Denkan

General information
Modern Standard Denkan is the lingua franca spoken throughout the Denkan Empire. It has official status and around a billion native speakers. It is derived from the Northwestern dialects of the Denkanic language family, and after the rise of the Sir dynasty it has replaced Classical Denkan and most of the local varieties that swarmed across the original realm of Denko.

Definiteness
Definiteness of a noun is indicated by an article preceeding the word.

Nouns
Nouns decline according to number and grammar case.

Plural
Nouns in plural add -m suffix to the word stem when ending in vocal.

Pronouns
Personal Pronouns

Possessive Pronouns

Demostrative Pronouns

Adjectives
Adjectives decline according to gender and number.

The -en ending is added to words ending in consonant (e.g. firh (happiness), firhen (happy)).

-ikh ending is added after a vowel (e.g. sanu (truth), sanikh (true); Denko, denkoikh (denkan)).

Verbs
Verbs are conjugated by tense, aspect and mood. Tense is marked by a declension in the word stem, while aspect and mood are indicated by a particle added before or after the verb.

The following tables show the conjugation of the verb Vann ( to go). There are two aspects: perfective and imperfective.

There are a few irregular verbs: zerh (to be) and both (to exist). Verb to be is the only one to have a singular and plural form in the present and future tense. The only exception to the rule found in the verb both is the present tense (iz) and that the past form is the root form itself. Verbs with the -oth ending remain the same in the past tense (e.g. toth (to close) in the past tense would be toth as well (closed)).

Syntax
The word order of Denkan is OSV (Objetc-Subject-Verb). It is believed that the ancient dialects of Denkan were originally SOV and in some cases SVO, but with the introduction of literature OSV order became the standard for both written and spoken forms. The language has 3 genders (masculine, feminine and neuter or common) and two numbers (singular and plural), adjectives and definite articles decline according to gender and number. There are 7 grammar cases.

Accents and Dialects
Since the Imperial Age, the Denkan language has had regional variations. Nowadays, due to standardization and mass media the spoken language has become more homogenous across the Denkan nation but still with significant variations.

Denkan Dialects:
"Metropolitan Denkan""Contemporary Denkan""Ikeran"""

Example text
The following words are taken from Matthew 6:9-13, according to the Denkan Bible Translation and the New International Version in English.