Naşvaran

Naşvaran is the proto-language of all the known languages on the world of Alor. Naşvaran is unique for its complete lack of inflection and its complex system of honorifics.

=General Information=

=Grammar=

Nouns
Naşvaran nouns do not decline. They can be made plural by putting the plural particle, hi, after them. All nouns must be proceeded by an honorific as well, which will be discussed later in the honorifics section.

Personal Pronouns
There are two first person plural pronouns: an inclusive and an exclusive. The inclusive, man, "me, you, and others" while the exclusive means "me and others but not you." The third person pronouns also do not specify gender. If one must specify gender in the third person, they use the adjectives peru, meaning male, or hena , meaning female, with the pronoun.

Reflexive Pronoun
There is one reflexive pronoun, tan. It is used as the object in reflexive sentences.

Demonstrative Pronoun
There is one demonstrative pronoun: jin. It can be translated to these, those, or this. The demonstrative is used very rarely, only when it is necessary to the meaning of the sentence. It is more common for people to use the third person pronoun instead.

Verbs
Verbs do not conjugate in Naşvaran. Instead, the tense and mood of verbs are specified by particles that follow it.

Particles
Do to the lack of inflection, particles are very important to the meanings of sentences in Naşvaran.

Verb Modifiers
Particles that follow verbs determine their mood and tense. This is a table of tense particles: The present tense of Naşvaran is analogous to the present progressive in English. It shows that something the action described in the sentence is currently taking place. If the tense is not specified, it means that the action happens, but is not necessarily happening at the moment.

There are also particles specifying grammatical mood. This is a table of them: Furthermore, when both the tense and mood of a verb are specified, the two particles contract into a single word.

Yes and No
In Naşvaran, there are two words for yes and two words for no. The strong yes, ram, and the strong no, hal are used when one is certain about their affirmation or refutation. The weak yes, tial, and the weak no, ţan are used when one is not certain.

Other particles
Other particles exist in Naşvaran. Yi is the object marking particle. It is placed before the object to prevent it from being confused for part of the subject, since Naşvaran is a subject-object-verb language. The plural marker, ih is placed after a noun to make it plural.

Postpositions
Postpositions follow the noun they relate to, and are contracted with the plural particle ih if the noun is plural. Some common postpositions include:

Honorifics
Naşvaran uses an intricate system of honorifics to show respect. Every noun phrase and verb must be proceeded by an honorific.

Noun honorifics
When noun honorifics follow the object marker yi, they are contracted with it.

Verb Honorifics
Verb honorifics precede the verb in a sentence. There are two types of verb honorifics: personal and impersonal. Personal honorifics are used when speaking to a person one knows, and impersonal honorifics are used when speaking to a person one does not know.