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Classical Enigentian
Enigentilaim
[ˈe̞nige̞nt̪ilaɪ̯m]
Registered by [Deactivated User] on 1 December 2020
Language type A priori
Place & SpeakersClassical Enigentian is spoken in Enigentian Empire.
Species Human/humanoid
About Classical Enigentian Classical Enigentian, also simply Enigentian (Enigentilaim Enigentilåim, /ˈe̞nige̞nt̪ilaɪ̯m/), is a Tuilohic language of the Athrakian language family.

It is an inflected language with two classes (hard and soft) for nouns and verbs. Nouns, adjectives and pronouns have seven noun cases (nominative, accusative, genitive, lative, ablative, abessive and instrumental). The verbs have five tense and aspect combinations in the indicative mood (present imperfective, present continuous, past perfect, past habitual and simple future) and four more grammatically tense-less constructions (prospective, desirative, optative and imperative), although some do imply tense (see article for more info).

It is head initial and generally SVO, but some constructions (with "be"/"have"...) are SOV; O can also be put elsewhere for emphasis, but S must always come before V.

When compared to other Athrutian languages, it is much more conservative with its features – keeping the dual number, using evidentiality markers or still being mostly SVO instead of SOV.

The language is written in Enigentian Inemre (Inemre Enigentilaem Inemre Enigentilåem, /ˈine̞mre̞ ˈe̞nige̞nt̪ilɑe̞m/), which ultimatelly originate in Renaghatic hieroglyphs, a sister script to Ashbarni.

Because of the size and influence of the Enigentian Empire, it has since become lingua franca of most of the educated world of Yotune, as well as being the and main language of communication between ileamuret and humans (and also the first language spoken by two different species).
Sample of Classical Enigentian[view] Ganxetxu Anelut uc Vaiciac racanicu ... , itut tatxialut mecuvcir, ... . / / Ite ... / / ... Ganxetxu Anelut ...

The North Wind and the Sun were disputing which was the stronger, when a traveler came along wrapped in a warm cloak. / / They agreed that the one who first succeeded in making the traveler take his cloak off should be considered stronger than the other. / / Then the North Wind blew as hard as he could, but the more he blew the more closely did the traveler fold his cloak around him; / / and at last the North Wind gave up the attempt. Then the Sun shined out warmly, and immediately the traveler took off his cloak. / / And so the North Wind was obliged to confess that the Sun was the stronger of the two.
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Language family relationships
Language treeAthrutian
 ⤷ Athrutian
  ⤷ Tuilohic
   ⤷ Western Tuilohic
    ⤷ Old Enigentian / Ververian
     ⤷ High Enigentian Dialect
      ⤷  Classical Enigentian
[view] About AthrutianThe Athru-Kherzomian family is a language family from a planet called Yotune on continents named Athrut and Kherzom, after which it is named. Many languages of said planet, both living and dead, belong to this family, as does the current lingua franc...
Phonology
ConsonantsBilabialLabio-
dental
DentalAlveolarPalatalLabio-
velar
Velar
Nasal m     n      
Plosive p         k g
Fricative [ɸ]1 [β]2 v3 θ       x
Affricate         c͡ç    
Lateral approximant       l      
Approximant         j w  
Trill       r      
Flap       [ɾ]4      
Blends [tx]5 [kx]6 mp
  1. allophone of /p/
  2. allophone of /v/
  3. From Proto-Tuilohian /w/ -> /v/; from that /β/ -> /ɸ/ -> /p/
  4. allophone of /r/
  5. Only in some dialects, allophone of /θ/
  6. Only in some dialects, allophone of /c͡ç/
VowelsFrontBack
Close i [ɯ]1 u
Close-mid [e]2  
Mid  
Open-mid [ɛ]3  
Open [a]4 ɑ [ɒ]5
  1. allophone of /u/
  2. allophone of /e̞/
  3. allophone of /e̞/
  4. allophone of /ɑ/
  5. allophone of /ɑ/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Classical Enigentian. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 Classical EnigentianOrthography [edit]
Ii
Ii
I
/i/
Nn
Nn
Ne
/n/
Ee
Ee
E
/e̞/
Mm
Mm
Em
/m/
Rr
Rr
Re
/r/
Kk
Cc
Cu
/k/
Uu
Uu
U
/u/
Tt
Tt
/t̪/
Åå
Aa
A
/ɑ/
Gg
Gg
Ge
/g/
Vv
Vv
Ve
/v/1
Ll
Ll
Le
/l/
Hh
Xx
Ex
/x/
✔ Shown in correct order [change]
  1. From Proto-Tuilohian /w/ -> /v/; from that /β/ -> /ɸ/ -> /p/
Additional NotesName of the script is derived from the order, where characters are ordered by their complexity in lowercase form (amount of curves/strokes/...).
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Typological information for Classical Enigentian

Base counting systemOctal (8)
Noun numbersSingular/Dual/Plural
Morphological typologySynthetic
Number of nominal casesSeven cases
Pronoun-noun possessionGenitive/Possessive case

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