Lokhor

Metin ebebike is the language of the people of the ghuiqe nation on the great tree Dyantre. Spoken by over 3 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.

Phonology
Stop consononants make a 4 way distinction, unaspirated, unaspirated voiced, aspirated voiced, ejective Metin vowels (except ë) can be long or short. Dipthongs can be any vowel (except ë and ï) followed by i or u.

Nouns
Metin nouns have a complex system of prefixes and suffixes. Noun prefixes mark plurality, quantity, and class. Suffixes mark case and novelty

Declension of suime, child (human animate vowel final noun) plural zosuime Notice how the stem has 4 forms: initial accent: súuime final accent: sïmée unnaccented: suime and alternating accent: suimee. Each of these forms is associated with a certain case and will be listed for each noun in the vocab list.

Causative
The prefix sik- indicates that the verb was done indirectly through an instrument (Metin verbs agree with the instrument rather than the subject if it is there).

Class and plurality agreement
A verb agrees with both its subject and object in class.

Directional prefixes
Directional prefixes replace positional particles. A verb having one of these prefixes has an indirect object in the prepositional case. The prefixes are listed in before consonant, before vowel forms. The core vowel alterates between long and short depending on the length of the following vowel.