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 ''"An bhé chuc cún dhér dó gil me dí. Och tel lé gérul del ténan me dí, lú chí lú ba lú lé bhoc del lór me dí cór tol. En gar dí me gon."''-Lúdhí Fén Ógil Níradh.
 "We take from Iron it's rightful prize. And if we sail to the wide world's end, all know that we'll return from the depths a thousand times. Death cannot keep us."-Old Fén War Song.
+''"An bhé chuc cún dhér dó gil me dí. Och lé gérul del ténan me dí, lú chím ag lú ba lú lé bhoc del lór me dí cór tol. En gar dí me gon."''-Lúdhí Fén Ógil Níradh.
+"We take from Iron it's rightful prize. And if we sail to the wide world's end, all know that we'll return a thousand times. Death cannot keep us."-Old Fén War Song.
+{{Classification
+|Name       = Fén Ghír
+|Type       = Isolating
+|Alignment  = Direct
+|adjective = first
+|adposition = first
+|adverb= first
+|article= final
+|relativeclause = final
+|nounclause = final
+|order = VOS
+|Tonal      = No
+|Genders    = None
+|Declined   = no
+|Conjugated = no
+|Case   = no
+|Number = yes
+|Definiteness = no
+|Gender = no
+|Voice  = no
+|Mood   = no
+|Person = no
+|Number = no
+|Tense  = no
+|Aspect = no
+}}
 ==Introduction==
-This is my first attempt at a conlang, originally conceived as a part of a game that has finally taken off. It is the only language from the game that reached anything nearing completion. Inspiration and influence were drawn from Irish [Alphabet style and Head First Order], English [Lack of Genders, Conjugation Method] and some French [Particularly the G/W was taken from the Norman shift]. Also, the Copula, while originally inspired by Irish, mirror from Symbolic logic. However word roots and grammar are original.
-This being my first conlang, made a few months before stumbling on this, my linguistic vocabulary may be lacking at certain points, however I've done my best and would be open to suggestions on how to either better clarify my meaning, represent phonetic sounds [should it seem inconsistent], remove ambiguities and generally make a more natural sounding language on my next go around. However for now, here's my first serious effort;
+This is my first attempt at a conlang, originally conceived as a part of a larger game that never took off. It is the only language from the game that reached anything nearing completion. Inspiration and influence were drawn both from my earliest impression of Irish while falling back on my stronger knowledge of English and French. The grammar was largely completed before I had much experience with linguistic theory or the conlanging community, thus while functional it may be somewhat backwards at times and occaisionally lacks for easy terms to descripe itself.
-==General Information==
-The language was initially inspired by Irish Gaelic and so much of the terminology reflects that still, though it may no longer necessarily be accurate. Copula in this case serve as a sort of verbal punctuation, appearing at the start of the sentance, they make it positive or negative, a statement or interrogative and can serve to tie it to a second clause. Aspiration is used to modify sounds of consonants, similar in some ways to "long" and "short" vowels, while some consonants might be pronounced differently depending on what vowel they come before [similar to "c" in English].
+===General Information===
+The language is designed for a conworld and as such aims to be as unique as possible. However as both an early conlang and due to initial worries for aesthetic features as well as content it draws heavily on a few sources;
+Irish Gaelic served as the largest inspiration, more obviously in regards to grammatical lentition, Head first and phonology in general. English and French are heavy influences as well due to my stronger knowledge of them.
+Some aspects are new, largely aiming towards simplification while remaining unique; the isolating aspect, copula and relative clauses are unique to the language and derived from my desire to keep things as simple and categorical as possible.
+Morphemes originally were derived by mixing French, Irish and English words beyond the point of recognition. This was later largely supplanted both with the use of randomized generators and compounds and other mutations derived from these morphemes.
+===Fén History===
+Derived from the Galav culture which spread far during the early iron age. The Fén came about as the Galav spread over what would come to be known as Nílíra or the Fén Highlands and eventually spread over the rest of the penisula. The Fén are the only remaining people of the Galav culture that retain complete cultural independance under a High King. They are in turn divided into six petty kingdoms and the northern island colonies, with four major cultural sub-groups and dialects. Culturally, they are adopting the style of their imperial neighbours and loan words along with it.
+===To Do===
+''
+''Té dégep me gír cur tol fabhen pon éloc léc cíp dó dégep ghír.''''
+''Language is always expanding to meet the needs of an expanding language.''
+Examine and consider Determiners, particularly Relative Determiners.
+Word Order explaination is still lacking. Currently, it is overly complicated when in truth it is fairly simple and the language itself is fairly flexible with word order if one is willing to be daring.
+VSO seems simpler than VOS at times and VOS can lead to redundancy.
-Initially it was designed as an isolating language which relied heavily on syntax to determine the nature of a word, it still does in many ways rely on the position of the word in the over all structure of the sentance. While work arounds have been added since to prevent ambiguities where they arise, most can still be dropped in order to shorten a sentance.
+Also, vocabularly. Always more vocabularly.
-==History==
-An early adopter of Iron forging, the Fén culture spread during the early iron age. Only to eventually be driven to the lands west of the mountains by the Empire of Toryl. Their pantheon is complex and legends often invovle the rise and fall of heroes, including gods, but fundamentally finds itself based around four elements; with Fire composing the Human soul and serving as the root of their demonym. These elements can be seen as the root for many objects, based off the beliefs of early philosophers on their composition and nature. Ancient Fén words ended on a vowel which marked them as adjectives/adverbs, nouns or verbs, however this was dropped in all but the Highlands [who use a consonant based alphabet]. Since then, they have been slowly shifting away from their previously tribal life style, developing three primary dialogue groups.
-==To Do==
-A lot.
 ==Phonology==
 ===Consonants===