Kranti

General information
Main article: Kranto-Fenikic languages

'''This is a language from my Science-fiction book Astral Tale. It is designed to sound alien.'''



Kranti, or Common Laranese as humans call it, is the lingua franca of the Laranese feline alien species. It was the first alien language described by human scholars. It is one of 2000 languages spoken on their homeworld of Lara, belonging to the Krantic branch of Kranto-Fenikic language family. It is the national language of the Krant kingdom.

Kranti dialects

Main article: Kranti dialects

Kranti is very dialectal. There are many dialects on their homeworld and their colonies. Main dialects are Rodian or Standard Kranti, Sambelic Kranti and Erin.

Alphabet
Sarah Matthew, the first human linguist who became familiar with Kranti has adopted a Latin orthography for this language used in this article. There are also a native script to write Kranti but it has decreased in use after the human-laranese contact.

Phonotactics
The maximal syllabe structure is CVVC, consonant clusters are forbidden. Vowels have three degrees of length: short, long and extralong.

Grammar
Kranti, like the Native American language Nez Perce, but in contrast with majority of human languages, uses a tripartite system.

Noun number
Nouns display three numbers: singular (one thing), paucal( several things), plural(many things)

Verbs
Kranti verbs are conjugated according to person, number, tense,aspect, mood, voice and evidentiality.

Fourth person inflection
Kranti language feature a so-called fourth person which use to express impersonal verbs or to distinguish two third-person perfomers in a clause. For example the English phrase "He is leaving because he is sick" is ambiguous because is not sure if is refer to one or two persons and is not clear who is leaving and who is staying. This is not case of Kranti.

Person, number and tense inflection
There are only two tenses: future and non-future. The verb stems are terminated in a consonant.

Aspect
Aspects in Kranti grammar:

-Perfective : -a completed action, unmarked

-Imperfective: -a uncompleted action, -laren

-Momentane: -occurrence is sudden and short-lived, -awej

-Iterative: - expresses the repetition of an event, -ghija

Moods
Indicative, unmarked

Subjunctive, a ipotetic action, -rats

Optative, a wish, -laka

Imperative, a command, -dzeb

Potential,  probability indicating that, in the opinion of the speaker, the action or occurrence is considered likely, -uto

Permissive, action is permitted by the speaker, -bavwe 

Voice

Active, unmarked

Passive, -veba

Reflexive, -elpa

Adjustative, to help to, -yu

Evidentiality
visual sensory, -ta

non-visual sensory, -rian

inferential,-ama

reported, -ope

Nonfinite forms
Nonfinite forms of a verb is:

-Infinite, the basic form of verb

-Gerund, the verbal noun obtained with -ydli

-Supine, the adverbial form of verb -ghaarb

Adjectives
Kranti doesn't have proper adjectives, but use stative verbs instead of them. Their inflection is identical to normal verbs. The are terminated with the -we suffix.

Comparision
The comparasion is made analitycal be adding the following before the stative verb:

-dei, denoting the superiority

-ara, denoting the equality

-jxew, denoting the inferiority

-kxas, denoting the superlative

Personal pronouns
Because of Kranti nature the personal pronouns are used only for emphasis.

Demonstrative pronouns
Kranti exbit four degree of deixis, proximal (near the both speakers), medial (near the second speaker, but far to first), distant to both speakers but still visible, invisible to both speakers.

Numbers
Kranti use the hexadecimal system, because their hand and their foot  have only four digits.

The multiples of powers of 16 is by adding the coresponding divisor as a prefix to that power. For example 32 is jxeenreeluu. Complex numbers like 33, 50 is formed by the number that needed to added as a suffix. For example 33 is jxeenreeluuada and 50 qeireeluuujxeen. The ordinary example is made by adding the suffix  -car to the cardinal one.

Syntax
Kranti is a VOS (verb-object-subject) and a head-final language.

Negation
Negation is realised with the particle vak placed before verb.

Question
Question are formed by placing gherta before verb. Noun suffixes order

The noun compund is stem-case suffix-number suffix

Verbal suffix order

The verbal compund is stem-tense,person,number suffix-aspect suffix-mood suffix-voice suffix-evidentiality suffix.

Vocabulary
Main article:Kranti vocabulary

yoli-language

jaun-male

ghora-female

laraju-laran farbue-planet

sarkan-moon

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