Denkan

General information
Denkan is the language spoken by the Denkan people, and it has official status in the Denkan Federation and it is spoken by over 350 million people. The origins of the language are from the Old Denkan Empire Age, its earliest known origin traces back to the Tatsuk language. Attempts to find a relative for the Denkan or Tastuk language family have been made, with hypothesis associating it with Indo-European, Iberian-Basque or even Altaic languages.

Definiteness
Definiteness of a noun is indicated by an article preceeding the word.

Nouns
Nouns decline according to number and grammar case.

Plural
Nouns in plural add -m suffix to the word stem when ending in vocal. When e nding in consonant the last syllable is modified.

Pronouns
Personal Pronouns

Possessive Pronouns

Demostrative Pronouns

Adjectives
Adjectives are declined according to gender and number.

The -en ending is added to words ending in consonant (e.g. firh (happiness), firhen (happy)).

-ich ending is added after a  vowel (e.g. sanu (truth), sanuich (true); Spainsko (Spain), Spainskoich (Spanish)).

-oth or -th ending is used for colors (zoth (green) sith (yellow), kroth (red), etc.) or participle of a verb (daz (to write) dazüth süirh (written books), toth( to shut) töth vionk (shut doors)).

Verbs
Verbs are conjugated by tense, aspect and mood. Tense is marked by a declension in the word stem, while aspect and mood are indicated by a particle added before or after the verb.

The following tables show the conjugation of the verb Vann ( to go). There are two aspects: perfective and imperfective. Verbs are usually in the perfective aspect (no particle added), while the imperfective aspect is marked by adding ze before the verb.

There are a few irregular verbs: zerh (to be) and both (to exist). Verb to be is the only one to have a singular and plural form in the present and future tense. The only exception to the rule found in the verb both is the present tense (iz) and that the past form is the root form itself. Verbs with the -oth ending remain the same in the past tense (e.g. toth (to close) in the past tense would be toth as well (closed)).

Syntax
The word order of Denkan is OSV (Objetc-Subject-Verb). It is believed that the ancient dialects of Denkan were originally SOV and in some cases SVO, but with the introduction of literature OSV order became the standard for both written and spoken forms. The language has 3 genders (masculine, feminine and neuter or common) and two numbers (singular and plural), adjectives and definite articles decline according to gender and nnumber. There are 7 grammar cases.

Accents and Dialects
Since the Imperial Age, the Denkan language has had regional variations. Nowadays, due to standardization and mass media the spoken language has become more homogenous across the Denkan nation but still with signific ant variations.

Denkan Dialects:
"Metropolitan Denkan""Contemporary Denkan""Ikeran""Denksen""Danuk""Sidhenkan""Southern Denkan"

Example text
The following words are taken from Matthew 6:9-13, according to the Denkan Bible Translation and the New International Version in English.