The ultimate design goal of Sika is to make everything as simple as possible. The result is that development is slow, but I collect a lot of interesting ideas that way. I also backtrack a lot. This time, I thought I'd try condensing the post; if it's confusing, please ask questions!

It's fine if you haven't read the first one yet, since I'll go through the basics again. If you have, note that I don't require statements to end with su anymore; I realized tone can serve the same purpose.

More on pens

Sika (IPA) - English

pen. - "It's a pen."

penhi. - "It's something other than a pen." = "It's not a pen."

pensa. - "It's the pen."

pensahi. - "It's not the pen."

penhisa. - "It's the non-pen."

kise. - "It's this thing." / "It's these things." / "It's this kind of thing I'm saying."

pen kise he. - "It's a pen and this thing." = "It's this pen."

pen kise hehi. - "It's not this pen."

kise pen ha. - "All things that are these things are pens." = "This is a pen." / "These are pens."

kise penhi ha. - "This is not a pen." / "These are non-pens."

kise pen hahi. - "This is not a pen." / "Not all of these are pens."

kise penhi hahi. - "This is not a non-pen." / "Not all of these are not pens."

kisehi pen hahi. - "Things other than this/these aren't all pens."

kisehi penhi hahi. - "Things other than this/these aren't all non-pens."

Next time

I'm not sure what the future installments are going to be exactly, but they'll probably be like:

• Explaining kise and related words (it's actually ki-se) and helpful modifiers ("general", "related", "probably")
• Relative times and effects
• Sentence rearrangement and grammatically unambiguous omission

Quick reference

All syntax is head-final, and everything that binds does so with the same priority, and to more recent subphrases first. A noun binds to nothing and produces one meaning (0:1). A modifier is 1:1, and a conjunction is 2:1. I omit spaces when a word binds directly to the result of the previous word.