Diniric

Grammar
Diniric

GRAMMAR

The Diniric Language is that spoken by a diminutive race rougly twofoot  and a half at their tallest, who live on the eastern side of theland  of Necrotia. Constantly under fear of becoming one of the undead at the center of their continent, the Diniri are a very playful people, beleived to be related to the elves of the continent, although some theories state that they may actually be more closely related to the ancient Dalwaric race, the First-Born, who died out long ago. Most of the Diniri live on the southern portion of theeastern coast.

Their language is fairly musical, when they speak it, much akin to chimes. It retains some of this sound when spoken by the "Jure'dinai", the Big-folk, but it does lose some of it's musical quality.

The Diniri speak with an inverted sentence format, beginning with the object of the sentence, followed by the subject, and then followed by the verb being performed  by the subject. As an example, here is how one would say the sentence: My mother is skilled at cooking fish.

"Skilled at cooking fish my mother is."

The manner in which they cujugate their verbs is also extremely unnerving. While many languages have a suffix which changes the tense of their verb, Diniric, has a prefix. They have only three main Tenses, Past, Present, and Future, which are used in a prefix form, but there is a word, "Mibran'in (Mi'braniv in the southern dialect) which will placethe entire sentence in a conditional  tense, and is roughly equivilant to " would if..." Mibran'in also has slight variations that mean "as am able" and "as I desire", Mibrin'in, and Mibran'ij respectively. ( Mibran'iv and Mibran'ij are the only variants in which the suffix's "i" is pronounced as an ee)

PAST                                      PRESENT                                  FUTURE

Singular                                 Singular                                      Singular

iv                                           av                                                ivi

id                                           ad                                               adi

ist                                          ast                                               isti

As you may have noticed, there is no pluralization for these verb prefixes. The reason for this is that the Diniri use one method of pluralization for nouns and verbs. this may seem confusing, and indeed it is, as to say "We run" means you need the root, "Rin", the prefix for Self, "iv", and you also need the suffix which makes it plural.

Consonant Plural Suffix                             Vowel Plural Suffix

Is                                                                  vis

isa                                                                visa

iz ( Iv in southern dialect)                             viz (or viv)

Thus, "We run" becomes av'rimis, "we ran" is iv'rimis, and "I run" is av'rim. In a sentence, if one were  to say "I ran as quietly as I could" you would do it as: " Ith Mibrin'in s'thik  iv'rim ." ( As Quietly I could have I ran.)

Common Suffixes include " 'el "  (equivilant to english "ER")

Vocabulary
THE DINIRIC LEXICON (DICTIONARY) -ENGLISH TO DINIRIC Edit

Note- Items in this Dictionary will be presented  in the following formats. Verbs will be presented with an underscore ( __ ) before and after to indicate the necessity  of prefixes and suffixes. Terms that are only prefixes or suffixes will be alone, and will come with a hanging apostraphy either before or after. Words that may be both will have apostraphes on either side. If a wortd may be solitary or prefixial, it will be noted. It will also be noted if a word is a variation from the northern to the southern dialects. (Southern being spoken more by the Diniri, The Northern being more experienced by the rest of the world.)

A

"A":  Ta

Abandon: Hehix

Above: dir

Abdomin: ba'un

Active: tyl'biru

Add: rapan

Again: adaj

Age: Rixa

Air: dai

Ally: Niore

All: gurin, 'al' (prefix or suffix)

Anger: Fes'kone

Anklet: dari'uki, uki'dari

To Anticipate Death: __tyl'nuspir__

Anticipation of Death: Tyl'nuspiri

B

Baby: Lin'tus

Bad: Kaz'an

Ball: kurugo

Bandage:  Valkemp, Vaikem (southern)

Behind: adel

Before: oplu

Beleive: Sin'dur

To Be: es, em (inquisitive)

Birth: Niz'di

Birthing: __Niz'd__

Big folk: jure'dinai

Bite: __maz'ti__

Black: Cerlyn

Blade: mil'das

Blood: agir

bondage: naquin

Book: Incwadi, Pid'huku (journal)

boy: Shon'da

Braclet: pul'kai

Break: __ric__, Ricsai (the location of a break)

Breathe: thui

Breathily: kiri'thui

Bring/Carry: Ulethe

Broad (wide) : Jado

Brown: Baras

Burry:Orvid

Buy: Krin

C

Carry/Bring: ulethe

Carress: gomir

Casual: kufika

Child: Hing'in

Chest: ba'nir

Choose/select : Dethil

Clear: neil'si

Close: Val, Vallen

Clothe/ Dress: Kemri

Clothing/ cloth: Kemp / Kem(southern Dialect)

Clothes: divan'kemp, ovan'kem (southern) (both mean "overwear" )

Cloud: Luma

Cotton: Tervin

Craft: __Paron__, Paron'el

Crystal: Kryshal

Cusion: ni'wa

Cut: das'ix

D

(To be resumed)

Example text
T'jure'dinai ib'ikis es. (the big-folk are everywhere.)

T' dinai nuspiri t'Diniri kaz'iale ulethe. ( The dead folk the diniri hold in fear*.   --Bad feeling--)