Merian Language

Classification and Dialects
Merian Language Väätuva Myötuonen is an agglutinative language native to the Elves of Meria Myöttä. It is said that the language is hard to learn due to its numerous noun declensions and verb conjugations. The Languages has 10 cases; Nominative, Genitive, Dative, Accusative, Instrumental, Locative, Allative, Ablative, and Respective. The language also has the following tenses; Present Tense, Continuous Tense, Future Tense, Past Tense, and Perfect Tense

Writing System
The Merian language uses the Latin Alphabet with Diacritics

Nouns
There are 2 type of nouns:


 * Nouns ending with a consonant E.g Kyttäät (Cat).
 * Nouns ending with a vowel E.g. Luottää (sword).

These are declined in a slightly different way when compared to each other. Merian also has 10 cases:
 * Nominative  ; Kuollen Ygtaksä
 * Genitive    ; Kuollen Ättaksä
 * Dative      ; Kuollen Pyhdaksä
 * Accusative  ; Kuollen Äpyhksä
 * Instrumental ; Kuollen Päästa (Luotät Tulotän: Used with a house)
 * Locative    ; Kuollen Ryötsa (Tulotei: At/In/By a house)
 * Allative    ; Kuollen Päähtdastyka (Tulotylo: Towards a house)
 * Ablative    ; Kuollen Päähtdastykola (Tulotylon: From a house)
 * Respective  ; Kuollen Ryäneva (Tulotääsi: Like/As/Concerning a house)

As with almost every language, Merian also has Plurals.. But not one type of plural but 3!
 * Singular (A/the Hous, egg)
 * Dual (2 houses, a pair of glasses)
 * Plural (4 houses, a dozen eggs)
 * Partitive Plural (Some houses, some eggs)

After you have decided in what case and what number the noun must be written in, you can start declining the noun. You can use the following tabel for that.

Consonantal Declension

Vocalic Declension

Example text
High astroxian:

Astroxian:

English translation: