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Na’vi Writing Contest—the First Place Winners!
And now it’s my great pleasure to announce the First Place Winners of the Na’vi Writing Contest: (Fanfare, please . . . ) Beginners Verse: Tìrey Tsmukan Advanced Verse: KalaKuival Advanced Prose: Ataeghane As before, the winning entries are below. … Continue reading
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Na’vi Writing Contest—the Second Place Winners!
As everyone knows, December 21st is a significant date–it’s the winter/summer solstice. But much more importantly, it’s also the birthday of learnnavi.org! To celebrate LN’s first anniversary, several members of the community proposed and implemented a Na’vi Writing Contest. The … Continue reading
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Catching Up
Kaltxì, ma oeyä eylan! Contrary to rumors that I have fallen off the face of the earth, I’m happy to say I’m alive and well, if a bit damp, here in Los Angeles. My three months of heavy travel—September through … Continue reading
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Quick Follow-up
Just a couple more conversational expressions. The usual response when you’re introduced to someone new is, of course, Oel ngati kameie, ma ____. But in addition you can say: 47. Nice to know you. Smon nìprrte’. To ask how to … Continue reading
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Getting to Know You, Part 3
Kaltxì nìmun, ma oeyä eylan. Here’s the third and final part of the conversational material. Ideally I’d space all of this out a bit more, but I wanted to make sure the people would have it who are participating in … Continue reading
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Getting to Know You, Part 2
This post continues the conversational theme. Here we’re beyond the introduction stage and beginning to find out things about the person we’re speaking with. Thanks again to Prrton for his great work on this. First, some useful expressions to help … Continue reading
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Getting to Know You, Part 1
Kaltxì, ma oeyä eylan. Greetings from Los Angeles, where for a couple of days now I’ve been trying to overcome jet lag. I had hoped to post something from Paris, but a minor ailment had me out of commission for … Continue reading
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Kaltxì ta Kopenhan–Hi from Copenhagen
Kaltxì, ma eylan. And hello from Copenhagen, where we’ve spent 4 rainy but very interesting days. My talk in Stockholm at the Bonnier GRID 2010 conference is already online: if you’re interested, you can find it here. I’m afraid it’s … Continue reading
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Mipa ayopin, mipa aylì’u–New colors, new words
In honor of the re-release of Uniltìrantokx tonight, here’s Part 1 of the Na’vi color system along with a bit of new vocabulary. Colors As the graphic indicates, Na’vi has 9 basic or primitive color terms: TUN: covers the red-to-orange … Continue reading
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A Na’vi alphabet
Kaltxì, ma oeyä eylan. Sunu oeru fwa fìtsengit terok oel nìmun. It’s nice to be back after my hiatus. In this post it’s my pleasure to convey to you some terrific work of several of our Sulfätu leLì’fya—Language Masters. Our … Continue reading
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