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Papua New Guinea and China's New Empire Globe and Mail, Canada - Jan 2, 2009 Part of the problem is a language gap, since only a few of the Chinese miners can speak English or Pidgin, the two main languages here.

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in Esperanto it is possible to make new words, where suffixes serve as the stem, e.g. suffix -et- is used for diminutives and adjective eta means 'slight', 'little', but it is not the main word for 'little', which is malgranda. so this eta type words are kind of by-product.
i tried to write something in Esperanto, but without using "normal" stems, like nominal or verbal stems, but basing just on afixes, numerals, prepositions, conjunctions and pronouns.
it's just a sketch.


Praulicxo nia, kiu as en la suprejo,
egela u Cia ulo-ecero,
cxitienu estregeco Cia,
u auxebleco Cia,
kiel en la suprejo, tiel ankaux sur la cxitiejo.
ozigeron nian cxiamera alu al ni tiamere
kaj poralu al ni acxecojn niajn
kiel ni ankaux poralas de niaj acxecantoj;
ne tienu nin en cxuecon
sed disu nin de la malela
cxar Cia as la estregeco, la igebleco kaj la elelo cxiegam.
u!



explanation:

Praulicxo = 'father'
pra- 'great-(grand-), primordial, proto-'
-ul[o] 'a person'
-icx- 'male'
-o NOUN

i considered also Malidicxo, but it sounds bad.
mal- antonym
-id[o] 'an offspring, descendent'

suprejo 'heaven/sky'
supr[e] 'above'
-[e]j[o] 'a place'

egela 'holy'
-eg- 'augmentative'
-el- 'laudative' (proposed)

ulo-ecero 'name' [person+word]
-ul[o] 'a person'
-ec[o] 'an abstract quality' ('language', cf. Coptic)
-er[o] '[the smallest] part'

cxitienu 'come!'
tien cxi '[to] here'

estregeco 'kingdom'
-estr[o] 'a leader boss'
-eg- augmentative
-ec[o] 'an abstract quality'

auxebleco 'will' (cf. Avestan verenav- "to wish, will, choose")
aux 'either'
-ebl[a] 'possible'
-ec[o]...

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