Athelon

Athelon

Athelonian Athelonem
Type
Alignment
Head direction
Tonal	No
Declensions	No
Conjugations	Yes
Genders	no
Nouns decline according to...
Case	Number
Definiteness	Gender
Verbs conjugate according to...
Voice	Mood
Person	Number
Tense	Aspect
Meta-information
Progress	0%
Statistics Nouns 0% Verbs 0% Adjectives 0% Syntax 0% Words of 1500
Creator	Athillian

Athelonian is a language spoken by the people of Athelon. An island nation located northwest in a world called Matterrae.

The people of Athelon, Athelin, are knowledge driven and try to find a meaning behind everything. If they can't find a meaning or reason something happens, they try to link it to their religion.

Their religion is based on 12 deities. (I'll put a list of the 12 deities below). For the language spoken in Athelon is their religion one of the two main cores. A lot of their words are derived from the names of the deities. (ex. Ethda, goddes of life => To live = Ethedor, Sarafeo, god of love => Saraf = Love (Sarafor = To love)

The second main core is knowledge. Knowledge is a very important aspect to their society. They attend school for about 40 years. Here they learn everything about life, both life in Athelon as in the rest of the world. (They can live up to an average of 150 years.) Because of this core, they have words for things that are almost sentences in English. (ex. Going to the library = Njelonor, Finding something you have been searching for a long time (and the feeling it brings) = Bunjor, ..)

Athelonem

Athelonem has a few things that are unique to their language.

Conjugation

In Athelonem, they like to use suffixes and prefixes. (ex. I give my beer to you = babàth mjölàth uthinen; we come from Athelon = maslàteb athelonem; I speak softly = Zysthalàth)

Equality

Athelin are all equal, if you a woman or a man, gay or straight, upper class or lower class, coming from a town or a city, ... every citizen in Athelon has the same rights. This is visible in their language, for instance, their is no word for man or woman. They are all persons (Eithornor). no words for gay or straight, it is all love (Saraf).

Because all are equal, their is no courtesy form.

Numbers

As I said before, they have 12 gods and knowledge is very important. This you can see in their numbers. They have 3 extra numbers. 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 µ $ § 10 ...

For representation in English I chose for 3 random symbols I know I wouldn't use anywhere else. Below I will look at the numbers in detail.

Writing System

Pronunciation

I tried to put per letter the IPA symbol.

Letter	à	a	b	c	d	e	f	g	ch
Sound	aː	a	b	ʃ	d	ɛ	f	g	x
Letter	h	i	j	k	l	m	n	o	ö
Sound	ɦ	iː	j	k	l	m	n	ɔ	ø
Letter	p	th	r	s	t	u	v	y	z
Sound	p	ð	r	s	t	ʊ	'v	y	z
Letter	v	y	z	mj	nj	fj	aj	ej	oj
Sound	ˈv	y	z	mj	ñ	fj	aɪ	ɛɪ	oɪ

Athelonian has a few letters that can be combined with a "j" which gets a special character in their writing system (see below 'Writing').

Letter	mj	nj	fj	àj	aj	ej	oj	öj	uj	yj
Sound	mj	ñ	fj	aːɪ	aɪ	ɛɪ	oɪ	øɪ	ʊɪ	yɪ

If i write a " ' " after a vowel (u', a', ö', ...) means that this vowel has a longer pronunciation

Writing

Athelonian have two types of writing. Peoples handwriting and the writing in books. (I'll post 2 pictures later, they are not completely ready yet :-) )

Important in Athelonem, what you say, you write, and vice versa. There are no silent letters.

Punctuation

in Athelonem there are no punctuation marks except the Point (Nok). "?" and "!" are suffixes added to the sentence ("-u'r" and "-a'n").

Other

There ar no capitals and no artikels in Athelonem (A, B, C ; The, a).

Grammar

Personal pronoun

		Personal				Possessive
		Subject		Object		With Noun		Without Noun
		ENG.	ATH.	ENG.	ATH.	ENG.	ATH.	ENG.	ATH.
Si.	1st	I	àth	Me	-àth-	My	-àth	Mine	àthem
	2nd	You	uth	You	-uth-	Your	-uth	Yours	uthem
	3rd	(S)he/It	il	Him/Her/It	-il-	His/Hers/Its	-il	His/Hers	ilem
Pl	1st	We	àteb	Us	-àteb-	Our	-àteb	Ours	àtebem
	2nd	You	uteb	You	-uteb-	Your	-uteb	Yours	utebem
	3rd	They	ilteb	Them	-ilteb-	Their	-ilteb	Theirs	iltebem

Rules

• Personal Pronoun Subject: This one is never really used. Only if it would be an answer to a question, and then only if it would be the only word in your answer. (ex. Who speaks? You (do). = moth Thalilu'r. uth.)
• Personal Pronoun Object: The word depends on the suffix/prefix that will be used. (ex. behind me = àthkonen, for them = iltebinen)
• Possessive Pronoun with Noun: Always put behind the noun. (ex. our house = elonateb, your book = mihututh)
• Possessive Pronoun Without Noun: This form is actually the same as Personal Pronoun Object. Your can turn "mine" into "from me" with translates to àthem.

Verbs

Verbs are quite easy. All infinitive forms of the verbs end in -or and there are no irregular verbs.

TO BE		Pronouns		present
OHOR		English	Athelonem	English	Athelonem
Singular	1st	I	-àth	I am	ohàth
	2nd	You	-uth	You are	ohuth
	3rd	He/She/It	-il	He/She/It is	ohil
Plural	1st	We	-àteb	We are	ohàteb
	2nd	You	-uteb	You are	ohuteb
	3rd	They	-ilteb	They are	ohilteb

Numbers

Ordinal Numbers

-en/-nen