Lokhor

Metin ebebike is the language of the people of the ghuiqe nation on the great tree Dyantre. Spoken by over 14 trillion people, the language's written history goes back 80 millenia and has attained enormous prestige. The language represented here is that of approximantly 82 millenia after humans first arrived on the world.

Cultural notes
Several aspects of Metin culture make their language quite distinct from that of any earth language. The most striking differences are those caused by the biological immortality the metin people posess. The social structure lacks a heirarchy and systems of referring to relatives are much more extensive, as most of ones relatives however distant are still alive. The language has an extensive and precise volitional system and tense system.

Phonology
Stop consononants make a 4 way distinction, unaspirated, unaspirated voiced, aspirated voiced, ejective Metin vowels (except ë) can be long or short. Dipthongs can be any vowel (except ë and ï) followed by i or u.

Nouns
Metin nouns have a complex system of prefixes and suffixes. Noun prefixes mark plurality, quantity, and class. Suffixes mark descriptive clauses and genitives. Nouns are declined into four cases, basic, oblique, genitive and prepositional. They are also declined for 2 numbers, singular or plural.

Noun suffixes
-uk(a) indicates that the preceding noun (in the genitive) is part of the following noun. Also used with some adjectives

-ti indicates that the preceding noun(in the genitive) is owned by the following noun.

-dh(o) indicates that the following phrase modifies the noun Fi class nouns require a posessor and are used to indicate things such as family relationships, leadership heirarchy, and the location of a noun relative to another.

Class and plurality agreement
A verb agrees with both its subject and object in class.

Directional prefixes
Directional prefixes replace positional particles. A verb having one of these prefixes has an indirect object in the oblique case. The prefixes are listed in before consonant, before vowel forms. The core vowel alterates between long and short depending on the length of the following vowel. (a vowel in parantheses indicates that the vowel disappears before another vowel. These prefixes are used with intransitive directable verbs.

Intrumental prefixes
These prefixes are used to indicate what tools were used to carry out the action.

Mood-Tense-Aspect-Transitivity prefixes
These prefixes carry the bulk of the verb's informational load.

The consequential forms may only be used with stative verbs in dependant clauses.

Syntax
Metin is a VSO language. As subject, object, and indirect object are unlabled, they are usually indicated by word order.