Edorian

General information
Edorian is a fusional langauge. It also has features of polysinthetic and aglutinative languages.

Consonants

 * all sounds in parentheses [?] are alophones only.

Alphabet/Arahab
Edorian can be written in 3 arahab styles or it can be latinized.

Edorian-Latinized

Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ëë Ff Gg Hh Ii Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo (Öö) Pp Rr Ss Tt Uu (Üü) Vv Xx Yy Zz.

Arahab

Arahab is the native Edorian writing system. It is named after the three first letters: A, R & H. There are three different versions of the arahab.

1. Arhaic: Vowels are written above or below the consonants, stress is marked. Glottal stop has a separate letter 21 letters + 6 diacritical markers

2. Classical: Only ë, ö and ü are written with superscriptions, stress is not marked. 23 letters + 3 markers

3. Modern: All sounds have their own letter, ö anü merge with ë and i respectively. Glottal stop is marked with an apostophe. Former glottal stop letter represents /a/.

Phonotactics
Edorian allows branching onsets (CCV or CrV). Codas are usually simple or VyC type.

Grammar
VERBAL MORPHOLOGY

Verbs are conjugated with a series of affixes which mark the person, number, tense and voice. Aspect and mood are either formed with infixes or suplementar roots.

Person and number of the subject are marked with a prefix (singular: he-, de-, i-; plural: me-, se-, in-). If the verb is transitive, the object's number is marked on the verb. (suffix -i for singular or -in for plural).

Verb der 'to see' - transitive: hedéri, dedéri, idéri, medéri, sedéri, indéri

There are three tenses in Edorian - present, future and past. While present is unmarked, preterital forms are marked with suffix -th in intransitive verbs and prefix te- in transitive. Future is formed with auxiliar verb ith 'to go' and root form of the verb which functions as a participle and has to be in plural if the subject is in plural.

Verb grif 'to write': present: hegrife, past: hegrifeth, future: hithe grif

In the passive voice the patient's number and person are marked with infixes (-im, -is, -ir, -min, -sin, -rin). Middle voice is construced with prefix and suffx corresponding to the same person and number.

Verb myen 'to kill': A: tehemyeni 'i killed'; P: temyenim 'i was killed'; M: tehemyenim 'i killed myself'

Edorian verb roots are either perfect or imperfect. With affixation the roots change their aspect.

Perfect + affix -i- = imperfect

Imperfect + afffix -n- = perfect

Verb seyr 'to work' - imperfect senir 'to make' perfect.

Mood is expressed with auxiliary verbs such as yar 'want' and car 'wish' and with impersonal affixes on the head verb. hecare eseyre 'i would work'.