Middle Ru: Difference between revisions

<p>Middle Ru is an <em>a priori</em> language that would have been spoken in the western regions of the fictional island of Rauna during its Middle Period (roughly corresponding to the Middle Ages and the Renaissance). Within its internal history, it belongs to the Ru-Hulam languages native to the Drysian continent, situated west of the Rauna region, half an ocean away.</p>

<p>The glyphs used for Middle Ru consonants have a characteristic shape based on a slightly curved slanted lined over which further strokes are drawn (except for the glottal stop, marked by the slanted line alone). The characters are partially featural. For instance, the glyphs ejectives are clearly derived from the corresponding plain plosives.</p>

<p>Vowels other than <em>A</em> are marked with diacritics. Occasionally, the vowel <em>Å</em> and the no-vowel or <em>virama</em> mark might be omitted in a text; although the norm is to include all relevant diacritics.</p>

<p>Words are often separated by spaces although this is inconsistent. Some texts (particularly earlier ones) are written with no spaces whatsoever (<em>scripta continua</em>). On the opposite end, some texts also use spaces to separate each affix. Few punctuation marks are used; sentences are typically separated with an apostrophe-like mark.</p>

<p>Middle Ru script also has its own way of representing numbers. Unique symbols are used for the numbers 1, 4, 5 and 10, which are combined in order to form simple or composite symbols for each digit from 1 to 19. Then unique symbols are used for powers of 20, which are combined with digits in order to form any number.</p>

<h1>Sample sentences</h1>

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