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
Orthography
Grammar
Lexicon
Sample 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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