Athelon

Athelonian
Athelonian is a language spoken by the people of Athelon. An island nation located northwest in a world called Matterrae.

The people of Athelon, Athelin, are knowledge driven and try to find a meaning behind everything. If they can't find a meaning or reason something happens, they try to link it to their religion.

Their religion is based on 12 deities. (I'll put a list of the 12 deities below). For the language spoken in Athelon is their religion one of the two main cores. A lot of their words are derived from the names of the deities. (ex. Ethda, goddes of life => To live = Ethedor, Sarafeo, god of love => Saraf = Love (Sarafor = To love)

The second main core is knowledge. Knowledge is a very important aspect to their society. They attend school for about 40 years. Here they learn everything about life, both life in Athelon as in the rest of the world. (They can live up to an average of 150 years.) Because of this core, they have words for things that are almost sentences in English. (ex. Going to the library = Njelonor, Finding something you have been searching for a long time (and the feeling it brings) = Bunjor, ..)

Athelonem
Athelonem has a few things that are unique to their language.

Conjugation
In Athelonem, they like to use suffixes and prefixes. (ex. I give my beer to you = babàth mjölàth uthinen; we come from Athelon = maslàteb athelonem; I speak softly = Zys thalàth)

Equality
Athelin are all equal, if you a woman or a man, gay or straight, upper class or lower class, coming from a town or a city, ... every citizen in Athelon has the same rights. This is visible in their language, for instance, their is no word for man or woman. They are all persons (Eithornor). no words for gay or straight, it is all love (Saraf).

Because all are equal, their is no courtesy form.

Numbers
As I said before, they have 12 gods and knowledge is very important. This you can see in their numbers. They have 3 extra numbers. 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 µ $ § 10 ... (one number for each deity)

For representation in English I chose for 3 random symbols I know I wouldn't use anywhere else. Below I will look at the numbers in detail.

Pronunciation
I tried to put per letter the IPA symbol.

Athelonian has a few letters that can be combined with a "j" which gets a special character in their writing system (see below 'Writing'). (If to vowel follow each other, due to a suffix/prefix, a "j" is place in between.)

If i write a " ' " after a vowel (u', a', ö', ...) means that this vowel has a longer pronunciation

Writing
Athelonian have two types of writing. Peoples handwriting and the writing in books. (I'll post the handwriting later, it's not completely ready yet :-) )

Important in Athelonem, what you say, you write, and vice versa. There are no silent letters.

Punctuation
in Athelonem there are no punctuation marks except the Point (Nok). "?" and "!" are suffixes added to the sentence ("-u'r" and "-a'n").

Other
There ar no capitals and no artikels in Athelonem ( A, B, C ; The, a ).

Rules

 * Personal Pronoun Subject: This one is never really used. Only if it would be an answer to a question, and then only if it would be the only word in your answer. (ex. Who speaks? You (do). = moth Thalilu'r. uth.)
 * Personal Pronoun Object: The word depends on the suffix/prefix that will be used. (ex. behind me = àthkonen, for them = iltebinen)
 * Possessive Pronoun with Noun: Always put behind the noun. (ex. our house = elonateb, your book = mihututh)
 * Possessive Pronoun Without Noun: This form is actually the same as Personal Pronoun Object. Your can turn "mine" into "from me" with translates to àthem.

Verbs
Verbs are quite easy. All infinitive forms of the verbs end in -or and there are no irregular verbs.

Numbers
As i said before, Athelonian counting has 12 number (and 0). 12 deities, 12 numbers. Every 10th you add "nok" behind the normal number. Counting on after every 10th (11, 12, 13, 22, 43, 57, µ8, $§, ...) the word changes as below. examples

Ordinal Numbers
-en/-nen

Counting
As you know we don't have 12 fingers. The people of Athelon, like us, have 10 fingers. So they have a different way of counting on their hands. They use their writing hand as the counter and they count on the other hand. The thumb is always the tenth counted. (or zero when you start.) Number 1 is the finger fold of the pointing finger starting closest to your hand palm. then you count the folds upwards and always start the next finger closest to your hand palm.

Left you can see what i more or less mean.