Setting[]
Sythen is the primary language of the various Sythen races (the drak'il-, vend'il-, qal'il-, and lae'il-syth), from the world of Cirundi. Originally intended as a trade language between the fractious tribes, and clans of Dragaturak, the home continent of the drak'il, advancements in communication and transportation technologies lead to increased interaction between the consents and races of Cirudi, and Sythen quickly became the defacto language of interclanal communications. Often taught alongside traditional clan languages starting at a young age, Sythen has facilitated the development of the frozen world more so than any single technology.
Phonetics[]
Vowels[]
Consonants[]
Letter | Consonant | X-SAMPA | Letter | Consonant | X-SAMPA |
b | Voiced Bilabial Fricative | [B] | n | Uvular Nasal | [N\] |
c | Voiceless Postalveolar Affricate | [tS] | ng | Velar Nasal | [N] |
d | Voiced Palatal Plosive | [J\] | p | Voiceless Bilabial Plosive | [p] |
f | Voiceless Labiodental Fricative | [f] | q | Voiceless Uvular Plosive | [q] |
g | Voiced Uvular Implosive | [G\_<] | r | Alveolar Trill | [r] |
gh | Voiced Uvular Fricative | [R] | s | Voiced Postalveolar Fricative | [S] |
h | Voiceless Glottal Fricative | [h] | t | Voiceless Palatal Plosive | [c] |
j | Voiceless Palatal Fricative | [C] | th | Voiceless Dental Fricative | [T] |
k | Voiceless Pharyngeal Fricative | [X\] | v | Voiced Labiodental Fricative | [v] |
kw | Voiceless Epiglottal Fricative | [H\] | w | Voiceless Labio-velar Approximant | [W] |
l | Palatal Lateral Approximant | [L] | x | Voiced Postalveolar Fricative | [Z] |
m | Labiodental Nasal | [F] | z | Voiced Alveolar Fricative | [z] |
Basic Grammar[]
NOTE: Sythen is still largely a Work In Progress. It it my intent to make Sythen an agglutinative language with the OVS word order. I have worked on basic phonemes, have a rudimentary dictionary done, and have done some work on tenses, conjugation, and cases, but there is still a long long way to go
Basic Sentence Structure[]
Generally, Sythen sentences are composed in the Object-Verb-Subject order, with adjectives and adverbs forming suffixes to the noun or verb they are modifying, distinguished in writing by an apostrophe.
Nouns are composed as such: (quantity)'(article)'noun(-adjective)
Verbs are composed as such: (mood)'(tense)'verb'(person/plurality)(-adverb)(-auxiliary verb)
Verbs[]
Sythen verbs are highly regular. Almost all verbs are not modified at all during conjugation, only by adding or modifying various affixes are the tenses added.
Verb suffixes- Grammatical Person/Plurality
'i | 1st person singular |
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'no | 2nd person singular |
'ae | 3rd person singular |
'magh | 1st person plural |
'yah | 2nd person plural |
'ae't | 3rd person plural |
Verb prefixes- Tense
ji' | present simple |
te' | present continuous |
nade' | present perfect |
po' | future perfect |
calo' | future imperfect |
na' | past indicative |
naara' | imperfect |
arga' | past continuous |
raghi' | conditional |
Verb pre-prefixes- Mood
ke' | indicative |
taa' | subjective |
aana' | desiderative |
vaa' | generic |
zaa' | dubiative |
kaa' | hypotheical |
tenaa' | potential |
venaa' | imperative |
NOTE: moods are not required on all verbs. Most verbs will actually not involve a mood prefix
Pronouns[]
NOTE: to make a pronoun plural, simply add the suffix 't. ex/ joehm't= our/ours, aelae't= in them
aej-I
Sythen | English | |
nominative | jae | I |
possessive | joehm | my/mine |
objective | ajhae | me |
dative | aeja | to me |
ablative | aejez | from me |
locative | ajel | in me |
equative | ajev | like me |
raed-you
Sythen | English | |
nominative | reth | you |
possessive | rethem | yours |
objective | rethae | you |
dative | raede | to you |
ablative | raeden | from you |
locative | raedel | in you |
equative | raedev | like you |
ael- he/she/it
Sythen | English | |
nominative | tae | he |
possessive | thom | his |
objective | athae | him |
dative | aele | to him |
ablative | aelen | from him |
locative | aelel | in him |
equative | aelev | like him |
deq-who
Sythen | English | |
nominative | dag | who/what |
possessive | deth |
whose |
objective | dagae | whom/which |
dative | deke | to whom |
ablative | deken | from whom |
locative | dekel | in whom |
equative | dekev | like whom |
vrae-this
Sythen | English | |
proximal | vretaj | this |
medial | vretar | that |
distal | vretat | yonder |
ulaal-some
Sythen | English | |
nominative | ulag | some |
possessive | uleth | some |
objective | ulae | some |
Dictionary[]
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