New World Order: Advanced tutorial

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THE ONE TONGUE: ADVANCED TUTORIAL

ell, not that advanced. Here are some further rules to help grease the conversational wheels.
To stop you flicking back and forth between pages, here's the transformation table again.

Original a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z ch sh th

Replace with e kh d f o kh h kh e kh kh m n p o kh r s t v e kh kh y z b kh kh t

Sometimes you don't bother transforming a word — you just use one that sounds good. Thus, forzh or Domon'el. The author reserves the exclusive right to make up new One Tongue words.
Imperative resorts to the infinitive. "To give" is feppos. "Give!" is feppos!
Nouns are pluralised by the addition of "ev". Thus, "my cats" are nop khovev.
Possessives:

My: nop
Your(s): vop
His: top
Hers: te
Ours: povse
Your(s): khovs
Their(s): moest
Of and of the: fo

Some other words and phrases that appear in New World Order:

You're not my man = Ve'ovso-ko nop khon
I have a son = Eo khemt
They've come = Molv'esokho
That is interesting = de'ovso epvoset
Gate of the gods = Okh'Shenev
Our gate = Povse'okh
Shoot this idiot = Ve'khetem efeov
You are up = Ve'khev
I know you = Dopevs've
He'll kill you = Om'veo
Breakfast = Khovev'fokhopos

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