Selsesi
Most commonly used language in the world many of Selsesi's roots can be found in the dead language called the Old Words. Selsesi has many variations and dialects, ie, Semsi, Seemes, and Cedsic, known as the common language all around the world and the root for most languages. Selsesi is often used as a translator's language before using a native language. Most famously Selsesi was used to communicate with the Spokos when translations broke down. Instead of translating Nat to Delorian Selsesi was used in two diminutive forms Sersiv and Sat, war was avoided and the Spokos to this day have a tradition of teaching every child a minimum of five languages (Nat, Sat, Selsesi(common), and Old Words are the most common on Spokos besides the Warrior's language). Selsesi is only taught as a mother tongue however on Mandor/Orori. Most island's see the language as a religious or trade based language. Speaking Selsesi in its most common form is a sign of wealth and education or of traveling.
Phonology
Selsesi is an early language to pick up by listening. It sounds lightly slurred thanks to the influence of the Old Words but its structure has since taken on more constancy. Stop sounds usually appear at the end of sentences to indicate the sentence type. The K is used for demands, the T for statements, the P for questions and so on. Stop sounds are uncommon in sentences unless used at the begging sometimes.
Morphology
Most words in Selsesi are combination words. Using a non combinate is rude and shows lack of education. Selsesi between one and seven parts to each word. the core part it the combinate also called the connection. The word broken down step by step begins with the first part called the affix(prefix), usually the affix denotes the gender of the address person or object, the second part is the prepper pronoun used to denote level of formality, not used between family members or friends unless a statement is in admiration or respect. The third part is the connector used to denote the words relationship with the sentence, the fourth is the subject, the fifth is the denotation providing the subjects action and the sixth is affix(suffix) denoting the gender of the speaker or subject and lastly the stop sound ending the word and sentence. Commonly the Selsesi word only uses 4 parts when spoken dropping the first, last and second to last pieces is common practice. More recently denotions of gender have been replaced with name modifiers.
Syntax
Sentence order as denoted in the morphology is more word formation, compatible to Latin the more one adds to a word the longer it becomes and a complete sentence can be made. Secondary sections with words can be made for example if someone wanted to say there where two subjects both subjects would take the middle area of the word they would then follow on of three rules, they would merge into one word denoting both, they world be stated most important to least, or they would be replaced by a word indicating two subjects within the category they fall. (Ex: the first rule if the subject was the cat and the dog the word would be combined into the Dagtat or the Carad words meaning the two domesticated animals, this is used when being non specific. the second rule would say the more important then the next in this case whatever was considered for example one culture that worships the cat would put the cat first but if the dog was sick then maybe the go would go first if most of the sentence was in reference to that, this is used in times of more specificity, ie the subject would be the dogucat, u being the and. The third rule would just say replace the two words with the subject they share for example pets, animals, domesticated.
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