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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 3 way distinction, unaspirated, unaspirated voiced, aspirated voiced Metin vowels (except ë) can be long or short.
 * Allophone of m, occurs only syllable finally

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 precedingnoun (in the genitive) is owned by of the following 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 suffix and are used to indicate things such as family relationships, leadership heirarchy, and the location of a noun relative to another. This suffix is used to indicate a noun's role in a dependant clause

Directional prefixes
Directional prefixes precede a noun in the prepositional case and indicate the location of a verb's target relative to the noun.

Positional prefixes
Positional prefixes indicate the location of one noun relative to the noun. When used as a prefix on a verb, they indicate the direction of an action relative to its subject. When used in the prepositional form as a prefix before the genitive of a noun, they indicate the indirect object of an intransitive verb relative to the noun with the prefix. When used in the locative case, it indicates the location of the sentence's action relative to the noun prefixed. The fi form is used as a replacement for the normal prefixes only for animate pronouns. The adverbial form describes a location relative to the speaker (or to another noun, using the particle -mu, usage described below the table.)

By default the demonstratives are placed after the noun they descriibe and decribe the noun's location relative to the speaker, however, with the phrase structure (demonstrated noun)-(demonstrative)-mu-(noun (in locative case)other noun is demonstrated in relation to). For example, the phrase suime luukar would just mean "person wh is right below speaker but not visible) however suime luukar mu suarme koku would mean "that person right below that other person where they can't be seen far off to our left" These suffixes are obligatorily added to the adverbial positionals to indicate the proximity of a location.

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.

Evidentiality prefixes
Directional prefixes


 * see positionals above

Lexical prefixes


 * see Lexicon Okaimetin

Lexical prefixes add some meaning to a verb stem and are obligatorily paired with one, for example La(marks verbs of riding) is obligatorily paired with the verb stem çan (to fly). Lexical prefixes contract with transitivity markers if there is no interveaning TAM prefix, for example, in the present tense the sequence la-e-çan would contract to laiçan. Contractions of a certain lexical prefix will be listed in the dictionary

Mood-Tense-Aspect-Transitivity prefixes
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.

Verb subject object suffixes
*Used when pointing out another person in the conversation

Honorifics and social distance
Metin has a unique honorific system based primarily on social distance rather than a heirarchy. Because of this, leaders are spoken to using a similar honorific register that one would use with friends, as the close honorifics are considered a sign of trust.

Typical forms of adress by distance People in Metin society are never addressed by last names alone. They are usually adressed by first name, last names are only used to specify.

Metin last names
Every Suimetin has two last names, a primary last name (the name of the father for males and mother for females) and a secondary (the name of the other parent. A Suimetin passes down only their primary name, so a father would pass down his father's primary name to his son, and a mother passes down her mother's primary name. Because of the way the names are inherited, it is easier to determine someone's gender by their last name rather than their first name, which is usually gender neutral. The primary name is usually listed before the secondary.

Thus, a father named Txer Soma Dheraan and a mother named Mitso Gurun Vueq would have a daughter named (something) Gurun Soma and a son named (something) Soma Gurun. And the daugther would pass down the name Gurun to her children and the son would pass down Soma. Metin last names provide and accurate history of someone's x or y chromosome line

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