User:Juhhmi/Lordlang

Lordlang is a polysynthetic language used by the six Ancient Elemental Lords. They lack(ed) all ways for biological messaging (no mouth, nose, ears or eyes) and use(d) telepathic communication instead. The emotional part of their communication as well as their use of magic affect their skin color (different shades of gray from white to black), and it has been described as their way of raising voice or shouting intensively. Lords rarely use the native language of a listener as it requires a greater degree of mind-penetration and mental manipulation, which is impossible in common, non-magical environments.

Phonology

The actual language was used telepathically so speaking of phonology is in vain. The following system was constructed to help humans focus on what they are receiving and to create a way of documenting and sharing messages. If one is not familiar with the system, brain will construct a personal experience, which is hard to grasp and remember.

The syllabary parameters are classified in six classes:

• "Places": bilabial, labio-dental, alveolar, retroflex, palatal, velar
• "Manners": nasal, stop, fricative
• "Voices": lenis (voiced), tenuis (voiceless), fortis (aspirated voiceless)
• "Frontness": front, central, back
• "Openness": close, mid, open
• "Tones": low, medium, high

1458 base syllables with different meanings

Orthography

Lords are able to imprint magical hexagon glyphs which encode entire sentences in fractal packages. Humans only use a featural abugida where each side of a hexagon indicates one of the six parameters.

Morphophonology

combinations of morphemes, consonant gradation

Morphology

logical language which serves as a source of inspiration for Akekatans

polysynthetic verbs form sentences by agglutinating morphemes