Sylvan (Avlissian)
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This is a work in progress and not officially sanctioned by the team yet
Please don't use this IG yet until its completed and approved. The role, importance, grammar and even the words presented here are still subject to considerable change. (xiaou)
Base language
The fey of Avlis were created by a god named O'Ma. In his mortal life, he was a human who got instructions from the fairy goddess Titania on how to make fey when he became a god.
Because the god Dru'El was fascinated by the spirit population that used to inhabit Avlis the language of his elven people to be the same language that was once spoken by the benevolent nature spirits that inhabited the world. He made due with whatever fragments could be found and filled in the rest himself. Thus, the elven language on Avlis today is a derivative of the spirit language and therefore differs greatly from elven languages on other worlds such as Krynn or Toril or Middle Earth. Likewise, while it bears some lineage parallels to the fey languages it is quite distinct compared to other languages in the O'Man Sylvan line.
The fey races spawned by O'Ma and Titania have long been separated by the ideological differences between their two creator deities. O'Man fey languages start with Sylvan. Just as Latin is the root of many European languages O'Man sylvan is the root language of all O'Man fey languages. Each O'Man fey race will have its own language but it will bear a strong resemblance to this language similar to the way that French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese strongly resemble Latin. These major fey sub-races are: Brownie, Centaur, Dryad, Nixie, Nymph, Pixie, Satyr, Sprite and Sylph.
Similarly Titania has a line of languages which have progressed in a similar fashion although in many other game settings the elvish languages will be more exclusively influenced by Titanian Sylvan. O'man Sylvan is derived from Titanian Sylvan but bears little meaningful resemblance akin to how both German and Sanskrit are Indo-European languages but have little in common.
Speakers of O'Man Sylvan:
Those beings able to speak O'Man Sylvan would be Centaurs (as their primary language), Druids (as a second language well studied) and O'Man fey races as appropriate for character background.
Conjunctions:
- And
- But
- Or
- Nor
- yet
- so
- for
Colors:
- black
- blue
- green
- orange
- red
- white
- brown
- purple
- yellow
Expressions:
Excuse me !
Goodbye
Good day
Good night
Hello!/Well met!
Good day! (Hello!)
Good evening/ Good night!
Of course, certainly
Thank you
You're welcome
I'm sorry
I speak sylvan.
Do you speak sylvan?
I do not speak sylvan, but I want to learn.
Verbs:
Infinitives end in -as. The rest of the word is called the "stem". Therefore, to guard stem is
to attack | to leave |
to be able to | to like, to enjoy |
to bless | to listen |
to buy | to lose |
to call | to love |
to cast | to read |
to come | to remember |
to create | to rest |
to die | to return |
to drink | to save |
to eat | to say |
to excuse | to see |
to feel | to sell |
to finish | to sing |
to forget | to sit |
to fly | to speak |
to give | to stand |
to go, to walk | to take |
to hate | to travel |
to heal | to think |
to help | to understand |
to hit | to want, to need, to desire |
to hope | to watch, to guard |
to journey | to win |
to kill | to write |
to know | to run |
to learn |
Grammar
Singular | Plural |
- house | - houses |
- battle | - battles |
- field | - fields |
- way | - ways |
Single/Plural:
If the word ends in a consonant, add "-". If the word ends in a vowel, add " ".
Present Indicative tense
Singular verbs, remove the as ending and use the stem by itself:
- I guard '
- You guard
- He/She/It guards Very sloppy beginning from me (Xiaou) for what I hope will become a page on the sylvan / fey language
Plural verbs, add - to the stem:
- We guard
- You guard
- They guard
Present Perfect tense:
In the present perfect tense, it is not necessary to use the pronoun. Thus, I guarded, " ", can be " ". Accent is on the second syllable in this tense.
- I guarded
- You guarded
- He guarded
- She guarded
- We guarded
- You guarded
- They guarded
Future imperfect:
- I will guard
- You will guard
- He/She/It will guard
- We will guard
- You (pl) will guard
- They will guard
Converting a verb to a noun:
Take the stem and add the ' ' ending.
Examples:
- (to give) becomes (giving)
- (to hope) becomes (hope, or hoping)
There is no distinction in sylvan between the gerund (-ing ending) form of a verb turned into a noun and its non gerund form. Thus, hope and hoping are both ..., and you must know the context of the sentence to figure out which is which.
The verb "to be".
The only irregular verb in the oi change this.. tongue is the verb "to be". In sylvan, the verb "to be" is implied in the present tense.
- I am good.
- You are good.
- He is good.
- She is good.
- We are good.
- You are good.
- They are good.
Pronouns
1st Person:
- I -
- We -
2nd Person:
- You -
- You -
3rd Person:
- He/She -
- They -
Indirect pronouns:
- me
- you
- him
- her
- us
- you (pl)
- them
Indirect pronouns with prepositions:
- from me
- from you
- from him
- from her
- from us
- from you
- from them
Showing possession:
The sylvan language ( all this needs customized...does not use the verb to have in the same way as most other languages. Instead of saying "I have", they are literally saying "There is to me".)
You can make statements of possession by adding the proper personal ending to the root " '", as below:
- I have (literally: There is to me):
- You have (There is to you):
- He/It has (There is to him/it):
- She has (There is to her):
- We have (There is to us):
- You have (pl) (There is to you):
- They have (There is to them):
To make these negative, add the word no, " " in front of them. (probably worth keeping)
- I don't have
- You don't have
- He/it doesn't have
- She doesn't have
- We don't have
- You don't have (pl)
- They don't have
==== Misc Notes ====(change?)
- The accent is always on the first syllable unless otherwise noted.
- Adjectives come after the nouns: friendly stranger
- The preposition "from" is , and it is used in much the same was as the word "the", .