Kranti

General information
Kranti or Common Laranese as humans called it is lingua franca of Laranese feline alien species. It was the first alien language described by human scholars. It is one of 2000 languages spoken on their homeworld of Lara, belonging to Krantic branch of Kranto-Fenikic language family, being the national language of Krant kingdom.

Alphabet
Sarah Matthew, the first human linguist who became familiar with Kranti has adopted a Latin orthography for this language used in this article. There are also a native script to write Kranti but it has decreased in use after the human-laranese contact.

Phonotactics
The maximal syllabe structure is CVVC, consonant clusters are forbidden. Vowels have three degrees of length: short, long and extralong.

Grammar
Kranti like the Native American language Nez Perce, but in contrast with majority of human languages use the tripartite system.

Noun number
Nouns display three numbers: singular (one thing), paucal( several things), plural(many things)

Verbs
Kranti verbs are conjugated according to person, number, tense,aspect, mood, voice and evidentiality.

Fourth person inflection
Kranti language feature a so-called fourth person which use to express impersonal verbs or to distinguish two third person perfomers in a clause. For example the English phrase "He is leaving because he is sick" is ambiguous because is not sure if is refer to one or two persons and is not clear who is leaving and who is staying. This is not case of Kranti.

Person, number and tense inflection
There are only two tenses: future and non-future. The verb stems are terminated in a consonant.

Aspect
Aspects in Kranti grammar:

-Perfective : -a completed action, unmarked

-Imperfective: -a uncompleted action, -laren

-Momentane: -occurrence is sudden and short-lived, -awej

-Iterative: - expresses the repetition of an event, -ghija

Moods
Indicative, unmarked

Subjunctive, a ipotetic action, -rats

Optative, a wish, -laka

Imperative, a command, -dzeb

Potential,  probability indicating that, in the opinion of the speaker, the action or occurrence is considered likely, -uto

Permissive, action is permitted by the speaker, -bavwe 

Voice

Active, unmarked

Passive, -veba

Reflexive, -elpa

Adjustative, to help to, -yu

Evidentiality
visual sensory, -ta

non-visual sensory, -rian

inferential,-ama

reported, -ope

Syntax
Kranti is a VOS (verb-object-subject) and a head-final language.

Negation
Negation is realised with the particle vak placed before verb.

Question
Question are formed by placing gherta before verb. Noun suffixes order

The noun compund is stem-case suffix-number suffix

Verbal suffix order

The verbal compund is stem-tense,person,number suffix-aspect suffix-mood suffix-voice suffix-evidentiality suffix.

Vocabulary
Main article:Kranti vocabulary yoli-language

jaun-male

ghora-female

laraju-laran farbue-planet

sarkan-moon