Oscuro

-Oßcuro in its own language.

"Ežeroß!" hissed the Emperor of Darkness to the chained and tethered light elf, "Kill!". The elf was taken away and tortured until she died painfully and alone in a dark, damp cell. "Dalži." "Next."

Writing System

A 25 letter language that contains mostly English letters and has the vowels at the endow the alphabet: Consonants - Bb Cc Dd Gg Hh Jj Ll Mm Nn Pp Rr ßß Tt Θθ Đđ Vv Ww Yy Zz Žž Vowels - Aa Ee Oo Ii Uu

Geographical Distribution

It is widely spoken in Zapadias, by dark elves.

Phonology

B='b' C='k' D='d' G=hard 'g' H=never silent J=soft 'g' L='l' M='m' N='n' P=P R=consonant 'r' ß='s' T='t' Θ='th' in 'think' Đ='th' in 'that' V=F W=W Y=V Z=Z Ž='s' in 'pleasure' A='a' in 'cat' E='air' O='o' in 'pot' I='ee' in 'reed' U='eur' in 'euro'

Morphology

In Oßcuro, consonants and vowels only occur simultaneously between syllables with some consonants such as 'ß' and 'ž' being incompatible. The only exception is 'ß' as it may fall before 'c', 'm', 'n', 'p' and 't' when in the same syllable. Plurals are formed by putting the letter 'u' on the end of words. for example noem (name) becomes noemu, pronounced noh-em-YER. Verbs do not change depending on the person however they do change in tense. All verbs end in 'ß' and in the past you add 't'. In the future, you add 'c'.

Syntax

In sentences, to signify a capital letter, on proper nouns, a ^ is placed before the word. At the start of a sentence, a normal capital letter is used. 'My name is Oßc' would be 'Yi noem uß ^oßc. Adjectives are placed before nouns and adverbs always after verbs. Otherwise word order is similar to English.

Vocabulary

Pronouns - I::Yo, My::Yi, Me::Yoß, Myself::Yoßi, He/She/It::Wo, His/Her/Its::Wi, Him/Her/It::Woß Himself/Herself/Itself::Woßi, You::Vo etc, We::Zo etc, They::Jo etc

Verbs - to be::uß, to have::danß, to do::oryß, to like::itoß, to say::higeß, to go::wepß, to get::đoß, to take::eθeß

Question words - who::žaß, what::opriß, when::θaßi, where::hioja, why::giaß, how::đio

Important words - a::i, the::e, of::až, that::iowop

Jogßie ipo moeri rovpes::More to come soon

Numerals

Numerals are similar to that of Roman times. Numerals cannot be subtracted from each other inside another number. Commas are placed in-between / and \, and | and (

1::/ 2::// 3::/// 4:://// 5::\ 6::\/ 7::\// 8::\/// 9::\//// 10::| 15::|\ 20::|| 50::( 100::) 500:[ 1,000::] 5,000::{ 10,000::}

For example 19999 is },{]]]],[)))),(||||,\////

Symbols

Full stops, commas, semi-colons, colons, apostrophes, ellipses, dashes, hyphens and speech marks remain the same whilst parentheses are marked with two asterisks () becomes **. question marks and exclamation marks occur before the sentence which then ends with a full stop.

Spoken by

• Dark Elf

Common Phrases

Žioß::Hello

Vaßie::Goodbye

?Đio vo uß::How are you?

Ber::Good

Žer::Bad

?Opriß uß vi noem::What's your name?

?Opriß uß vi aje::How old are you?