Pongko the Pig

Pongko the Pig is a character from a series of short aphorisms used in both Rostran theater productions as a vocal exercise and in Rostran grammar schools for teaching the polysemous nature of Iuxat word construction. One such aphorism is "Oleuspongk aderetovpongk ileiqaspongk, aquitpongk adlogux Pongko agpongk aspongk onrisab nos!" which roughly translates to "This morning, a pig named Pongko violently destroyed the group of swineherds' pigsty with explosives!" This phrase concisely (or, at least, as concisely as dense Iuxat can manage) demonstrates the transitive and intransitive markings, markings for the possessive, temporal, and semblative cases for adjectives and adverbs, the animal, place, person, and substance cases for nouns, and the use of the past verb tense to convert a noun stem into an action relating to that noun. Readers are meant to focus on enunciating the velar nasal /ŋ/ as a separate sound from the velar plosives /k/ and /g/ also found within the sentence, as it is common for speakers in a hurry to merge these sounds together for the sake of expediency to the supposed detriment of comprehensibility.   The often violent nature of Pongko's exploits are seen by some satirists as a fitting parallel to the authoritarian nature of grammar purists seeking to hammer Iuxat, a language with many regional and sociopolitical dialects, into the mold of rigorous formalization. Pongko the Pig is also a mascot of the 5th Combat Engineers of the Rostran Archipelago Confederacy Marine Forces, the unit insignia for which as of 9950 AR features the winking cartoon pig clenching a stick of dynamite in his teeth along with the phrase "a da obeng adPongko" ("with Pongko's packed fist").