Adrian

This language is on hold whilst its vocabulary is completely rewritten, due to loss of all its resources.

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Adrian is a common language used for daily conversations, business and other things. It is the majority language in most of the nations in Mercia, but it's home language is the proud and prosperous kingdom of 'Adria. Adrian is based solely on the ancient language spoken by the original fairies on Earth. It has spawned many variants, the main five being Zanarin, spoken by the Zanari of Zana Xi, Inendil of the Inendi of Inendo, Ikraslov of the Slovian of Ikrasov, Solik-Adrian of the Solians of Soli, Icelandic for the Icelandic of the Icelands. Adrian is also commonly spoken in the dialect of Vicargan, a quicker and faster way of speaking and has a quick and easy alphabet.

Setting
Adrian was founded in the nation of 'Adria, and is based on the ancient language spoken by the old fairies of the Earth. The fairies, when evolved into Humans, could not pronounce many of the sounds in their ancient tongue, so created a new one from the roots available. This is why Adrian did not generate any letters for the sounds S (sat), P (pat) or W (wet), since the ancient tongue had forms of these letters only able to be spoken by the original fairies. The ancient tongue is now a dead language in Mercia, due to the fairies evolving into the many races of Mercia left.

Mercia
On the Earth, there are four continents: Bilan, Aralan, Yinderan and Terran. Terran is the largest, and Mercia is the peninsula in the North-West. It has a border of mountains blocking Mercia from the rest of Terran. However, it is large enough to hoem many races of creatures. Humans are the most common, and commonly from 'Adria. They're technology is based upon magic and forms of magical energy in stoens called 'Aidances'. This is why they have airships, but no cars.

Phonology
The phonology of Adrian is very similar to English (since it was based upon it). There are 20 consonant and 8 vowels. The sound of S (sat) is usually used in borrowed words and cognates, where it is represented by x^s. P (pat) is likewise set as x^p. These however are uncommon in normal Adrian.

Diphthongs
'e' before another vowel sounds like ee (see) before turning into that vowel (except 'ee', it stays as ee) e.g. eo = ee-o, ea = ee-a Addding ^y after 'a' creates ow (loud) and adding it after 'o' makes oe (toe).

When a vowel ending word leads onto a vowel beginning word, then the sound 'y' is added to the second word, however if the sounds are similar (á & a = á/ o, ö & ó = ó), the two words are sounded together. e.g. Zyö áp = Zyol yarth / Zya áp = Zyarth

Othography
The Adrian alphabet is named the 'Abkodepz', and has 28 letters, each with capitals and including the version of 'Haru', meaning the glottal stop. Therefore, there are 57 signs for the sounds in Adrian.

The Abkodepz was formed by symbols based upon the words their names come from. Biró, as you can see, represents the triangle like flames of a fire. Ci represents a normal chimney of a home. Mara, although named love, is based upon the fairies 'doodles' when in love.

When writing, the letters are written right to left, top to bottom, like the scripts used by the fairies in their encantations.

There are also two other forms of Xá and the miniscule Yor, but these have not been included in the Abkodepz since they are not considered separate letters and simply forms of the letters they affect.

Róman, Lun, Xá, Nóram and Veran are often considered dark letters, and words using them are considered slightly disliking. This is why Xá is commonly used in hurtful words, although also speech.

Basic Grammar
Adrian is placed in a VOS word order in every situation. When using a relative clause, it goes into two 'teka's and placed before the respective noun, actign like an adjective. The word order also goes Time Place Manner and Time, Adverb, Verb, Position, Relative Clause, Number, Adverb, Quantifier, Adjective, Quantifier, Noun, Article, Surbordiante Clause, Conjunction. Conjunctions always connect the two parts and cannot go towards the front of a sentence at all. The article goes to the end of the noun and the verb "be" is not included in Adrian. Instead, the object acts like an adjective and goes before the noun.

Example:

I am going to go to the happy town.

Going to go to happy town the I.

Verb-Go Pos-To Adj-Happy Noun-Town Art-M,S,D,C Pro-1st,Sing NFT

Zyö bá jó ton ec Áp fó

Nouns
Nouns in Adrian have no gender. Gender is inflicted only on certain words depending on the gender of the person speaking.

Cases:
Plural nouns are represented by adding on -(e)p or other specific means. e.g. sg-harum (sky) pl-hara (skies)

Subjects of a sentence are marked in writing by having a capital letter at the beginning.

Pronouns
The pronouns in Adrian all mean their subjective and objective forms. They also can become possesive if you remove the last syllable except for 'it', where it loses the last letter. There is a grand total of 24 pronouns in Adrian, comapred to the 8 in English:
 * when written down, the 'e' is left out.

When writing an intransitive sentence, put '-self' in the object's place to make it a transitive sentence: Zqy áp Áp = Going myself, I.

Demonstrative and Interrogative Pronouns
This, that, those can be represented in pornouns, but also have seperate nouns in the cases of itnerrogation, involving who, what and why. They can represented in a table, once again. To make plural forms of 'this' and 'that', add on -p to get 'Jup' and 'Jóp' for 'these' and 'those'.

Articles:
There are 16 articles in Adrian, which also refer to the speaker's gender. If it is read, it is always placed in the male gender.

Verbs
Verbs are situated first in a sentence usually. They have two main forms: positive and negative. All verbs have a specific way of becoming negative, however there is a recuring pattern:

n | -ó

á,ó,u | -rez

e | -ita

a | -ran

Other forms add p/ep.

Verbs can also change into three other forms:

The first makes the verb become a person who does the action e.g. xikena'ó = namer

The second makes the verb become a thing that the verb is done to e.g. ecant = song

The thrid makes the verb act as an object, but stay as the action e.g. vakópu = drawing

Cant ecant e Cantó he.

A singer sings a song.

Running can kill.

Ra hexipu Haragapu.

First form ~ -((á)')ó (' is used if the verb ends in a vowel/'á' is incluuded if the verb ends in 'ó' in either of its positive or negative forms.)

Second form ~ e('(á))- (same reasons above)

Third form ~ -pu

Usually, they go by the rest of the case rules.

Uneffected by verb endings
There are a number of irregularities in the tense forms, including zyö (go), pez (live) and fi (finish): zya/zyó, perez/póz, fina/fe.

Affected by verb ending
Verbs aren't usually affected by number.

Adjectives
If you are talking about something that has had something done to it, (broken, brunt), then use the correct verb but ad táñ. Adjectives aren't usually affected by any extra factors. When talking about adjectives, we mean 'phrases' that describe a noun. This includes into the fact that there is no verb "to be" in Adrian. When saying something 'is', Adrian places it before the noun, like a normal adjective.

A red book.

Ren cód e.

I am happy.

Jó áp.

When comparing, to create a superlative add 'an-' on to the adjective and put 'za' after. When describing more, add 'ab-', and when describing most, repeat the entire word.

A big book.

Gran cód e.

A bigger book.

Abgran cód e.

The biggest book.

Grangran cód e.

As big as a book.

Angran za cód e.

Many words can have their meaning altered by attaching a number of affixes:

'deá(')-' = opposite, deájó = unhappy

'-bap' = lacking, jóbap = no happiness

'-buk' = plenatiful, jóbuk = very happy

'-nil' = able to do so, irunil = edible

'es-' = weakened, esren = reddish

'ej-' = strengthened, ejren = really red

'-joli' = adverb, jójoli = happily

Also, when describing number, the article is not removed.

Numbers
Adrian has a base-8 system of numbers.

0 - nan

1 - e, 10 - eca, 100 - ecapo^y

2 - tek, 20 - teka, 200 - tekapo^y

3 - lósa, 30 - lóxa, 300 - lóxapo^y

4 - me, 40 - mea, 400 - meapo^y

5 - an, 50 - ana, 500 - arapo^y

6 - tuf, 60 - tufa, 600 - tufapo^y

7 - ex, 70 - exa, 700 - exapo^y

1000 - i

When puttign together a number, go greatest number first, and place 'i' after the number of thousands as a seperate word After every hundred, place 'á' when adding on tens or units..

542, 631

anapo^y á mea tek i tufapo^y á lóxan e

50 red books.

Ana ren cod á.

Adverbs
Adverbs are usually told apart by ending in -joli. Some, however do not apply. Since they act like adjectives, they go before the verb or adjective. Some adjectives can become adverbs by adding -joli, or changing the last syllable to -li.

I ran quickly.

Zamjoli zyö áp Áp.

A quite red book.

Rali ren Cód e.

Time phrases are treated like adverbs, and so are always placed before the verb or adjectvie and therefore always at the beginning of a sentence.

Today, I went to town.

Judon, zyó bá ton e Áp.

Time
Time in Adrian isn't based on seconds, minutes or hours. It has a much different time set. It does, however, retain days and the week. Months are set out slightly differently, along with seasons.

Time of Day

7 eon - 24 hours

12 era - 1 eon - 3.43 hours

20 bereod - 1 era - 17.14 minutes

50 tin - 1 bereod - 51.43 seconds

1 tin - 1.03 seconds

Day - feita

Night - seit

Midday - medeita

Midnight - meseita

Before 2nd Eon (morning) - ulei

After 2nd Eon (afternoon/evening) - móbya

Dawn - lazt

Dusk - lent

Days of the Week

The days of the week are anmed after the physical guardians of the elemnts of Spirit, Shadow, Fire, Water, Earth, Metal and Air.

Sunday - Zoldon - Day of The Sun

Monday - Lundon - Day of The Moon

Tuesday - Fekdon - Day of The Snow

Wednesday - Zándon - Day of The Sand

Thursday - Ceádon - Day of The Forest

Friday - Tóhadon - Day of The Mountains

Saturday - Natadon - Day of The Clouds

Months

There are 12 months in the year, and are situated around their seasons.

Month of Spirit - Zorieti - 4th Mar ~ 5th Apr

Month of Stone - Donzati - 6th Apr ~ 8th May

Month of Sand - Zánkati - 9th May - 10th Jun

Month of Lava - Mañati - 11th Jun ~ 13th Jul

Month of Poison - Depati - 14th Jul ~ 15th Aug

Month of Gold - Körati - 16th Aug ~ 17th Sep

Month of Diamond - Julati - 18th Sep ~ 20th Oct

Month of Wood - Vudati - 21st Oct ~ 23rd Nov

Month of Ice - Izati - 24th Nov ~ 26th Dec

Month of Cloud - Natati - 27th Dec ~ 28th Jan

Month of Lightning - Litnati - 29th Jan ~ 3th Mar

Seasons

There are six seasons.

Season of Life - Zereot - 19th Feb ~ 20th April

Zorieti

Season of Leaves - Frakolp - 21st April ~ 20th June

Donzati & Zánkati

Season of Heat - Omepa - 21th June ~ 20th Aug

Mañati & Depati

Season of Harvest - Vikyoo - 21st Aug ~ 20th Oct

Körati & Julrati

Season of Rain - Arazon - 21st Oct ~ 20th Dec

Vudati & Izati

Season of Snow - Fekyinox - 21st Dec ~ 18th/19th Feb

Natati & Litnati

Prepositions
Some regular prepositions include:

bá - to (direction)

ze - for/to (towards someone)

kajura - inside/in

end - outside/out

kil - on (top)

ge - off (not on)

I went to town.

Zyó bá ton Áp.

Get off that table!

Sóvonakan móp Móp ge jó raktun!

Conjunctions
Conjunctions must be placed between both parts of the sentence being connected. However, their particle forms can be used to switch the order of the two sections, or more. Basically, each conjunction has a particle that it allowed to be placed at the beginning of a sentence to change the order of the phrases. e.g.

A man and a cat.

Ahem e von letó he.

A man and a cat.

Koká letó he von ahem e.

I will die if I run.

Evadóñgó áp Áp zótó haraga áp Áp.

If I run, I will die.

Kókó haraga áp Áp zótó evadóñgó áp Áp.

(koká) von - and

(keká) elt - but/yet

(kaka) sak - or

(kiki) ik - so

(kaká) jak - nor

(kiká) xyi - because

(kókó) zótó - if

Questions
When asking a question, replace what you wnat to know with the appropriate query e.g.

What is your name?

Xikenuz hyád móp?

When asking a question that you want ye sor no, add 'pum' to the end of the query. If you want more detail, change it to cum.

Do you like me?

Kez áp Móp pum?

Why do you like me?

Kez áp Móp cum?

Vikargan
Vikargan is the form of Adrain spoken by the people of Vicargo. It is mainyl a lot of idioms and shortened versions of long words. They get rid of negative forms of verbs, and just use 'Nan' after the verb to negatize it. They also don't have articles and diphthongs are always simplified in their words.

e.g.

English - I went to town.

Adrian - Zyó bá ton Áp.

Vikargon - Sö nan tona af.

Also, due to a number of their words being similar, they have changes in pitch to differentiate them.