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.

The verb "to be" (en-, jon-) in present tense is not used in Common and North dialects. Eastern dialects add verb endings to the last word of the sentence to denote the verb. In South-Western dialect, the verb appears in all forms. Variations are also permited within a single dialect based on the sentence structure, disambiguation and emphasis.

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 in higher registers based on the animateness of the head noun.

Pronouns
Possession is expressed by the dative pronouns that correspond to the possessor and follow the possessed. Example: Re doru khuyi/khu (eni). (This is my tree).

Dialects
There are three distinct dialects, Northern, Eastern and South-Western, each has a set of particular deviations but are mutually understandable,

Example sentence: The sun bit and the skin is not red.

Common: Sahar eisamrua o mijer narí ma.

SW: Sahar eisamrua o mijer narí meni.

North: Saer eisamrua o mijer narí ma.

East: Ahar aiamrua u mijar narimi.

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

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

He wants to see her.: Alehi anai tidhjor.

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

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

She wanted the small tree.: Ist doru aljoha.