The Cadhinorian empire fell, and with it the linguistic unity of the Plain. Peoples mixed, barbarians invaded, education and communications declined. Tan doni dorot, tan cuom dekashcu. After centuries, power and civilization again arose, this time in Verduria, inconsiderable in the days of the emperors, but now the center of a continent-wide trading network. It has lost the remote and dynamic verbal inflections, relying more heavily on analytic forms and regularizing conjugation.
Word order is no longer free, and syntax is more complex.
Vocabulary and idiom have changed extensively. This is a Reference Grammar, not a textbook for learning Verdurian. It is intended to present an organized and concise reference to the language, including some of its more advanced principles, to one who already knows, or is learning, the language. We move, rather traditionally, from phonology to morphology to syntax. The syntactic section, following modern trends in linguistics, is rather longer than that of the usual grammar.