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Arha (Lit. ordered, structured) is a constructed language spoken in the Void Demesne, a dim, stellar region between the galaxies in our local cluster. It is a rigorously standardised language based on the dominant speech of the region 4000 years ago as recorded by the Information Cubes. Knowingly structured by conscious planners to achieve a more mellifluous speech, Arha in its current form has accumulated a divergence of over 200 features from the ancient linguistic soup it is based on. It is a moderately fusional language encoding 2-3 categories on average per grammatical affix, with the rare affix encoding up to five.

Word classes

Arha divides the large, independent semantic units into ideophones, verbo-nominals, and adjectives. Adjectives pattern completely differently from other forms of words, a feature introduced by conscious planning in the language's history.

Verbo-nominal stems are distinctly identified by terminating in consonants without a known exception¹, unlike ideophones or adjectives who permit a larger variance in phonetic shape, cf. arh (order, to put in order).

Inflectional morphology

Verbal morphology

The verbal variants of a verbo-nominal stem are identified by various affixes that modify the categories of tense, person, telicity, definiteness, and mood.

The non-future tense

The non-future tense nfut affix //Ø// is unmarked but will be noted with the empty-set symbol for the remainder of this article.

This tense is used for past and present events with reference to the speaker.

The future tense

This tense is used for non-past-non-present events. d-, e.g. darh [dɒrχ]