Introduction

Part One The Delasoni Writing System

1.1 Delasoni Scripts

1.2 Delasoni Alphabet

A. Consonants

B. Vowels

C. Alphabetical Order

D. Pronunciation Notes

E. Numbers

F. Punctuation Marks

1.3 Delasoni Ideograms

Part Two Essentials of Delasoni Grammar

2.1 Nouns

2.2 Verbs

2.3 Adjectives

2.4 Adverbs

2.5 Qualifiers

2.6 Pronouns

2.7 Numbers

2.8 Prepositions

2.9 Relative Clauses

2.10 Questions

2.11 Conjunctions

2.12 Word Order

Part Three A Phrase Book of Delason

3.1 Basic Expressions

3.2 Hello everybody!

3.3 One, Two, Three, GO!

3.4 What day is it?

3.5 What, who, where?

3.6 This is it!

3.7 I am lost. Can you help me?

3.8 The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

3.9 Food

3.10 Body Parts

3.11 Clothing

3.12 The Weather

3.13 Useful Words

3.14 Verbs, Verbs, Verbs!

Part Four Selected Texts

4.1 Genesis 1:1-1:5, The Torah

4.2 John 3:16, The New Testament

4.3 Alfatiha, The Quran

4.4 Book 1, The Tao Teh Ching

4.5 Rubaiya 24, Omar Khayyam

4.6 Le Nozze di Figaro, Lorenzo da Ponte

4.7 Ukon, A hundred Verses from Old Japan

4.8 A Word, Emily Dickinson

4.9 Delasoni Texts: Nursery Rhymes

4.10 Delasoni Texts: Love Poems

4.11 Delasoni Texts: The Epic of Kirmiz-Kazu

4.12 Delasoni Texts: Greeting Card Captions

Part Five An English-Delason Dictionary

Bibliography

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