Ancient Tentarren

The noble language used by the Tentarren Empire revival before its breaking. The direct ancestor of modern Andellian languages, spawning, among other languages, the ancient Fyronian language.

Geographical Distribution

Used to be distributed in the eastern half of Andellion to the Dosyn and Osyn range to the West. Evolved into modern Andellian languages after the fall of the Tentarren Empire.

Morphology

The combintion of two words will often make it another word with a different meaning. Adding a -th suffix to a word implies it is either an adjective or a verb in past tense.

Syntax

Nouns are always in majuscule. Sentence structure is VOS (verb, object, subject). Language is very non-inflected, with word cues given at the beginning of the sentence to indicate verb tense, but questions lead to a SVO form (Loves him she --> She loves him?) and whether the sentence is meant to be a question or an order (the default being a declarative sentence in present tense). Most words can double as verbs, which gives a lot of double-meaning to ancient texts. Adjectives and the past form of verbs are indicated by the addition of "-th" at the end of the word: for example, the verb "to break", Sar, become "broken", Sarth (this also happens to be a rude expletive on modern Andellion).
The personal pronouns "I", "you" (singular), "he/she", "we", "you" (plural or polite) and "they" (w--, k--, d--, wa--, ka--, da--) are gendered, the male "I/you/he" being "ran" (pronounced "ren") and the female one being "rann" (pronounced "raahn"). This makes the pronouns the following: "wran/n, kran/n, dran/n, waran/n, karan/n, daran/n", with the neutral pronouns being "wra, kra, dra, wara, kara, dara". Honorifics are placed after the person's name and are also gendered (ex: one would address nobility as "[person's name] ron/n" and commoners as "[person's name] ren/na").

Dictionary

118 Words.

Common Phrases

All "you" pronouns below are singular informal. The following variants exist: karan/n: plural generic; kren/na: singular honorific (commoner karen/na: plural honorific (commoner kron/n: singular honorific (nobility and karon/n: plural honorific (nobility).

Ward-er kran/n wran/n

I see you. Used as a greeting, often abbreviated simply to "Ward" because the full thing is too difficult to say.

Ward-en kran/n Kir.

May the light watch you.

Kir va!

By the light!

Leögt Faldarsa ek!

Blood and embers!

Leöght va!

By the blood!