Prydaenese

Prydaenese is the native language of Prydaens.

Prydaenese Language Books

• A Prydaen Dictionary, Volume 1
• A Prydaen Dictionary, Volume 2
• Prydaenese Lexicon: Sortable full dictionary-style listing of words.

Pronunciation

• ai: long I as in "eye"
• aa: long A as in "fate" or short A as in "bat"

Grammatical Structure and Sentence Setup

Common Modifiers

• the

yr before vowels

y before consonants

• a/an - a
• one - mal
• some - ara
• few - kovuda
• many - chichafai
• none - gamil
• not - gonivi

Modifying Verbs

Used to denote the tense of a verb or on their own. These are used BEFORE a verb to denote when it is happening.

• is: ao - Present

• was: aio - Past

• will be: chryea - Future

Pluralization of Nouns

Performed with a suffix of en. If the noun ends in e, only the n is added.

Example

Wolf - grotane

Wolves - grotanen.

Sentence Structure

Verb - Subject - Object

Sentence structure and modifications happen at the beginning of the sentence rather than at the end of a word to indicate some grammatical features.

Example 1

Rather than modifying the verb, Prydaenese makes use of modification verbs to describe the tense of the action. The same setup would be used if the verb were running rather than runs.

Common	Prydaenese	Direct Translation
The woman runs.	Ao hafaba y yilma.	Is run the woman.

Example 2

Here, we have two subjects. Keep the same structure in the order of intention.

Common	Prydaenese	Direct Translation
The fruit is not a boot	Ao a pahoka gonivi a ranaba.	Is a fruit not a boot.

Example 3

Fairly simple break down here. We have the pluralization of the noun with suffix "en" and "my" is the modifer to the subject, so it comes before it.

Common	Prydaenese	Direct Translation
My boots.	Ezi ranabaen.	My boots.

Example 4

Using future tense, we modify the verb and the introduce the subject, then follow it with each modification that applies to the next subject, and so forth.

Common	Prydaenese	Direct Translation
I will hunt the brown deer and the black wolves.	Chryea gecha ez y vigiyo rerataien grur y yuguru grotanen.	Will be hunt I the brown deer and the black wolves.

Numbers

• 1-10, 100, 1000, 10,000, and 100,000 are represented by their own words.
• Multiples of ten are created by combining the single number with "ten"

Example: 30 - (three)(ten) - faiveg

• For 11-99, adding a a number of the one's place is done with "grur" (and). The order follows the same grammatical order of Prydaenese where the number is described essentially backwards.

Example: 32 (two and (three)(ten)) - riz grur faiveg

Number Reference Table

Number	Prydaenese
one	mal
two	riz
three	fai
four	rir
five	aud
six	chri
seven	chru
eight	jiu
nine	jio
ten	veg
eleven	mal grur veg
twenty	rizveg
twenty one	mal grur rizveg
thirty	faiveg
forty	rirveg
fifty	audveg
one hundred	daiv
two hundred	rizdaiv
one hundred twenty seven	chru grur rizveg daiv
two hundred twenty seven	chru grur rizveg rizdaiv
one thousand	vil
two thousand	rizvil
one thousand twenty seven	chru grur rizveg vil
two thousand twenty seven	chru grur rizveg rizvil
nine thousand nine hundred ninety nine	jio grur jioveg jiodaiv jiovil
one million	vilu
one billion	zilv

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