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My Languages
Hello, guys. I'm Estorva!

Well, I'm like you guys here, I create languages. Languages around the world are amazing, aren't they?

The languages of the five greetings on the top of this page are: English, French, Italian, Farnian, and Atramia.

Farnian
Once upon a time when I was in Zhougriss, the capital of Atramia Third Republic, I had a crazy idea: why not create a way of speaking and writing so that no one can understand what I express?

Before that, I had invented a manner to transfer normal sentences into a sort of "password." But this time not a password, I was about to invent a language, a brand new language.

Thus, Farnian was born. Though that is an old Farnian. I would even call it "ancient" nowadays. That old version was somehow once abandoned by me (I didn't even complete half of it). When the idea of creating a new language came up to my mind again, I decided to keep the name "Farnian" for my real first language.

Farnian was my very first language, and English and French did have a great effect on it. Although most of Farnian vocabulary is original, its grammar is similar to English. Simplified first person pronoun, great dependence on suffix, combination of two vowels, etc. There are new things, too.

Latinized Farnian
As Farnian was being completed, it couldn't satisfy me anymore (maybe since its grammar is too simple). So I invented a language, whose verb conjugation accorded to all 6 elements: voice, number, mood, person, tense, aspect. It turned out Latinized Farnian, a language with horrible verbs.

The reason why I named it Latinized Farnian is the history of the Farnian people.

BUT JEEZ GOD! How come I became so mad? Five genders? The subject omitting function didn't help anything at all!

Atramia
Since Latinized Farnian is way too complex (somewhat like Latin, huh), I created Atramia after a couple of months. This time the vocabularies are based on French, Italian and Latin. And there are only two genders, that's my limit. The number of possible forms of personal pronoun has decreased to the one so that I can afford. Five classes of verb conjugation according to the stem word itself, two classes of noun declension according to its gender, huuray!

Zzatud
As the time goes, I have learned a bunch of consonants and vowels. It's time to fuse them together. So here is Zzatud. And for the first time I used scripts other than Latin (Though I used Greek script "Φ" and "Χ" in Atramia, but not all). And it is still being constructed.

Ayoyaanese / Āyoyā À
The language Āyoyā À will be my very first tonal language, featuring complex vowels and the only consonant "h". "Āyoyā À" means "O People!", which the Ayoyaanese use to call themselves.

This is the very first time I've ever create a tonal language though my mother tougue is already tonal.

Yorshaan / Yorshohtta
A lot of new ideas has been introduced via Yorshaan. There's more indicators(idea borrowed from Japanese), conjugation containing another word(idea borrowed from French), and the distiction between strong verb and weak verb(idea borrowed from German). And hey, new mood: Optative!(idea borrowed somehow from Hymmnos and Japanese).

No more long declension or conjugation. Less and less prepositions.

Why not compare them?
Haha, here is the most classical article - The Tower of Babel! I love comparison between these languages!

My Homemade Templates
Yeah, templates are always convenient, especially when the same things appear and appear again and again. In the page Zzatud, you can see that the romanization of each word is written in smaller font size and gray italic style. That's how templates work. Check out the template. It offers a certain format so I can type the romanization in that format fast.

Yet there are more templates I made.


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I must say, I found it
Yet there can be three phases during creating or completing a language.

Alphabet phase, grammar phase, and vocabulary phase.

I believe that Atramia, so far, is the only language that has already stepped into the vocabulary phase. I'm so proud of it.

Intonation
The main function of intonation of Yorshaan is used to distinguish the interrogative pronouns from relative ones since they spell the same in Yorshaan. (also in English, huh)

But unlike the fixed word order of English, Yorshaan can only tell the pronouns apart with intonation. That is, it migt be difficult for one to tell without any audio or pronunciation.

Intonation in question
Let's consider a question:

Pyorimc du pseron? Where are you going?

[↘pʲoɹimk doɡ | ↗pseɹon ‖]

Yet an indication:

Pyorimc du pseron ohy zontiys. Where you are going is mysterious.

[pʲoɹimk | du ↗pseɹon | oɧ ↘ˈzontis ‖]

As we can see, both relative clause and question look the same in Yorshaan, though in English they have a different word order. In Yorshaan queston, a global fall comes first, and a global rise before the second to the last syllable of the sentence which is stressed.

As for the relative clause, a global rise appears after the relative pronoun. There is also a global fall around the end of the sentence.

Relative and Interrogative(OUT-OF-DATE)
Most of the time the relative pronouns share the same form with interrogative ones. That is, the introductory word of both a noun clause and a relative one might look the same, though their role in a sentence is different.

Some of the relative pronouns are silimar to the different forms of V-Noun. (see below)

To tell them apart, intonation is introduced. See below. Most verbs in Yorshaan are regular. Generally speaking, there are three categories of the regular verbs:I, II, and III verb.
 * Pre bœzeg masaam du? (What can you do?)
 * Priy bœzeg masaam du sil vartes ce. (What you do doesn't help us.)
 * Pre bœzeg masaam du ohy loniys. (What you do is useless.)

G-Verb (I)
G stands for Gertiys, which means "strong" in Yorshaan, and G-Verb is litarally "Strong verb". Such idea was introduced by Ernst Lornis, a German linguist who researches Yorshaan, in 1843.

Silimar to strong conjugation in Germanic languages, the apophony exists in G-verbs. There are totally three kinds of alternation, depending on the second to the last vowel (as for its infinite form). The three kinds of strong verb is sometimes called I-A verb, I-U verb, and I-Œ verb. (or A-verb, U-verb, and Œ-verb) Verbs who is formed by doubling its penult vowel and adding an infix -ss- (in order to express negation) such as bœssœzeem (be unable to do) have to change both "œ" of the stem. That is: made bœssœzeg (it is unable to be dealed with.) → made bossozeg (it was unable to be dealed with.).
 * In the case of a, the alternation is a-e-æ. (Present-Past-Future)
 * In the case of u, it's u-i-ai.
 * In the case of œ, it's œ-o-ie.

M-Verb (II)
M refers to Mimiys, which means "small" in Yorshaan, in contrast to Gertiys. No vowels should be replaced or change in M-verbs. Such verbs are sometimes be called "weak verb", corresponding to G-verb, strong verb.

D-Verb (III)
D represents Doriys, which means Stillness in Yorshaan, in contrast to strong and weak verbs. D-verbs are less variable, and can be regarded as simplified verbs. The first and second person are merged.

D-verbs can be categoried into two subtypes: III-E and III-O, depending on the last vowel of the verbs in indicative mood, though their infinite form have the same ending -us.