Dréàn Ãü

General information
Dréàn Ãü (Pronounced Drey-arn Ayuh-oo) is the romanised version of the symbolic language spoken by ancient Dragons and Wyverns. It is still spoken today by a minority of Dragons on the Ínarís, the legendary islands of the pacific. It is unknown how this language came to be known by Humans, but myth says that a human warrior befriended a dragon and protected it. Some say this dragon taught the human this language, but it's uncertain how he notified other humans as the warrior was never seen again.

Alphabet
The ancient form of the language used runic script. So far no full examples of the runic alphabet used has been found, except the symbols for the letters A, T, L, I, Í, Q and Ë. The runes are the same in uppercase and lowercase, leading so confusion in whether or not a word is a name.

The romanisation/modern version uses the standard English alphabet. Vowels can have either an acute, a grave or an umlaut diacritic, or none at all. The letters A, N and O can have a tilde diacritic which are counted as different letters.

All consonants are pronounced as in English (except 'J' and 'G') and all vowel sounds are short. (A as in Fat, E as in Bet, I as in Eat, O as in Lot, U as in Ugly)

A-Ana

Ã-Aya

B-Blej

C-Cren

D-Dife

E-Ien

F-Fen

G-Gua

H-Hineh

I-Ein

J-Jota

K-Kana

L-Lao

M-Mem

N-Nem

Ñ-Ney

O-Oue

Õ-Oy

P-Pres

Q-Kenu

R-Reta

S-Sana

T-Tre

U-Uva

V-Vuna

W-Vuwa

X-Ks-et

Y-Yeni

Z-Zri

Diacritics
Acute accents (Á, É, Í, Ó, Ú) make the pitch of the letter rise as it is pronounced. Grave accents (À, È, Ì, Ò, Ù) make the pitch go down as the letter is pronounced. Umlauts(Ä, Ë, Ï, Ö, Ü) extend the vowel sound from their nomally short pronunciations (Ä as in Bake, Ë as in Meet, Ï as in Icon, Ö as in Coal, Ü as in Amuse). Tildes (Ã, Ñ, Õ) add a 'yuh' sound to the end of the letter's normal pronunciation.

Phonotactics
Every word must start with 2 constanants or 2 vowels (letter names are exempt). When two vowels are next to each other, the sound produced by each vowel is pronounced individually, with a small gap between them that lasts a little shorter than a space between 2 words. There are also 5 consonant phonemes: Note that English phonemes do not count, such as 'Ph' making 'f' and so on. This is a common mistake when English speaking people try to pronounce Dréàn Ãü.
 * Ch - th
 * Ll - h (throaty)
 * G = f
 * Ph = kh
 * J/Jj = y

Grammar
Nouns (Not names) must always have the word 'The' or Shò before it. This means you translate 'Boat' to The boat, 'Houses' to The houses.

Sentence structure is Object-Subject-Verb, while in English it is Subject-Verb-Object. In English you say "Sam (subject) ate (verb) oranges (object)", in Dréàn Ãü you literally say "Oranges Sam ate." This also accounts for adjectives: in English you say 'Ice cream is cold', while you translate that literally to Cold the ice cream he is (See below)

Verbs in Dréàn Ãü are split into 2 major sections and 3 endings. The first section is the regular section and is much larger. There are 3 endings, -en, -ir and -reg, that are attached onto the stem of the verb. These conjugated verbs consist of 3 parts: Person, Stem, Ending. Each person has a representitive ending if they are doing the action, and a different ending if the action is being done to another, while the stem stays the same after conjugation.

There is no actual conjugation for 'It' or 'One', both use 'He' instead.

-En endings                                        -En persons
The verb 'To be' is Eitálen, so using this knowledge 'I am' is Jje eitálé, 'She is' is Dre eitálela.

-Ir endings                                           -Ir persons
The verb 'To walk' is Dlonir, so 'We walk' is Phin dlonesen, 'He walks' is Shi dlonil.

-Reg endings                                           -Reg persons
The verb 'To have' is Trépreg, so 'They have' is Eirn trépün, 'You have' is Vro trépru.

Example text
Simple phrase: ''Dn shò brida phin dlonesen. Crónd shò brida che eitálel.''

Translation: ''We walk to the beach. The beach is cold.''

Literally: ''To the beach we walk. Cold the beach he is.''