Ancient Dalwaric

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Ancient Dalwaric Teluala Dalwar'nith
Type
Alignment
Head direction
Tonal
No
Declensions
Yes
Conjugations
No
Genders
No
Nouns decline according to...
Case	Number
Definiteness	Gender
Verbs conjugate according to...
Voice	Mood
Person	Number
Tense	Aspect

General information

 Another of the Tongues of Rauxor, Dalwaric has long been a dead language. It is believed to be the language of the first beings to walk on the surface of the world, and has led to most of the languages of today. The language has changed significantly, during it's time on earth, and when the speciation of this race of the Firstborn occurred, the languages of Rauxor continued to drift. The Dalwars were the first on their world to come up with symbols to represent language, and by unknown means, are also beleived to have evolved into most of the Races of Rauxor within a matter of centuries. Their civilization spanned the continent, and for unknown reasons, the entire race collapsed in on itself sometime around the third century,  by the reckoning of the Northern Thravian peoples. 

One of the longest lasting civilizations, the language of the Dalwars went remarkably unchanged for thousands of years, experiencing slight shifts in pronunciation and spelling, but with largely the same grammar and word structure for the duration of it's existance. It is hypothesised that the people of the central land of Necrotia are in fact mixed breed Dalwars, who have been affected by the curse that swept the continent roughly around the time the civilization collapsed. This theory is supported in the fact that while many of the words of the Necrotian tongue come from Thravic and Faelan tongues,  the grammar structure and pluralization methods are identical to those used by the ancient Dalwar. 

Phonology

Consonants

	Bilabial	Labio-dental	Dental	Alveolar	Post-alveolar	Retroflex	Palatal	Velar	Uvular	Pharyngeal	Epiglottal	Glottal
Nasal
Plosive
Fricative
Affricate
Approximant
Trill
Flap or tap
Lateral fric.
Lateral app.
Lateral flap

Vowels

	Front	Near-front	Central	Near-back	Back
Close
Near-close
Close-mid
Mid
Open-mid
Near-open
Open

Grammar

	Gender	Cases	Numbers	Tenses	Persons	Moods	Voices	Aspects
Verb	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
Nouns	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
Adjectives	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Numbers	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Participles	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Adverb	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Pronouns	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
Adpositions	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Article	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Particle	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No

  The Dalwaric peoples had a very strange sentence structure, which actually began with the main verb of a sentence. It was then followed by the subject performing the said action, and was lastly followed by the object or idea the object was being performed on.  "Sally Ran"  becomes "Ran Sally." (Rimava Sally)

Adjectives would also come after the nown which they modified. They would mention the "Dog black" or the "Stone Hard", or the "wall, high". THis applies only to the descriptions to form though. Any adjective pertaining to the quantity of an item were to be placed at the fore of a noun. We would say "many angry villaigers left". In Dalwaric, this would be said as follows: "Laviss'dis metha naz'difen kier'zaubet".  (left many [of the] enlsaved angry.) 

This, however, is before Declensions are taken into account. From the few reccords scholars have salvaged from the ruins nearest to the Myrkstone, it can be told that Dalwaric had suffixes to identify the part of a sentence a noun belonged as well. This certainly helps scholars in the modern day who are more accustomed to the Diniric, Faelan, or Thravic sentence structures. These appear to have been "ji" for subjects, and "tha" for the object of a sentence. However, it also appears that there were some verbs and nouns which end in this manner anyway. An apostraphe like character was used to differentiate between the two in written documents.  With these Declensions, the above sentence would be spoken "Laviss'dis metha naz'difen'ji kierzaubet."

The conjucation of Verbs in Dalwaric is also fairly standard. Unlike it's child language, Diniric, the Dalwaric tonuge is extrememly suffix heavy. There are very few prefixes, and all verbs are modified by means of suffixes. 

Past Tense

Person	Singular	Plural
1st	in (een)	ist
2nd	ist	daist
3rd	dis	dast

Present Tense

Person	Singular	Plural
1st	a	avin, a'vi
2nd	av	av'id
3rd	ava	ava'di (accent on seccond a)

Future Tense

Person	Singular	Plural
1st	bri	brivi
2nd	bran	bran'iv
3rd	briz	briz'iv

The Dalwaric language also has two conditional tenses. Adding these suffixes, or somtimes splitting these suffixes  off of the main verb as their own words, then puts the sentence in this conditional tense. These tenses correspond roughly to "I will/may if..." and " I would have if....". This is most often accomplished by adding "do" onto the beginning of the preexisting tenses for past and future.

Conditional Past (would have if)

person	Singular	Plural
1st	do'ai	do'ist
2nd	do'dist	do'daist
3rd	dis'do	do'dast

Conditional Future ( will / may if )

Person	Singular	Plural
1st	do'bri	do'briva
2nd	do'brani	do'braniv
3rd	do'briz	do'briziv

The pluralization of nouns is also extremely important in the Dalwaric language. With the dalwars, if a verb is plural, the nouns around it must also be plural, and vice versa. The Dalwars also recognise perceived masculinity in items with their pluralizing system. These nouns are pluralized by the addition (and somtimes substitution) of the last vowel or the last syllable of the said noun and replacing it with "en" (masculine) or "ai" (femminine) There are irregulars where these two are switched, and a masculine object is pluralized by the means of "ai", and there are a few examplesl found among the monoliths of Dalwaric ruins of pluralization by "in". 

Other suffixes denote qualities and relations between objects. the suffix "re" has a simliar effect as the english suffix "er", when added onto a verb. This takes the verb and makes it either an adjective or a noun, having the rough meaning of "one who does ____".    For example, the verb "To Adress another", isir, when added with this suffix to form isir're, adopts the meaning of "one who adresses others."

The suffix which takes a noun or verb and makes it adjective is "bet." There are many individual adjectives that lack this suffix, but any time an adjective was found among the ruins which had a noun as it's root, it carried this suffix on the end. This was largely found by scholars concerning emotions. the best examples are the versions of "Angry", each of which posessed some form of this suffix. 

there are also the suffixes of " Iz" ( ing, something is happening now)  "Iri", which means to be "full of". ( eg, beautiful= beauty + ful. This is an adjective suffix) Ano, a strange suffix which, when tacked onto the end of an adjective such as Mith (grey) turns the collective in to a single term to refer to a person (Mith'ano= Grey One), et (which sometimes means "bright" and sometimes seems to have no meaning) along with the rarely seen "ni", which appears to mean  "of" or "From". 

Prefixes have been more difficult to isolate, but scholars have narrowed down "As" (which means not or against) and "Yi", a strange prefix that means "Mine". 

Vocabulary

No.	English	Ancient Dalwaric
1	I	—
2	you (singular)	_____________
3	he	Uko, Ukon (him)
4	we	______________
5	you (plural)	—
6	they	______________
7	this	t'hon
8	that	t'hai
9	here	t'hon menos
10	there	t'hai menou
11	who	------------
12	what	-------------
13	where	-------------
14	when	-------------
15	how	--------------
16	not	as_____
17	all	----------
18	many	Metha
19	some	jou
20	few	asmethi
21	other	----------
22	one	—
23	two	—
24	three	—
25	four	—
26	five	—
27	big	izm'ri
28	long	—
29	wide	—
30	thick	—
31	heavy	—
32	small	as'izri
33	short	—
34	narrow	—
35	thin	—
36	woman	Alirna
37	man (adult male)	Alirno
38	man (human being)	Rivv'ya (a Human)
39	child	Dal'hin, Dal'hiri
40	wife	---------
41	husband	---------
42	mother	Atirna
43	father	Atirno
44	animal	---------
45	fish	----------
46	bird	---------
47	dog	Nu'cofle (sing) , Au'coflen (plur)
48	louse	--------
49	snake	--------
50	worm	--------
51	tree	lathi, lath'ai
52	forest	trauven
53	stick	---------
54	fruit	---------
55	seed	Ered
56	leaf	lasfe, lasfen
57	root	-----------
58	bark	-----------
59	flower	Amon, amon'en
60	grass	----------
61	rope	------------
62	skin	---------
63	meat	aes'g (meat dish)
64	blood	aglos, Khag'lan (poor blood), Kha'gloshi (poisoned)
65	bone	------------
66	fat	--------
67	egg	---------
68	horn	---------
69	tail	----------
70	feather	---------
71	hair	loske
72	head	-------
73	ear	---------
74	eye	---------
75	nose	--------
76	mouth	---------
77	tooth	—
78	tongue	—
79	fingernail	—
80	foot	—
81	leg	—
82	knee	—
83	hand	—
84	wing	—
85	belly	—
86	guts	—
87	neck	—
88	back	—
89	breast	—
90	heart	—
91	liver	—
92	drink	—
93	eat	—
94	bite	—
95	suck	—
96	spit	—
97	vomit	—
98	blow	—
99	breathe	—
100	laugh	—
101	see	—
102	hear	—
103	know	—
104	think	—
105	smell	—
106	fear	—
107	sleep	—
108	live	—
109	die	—
110	kill	—
111	fight	—
112	hunt	—
113	hit	—
114	cut	—
115	split	—
116	stab	—
117	scratch	—
118	dig	—
119	swim	—
120	fly	—
121	walk	—
122	come	—
123	lie	—
124	sit	—
125	stand	—
126	turn	—
127	fall	—
128	give	—
129	hold	—
130	squeeze	—
131	rub	—
132	wash	—
133	wipe	—
134	pull	—
135	push	—
136	throw	—
137	tie	—
138	sew	—
139	count	—
140	say	—
141	sing	—
142	play	—
143	float	—
144	flow	—
145	freeze	—
146	swell	—
147	sun	—
148	moon	—
149	star	—
150	water	—
151	rain	—
152	river	—
153	lake	—
154	sea	—
155	salt	—
156	stone	—
157	sand	—
158	dust	—
159	earth	—
160	cloud	—
161	fog	—
162	sky	—
163	wind	—
164	snow	—
165	ice	—
166	smoke	—
167	fire	—
168	ash	—
169	burn	—
170	road	—
171	mountain	—
172	red	—
173	green	—
174	yellow	—
175	white	—
176	black	—
177	night	—
178	day	—
179	year	—
180	warm	—
181	cold	—
182	full	—
183	new	—
184	old	—
185	good	—
186	bad	—
187	rotten	—
188	dirty	—
189	straight	—
190	round	—
191	sharp	—
192	dull	—
193	smooth	—
194	wet	—
195	dry	—
196	correct	—
197	near	—
198	far	—
199	right	—
200	left	—
201	at	—
202	in	—
203	with	—
204	and	—
205	if	—
206	because	—
207	name	—