Šarratian

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Šarratian is the primary language of the Šarratum Circle, spoken in some dialect by every known society in that nation, although some variants are highly diversified and are difficult to understand, even by those who know the language. Šarratian is notable for being extremely difficult to learn, both practically, as the Šarratum Circle is isolationist and jingoistic, as well as technically, due to its high complexity and situational modifications. 
==Writing==
==Phonology==
==Grammar==
Šarratian grammar is highly intricate, placing it amongst the most complex lingual systems in the known world. It follows a word order of Object Verb Subject, a highly rare word order in which the object of a sentence comes first, proceeded by the verb which is followed by the subject, as in the sentence Rannašar Nokavilan Tarrakād, meaning The thief kills a noble. In this sentence, the object is Rannašar, the verb is Nokavilan, and the subject is Tarrakād. The language also follows a triliteral root system which forms the base of its word classification, with different sequences of consonants, typically three, called a triliteral, or less often a biliteral or quadriliteral, characterizing the general overall meaning of a word. The vowels placed between these determine the full base of a given word, distinguishing between words with the same sequences. These word bases give a more specific meaning, though still rather general. In tarrakād, the triliteral sequence is t-r-k (doubled consonants are voided in sequences), signifying a term related to criminality. The more specific tarrak is a base which specifies to any variant or different part of speech form of "thief" (noun), such as "to thieve" (verb) or "thieving" (adjective). The suffix determines the part of speech variant, with three different categories for suffix attachment, dividing words based on their social level in the society which originally created the language, separating words into lower, common and noble categories. Tarrak, being in the lower category, takes an -ad suffix to signify noun status, while the diacritic over the "a" is used to show its placement as a subject in the sentence, with other diacritics annotating other declensions. The diacritic is placed over the first letter of the suffix, denoting the end of the base. As thief is the default noun form, no prefix is needed, but a word is extended frontwise for non-default variants of a word in the same part of speech, such as thievery or theft. If a word does not have multiple forms, a -ū, a vowel-accent combination used nowhere else in the language, is placed at the end of the word, denoting its singularity in its base.
A quirk of Šarratian linguistics is that the object of the sentence is considered to be the agent of the sentence, or in simpler terms, the object is understood as the noun carrying out the act. In the above example, Šarratian identifies Rannašar as the agent, placing the noble as the one carrying out the act of being thieved from. This can also be understood as a flipping of passive and active voices, making the normal passive into the active, and vice versa. Another oddity is that, in place of varying the verb form itself to signify tense, a short word is placed directly before the verb, an "a" flanked on either side by an identical accent next to it, producing a distinct sound which verifies the tense of the following verb to a listener. Conjugation of verbs is done similarly to noun declension, using diacritics. This and other critical uses of accents to change meaning are part of the difficulty of Šarratian.
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