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Adwan, which shares the same name with its older predecessor, is the revival and renewal of a rediscovered conlang project that began somewhere around 2011.
Adwan is the label used to refer not only to the constructed language itself, but also to its evolution throughout time. Conceived in 2010, as an exercise to understand better the nuance behind foreign language morphologies, Adwan has evolved from a boilerplate language meant to facilitate the learning of natural languages, to an actively engineered personal language.  
 
Adwan has a highly inflectional morphology, falling somewhere between synthetic and agglutinative. Moreover, Adwan is particularly motivated by algebra and further intersections of linguistics and other formalized studies of structure. Adwan's syntax and morphology is motivated by categorial grammar theory and the theory of freely generated modules. One goal in Adwan is to develope a system for linguistic representation structurally similar to that of many natural languages, but with fundamentally different expressions.  
 
Adwan exhibits large amounts of symmetry in seemingly unrelated aspects. Key features of Adwan include morphism-generated synthetic fusional inflection, the impersonal 4th person, satellite markers, a wide inventory of fricatives, and the complete lack of some verbs such as "to be", "to have", "to want/to want to", and "to go", instead expressed using compound forms and morphims on endings to express equivalent meanings. The existence of special morphisms aid in the formalisms behind the grammar, and are theoretically what students would be taught in schools when learning grammar.
 
 
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! grapheme !! b !! bh !! c !! ch !! d !! dg !! dh !! f !! g !! gh !! h !! hg !! l !! lh !! m !! mh !! n !! p !! ph !! r !! rg !! s !! sg !! t !! tg !! th !! v
! grapheme !! b !! bh !! c !! ch !! d !! dg !! dh !! f !! g !! gh !! h !! l !! lh !! m !! mh !! n !! p !! ph !! r !! rg !! s !! sg !! t !! tg !! th !! v
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| initial || b || β || k || x || d || dʒ || ð || f || g || j || h || ç || l || ɬ || m || w || n || p || φ || ɾ || ʐ || s || ʃ || t || tʃ || θ || v
| initial || b || β || k || x || d || dʒ || ð || f || g || j || || ç || l || ɬ || m || w || n || p || φ || ɾ || ʐ || s || ʃ || t || tʃ || θ || v
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| final || -- || β || k || x || d̪ || dʒ || ð || f || γ || j || -- || ç || l || ɬ || m || w || n || p || φ || ɾ || ʐ || s || ʃ || t̪ || tʃ || θ || v
| final || -- || β || k || x || d̪ || dʒ || ð || f || γ || j || -- || ç || l || ɬ || m || w || n || p || φ || ɾ || ʐ || s || ʃ || t̪ || tʃ || θ || v
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===Nouns===
===Nouns===
While many roots themselves may seemingly describe nouns alone, there is no empty nominative case in Adwan, and therefore all dictionary form nouns end in 'a'. In particular, all nouns adhere to the same following paradigm. This paradigm declines nouns for number, and for four grammatical cases:
Noun cases.  
# Nominative case, marks subjects of verbal constructions, topics of sentences, and is also used in a vocative manner
# Accusative case, marks the direct objects of a verb and the arguments of lexical morphisms
## An example is the instrumental morphism, which transforms a lexeme (or potentially a string of lexemes) into a verb phrase, and marks the instrument with the accusative case. In a sense, similar to expressing "I write with a pencil" by "I use a pencil to write".
### ''Ceviuthemgdus caghyvw'', 'one plays a musical instrument.' Note that 'instrument' is 'caghyvw', which is in the accusative. In a more literal translation, can be described as saying 'one uses an instrument to operate sound'.
### ''Corphuvyghem sonw'', 'I went to work by car.' Note that the word for car, 'sonw', is in the accusative. Closer in translation to 'I used a car to get to work'.
# Dative case, marks indirect objects which are the directions of actions, also merged with lative use, i.e., direction toward, motion (in)to, etc.
# Genitive case, marks indirect objects which are the sources of actions, also marks possessive nouns and merged with ablative use, i.e., direction away from, motion from, etc.
Below is a table of the endings used to mark noun cases.  
   
   
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| Nominative || -a || -amg
| Nominative || -a || -amg
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| Accusative || -w || -y
| Accusative || -w || -e
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| Dative || -u || -omh
| Dative || -u || -ue
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| Genitive || -yn || -ynna
| Genitive || -y || -ye
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| Locative || -o || -oa
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| Ablative || -wy || -i
 
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