Laytal

Létal is the official language of Star City. Beginning as a Germanic-Romance pidgin, it later diversified with increasing population diversity. Among the contributing, by most influencing, are: Japanese, Slavic and Korean. Létal is now considered a creole.

The meaning of "Létal" is though to be a contracted corruption of ArxeLétal (Old Létal) "kletj-tlann" ("among people") -> kletjtla -> letla -> létal - roughly shared language. Before this it was known as Hellenic Lip (LabisoGrekam).

The Alphabet

Te ÉlbaVotjé

Vowels are in bold

• A
  • élba - /ae/
  • alba - /a/
  • ãlba - /ã/
• V
  • votjé - /v/
  • fotjé - /f/
• B
  • béte - /b/
  • péte - /p/
• K
  • kamao - /k/
    • kcamão - /ks/
  • gamao - /g/
    • gcamão - /gz/
• J
  • jamu - /dZ/
• D
  • daoletq - /d/
    • dcaoletq - /dz/
  • taoletq - /t/
    • tceta - /ts/
• E
  • ema - /@/
• Kh
  • Qok - /qx/
  • xok - /x/
• I
  • ima - /i/
• Y
  • yi - /j/
• L
  • lamda - /l/
• M
  • mwé - /m/
• N
  • nnonn - /n/
  • nonn - /N/
• O
  • omikra - /Q/
  • ómikra - /o/
  • umikra - /u/
• R
  • ró - /r/
  • xró - /R/
• S
  • samal - /s/
  • zamal - /z/
• Sh
  • sqomol - /S/
  • zqomol - /Z/
• Th
  • þita - /T/
  • ðita - /D/
  • tjeta - /tS/
• Tl
  • tleta - /tl/
  • pleta - /pl/
• W
  • walatq - /w/
  • whilatq - /H/

• The only diphthongs are "ao" and "ão".

The "h" Modifier

Te "h" Méta

By adding "h", the sound becomes platalised.

Numbers

Rivrenn

0 ziró, 1 koz, 2 kepl, 3 trah, 4 tetra, 5 þinkó, 6 egce, 7 zita, 8 okt, 9 nófem, 10 desimal, 11 onzann, 12 dezann, 13 trahdesi... 16 xekcidekc... 20 kepldasi and so on.

The powers are: 1^1 dennz, 1^2 sennt, 1^3 kila, 1^6 miga, 1^12 giga, 1^18 tira.

Once, twice, thrice... can be expressed by taking the number and suffixing -pla to it.

Scripts

Dcinnenn

There are two alphabets which may be used to write Létal words:

• Grecko-Cyrillic Script (ElennaTsrilekatj Dcinn) which is written left to right and used for transliterations.
• Alexander's Land Script which mixes Greek, Arabic and Georgian (wa Alexanndrosnnó-ke Dcinn) which is written right to left.

Grammatical particles are written in an adapted Japanese Hiragana whilst advanced texts, when capable, use Kanji ideographs - though, these may disappear soon.

Grammar

DomSinntak

To Be Written

Pronouns

IzemEkcMéta

• I = Yó, Yuþ = I am
• We = Nnami, Nnaþ = We are
• You = ðao (singular), ðaþ = You are
• You = Ti (plural), Tiþ = You are
• He = Nhes, Nheþz = He is
• She = Nhev, Nheþf = She is
• It = Nhu, Nhuþ = It is
• They = þes, þeþ = They are
• One = Unn, Unnþ = One is

Inflexion

Skitão

In the following:

• -(C) indicates that the final consonant is repeated if the word ends with a vowel
• -(V) indicates that the final vowel is repeated if the word ends with a consonant
• (v), where "v" is a vowel, indicates that the vowel is dropped if the word ends with any vowel except "é"

Article

There is no indefinite article or zero article and grammatical gender is found only in articles.

• Definite (Neuter) = Te
• Definite (Masculine) = Tev
• Definite (Feminine) = Tef
• Partitive = Ró

Noun

Nouns have no forms unlike adjectives, verbs and adverbs; though proper nouns are preceeded by wa. If one wishes to preserve the spelling and sound of a foreign word in Romanised text, one can prefix it with Ser-.

• Plurality = -(C)enn
• Negation = é-
• Agent = (Verb)-(C)ax
• Tool = (Verb)-(C)ahtj
• State = -(V)st
• Result of a Verb = -(C)ão

Noun Cases

To Be Written

Adjective

• Adjective = -(a)tj

Verb

• Verb form = -(C)ó
  • A root word ending in -a/ão becomes -a/ãó, but the pronunciation does not change
• Command form = -(V)dhó
• Second person = -(C)ezd
• Third person = -(C)eð

Tenses

• Present = r(a)-
• Past = p(e)-
• Future = s(e)-

Adverb

• Base Adverb = -(a)tf
• Comparative Adverb = -(a)tfi
• Superlative Adverb = -(a)tfu

Word Order

Zqlaobnnó Dadcu

Sentences are written in the SOV order.

The man destroyed the blue house
Tev anndros kotj kuraþaotj punnisqteó
The.masc man house blue.adj past.destroyed.verb

Common Phrases

Sóval Stennzazenn

• Létal: - Létal - /leIt{l/
• Hello: - Kahsó - /kaiso/
• Goodbye: - Yet jatfi - /j@t dZ{tfi/
• Please: - ¿Ereó yó? - /@r@o jo/
• Thank you: - Yanko - /j{NkQ/
• Sorry: - Izqvitro - /iZvitrQ/
• That one: Ate - /{t@/
• How much?: - ¿Pragc? - /pr{gz/
• Yes: - Ahi - /aii/
• No: - Nhi - /Ji/
• I don't understand: - Yó ékuptohó - /jo eIkVptQio/
• Where's the bathroom?: - ¿Donndé iþ gutjxraom? - /dQndeI iT gutSRaUm/
• Happy birthday - ¡Bhennu baþsol! - /bj@nu b{TsQl/
• How are you? - ¿ðaonnóst? - /DaUnost/
• Generic toast: - ¡Tcalu! - /ts{lu/
• Do you speak English?: - ¿ðao vókordó Anglaser? - /DaU vokQrdo {Ngl{ s@r/