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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 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 also forms the ancestor for the languages of Myrh, groups of people inhabiting land only accessible during random natural phenomena.
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===Morphophonology===
===Morphophonology===
====Phonomorphisms====
Morphisms on objects perform the same function as adding an affix with variable parts. In particular, this is easily seen in conjugations, where there exists a set of endings marking person and number, of the form -VC, where V is a vowel and C is a consonant. The aspect morphism is a set of rules describing just which affixes to be added for which aspect depending on the person and number, and vice versa. For example, the (present) first person imperfective ending is '-um', while in the perfective it is '-em'. So the 'u' becomes an 'e', and the 'm' stays the same. This is the case for morphing between verb aspects -- i.e., conjugating a verb in dichotomous aspects. In particular, we have the rules listed below for the verb aspect morphism:
* 'u' becomes 'e'
* 'e' becomes 'y'
* 'y' becomes 'u'
* consonants stay the same
Therefore, one may distinguish between aspects of a given verb based on the vowel paradigm involved. For example, the verb for 'to eat' is <i>morgan</i>, and so to say "I eat", one would either say <i>morgum</i> or <i>morgem</i>, where <i>morgum</i> translates closer to "I am eating", or refers to the ongoing action of eating, while <i>morgem</i> would refer to the complete action of eating, a distinction further covered in detail below, but which can be seen as the difference between talking about eating at a restaurant, and one's entire experience of eating at a restaurant.
Such a morphism is a constant factor behind the subtle permutations of a single lexeme.


==Morphology==
==Morphology==
Lexemes are given types, and are further distinguished amongst other lexeme types via different inflection paradigms. A lexeme typically consists of a root and an ending. A great deal of Adwan grammar may effectively be described using the correct operations of concatenation of strings (i.e., adding strings of letters to words) and vowel and consonant morphisms, in which parts of current endings are changed rather than having any new endings appended). Nouns, pronouns, adjectives, and determiners are declined according to four morphological cases and two numbers, while verbs are conjugated for person, number, tense, mood, aspect, and follow a pattern of conjugating pronouns in compound constructions. Nouns follow a relatively simple declension paradigm, while verb conjugations follow a more complex pattern of use. Adjectives have two separate declension paradigms and the distinction between the two paradigms plays a large role in further compound verb constructions. Furthermore, determiners share the same declension paradigm as verb participles used in certain constructions.
Lexemes are given types, and are further distinguished amongst other lexeme types via different inflection paradigms. A lexeme typically consists of a root and an ending. A great deal of Adwan grammar may effectively be described using the correct operations of concatenation of strings (i.e., adding strings of letters to words) and vowel and consonant morphisms, in which parts of current endings are changed rather than having any new endings appended). Nouns, pronouns, adjectives, and determiners are declined according to four morphological cases and two numbers, while verbs are conjugated for person, number, tense, mood, aspect, and follow a pattern of conjugating pronouns in compound constructions. Nouns follow a relatively simple declension paradigm, while verb conjugations follow a more complex pattern of use. Adjectives have two separate declension paradigms and the distinction between the two paradigms plays a large role in further compound verb constructions. Furthermore, determiners share the same declension paradigm as verb participles used in certain constructions.


===Nouns===
===Nouns===
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