Proto-Eldorian Language

**Proto-Eldorian**is an Eldorian Language spoken by the Eldorians on Eldoria.

 Phonology

## Articles

Proto-Eldorian had no definite nor indefinite articles.

 Nouns

Proto-Eldorian nouns decline for number, gender and case.

Nouns have: three numbers: **Singular, Plural** and **Collective**. They have four genders: **Fire, Earth Water** and **air.** They have 12 cases: **Nominitive, Accusative, Genitive, Dative, Allative, Ablative, Locative, Instrumental, Inessive, Superessive, Subessive** and **Comitative.**

### **First Declension**

First declension nouns have the stem-vowel **a, ā** and **ō**.

### **Second Declension**

Second declension nouns have the stem-vowel **i** and **ē**

### **Third Declension**

Third declension nouns have the stem-vowels **o**, **u** and **ū**.

### **Fourth Declension**

Fourth declension nouns have the stem-vowels **e.**

### **Fifth Declension**

Fifth declension nouns have the stem-vowels **ī.**

### Air -īs

#### **Sixth Declension**

Six declension nouns have a **consonant** ending. The same conjugation is used for all genders.

 Adjectives and Adverbs

Adjectives agree in gender, case and number (though they don't have collective forms) with the noun they modify. Their declension is similar to that of nouns, but with a couple differences, and variable gender. As a result they are not arranged into "declensions" as nouns are, rather they are said to be in "classes." The first class distinguishes all four genders, the second and third classes lump them together into two groups.

Adjective usually follow the noun.

### Class I

Class I adjectives can generally have stems of any form. The one issue is that they may not end in anything that will create an unacceptable cluster in the oblique water forms.

#### Degrees of Comparison

* Equative: **-pa**
* Comparative: **-rta**
* Superlative: **-de**

#### Substantive

* Fire & Earth: **-e**
* Water & Air: **-ir**

If the stem of a class I adjective ends in **n** or **m**, nasal deletion applies to the water forms. n becomes **d** and m becomes **b**.

### Class II

Class 2 adjectives usually end in a consonant cluster.

#### Degrees of Comparison

* Equative: **-ipa**
* Comparative: **-ita**
* Superlative: **-ide**

#### Substantive

* Fire & Earth: **-on**
* Water & Air: **-os**

 Pronouns

###  Demonstrative Pronouns

**Proximal**

**Medial**

**Distal**

### Reciprocal Pronouns

There is only one reciprocal pronoun and that is **ileska**.

## Verbs

Proto-Eldorian verbs are conjugated for person, number, mood, tense and aspect.

Verbs have:

* 3 persons: **First**, **Second** and **Third**.
* 3 numbers:**Singular**, **Plura**l and **Collective.**
* 6 moods: **Indicative**, **Subjunctive**, **Conditional**, **Optative**, **Imperative** and **Interrogative**.
* 5 tenses: **Present**, **Past**, **Perfect**, **Future** and **Hodiernal**.
* 4 aspects: **Perfective**. **Imperfective**, **Habitual** and **Continuous**.
* 2 voices: **Active** and **Passive.**

Verbs are made by adding a pronoun prefix, mood affix, tense infix and aspect suffix to the verb root.

A basic verb constructing follows the formula:

**Pronoun - Mood1 - Tense - Verb - Aspect - Voice - Mood2**

The Affixes are:

The infinitive form of the verb always ends in **-an.** The -n is dropped when creating the verb root.

The imperative mood is formed by adding **ki-** (singular), **u-** (plural) or **a-** (collective) to the root of the verb.

The hortative, by extension, is formed by adding **ni-** to the root of the verb.

The verbal noun is formed by replacing the -an with **-en**.

The verbal adjective is formed by replacing the -an infinitive ending with **-anos** or -**atos.**

### Negation

To make any verb negative just precede it with the word **vo** (not).