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Sci-fi mamono writefag here, back to give you a linguistics lesson from the 11th millennium, or in the main language Terrishi, "donda-vair taalyg ef millenuim oellazhi."
In the 11th millenium, where many languages and dialects are spoken throughout the galaxy, three main linguae francae are used for communication: the aformentioned Terrishi, the 'Erakliinshi language, and Ora-nikina. Terrishi, by far, is the most common within the Inner Worlds, the planets within 1000 parsecs (3,261 light years) of Earth, and the vast majority of the Outer Worlds, those systems outside the 1000 parsec boundary, while 'Erakliinshi is spoken mainly by the 'Erakliinshi Dominate and bordering regions, and Ora-nikina spoken by worlds bordering the Yuiopertian worlds.
Since Terrishi is currently the only language I've actually fleshed out, I'll begin with it.
Terrishi is a language that combines many bits and pieces of languages like English, Latin, French, German, Old Norse, Russian, and Japanese.
We'll start with phonetics:
PHONETICS
Vowels:
A - short ‘ah’
E - ‘eh'
‘E - ‘he'
I - ‘ih’, sometimes used as a ‘Y’
O - ‘ar’, ‘oh’ (1)
U - ‘oo’
Dipthongs:
AA - ‘ach’, spoken gutturally,
AE - ‘eh’
AI - ‘aye’
EA - ‘aya’
EI - ‘ayee’
IA - ‘eeya’
II - long ‘ee’
LL - See note (2)
OE - long ‘ah’
OI - 'eyr'
UA - ‘wuh’
UI - ‘ooey’
UIO - ‘wheeo’
QUA - ‘kah’
QUI - ‘key’
ZH - ‘ch’
Consonants:
Y - long 'oo'
V - makes a W sound.
Otherwise the same as English.
(W doesn't exist in the language).
Suffixes:
Suffixes are very important in both conversation and writing. They are used both for basic grammar and to denote status and relationships.
-shi: A possessive and plural suffix, generally used for most words, though there are exceptions. (3)
-zhi: A suffix designating ordinal numbers.
-ame: An informal suffix applied to a name, most often used for close family and friends. (like -chan in Japanese)
-kiin: An informal suffix designating acquaintances and distant family.
-laav: A suffix indicating the speaker's spouse. (ex.grt. "Vifa-Ishma ast Junipe-l-laav.")
-taata: An insulting suffix meaning 'Potato farmer', used in a similar sense as 'redneck' and 'hillbilly.'
-taeg: A formal, polite suffix, used for greeting religious figures.
-blaad: A formal, polite suffix, used for greeting noblemen. (4) -byro: A formal, polite suffix, used for greeting bureaucrats.
Pronouns:
Is - I, me Nois - we, our
Dem - singular, informal you Vair - formal, plural you
Oel - he, his, its Oelshi - masc. their
Ael - she, her, hers Aelshi - femn. their
(5)
notes -
(1): Pronunciation depends on dialects, most Inner-World dialects use the former, Outer-Worlds the latter.
(2): The sound 'll' makes depends on the vowel that comes immediately after it. With vowel a, it makes a 'yach' sound. With e, and 'e, it makes a 'yegh' sound. With vowel i, it makes a 'yich' sound; with vowels o and u, the sound is 'yugh'
(3): For examples, words that end in 'sh' or 'zh', since all that is needed is an 'i', not the entire suffix itself.
(4): Each specific title a ruler has, for example, Dominus, is also used as a suffix. In general, -blaad is used to address nobles of
unknown rank (as in greeting a ruler for the first time), or in addressing multiple rulers, when addressing each ruler by their actual titles would be too time-consuming.
(5): whenever a word ending with a vowel is paired with a pronoun suffix starting with a vowel, an additional interfix of -l must be added:
exempli gratia, "'Eba-ael ast non laav-Ishma" is wrong, but "'Eba-l-ael" is correct. Does not apply to prefixes or numbers.