Cyrenic Language

ⲔⲒⲢⲜⲚⲪⲔ/ki:rɛːnɪk/

To seek peace, look to Silus
ⲤⲪⲔ ⲢⲀⲎⲜⲘ ⲀⲦ ⲤⲒⲖⲬⲤ
Pronunciation: /sɪk pa:chɛːm a:t̪ siluːs/
Word Order: Seek peace, to Silus

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The Cyrenic Language is a major language spoken primarily by the Cyrenic peoples of the Odric Mountain range, and specifically the Kingdom of Cyrenica. It is spoken by some six and a half million people natively, and a few hundred thousand more as a secondary language, predominantly from Nimeara, and the Aeillan region. It is a regionally important language, but sees little use outside of the Odric Mountains and Aeilla.

Writing System

World Builders Note: Many words will be written outside this article will be using Latin characters, and this may be supplemented by equivalent alphabet structures where appropriate.
The Cyrenic language makes the Dwarven Alphabet, which is common to every Dwarven language save Beihin, and has ancient roots making it likely the oldest phonemic alphabet in the known world. There are 26 letters in the Dwarven Alphabet with no distinction between case.

Alphabet Chart
Ⲁ Ⲃ Ⲅ Ⲇ Ⲉ Ⲋ Ⲍ Ⲏ Ⲑ Ⲓ Ⲕ Ⲗ Ⲙ Ⲛ Ⲝ Ⲟ Ⲡ Ⲣ Ⲥ Ⲧ Ⲩ Ⲫ Ⲭ Ⲯ Ⲱ Ϥ

Phonology

The Cyrenic language is known for its relatively constricted phonology. With a little over a dozen consonantal phonemes, and 6 main vowel phonemes. Stressed accents are indicated by longer form pronunciation and one vowel form is nasalized, and also extended.
Consonant inventory: / b d̪ f ɡ h j k kʷ kᶣ l ɫ m n ŋ p r s t̪ t̪ʰ w z/

↓Manner/Place→	Bilabial	Labiodental	Dental	Alveolar	Palato-alveolar	Retracted Palatal	Labio-Velar	Velar	Glottal
Nasal	m	ɱ	n̪	n	ɲ̟			ŋ
Stop	p b		t̪	t d	kʷ			k ɡ
Fricative		f v		s z					h
Approximant						j	w
Trill				r
Lateral				l ɫ

Vowel Inventory: (Monopthongs): a a: e: e ɛ i i: ɪ o o: ɔ ʊ u u: y yː; (Dipthongs): ae̯ au̯ ei̯ eu̯ oe̯ ui̯

	Front	Central	Back
High	iː i y yː		u: ʊ
Near-high	ɪ
High-mid	e: e		oː
Mid
Low-mid	ɛ		ɔ
Low	a: a ɑ		ɑ

Morphology

Cyrenic as a language recognizes 3 grammatical genders, masculine, feminine, and neuter, as well as maintaining a grammatical 1st, 2nd, and 3rd person.

Pronouns

Distance, Number	Word, IPA, English Equivalent
1st, Singular	ⲜⲊⲞ, /ɛːgo:/ I/me/myself
2nd, Singular	ⲦⲬ, /tu:/ you/yourself
3rd, Singlular	ⲤⲬⲒ, /sui̯/ he/himself; ⲤⲒⲂⲒ, /si:bi/ she/herself; ⲤⲈ, /se:/, it/itself
1st, Plural	ⲜⲊⲬⲒ /ɛːgui̯/ we/ourselves
2nd, Plural	ⲦⲬⲒ, /tui/, you all
3rd, Plural	ⲤⲪⲔⲬⲒ, /sɪkui:/ they all

There are seven gramatical cases in the Cyrenic language, Nominative, Genitive, Dative, Accusitive, Ablative, Vocative, and Locative. Due to the relatively informalized system of syntax, case is is generally indicated by placement of vowel stress, and dependent on the context of the sentence. There are three distinctive moods in the Cyrenic language, Indicative, Imperative, Subjunctive; which can affect how verbs are conjugated. Reflexive verbs are one of the few restricted word orders, with the personal pronoun of the object of the sentence, strictly speaking, being required to be placed before the verb, and with special conjugation. Passive voice is indicated by speaking in the third person, with no personal pronouns.

Syntax

As a very general rule, Cyrenic is a subject-verb-object language; however, colloquial Cyrenic de-emphasizes word placement in the spoken language, with relatively chaotic word placement. There is also a strong emphasis on cutting down on "unnecessary" words in spoken Cyrenic, with many words not needed for understanding removed by the speaker to speed up, and shorten interpersonal interactions as much as is possible.

Vocabulary

The Cyrenic vocabulary has ancient, and virtually unknowable roots, with the evolution of the language into its, more or less, modern form slowly occurring between the rise of the Yulan-Tai, and the rise of the Aeillan civilizations, with relatively minor linguistic changes since. As a result, pinning down Cyrenic etymology is largely an unfeesible task for most scholars. There is some evidence however, that the vocabulary of the Cyrenic language has slowly been shrinking over the past millenia, as the Cyrenic peoples have settled and become more isolated, losing the need for certain words.

Tenses

There are three tenses in the Cyrenic languages, past, present, and future, with each having further set of conjugation depending on mood. Conjugation, in most cases, occurs by affixing a suffix to the root word according to the below chart:

Basic Conjugation

Person, Tense, Mood	Conjugation
1st, present, indicative	ⲀⲬⲚ, /au̯n/, aun
1st, present/past/future, imperative	ⲀⲘ, /a:m/, am
1st, present, subjunctive	ⲀⲈⲊ /ae̯g/ eg
1st, past, indicative	ⲀⲬⲘ, /au̯m/ aum
1st, past, subjunctive	ⲀⲈⲘ, /ae̯m/ em
1st, future, indicative	ⲀⲆ, /aɫ/, al
1st, future, subjunctive	ⲀⲨ, /a:t̪ʰ/ at
2nd, present, indicative	ⲪⲚ, /ɪt/, it
2nd, present/future, imperative	ⲪⲔ, /ɪk/, ik
2nd, present, subjunctive	ⲪⲊ, /ɪg/, ig
2nd, past, indicative	ⲈⲒⲘ, /ei̯m/ eim
2nd, past, imperative	ⲪⲢ, /ɪr/, ir
2nd, past, subjunctive	ⲪⲄ, /ɪf/, if
2nd, future, indicative	ⲪⲂ, /ɪb/, ib
3rd, present, indicative	ⲞⲈⲄ, /oe̯f/ oef
3rd, present, imperative	ⲞⲈⲊ, /oe̯g/ oeg
3rd, present/past/future, subjunctive	ⲞⲈⲚ, /oe̯n/ oen
3rd, past, indicative	ⲬⲒⲄ, /ui̯f/, uip
3rd, past/future, imperative	ⲬⲒⲤ, /ui̯s/ uis
3rd, future, indicative	ⲌⲘ, /ʊm/, um

Successor Languages

• Common

Spoken by

• Cyrenic People

Spelling Rules

Pronunciation	Spelling
b	Ⲃ
c k kʷ kᶣ	Ⲕ
f	Ⲅ
ɡ	Ⲋ
h	Ⲏ
f	Ⲅ
j	Ⲓ
l	Ⲗ
ɫ	Ⲇ
m	Ⲙ
n ɲ	Ⲛ
p r	Ⲣ
s	Ⲥ
t̪	Ⲧ
t̪ʰ	Ⲩ
w	Ⲡ
z	Ϥ
a a:	Ⲁ
ɛː	Ⲝ
e e:	Ⲉ
i i:	Ⲓ
ɪ	Ⲫ
o o:	Ⲟ
ɔ	Ⲑ
ʊ	Ⲍ
u u:	Ⲭ
y	Ⲯ
yː	Ⲱ
ae̯	ⲀⲈ
au̯	ⲀⲬ
ei̯	ⲈⲒ
eu̯	ⲈⲬ
oe̯	ⲞⲈ
ui̯	ⲬⲒ