Tarestian language

Tarestian (Tarestiëni, Kodeni Tarestiëni) is the most widely spoken of the Tarestic languages, with around 78 million speakers. It is the national language of Tarestia-Wesburg, Middle Tarestia, and East Tarestia. Significant smaller groups of Tarestian speakers also exist in Gemery, Rockland, Corvan, New Hathingsberg, Abdaristan, Slevonia, the Jonathian overseas territory of Coamben, and other parts of Andoladia. Tarestian is the 15th most spoken language in the world.
Tarestian first developed around the 5th to 6th centuries CE, and evolved from Proto-Tarestian. Influence from Slevonian, Arabic, and Yennese affected the language during it's developments, and many loanwords from said languages are common. The numbers of Tarestian speakers dramatically rose after the formation of the Tarestian People's Union, as the government set up an education system. Tarestian is still widely known amongst the states of the former TPU, and can be described as a lingua franca for the region.
The basic word order of Tarestian is subject–object–verb. Tarestian has no noun classes or grammatical gender. The language makes usage of honorifics and has a strong T–V distinction which distinguishes varying levels of politeness, social distance, age, courtesy or familiarity toward the addressee. The plural second-person pronoun and verb forms are used referring to a single person out of respect.
==Classification==
Tarestian is a member of the West Andoladian group of the Tarestic family. Other members include Gemerese, spoken in Gemery, Slevonian, spoken in Slevonia, and Yennese, spoken in many parts of Rockland.
==History==
==Geographic distribution==
===Official status===
==Dialects==
==Phonology==
See Tarestian alphabet for a pronunciation guide.
== Word-accent ==
== Syntax ==
== Grammar ==
Tarestian is an agglutinative language and frequently uses affixes, and specifically suffixes, or endings. One word can have many affixes and these can also be used to create new words, such as creating a verb from a noun, or a noun from a verbal root (see the section on Word formation). Most affixes indicate the grammatical function of the word.
=== Nouns ===
==== Gender ====
Tarestian does not have grammatical gender and the sex of persons do not affect the forms of words. The third-person pronoun ö may refer to "he", "she", or "they", while the pronoun ëc is often used for "it." Despite this lack, Tarestian still has ways of indicating gender in nouns:
# Most domestic animals have male and female forms, e.g., mas̈e (bull), bari (cow).
# For other animals, the sex may be indicated by adding the word onta (female) before the corresponding noun, e.g., onta kat (female cat).
# For people, the female sex may be indicated by adding the word aza (girl) or bëza (woman), e.g., bëza makina (heroine) instead of makin (hero).
==== Case ====
=== Personal pronouns ===
=== Adjectives ===
=== Verbs ===
=== Verb tenses ===
== Vocabulary ==
== Writing system ==
== See also ==
* Tarestian name
* Languages used on the Internet
Category:Tarestian language
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