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Metin ebebike is the language of the people of the ghuiqe nation on the great tree Dyantre. Spoken by over 14 trillion people, the language's written history goes back 80 millenia and has attained enormous prestige. The language represented here is that of approximantly 82 millenia after humans first arrived on the world.

Cultural notes
Several aspects of Metin culture make their language quite distinct from that of any earth language. The most striking differences are those caused by the biological immortality the metin people posess. The social structure lacks a heirarchy and systems of referring to relatives are much more extensive, as most of ones relatives however distant are still alive. The language has an extensive and precise volitional system and tense system.

Phonology
Stop consononants make a 4 way distinction, unaspirated, unaspirated voiced, aspirated voiced, ejective Metin vowels (except ë) can be long or short. Dipthongs can be any vowel (except ë and ï) followed by i or u.

Nouns
Metin nouns have a complex system of prefixes and suffixes. Noun prefixes mark plurality, quantity, and class. Suffixes mark descriptive clauses and genitives. Nouns are declined into four cases, basic, oblique, genitive and prepositional. They are also declined for 2 numbers, singular or plural.

Noun suffixes
-tu indicates that the following noun (in the genitive) is owned by of the preceding noun. A bare genitive indicates that the preceding noun is part of or a subset of the follwing noun. Fi class nouns require a posessor and are used to indicate things such as family relationships, leadership heirarchy, and the location of a noun relative to another.

Directional prefixes
Directional prefixes replace positional particles. A verb having one of these prefixes has an indirect object in the oblique case. The prefixes are listed in before consonant, before vowel forms. The core vowel alterates between long and short depending on the length of the following vowel. (a vowel in parantheses indicates that the vowel disappears before another vowel. These prefixes are used with intransitive directable verbs.

Subject relative prefixes and prepositions
Motional prefixes indicate the motion of an intransitive verb relative to its the subject. They are tied to prepositions that may come before nouns in the genitive case

Positional prefix adverbs
Positional prefix adverbs are placed after the position they modify, or they may be used independantly before a noun in the genitive. An example of usage would be: trenai-tli-çur, which would mean "at the lower back right corner (of something)

These adverbs are placed before the genitive/prefix form of another preposition or noun. The object relative location prepositions may also be used in this way.

The precisional adverbs omi (precisely) and ome(around) traa (a ways off from) and trii (right next to) are placed at the very beginning.

Time prefixes
These prefixes may be placed before a time word or prepositional word Time prefix adverbs go before the prefix they modify. Words specifying specific quantities, such as natlui lie (three hours before) may also be used in this way

Mood-Tense-Aspect-Transitivity prefixes
These prefixes carry the bulk of the verb's informational load.

The imperfect forms indicate that you have been doing something from the past until now, leu-verb would mean "it's been happening for the last few years. Perfect verbs indicate a habitual action that has been stopped. By themselves, they mean the action stopped not to long after they started, but if one wants to be specific about the time frame something been's going on, they pair the short form of the perfect prefix (the second for in the prefixes that have slashed pairs) and pair it with an aorist form, such as xuu-trooq-verb "it had been happening for the many years until a couple of months ago.

Verb stems
A verb stem inflects for mood and dependancy.

Syntax
Metin is a VSO language. As subject, object, and indirect object are unlabled, they are usually indicated by word order.