Advari (Language)

**Advari** is the language of the Holy Advari Empire in the CDC-41-Gamma.

## History

Advari is the only language yet known to be spoken by the Advari species. It is unknown if Advari is the only language spoken in CDC-41-Gamma, though given the breadth of the nebula (and, more importantly, the breadth of the Advari's *control* over the cluster), it is likely that Advari itself is composed of several dialects across Advari controlled space.

Conversely, the Holy Advari Empire - by way of the Faith Eternal - does maintain a strict control over their species, heavily controlling the spread of information throughout their population, and quickly putting down dissenters who try to "draw them from the path", which suggests that there is probably at least an attempt to keep Advari strict and uniform. As with all attempts at controlling language development, this is likely a fairly unsuccessful process - however, given the apparent age of the Advari empire, it's possible this level of dialectal control might have largely homogenised the variants of the language.

## Phonology

So far (using only samples of the spoken language), Advari Phonology appears as follows;

### Consonants

\* This list is undoubtably incomplete, given the presence of other consonants in Advari nomenclature. However, referencing only the Advari spoken in the show leads to this inventory. It is quite likely that many of the voiced consonants (d, v, z) will have voiceless counterparts (t, f, s) in the wider language.

Advari Consonants are as follows;

* /p/, as in "**p**ut."
* /t/, as in "**t**ell."
* /d/, as in “**d**ime.”
* /k/, as in "**k**ey," written with a ⟨*c*⟩ consistently.
* /m/, as in "**m**other."
* /n/, as in “**n**ice.”
* /ɾ/, similar to “**r**ed”, but instead pronounced as a single, "tapped" rolled 'r'. See pronunciation here.
* /f/, as in "**f**ate."
* /v/, as in “**v**ale.”
* /s/, as in "**s**ister."
* /z/, as in “maga**z**ine.”
* /l/, as in “**l**ead.”

### Vowels

Advari Vowels
 Mid
 Open

Advari Vowels are as follows;

* /i/, as in “s**ee**.”
* /u/, as in “infl**u**ence.”
* /e/, pronounced between “b**e**d” and “h**ay**.”
* /ɛ/, pronounced like "**eh**". See pronunciation here.
* /ə/, as in most unstressed syllables of English. Consider "butt**er**." See pronunciation here.
* /o/, as in “y**aw**n.”
* /a/, as in “h**a**t.”
* /ɐ/, as in "m**u**tt" in RP English. See pronunciation here.

## Syntax

Although little can be determined of the exact syntax of Advari, in several instances where Castian Vadric speaks in Centran Standard, he articulates the verb of a given phrase phrase-finally. Although this quirk isn't consistent, it is used enough ("You for them speak?", "But you not?") to suggest that Advari's word order isn't simply Subject-Verb-Object, like in Centran Standard (or English).

The language appears to be head-final, with the heads of clauses (such as nouns) following their modifiers (adjectives, etc). We see this in *vul iarefa*, "printed image".

## Lexicon

Beyond nomenclature, we know the meaning of a few words;

* *nuria* / *nura* - "name", likely conjugated for an unknown quantity, possibly person (*nura*, 1st Person, *nuria*, 2nd person) or gender (*nura*, used by Vadric, *nuria*, used by Vadric to refer to Elizabeth, and by Elizabeth to refer to herself).
* *Diom Lin* - unknown, expression of joy or relief, or possibly a greeting. Used for "thank you", "hello", "goodbye", and so forth. Possibly a salutation.
* *iritim* - From context, likely "thank you" or perhaps "thank you for the meal" specifically.
* *iarefa* - "Image" (incl. "photograph")
* *fisal*  - Likely "surrounding" (Vadric describes the light of galaxies as "behind and around")
* *(en) caveda* - "Discomfort", perhaps "fear." *en* is likely an article.
* *Arafal* - Perhaps "No need" or something akin to it. Like "No thank you" or "belay that".
* *camosidava* - "Lightship"
* *avaporamefa* - "Sacreligious"
* *ilaim* - "Personal"
* *calutiata* - "shame", as in "a shame" or "a disappointment"
* *Um nidra* - response to "do you think you can do that?", likely "I can" or "I am able".
* *lindioma* - Likely a variant on "Diom lin", likely "good morning".
* *adavua* - Given the context, likely "strength" or "strong". Almost certainly related to *Advar*, probably meaning that *Advar* as a name relates to strength.
* *enodazara* - possibly "apologies" or "I'm sorry". 'eno' has occurred on occasion as a grammatical word, suggesting this could be a compound.
* *vul* - related to printing. Vadric calls a printed image a *vul iarefa*.
* *iarefasalo* - possibly "vision", related to *iarefa*, compound of some kind. Vadric uses it to describe his photo of Tantalus as a "vision".
* *neot* - likely "small".
* *al idaval* - "The Pathways", Advari name for Lauralyn Conduits. *al* is possible a/the definite article.
* *Roia viso* - Likely "As you wish", "so be it".
* *En nidra canopa* - Possibly "(it is) hard to think" or "(my coordination) is impaired", given context.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "*Theirs Not to Make Reply*"
2. ↑ *Theirs Not to Reason Why*
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 *Contact, Wait Out*