Edorian

General information
Edorian is the language mainly spoken by the people of Edoria.

Edorian
As Ancient Edorian tribes diverged, different dialects were formed, such as High, Middle and Low Edorian. While they are mutually intelligible, a fourth variety formed in large commercial and cultural centres.

Vowels
the Edorian has five vowels: i, e, a, o and u.

Orthography and transliteration
Each sound is represented by a unique character (that may vary in dialects), for ease of transliteration special IPA characters are transliterated as follows:

Verbs
Verbs are conjugated according to tense, number and person. Aspect, mood and voice are expressed periphrastically. Each verb has two base stems, present and past/future. Future and past tense are inherently perfective. Perfective aspect is formed with a prosthetic "t-, ti-, tu-" particle on the present stem verb (forming subjunctive), while imperfective is formed by adding "-e" to the past or future forms (future and past continuous).

Passive voice is formed by a corresponding dative pronoun added to the front of the verb, while imperative form corresponds to the future tense base form.

Nouns and Adjectives
Nouns and pronouns have four cases, nominative, genitive, dative and accusative. They are divided into subject/object categories, subject being mostly living and personified substantives. Adverbs and adjectives only have one form as far as case and number are concerned, but are declined as base, comparative and superlative.

Adjectives are declined based on the animateness of the head noun.

Example sentences
The man saw the woman.: Voron akheni edhjora.

The woman will not see him.: Akhen anai madhjoru.

He wants to see her.: Je alehi anai tidhjor.

She didn't want to see the fires.: Je maljoha nairem tidhjor.

I see three small men.: Sen juhusem voronem khe dher.

She wanted the small tree.: Ist doru j'aljoha.