This is the word for yes (click to listen):
Each Moss word is accompanied by an English token to help you recognize it as you're learning. As you can see, the word for 'yes' is the same as the word for 'good'. Since Moss has such a small vocabulary, each Moss word translates several basic English words.
There are three kinds of tones in Moss. The central line is the nucleus tone. It can be any pitch. All of the other tones in a word are measured off of the nucleus tone. The outside lines are satellite tones. They’re separated from the nucleus tone by a jump up or down – any amount larger than a step is a satellite tone.
Notes just above or below any of the lines are neighbor tones. They’re separated from either the nucleus tone or a satellite tone by a step – either whole steps or half steps.
Some words use a string of neighbor tones - two or more steps extending from the nucleus tone. Ledger lines are used when words have two or more steps in a row.
Rhythm is also relative, just like pitch: filled in notes are short, and hollow notes are long, but the proportions are flexible, and you can pace yourself as fast or as slow as you want.
The only other distinguishing features in words are breaks in sound between the notes, denoted by staccato marks.
The relationship between words in the sentence is shown by whether the nucleus tone moves up, down or stays on the same level. The main words in a sentence step down in pitch.
Whenever a word stays at the same level, you know that it's modifying the previous word.
English speakers who are used to adjectives and adverbs coming before the words they modify can get comfortable with this word order by thinking of a string of words on the same pitch level as a relative clause.
The first word in an subordinate or adjunct phrase jumps up in pitch.
Moss also has just two suffixes that go up, down, or stay put from to the last note of the word they're attached to (not necessarily the nucleus tone).
Yes/No questions are formed by adding a suffix (technically a clitic) at the end of the whole sentence.
'Not' is also a suffix. It's a single short note that repeats the last pitch of the word it's negating.
Moss is a rudimentary, non-standardized language. If you're not sure how to say something, and you haven't seen a similar example yet, you should just try something that you think will be clear, without worrying about whether it's right or wrong.