Old Roinja

Old Roinja also known as the old imperial tongue, the language of the gods or the creator words was the official language of the old Roinjan empire. Jüng Mense gave it to the people he gathered at Roshiks as he taught them how to shape the land to their needs with hands and minds. He also told them that they could really shape the world itself with the words he taught them eluding to  The Truth of Writing.

AS the empire expanded and spread its culture it also spread the language but as scholars uncovered ,ore and more about the Truth of Writing the Emperor realised that an entire populace with the power to create entire worlds might be a risk to the Empire itself. The bureaucrats of the empire used the languages of the people that the empire had assimilated to merge them to the new imperial tongue - the official language of the empire until its collapse at the shattering and the precursor to the modern common tounge spoken in ubiquitously in Urrtsch and having spread to parts of Majlaleng

An example of Roinja:

...and he stood holding his hat and turned his wet face to the wind...
hosm graks nim jol̄ blew tsirwam chosm arwum blew jüma kaneks i askwok
Pronunciation: /hozm graks nim joːɺ blew tsiˈrwam hozm ɒˈrwum blew jʉˈma kaˈneks i asˈkwok/
Roinja word order: and he stood holding hat his and turned his face wet to the wind

Phonology

Consonant inventory: /b f g h j k l m n p r s t w x z ð ŋ ɕ ɖ ɲ ɺ ʀ ʁ ʃ ʍ ʎ ʦ ʧ β/

↓Manner/Place→	Bilabial	Labiodental	Dental	Alveolar	Palato-alveolar	Retroflex	Alveolo-palatal	Palatal	Velar	Labio-velar	Uvular	Glottal
Nasal	m			n				ɲ	ŋ
Stop	p b			t		ɖ			k g
Affricate				ʦ	ʧ
Fricative	β	f	ð	s z	ʃ		ɕ		x		ʁ	h
Approximant								j		ʍ w
Trill				r							ʀ
Lateral approximant				l				ʎ
Lateral tap				ɺ

Vowel inventory: /a aː e i o oː u æ ɒ ɘ ɪ ʉ/

	Front	Central	Back
High	i	ʉ	u
Near-high	ɪ
High-mid	e	ɘ	o oː
Near-low	æ
Low	a aː		ɒ

Syllable structure: (C)(C)(C)V(C)(C)
Stress pattern: advanced
Word initial consonants: b, bl, br, f, fr, g, gl, gr, h, j, k, kl, kw, kʁ, l, m, n, p, pfl, r, s, sb, sk, skl, sl, sz, t, ts, tsx, w, x, z, zmr, ð, ŋ, ŋr, ŋw, ɕ, ɖ, ɲ, ɺ, ʀ, ʁ, ʃ, ʍ, ʎ, ʦ, ʦz, ʧ, β
Mid-word consonants: b, f, fl, g, h, j, jk, jɲ, k, kn, ksm, ksʧ, kt, kw, l, m, mhw, n, ng, nkl, nkt, ns, nsk, nt, ntr, nz, p, pr, pt, pw, pʃʁ, r, rf, rt, rw, s, skw, sp, stʁ, t, tk, tʁ, tʧ, w, x, z, ð, ŋ, ŋgw, ŋks, ɕ, ɖ, ɲ, ɺ, ʀ, ʁ, ʃ, ʃt, ʍ, ʎ, ʦ, ʧ, β
Word final consonants: b, f, g, gs, jn, jt, jʃ, k, kn, ks, kt, l, lt, lz, m, n, ng, nk, ns, nz, nʃ, pl, pt, r, rs, rt, rz, st, t, tl, ts, w, wt, x, z, zm, ŋ, ŋg, ɖ, ɲ, ɺ, ʁ, ʁs, ʁʃ, ʁʧ, ʃ, ʍ, ʎ, ʦ, ʧ, β

Spelling rules:

Pronunciation	Spelling
ʃ at the start of a word	sh
ʧ at the start of a word	tsh
aː	a
h	h|ch
oː	o
x	ch
z	s
æ	ä
ð	th
ŋ	ng
ɒ	a
ɕ	ch
ɖ	d
ɘ	e
ɪ	i
ɲ	nj
ɺ	l̄
ʀ	r
ʁ	rr
ʃ	sch
ʉ	ü
ʍ	wh
ʎ	l
ʦ	z
ʧ	tsch
β	w

Morphology

Adjective → adverb = If starts with vowel: Prefix iw-
Else: Prefix iwo-
Adjective → noun (the quality of being [adj]) = If starts with vowel: Prefix ɘŋgw-
Else: Prefix ɘŋgwaː-
Adjective → verb (to make something [adj]) = If starts with vowel: Prefix x-
Else: Prefix xi-
Noun → adjective (having the quality of [noun]) = Prefix maː-
Noun → adjective relating to noun (e.g. economy → economic) = If starts with vowel: Prefix ik-
Else: Prefix ikaː-
Noun → verb (to create [noun]) = Prefix mɪ-
Verb → adjective (result of doing [verb]) = If starts with vowel: Prefix j-
Else: Prefix jaː-
Verb → adjective (likely to do [verb]) = If starts with vowel: Prefix l-
Else: Prefix li-
Verb → noun (the act of [verb]) = Prefix i-
Verb → noun that verb physically produces (e.g. build → building) = Prefix i-
One who [verb]s (e.g. paint → painter) = If starts with vowel: Prefix ʉstʁ-
Else: Prefix ʉstʁɒ-
Place of (e.g. wine → winery) = Prefix ju-
Diminutive = Prefix o-
Augmentative = If starts with vowel: Prefix h-
Else: Prefix ho-

Syntax

Main word order: Subject-Verb-Object-Oblique. "Mary opened the door with a key" turns into Mary opened the door with a key.
Adjective order: Adjectives are positioned after the noun.
Adposition: prepositions

Noun

Singular	No affix njatsch /ɲaʧ/
Plural	If starts with vowel: Prefix ij- Else: Prefix iji- ijinjatsch /iˈjiɲaʧ/

Articles

	Definite	Indefinite
Singular	a /a/ the	sklo /skloː/ a
Plural	heks /heks/ the	düt /ɖʉt/ some

Pronouns

1st singular	u /u/ I, me
2nd singular	tscha /tsxaː/ you
3rd singular masc	graks /graks/ he, him, it
3rd singular fem	ki /ki/ she, her, it
1st plural	sak /sak/ we, us
2nd plural	ju /ju/ you (all)
3rd plural	wa /wa/ they, them

Possessive determiners

1st singular	pfla /pflaː/ my
2nd singular	ngraf /ŋraf/ your
3rd singular masc	blew /blew/ his, its
3rd singular fem	ka /ka/ her, its
1st plural	thu /ðu/ our
2nd plural	am /am/ your
3rd plural	ja /ja/ their

Verbs

Present	No affix pangg /paŋg/
Past	Prefix o- opangg /oˈpaŋg/
Future	Prefix i- ipangg /iˈpaŋg/

Perfect aspect

Perfect aspect in English is exemplified in ‘I have read this book’,
which expresses an event that took place before the time spoken
but which has an effect on or is in some way still relevant to the present.

In Roinja, the perfect is constructed with an affix

Perfect

If starts with vowel: Prefix aːk- Else: Prefix aːkɘ- akepangg /aːˈkɘpaŋg/

Dictionary

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