Shelnaki

Classification and Dialects
There are ways of formal and informal speech. Besides this, there are no dialectical differences in the simple tongue.

Consonants
Those in are for condensed and professional use.

Nouns
Plurals of nouns are formed by simply adding the suffix "-im" to the stem.

Honorifics
In shelnaki, there is an honorific system akin to the French's vous for the singular second person, the Japanese suffix system, and the vocative.

Respect is denoted via the -o'i  suffix (masculine) or the  -oa  suffix (feminine), where the ' indicates a gluttural stop.

For example:

Names: Ari -> Ar o'i, Maks -> Maks o'i , Sara -> Sar oa

Words: knesa -> knes oa, kal -> kal o'i

Verbs
Verbs are identified by taking the stem of the word and adding the following prefixes or suffixes, demonstrated via the words "knes" (hunt, gather) and "tot" (complete, finish):

*note that j would be written i in actual script the infinitive is denoted by -te
 * the "-sh" suffix is used in writing and foral speech only. It is not spoken or used in casual conversation.


 * the "-en" suffix is only used in the present progressive.

Syntax
Noun - Verb - Direct Object - Indirect Object / Prepositional

Lexicon (incomplete)

 * There are 137 words in shelnaki. This is the entire extent of the language. Adama (feminine) forms are formed by adding the suffix "-a"

Number System
Shelnaki utilizes a base ten numbering system with a full range of numbers. While it is fully possible to communicate in the language without using numbers, there are a number of derived compounds from the stemlist that create all numbers up to 1,000. From that point on, loaned SI prefixes are used to increase number. The word for "ten" uses the honorific form "-o'i" as it refers to a "minyan" - the minimum number of adults required to carry out religious acts in Abrahamic faiths.

The words utilized are "ekado" for one, "doso" for two," "blazo" for five, "kebilu" for ten, and "konko" for one hundred. "kebilu" is derived from a minyan which is a group of ten people while "konko" is derived from being the square of "kebilu"

Example text
When God began to create heaven and earth...

Altaimo Gašm vntn kul'ot manaki'ma....

(at the time God began to create paradise and land...)

the earth being unformed and void, with darkness over the surface of the deep and a wind from God sweeping over the water -

Ma disupa kopu, imdak ads muoŧušlsupiloi'a'o d Gašm a'o'n ads liku -

(earth lacked form, with dark over the surface of depth and wind from God breathing over water)