Word Order
L'ewa is normally a Subject-Verb-Object (SVO) language like English. However, the word order of a sentence can be changed if it is important to specify some part of the sentence in particular.
I haven't completely finalized the particles for this, but I'd like to use ka to
denote the subject, ke to denote the verb and ku to denote the object. For
example if the input sentence is something like:
/mi/ /mad.sa/ /lo/ /spa.lo/
mi madsa lo spalo
I eat an apple
You could emphasize the eating with:
/kɛ/ /mad.sa/ /ka/ /mi/ /lo/ /spa.lo/
[ke] madsa ka mi lo spalo
V eat S I an apple
(the ke is in square brackets here because it is technically not required, but
it can make more sense to be explicit in some cases)
or the apple with:
/ku/ /lo/ /spalo/ /kɛ/ /mad.sa/ /mi
ku lo spalo ke madsa mi
O an apple V eat I
L'ewa doesn't really have adjectives or adverbs in the normal indo-european
sense, but it does have a way to analytically combine meanings together. For
example if qa'te is the word for is fast/quick/rapid in rate, then saying
you are quickly eating (or wolfing food down) would be something like:
/qaʔ.tɛ/ /mad.sa/
qa'te madsa
is fast [kind of] eat
These are assumed to be metaphorical by default. It's not always clear what someone would mean by a fast kind of language (would they be referencing Speedtalk?)
L'ewa doesn't always require a subject or object if it can be figured out from context. You can just say "rain" instead of "it's raining". By default, the first word in a sentence without an article is the verb. The ka/ke/ku series needs to be used if the word order deviates from Subject-Verb-Object (it functions a lot like the selma'o FA from Lojban).