Difference between revisions of "Old Khallaynan"
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| + | Eldest Khallaynan was much like english with it's alphabet (30 letters) with a much more understandable sentence structure but it was Word ''Ending'' not Word ''Order'' that defined a sentance. | ||
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| + | Word Order: The Dog Chased the Cat. The Cat Chased the Dog. Notice that by swiching the words the meaning of the sentence changed. | ||
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| + | Word Ending: The Dogga chased the Catuu*. The Catuu chased the Dogga. Despite the fact that words were swiched the meaning of the sentence stayed the same because the words end did not change. | ||
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| + | *Note that these words are not Old Khallaynan but examples. | ||
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| + | When spoken aloud the language resembles French spoken with a German accent (very twisted!) | ||
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Revision as of 21:41, 7 October 2005
Overview
Old Khallaynan is a language that was declared dead during the reign of Empress Yolanda II (though it is still an offical language of state). This language was only spoken in Khallayne. Old Khallaynan was the language spoken throught the Empire during the time of the Prophet and is considered a complex tongue which is split into three eras of language development.
Ambernost Khallaynan
Not much is known about the language that was spoken by the Prophet himself, what is know is that Ambernost Khallayne thrived in the Ambernost Empire and reached it's cultural hight under the rule of the Priory of Cao, the religion that dominated Ambernost until the advent of the Prophet and The Holy Order of The Way of Peace.
The language when spoken outloud resembles French (with subtle changes).
Written Ambernost Khallaynan is in pictograph form, most of which is untranslatable.
This older version dated ?-66 N.E.
Eldest Khallaynan
This was the second incarnation of Old Khallaynan that is believed to have emerged around 66 N.E. and vanished around 800 N.E.
Eldest Khallaynan was much like english with it's alphabet (30 letters) with a much more understandable sentence structure but it was Word Ending not Word Order that defined a sentance.
Examples:
Word Order: The Dog Chased the Cat. The Cat Chased the Dog. Notice that by swiching the words the meaning of the sentence changed.
Word Ending: The Dogga chased the Catuu*. The Catuu chased the Dogga. Despite the fact that words were swiched the meaning of the sentence stayed the same because the words end did not change.
- Note that these words are not Old Khallaynan but examples.
When spoken aloud the language resembles French spoken with a German accent (very twisted!)
Elder Khallaynan
The last incarnation of Old Khallaynan emerged at 800 N.E. and was declared dead at 1306 N.E.
Other Info
When Empress Yolanda II declared Old Khallaynan a dead language she was willing to respect the Holy Order's wishes that the tongue of the Prophet remain an Offical language and used in combination with all government documents in honor of this sacred language. It is nowadays considered fashionable to learn and speak it in High Society and in the Temple Prayers to help with Purification Rites.
- I'll add more later
