Castithan

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Castithan is the language created by David J. Peterson for the Castithan race in the world of the TV series Defiance. It is a working language with its own vocabulary, grammar, phonology and writing system and currently it has grown from 1400 or so words[1] to over 2100 words[2] over 2013. It stands with Irathient as one of the two main usable alien languages of Defiance.

Castithan is a fusional language lightly inflectional tending towards isolating typology. The language is predominantly head-final with a strict subject–object–verb order. It can inflect for topicality, object and subject and is mostly pro-drop. In combination to these the language uses a set of particles, much like Japanese, which are described below, with verbs being fairly easy to conjugate. Verbs can be either stative or dynamic, an important distinction is made between the two in the language.[3]

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