Conlang Relay 23/Dragonian
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/aāleē al/ e trālä bē'teœö bî a yå tale cadrē drakēn. ē ō löl •sā menē cad /öt, e vej al/ lam₽ē' can' ē öta arcē bē'cwat. ē ō cwat bē'yanda •sā hîv cyåldövt.
a /aāleē swes
ē ō örikan ma cwat aös, /aāleē ce /öt blöhяēn löl ō ochîvtöm ēcäto aköla. ē ō löl zej xēt, e ē ō aköla ₽al\ ma ē.
Translation
After being at the source of a river in the north for a long time, the ruler had been eating many different plants which acted as drugs and it caused him to become hungry for power. He really wanted control of the country.
about the bloody ruler
He got the thing he desired because the plant which he ate, gave the ruler, the knowledge to attack. Then he ate and then punished himself.
Grammar
Basic word order is SVO with obligatory tense marking before and aspect marking after the verb. Most words can play the role of noun, verb, adjective, and adverb, but will have the same basic meaning e.g. löl – food, eat, that is a food, whilst eating.
Adjectives and adverbs come after the noun/verb, as do things such as relative clauses.
Here punctuation is the same as in English bar capitalisation, so yes that really is a random sentence fragment.
secondary clauses such as those following bî and can' will have a noun or verb after them depending on the clause.
Lexicon
/aāleē ruler /öt. plant •sā Aspect - Progressive signifies an event is changing over time. a Signifies that what follows is the location of the verb. most commonly translated as at. Found after bî. a about aköla attack aköla ₽al\ punish (lit. attach with a purpouse) al/ Tense - In the far past, that between the time you were born and about yesterday. aös because, as arcē Power, control, command be' prefix that signifies more of something. e.g. bē'ja to jump higher or bē'keçē very small. can also be an adjective coming after the woed, bē'yanda bî introduces a prepositional phrase blöhяēn Signifies the next word is a verb in the passive voice cad bad can' throughout ce if there are two nouns phrases in a row with ce in between. 2nd does the action of the verb to/for 1st. in other words ce makes the np before it in the dative case cwat want, wish, desire cyåldövt land, country, kingdom drakēn north e to be e and ē 3rd person singular. he, she, it, him, etc. ēcäto Knowledge hîv possession of lam₽ē' to form, create, make the tense it takes is further in the past than the action takes place in. (so here tense is Immidiate past) löl to eat ma Aspect - signifies same aspect as previous sentence, if the previous word ends in a vowel then it realises as the suffix m menē thought ō Tense - Signifies the tense if the same as previous sentence ochîvtö to give örikan to find öta Aspect - inceptive swes bloody tale cadrē river (lit. moving water) teœö time trālä Aspect - Marks a length of time, usually followed by a word telling you how long the ammount of time was. vej Pronoun used for the object of the previous sentence xēt then yå First, start, begining zej Aspect - Marks a spacific time, usually followed by a word telling you what the time was.
