Lokhor

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 case and novelty

Declension of suime, child (human animate vowel final noun) plural zosuime Notice how the stem has 4 forms: initial accent: súuime final accent: sïmée unnaccented: suime and alternating accent: suimee. Each of these forms is associated with a certain case and will be listed for each noun in the vocab list.

Causative
The prefix sik- indicates that the verb was done indirectly through an instrument (Metin verbs agree with the instrument rather than the subject if it is there).

Class and plurality agreement
A verb agrees with both its subject and object in class.

Directional prefixes
Directional prefixes replace positional particles. A verb having one of these prefixes has an indirect object in the prepositional 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.