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Dermorian Language

2011-05-18T02:34:21Z

Thara: /* Number System */

The Dermorian language (named Gádèrmará "Jah-there-mah-rah") is the language of the [[Dermorian]]s. It features an elaborate case system. The Dermorians themselves being nomads has resulted in the necessity for Dermorians to invent new words, causing Gadermara to become agglutinative; although there is evidence that this was not the case early in its development as a language.

= Writing System =
The Dermorian writing system is strongly phonetic- possibly because the language had evolved so little since writing was developed (nothing ever changes for Elves). Despite being phonetic and consistent, the language is still complex.

Consonants and vowels are formed by "grouplets" of simpler symbols, frequently written over eachother. The writing system encourages writing to be large. Increasing detail allows one to write more in the same space, allowing aesthetic arrangement based on print size, and resulting in a bewildering conciseness.

Much like the land of Dermoria, with its endless flowing rivers and valleys, the Dermorian script is an extremely smoothly flowing language. Ancient Dermorian legend has it that this script was a gift from one of their mythical goddess (although few Dermorians believe in these godesses any longer, at least since the time of Vodùl). The script was traditionally hand painted with plant dyes (and rarely-- blood). A writer would dip their finger into dye and draw a single stroke. It's common for a Dermorian to teach eir children calligraphy, consistent with the philosophy of beauty in Dermorian culture.

= Pronunciation =
Dermorian is a weakly tonal language. The 3 tones are rising (high), falling (low), and middle. In this article, these tones are written in the latin alphabet by indicating the acute, grave and no accent respectively: á, à, a. They will always be written over the last vowel over which they affect as the tone changes occur over the course of a syllable.

Syllables are not inherently emphasized.

{| border="1"
!Written||Short
|-
|A|| F'''a'''ther
|-
|C|| '''Ch'''eese
|-
|D|| '''Th'''is
|-
|E|| '''E'''nter
|-
|F|| '''F'''eel
|-
|G|| '''J'''ames
|-
|H|| '''H'''enry (but more frequently just weakly aspirated)
|-
|I|| S'''ee'''
|-
|J|| '''Y'''awn
|-
|K|| IPA: /x/ '''H'''uge (but a little bit stronger)
|-
|L|| '''L'''amb
|-
|M|| '''M'''other
|-
|N|| '''N'''o
|-
|O|| Y'''o'''rk (pronounced B'''oa'''t when long)
|-
|R|| '''R'''eal (English nasal style)
|-
|Rr|| Pe'''r'''dón (trilled in Nordic or Spanish style, not rolled)
|-
|S|| '''S'''ore
|-
|T|| '''Th'''aw
|-
|U|| M'''oo'''
|-
|V|| '''V'''ery
|-
|W|| '''W'''ater
|-
|X|| '''Sh'''ip
|-
|Y|| F'''u'''r, but closer to saying English "ee" with your mouth shaped as the English "oo"
|-
|Z|| French '''J'''e (soft Dermorian "G")
|-
|Æ|| H'''a'''t
|}

Vowels can be lengthened by writing them twice in a row. This can be done to all vowels, although in some (Æ) it is exceptionally rare. A long vowel is about twice as long as a short vowel, which is saying something as Dermorian is spoken slow to begin with (Excruciatingly slow, some say).

Dermorian has no diphthongs ''per se''; when multiple vowels are seen in a row, they are each to be pronounced independently (which can lead to some amusing consonant-free words). In fact, coupled with the tonal system, this quality has permitted the language to influence the development of Dermorian music in very interesting ways. Note that as the Dermorian letter ''j'' is always used as a consonant, which means the English word "eye" sound can be written "aj".

Be aware that this mapping of the Dermorian language to Latin script bears little resemblance to the Dermorian writing system, which is so thoroughly complicated that it could make learning the spoken language prohibitively difficult.

== Dialects ==
The few historical tribes of Dermorians had interacted frequently enough that Dermorian failed to diverge to any large degree. An interesting phenomenon is the increasing disuse of significant amounts of some of the cases (when it is not critical to meaning) among young Dermorians, possibly because of a huge amount of modern interaction with non-Dermorians. A Dermorian joke is: "How long does it take an Ylian to learn Gádèrmará?" "Fewer every day!" indicating how the language has suddenly become simplified.

= Grammar =
Dermorian is generally Subject-Verb-Object (as in English), although there are various common grammatical constructs that cause this order to change. Adjectives precede their nouns.

== Cases ==
Dermorian has the following cases:
* nominative
* dative
* ablative
* genitive
* locative
* instrumental
* temporal
* causal-final

Words may be singular, dual and plural.

Dermorian has no noun gender (even for personal pronouns).

The instrumental case is also used to describe the use of a spell.

= Vocabulary =
__NOTOC__
{| class="wikitable"
|-

|-

| style="background:#F5DEB3;" | This section is really not yet hashed out entirely [[User:Thara|Thara]] 15:57, 29 April 2008 (EDT)

|}

== Noun Forms ==
{| border="1"
!Type || Nominative || Dative || Ablative || Genitive || Locative || Instrumental || Temporal || Causal-final
|-
| 1 || ~ || ~g, ~ìg || ~d, ~ùd || ~m, ~ìm || ~eàs || ~eàt || ? || na~aà (1)
|}

(1) The inflected root word loses its first consonant's voicing if it begins with a voiced consonant: d->t, v->f, etc except for j. For example: "Naélsaà ex naténaà!" (For Love and Life!)

== Basic Words ==

=== Nouns ===
* home: fantarà
* hello: térrà
* water: jénsà
* tree: jénerà
* food: dénerà
* life: dén
* fire: déven
* wind: tjèn
* mother: eaa
* father: eoo
* companion: árolílja
* love: élsaà
* sword: févhe
* shortsword: afefévhe
* longsword: éestefèvhe (note the change in pitch)
* fight: tévease
* gold: axfe
* diamond: ajexte
* iron: uleen

=== Verbs ===

* go: ske
* see: Vre
* eat: Tlexe
* want: géspèrre
* write: presja
* fight: tévnàre
* build: vỳgérre (more ''emphatic'' than "make")
* live: dénee
* die: xup

'''(Need to add declension for verbs)'''

=== Adjectives ===
* short: afe
* long: éeste

=== Prepositions ===
* with: ærr
* without: reoo

=== Conjunctions ===
* and: xe (except in certain poetic phrases and all exclamatory phases without verbs, in which case it's "éx", or between two verbs, in which case "ax")

== Pronouns ==

Dermorian pronouns for "things that don't talk but are alive" such as trees or animals. They are called the "Alive" pronoun below.

{| border="1"
!English|| Dermorian Nominative || Object || Dative || Ablative || Genitive || Locative || Instrumental || Temporal || Causal-final
|-
|I (s.) We (dual) We (pl.) || Dò Lox Lot || ? || ? || ? || Dòm Lom Lom || ? || Dòrat Loxat Lotat || Never used || ?
|-
|You (s.) You both You all || Ri Rix Rit || ? || ? || ? || Rim Rixim Ritim || ? || Rorrat Roxat Rotat || Never used || ?
|-
|Alive You (s.) Alive You both Alive You all || Rri Rrix Rrit || ? || ? || ? || Rrim Rrixim Rritim || ? || Rrorrat Rroxat Rrotat || Never used || ?
|-
|He/Her/Alive It (s.) They, Alive They (dual) They, Alive They (pl) || Fala Falax Falat || ? || ? || ? || Fam Falam Falam || ? || Farrat Faxat Fatat || Never used || ?

|}

When referring to "Alive" things that are more personally known, it is common to use the "Dermorian" pronoun. For example, if a Dermorian were to develop a spiritual bond with a plant, they may use "Ri" to address it as opposed to "Rri". Plural forms are not used as an indication of respect.

While Dermorian features no definite article ("the"), the genitive first person articles are used in almost exactly the same way, except following the definite noun (consistent with the rule of nouns before adjectives). Modern orthography is to glue them together as one word:

:dévenímlòm - The fire (literally: Our fire)

In general, when words have their order reversed, it's common for the latter to shift to falling tone. As a rule, all such definite articles feature this transformation.

= Example Sentences =

* Do géspèrre dénerà - I want food/I'm hungry
* Do tévnare févheàt - I fight with swords
* Ri déveneàt! - Cast Fire! (literally: You fire), note the lack of verb in a sentence that would have an imperative verb in english
* Lox tévnàre lom naárolíljaà! - We fight for our companions!

= Number System =
In natural Dermorian, the number system is base-8 (thumbs are not fingers!). When translating numbers from another language, it's common to retain the numbers in the foreign system (decimal). This results in an ambiguity and Dermorians commonly clarify by following the number with "af" or "éeste" (short or long, respectively for base-8 or base-10). In day to day speak between Dermorians, the numbers are always in the natural base-8.

* 0 reoon (compare to "without")
* 1 ii
* 2 oote
* 3 te
* 4 reti
* 5 azi
* 6 tolmi
* 7 frré
* 10 (7+1) àn
* 11 (7+2) oolv
* 12 ànoote
* ...
* 20 ((7+1)*2) ootænz
* 21 ootæii
* 22 ootætee
* ...
* 77 frræfrré
* 100 ((7+1)²) gen
* 101 genii
* 1000 ((7+1)³) xaaran
* 1001 xaaranii
* 1,0000 ((7+1)<super>4</super>) treem
* 10,0000 ántreem
* 100,0000 gentreem
* 1000,0000 xaarantreem
* 1,0000,0000 wáleen

Wáleen, while having a decimal value of 16,777,216 is considered the first "really big" number, colloquially used like "million" in English. "I have a wáleen things to do before I can make dinner."

[[Category:Language Projects]]

Dermorian Language

2011-05-18T02:33:04Z

Thara:

The Dermorian language (named Gádèrmará "Jah-there-mah-rah") is the language of the [[Dermorian]]s. It features an elaborate case system. The Dermorians themselves being nomads has resulted in the necessity for Dermorians to invent new words, causing Gadermara to become agglutinative; although there is evidence that this was not the case early in its development as a language.

= Writing System =
The Dermorian writing system is strongly phonetic- possibly because the language had evolved so little since writing was developed (nothing ever changes for Elves). Despite being phonetic and consistent, the language is still complex.

Consonants and vowels are formed by "grouplets" of simpler symbols, frequently written over eachother. The writing system encourages writing to be large. Increasing detail allows one to write more in the same space, allowing aesthetic arrangement based on print size, and resulting in a bewildering conciseness.

Much like the land of Dermoria, with its endless flowing rivers and valleys, the Dermorian script is an extremely smoothly flowing language. Ancient Dermorian legend has it that this script was a gift from one of their mythical goddess (although few Dermorians believe in these godesses any longer, at least since the time of Vodùl). The script was traditionally hand painted with plant dyes (and rarely-- blood). A writer would dip their finger into dye and draw a single stroke. It's common for a Dermorian to teach eir children calligraphy, consistent with the philosophy of beauty in Dermorian culture.

= Pronunciation =
Dermorian is a weakly tonal language. The 3 tones are rising (high), falling (low), and middle. In this article, these tones are written in the latin alphabet by indicating the acute, grave and no accent respectively: á, à, a. They will always be written over the last vowel over which they affect as the tone changes occur over the course of a syllable.

Syllables are not inherently emphasized.

{| border="1"
!Written||Short
|-
|A|| F'''a'''ther
|-
|C|| '''Ch'''eese
|-
|D|| '''Th'''is
|-
|E|| '''E'''nter
|-
|F|| '''F'''eel
|-
|G|| '''J'''ames
|-
|H|| '''H'''enry (but more frequently just weakly aspirated)
|-
|I|| S'''ee'''
|-
|J|| '''Y'''awn
|-
|K|| IPA: /x/ '''H'''uge (but a little bit stronger)
|-
|L|| '''L'''amb
|-
|M|| '''M'''other
|-
|N|| '''N'''o
|-
|O|| Y'''o'''rk (pronounced B'''oa'''t when long)
|-
|R|| '''R'''eal (English nasal style)
|-
|Rr|| Pe'''r'''dón (trilled in Nordic or Spanish style, not rolled)
|-
|S|| '''S'''ore
|-
|T|| '''Th'''aw
|-
|U|| M'''oo'''
|-
|V|| '''V'''ery
|-
|W|| '''W'''ater
|-
|X|| '''Sh'''ip
|-
|Y|| F'''u'''r, but closer to saying English "ee" with your mouth shaped as the English "oo"
|-
|Z|| French '''J'''e (soft Dermorian "G")
|-
|Æ|| H'''a'''t
|}

Vowels can be lengthened by writing them twice in a row. This can be done to all vowels, although in some (Æ) it is exceptionally rare. A long vowel is about twice as long as a short vowel, which is saying something as Dermorian is spoken slow to begin with (Excruciatingly slow, some say).

Dermorian has no diphthongs ''per se''; when multiple vowels are seen in a row, they are each to be pronounced independently (which can lead to some amusing consonant-free words). In fact, coupled with the tonal system, this quality has permitted the language to influence the development of Dermorian music in very interesting ways. Note that as the Dermorian letter ''j'' is always used as a consonant, which means the English word "eye" sound can be written "aj".

Be aware that this mapping of the Dermorian language to Latin script bears little resemblance to the Dermorian writing system, which is so thoroughly complicated that it could make learning the spoken language prohibitively difficult.

== Dialects ==
The few historical tribes of Dermorians had interacted frequently enough that Dermorian failed to diverge to any large degree. An interesting phenomenon is the increasing disuse of significant amounts of some of the cases (when it is not critical to meaning) among young Dermorians, possibly because of a huge amount of modern interaction with non-Dermorians. A Dermorian joke is: "How long does it take an Ylian to learn Gádèrmará?" "Fewer every day!" indicating how the language has suddenly become simplified.

= Grammar =
Dermorian is generally Subject-Verb-Object (as in English), although there are various common grammatical constructs that cause this order to change. Adjectives precede their nouns.

== Cases ==
Dermorian has the following cases:
* nominative
* dative
* ablative
* genitive
* locative
* instrumental
* temporal
* causal-final

Words may be singular, dual and plural.

Dermorian has no noun gender (even for personal pronouns).

The instrumental case is also used to describe the use of a spell.

= Vocabulary =
__NOTOC__
{| class="wikitable"
|-

|-

| style="background:#F5DEB3;" | This section is really not yet hashed out entirely [[User:Thara|Thara]] 15:57, 29 April 2008 (EDT)

|}

== Noun Forms ==
{| border="1"
!Type || Nominative || Dative || Ablative || Genitive || Locative || Instrumental || Temporal || Causal-final
|-
| 1 || ~ || ~g, ~ìg || ~d, ~ùd || ~m, ~ìm || ~eàs || ~eàt || ? || na~aà (1)
|}

(1) The inflected root word loses its first consonant's voicing if it begins with a voiced consonant: d->t, v->f, etc except for j. For example: "Naélsaà ex naténaà!" (For Love and Life!)

== Basic Words ==

=== Nouns ===
* home: fantarà
* hello: térrà
* water: jénsà
* tree: jénerà
* food: dénerà
* life: dén
* fire: déven
* wind: tjèn
* mother: eaa
* father: eoo
* companion: árolílja
* love: élsaà
* sword: févhe
* shortsword: afefévhe
* longsword: éestefèvhe (note the change in pitch)
* fight: tévease
* gold: axfe
* diamond: ajexte
* iron: uleen

=== Verbs ===

* go: ske
* see: Vre
* eat: Tlexe
* want: géspèrre
* write: presja
* fight: tévnàre
* build: vỳgérre (more ''emphatic'' than "make")
* live: dénee
* die: xup

'''(Need to add declension for verbs)'''

=== Adjectives ===
* short: afe
* long: éeste

=== Prepositions ===
* with: ærr
* without: reoo

=== Conjunctions ===
* and: xe (except in certain poetic phrases and all exclamatory phases without verbs, in which case it's "éx", or between two verbs, in which case "ax")

== Pronouns ==

Dermorian pronouns for "things that don't talk but are alive" such as trees or animals. They are called the "Alive" pronoun below.

{| border="1"
!English|| Dermorian Nominative || Object || Dative || Ablative || Genitive || Locative || Instrumental || Temporal || Causal-final
|-
|I (s.) We (dual) We (pl.) || Dò Lox Lot || ? || ? || ? || Dòm Lom Lom || ? || Dòrat Loxat Lotat || Never used || ?
|-
|You (s.) You both You all || Ri Rix Rit || ? || ? || ? || Rim Rixim Ritim || ? || Rorrat Roxat Rotat || Never used || ?
|-
|Alive You (s.) Alive You both Alive You all || Rri Rrix Rrit || ? || ? || ? || Rrim Rrixim Rritim || ? || Rrorrat Rroxat Rrotat || Never used || ?
|-
|He/Her/Alive It (s.) They, Alive They (dual) They, Alive They (pl) || Fala Falax Falat || ? || ? || ? || Fam Falam Falam || ? || Farrat Faxat Fatat || Never used || ?

|}

When referring to "Alive" things that are more personally known, it is common to use the "Dermorian" pronoun. For example, if a Dermorian were to develop a spiritual bond with a plant, they may use "Ri" to address it as opposed to "Rri". Plural forms are not used as an indication of respect.

While Dermorian features no definite article ("the"), the genitive first person articles are used in almost exactly the same way, except following the definite noun (consistent with the rule of nouns before adjectives). Modern orthography is to glue them together as one word:

:dévenímlòm - The fire (literally: Our fire)

In general, when words have their order reversed, it's common for the latter to shift to falling tone. As a rule, all such definite articles feature this transformation.

= Example Sentences =

* Do géspèrre dénerà - I want food/I'm hungry
* Do tévnare févheàt - I fight with swords
* Ri déveneàt! - Cast Fire! (literally: You fire), note the lack of verb in a sentence that would have an imperative verb in english
* Lox tévnàre lom naárolíljaà! - We fight for our companions!

= Number System =
In natural Dermorian, the number system is base-8 (thumbs are not fingers!). When translating numbers from another language, it's common to retain the numbers in the foreign system (decimal). This results in an ambiguity and Dermorians commonly clarify by following the number with "af" or "éeste" (short or long, respectively for base-8 or base-10). In day to day speak between Dermorians, the numbers are always in the natural base-8.

* 0 reoon (compare to "without")
* 1 ii
* 2 oote
* 3 te
* 4 reti
* 5 azi
* 6 tolmi
* 7 frré
* 10 (7+1) àn
* 11 (7+2) oolv
* 12 ànoote
* ...
* 20 ((7+1)*2) ootænz
* 21 ootæii
* 22 ootætee
* ...
* 77 frræfrré
* 100 ((7+1)²) gen
* 101 genii
* 1000 ((7+1)³) xaaran
* 1001 xaaranii
* 1,0000 ((7+1)<super>4</super>) threem
* 10,0000 ánthreem
* 100,0000 genthreem
* 1000,0000 xaaranthreem
* 1,0000,0000 wáleen

Wáleen, while having a decimal value of 16,777,216 is considered the first "really big" number, colloquially used like "million" in English. "I have a wáleen things to do before I can make dinner."

[[Category:Language Projects]]

Dermorian Language

2010-04-06T08:44:05Z

Thara: /* Pronouns */ no it's used

The Dermorian language (named Gádèrmará "Jah-there-mah-rah") is the language of the [[Dermorian]]s. It features an elaborate case system. The Dermorians themselves being nomads has resulted in the necessity for Dermorians to invent new words, causing Gadermara to become agglutinative; although there is evidence that this was not the case early in its development as a language.

= Writing System =
The Dermorian writing system is strongly phonetic- possibly because the language had evolved so little since writing was developed (nothing ever changes for Elves). Despite being phonetic and consistent, the language is still complex.

Consonants and vowels are formed by "grouplets" of simpler symbols, frequently written over eachother. The writing system encourages writing to be large. Increasing detail allows one to write more in the same space, allowing aesthetic arrangement based on print size, and resulting in a bewildering conciseness.

Much like the land of Dermoria, with its endless flowing rivers and valleys, the Dermorian script is an extremely smoothly flowing language. Ancient Dermorian legend has it that this script was a gift from one of their mythical goddess (although few Dermorians believe in these godesses any longer, at least since the time of Vodùl). The script was traditionally hand painted with plant dyes (and rarely-- blood). A writer would dip their finger into dye and draw a single stroke. It's common for a Dermorian to teach eir children calligraphy, consistent with the philosophy of beauty in Dermorian culture.

= Pronunciation =
Dermorian is a weakly tonal language. The 3 tones are rising (high), falling (low), and middle. In this article, these tones are written in the latin alphabet by indicating the acute, grave and no accent respectively: á, à, a. They will always be written over the last vowel over which they affect as the tone changes occur over the course of a syllable.

Syllables are not inherently emphasized.

{| border="1"
!Written||Short
|-
|A|| F'''a'''ther
|-
|C|| '''Ch'''eese
|-
|D|| '''Th'''is
|-
|E|| '''E'''nter
|-
|F|| '''F'''eel
|-
|G|| '''J'''ames
|-
|H|| '''H'''enry (but more frequently just weakly aspirated)
|-
|I|| S'''ee'''
|-
|J|| '''Y'''awn
|-
|K|| IPA: /x/ '''H'''uge (but a little bit stronger)
|-
|L|| '''L'''amb
|-
|M|| '''M'''other
|-
|N|| '''N'''o
|-
|O|| Y'''o'''rk (pronounced B'''oa'''t when long)
|-
|R|| '''R'''eal (English nasal style)
|-
|Rr|| Pe'''r'''dón (trilled in Nordic or Spanish style, not rolled)
|-
|S|| '''S'''ore
|-
|T|| '''Th'''aw
|-
|U|| M'''oo'''
|-
|V|| '''V'''ery
|-
|W|| '''W'''ater
|-
|X|| '''Sh'''ip
|-
|Y|| F'''u'''r, but closer to saying English "ee" with your mouth shaped as the English "oo"
|-
|Z|| French '''J'''e (soft Dermorian "G")
|-
|Æ|| H'''a'''t
|}

Vowels can be lengthened by writing them twice in a row. This can be done to all vowels, although in some (Æ) it is exceptionally rare. A long vowel is about twice as long as a short vowel, which is saying something as Dermorian is spoken slow to begin with (Excruciatingly slow, some say).

Dermorian has no diphthongs ''per se''; when multiple vowels are seen in a row, they are each to be pronounced independently (which can lead to some amusing consonant-free words). In fact, coupled with the tonal system, this quality has permitted the language to influence the development of Dermorian music in very interesting ways. Note that as the Dermorian letter ''j'' is always used as a consonant, which means the English word "eye" sound can be written "aj".

Be aware that this mapping of the Dermorian language to Latin script bears little resemblance to the Dermorian writing system, which is so thoroughly complicated that it could make learning the spoken language prohibitively difficult.

== Dialects ==
The few historical tribes of Dermorians had interacted frequently enough that Dermorian failed to diverge to any large degree. An interesting phenomenon is the increasing disuse of significant amounts of some of the cases (when it is not critical to meaning) among young Dermorians, possibly because of a huge amount of modern interaction with non-Dermorians. A Dermorian joke is: "How long does it take an Ylian to learn Gádèrmará?" "Fewer every day!" indicating how the language has suddenly become simplified.

= Grammar =
Dermorian is generally Subject-Verb-Object (as in English), although there are various common grammatical constructs that cause this order to change. Adjectives precede their nouns.

== Cases ==
Dermorian has the following cases:
* nominative
* dative
* ablative
* genitive
* locative
* instrumental
* temporal
* causal-final

Words may be singular, dual and plural.

Dermorian has no noun gender (even for personal pronouns).

The instrumental case is also used to describe the use of a spell.

= Vocabulary =
__NOTOC__
{| class="wikitable"
|-

|-

| style="background:#F5DEB3;" | This section is really not yet hashed out entirely [[User:Thara|Thara]] 15:57, 29 April 2008 (EDT)

|}

== Noun Forms ==
{| border="1"
!Type || Nominative || Dative || Ablative || Genitive || Locative || Instrumental || Temporal || Causal-final
|-
| 1 || ~ || ~g, ~ìg || ~d, ~ùd || ~m, ~ìm || ~eàs || ~eàt || ? || na~aà (1)
|}

(1) The inflected root word loses its first consonant's voicing if it begins with a voiced consonant: d->t, v->f, etc except for j. For example: "Naélsaà ex naténaà!" (For Love and Life!)

== Basic Words ==

=== Nouns ===
* home: fantarà
* hello: térrà
* water: jénsà
* tree: jénerà
* food: dénerà
* life: dén
* fire: déven
* wind: tjèn
* mother: eaa
* father: eoo
* companion: árolílja
* love: élsaà
* sword: févhe
* fight: tévease
* gold: axfe
* diamond: ajexte
* iron: uleen

=== Verbs ===

* go: ske
* see: Vre
* eat: Tlexe
* want: géspèrre
* write: presja
* fight: tévnàre
* build: vỳgérre (more ''emphatic'' than "make")
* live: dénee
* die: xup

'''(Need to add declension for verbs)'''

=== Conjunction ===
* and: xe (except in certain poetic phrases and all exclamatory phases without verbs, in which case it's "éx", or between two verbs, in which case "ax")

== Pronouns ==

Dermorian pronouns for "things that don't talk but are alive" such as trees or animals. They are called the "Alive" pronoun below.

{| border="1"
!English|| Dermorian Nominative || Object || Dative || Ablative || Genitive || Locative || Instrumental || Temporal || Causal-final
|-
|I (s.) We (dual) We (pl.) || Dò Lox Lot || ? || ? || ? || Dòm Lom Lom || ? || Dòrat Loxat Lotat || Never used || ?
|-
|You (s.) You both You all || Ri Rix Rit || ? || ? || ? || Rim Rixim Ritim || ? || Rorrat Roxat Rotat || Never used || ?
|-
|Alive You (s.) Alive You both Alive You all || Rri Rrix Rrit || ? || ? || ? || Rrim Rrixim Rritim || ? || Rrorrat Rroxat Rrotat || Never used || ?
|-
|He/Her/Alive It (s.) They, Alive They (dual) They, Alive They (pl) || Fala Falax Falat || ? || ? || ? || Fam Falam Falam || ? || Farrat Faxat Fatat || Never used || ?

|}

When referring to "Alive" things that are more personally known, it is common to use the "Dermorian" pronoun. For example, if a Dermorian were to develop a spiritual bond with a plant, they may use "Ri" to address it as opposed to "Rri". Plural forms are not used as an indication of respect.

While Dermorian features no definite article ("the"), the genitive first person articles are used in almost exactly the same way, except following the definite noun (consistent with the rule of nouns before adjectives). Modern orthography is to glue them together as one word:

:dévenímlòm - The fire (literally: Our fire)

In general, when words have their order reversed, it's common for the latter to shift to falling tone. As a rule, all such definite articles feature this transformation.

= Example Sentences =

* Do géspèrre dénerà - I want food/I'm hungry
* Do tévnare févheàt - I fight with swords
* Ri déveneàt! - Cast Fire! (literally: You fire), note the lack of verb in a sentence that would have an imperative verb in english
* Lox tévnàre lom naárolíljaà! - We fight for our companions!

Dermorian Language

2010-04-06T08:36:32Z

Thara: not developed by me really

The Dermorian language (named Gádèrmará "Jah-there-mah-rah") is the language of the [[Dermorian]]s. It features an elaborate case system. The Dermorians themselves being nomads has resulted in the necessity for Dermorians to invent new words, causing Gadermara to become agglutinative; although there is evidence that this was not the case early in its development as a language.

= Writing System =
The Dermorian writing system is strongly phonetic- possibly because the language had evolved so little since writing was developed (nothing ever changes for Elves). Despite being phonetic and consistent, the language is still complex.

Consonants and vowels are formed by "grouplets" of simpler symbols, frequently written over eachother. The writing system encourages writing to be large. Increasing detail allows one to write more in the same space, allowing aesthetic arrangement based on print size, and resulting in a bewildering conciseness.

Much like the land of Dermoria, with its endless flowing rivers and valleys, the Dermorian script is an extremely smoothly flowing language. Ancient Dermorian legend has it that this script was a gift from one of their mythical goddess (although few Dermorians believe in these godesses any longer, at least since the time of Vodùl). The script was traditionally hand painted with plant dyes (and rarely-- blood). A writer would dip their finger into dye and draw a single stroke. It's common for a Dermorian to teach eir children calligraphy, consistent with the philosophy of beauty in Dermorian culture.

= Pronunciation =
Dermorian is a weakly tonal language. The 3 tones are rising (high), falling (low), and middle. In this article, these tones are written in the latin alphabet by indicating the acute, grave and no accent respectively: á, à, a. They will always be written over the last vowel over which they affect as the tone changes occur over the course of a syllable.

Syllables are not inherently emphasized.

{| border="1"
!Written||Short
|-
|A|| F'''a'''ther
|-
|C|| '''Ch'''eese
|-
|D|| '''Th'''is
|-
|E|| '''E'''nter
|-
|F|| '''F'''eel
|-
|G|| '''J'''ames
|-
|H|| '''H'''enry (but more frequently just weakly aspirated)
|-
|I|| S'''ee'''
|-
|J|| '''Y'''awn
|-
|K|| IPA: /x/ '''H'''uge (but a little bit stronger)
|-
|L|| '''L'''amb
|-
|M|| '''M'''other
|-
|N|| '''N'''o
|-
|O|| Y'''o'''rk (pronounced B'''oa'''t when long)
|-
|R|| '''R'''eal (English nasal style)
|-
|Rr|| Pe'''r'''dón (trilled in Nordic or Spanish style, not rolled)
|-
|S|| '''S'''ore
|-
|T|| '''Th'''aw
|-
|U|| M'''oo'''
|-
|V|| '''V'''ery
|-
|W|| '''W'''ater
|-
|X|| '''Sh'''ip
|-
|Y|| F'''u'''r, but closer to saying English "ee" with your mouth shaped as the English "oo"
|-
|Z|| French '''J'''e (soft Dermorian "G")
|-
|Æ|| H'''a'''t
|}

Vowels can be lengthened by writing them twice in a row. This can be done to all vowels, although in some (Æ) it is exceptionally rare. A long vowel is about twice as long as a short vowel, which is saying something as Dermorian is spoken slow to begin with (Excruciatingly slow, some say).

Dermorian has no diphthongs ''per se''; when multiple vowels are seen in a row, they are each to be pronounced independently (which can lead to some amusing consonant-free words). In fact, coupled with the tonal system, this quality has permitted the language to influence the development of Dermorian music in very interesting ways. Note that as the Dermorian letter ''j'' is always used as a consonant, which means the English word "eye" sound can be written "aj".

Be aware that this mapping of the Dermorian language to Latin script bears little resemblance to the Dermorian writing system, which is so thoroughly complicated that it could make learning the spoken language prohibitively difficult.

== Dialects ==
The few historical tribes of Dermorians had interacted frequently enough that Dermorian failed to diverge to any large degree. An interesting phenomenon is the increasing disuse of significant amounts of some of the cases (when it is not critical to meaning) among young Dermorians, possibly because of a huge amount of modern interaction with non-Dermorians. A Dermorian joke is: "How long does it take an Ylian to learn Gádèrmará?" "Fewer every day!" indicating how the language has suddenly become simplified.

= Grammar =
Dermorian is generally Subject-Verb-Object (as in English), although there are various common grammatical constructs that cause this order to change. Adjectives precede their nouns.

== Cases ==
Dermorian has the following cases:
* nominative
* dative
* ablative
* genitive
* locative
* instrumental
* temporal
* causal-final

Words may be singular, dual and plural.

Dermorian has no noun gender (even for personal pronouns).

The instrumental case is also used to describe the use of a spell.

= Vocabulary =
__NOTOC__
{| class="wikitable"
|-

|-

| style="background:#F5DEB3;" | This section is really not yet hashed out entirely [[User:Thara|Thara]] 15:57, 29 April 2008 (EDT)

|}

== Noun Forms ==
{| border="1"
!Type || Nominative || Dative || Ablative || Genitive || Locative || Instrumental || Temporal || Causal-final
|-
| 1 || ~ || ~g, ~ìg || ~d, ~ùd || ~m, ~ìm || ~eàs || ~eàt || ? || na~aà (1)
|}

(1) The inflected root word loses its first consonant's voicing if it begins with a voiced consonant: d->t, v->f, etc except for j. For example: "Naélsaà ex naténaà!" (For Love and Life!)

== Basic Words ==

=== Nouns ===
* home: fantarà
* hello: térrà
* water: jénsà
* tree: jénerà
* food: dénerà
* life: dén
* fire: déven
* wind: tjèn
* mother: eaa
* father: eoo
* companion: árolílja
* love: élsaà
* sword: févhe
* fight: tévease
* gold: axfe
* diamond: ajexte
* iron: uleen

=== Verbs ===

* go: ske
* see: Vre
* eat: Tlexe
* want: géspèrre
* write: presja
* fight: tévnàre
* build: vỳgérre (more ''emphatic'' than "make")
* live: dénee
* die: xup

'''(Need to add declension for verbs)'''

=== Conjunction ===
* and: xe (except in certain poetic phrases and all exclamatory phases without verbs, in which case it's "éx", or between two verbs, in which case "ax")

== Pronouns ==

Dermorian pronouns for "things that don't talk but are alive" such as trees or animals. They are called the "Alive" pronoun below.

{| border="1"
!English|| Dermorian Nominative || Object || Dative || Ablative || Genitive || Locative || Instrumental || Temporal || Causal-final
|-
|I (s.) We (dual) We (pl.) || Dò Lox Lot || ? || ? || ? || Dòm Lom Lom || ? || Dòrat Loxat Lotat || Never used || Never used
|-
|You (s.) You both You all || Ri Rix Rit || ? || ? || ? || Rim Rixim Ritim || ? || Rorrat Roxat Rotat || Never used || Never used
|-
|Alive You (s.) Alive You both Alive You all || Rri Rrix Rrit || ? || ? || ? || Rrim Rrixim Rritim || ? || Rrorrat Rroxat Rrotat || Never used || Never used
|-
|He/Her/Alive It (s.) They, Alive They (dual) They, Alive They (pl) || Fala Falax Falat || ? || ? || ? || Fam Falam Falam || ? || Farrat Faxat Fatat || Never used || Never used

|}

When referring to "Alive" things that are more personally known, it is common to use the "Dermorian" pronoun. For example, if a Dermorian were to develop a spiritual bond with a plant, they may use "Ri" to address it as opposed to "Rri". Plural forms are not used as an indication of respect.

While Dermorian features no definite article ("the"), the genitive first person articles are used in almost exactly the same way, except following the definite noun (consistent with the rule of nouns before adjectives). Modern orthography is to glue them together as one word:

:dévenímlòm - The fire (literally: Our fire)

In general, when words have their order reversed, it's common for the latter to shift to falling tone. As a rule, all such definite articles feature this transformation.

= Example Sentences =

* Do géspèrre dénerà - I want food/I'm hungry
* Do tévnare févheàt - I fight with swords
* Ri déveneàt! - Cast Fire! (literally: You fire), note the lack of verb in a sentence that would have an imperative verb in english
* Lox tévnàre lom naárolíljaà! - We fight for our companions!

Dermorian Language

2010-04-06T08:36:04Z

Thara: /* Noun Forms */

{| class="wikitable"
|-

|-

| style="background:#F5DEB3;" | This page under development by Thara - [[User:Thara|Thara]] 15:57, 29 April 2008 (EDT)

|}

The Dermorian language (named Gádèrmará "Jah-there-mah-rah") is the language of the [[Dermorian]]s. It features an elaborate case system. The Dermorians themselves being nomads has resulted in the necessity for Dermorians to invent new words, causing Gadermara to become agglutinative; although there is evidence that this was not the case early in its development as a language.

= Writing System =
The Dermorian writing system is strongly phonetic- possibly because the language had evolved so little since writing was developed (nothing ever changes for Elves). Despite being phonetic and consistent, the language is still complex.

Consonants and vowels are formed by "grouplets" of simpler symbols, frequently written over eachother. The writing system encourages writing to be large. Increasing detail allows one to write more in the same space, allowing aesthetic arrangement based on print size, and resulting in a bewildering conciseness.

Much like the land of Dermoria, with its endless flowing rivers and valleys, the Dermorian script is an extremely smoothly flowing language. Ancient Dermorian legend has it that this script was a gift from one of their mythical goddess (although few Dermorians believe in these godesses any longer, at least since the time of Vodùl). The script was traditionally hand painted with plant dyes (and rarely-- blood). A writer would dip their finger into dye and draw a single stroke. It's common for a Dermorian to teach eir children calligraphy, consistent with the philosophy of beauty in Dermorian culture.

= Pronunciation =
Dermorian is a weakly tonal language. The 3 tones are rising (high), falling (low), and middle. In this article, these tones are written in the latin alphabet by indicating the acute, grave and no accent respectively: á, à, a. They will always be written over the last vowel over which they affect as the tone changes occur over the course of a syllable.

Syllables are not inherently emphasized.

{| border="1"
!Written||Short
|-
|A|| F'''a'''ther
|-
|C|| '''Ch'''eese
|-
|D|| '''Th'''is
|-
|E|| '''E'''nter
|-
|F|| '''F'''eel
|-
|G|| '''J'''ames
|-
|H|| '''H'''enry (but more frequently just weakly aspirated)
|-
|I|| S'''ee'''
|-
|J|| '''Y'''awn
|-
|K|| IPA: /x/ '''H'''uge (but a little bit stronger)
|-
|L|| '''L'''amb
|-
|M|| '''M'''other
|-
|N|| '''N'''o
|-
|O|| Y'''o'''rk (pronounced B'''oa'''t when long)
|-
|R|| '''R'''eal (English nasal style)
|-
|Rr|| Pe'''r'''dón (trilled in Nordic or Spanish style, not rolled)
|-
|S|| '''S'''ore
|-
|T|| '''Th'''aw
|-
|U|| M'''oo'''
|-
|V|| '''V'''ery
|-
|W|| '''W'''ater
|-
|X|| '''Sh'''ip
|-
|Y|| F'''u'''r, but closer to saying English "ee" with your mouth shaped as the English "oo"
|-
|Z|| French '''J'''e (soft Dermorian "G")
|-
|Æ|| H'''a'''t
|}

Vowels can be lengthened by writing them twice in a row. This can be done to all vowels, although in some (Æ) it is exceptionally rare. A long vowel is about twice as long as a short vowel, which is saying something as Dermorian is spoken slow to begin with (Excruciatingly slow, some say).

Dermorian has no diphthongs ''per se''; when multiple vowels are seen in a row, they are each to be pronounced independently (which can lead to some amusing consonant-free words). In fact, coupled with the tonal system, this quality has permitted the language to influence the development of Dermorian music in very interesting ways. Note that as the Dermorian letter ''j'' is always used as a consonant, which means the English word "eye" sound can be written "aj".

Be aware that this mapping of the Dermorian language to Latin script bears little resemblance to the Dermorian writing system, which is so thoroughly complicated that it could make learning the spoken language prohibitively difficult.

== Dialects ==
The few historical tribes of Dermorians had interacted frequently enough that Dermorian failed to diverge to any large degree. An interesting phenomenon is the increasing disuse of significant amounts of some of the cases (when it is not critical to meaning) among young Dermorians, possibly because of a huge amount of modern interaction with non-Dermorians. A Dermorian joke is: "How long does it take an Ylian to learn Gádèrmará?" "Fewer every day!" indicating how the language has suddenly become simplified.

= Grammar =
Dermorian is generally Subject-Verb-Object (as in English), although there are various common grammatical constructs that cause this order to change. Adjectives precede their nouns.

== Cases ==
Dermorian has the following cases:
* nominative
* dative
* ablative
* genitive
* locative
* instrumental
* temporal
* causal-final

Words may be singular, dual and plural.

Dermorian has no noun gender (even for personal pronouns).

The instrumental case is also used to describe the use of a spell.

= Vocabulary =
__NOTOC__
{| class="wikitable"
|-

|-

| style="background:#F5DEB3;" | This section is really not yet hashed out entirely [[User:Thara|Thara]] 15:57, 29 April 2008 (EDT)

|}

== Noun Forms ==
{| border="1"
!Type || Nominative || Dative || Ablative || Genitive || Locative || Instrumental || Temporal || Causal-final
|-
| 1 || ~ || ~g, ~ìg || ~d, ~ùd || ~m, ~ìm || ~eàs || ~eàt || ? || na~aà (1)
|}

(1) The inflected root word loses its first consonant's voicing if it begins with a voiced consonant: d->t, v->f, etc except for j. For example: "Naélsaà ex naténaà!" (For Love and Life!)

== Basic Words ==

=== Nouns ===
* home: fantarà
* hello: térrà
* water: jénsà
* tree: jénerà
* food: dénerà
* life: dén
* fire: déven
* wind: tjèn
* mother: eaa
* father: eoo
* companion: árolílja
* love: élsaà
* sword: févhe
* fight: tévease
* gold: axfe
* diamond: ajexte
* iron: uleen

=== Verbs ===

* go: ske
* see: Vre
* eat: Tlexe
* want: géspèrre
* write: presja
* fight: tévnàre
* build: vỳgérre (more ''emphatic'' than "make")
* live: dénee
* die: xup

'''(Need to add declension for verbs)'''

=== Conjunction ===
* and: xe (except in certain poetic phrases and all exclamatory phases without verbs, in which case it's "éx", or between two verbs, in which case "ax")

== Pronouns ==

Dermorian pronouns for "things that don't talk but are alive" such as trees or animals. They are called the "Alive" pronoun below.

{| border="1"
!English|| Dermorian Nominative || Object || Dative || Ablative || Genitive || Locative || Instrumental || Temporal || Causal-final
|-
|I (s.) We (dual) We (pl.) || Dò Lox Lot || ? || ? || ? || Dòm Lom Lom || ? || Dòrat Loxat Lotat || Never used || Never used
|-
|You (s.) You both You all || Ri Rix Rit || ? || ? || ? || Rim Rixim Ritim || ? || Rorrat Roxat Rotat || Never used || Never used
|-
|Alive You (s.) Alive You both Alive You all || Rri Rrix Rrit || ? || ? || ? || Rrim Rrixim Rritim || ? || Rrorrat Rroxat Rrotat || Never used || Never used
|-
|He/Her/Alive It (s.) They, Alive They (dual) They, Alive They (pl) || Fala Falax Falat || ? || ? || ? || Fam Falam Falam || ? || Farrat Faxat Fatat || Never used || Never used

|}

When referring to "Alive" things that are more personally known, it is common to use the "Dermorian" pronoun. For example, if a Dermorian were to develop a spiritual bond with a plant, they may use "Ri" to address it as opposed to "Rri". Plural forms are not used as an indication of respect.

While Dermorian features no definite article ("the"), the genitive first person articles are used in almost exactly the same way, except following the definite noun (consistent with the rule of nouns before adjectives). Modern orthography is to glue them together as one word:

:dévenímlòm - The fire (literally: Our fire)

In general, when words have their order reversed, it's common for the latter to shift to falling tone. As a rule, all such definite articles feature this transformation.

= Example Sentences =

* Do géspèrre dénerà - I want food/I'm hungry
* Do tévnare févheàt - I fight with swords
* Ri déveneàt! - Cast Fire! (literally: You fire), note the lack of verb in a sentence that would have an imperative verb in english
* Lox tévnàre lom naárolíljaà! - We fight for our companions!

Dermorian Language

2010-04-06T08:32:40Z

Thara:

{| class="wikitable"
|-

|-

| style="background:#F5DEB3;" | This page under development by Thara - [[User:Thara|Thara]] 15:57, 29 April 2008 (EDT)

|}

The Dermorian language (named Gádèrmará "Jah-there-mah-rah") is the language of the [[Dermorian]]s. It features an elaborate case system. The Dermorians themselves being nomads has resulted in the necessity for Dermorians to invent new words, causing Gadermara to become agglutinative; although there is evidence that this was not the case early in its development as a language.

= Writing System =
The Dermorian writing system is strongly phonetic- possibly because the language had evolved so little since writing was developed (nothing ever changes for Elves). Despite being phonetic and consistent, the language is still complex.

Consonants and vowels are formed by "grouplets" of simpler symbols, frequently written over eachother. The writing system encourages writing to be large. Increasing detail allows one to write more in the same space, allowing aesthetic arrangement based on print size, and resulting in a bewildering conciseness.

Much like the land of Dermoria, with its endless flowing rivers and valleys, the Dermorian script is an extremely smoothly flowing language. Ancient Dermorian legend has it that this script was a gift from one of their mythical goddess (although few Dermorians believe in these godesses any longer, at least since the time of Vodùl). The script was traditionally hand painted with plant dyes (and rarely-- blood). A writer would dip their finger into dye and draw a single stroke. It's common for a Dermorian to teach eir children calligraphy, consistent with the philosophy of beauty in Dermorian culture.

= Pronunciation =
Dermorian is a weakly tonal language. The 3 tones are rising (high), falling (low), and middle. In this article, these tones are written in the latin alphabet by indicating the acute, grave and no accent respectively: á, à, a. They will always be written over the last vowel over which they affect as the tone changes occur over the course of a syllable.

Syllables are not inherently emphasized.

{| border="1"
!Written||Short
|-
|A|| F'''a'''ther
|-
|C|| '''Ch'''eese
|-
|D|| '''Th'''is
|-
|E|| '''E'''nter
|-
|F|| '''F'''eel
|-
|G|| '''J'''ames
|-
|H|| '''H'''enry (but more frequently just weakly aspirated)
|-
|I|| S'''ee'''
|-
|J|| '''Y'''awn
|-
|K|| IPA: /x/ '''H'''uge (but a little bit stronger)
|-
|L|| '''L'''amb
|-
|M|| '''M'''other
|-
|N|| '''N'''o
|-
|O|| Y'''o'''rk (pronounced B'''oa'''t when long)
|-
|R|| '''R'''eal (English nasal style)
|-
|Rr|| Pe'''r'''dón (trilled in Nordic or Spanish style, not rolled)
|-
|S|| '''S'''ore
|-
|T|| '''Th'''aw
|-
|U|| M'''oo'''
|-
|V|| '''V'''ery
|-
|W|| '''W'''ater
|-
|X|| '''Sh'''ip
|-
|Y|| F'''u'''r, but closer to saying English "ee" with your mouth shaped as the English "oo"
|-
|Z|| French '''J'''e (soft Dermorian "G")
|-
|Æ|| H'''a'''t
|}

Vowels can be lengthened by writing them twice in a row. This can be done to all vowels, although in some (Æ) it is exceptionally rare. A long vowel is about twice as long as a short vowel, which is saying something as Dermorian is spoken slow to begin with (Excruciatingly slow, some say).

Dermorian has no diphthongs ''per se''; when multiple vowels are seen in a row, they are each to be pronounced independently (which can lead to some amusing consonant-free words). In fact, coupled with the tonal system, this quality has permitted the language to influence the development of Dermorian music in very interesting ways. Note that as the Dermorian letter ''j'' is always used as a consonant, which means the English word "eye" sound can be written "aj".

Be aware that this mapping of the Dermorian language to Latin script bears little resemblance to the Dermorian writing system, which is so thoroughly complicated that it could make learning the spoken language prohibitively difficult.

== Dialects ==
The few historical tribes of Dermorians had interacted frequently enough that Dermorian failed to diverge to any large degree. An interesting phenomenon is the increasing disuse of significant amounts of some of the cases (when it is not critical to meaning) among young Dermorians, possibly because of a huge amount of modern interaction with non-Dermorians. A Dermorian joke is: "How long does it take an Ylian to learn Gádèrmará?" "Fewer every day!" indicating how the language has suddenly become simplified.

= Grammar =
Dermorian is generally Subject-Verb-Object (as in English), although there are various common grammatical constructs that cause this order to change. Adjectives precede their nouns.

== Cases ==
Dermorian has the following cases:
* nominative
* dative
* ablative
* genitive
* locative
* instrumental
* temporal
* causal-final

Words may be singular, dual and plural.

Dermorian has no noun gender (even for personal pronouns).

The instrumental case is also used to describe the use of a spell.

= Vocabulary =
__NOTOC__
{| class="wikitable"
|-

|-

| style="background:#F5DEB3;" | This section is really not yet hashed out entirely [[User:Thara|Thara]] 15:57, 29 April 2008 (EDT)

|}

== Noun Forms ==
{| border="1"
!Type || Nominative || Dative || Ablative || Genitive || Locative || Instrumental || Temporal || Causal-final
|-
| 1 || ~ || ~g, ~ìg || ~d, ~ùd || ~m, ~ìm || ~eàs || ~eàt || ? || na~aà (1)
|}

1. The inflected root word loses its first consonant's voicing if it begins with a voiced consonant: d->t, v->f, etc except for j. For example: "Naélsaà ex naténaà!" (For Life and Love!)

== Basic Words ==

=== Nouns ===
* home: fantarà
* hello: térrà
* water: jénsà
* tree: jénerà
* food: dénerà
* life: dén
* fire: déven
* wind: tjèn
* mother: eaa
* father: eoo
* companion: árolílja
* love: élsaà
* sword: févhe
* fight: tévease
* gold: axfe
* diamond: ajexte
* iron: uleen

=== Verbs ===

* go: ske
* see: Vre
* eat: Tlexe
* want: géspèrre
* write: presja
* fight: tévnàre
* build: vỳgérre (more ''emphatic'' than "make")
* live: dénee
* die: xup

'''(Need to add declension for verbs)'''

=== Conjunction ===
* and: xe (except in certain poetic phrases and all exclamatory phases without verbs, in which case it's "éx", or between two verbs, in which case "ax")

== Pronouns ==

Dermorian pronouns for "things that don't talk but are alive" such as trees or animals. They are called the "Alive" pronoun below.

{| border="1"
!English|| Dermorian Nominative || Object || Dative || Ablative || Genitive || Locative || Instrumental || Temporal || Causal-final
|-
|I (s.) We (dual) We (pl.) || Dò Lox Lot || ? || ? || ? || Dòm Lom Lom || ? || Dòrat Loxat Lotat || Never used || Never used
|-
|You (s.) You both You all || Ri Rix Rit || ? || ? || ? || Rim Rixim Ritim || ? || Rorrat Roxat Rotat || Never used || Never used
|-
|Alive You (s.) Alive You both Alive You all || Rri Rrix Rrit || ? || ? || ? || Rrim Rrixim Rritim || ? || Rrorrat Rroxat Rrotat || Never used || Never used
|-
|He/Her/Alive It (s.) They, Alive They (dual) They, Alive They (pl) || Fala Falax Falat || ? || ? || ? || Fam Falam Falam || ? || Farrat Faxat Fatat || Never used || Never used

|}

When referring to "Alive" things that are more personally known, it is common to use the "Dermorian" pronoun. For example, if a Dermorian were to develop a spiritual bond with a plant, they may use "Ri" to address it as opposed to "Rri". Plural forms are not used as an indication of respect.

While Dermorian features no definite article ("the"), the genitive first person articles are used in almost exactly the same way, except following the definite noun (consistent with the rule of nouns before adjectives). Modern orthography is to glue them together as one word:

:dévenímlòm - The fire (literally: Our fire)

In general, when words have their order reversed, it's common for the latter to shift to falling tone. As a rule, all such definite articles feature this transformation.

= Example Sentences =

* Do géspèrre dénerà - I want food/I'm hungry
* Do tévnare févheàt - I fight with swords
* Ri déveneàt! - Cast Fire! (literally: You fire), note the lack of verb in a sentence that would have an imperative verb in english
* Lox tévnàre lom naárolíljaà! - We fight for our companions!

Wrathrat

2008-05-18T20:36:45Z

Thara: sp

[[Image:wrathrat.jpg|thumb|A wrathrat in the death realm]]
Wrathrats are very much like common rats in shape, however, their appearance is dramatically different. Only half of the head has flesh, the rest is skeleton; their bodies are skinned, bare muscles are open to the air and held together in places with coarse stitchings. It is unsure whether they feed or not since they do not seem to be alive in the natural sense. Some speculate that a sorcerer cast a spell upon some rats, dooming them never to rest in peace.

;Appearance: Wrathrats have the same physical shape as common rats, but their fur is of a bloody red and their skin adheres to their skeleton by only a few stitches here and there.

;Strength: Wrathrats are far more powerful than common rats; their big claws can inflict serious damage to the careless or unskilled fighter.

;Natural Habitat: Unlike common rats, wrathrats live in the Death Realm, and have never been seen in Yliakum.

Dermorian Language

2008-05-09T06:43:45Z

Thara: /* Pronunciation */

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The Dermorian language (named Gádèrmará "Jah-there-mah-rah") is the language of the [[Dermorian]]s. It features an elaborate case system. The Dermorians themselves being nomads has resulted in the necessity for Dermorians to invent new words, causing Gadermara to become agglutinative; although there is evidence that this was not the case early in its development as a language.

= Writing System =
The Dermorian writing system is strongly phonetic- possibly because the language had evolved so little since writing was developed (nothing ever changes for Elves). Despite being phonetic and consistent, the language is still complex.

Consonants and vowels are formed by "grouplets" of simpler symbols, frequently written over eachother. The writing system encourages writing to be large. Increasing detail allows one to write more in the same space, allowing aesthetic arrangement based on print size, and resulting in a bewildering conciseness.

Much like the land of Dermoria, with its endless flowing rivers and valleys, the Dermorian script is an extremely smoothly flowing language. Ancient Dermorian legend has it that this script was a gift from one of their mythical goddess (although few Dermorians believe in these godesses any longer, at least since the time of Vodùl). The script was traditionally hand painted with plant dyes (and rarely-- blood). A writer would dip their finger into dye and draw a single stroke. It's common for a Dermorian to teach eir children calligraphy, consistent with the philosophy of beauty in Dermorian culture.

= Pronunciation =
Dermorian is a weakly tonal language. The 3 tones are rising (high), falling (low), and middle. In this article, these tones are written in the latin alphabet by indicating the acute, grave and no accent respectively: á, à, a. They will always be written over the last vowel over which they affect as the tone changes occur over the course of a syllable.

Syllables are not inherently emphasized.

{| border="1"
!Written||Short
|-
|A|| F'''a'''ther
|-
|C|| '''Ch'''eese
|-
|D|| '''Th'''is
|-
|E|| '''E'''nter
|-
|F|| '''F'''eel
|-
|G|| '''J'''ames
|-
|H|| '''H'''enry (but more frequently just weakly aspirated)
|-
|I|| S'''ee'''
|-
|J|| '''Y'''awn
|-
|K|| IPA: /x/ '''H'''uge (but a little bit stronger)
|-
|L|| '''L'''amb
|-
|M|| '''M'''other
|-
|N|| '''N'''o
|-
|O|| Y'''o'''rk (pronounced B'''oa'''t when long)
|-
|R|| '''R'''eal (English nasal style)
|-
|Rr|| Pe'''r'''dón (trilled in Nordic or Spanish style, not rolled)
|-
|S|| '''S'''ore
|-
|T|| '''Th'''aw
|-
|U|| M'''oo'''
|-
|V|| '''V'''ery
|-
|W|| '''W'''ater
|-
|X|| '''Sh'''ip
|-
|Y|| F'''u'''r, but closer to saying English "ee" with your mouth shaped as the English "oo"
|-
|Z|| French '''J'''e (soft Dermorian "G")
|-
|Æ|| H'''a'''t
|}

Vowels can be lengthened by writing them twice in a row. This can be done to all vowels, although in some (Æ) it is exceptionally rare. A long vowel is about twice as long as a short vowel, which is saying something as Dermorian is spoken slow to begin with (Excruciatingly slow, some say).

Dermorian has no diphthongs ''per se''; when multiple vowels are seen in a row, they are each to be pronounced independently (which can lead to some amusing consonant-free words). In fact, coupled with the tonal system, this quality has permitted the language to influence the development of Dermorian music in very interesting ways. Note that as the Dermorian letter ''j'' is always used as a consonant, which means the English word "eye" sound can be written "aj".

Be aware that this mapping of the Dermorian language to Latin script bears little resemblance to the Dermorian writing system, which is so thoroughly complicated that it could make learning the spoken language prohibitively difficult.

== Dialects ==
The few historical tribes of Dermorians had interacted frequently enough that Dermorian failed to diverge to any large degree. An interesting phenomenon is the increasing disuse of significant amounts of some of the cases (when it is not critical to meaning) among young Dermorians, possibly because of a huge amount of modern interaction with non-Dermorians. A Dermorian joke is: "How long does it take an Ylian to learn Gádèrmará?" "Fewer every day!" indicating how the language has suddenly become simplified.

= Grammar =
Dermorian is generally Subject-Verb-Object (as in English), although there are various common grammatical constructs that cause this order to change. Adjectives precede their nouns.

== Cases ==
Dermorian has the following cases:
* nominative
* dative
* ablative
* genitive
* locative
* instrumental
* temporal
* causal-final

Words may be singular, dual and plural.

Dermorian has no noun gender (even for personal pronouns) which is interesting as many other far less complex languages in Yliakum do. The lack of personal gender might be an indication of the gender equality in Dermorian society - a feature common in naturalistic cultures.

The instrumental case is also used to describe the use of a spell.

= Vocabulary =
__NOTOC__
{| class="wikitable"
|-

|-

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|}

== Noun Forms ==
{| border="1"
!Type || Dermorian Nominative || Dative || Ablative || Genitive || Locative || Instrumental || Temporal || Causal-final
|-
| 1 || ~ || ~g, ~ìg || ~d, ~ùd || ~m, ~ìm || ~eàs || ~eàt || ? || ?
|}

== Basic Words ==

=== Nouns ===
* home: fantarà
* hello: térrà
* water: jénsà
* tree: jénerà
* food: dénerà
* life: dén
* fire: déven
* wind: tjèn
* mother: eaa
* father: eoo
* companion: árolílja
* love: élsaà
* sword: févhe
* fight: tévease
* gold: axfe
* diamond: ajexte
* iron: uleen

=== Verbs ===

* go: ske
* see: Vre
* eat: Tlexe
* want: géspèrre
* write: presja
* fight: tévnàre
* build: vỳgérre (more ''emphatic'' than "make")
* live: dénee
* die: xup

'''(Need to add declension for verbs)'''

== Pronouns ==

Dermorian pronouns for "things that don't talk but are alive" such as trees or animals. They are called the "Alive" pronoun below.

{| border="1"
!English|| Dermorian Nominative || Object || Dative || Ablative || Genitive || Locative || Instrumental || Temporal || Causal-final
|-
|I (s.) We (dual) We (pl.) || Dò Lox Lot || ? || ? || ? || Dòm Lom Lom || ? || Dòrat Loxat Lotat || Never used || Never used
|-
|You (s.) You both You all || Ri Rix Rit || ? || ? || ? || Rim Rixim Ritim || ? || Rorrat Roxat Rotat || Never used || Never used
|-
|Alive You (s.) Alive You both Alive You all || Rri Rrix Rrit || ? || ? || ? || Rrim Rrixim Rritim || ? || Rrorrat Rroxat Rrotat || Never used || Never used
|-
|He/Her/Alive It (s.) They, Alive They (dual) They, Alive They (pl) || Fala Falax Falat || ? || ? || ? || Fam Falam Falam || ? || Farrat Faxat Fatat || Never used || Never used

|}

When referring to "Alive" things that are more personally known, it is common to use the "Dermorian" pronoun. For example, if a Dermorian were to develop a spiritual bond with a plant, they may use "Ri" to address it as opposed to "Rri". Plural forms are not used as an indication of respect.

While Dermorian features no definite article ("the"), the genitive first person articles are used in almost exactly the same way, except following the definite noun (consistent with the rule of nouns before adjectives). Modern orthography is to glue them together as one word:

:dévenímlòm - The fire (literally: Our fire)

In general, when words have their order reversed, it's common for the latter to shift to falling tone. As a rule, all such definite articles feature this transformation.

= Example Sentences =

* Do géspèrra dénerà - I want food/I'm hungry
* Do térnarà févheàt - I fight with swords
* Ri déveneàt! - Cast Fire! (literally: You fire)

Dermorian Language

2008-05-09T06:42:53Z

Thara: /* Basic Words */

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The Dermorian language (named Gádèrmará "Jah-there-mah-rah") is the language of the [[Dermorian]]s. It features an elaborate case system. The Dermorians themselves being nomads has resulted in the necessity for Dermorians to invent new words, causing Gadermara to become agglutinative; although there is evidence that this was not the case early in its development as a language.

= Writing System =
The Dermorian writing system is strongly phonetic- possibly because the language had evolved so little since writing was developed (nothing ever changes for Elves). Despite being phonetic and consistent, the language is still complex.

Consonants and vowels are formed by "grouplets" of simpler symbols, frequently written over eachother. The writing system encourages writing to be large. Increasing detail allows one to write more in the same space, allowing aesthetic arrangement based on print size, and resulting in a bewildering conciseness.

Much like the land of Dermoria, with its endless flowing rivers and valleys, the Dermorian script is an extremely smoothly flowing language. Ancient Dermorian legend has it that this script was a gift from one of their mythical goddess (although few Dermorians believe in these godesses any longer, at least since the time of Vodùl). The script was traditionally hand painted with plant dyes (and rarely-- blood). A writer would dip their finger into dye and draw a single stroke. It's common for a Dermorian to teach eir children calligraphy, consistent with the philosophy of beauty in Dermorian culture.

= Pronunciation =
Dermorian is a weakly tonal language. The 3 tones are rising (high), falling (low), and middle. In this article, these tones are written in the latin alphabet by indicating the acute, grave and no accent respectively: á, à, a. They will always be written over the last vowel over which they affect as the tone changes occur over the course of a syllable.

Syllables are not inherently emphasized.

{| border="1"
!Written||Short
|-
|A|| F'''a'''ther
|-
|C|| '''Ch'''eese
|-
|D|| '''Th'''is
|-
|E|| '''E'''nter
|-
|F|| '''F'''eel
|-
|G|| '''J'''ames
|-
|H|| '''H'''enry (but more frequently just weakly aspirated)
|-
|I|| S'''ee'''
|-
|J|| '''Y'''awn
|-
|K|| IPA: /x/ '''H'''uge (but a little bit stronger)
|-
|L|| '''L'''amb
|-
|M|| '''M'''other
|-
|N|| '''N'''o
|-
|O|| Y'''o'''rk (pronounced B'''oa'''t when long)
|-
|R|| '''R'''eal (English nasal style)
|-
|Rr|| Pe'''r'''dón (trilled in Nordic or Spanish style, not rolled)
|-
|S|| '''S'''ore
|-
|T|| '''Th'''aw
|-
|U|| M'''oo'''
|-
|V|| '''V'''ery
|-
|W|| '''W'''ater
|-
|X|| '''Sh'''ip
|-
|Y|| F'''u'''r
|-
|Z|| French '''J'''e (soft Dermorian "G")
|-
|Æ|| H'''a'''t
|}

Vowels can be lengthened by writing them twice in a row. This can be done to all vowels, although in some (Æ) it is exceptionally rare. A long vowel is about twice as long as a short vowel, which is saying something as Dermorian is spoken slow to begin with (Excruciatingly slow, some say).

Dermorian has no diphthongs ''per se''; when multiple vowels are seen in a row, they are each to be pronounced independently (which can lead to some amusing consonant-free words). In fact, coupled with the tonal system, this quality has permitted the language to influence the development of Dermorian music in very interesting ways. Note that as the Dermorian letter ''j'' is always used as a consonant, which means the English word "eye" sound can be written "aj".

Be aware that this mapping of the Dermorian language to Latin script bears little resemblance to the Dermorian writing system, which is so thoroughly complicated that it could make learning the spoken language prohibitively difficult.

== Dialects ==
The few historical tribes of Dermorians had interacted frequently enough that Dermorian failed to diverge to any large degree. An interesting phenomenon is the increasing disuse of significant amounts of some of the cases (when it is not critical to meaning) among young Dermorians, possibly because of a huge amount of modern interaction with non-Dermorians. A Dermorian joke is: "How long does it take an Ylian to learn Gádèrmará?" "Fewer every day!" indicating how the language has suddenly become simplified.

= Grammar =
Dermorian is generally Subject-Verb-Object (as in English), although there are various common grammatical constructs that cause this order to change. Adjectives precede their nouns.

== Cases ==
Dermorian has the following cases:
* nominative
* dative
* ablative
* genitive
* locative
* instrumental
* temporal
* causal-final

Words may be singular, dual and plural.

Dermorian has no noun gender (even for personal pronouns) which is interesting as many other far less complex languages in Yliakum do. The lack of personal gender might be an indication of the gender equality in Dermorian society - a feature common in naturalistic cultures.

The instrumental case is also used to describe the use of a spell.

= Vocabulary =
__NOTOC__
{| class="wikitable"
|-

|-

| style="background:#F5DEB3;" | This section is really not yet hashed out entirely [[User:Thara|Thara]] 15:57, 29 April 2008 (EDT)

|}

== Noun Forms ==
{| border="1"
!Type || Dermorian Nominative || Dative || Ablative || Genitive || Locative || Instrumental || Temporal || Causal-final
|-
| 1 || ~ || ~g, ~ìg || ~d, ~ùd || ~m, ~ìm || ~eàs || ~eàt || ? || ?
|}

== Basic Words ==

=== Nouns ===
* home: fantarà
* hello: térrà
* water: jénsà
* tree: jénerà
* food: dénerà
* life: dén
* fire: déven
* wind: tjèn
* mother: eaa
* father: eoo
* companion: árolílja
* love: élsaà
* sword: févhe
* fight: tévease
* gold: axfe
* diamond: ajexte
* iron: uleen

=== Verbs ===

* go: ske
* see: Vre
* eat: Tlexe
* want: géspèrre
* write: presja
* fight: tévnàre
* build: vỳgérre (more ''emphatic'' than "make")
* live: dénee
* die: xup

'''(Need to add declension for verbs)'''

== Pronouns ==

Dermorian pronouns for "things that don't talk but are alive" such as trees or animals. They are called the "Alive" pronoun below.

{| border="1"
!English|| Dermorian Nominative || Object || Dative || Ablative || Genitive || Locative || Instrumental || Temporal || Causal-final
|-
|I (s.) We (dual) We (pl.) || Dò Lox Lot || ? || ? || ? || Dòm Lom Lom || ? || Dòrat Loxat Lotat || Never used || Never used
|-
|You (s.) You both You all || Ri Rix Rit || ? || ? || ? || Rim Rixim Ritim || ? || Rorrat Roxat Rotat || Never used || Never used
|-
|Alive You (s.) Alive You both Alive You all || Rri Rrix Rrit || ? || ? || ? || Rrim Rrixim Rritim || ? || Rrorrat Rroxat Rrotat || Never used || Never used
|-
|He/Her/Alive It (s.) They, Alive They (dual) They, Alive They (pl) || Fala Falax Falat || ? || ? || ? || Fam Falam Falam || ? || Farrat Faxat Fatat || Never used || Never used

|}

When referring to "Alive" things that are more personally known, it is common to use the "Dermorian" pronoun. For example, if a Dermorian were to develop a spiritual bond with a plant, they may use "Ri" to address it as opposed to "Rri". Plural forms are not used as an indication of respect.

While Dermorian features no definite article ("the"), the genitive first person articles are used in almost exactly the same way, except following the definite noun (consistent with the rule of nouns before adjectives). Modern orthography is to glue them together as one word:

:dévenímlòm - The fire (literally: Our fire)

In general, when words have their order reversed, it's common for the latter to shift to falling tone. As a rule, all such definite articles feature this transformation.

= Example Sentences =

* Do géspèrra dénerà - I want food/I'm hungry
* Do térnarà févheàt - I fight with swords
* Ri déveneàt! - Cast Fire! (literally: You fire)

Dermorian Language

2008-05-09T06:20:57Z

Thara: /* Nouns */

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|-

|-

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|}

The Dermorian language (named Gádèrmará "Jah-there-mah-rah") is the language of the [[Dermorian]]s. It features an elaborate case system. The Dermorians themselves being nomads has resulted in the necessity for Dermorians to invent new words, causing Gadermara to become agglutinative; although there is evidence that this was not the case early in its development as a language.

= Writing System =
The Dermorian writing system is strongly phonetic- possibly because the language had evolved so little since writing was developed (nothing ever changes for Elves). Despite being phonetic and consistent, the language is still complex.

Consonants and vowels are formed by "grouplets" of simpler symbols, frequently written over eachother. The writing system encourages writing to be large. Increasing detail allows one to write more in the same space, allowing aesthetic arrangement based on print size, and resulting in a bewildering conciseness.

Much like the land of Dermoria, with its endless flowing rivers and valleys, the Dermorian script is an extremely smoothly flowing language. Ancient Dermorian legend has it that this script was a gift from one of their mythical goddess (although few Dermorians believe in these godesses any longer, at least since the time of Vodùl). The script was traditionally hand painted with plant dyes (and rarely-- blood). A writer would dip their finger into dye and draw a single stroke. It's common for a Dermorian to teach eir children calligraphy, consistent with the philosophy of beauty in Dermorian culture.

= Pronunciation =
Dermorian is a weakly tonal language. The 3 tones are rising (high), falling (low), and middle. In this article, these tones are written in the latin alphabet by indicating the acute, grave and no accent respectively: á, à, a. They will always be written over the last vowel over which they affect as the tone changes occur over the course of a syllable.

Syllables are not inherently emphasized.

{| border="1"
!Written||Short
|-
|A|| F'''a'''ther
|-
|C|| '''Ch'''eese
|-
|D|| '''Th'''is
|-
|E|| '''E'''nter
|-
|F|| '''F'''eel
|-
|G|| '''J'''ames
|-
|H|| '''H'''enry (but more frequently just weakly aspirated)
|-
|I|| S'''ee'''
|-
|J|| '''Y'''awn
|-
|K|| IPA: /x/ '''H'''uge (but a little bit stronger)
|-
|L|| '''L'''amb
|-
|M|| '''M'''other
|-
|N|| '''N'''o
|-
|O|| Y'''o'''rk (pronounced B'''oa'''t when long)
|-
|R|| '''R'''eal (English nasal style)
|-
|Rr|| Pe'''r'''dón (trilled in Nordic or Spanish style, not rolled)
|-
|S|| '''S'''ore
|-
|T|| '''Th'''aw
|-
|U|| M'''oo'''
|-
|V|| '''V'''ery
|-
|W|| '''W'''ater
|-
|X|| '''Sh'''ip
|-
|Y|| F'''u'''r
|-
|Z|| French '''J'''e (soft Dermorian "G")
|-
|Æ|| H'''a'''t
|}

Vowels can be lengthened by writing them twice in a row. This can be done to all vowels, although in some (Æ) it is exceptionally rare. A long vowel is about twice as long as a short vowel, which is saying something as Dermorian is spoken slow to begin with (Excruciatingly slow, some say).

Dermorian has no diphthongs ''per se''; when multiple vowels are seen in a row, they are each to be pronounced independently (which can lead to some amusing consonant-free words). In fact, coupled with the tonal system, this quality has permitted the language to influence the development of Dermorian music in very interesting ways. Note that as the Dermorian letter ''j'' is always used as a consonant, which means the English word "eye" sound can be written "aj".

Be aware that this mapping of the Dermorian language to Latin script bears little resemblance to the Dermorian writing system, which is so thoroughly complicated that it could make learning the spoken language prohibitively difficult.

== Dialects ==
The few historical tribes of Dermorians had interacted frequently enough that Dermorian failed to diverge to any large degree. An interesting phenomenon is the increasing disuse of significant amounts of some of the cases (when it is not critical to meaning) among young Dermorians, possibly because of a huge amount of modern interaction with non-Dermorians. A Dermorian joke is: "How long does it take an Ylian to learn Gádèrmará?" "Fewer every day!" indicating how the language has suddenly become simplified.

= Grammar =
Dermorian is generally Subject-Verb-Object (as in English), although there are various common grammatical constructs that cause this order to change. Adjectives precede their nouns.

== Cases ==
Dermorian has the following cases:
* nominative
* dative
* ablative
* genitive
* locative
* instrumental
* temporal
* causal-final

Words may be singular, dual and plural.

Dermorian has no noun gender (even for personal pronouns) which is interesting as many other far less complex languages in Yliakum do. The lack of personal gender might be an indication of the gender equality in Dermorian society - a feature common in naturalistic cultures.

The instrumental case is also used to describe the use of a spell.

= Vocabulary =
__NOTOC__
{| class="wikitable"
|-

|-

| style="background:#F5DEB3;" | This section is really not yet hashed out entirely [[User:Thara|Thara]] 15:57, 29 April 2008 (EDT)

|}

== Noun Forms ==
{| border="1"
!Type || Dermorian Nominative || Dative || Ablative || Genitive || Locative || Instrumental || Temporal || Causal-final
|-
| 1 || ~ || ~g, ~ìg || ~d, ~ùd || ~m, ~ìm || ~eàs || ~eàt || ? || ?
|}

== Basic Words ==

=== Nouns ===
* home: fantarà
* hello: térrà
* water: jénsà
* tree: jénerà
* food: dénerà
* life: dén
* fire: déven
* wind: tjèn
* mother: eaa
* father: eoo
* companion: árolílja
* love: élsaà
* sword: févhe
* fight: tévease

=== Verbs ===

* Go: ske
* See: Vre
* Eat: Tlexe
* Want: géspèrre
* Write: presja
* Fight: tévnàre

'''(Need to add declension for verbs)'''

== Pronouns ==

Dermorian pronouns for "things that don't talk but are alive" such as trees or animals. They are called the "Alive" pronoun below.

{| border="1"
!English|| Dermorian Nominative || Object || Dative || Ablative || Genitive || Locative || Instrumental || Temporal || Causal-final
|-
|I (s.) We (dual) We (pl.) || Dò Lox Lot || ? || ? || ? || Dòm Lom Lom || ? || Dòrat Loxat Lotat || Never used || Never used
|-
|You (s.) You both You all || Ri Rix Rit || ? || ? || ? || Rim Rixim Ritim || ? || Rorrat Roxat Rotat || Never used || Never used
|-
|Alive You (s.) Alive You both Alive You all || Rri Rrix Rrit || ? || ? || ? || Rrim Rrixim Rritim || ? || Rrorrat Rroxat Rrotat || Never used || Never used
|-
|He/Her/Alive It (s.) They, Alive They (dual) They, Alive They (pl) || Fala Falax Falat || ? || ? || ? || Fam Falam Falam || ? || Farrat Faxat Fatat || Never used || Never used

|}

When referring to "Alive" things that are more personally known, it is common to use the "Dermorian" pronoun. For example, if a Dermorian were to develop a spiritual bond with a plant, they may use "Ri" to address it as opposed to "Rri". Plural forms are not used as an indication of respect.

While Dermorian features no definite article ("the"), the genitive first person articles are used in almost exactly the same way, except following the definite noun (consistent with the rule of nouns before adjectives). Modern orthography is to glue them together as one word:

:dévenímlòm - The fire (literally: Our fire)

In general, when words have their order reversed, it's common for the latter to shift to falling tone. As a rule, all such definite articles feature this transformation.

= Example Sentences =

* Do géspèrra dénerà - I want food/I'm hungry
* Do térnarà févheàt - I fight with swords
* Ri déveneàt! - Cast Fire! (literally: You fire)

Dermorian Language

2008-05-05T02:31:30Z

Thara: /* Writing System */

{| class="wikitable"
|-

|-

| style="background:#F5DEB3;" | This page under development by Thara - [[User:Thara|Thara]] 15:57, 29 April 2008 (EDT)

|}

The Dermorian language (named Gádèrmará "Jah-there-mah-rah") is the language of the [[Dermorian]]s. It features an elaborate case system. The Dermorians themselves being nomads has resulted in the necessity for Dermorians to invent new words, causing Gadermara to become agglutinative; although there is evidence that this was not the case early in its development as a language.

= Writing System =
The Dermorian writing system is strongly phonetic- possibly because the language had evolved so little since writing was developed (nothing ever changes for Elves). Despite being phonetic and consistent, the language is still complex.

Consonants and vowels are formed by "grouplets" of simpler symbols, frequently written over eachother. The writing system encourages writing to be large. Increasing detail allows one to write more in the same space, allowing aesthetic arrangement based on print size, and resulting in a bewildering conciseness.

Much like the land of Dermoria, with its endless flowing rivers and valleys, the Dermorian script is an extremely smoothly flowing language. Ancient Dermorian legend has it that this script was a gift from one of their mythical goddess (although few Dermorians believe in these godesses any longer, at least since the time of Vodùl). The script was traditionally hand painted with plant dyes (and rarely-- blood). A writer would dip their finger into dye and draw a single stroke. It's common for a Dermorian to teach eir children calligraphy, consistent with the philosophy of beauty in Dermorian culture.

= Pronunciation =
Dermorian is a weakly tonal language. The 3 tones are rising (high), falling (low), and middle. In this article, these tones are written in the latin alphabet by indicating the acute, grave and no accent respectively: á, à, a. They will always be written over the last vowel over which they affect as the tone changes occur over the course of a syllable.

Syllables are not inherently emphasized.

{| border="1"
!Written||Short
|-
|A|| F'''a'''ther
|-
|C|| '''Ch'''eese
|-
|D|| '''Th'''is
|-
|E|| '''E'''nter
|-
|F|| '''F'''eel
|-
|G|| '''J'''ames
|-
|H|| '''H'''enry (but more frequently just weakly aspirated)
|-
|I|| S'''ee'''
|-
|J|| '''Y'''awn
|-
|K|| IPA: /x/ '''H'''uge (but a little bit stronger)
|-
|L|| '''L'''amb
|-
|M|| '''M'''other
|-
|N|| '''N'''o
|-
|O|| Y'''o'''rk (pronounced B'''oa'''t when long)
|-
|R|| '''R'''eal (English nasal style)
|-
|Rr|| Pe'''r'''dón (trilled in Nordic or Spanish style, not rolled)
|-
|S|| '''S'''ore
|-
|T|| '''Th'''aw
|-
|U|| M'''oo'''
|-
|V|| '''V'''ery
|-
|W|| '''W'''ater
|-
|X|| '''Sh'''ip
|-
|Y|| F'''u'''r
|-
|Z|| French '''J'''e (soft Dermorian "G")
|-
|Æ|| H'''a'''t
|}

Vowels can be lengthened by writing them twice in a row. This can be done to all vowels, although in some (Æ) it is exceptionally rare. A long vowel is about twice as long as a short vowel, which is saying something as Dermorian is spoken slow to begin with (Excruciatingly slow, some say).

Dermorian has no diphthongs ''per se''; when multiple vowels are seen in a row, they are each to be pronounced independently (which can lead to some amusing consonant-free words). In fact, coupled with the tonal system, this quality has permitted the language to influence the development of Dermorian music in very interesting ways. Note that as the Dermorian letter ''j'' is always used as a consonant, which means the English word "eye" sound can be written "aj".

Be aware that this mapping of the Dermorian language to Latin script bears little resemblance to the Dermorian writing system, which is so thoroughly complicated that it could make learning the spoken language prohibitively difficult.

== Dialects ==
The few historical tribes of Dermorians had interacted frequently enough that Dermorian failed to diverge to any large degree. An interesting phenomenon is the increasing disuse of significant amounts of some of the cases (when it is not critical to meaning) among young Dermorians, possibly because of a huge amount of modern interaction with non-Dermorians. A Dermorian joke is: "How long does it take an Ylian to learn Gádèrmará?" "Fewer every day!" indicating how the language has suddenly become simplified.

= Grammar =
Dermorian is generally Subject-Verb-Object (as in English), although there are various common grammatical constructs that cause this order to change. Adjectives precede their nouns.

== Cases ==
Dermorian has the following cases:
* nominative
* dative
* ablative
* genitive
* locative
* instrumental
* temporal
* causal-final

Words may be singular, dual and plural.

Dermorian has no noun gender (even for personal pronouns) which is interesting as many other far less complex languages in Yliakum do. The lack of personal gender might be an indication of the gender equality in Dermorian society - a feature common in naturalistic cultures.

The instrumental case is also used to describe the use of a spell.

= Vocabulary =
__NOTOC__
{| class="wikitable"
|-

|-

| style="background:#F5DEB3;" | This section is really not yet hashed out entirely [[User:Thara|Thara]] 15:57, 29 April 2008 (EDT)

|}

== Noun Forms ==
{| border="1"
!Type || Dermorian Nominative || Dative || Ablative || Genitive || Locative || Instrumental || Temporal || Causal-final
|-
| 1 || ~ || ~g, ~ìg || ~d, ~ùd || ~m, ~ìm || ~eàs || ~eàt || ? || ?
|}

== Basic Words ==

=== Nouns ===
* home: fantarà
* hello: térrà
* water: jénsà
* tree: jénerà
* food: dénerà
* life: dén
* fire: déven
* mother: eaa
* father: eoo
* companion: árolílja
* love: élsaà

* sword: févhe
* fight: tévease

=== Verbs ===

* Go: ske
* See: Vre
* Eat: Tlexe
* Want: géspèrre
* Write: presja
* Fight: tévnàre

'''(Need to add declension for verbs)'''

== Pronouns ==

Dermorian pronouns for "things that don't talk but are alive" such as trees or animals. They are called the "Alive" pronoun below.

{| border="1"
!English|| Dermorian Nominative || Object || Dative || Ablative || Genitive || Locative || Instrumental || Temporal || Causal-final
|-
|I (s.) We (dual) We (pl.) || Dò Lox Lot || ? || ? || ? || Dòm Lom Lom || ? || Dòrat Loxat Lotat || Never used || Never used
|-
|You (s.) You both You all || Ri Rix Rit || ? || ? || ? || Rim Rixim Ritim || ? || Rorrat Roxat Rotat || Never used || Never used
|-
|Alive You (s.) Alive You both Alive You all || Rri Rrix Rrit || ? || ? || ? || Rrim Rrixim Rritim || ? || Rrorrat Rroxat Rrotat || Never used || Never used
|-
|He/Her/Alive It (s.) They, Alive They (dual) They, Alive They (pl) || Fala Falax Falat || ? || ? || ? || Fam Falam Falam || ? || Farrat Faxat Fatat || Never used || Never used

|}

When referring to "Alive" things that are more personally known, it is common to use the "Dermorian" pronoun. For example, if a Dermorian were to develop a spiritual bond with a plant, they may use "Ri" to address it as opposed to "Rri". Plural forms are not used as an indication of respect.

While Dermorian features no definite article ("the"), the genitive first person articles are used in almost exactly the same way, except following the definite noun (consistent with the rule of nouns before adjectives). Modern orthography is to glue them together as one word:

:dévenímlòm - The fire (literally: Our fire)

In general, when words have their order reversed, it's common for the latter to shift to falling tone. As a rule, all such definite articles feature this transformation.

= Example Sentences =

* Do géspèrra dénerà - I want food/I'm hungry
* Do térnarà févheàt - I fight with swords
* Ri déveneàt! - Cast Fire! (literally: You fire)

Dermorian Language

2008-05-05T02:22:13Z

Thara: /* Pronunciation */

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The Dermorian language (named Gádèrmará "Jah-there-mah-rah") is the language of the [[Dermorian]]s. It features an elaborate case system. The Dermorians themselves being nomads has resulted in the necessity for Dermorians to invent new words, causing Gadermara to become agglutinative; although there is evidence that this was not the case early in its development as a language.

= Writing System =
Dermorian is perhaps somewhat unusual in that its writing system, while still alphabetical with 25 letters, features no upper or lowercase system. The writing system is strongly phonetic- possibly because the language had evolved so little since writing was developed (nothing ever changes for Dermorians).

Much like the land of Dermoria, with its endless flowing rivers and valleys, the Dermorian script is an extremely smoothly flowing language. Ancient Dermorian legend has it that this script was a gift from their mythical goddess (no Dermorian believes in this god any longer, at least since the time of Vodùl). The script was tradionally hand painted with plant dyes (and rarely-- blood). A writer would dip their finger into dye and draw a single stroke. It's common for a Dermorian to teach eir children calligraphy, consistent with the philosophy of beauty in Dermorian culture.

= Pronunciation =
Dermorian is a weakly tonal language. The 3 tones are rising (high), falling (low), and middle. In this article, these tones are written in the latin alphabet by indicating the acute, grave and no accent respectively: á, à, a. They will always be written over the last vowel over which they affect as the tone changes occur over the course of a syllable.

Syllables are not inherently emphasized.

{| border="1"
!Written||Short
|-
|A|| F'''a'''ther
|-
|C|| '''Ch'''eese
|-
|D|| '''Th'''is
|-
|E|| '''E'''nter
|-
|F|| '''F'''eel
|-
|G|| '''J'''ames
|-
|H|| '''H'''enry (but more frequently just weakly aspirated)
|-
|I|| S'''ee'''
|-
|J|| '''Y'''awn
|-
|K|| IPA: /x/ '''H'''uge (but a little bit stronger)
|-
|L|| '''L'''amb
|-
|M|| '''M'''other
|-
|N|| '''N'''o
|-
|O|| Y'''o'''rk (pronounced B'''oa'''t when long)
|-
|R|| '''R'''eal (English nasal style)
|-
|Rr|| Pe'''r'''dón (trilled in Nordic or Spanish style, not rolled)
|-
|S|| '''S'''ore
|-
|T|| '''Th'''aw
|-
|U|| M'''oo'''
|-
|V|| '''V'''ery
|-
|W|| '''W'''ater
|-
|X|| '''Sh'''ip
|-
|Y|| F'''u'''r
|-
|Z|| French '''J'''e (soft Dermorian "G")
|-
|Æ|| H'''a'''t
|}

Vowels can be lengthened by writing them twice in a row. This can be done to all vowels, although in some (Æ) it is exceptionally rare. A long vowel is about twice as long as a short vowel, which is saying something as Dermorian is spoken slow to begin with (Excruciatingly slow, some say).

Dermorian has no diphthongs ''per se''; when multiple vowels are seen in a row, they are each to be pronounced independently (which can lead to some amusing consonant-free words). In fact, coupled with the tonal system, this quality has permitted the language to influence the development of Dermorian music in very interesting ways. Note that as the Dermorian letter ''j'' is always used as a consonant, which means the English word "eye" sound can be written "aj".

Be aware that this mapping of the Dermorian language to Latin script bears little resemblance to the Dermorian writing system, which is so thoroughly complicated that it could make learning the spoken language prohibitively difficult.

== Dialects ==
The few historical tribes of Dermorians had interacted frequently enough that Dermorian failed to diverge to any large degree. An interesting phenomenon is the increasing disuse of significant amounts of some of the cases (when it is not critical to meaning) among young Dermorians, possibly because of a huge amount of modern interaction with non-Dermorians. A Dermorian joke is: "How long does it take an Ylian to learn Gádèrmará?" "Fewer every day!" indicating how the language has suddenly become simplified.

= Grammar =
Dermorian is generally Subject-Verb-Object (as in English), although there are various common grammatical constructs that cause this order to change. Adjectives precede their nouns.

== Cases ==
Dermorian has the following cases:
* nominative
* dative
* ablative
* genitive
* locative
* instrumental
* temporal
* causal-final

Words may be singular, dual and plural.

Dermorian has no noun gender (even for personal pronouns) which is interesting as many other far less complex languages in Yliakum do. The lack of personal gender might be an indication of the gender equality in Dermorian society - a feature common in naturalistic cultures.

The instrumental case is also used to describe the use of a spell.

= Vocabulary =
__NOTOC__
{| class="wikitable"
|-

|-

| style="background:#F5DEB3;" | This section is really not yet hashed out entirely [[User:Thara|Thara]] 15:57, 29 April 2008 (EDT)

|}

== Noun Forms ==
{| border="1"
!Type || Dermorian Nominative || Dative || Ablative || Genitive || Locative || Instrumental || Temporal || Causal-final
|-
| 1 || ~ || ~g, ~ìg || ~d, ~ùd || ~m, ~ìm || ~eàs || ~eàt || ? || ?
|}

== Basic Words ==

=== Nouns ===
* home: fantarà
* hello: térrà
* water: jénsà
* tree: jénerà
* food: dénerà
* life: dén
* fire: déven
* mother: eaa
* father: eoo
* companion: árolílja
* love: élsaà

* sword: févhe
* fight: tévease

=== Verbs ===

* Go: ske
* See: Vre
* Eat: Tlexe
* Want: géspèrre
* Write: presja
* Fight: tévnàre

'''(Need to add declension for verbs)'''

== Pronouns ==

Dermorian pronouns for "things that don't talk but are alive" such as trees or animals. They are called the "Alive" pronoun below.

{| border="1"
!English|| Dermorian Nominative || Object || Dative || Ablative || Genitive || Locative || Instrumental || Temporal || Causal-final
|-
|I (s.) We (dual) We (pl.) || Dò Lox Lot || ? || ? || ? || Dòm Lom Lom || ? || Dòrat Loxat Lotat || Never used || Never used
|-
|You (s.) You both You all || Ri Rix Rit || ? || ? || ? || Rim Rixim Ritim || ? || Rorrat Roxat Rotat || Never used || Never used
|-
|Alive You (s.) Alive You both Alive You all || Rri Rrix Rrit || ? || ? || ? || Rrim Rrixim Rritim || ? || Rrorrat Rroxat Rrotat || Never used || Never used
|-
|He/Her/Alive It (s.) They, Alive They (dual) They, Alive They (pl) || Fala Falax Falat || ? || ? || ? || Fam Falam Falam || ? || Farrat Faxat Fatat || Never used || Never used

|}

When referring to "Alive" things that are more personally known, it is common to use the "Dermorian" pronoun. For example, if a Dermorian were to develop a spiritual bond with a plant, they may use "Ri" to address it as opposed to "Rri". Plural forms are not used as an indication of respect.

While Dermorian features no definite article ("the"), the genitive first person articles are used in almost exactly the same way, except following the definite noun (consistent with the rule of nouns before adjectives). Modern orthography is to glue them together as one word:

:dévenímlòm - The fire (literally: Our fire)

In general, when words have their order reversed, it's common for the latter to shift to falling tone. As a rule, all such definite articles feature this transformation.

= Example Sentences =

* Do géspèrra dénerà - I want food/I'm hungry
* Do térnarà févheàt - I fight with swords
* Ri déveneàt! - Cast Fire! (literally: You fire)

Dermorian Language

2008-05-01T01:10:17Z

Thara: /* Writing System */

{| class="wikitable"
|-

|-

| style="background:#F5DEB3;" | This page under development by Thara - [[User:Thara|Thara]] 15:57, 29 April 2008 (EDT)

|}

The Dermorian language (named Gádèrmará "Jah-there-mah-rah") is the language of the [[Dermorian]]s. It features an elaborate case system. The Dermorians themselves being nomads has resulted in the necessity for Dermorians to invent new words, causing Gadermara to become agglutinative; although there is evidence that this was not the case early in its development as a language.

= Writing System =
Dermorian is perhaps somewhat unusual in that its writing system, while still alphabetical with 25 letters, features no upper or lowercase system. The writing system is strongly phonetic- possibly because the language had evolved so little since writing was developed (nothing ever changes for Dermorians).

Much like the land of Dermoria, with its endless flowing rivers and valleys, the Dermorian script is an extremely smoothly flowing language. Ancient Dermorian legend has it that this script was a gift from their mythical goddess (no Dermorian believes in this god any longer, at least since the time of Vodùl). The script was tradionally hand painted with plant dyes (and rarely-- blood). A writer would dip their finger into dye and draw a single stroke. It's common for a Dermorian to teach eir children calligraphy, consistent with the philosophy of beauty in Dermorian culture.

= Pronunciation =
Dermorian is a weakly tonal language. The 3 tones are rising (high), falling (low), and middle. In this article, these tones are written in the latin alphabet by indicating the acute, grave and no accent respectively: á, à, a. They will always be written over the last vowel over which they affect as the tone changes occur over the course of a syllable.

Syllables are not inherently emphasized.

{| border="1"
!Written||Short
|-
|A|| F'''a'''ther
|-
|C|| '''Ch'''eese
|-
|D|| '''Th'''is
|-
|E|| '''E'''nter
|-
|F|| '''F'''eel
|-
|G|| '''J'''ames
|-
|H|| '''H'''enry (but more frequently just weakly aspirated)
|-
|I|| S'''ee'''
|-
|J|| '''Y'''awn
|-
|K|| IPA: /x/ '''H'''uge (but a little bit stronger)
|-
|L|| '''L'''amb
|-
|M|| '''M'''other
|-
|N|| '''N'''o
|-
|O|| Y'''o'''rk (pronounced B'''oa'''t when long)
|-
|R|| '''R'''eal (English nasal style)
|-
|Rr|| Pe'''r'''dón (trilled in Nordic or Spanish style, not rolled)
|-
|S|| '''S'''ore
|-
|T|| '''Th'''aw
|-
|U|| M'''oo'''
|-
|V|| '''V'''ery
|-
|W|| '''W'''ater
|-
|X|| '''Sh'''ip
|-
|Y|| F'''u'''r
|-
|Z|| French '''J'''e (soft Dermorian "G")
|-
|Æ|| H'''a'''t
|}

Vowels can be lengthened by writing them twice in a row. This can be done to all vowels, although in some (Æ) it is exceptionally rare. A long vowel is about twice as long as a short vowel, which is saying something as Dermorian is spoken slow to begin (Excrutiatingly slow, some say).

Dermorian has no diphthongs ''per se''; when multiple vowels are seen in a row, they are each to be pronounced independently (which can lead to some amusing consonant-free words). In fact, coupled with the tonal system, this quality has permitted the language to influence the development of Dermorian music in very interesting ways. Note that as the Dermorian letter ''j'' is always used as a consonant, which means the English word "eye" sound can be written "aj".

== Dialects ==
The few historical tribes of Dermorians had interacted frequently enough that Dermorian failed to diverge to any large degree. An interesting phenomenon is the increasing disuse of significant amounts of some of the cases (when it is not critical to meaning) among young Dermorians, possibly because of a huge amount of modern interaction with non-Dermorians. A Dermorian joke is: "How long does it take an Ylian to learn Gádèrmará?" "Fewer every day!" indicating how the language has suddenly become simplified.

= Grammar =
Dermorian is generally Subject-Verb-Object (as in English), although there are various common grammatical constructs that cause this order to change. Adjectives precede their nouns.

== Cases ==
Dermorian has the following cases:
* nominative
* dative
* ablative
* genitive
* locative
* instrumental
* temporal
* causal-final

Words may be singular, dual and plural.

Dermorian has no noun gender (even for personal pronouns) which is interesting as many other far less complex languages in Yliakum do. The lack of personal gender might be an indication of the gender equality in Dermorian society - a feature common in naturalistic cultures.

The instrumental case is also used to describe the use of a spell.

= Vocabulary =
__NOTOC__
{| class="wikitable"
|-

|-

| style="background:#F5DEB3;" | This section is really not yet hashed out entirely [[User:Thara|Thara]] 15:57, 29 April 2008 (EDT)

|}

== Noun Forms ==
{| border="1"
!Type || Dermorian Nominative || Dative || Ablative || Genitive || Locative || Instrumental || Temporal || Causal-final
|-
| 1 || ~ || ~g, ~ìg || ~d, ~ùd || ~m, ~ìm || ~eàs || ~eàt || ? || ?
|}

== Basic Words ==

=== Nouns ===
* home: fantarà
* hello: térrà
* water: jénsà
* tree: jénerà
* food: dénerà
* life: dén
* fire: déven
* mother: eaa
* father: eoo
* companion: árolílja
* love: élsaà

* sword: févhe
* fight: tévease

=== Verbs ===

* Go: ske
* See: Vre
* Eat: Tlexe
* Want: géspèrre
* Write: presja
* Fight: tévnàre

'''(Need to add declension for verbs)'''

== Pronouns ==

Dermorian pronouns for "things that don't talk but are alive" such as trees or animals. They are called the "Alive" pronoun below.

{| border="1"
!English|| Dermorian Nominative || Object || Dative || Ablative || Genitive || Locative || Instrumental || Temporal || Causal-final
|-
|I (s.) We (dual) We (pl.) || Dò Lox Lot || ? || ? || ? || Dòm Lom Lom || ? || Dòrat Loxat Lotat || Never used || Never used
|-
|You (s.) You both You all || Ri Rix Rit || ? || ? || ? || Rim Rixim Ritim || ? || Rorrat Roxat Rotat || Never used || Never used
|-
|Alive You (s.) Alive You both Alive You all || Rri Rrix Rrit || ? || ? || ? || Rrim Rrixim Rritim || ? || Rrorrat Rroxat Rrotat || Never used || Never used
|-
|He/Her/Alive It (s.) They, Alive They (dual) They, Alive They (pl) || Fala Falax Falat || ? || ? || ? || Fam Falam Falam || ? || Farrat Faxat Fatat || Never used || Never used

|}

When referring to "Alive" things that are more personally known, it is common to use the "Dermorian" pronoun. For example, if a Dermorian were to develop a spiritual bond with a plant, they may use "Ri" to address it as opposed to "Rri". Plural forms are not used as an indication of respect.

While Dermorian features no definite article ("the"), the genitive first person articles are used in almost exactly the same way, except following the definite noun (consistent with the rule of nouns before adjectives). Modern orthography is to glue them together as one word:

:dévenímlòm - The fire (literally: Our fire)

In general, when words have their order reversed, it's common for the latter to shift to falling tone. As a rule, all such definite articles feature this transformation.

= Example Sentences =

* Do géspèrra dénerà - I want food/I'm hungry
* Do térnarà févheàt - I fight with swords
* Ri déveneàt! - Cast Fire! (literally: You fire)

Dermorian Language

2008-05-01T01:10:06Z

Thara: /* Pronunciation */

{| class="wikitable"
|-

|-

| style="background:#F5DEB3;" | This page under development by Thara - [[User:Thara|Thara]] 15:57, 29 April 2008 (EDT)

|}

The Dermorian language (named Gádèrmará "Jah-there-mah-rah") is the language of the [[Dermorian]]s. It features an elaborate case system. The Dermorians themselves being nomads has resulted in the necessity for Dermorians to invent new words, causing Gadermara to become agglutinative; although there is evidence that this was not the case early in its development as a language.

= Writing System =
Dermorian is perhaps somewhat unusual in that its writing system, while still alphabetical with 26 letters, features no upper or lowercase system. The writing system is strongly phonetic- possibly because the language had evolved so little since writing was developed (nothing ever changes for Dermorians).

Much like the land of Dermoria, with its endless flowing rivers and valleys, the Dermorian script is an extremely smoothly flowing language. Ancient Dermorian legend has it that this script was a gift from their mythical goddess (no Dermorian believes in this god any longer, at least since the time of Vodùl). The script was tradionally hand painted with plant dyes (and rarely-- blood). A writer would dip their finger into dye and draw a single stroke. It's common for a Dermorian to teach eir children calligraphy, consistent with the philosophy of beauty in Dermorian culture.

= Pronunciation =
Dermorian is a weakly tonal language. The 3 tones are rising (high), falling (low), and middle. In this article, these tones are written in the latin alphabet by indicating the acute, grave and no accent respectively: á, à, a. They will always be written over the last vowel over which they affect as the tone changes occur over the course of a syllable.

Syllables are not inherently emphasized.

{| border="1"
!Written||Short
|-
|A|| F'''a'''ther
|-
|C|| '''Ch'''eese
|-
|D|| '''Th'''is
|-
|E|| '''E'''nter
|-
|F|| '''F'''eel
|-
|G|| '''J'''ames
|-
|H|| '''H'''enry (but more frequently just weakly aspirated)
|-
|I|| S'''ee'''
|-
|J|| '''Y'''awn
|-
|K|| IPA: /x/ '''H'''uge (but a little bit stronger)
|-
|L|| '''L'''amb
|-
|M|| '''M'''other
|-
|N|| '''N'''o
|-
|O|| Y'''o'''rk (pronounced B'''oa'''t when long)
|-
|R|| '''R'''eal (English nasal style)
|-
|Rr|| Pe'''r'''dón (trilled in Nordic or Spanish style, not rolled)
|-
|S|| '''S'''ore
|-
|T|| '''Th'''aw
|-
|U|| M'''oo'''
|-
|V|| '''V'''ery
|-
|W|| '''W'''ater
|-
|X|| '''Sh'''ip
|-
|Y|| F'''u'''r
|-
|Z|| French '''J'''e (soft Dermorian "G")
|-
|Æ|| H'''a'''t
|}

Vowels can be lengthened by writing them twice in a row. This can be done to all vowels, although in some (Æ) it is exceptionally rare. A long vowel is about twice as long as a short vowel, which is saying something as Dermorian is spoken slow to begin (Excrutiatingly slow, some say).

Dermorian has no diphthongs ''per se''; when multiple vowels are seen in a row, they are each to be pronounced independently (which can lead to some amusing consonant-free words). In fact, coupled with the tonal system, this quality has permitted the language to influence the development of Dermorian music in very interesting ways. Note that as the Dermorian letter ''j'' is always used as a consonant, which means the English word "eye" sound can be written "aj".

== Dialects ==
The few historical tribes of Dermorians had interacted frequently enough that Dermorian failed to diverge to any large degree. An interesting phenomenon is the increasing disuse of significant amounts of some of the cases (when it is not critical to meaning) among young Dermorians, possibly because of a huge amount of modern interaction with non-Dermorians. A Dermorian joke is: "How long does it take an Ylian to learn Gádèrmará?" "Fewer every day!" indicating how the language has suddenly become simplified.

= Grammar =
Dermorian is generally Subject-Verb-Object (as in English), although there are various common grammatical constructs that cause this order to change. Adjectives precede their nouns.

== Cases ==
Dermorian has the following cases:
* nominative
* dative
* ablative
* genitive
* locative
* instrumental
* temporal
* causal-final

Words may be singular, dual and plural.

Dermorian has no noun gender (even for personal pronouns) which is interesting as many other far less complex languages in Yliakum do. The lack of personal gender might be an indication of the gender equality in Dermorian society - a feature common in naturalistic cultures.

The instrumental case is also used to describe the use of a spell.

= Vocabulary =
__NOTOC__
{| class="wikitable"
|-

|-

| style="background:#F5DEB3;" | This section is really not yet hashed out entirely [[User:Thara|Thara]] 15:57, 29 April 2008 (EDT)

|}

== Noun Forms ==
{| border="1"
!Type || Dermorian Nominative || Dative || Ablative || Genitive || Locative || Instrumental || Temporal || Causal-final
|-
| 1 || ~ || ~g, ~ìg || ~d, ~ùd || ~m, ~ìm || ~eàs || ~eàt || ? || ?
|}

== Basic Words ==

=== Nouns ===
* home: fantarà
* hello: térrà
* water: jénsà
* tree: jénerà
* food: dénerà
* life: dén
* fire: déven
* mother: eaa
* father: eoo
* companion: árolílja
* love: élsaà

* sword: févhe
* fight: tévease

=== Verbs ===

* Go: ske
* See: Vre
* Eat: Tlexe
* Want: géspèrre
* Write: presja
* Fight: tévnàre

'''(Need to add declension for verbs)'''

== Pronouns ==

Dermorian pronouns for "things that don't talk but are alive" such as trees or animals. They are called the "Alive" pronoun below.

{| border="1"
!English|| Dermorian Nominative || Object || Dative || Ablative || Genitive || Locative || Instrumental || Temporal || Causal-final
|-
|I (s.) We (dual) We (pl.) || Dò Lox Lot || ? || ? || ? || Dòm Lom Lom || ? || Dòrat Loxat Lotat || Never used || Never used
|-
|You (s.) You both You all || Ri Rix Rit || ? || ? || ? || Rim Rixim Ritim || ? || Rorrat Roxat Rotat || Never used || Never used
|-
|Alive You (s.) Alive You both Alive You all || Rri Rrix Rrit || ? || ? || ? || Rrim Rrixim Rritim || ? || Rrorrat Rroxat Rrotat || Never used || Never used
|-
|He/Her/Alive It (s.) They, Alive They (dual) They, Alive They (pl) || Fala Falax Falat || ? || ? || ? || Fam Falam Falam || ? || Farrat Faxat Fatat || Never used || Never used

|}

When referring to "Alive" things that are more personally known, it is common to use the "Dermorian" pronoun. For example, if a Dermorian were to develop a spiritual bond with a plant, they may use "Ri" to address it as opposed to "Rri". Plural forms are not used as an indication of respect.

While Dermorian features no definite article ("the"), the genitive first person articles are used in almost exactly the same way, except following the definite noun (consistent with the rule of nouns before adjectives). Modern orthography is to glue them together as one word:

:dévenímlòm - The fire (literally: Our fire)

In general, when words have their order reversed, it's common for the latter to shift to falling tone. As a rule, all such definite articles feature this transformation.

= Example Sentences =

* Do géspèrra dénerà - I want food/I'm hungry
* Do térnarà févheàt - I fight with swords
* Ri déveneàt! - Cast Fire! (literally: You fire)

Dermorian Language

2008-05-01T01:08:44Z

Thara:

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The Dermorian language (named Gádèrmará "Jah-there-mah-rah") is the language of the [[Dermorian]]s. It features an elaborate case system. The Dermorians themselves being nomads has resulted in the necessity for Dermorians to invent new words, causing Gadermara to become agglutinative; although there is evidence that this was not the case early in its development as a language.

= Writing System =
Dermorian is perhaps somewhat unusual in that its writing system, while still alphabetical with 26 letters, features no upper or lowercase system. The writing system is strongly phonetic- possibly because the language had evolved so little since writing was developed (nothing ever changes for Dermorians).

Much like the land of Dermoria, with its endless flowing rivers and valleys, the Dermorian script is an extremely smoothly flowing language. Ancient Dermorian legend has it that this script was a gift from their mythical goddess (no Dermorian believes in this god any longer, at least since the time of Vodùl). The script was tradionally hand painted with plant dyes (and rarely-- blood). A writer would dip their finger into dye and draw a single stroke. It's common for a Dermorian to teach eir children calligraphy, consistent with the philosophy of beauty in Dermorian culture.

= Pronunciation =
Dermorian is a weakly tonal language. The 3 tones are rising (high), falling (low), and middle. In this article, these tones are written in the latin alphabet by indicating the acute, grave and no accent respectively: á, à, a. They will always be written over the last vowel over which they affect as the tone changes occur over the course of a syllable.

Syllables are not inherently emphasized.

{| border="1"
!Written||Short
|-
|A|| F'''a'''ther
|-
|B|| '''B'''oat
|-
|C|| '''Ch'''eese
|-
|D|| '''Th'''is
|-
|E|| '''E'''nter
|-
|F|| '''F'''eel
|-
|G|| '''J'''ames
|-
|H|| '''H'''enry (but more frequently just weakly aspirated)
|-
|I|| S'''ee'''
|-
|J|| '''Y'''awn
|-
|K|| IPA: /x/ '''H'''uge (but a little bit stronger)
|-
|L|| '''L'''amb
|-
|M|| '''M'''other
|-
|N|| '''N'''o
|-
|O|| Y'''o'''rk (pronounced B'''oa'''t when long)
|-
|P|| Not used except in loanwords
|-
|Q|| Never used
|-
|R|| '''R'''eal (English nasal style)
|-
|Rr|| Pe'''r'''dón (trilled in Nordic or Spanish style, not rolled)
|-
|S|| '''S'''ore
|-
|T|| '''Th'''aw
|-
|U|| M'''oo'''
|-
|V|| '''V'''ery
|-
|W|| '''W'''ater
|-
|X|| '''Sh'''ip
|-
|Y|| F'''u'''r
|-
|Z|| French '''J'''e (soft Dermorian "G")
|-
|Æ|| H'''a'''t
|}

Vowels can be lengthened by writing them twice in a row. This can be done to all vowels, although in some (Æ) it is exceptionally rare. A long vowel is about twice as long as a short vowel, which is saying something as Dermorian is spoken slow to begin (Excrutiatingly slow, some say).

Dermorian has no diphthongs ''per se''; when multiple vowels are seen in a row, they are each to be pronounced independently (which can lead to some amusing consonant-free words). In fact, coupled with the tonal system, this quality has permitted the language to influence the development of Dermorian music in very interesting ways. Note that as the Dermorian letter ''j'' is always used as a consonant, which means the English word "eye" sound can be written "aj".

== Dialects ==
The few historical tribes of Dermorians had interacted frequently enough that Dermorian failed to diverge to any large degree. An interesting phenomenon is the increasing disuse of significant amounts of some of the cases (when it is not critical to meaning) among young Dermorians, possibly because of a huge amount of modern interaction with non-Dermorians. A Dermorian joke is: "How long does it take an Ylian to learn Gádèrmará?" "Fewer every day!" indicating how the language has suddenly become simplified.

= Grammar =
Dermorian is generally Subject-Verb-Object (as in English), although there are various common grammatical constructs that cause this order to change. Adjectives precede their nouns.

== Cases ==
Dermorian has the following cases:
* nominative
* dative
* ablative
* genitive
* locative
* instrumental
* temporal
* causal-final

Words may be singular, dual and plural.

Dermorian has no noun gender (even for personal pronouns) which is interesting as many other far less complex languages in Yliakum do. The lack of personal gender might be an indication of the gender equality in Dermorian society - a feature common in naturalistic cultures.

The instrumental case is also used to describe the use of a spell.

= Vocabulary =
__NOTOC__
{| class="wikitable"
|-

|-

| style="background:#F5DEB3;" | This section is really not yet hashed out entirely [[User:Thara|Thara]] 15:57, 29 April 2008 (EDT)

|}

== Noun Forms ==
{| border="1"
!Type || Dermorian Nominative || Dative || Ablative || Genitive || Locative || Instrumental || Temporal || Causal-final
|-
| 1 || ~ || ~g, ~ìg || ~d, ~ùd || ~m, ~ìm || ~eàs || ~eàt || ? || ?
|}

== Basic Words ==

=== Nouns ===
* home: fantarà
* hello: térrà
* water: jénsà
* tree: jénerà
* food: dénerà
* life: dén
* fire: déven
* mother: eaa
* father: eoo
* companion: árolílja
* love: élsaà

* sword: févhe
* fight: tévease

=== Verbs ===

* Go: ske
* See: Vre
* Eat: Tlexe
* Want: géspèrre
* Write: presja
* Fight: tévnàre

'''(Need to add declension for verbs)'''

== Pronouns ==

Dermorian pronouns for "things that don't talk but are alive" such as trees or animals. They are called the "Alive" pronoun below.

{| border="1"
!English|| Dermorian Nominative || Object || Dative || Ablative || Genitive || Locative || Instrumental || Temporal || Causal-final
|-
|I (s.) We (dual) We (pl.) || Dò Lox Lot || ? || ? || ? || Dòm Lom Lom || ? || Dòrat Loxat Lotat || Never used || Never used
|-
|You (s.) You both You all || Ri Rix Rit || ? || ? || ? || Rim Rixim Ritim || ? || Rorrat Roxat Rotat || Never used || Never used
|-
|Alive You (s.) Alive You both Alive You all || Rri Rrix Rrit || ? || ? || ? || Rrim Rrixim Rritim || ? || Rrorrat Rroxat Rrotat || Never used || Never used
|-
|He/Her/Alive It (s.) They, Alive They (dual) They, Alive They (pl) || Fala Falax Falat || ? || ? || ? || Fam Falam Falam || ? || Farrat Faxat Fatat || Never used || Never used

|}

When referring to "Alive" things that are more personally known, it is common to use the "Dermorian" pronoun. For example, if a Dermorian were to develop a spiritual bond with a plant, they may use "Ri" to address it as opposed to "Rri". Plural forms are not used as an indication of respect.

While Dermorian features no definite article ("the"), the genitive first person articles are used in almost exactly the same way, except following the definite noun (consistent with the rule of nouns before adjectives). Modern orthography is to glue them together as one word:

:dévenímlòm - The fire (literally: Our fire)

In general, when words have their order reversed, it's common for the latter to shift to falling tone. As a rule, all such definite articles feature this transformation.

= Example Sentences =

* Do géspèrra dénerà - I want food/I'm hungry
* Do térnarà févheàt - I fight with swords
* Ri déveneàt! - Cast Fire! (literally: You fire)

Dermorian Language

2008-05-01T00:46:40Z

Thara:

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The Dermorian language (named Gádèrmará "Jah-there-mah-rah") is a complex language. It features an elaborate case system. The Dermorians themselves being nomads has resulted in the necessity for Dermorians to invent new words, causing Gadermara to become agglutinative; although there is evidence that this was not the case early in its development as a language.

= Writing System =
Dermorian is perhaps somewhat unusual in that its writing system, while still alphabetical with 26 letters, features no upper or lowercase system. The writing system is strongly phonetic- possibly because the language had evolved so little since writing was developed (nothing ever changes for Dermorians).

= Pronunciation =
Dermorian is a weakly tonal language. The 3 tones are rising (high), falling (low), and middle. In this article, these tones are written in the latin alphabet by indicating the acute, grave and no accent respectively: á, à, a. They will always be written over the last vowel over which they affect as the tone changes occur over the course of a syllables.

Syllables are not inherently emphasized.

{| border="1"
!Written||Short
|-
|A|| F'''a'''ther
|-
|B|| '''B'''oat
|-
|C|| '''Ch'''eese
|-
|D|| '''Th'''is
|-
|E|| '''E'''nter
|-
|F|| '''F'''eel
|-
|G|| '''J'''ames
|-
|H|| '''H'''enry (but more frequently just weakly aspirated)
|-
|I|| S'''ee'''
|-
|J|| '''Y'''awn
|-
|K|| IPA: /x/ '''H'''uge (but a little bit stronger)
|-
|L|| '''L'''amb
|-
|M|| '''M'''other
|-
|N|| '''N'''o
|-
|O|| Y'''o'''rk (pronounced B'''oa'''t when long)
|-
|P|| Not used except in loanwords
|-
|Q|| Never used
|-
|R|| '''R'''eal (English nasal style)
|-
|Rr|| Pe'''r'''dón (trilled in Nordic or Spanish style, not rolled)
|-
|S|| '''S'''ore
|-
|T|| '''Th'''aw
|-
|U|| M'''oo'''
|-
|V|| '''V'''ery
|-
|W|| '''W'''ater
|-
|X|| '''Sh'''ip
|-
|Y|| F'''u'''r
|-
|Z|| French '''J'''e (soft Dermorian "G")
|-
|Æ|| H'''a'''t
|}

Vowels can be lengthened by writing them twice in a row. This can be done to all vowels, although in some (Æ) it is exceptionally rare. A long vowel is about twice as long as a short vowel, which is saying something as Dermorian is spoken slow to begin (Excrutiatingly slow, some say).

Dermorian has no diphthongs ''per se''; when multiple vowels are seen in a row, they are each to be pronounced independently (which can lead to some amusing consonant-free words). In fact, coupled with the tonal system, this quality has permitted the language to influence the development of Dermorian music in very interesting ways. Note that as the Dermorian letter ''j'' is always used as a consonant, which means the English word "eye" sound can be written "aj".

== Dialects ==
The few historical tribes of Dermorians had interacted frequently enough that Dermorian failed to diverge to any large degree. An interesting phenomenon is the increasing disuse of significant amounts of some of the cases (when it is not critical to meaning) among young Dermorians, possibly because of a huge amount of modern interaction with non-Dermorians. A Dermorian joke is: "How long does it take an Ylian to learn Gádèrmará?" "Fewer every day!" indicating how the language has suddenly become simplified.

= Grammar =
Dermorian is generally Subject-Verb-Object (as in English), although there are various common grammatical constructs that cause this order to change. Adjectives precede their nouns.

== Cases ==
Dermorian has the following cases:
* nominative
* dative
* ablative
* genitive
* locative
* instrumental
* temporal
* causal-final

Words may be singular, dual and plural.

Dermorian has no noun gender (even for personal pronouns) which is interesting as many other far less complex languages in Yliakum do. The lack of personal gender might be an indication of the gender equality in Dermorian society - a feature common in naturalistic cultures.

The instrumental case is also used to describe the use of a spell.

= Vocabulary =
__NOTOC__
{| class="wikitable"
|-

|-

| style="background:#F5DEB3;" | This section is really not yet hashed out entirely [[User:Thara|Thara]] 15:57, 29 April 2008 (EDT)

|}

== Noun Forms ==
{| border="1"
!Type || Dermorian Nominative || Dative || Ablative || Genitive || Locative || Instrumental || Temporal || Causal-final
|-
| 1 || ~ || ~g, ~ìg || ~d, ~ùd || ~m, ~ìm || ~eàs || ~eàt || ? || ?
|}

== Basic Words ==

=== Nouns ===
* home: fantarà
* hello: térrà
* water: jénsà
* tree: jénerà
* food: dénerà
* life: dén
* fire: déven
* mother: eaa
* father: eoo
* companion: árolílja
* love: élsaà

* sword: févhe
* fight: tévease

=== Verbs ===

* Go: ske
* See: Vre
* Eat: Tlexe
* Want: géspèrre
* Write: presja
* Fight: tévnàre

'''(Need to add declension for verbs)'''

== Pronouns ==

Dermorian pronouns for "things that don't talk but are alive" such as trees or animals. They are called the "Alive" pronoun below.

{| border="1"
!English|| Dermorian Nominative || Object || Dative || Ablative || Genitive || Locative || Instrumental || Temporal || Causal-final
|-
|I (s.) We (dual) We (pl.) || Dò Lox Lot || ? || ? || ? || Dòm Lom Lom || ? || Dòrat Loxat Lotat || Never used || Never used
|-
|You (s.) You both You all || Ri Rix Rit || ? || ? || ? || Rim Rixim Ritim || ? || Rorrat Roxat Rotat || Never used || Never used
|-
|Alive You (s.) Alive You both Alive You all || Rri Rrix Rrit || ? || ? || ? || Rrim Rrixim Rritim || ? || Rrorrat Rroxat Rrotat || Never used || Never used
|-
|He/Her/Alive It (s.) They, Alive They (dual) They, Alive They (pl) || Fala Falax Falat || ? || ? || ? || Fam Falam Falam || ? || Farrat Faxat Fatat || Never used || Never used

|}

When referring to "Alive" things that are more personally known, it is common to use the "Dermorian" pronoun. For example, if a Dermorian were to develop a spiritual bond with a plant, they may use "Ri" to address it as opposed to "Rri". Plural forms are not used as an indication of respect.

While Dermorian features no definite article ("the"), the genitive first person articles are used almost exactly the same way, except following the definite noun (consistent with the rule of nouns before adjectives). Modern orthography is to glue them together as one word:

:dévenímlòm - The fire (literally: Our fire)

When words are reversed order, it's common for the latter to shift to falling tone. As a rule, all such definite articles follow this.

= Example Sentences =

* Do géspèrra dénerà - I want food/I'm hungry
* Do térnarà févheàt - I fight with swords
* Ri déveneàt! - Cast Fire! (literally: You fire)

Dermorian Language

2008-05-01T00:37:37Z

Thara: /* Pronouns */ Change Do* pronouns to havefalling tone

{| class="wikitable"
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The Dermorian language (named Gádèrmará "Jah-there-mah-rah") is a complex language. It features an elaborate case system. The Dermorians themselves being nomads has resulted in the necessity for Dermorians to invent new words, causing Gadermara to become agglutinative; although there is evidence that this was not the case early in its development as a language.

= Writing System =
Dermorian is perhaps somewhat unusual in that its writing system, while still alphabetical with 26 letters, features no upper or lowercase system. The writing system is strongly phonetic- possibly because the language had evolved so little since writing was developed (nothing ever changes for Dermorians).

= Pronunciation =
Dermorian is a weakly tonal language. The 3 tones are rising (high), falling (low), and middle. In this article, these tones are written in the latin alphabet by indicating the acute, grave and no accent respectively: á, à, a. They will always be written over the last vowel over which they affect as the tone changes occur over the course of a syllables.

Syllables are not inherently emphasized.

{| border="1"
!Written||Short
|-
|A|| F'''a'''ther
|-
|B|| '''B'''oat
|-
|C|| '''Ch'''eese
|-
|D|| '''Th'''is
|-
|E|| '''E'''nter
|-
|F|| '''F'''eel
|-
|G|| '''J'''ames
|-
|H|| '''H'''enry (but more frequently just weakly aspirated)
|-
|I|| S'''ee'''
|-
|J|| '''Y'''awn
|-
|K|| IPA: /x/ '''H'''uge (but a little bit stronger)
|-
|L|| '''L'''amb
|-
|M|| '''M'''other
|-
|N|| '''N'''o
|-
|O|| Y'''o'''rk (pronounced B'''oa'''t when long)
|-
|P|| Not used except in loanwords
|-
|Q|| Never used
|-
|R|| '''R'''eal (English nasal style)
|-
|Rr|| Pe'''r'''dón (trilled in Nordic or Spanish style, not rolled)
|-
|S|| '''S'''ore
|-
|T|| '''Th'''aw
|-
|U|| M'''oo'''
|-
|V|| '''V'''ery
|-
|W|| '''W'''ater
|-
|X|| '''Sh'''ip
|-
|Y|| F'''u'''r
|-
|Z|| French '''J'''e (soft Dermorian "G")
|-
|Æ|| H'''a'''t
|}

Vowels can be lengthened by writing them twice in a row. This can be done to all vowels, although in some (Æ) it is exceptionally rare. A long vowel is about twice as long as a short vowel, which is saying something as Dermorian is spoken slow to begin (Excrutiatingly slow, some say).

Dermorian has no diphthongs, when multiple vowels are seen in a row, they are each to be pronounced independently (which can lead to some amusing consonant-free words). In fact, coupled with the tonal system, this quality has permitted the language to influence the development of Dermorian music in very interesting ways.

== Dialects ==
The few historical tribes of Dermorians had interacted frequently enough that Dermorian failed to diverge to any large degree. An interesting phenomenon is the increasing disuse of significant amounts of some of the cases (when it is not critical to meaning) among young Dermorians, possibly because of a huge amount of modern interaction with non-Dermorians. A Dermorian joke is: "How long does it take an Ylian to learn Gádèrmará?" "Fewer every day!" indicating how the language has suddenly become simplified.

= Grammar =
Dermorian is generally Subject-Verb-Object (as in English), although there are various common grammatical constructs that cause this order to change. Adjectives precede their nouns.

== Cases ==
Dermorian has the following cases:
* nominative
* dative
* ablative
* genitive
* locative
* instrumental
* temporal
* causal-final

Words may be singular, dual and plural.

Dermorian has no noun gender (even for personal pronouns) which is interesting as many other far less complex languages in Yliakum do. The lack of personal gender might be an indication of unusually large amounts of gender equality in Dermorian society - a feature common in naturalistic cultures.

The instrumental case is also used to describe the use of a spell.

= Vocabulary =
__NOTOC__
{| class="wikitable"
|-

|-

| style="background:#F5DEB3;" | This section is really not yet hashed out entirely [[User:Thara|Thara]] 15:57, 29 April 2008 (EDT)

|}

== Noun Forms ==
{| border="1"
!Type || Dermorian Nominative || Dative || Ablative || Genitive || Locative || Instrumental || Temporal || Causal-final
|-
| 1 || ~ || ~g, ~ìg || ~d, ~ùd || ~m, ~ìm || ~eàs || ~eàt || ? || ?
|}

== Basic Words ==

=== Nouns ===
* home: fantarà
* hello: térrà
* water: jénsà
* tree: jénerà
* food: dénerà
* life: dén
* fire: déven
* mother: eaa
* father: eoo
* companion: árolílja
* love: élsaà

* sword: férrhe

=== Verbs ===

* Go: ske
* See: Vre
* Eat: Tlexe
* Want: géspèrre
* Write: presja
* Fight: térnàre

'''(Need to add declension for verbs)'''

== Pronouns ==

Dermorian pronouns for "things that don't talk but are alive" such as trees or animals. They are called the "Alive" pronoun below.

{| border="1"
!English|| Dermorian Nominative || Object || Dative || Ablative || Genitive || Locative || Instrumental || Temporal || Causal-final
|-
|I (s.) We (dual) We (pl.) || Dò Lox Lot || ? || ? || ? || Dòm Lom Lom || ? || Dòrat Loxat Lotat || Never used || Never used
|-
|You (s.) You both You all || Ri Rix Rit || ? || ? || ? || Rim Rixim Ritim || ? || Rorrat Roxat Rotat || Never used || Never used
|-
|Alive You (s.) Alive You both Alive You all || Rri Rrix Rrit || ? || ? || ? || Rrim Rrixim Rritim || ? || Rrorrat Rroxat Rrotat || Never used || Never used
|-
|He/Her/Alive It (s.) They, Alive They (dual) They, Alive They (pl) || Fala Falax Falat || ? || ? || ? || Fam Falam Falam || ? || Farrat Faxat Fatat || Never used || Never used

|}

When referring to "Alive" things that are more personally known, it is common to use the "Dermorian" pronoun. For example, if a Dermorian were to develop a spiritual bond with a plant, they may use "Ri" to address it as opposed to "Rri". Plural forms are not used as an indication of respect.

While Dermorian features no definite article ("the"), the genitive first person articles are used almost exactly the same way, except following the definite noun (consistent with the rule of nouns before adjectives). Modern orthography is to glue them together as one word:

:dévenímlom - The fire (literally: Our fire)

= Example Sentences =

* Do géspèrra dénerà - I want food/I'm hungry
* Do térnarà férrheàt - I fight with swords
* Ri déveneàt! - Cast Fire! (literally: You fire)

Dermorian Language

2008-04-30T00:07:56Z

Thara: a little flourish...

{| class="wikitable"
|-

|-

| style="background:#F5DEB3;" | This page under development by Thara - [[User:Thara|Thara]] 15:57, 29 April 2008 (EDT)

|}

The Dermorian language (named Gádèrmará "Jah-there-mah-rah") is a complex language. It features an elaborate case system. The Dermorians themselves being nomads has resulted in the necessity for Dermorians to invent new words, causing Gadermara to become agglutinative; although there is evidence that this was not the case early in its development as a language.

= Writing System =
Dermorian is perhaps somewhat unusual in that its writing system, while still alphabetical with 26 letters, features no upper or lowercase system. The writing system is strongly phonetic- possibly because the language had evolved so little since writing was developed (nothing ever changes for Dermorians).

= Pronunciation =
Dermorian is a weakly tonal language. The 3 tones are rising (high), falling (low), and middle. In this article, these tones are written in the latin alphabet by indicating the acute, grave and no accent respectively: á, à, a. They will always be written over the last vowel over which they affect as the tone changes occur over the course of a syllables.

Syllables are not inherently emphasized.

{| border="1"
!Written||Short
|-
|A|| F'''a'''ther
|-
|B|| '''B'''oat
|-
|C|| '''Ch'''eese
|-
|D|| '''Th'''is
|-
|E|| '''E'''nter
|-
|F|| '''F'''eel
|-
|G|| '''J'''ames
|-
|H|| '''H'''enry (but more frequently just weakly aspirated)
|-
|I|| S'''ee'''
|-
|J|| '''Y'''awn
|-
|K|| IPA: /x/ '''H'''uge (but a little bit stronger)
|-
|L|| '''L'''amb
|-
|M|| '''M'''other
|-
|N|| '''N'''o
|-
|O|| Y'''o'''rk (pronounced B'''oa'''t when long)
|-
|P|| Not used except in loanwords
|-
|Q|| Never used
|-
|R|| '''R'''eal (English nasal style)
|-
|Rr|| Pe'''r'''dón (trilled in Nordic or Spanish style, not rolled)
|-
|S|| '''S'''ore
|-
|T|| '''Th'''aw
|-
|U|| M'''oo'''
|-
|V|| '''V'''ery
|-
|W|| '''W'''ater
|-
|X|| '''Sh'''ip
|-
|Y|| F'''u'''r
|-
|Z|| French '''J'''e (soft Dermorian "G")
|-
|Æ|| H'''a'''t
|}

Vowels can be lengthened by writing them twice in a row. This can be done to all vowels, although in some (Æ) it is exceptionally rare. A long vowel is about twice as long as a short vowel, which is saying something as Dermorian is spoken slow to begin (Excrutiatingly slow, some say).

Dermorian has no diphthongs, when multiple vowels are seen in a row, they are each to be pronounced independently (which can lead to some amusing consonant-free words). In fact, coupled with the tonal system, this quality has permitted the language to influence the development of Dermorian music in very interesting ways.

== Dialects ==
The few historical tribes of Dermorians had interacted frequently enough that Dermorian failed to diverge to any large degree. An interesting phenomenon is the increasing disuse of significant amounts of some of the cases (when it is not critical to meaning) among young Dermorians, possibly because of a huge amount of modern interaction with non-Dermorians. A Dermorian joke is: "How long does it take an Ylian to learn Gádèrmará?" "Fewer every day!" indicating how the language has suddenly become simplified.

= Grammar =
Dermorian is generally Subject-Verb-Object (as in English), although there are various common grammatical constructs that cause this order to change. Adjectives precede their nouns.

== Cases ==
Dermorian has the following cases:
* nominative
* dative
* ablative
* genitive
* locative
* instrumental
* temporal
* causal-final

Words may be singular, dual and plural.

Dermorian has no noun gender (even for personal pronouns) which is interesting as many other far less complex languages in Yliakum do. The lack of personal gender might be an indication of unusually large amounts of gender equality in Dermorian society - a feature common in naturalistic cultures.

The instrumental case is also used to describe the use of a spell.

= Vocabulary =
__NOTOC__
{| class="wikitable"
|-

|-

| style="background:#F5DEB3;" | This section is really not yet hashed out entirely [[User:Thara|Thara]] 15:57, 29 April 2008 (EDT)

|}

== Noun Forms ==
{| border="1"
!Type || Dermorian Nominative || Dative || Ablative || Genitive || Locative || Instrumental || Temporal || Causal-final
|-
| 1 || ~ || ~g, ~ìg || ~d, ~ùd || ~m, ~ìm || ~eàs || ~eàt || ? || ?
|}

== Basic Words ==

=== Nouns ===
* home: fantarà
* hello: térrà
* water: jénsà
* tree: jénerà
* food: dénerà
* life: dén
* fire: déven
* mother: eaa
* father: eoo
* companion: árolílja
* love: élsaà

* sword: férrhe

=== Verbs ===

* Go: ske
* See: Vre
* Eat: Tlexe
* Want: géspèrre
* Write: presja
* Fight: térnàre

'''(Need to add declension for verbs)'''

== Pronouns ==

Dermorian pronouns for "things that don't talk but are alive" such as trees or animals. They are called the "Alive" pronoun below.

{| border="1"
!English|| Dermorian Nominative || Object || Dative || Ablative || Genitive || Locative || Instrumental || Temporal || Causal-final
|-
|I (s.) We (dual) We (pl.) || Do Lox Lot || ? || ? || ? || Dom Lom Lom || ? || Dorat Loxat Lotat || Never used || Never used
|-
|You (s.) You both You all || Ri Rix Rit || ? || ? || ? || Rim Rixim Ritim || ? || Rorrat Roxat Rotat || Never used || Never used
|-
|Alive You (s.) Alive You both Alive You all || Rri Rrix Rrit || ? || ? || ? || Rrim Rrixim Rritim || ? || Rrorrat Rroxat Rrotat || Never used || Never used
|-
|He/Her/Alive It (s.) They, Alive They (dual) They, Alive They (pl) || Fala Falax Falat || ? || ? || ? || Fam Falam Falam || ? || Farrat Faxat Fatat || Never used || Never used

|}

When referring to "Alive" things that are more personally known, it is common to use the "Dermorian" pronoun. For example, if a Dermorian were to develop a spiritual bond with a plant, they may use "Ri" to address it as opposed to "Rri". Plural forms are not used as an indication of respect.

While Dermorian features no definite article ("the"), the genitive first person articles are used almost exactly the same way, except following the definite noun (consistent with the rule of nouns before adjectives). Modern orthography is to glue them together as one word:

:dévenímlom - The fire (literally: Our fire)

= Example Sentences =

* Do géspèrra dénerà - I want food/I'm hungry
* Do térnarà férrheàt - I fight with swords
* Ri déveneàt! - Cast Fire! (literally: You fire)

Dermorian Language

2008-04-29T22:25:13Z

Thara: /* Pronounciation */

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The Dermorian language (named Gádèrmará "Jah-there-mah-rah") is a complex language. It features an elaborate case system. The Dermorians themselves being nomads has resulted in the necessity for Dermorians to invent new words, causing Gadermara to become agglutinative; although there is evidence that this was not the case early in its development as a language.

= Writing System =
Dermorian is perhaps somewhat unusual in that its writing system, while still alphabetical with 26 letters, features no upper or lowercase system. The writing system is strongly phonetic- possibly because the language had evolved so little since writing was developed.

= Pronunciation =
Dermorian is a weakly tonal language. The 3 tones are rising (high), falling (low), and middle. In this article, these tones are written in the latin alphabet by indicating the acute, grave and no accent respectively: á, à, a. They will always be written over the last vowel over which they affect as the tone changes occur over the course of a syllables.

Syllables are not inherently emphasized.

{| border="1"
!Written||Short
|-
|A|| F'''a'''ther
|-
|B|| '''B'''oat
|-
|C|| '''Ch'''eese
|-
|D|| '''Th'''is
|-
|E|| '''E'''nter
|-
|F|| '''F'''eel
|-
|G|| '''J'''ames
|-
|H|| '''H'''enry (but more frequently just weakly aspirated)
|-
|I|| S'''ee'''
|-
|J|| '''Y'''awn
|-
|K|| IPA: /x/ '''H'''uge (but a little bit stronger)
|-
|L|| '''L'''amb
|-
|M|| '''M'''other
|-
|N|| '''N'''o
|-
|O|| Y'''o'''rk (pronounced B'''oa'''t when long)
|-
|P|| Not used except in loanwords
|-
|Q|| Never used
|-
|R|| '''R'''eal (English nasal style)
|-
|Rr|| Pe'''r'''dón (trilled in Nordic or Spanish style, not rolled)
|-
|S|| '''S'''ore
|-
|T|| '''Th'''aw
|-
|U|| M'''oo'''
|-
|V|| '''V'''ery
|-
|W|| '''W'''ater
|-
|X|| '''Sh'''ip
|-
|Y|| F'''u'''r
|-
|Z|| French '''J'''e (soft Dermorian "G")
|-
|Æ|| H'''a'''t
|}

Vowels can be lengthened by writing them twice in a row. This can be done to all vowels, although in some (Æ) it is exceptionally rare. A long vowel is about twice as long as a short vowel, which is saying something as Dermorian is spoken slow to begin (Excrutiatingly slow, some say).

Dermorian has no diphthongs, when multiple vowels are seen in a row, they are each to be pronounced independently (which can lead to some amusing consonant-free words). In fact, coupled with the tonal system, this quality has permitted the language to influence the development of Dermorian music in very interesting ways.

== Dialects ==
The few historical tribes of Dermorians had interacted frequently enough that Dermorian failed to diverge to any large degree. An interesting phenomenon is the increasing disuse of significant amounts of some of the cases (when it is not critical to meaning) among young Dermorians, possibly because of a huge amount of modern interaction with non-Dermorians. A Dermorian joke is: "How long does it take an Ylian to learn Gádèrmará?" "Fewer every day!" indicating how the language has suddenly become simplified.

= Grammar =
Dermorian is generally Subject-Verb-Object (as in English), although there are various common grammatical constructs that cause this order to change. Adjectives precede their nouns.

== Cases ==
Dermorian has the following cases:
* nominative
* dative
* ablative
* genitive
* locative
* instrumental
* temporal
* causal-final

Words may be singular, dual and plural.

Dermorian has no noun gender (even for personal pronouns) which is interesting as many other far less complex languages in Yliakum do. The lack of personal gender might be an indication of unusually large amounts of gender equality in Dermorian society - a feature common in naturalistic cultures.

The instrumental case is also used to describe the use of a spell.

= Vocabulary =
__NOTOC__
{| class="wikitable"
|-

|-

| style="background:#F5DEB3;" | This section is really not yet hashed out entirely [[User:Thara|Thara]] 15:57, 29 April 2008 (EDT)

|}

== Noun Forms ==
{| border="1"
!Type || Dermorian Nominative || Dative || Ablative || Genitive || Locative || Instrumental || Temporal || Causal-final
|-
| 1 || ~ || ~g, ~ìg || ~d, ~ùd || ~m, ~ìm || ~eàs || ~eàt || ? || ?
|}

== Basic Words ==

=== Nouns ===
* home: fantarà
* hello: térrà
* water: jénsà
* tree: jénerà
* food: dénerà
* life: dén
* fire: déven
* mother: eaa
* father: eoo
* companion: árolílja
* love: élsaà

* sword: férrhe

=== Verbs ===

* Go: ske
* See: Vre
* Eat: Tlexe
* Want: géspèrre
* Write: presja
* Fight: térnàre

'''(Need to add declension for verbs)'''

== Pronouns ==

Dermorian pronouns for "things that don't talk but are alive" such as trees or animals. They are called the "Alive" pronoun below.

{| border="1"
!English|| Dermorian Nominative || Object || Dative || Ablative || Genitive || Locative || Instrumental || Temporal || Causal-final
|-
|I (s.) We (dual) We (pl.) || Do Lox Lot || ? || ? || ? || Dom Lom Lom || ? || Dorat Loxat Lotat || Never used || Never used
|-
|You (s.) You both You all || Ri Rix Rit || ? || ? || ? || Rim Rixim Ritim || ? || Rorrat Roxat Rotat || Never used || Never used
|-
|Alive You (s.) Alive You both Alive You all || Rri Rrix Rrit || ? || ? || ? || Rrim Rrixim Rritim || ? || Rrorrat Rroxat Rrotat || Never used || Never used
|-
|He/Her/Alive It (s.) They, Alive They (dual) They, Alive They (pl) || Fala Falax Falat || ? || ? || ? || Fam Falam Falam || ? || Farrat Faxat Fatat || Never used || Never used

|}

When referring to "Alive" things that are more personally known, it is common to use the "Dermorian" pronoun. For example, if a Dermorian were to develop a spiritual bond with a plant, they may use "Ri" to address it as opposed to "Rri". Plural forms are not used as an indication of respect.

While Dermorian features no definite article ("the"), the genitive first person articles are used almost exactly the same way, except following the definite noun (consistent with the rule of nouns before adjectives). Modern orthography is to glue them together as one word:

:dévenímlom - The fire (literally: Our fire)

= Example Sentences =

* Do géspèrra dénerà - I want food/I'm hungry
* Do térnarà férrheàt - I fight with swords
* Ri déveneàt! - Cast Fire! (literally: You fire)

Dermorian Language

2008-04-29T22:24:47Z

Thara:

{| class="wikitable"
|-

|-

| style="background:#F5DEB3;" | This page under development by Thara - [[User:Thara|Thara]] 15:57, 29 April 2008 (EDT)

|}

The Dermorian language (named Gádèrmará "Jah-there-mah-rah") is a complex language. It features an elaborate case system. The Dermorians themselves being nomads has resulted in the necessity for Dermorians to invent new words, causing Gadermara to become agglutinative; although there is evidence that this was not the case early in its development as a language.

= Writing System =
Dermorian is perhaps somewhat unusual in that its writing system, while still alphabetical with 26 letters, features no upper or lowercase system. The writing system is strongly phonetic- possibly because the language had evolved so little since writing was developed.

= Pronounciation =
Dermorian is a weakly tonal language. The 3 tones are rising (high), falling (low), and middle. In this article, these tones are written in the latin alphabet by indicating the acute, grave and no accent respectively: á, à, a. They will always be written over the last vowel over which they affect as the tone changes occur over the course of a syllables.

Syllables are not inherently emphasized.

{| border="1"
!Written||Short
|-
|A|| F'''a'''ther
|-
|B|| '''B'''oat
|-
|C|| '''Ch'''eese
|-
|D|| '''Th'''is
|-
|E|| '''E'''nter
|-
|F|| '''F'''eel
|-
|G|| '''J'''ames
|-
|H|| '''H'''enry (but more frequently just weakly aspirated)
|-
|I|| S'''ee'''
|-
|J|| '''Y'''awn
|-
|K|| IPA: /x/ '''H'''uge (but a little bit stronger)
|-
|L|| '''L'''amb
|-
|M|| '''M'''other
|-
|N|| '''N'''o
|-
|O|| Y'''o'''rk (pronounced B'''oa'''t when long)
|-
|P|| Not used except in loanwords
|-
|Q|| Never used
|-
|R|| '''R'''eal (English nasal style)
|-
|Rr|| Pe'''r'''dón (trilled in Nordic or Spanish style, not rolled)
|-
|S|| '''S'''ore
|-
|T|| '''Th'''aw
|-
|U|| M'''oo'''
|-
|V|| '''V'''ery
|-
|W|| '''W'''ater
|-
|X|| '''Sh'''ip
|-
|Y|| F'''u'''r
|-
|Z|| French '''J'''e (soft Dermorian "G")
|-
|Æ|| H'''a'''t
|}

Vowels can be lengthened by writing them twice in a row. This can be done to all vowels, although in some (Æ) it is exceptionally rare. A long vowel is about twice as long as a short vowel, which is saying something as Dermorian is spoken slow to begin (Excrutiatingly slow, some say).

Dermorian has no diphthongs, when multiple vowels are seen in a row, they are each to be pronounced independently (which can lead to some amusing consonant-free words). In fact, coupled with the tonal system, this quality has permitted the language to influence the development of Dermorian music in very interesting ways.

== Dialects ==
The few historical tribes of Dermorians had interacted frequently enough that Dermorian failed to diverge to any large degree. An interesting phenomenon is the increasing disuse of significant amounts of some of the cases (when it is not critical to meaning) among young Dermorians, possibly because of a huge amount of modern interaction with non-Dermorians. A Dermorian joke is: "How long does it take an Ylian to learn Gádèrmará?" "Fewer every day!" indicating how the language has suddenly become simplified.

= Grammar =
Dermorian is generally Subject-Verb-Object (as in English), although there are various common grammatical constructs that cause this order to change. Adjectives precede their nouns.

== Cases ==
Dermorian has the following cases:
* nominative
* dative
* ablative
* genitive
* locative
* instrumental
* temporal
* causal-final

Words may be singular, dual and plural.

Dermorian has no noun gender (even for personal pronouns) which is interesting as many other far less complex languages in Yliakum do. The lack of personal gender might be an indication of unusually large amounts of gender equality in Dermorian society - a feature common in naturalistic cultures.

The instrumental case is also used to describe the use of a spell.

= Vocabulary =
__NOTOC__
{| class="wikitable"
|-

|-

| style="background:#F5DEB3;" | This section is really not yet hashed out entirely [[User:Thara|Thara]] 15:57, 29 April 2008 (EDT)

|}

== Noun Forms ==
{| border="1"
!Type || Dermorian Nominative || Dative || Ablative || Genitive || Locative || Instrumental || Temporal || Causal-final
|-
| 1 || ~ || ~g, ~ìg || ~d, ~ùd || ~m, ~ìm || ~eàs || ~eàt || ? || ?
|}

== Basic Words ==

=== Nouns ===
* home: fantarà
* hello: térrà
* water: jénsà
* tree: jénerà
* food: dénerà
* life: dén
* fire: déven
* mother: eaa
* father: eoo
* companion: árolílja
* love: élsaà

* sword: férrhe

=== Verbs ===

* Go: ske
* See: Vre
* Eat: Tlexe
* Want: géspèrre
* Write: presja
* Fight: térnàre

'''(Need to add declension for verbs)'''

== Pronouns ==

Dermorian pronouns for "things that don't talk but are alive" such as trees or animals. They are called the "Alive" pronoun below.

{| border="1"
!English|| Dermorian Nominative || Object || Dative || Ablative || Genitive || Locative || Instrumental || Temporal || Causal-final
|-
|I (s.) We (dual) We (pl.) || Do Lox Lot || ? || ? || ? || Dom Lom Lom || ? || Dorat Loxat Lotat || Never used || Never used
|-
|You (s.) You both You all || Ri Rix Rit || ? || ? || ? || Rim Rixim Ritim || ? || Rorrat Roxat Rotat || Never used || Never used
|-
|Alive You (s.) Alive You both Alive You all || Rri Rrix Rrit || ? || ? || ? || Rrim Rrixim Rritim || ? || Rrorrat Rroxat Rrotat || Never used || Never used
|-
|He/Her/Alive It (s.) They, Alive They (dual) They, Alive They (pl) || Fala Falax Falat || ? || ? || ? || Fam Falam Falam || ? || Farrat Faxat Fatat || Never used || Never used

|}

When referring to "Alive" things that are more personally known, it is common to use the "Dermorian" pronoun. For example, if a Dermorian were to develop a spiritual bond with a plant, they may use "Ri" to address it as opposed to "Rri". Plural forms are not used as an indication of respect.

While Dermorian features no definite article ("the"), the genitive first person articles are used almost exactly the same way, except following the definite noun (consistent with the rule of nouns before adjectives). Modern orthography is to glue them together as one word:

:dévenímlom - The fire (literally: Our fire)

= Example Sentences =

* Do géspèrra dénerà - I want food/I'm hungry
* Do térnarà férrheàt - I fight with swords
* Ri déveneàt! - Cast Fire! (literally: You fire)

Dermorian Language

2008-04-29T22:20:33Z

Thara:

{| class="wikitable"
|-

|-

| style="background:#F5DEB3;" | This page under development by Thara - [[User:Thara|Thara]] 15:57, 29 April 2008 (EDT)

|}

The Dermorian language (named Gádèrmará "Jah-there-mah-rah") is a complex language. It features an elaborate case system. The Dermorians themselves being nomads has resulted in the necessity for Dermorians to invent new words, causing Gadermara to become agglutinative; although there is evidence that this was not the case early in its development as a language.

= Writing System =
Dermorian is perhaps somewhat unusual in that its writing system, while still alphabetical with 26 letters, features no upper or lowercase system. The writing system is strongly phonetic- possibly because the language had evolved so little since writing was developed.

= Pronounciation =
Dermorian is a weakly tonal language. The 3 tones are rising (high), falling (low), and middle. In this article, these tones are written in the latin alphabet by indicating the acute, grave and no accent respectively: á, à, a. They will always be written over the last vowel over which they affect as the tone changes occur over the course of a syllables.

Syllables are not inherently emphasized.

{| border="1"
!Written||Short
|-
|A|| F'''a'''ther
|-
|B|| '''B'''oat
|-
|C|| '''Ch'''eese
|-
|D|| '''Th'''is
|-
|E|| '''E'''nter
|-
|F|| '''F'''eel
|-
|G|| '''J'''ames
|-
|H|| '''H'''enry (but more frequently just weakly aspirated)
|-
|I|| S'''ee'''
|-
|J|| '''Y'''awn
|-
|K|| IPA: /x/ '''H'''uge (but a little bit stronger)
|-
|L|| '''L'''amb
|-
|M|| '''M'''other
|-
|N|| '''N'''o
|-
|O|| Y'''o'''rk (pronounced B'''oa'''t when long)
|-
|P|| Not used except in loanwords
|-
|Q|| Never used
|-
|R|| '''R'''eal (English nasal style)
|-
|Rr|| Pe'''r'''dón (trilled in Nordic or Spanish style, not rolled)
|-
|S|| '''S'''ore
|-
|T|| '''Th'''aw
|-
|U|| M'''oo'''
|-
|V|| '''V'''ery
|-
|W|| '''W'''ater
|-
|X|| '''Sh'''ip
|-
|Y|| F'''u'''r
|-
|Z|| French '''J'''e (soft Dermorian "G")
|-
|Æ|| H'''a'''t
|}

Vowels can be lengthened by writing them twice in a row. This can be done to all vowels, although in some (Æ) it is exceptionally rare. A long vowel is about twice as long as a short vowel, which is saying something as Dermorian is spoken slow to begin (Excrutiatingly slow, some say).

Dermorian has no diphthongs, when multiple vowels are seen in a row, they are each to be pronounced independently (which can lead to some amusing consonant-free words). In fact, coupled with the tonal system, this quality has permitted the language to influence the development of Dermorian music in very interesting ways.

== Dialects ==
The few historical tribes of Dermorians had interacted frequently enough that Dermorian failed to diverge to any large degree. An interesting phenomenon is the increasing disuse of significant amounts of some of the cases (when it is not critical to meaning) among young Dermorians, possibly because of a huge amount of modern interaction with non-Dermorians. A Dermorian joke is: "How long does it take an Ylian to learn Gádèrmará?" "Fewer every day!" indicating how the language has suddenly become simplified.

= Grammar =
Dermorian is generally Subject-Verb-Object (as in English), although there are various common grammatical constructs that cause this order to change. Adjectives precede their nouns.

== Cases ==
Dermorian has the following cases:
* nominative
* dative
* ablative
* genitive
* locative
* instrumental
* temporal
* causal-final

Words may be singular, dual and plural.

Dermorian has no noun gender (even for personal pronouns) which is interesting as many other far less complex languages in Yliakum do. The lack of personal gender might be an indication of unusually large amounts of gender equality in Dermorian society - a feature common in naturalistic cultures.

The instrumental case is also used to describe the use of a spell.

= Vocabulary =
__NOTOC__
{| class="wikitable"
|-

|-

| style="background:#F5DEB3;" | This section is really not yet hashed out entirely [[User:Thara|Thara]] 15:57, 29 April 2008 (EDT)

|}

== Noun Forms ==
{| border="1"
!Type || Dermorian Nominative || Dative || Ablative || Genitive || Locative || Instrumental || Temporal || Causal-final
|-
| 1 || ~ || ~g, ~ìg || ~d, ~ùd || ~m, ~ìm || ~eàs || ~eàt || ? || ?
|}

== Basic Words ==

=== Nouns ===
* Home: fantara
* Hello: térrà
* Water: jénsà
* Tree: jénerà
* Food: dénerà
* Life: dén
* Fire: déven
* mother: eaa
* father: eoo

* Sword: férrhe

=== Verbs ===

* Go: ske
* See: Vre
* Eat: Tlexe
* Want: géspèrre
* Write: presja
* Fight: térnàre

'''(Need to add declension for verbs)'''

== Pronouns ==

Dermorian pronouns for "things that don't talk but are alive" such as trees or animals. They are called the "Alive" pronoun below.

{| border="1"
!English|| Dermorian Nominative || Object || Dative || Ablative || Genitive || Locative || Instrumental || Temporal || Causal-final
|-
|I (s.) We (dual) We (pl.) || Do Lox Lot || ? || ? || ? || Dom Lom Lom || ? || Dorat Loxat Lotat || Never used || Never used
|-
|You (s.) You both You all || Ri Rix Rit || ? || ? || ? || Rim Rixim Ritim || ? || Rorrat Roxat Rotat || Never used || Never used
|-
|Alive You (s.) Alive You both Alive You all || Rri Rrix Rrit || ? || ? || ? || Rrim Rrixim Rritim || ? || Rrorrat Rroxat Rrotat || Never used || Never used
|-
|He/Her/Alive It (s.) They, Alive They (dual) They, Alive They (pl) || Fala Falax Falat || ? || ? || ? || Fam Falam Falam || ? || Farrat Faxat Fatat || Never used || Never used

|}

When referring to "Alive" things that are more personally known, it is common to use the "Dermorian" pronoun. For example, if a Dermorian were to develop a spiritual bond with a plant, they may use "Ri" to address it as opposed to "Rri". Plural forms are not used as an indication of respect.

While Dermorian features no definite article ("the"), the genitive first person articles are used almost exactly the same way, except following the definite noun (consistent with the rule of nouns before adjectives). Modern orthography is to glue them together as one word:

:dévenímlom - The fire (literally: Our fire)

= Example Sentences =

* Do géspèrra dénerà - I want food/I'm hungry
* Do térnarà férrheàt - I fight with swords
* Ri déveneàt! - Cast Fire! (literally: You fire)

Dermorian Language

2008-04-29T21:55:44Z

Thara: /* Nouns */

Dermorian Language

2008-04-29T20:19:37Z

Thara:

Dermorian Language

2008-04-29T20:17:14Z

Thara:

Dermorian Language

2008-04-29T20:13:16Z

Thara:

Dermorian Language

2008-04-29T20:07:35Z

Thara: need the tones to keep Dermorian melodic, Elves always sing

Dermorian Language

2008-04-29T19:58:14Z

Thara:

Dermorian Language

2008-04-29T19:57:46Z

Thara: first chunk