Japhug and English/Lexical selection

jya → eng

at least two cases of a one-to-many mapping (2 sentences minimum for each word):

1. There are three locative postpositions in Japhug, zɯ, tɕu and ri. All three can be used to express location ("at", "on", "in"), motion into ("into"), motion towards ("to"), or motion away from a place ("from"), irrespective of semantic details like relative location (on top, below, inside, etc.). Thus all three might be ambiguously translated to any of a number of English prepositions.

1. The indefinite possessive and generic possessive prefixes in Japhug are homophonous: tɯ-. The generic possessive is used when the possessor is "generic" or hypothetical, corresponding to the English pronoun "one". The indefinite possessive is used exclusively on inalienably possessed nouns, when no possessor at all is being specified. In the case of inalienably possessed nouns, the two can be disambiguated by the presence of a possessor noun, especially the generic pronoun tɯʑo.