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clare_dragonfly) wrote2016-01-04 09:25 pm
clare_dragonfly) wrote2016-01-04 09:25 pm
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Languary - Day 4
To make a noun plural, the final vowel becomes ī (for long vowels) or i (for short vowels).
What if the final vowel already is one of those, you ask?
Simple! That's not allowed! In the language reforms (that's the best term I can come up with for it), any word that had a final ī or i had it changed to u. Some dialects did not change, and that's considered a sign of the speaker being rural and/or uneducated.
The Sivrit, an important* minority, tend to not correctly pluralize nouns at all: instead of changing the final vowel, they add -el to words, which is how words are pluralized in the Sivrit language.
I've also added some diphthongs to the vowel complement of Gavāth: āi, ēi, and ui.
*Important in story terms, not in political terms within the empire.
What if the final vowel already is one of those, you ask?
Simple! That's not allowed! In the language reforms (that's the best term I can come up with for it), any word that had a final ī or i had it changed to u. Some dialects did not change, and that's considered a sign of the speaker being rural and/or uneducated.
The Sivrit, an important* minority, tend to not correctly pluralize nouns at all: instead of changing the final vowel, they add -el to words, which is how words are pluralized in the Sivrit language.
I've also added some diphthongs to the vowel complement of Gavāth: āi, ēi, and ui.
*Important in story terms, not in political terms within the empire.