Laveranto

“You don’t learn Laveranto like a language. You learn it like a forest trail—by walking it, again and again, until the moss starts calling you by name.”

_{Excerpt from the Fieldnotes of Elaï Dhovren, Communal Linguistics, Cycle 56 EC}

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What Is Laveranto?

Laveranto isn’t just a language.
It’s a living agreement, a root-weaving between the many peoples of Lavenna, from the storm-shielded terraces of the Rumistrian steppe communes to the soft-voiced speakers in the glacial bog settlements past the Merkosta range.

Technically? It’s our designed intercommunal tongue — used in interrepublic governance, ecoengineering documentation, and transregional dialogue.
Culturally? It’s how we talk when we want to find a way to get a roomful of people who hate each other's guts to understand one another without starting a fistfight. Yeah, that sure isn't a small task.

Where It Came From

Back during the Reconstruction Period , when people were still figuring out how to speak across wildly diverging dialects and barely-compatible speech systems (Yeah, First-Wave settlers were wild with their language mutations), it became clear:
we needed something neutral, but rooted.

✧ Influences:

• First-Wave divergence tongues (some tonal, some radial, some untranslatable)
• Second-Wave reintroductions (Fleureçais, fragments of Earth English, old creoles)
• Ecological metaphors, not mechanical logic

How It Sounds

Imagine if soft water spoke. Then imagine it had a tongue shaped like moss.

Laveranto leans on:

• Dental fricatives like dh and th → eloutha, dhevana
• Flowing vowels → always pronounced, never swallowed
• No harsh plosives unless it's ceremonial (like legal oaths or plant-name rites)

You’ll hear people say things like:
"Kai nu'navirei-sa eloutha naviré vel thenar."
(Together, we move in light through soil-memory.)

How It Works

1. Relational Grammar

Laveranto structures meaning around flows of intent and care. That's right, that means no simple Subject Verb Object order, because that would just be too easy, wouldn't it?

Instead of:

I fix the machine.

You say:

Mei dhanéi duraelo
(From me, care flows toward the machine-being.)

Basically, the subject isn’t a boss, it’s kinda like a conduit. In other words, the verb doesn’t command the action, it guides it. At least, that's how it works conceptually.

No fixed gender

Instead you can add modals:

• 'ana = nurturing energy
• 'osso = nonbinary nurture
• 'nnu = elder memory role

There is no "he" or "she", only beings with a certain flavor (See: Sentient and Symbiotic Entities)

For example: Vonaelo'ana (singular nurturing conscious being) = mother

Or: Vonaelo navirei-na vi vonaelo = He (singular conscious-being) goes (in response) toward her (singular conscious-being)

Ecological Tense

Laveranto doesn’t ask when something happened. It asks how it’s unfolding in the cycle.

• seedform (intent phase): si’
• growthphase (active): thi’
• decayphase (reflective/completed): ia’

So instead of “I will fix it,” you’d say:

si’dhanéi duraelo
Care will sprout from me to the machine-being.

nu’dhevanélai zelae — The land-being is regenerating.
si’navirei vonae — A conscious-being is preparing to move.
ia’ferrei duraelo — The tool-being has already been made.

Consensus Particles

Some verbs require co-signals, especially in group speech:

Suffix	Meaning	Use Case
-aie	co-initiated	“We do this together, deliberately.”
-thei	invitation to harmonize	“You are welcome to join.”
-lue	shared uncertainty	“We’re not sure, but we’re exploring this as a group.”
-ili	individually initiated (with awareness)	“I’m doing this alone, but consciously.”
-eno	tentative action	“This is gentle, testing, experimental.”
-rae	reflective / emotional resonance	“I speak with feeling, or after deep reflection.”

Causative Case

• These suffixes always attach to the end of verbs.
• They do not conjugate — they inflect meaning through cause only.
• -thea is perfect for poetry, spiritual dialogue, or anything that feels “beyond rational explanation.”

Suffix	Meaning	Notes	Example	Translation
-ya	Internal cause	Felt from within; personal volition or inner motivation.	mei ferrei-ya duraelo	“I create the tool-being from within.”
-va	External cause	Caused by outside forces, demands, or conditions.	lai selarei-va zelae	“The land-being nurtures due to its environment.”
-na	Responsive cause	Reaction to another’s action, gesture, or state.	kai navirei-na mae onaera	“We move in response to the creatures.”
-sa	Shared cause	Action taken together with others, or through mutual need.	tai dhevanélai-sa zelae’nnu	“We (as conscious beings) regenerate with the elder land-being.”
-thea	Emergent / Unknown cause	Mysterious, intuitive, sacred, or causally unclear.	rae solennei-thea ilae	“All things shine through unknown inspiration.”

Other stuff

Initia Particles

basically pronouns

Initia	Meaning	Relational Context	Example
mei-	I / self-source	Individual will or perspective; “I initiate this.”	mei selarei zelae — “I nurture the land-being.”
sei-	You / addressed being	Direct address to another person or conscious-being	sei ferrei duraelo? — “Did you make the tool-being?”
kai-	We (local) / present group	Collective intent of those nearby / involved	kai dhanéi onae — “We care for the animal-being.”
tai-	We (all conscious beings)	Philosophical or society-wide “we” — collective humanity/sentience	tai navirei mae onaera — “We journey with the creatures.”
lai-	We (all living things)	Ecological “we”; includes plants, animals, microbes — anything alive	lai ilethei relissi — “Life preserves the inner space.”
rae-	We (all forces/forms)	Metaphysical, spiritual, or cosmic collective; invoked in ritual or poetry	rae solennei ilae — “All things shine through the spirit.”
vae-	Intentional focus / emphasis	Not a “we,” but a laser of personal or collective will; used to underscore clarity	vae ferrei-ya vorissi — “Let us deliberately create the home-place.”

Interrogative Particles

ta sei solennei vonae? — “Are you inspiring the conscious-being?”
kai-lue navirei onaera? — “Are we (maybe) moving with the creature?”
lai vi ferrei zelae…? — “Might we (as life) be building the land-being…?”
ne mei dhanéi vonae? — “Am I not tending to the person?”

Particle	Function	Example
té	direct question	ta navirei vonae? — “Is the conscious-being moving?”
vé	speculative / rhetorical	vi solennei ilae…? — “Might the spirit-being be shining…?”
lu	collaborative uncertainty (now used more broadly too)	lu ferrei mae duraelo? — “Are we maybe making many tool-beings?”
né	negation or doubt	ne ilethei zelae? — “The land-being isn’t protecting?” / “Isn’t the land protecting?”

“-ae” Being Suffix — Sentient & Symbolic Entities

Each of these:

• Takes modal suffixes (e.g. vonae'ana, zelae'nnu)
• Can be paired with place suffix -issi (e.g. zelissi)
• Can be turned into emotional states with -enna (e.g. dhanenna)
• Is the backbone of relational grammar in Laveranto

Term	Root	Meaning	Notes
vonae	vona-	conscious-being	Any sentient person or being (human, AI, etc.)
onae	ona-	animal-being	Non-sentient creatures or fauna
zelae	zela-	land-being	Terrain, mountains, landscapes imbued with meaning
durae	dura-	tool-being	Objects, machines, tools — with or without agency
ilae	ila-	spirit-being	Symbolic, spiritual, or emotional entities
vorae	voura-	home-being / return-being	Ancestral or emotional “home” as a living presence
essae	essa-	essence-being	Optional metaphysical “beingness” itself; rarely used but deeply philosophical
savaei (deprecated)	sava-	balance-being	Older form, now usually replaced or evolved into ilethei (verb) or a poetic savaenna
solae (poetic)	solina-	light-being	Rare, used in ceremonial or poetic speech to refer to figures of warmth/inspiration

Object Clarifiers and Directional Markers

Marker	Function	Notes
lo	DOC (Direct Object Clarifier)	Specifies a particular object being acted upon. Usually placed before nouns: lo vonae = “the conscious being” (explicitly targeted).
vi	TOC (Target of Communication)	Indicates directional/intentional focus toward a being or place. Often used with verbs of speech, movement, or thought: vi salhissi = “toward the distant place.”
-lo	Definite Article Suffix	Adds specificity: vonae = a conscious being; vonaelo = the conscious being. Used to distinguish general from specific without needing separate articles.

Issi = Location Suffix

Root	-ae (being)	-issi (place)
sal- (distant)	salae = distant being/entity	salissi = “there” / a distant location
vor- (home/return)	vorae = home-being / ancestral	vorissi = “home” / the place of return
nav- (flow/movement)	navae = traveler-being	navissi = road, path, stream
zel- (terrain)	zelae = land-being	zelissi = landform, terrain, region

Phonetics

Vibe: A cross between soft Romance languages and agglutinative languages like Quechua or Turkish.

• Vowels: /a e i o u/ — always pronounced the same, like in Spanish or Japanese. Add a few diphthongs like ai, ei, au for lyrical variation.
• Consonants: No harsh stops (like "k", "g", or "d" unless softened). Lots of liquids (l, r), soft fricatives (v, z, h), and nasals (m, n).
• Stress: Always on the penultimate syllable.

Examples:

• solena = light/golden
• mierva = plant/lifeform
• naviré = to travel/flow/move
• lunavo = moonlight

Sentence Structure

Subject-Verb-Object (SVO), but modifiers follow a growth structure: smallest elements first, large ideas last.

Tense encoded in prefix particles, to avoid conjugating every verb.

Particles for context:

Dictionary

13 Words.

1. Relational Grammar

Instead of "I do X," Laveranto says:

"From me, X flows."

4. Ecological Tense

Laveranto doesn’t ask when something happened. It asks how it’s unfolding in the cycle.

• seedform (intent phase): si’
• growthphase (active): thi’
• decayphase (reflective/completed): ia’

Common Female Names

Name	Meaning	Notes
Eloua	glow after restoration	feminine-coded, but neutral use rising
Dhalano	deep harmony	popular in educator communes
Naviel	pathfinder	poetic, favored by artisans and wanderers
Sereda	seed-borne	common in rural communes
Vaelo	wind-carried	gender-neutral, airy and hopeful
Thomaré	distant root	Earth name echo, prestigious in some regions
Ka’vissel	ancestral rhythm	hybrid name with Vardish core

• Children in communal schools learn Laveranto from age 6, alongside local dialects and Fleureçais.
• The First Councillor’s speeches are always delivered in Laveranto, then translated.
• Major eco-engineering manuals and treaties are only written in Laveranto, for consistency and clarity.