Medthiran - a short summary
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The basics of why Medthiran exists and some of its features.
This public article was written by [Deactivated User] on 21 Apr 2016, 02:06.
[comments] mdr This is sort of a weird project that involves making a language in which many English speakers would feel at home pronouncing the phonology, yet would be completely unintelligible to native English speakers as the grammar is meant to differ significantly. Since the sparse phonology contains phones that are very easy for native English speakers, new speakers would only have a few main roadblocks:
1) Counting in duodecimal. The Medthiran people grew up counting the pads of their hands, and as such they have a duodecimal system. Luckily, they use Arabic numerals for the most part.
2) The sizeable syllabary. The Medthiran people talk in syllabic patterns with alternating consonant-vowel pairs. As a result, they ended up having a writing system wherein each of the consonant-vowel pairs were distinguished into their own symbol. As Medthiran is fairly young, none of the symbols are unused.
3) Sentence structure. Medthiran is very strict - you must speak in a VSO pattern wherein the modifiers ALWAYS precede the modified word. However, what makes VSO tricky is not the sentence structure. Adverbs conjugate with the verb, and there are many exceptions in adverb conjugation. Unlike verbs, which all conjugate the same way, adverbs have 54 cases for each of the 54 possible endings, though endings do NOT when they are TM-Adjectives (see below description). This is due to the fact that the modifiers precede the modified word, offering a faster understanding of when some thought, idea, or action occurred. In fact, the concept of time is so important to the Medthirans that they have three deities for the past, present, and future, causing an interesting thing to happen - Medthiran uses modifiers for every other kind of tense within past, present and future making verb conjugation relatively straightforward. They didn't want to alter their deities' realms, so they simply modify them with words called TM-Adjectives.
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