonfly attitude; real Dragonfly would be more worried about ridicule, societal punishment, or disaster if they were to commit a real Dragonfly sin, like Willful Ignorance or Counterproductive Pride.

New Vocabulary:
dzan: pain
tira/tirâssa: be blind
dalila: mercy
laharra/laharrâssa: sin
jasa: deserve
s.an: attractive to hear
zenaq/zenahha: sing
chastra: blood
rastna/rastnâli: to shine or glitter
hazdro rûnâtsa: Rûnâ actor/priest
pvellâ/pvella: to bow
posted by Shreyas Sampat at 8:11 AM

The Piispirits tell me that Nrit is somewhat of a creole of some heavily inflectionalised consonantic insect language, most likely a proto-Scarab, and the delicate vocalic tongue of the vanished Simurgh.

The Simurgh, incidentally, were taken from Pii by their gods, because they did not approve of certain behaviors happening around them. They've been settled on a world covered in sweeping grassy plains and shallow seas, gloriously lovely and numbingly dull.
posted by Shreyas Sampat at 9:04 AM

Some math reveals that once I figure out the participles, imperatives, infinitives, and nominalizations, the Nrit verb will have 3026 forms.
Joy.

The math:

Indicative Mood
{
18 forms (3 persons, 3 numbers, 2 voices) across 5 simple tenses
= 90
18 forms across 21 ornate tenses
= 378
} = 468

Irrealis Mood
{
Constructed with an indicative of the auxiliary kast in addition to a tensed participle, so:
18 forms across 26 tenses of kast across 5 tensed participles
= 2340
} = 2808

Imperative Mood
{
2 levels of politeness across 3 persons and 6 numbers
= 12
} = 2820

Participles
{
5 tenses across 3 persons, 4 cases, and 2 voices
= 120
} = 2940

Infinitives
{
1 for each of 26 tenses (includes ornate forms with laua + participle)
= 26
} = 2966

Nominalizations
{
Doer of action
Reciever of action
Action
Irregular: thing characterized by the action
Irregular: quality that the action characterizes
= 5
across 3 numbers and 4 cases
= 60
} = 3026
posted by Shreyas Sampat at 9:00 AM

The irrealis is formed in a similar way to the compound tenses, with the Group 5 auxiliary kast.
It's used for interrogatives and conditionals, to my knowledge.
Nrit words are very long, I notice. Maybe in Kîrri when I get to it, there'll be a less baroque and torturous way of expressing things. Flying particles for all!
posted by Shreyas Sampat at 10:37 PM

xe, the relative, inflects like nu too:
xe xèn xeh
xel xène xên
xet xènsa xetsi
xef xènva xeva
posted by Shreyas Sampat at 8:04 AM

More words:
tsrixxit/tsrixxitt�n : an insect.
han.tsrix/han.tsrix�n : dragonfly.
reuna/reun�n : a singing sword.
c�n/c�nn�n : the straight-bladed Dragonfly longsword.
k�rrixaliarrits�navarra : the Nrit appellation of the Swan language. decomposes to:
k�rr/k�rri : to become insane, to go mad
l�arri/l�arr�n : bird
varra/varr�n : song
r�na/r�nahh�n : mask
r�n�/r�na�n : Masque (a play where the characters are identified by the masks they wear)
es- The intensive pronoun prefix. Creates esnu, essti, eska, ezainu, esra, ezmaru, estari, estan.a .
sana : The interrogative pronoun. Declines like nu, but a-flavored:
sana sann�n sanah
sanal sann�na san�n
sanat sann�nsa sanatsi
sanaf sann�nva sanava
posted by Shreyas Sampat at 8:16 AM

Hey, guess what? Words!
kau�ulla.
m�elessa.

Nrit's official complex tenses are now done that Latinate way with an adjective and the auxiliary verb laua.
posted by Shreyas Sampat at 7:53 AM

Nrit needs forms for complex tenses in verbs. How about this:

(verbstem)+(tensed affix w/o person/# agreement) (auxiliary verb)
posted by Shreyas Sampat at 3:59 PM