Adrian

Adrian is a common language used for daily conversations, business and other things. It is the majority language in most of the nations in Mercia, but it's home language is the proud and prosperous kingdom of 'Adria. Adrian is based solely on the ancient language spoken by the original fairies on Earth. It has spawned many variants, the main five being Zanarin, spoken by the Zanari of Zana Xi, Inendil of the Inendi of Inendo, Ikraslov of the Slovian of Ikrasov, Solik-Adrian of the Solians of Soli, Icelandic for the Icelandic of the Icelands. Adrian is also commonly spoken in the dialect of Vicargan, a quicker and faster way of speaking and has a quick and easy alphabet.

Setting
Adrian was founded in the nation of 'Adria, and is based on the ancient language spoken by the old fairies of the Earth. The fairies, when evolved into Humans, could not pronounce many of the sounds in their ancient tongue, so created a new one from the roots available. This is why Adrian did not generate any letters for the sounds S (sat), P (pat) or W (wet), since the ancient tongue had forms of these letters only able to be spoken by the original fairies. The ancient tongue is now a dead language in Mercia, due to the fairies evolving into the many races of Mercia left.

Phonology
The phonology of Adrian is very similar to English (since it was based upon it). There are 20 consonant and 8 vowels. The sound of S (sat) is usually used in borrowed words and cognates, where it is represented by x^s. P (pat) is likewise set as x^p. These however are uncommon in normal Adrian.

Diphthongs
'e' before another vowel sounds like ee (see) before turning into that vowel (except 'ee', it stays as ee) e.g. eo = ee-o, ea = ee-a Addding ^y after 'a' creates ow (loud) and adding it after 'o' makes oe (toe).

When a vowel ending word leads onto a vowel beginning word, then the sound 'y' is added to the second word, however if the sounds are similar (á & a = á/ o, ö & ó = ó), the two words are sounded together. e.g. Zyö áp = Zyol yarth / Zya áp = Zyarth

Othography
The Adrian alphabet is named the 'Abkodepz', and has 28 letters, each with capitals and including the version of 'Haru', meaning the glottal stop. Therefore, there are 57 signs for the sounds in Adrian.

The Abkodepz was formed by symbols based upon the words their names come from. Biró, as you can see, represents the triangle like flames of a fire. Ci represents a normal chimney of a home. Mara, although named love, is based upon the fairies 'doodles' when in love.

When writing, the letters are written right to left, top to bottom, like the scripts used by the fairies in their encantations.

There are also two other forms of Xá and the miniscule Yor, but these have not been included in the Abkodepz since they are not considered separate letters and simply forms of the letters they affect.

Róman, Lun, Xá, Nóram and Veran are often considered dark letters, and words using them are considered slightly disliking. This is why Xá is commonly used in hurtful words, although also speech.

Basic Grammar
Adrian is placed in a VOS word order in every situation. When using a relative clause, it goes into two 'teka's and placed before the respective noun, actign like an adjective. Time presentings are placed in front of the sentence, such as now, conjunctions always connect the two parts and cannot go towards the front of a sentence at all. The article goes to the end of the noun and the verb "be" is not included in Adrian. Instead, the object acts like an adjective and goes before the noun.

Example:

I am going to go to the happy town.

Going to go to happy town the I.

Verb-Go Pos-To Adj-Happy Noun-Town Art-M,S,D,C Pro-1st,Sing NFT

Zyö bá jó ton ec Áp fó

Nouns
Nouns in Adrian have no gender. Gender is inflicted only on certain words depending on the gender of the person speaking.

Cases:
Plural nouns are represented by adding on -(e)p or other specific means. e.g. sg-harum (sky) pl-hara (skies)

Subjects of a sentence are marked in writing by having a capital letter at the beginning.

Pronouns:
There is a grand total of 24 pronouns in Adrian, comapred to the 8 in English:
 * when written down, the 'e' is left out.

When writing an intransitive sentence, place 'eqó' in the object's place to make it a transitive sentence. Eqó is basically 'am': Zqy eyó áp = Going, am I.

Demonstrative and Interrogative Pronouns
This, that, those can be represented in pornouns, but also have seperate nouns in the cases of itnerrogation, involving who, what and why. They can represented in a table, once again.

Articles:
There are 16 articles in Adrian, which also refer to the speaker's gender. If it is read, it is always placed in the male gender.

Verbs
Verbs are situated first in a sentence usually. They have two main forms: positive and negative. All verbs have a specific way of becoming negative, however there is a recuring pattern:

n | -ó

r | -ez

e | -ita

a | -ran

Other forms add p/ep.

Usually, they go by the rest of the case rules.

Affected by verb ending:
Verbs aren't usually affected by number.

Adjectives
If you are talking about something that has had something done to it, (broken, brunt), then use the correct verb but ad táñ. Adjectives aren't usually affected by any extra factors. When talking about adjectives, we mean 'phrases' that describe a noun. This includes into the fact that there is no verb "to be" in Adrian, although there is the pronoun 'am' (eyó). When saying something 'is', Adrian places it before the noun, like a normal adjective.

A red book.

Ren cód e.

I am happy.

Jó áp.

Also, when describing number, the article is not removed.

Numbers
Adrian has a base-8 system of numbers.

0 - nan

1 - e, 10 - eca, 100 - ecapo^y

2 - tek, 20 - teka, 200 - tekapo^y

3 - lósa, 30 - lóxa, 300 - lóxapo^y

4 - me, 40 - mea, 400 - meapo^y

5 - an, 50 - ana, 500 - arapo^y

6 - tuf, 60 - tufa, 600 - tufapo^y

7 - ex, 70 - exa, 700 - exapo^y

1000 - i

When puttign together a number, go greatest number first, and place 'i' after the number of thousands as a seperate word After every hundred, place 'á' when adding on tens or units..

542, 631

anapo^y á mea tek i tufapo^y á lóxan e

50 red books.

Ana ren cod á.

Adverbs
Adverbs are usually told apart by ending in -joli. Some, however do not apply. Since they act like adjectives, they go before the verb or adjective. Some adjectives can become adverbs by adding -joli, or changing the last syllable to -li.

I ran quickly.

Zamjoli zyö eyó áp.

A quite red book.

Rali ren cód e.

Time phrases are treated like adverbs, and so are always placed before the verb or adjectvie and therefore always at the beginning of a sentence.

Today, I went to town.

Judon, zyó bá ton e áp.

Positions
Positions are placed before the object, as in most cases in English.

To the town.

Bá ton ec.