Vereva/Languages

General
The languages of Vereva are complex and have quirks and tendencies unlike those of Earth. Each of the seven sentient races have a culture, a country and a specific language that is referenced with them. In scripts and tablets uncovered in ruins of ancient civilizations, there are also dead languages that provide evidence that the five semi-sentient races[1] were once able to speak, read and write with their own lexicons. There exist only five living tongues on Vereva in the modern world, descending from three language families, though five language families existed in the past.

Almsaundean languages
The Almsaundean language family, the largest language family, descends from the oldest languages spoken on the Almsaundean Continent. The oldest Almsaundean languages are case heavy, prone to tripartite morphosyntactical alignments and contain multiple grammatical genders. These languages have high phoneme per word ratios and regularly take stress on the penultimate syllable. Almsaundean languages are also somewhat fusional;  words are made of many bound affixes that seldom work alone. Including the semi-sentient races in their existence as sentient races, seven out of all twelve races spoke an Almsaundean language, this includes a great majority of the Vereva's most populous races making the greatest percentage of Almsaundean speakers at over 85% of the global population. In the modern world,  Aelatha is the only living language that does not descend from the Almsaundean language family.

• Almsaundean family •• Ancient Almsaundean ••• Old Almsaundean •••• Middle Almsaundean ••••• Almsaundean (assumed language of the Treants) •••• Old Dumduhor ••••• Middle Dumduhor •••••• Dumduhor ••••••• Middle Lindjerblau •••••••• Almsaundean Lindjerblau ••••••••• Lindjerbau (official language of the Giants; official language of Ancient Eidriel) •••••••• Great Lindjerblau ••••••••• Old Kahremish •••••••••• Middle Kahremish ••••••••••• Kahremish (official language of the Minotaurs; official language of Kahrim) ••••••••••• Lingua Franca (official language of the Humans; official language of Lorelei; official international auxiliary language of Vereva) ••••••••••• Mirvermish (official language of the Dwarves; official language of Vy Mirvë) •••••• Dundugora ••••••• Iblisian (assumed language of the Manticores) ••••••• Middle Bevesdani •••••••• Bevesdani (official language of the Vereva/ThaumaturgesThaumaturges; official language of Bevesta)
 * This list contains standard languages and doesn't account for any spoken dialects.

Almsaundean branch
Features of languages in the Almsaundean branch of the Almsaundean language family:
 * Type: Synthetic-Fusional
 * Alignment: Tripartite
 * Head direction: Head-Final
 * Genders: 5
 * Nouns:
 * Decline to: 8 Cases, 3 Numbers, 5 Genders


 * Verbs:
 * Conjugate to: 5 Moods, 3 Persons, 3 Numbers, 5 Tenses

Almsaundean language

 * Main: Almsaundean language

Dumduhor branch
Features of languages in the Dumduhor branch of the Almsaundean language family:
 * Type: Synthetic-Fusional /
 * Alignment: Tripartite / Nominative-accusative / nom-acc
 * Head direction: Mixed / Head-final / Head-final
 * Genders: 5 / 1  / 1
 * Nouns:
 * Decline to: 8 Cases, 2 Numbers, 5 Genders / 4 Cases, 2 Numbers,  1 Gender / 0 Cases, 2 Numbers, 1 Gender


 * Verbs:
 * Conjugate to: 7 Moods, 3 Persons, 2 Numbers, 5 Tenses / 4 Moods, 3 Persons, 2 Numbers, 5 Tenses, 3 Aspects / 3 Moods, 3 Persons, 5 Tenses, 3 Aspects

The Dumduhor and the Dundugora branches are comparative as Almsaundean languages that have compound verbs and regularly end in consonants (Dumduhor) and languages that lack compound verbs and always end in vowels (Dundugora).

Lindjerblau language

 * Main: Lindjerblau language

The Lindjerblau language was spoken by the Giants as the official language of Eidriel beside the Ji Vei language. It has the most extensive rules for sandhi when compounding words of all Almsaundean languages as well as a strong vowel pattern that may change the mood of a verb or the number of a noun. Through compounding and orthography, it has a high morpheme- and grapheme-per-word ratio. Middle Lindjerblau was adopted by the Dwarves and Minotaurs as a grammatically simpler trade language than Trollish and Ogreish. The adoption of the language led to its nationalization by the Dwarves and Minotaurs and eventually to the separation of two much simpler language from Lindjerblau called Kahremish and Mirvermish. The Lindjerblau language is a dead language, having no maternal speakers since the extinction of the Giants, however it is still widely studied in Vereva. the language is still studied by anthropologists and other scientists who frequent the archaeological sites in Eidriel. An ability to speak Lindjerblau is seen as very scholarly and intellectual.

Kahremish language

 * Main: Kahremish language

The Kahremish language is one of the child languages of the late Lindjerblau language. It is the variation of Lindjerblau that evolved in the eastern plains of the Great Continent that make up modern-day Kahrim. The Kahremish language and its sibling Mirvermish are very much simplified from their parent language. The two languages are also said to be mutually intelligible. Kahremish is the second most taught foreign language in modern Vereva and with its soft, palatal cadence, an ability to speak it is seen as chic.

Mirvermish language

 * Main: Mirvermish language

The Mirvermish language is an language of the Dumduhor branch of the Almsaundean language family. Mirvermish derives from the parent language Lindjerblau and was brought to the tundra of the Great Continent circa year 500. The language worked as the de facto auxiliary language of Vereva during the Age of the Dwarves, though has lost its value in modern times despite its intelligibility with Kahremish. An ability of a non-Dwarf to speak Mirvermish is considered peculiar at best.

Lingua Franca language

 * Main: Lingua Franca language

Dundugora branch
Features of languages in the Dundugora branch of the Almsaundean language family:
 * Type: Fusional
 * Alignment: Tripartite
 * Head direction: Mixed
 * Genders: 3
 * Nouns:
 * Decline to: 8 Cases, 2 Numbers, 3 Genders


 * Verbs:
 * Conjugate to: 2 Voices, 7 Moods, 3 Persons, 2 Numbers, 5 Tenses, 16 Aspects

The Dumduhor and the Dundugora branches are comparative as Almsaundean languages that have compound verbs and regularly end in consonants (Dumduhor) and languages that lack compound verbs and always end in vowels (Dundugora).

Bevesdani language

 * Main: Bevesdani language

An ability to speak Bevesdani is considered strange and suspicious.

Iblisian language

 * Main: Iblisian language

Central languages
The Central language family is comprised of languages spoken throughout the Central Ocean, on the continent of The Scar. Central languages are nominative-accusative languages having a great amount of gender speech words and a pro-word drop tendency. They differentiate themselves greatly from other languages of Vereva through their usage of honorifics and their handling of time: verb tense is handled by nouns and is relative to a time marker in a phrase ad not the current point in time the speaker is traveling through. Central languages also have a stronger indication of formality; all words are said to have formal words in Central languages.

• Central family •• Old Aelatha ••• Middle Aelatha •••• Aelatha (official language of the Aelves; official language of Avelamb) •••• Old Centaurese ••••• Centaurese (assumed language of the Centaurs)
 * This list contains standard languages and doesn't account for any spoken dialects.

Ji Vei languages

 * Main: Ji Vei

The Ji Vei language family is a language isolate containing the language Ji Vei language and all its dialects. Ji Vei is composed of small single-syllable words that compound to make larger words. The language is characterized by large losses from its phonemic inventory over time, rarely adding new sounds. The few multiple-syllable noncompounds are pronounced as single syllables in the late standard dialect.

• Ji Vei family •• Si Bye ••• Si Be •••• Zi Be ••••• Zi Be Na ••••• Zi Pe Na •••••• Zi Pe Na •••••• Zi Pe Ma •••• Ji Be ••••• Ji Bei •••••• Dji Bei •••••• Ji Vei (final language of the Gnomes; official language of Ancient Eidriel)
 * Because this is a language isolate, this list contains the standard language as it evolved through dialects.

Trans-Kensillan languages
The Trans-Kensillan language family is a group of languages natively spoken throughout the Kalle Mountains, stretching from the Skypass near Kensilla to the northern shores of Vy Mirvë and into Vy Ffiroçtë. The two latest languages, which were believed to be spoken by the Trolls and the Ogres, can be traced back to a single parent termed Proto-Kensillan. Grammar and phonology of the Trans-Kensillan languages remain a mystery, the ancient runes in which they are written still untranslated.

• Trans-Kensillan •• Proto Kensillan ••• Middle Kensillan •••• Kalle-Mountainous ••••• Old Trollish •••••• Trollish aka Modern Trans-Kensillan (assumed language of the Trolls) •••• Kalle-Tundra ••••• Old Ogreish •••••• Ogreish (assumed language of the Ogres)