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 A, E, I, O groups and Ró.
• The only diphthongs are "ao" and "ão".
• Adding "h" platalises.

Numbers

Rivrenn

No numbers above 99 (nor below 0) exist as these can be manufactured through SI based orders of magnitude.

For example, 125 = 1.25 Ektom.

• Ordinals are formed by suffixing -pla to the intended number.

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 (wa Alexanndrosnnó-ke Dcinn) mixes Greek, Arabic and Georgian and 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

Whereas vocabulary is primarily derived from Indo-European languages, the Noun cases in particular derive from the Finno-Ugric languages.

Pronouns

Personal Pronouns and Conjugations

• 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

Demonstrative & Interrogative Pronouns

To Be Written

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

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)-

Moods

To Be Written

Evidentiality

Sensory

• Direct experience = unmarked
• Sensory observation = -ãra

Quotative

• Inference = -éga
• Hearsay = -ron

John supposedly eats penguins
Jonn mannsquennem redóron
Subj penguin.pl.obj present.verb.rumour

Adverb

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

Word Order

Zqlaobnnó Dadcu

All sentences, including questions, 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

As an SOV language, additonal phrases conform to Time-Manner-Place order.

I will fly to Paris by aeroplane tomorrow
Yó setubuó sohvasol vahluxtbalu nohParis
I future.fly.verb nextday instructive.aeroplane terminative.paris

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/