Night Speech is the native language of the Nacdrel, a race of immortal humanoids. It is also spoken by people influenced by Nacdrel culture. Some interesting features of the language include:
Noun-based morphology
Free word order
Ergative-absolutive case system
Five-tiered plural system
Octal number system
No adjectives or adverbs
Table of Contents
Phonology
The sounds of the language, including pronunciation guides and rules of word formation.
Orthography
Rules for writing the language, including romanization, capitalization, and punctuation.
Grammar
Parts of speech, how they are formed, and how they interact to create meaning.
Lexicon
All of the words that make up the language.
Sample Texts
Translated examples of native texts.
Linguistic Notation
For clarity, this guide uses the following typographic conventions:
[ɱ]
Phonetic Transcription
Characters within brackets represent precise, individual sounds where subtle variations matter.
/ɱ/
Phonemic Transcription
Characters within slashes represent groups of similar sounds. A language considers all members of a group to be a single sound in spite of any subtle differences.
⟨m⟩
Orthographic Transcription
Characters within chevrons represent the written letters a language uses to represent a sound.
Typographic Conventions in Linguistic Notation
Phonetic and phonemic transcriptions use the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA ) . Most of the IPA pronunciations can be heard here:
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