Tahnish

General information
Beiya is the language of a fantasy race, the Ba'eiya, I am creating for a potential novel. The Ba'eiya are an elvish-like race, but are in fact an older race then the other three elvish races I have in my world. They are traditionally from the desert, but as the world currently stands at a post globalizationish type phase, they are spread throughout the world. They culture is highly based on loyalty to family, clan, village, race, etc. and that feature will likely affect the development of the language.

Another important feature is that the Ba'eiya only have 6 fingers (3 on each hand). As a result, there numbering system is in fact base-6.

Beiya is heavily influenced by French, particularly in its grammar, however it is intended to have more of an exotic feel to it characteristic of other elvish-like languages. This is largely accomplished through the phonology of Beiya. Thus, while words may resemble their French counterparts, they may be pronounced slightly or greatly different.

Other Pronouns

 * Direct and Indirect object pronouns are identical


 * Masculine/Feminine/Plural

It should be noted that while 'jes' is technically a plural pronoun, it is treated as a singular pronoun. Likewise, 'vue', technically singular, is treated as a plural pronoun. This also is noticeable when verbs are conjugated in these forms.