Ancient Draconic
Writing System
Each letter is detailed by a small character. For example "a" is a small right triangle with the right angle on the top right, and "b" is a single dot. It also has several other more foreign letters, totaling to an alphabet of 34 letters, as well as a numerical system that is moderately similar to the modern arabic numerical system.
Phonology
This language is described as sounding harsh, guttural, and loud, with numerous sounds literally unpronounceable by any modern species, as it was designed to be spoken by the great ancient dragons. Samples created of it and spoken by Gareth in studies attribute it to having sounds such as a deep clicking noise only producible by a special organ dragons have in the backs of their throats to use their breath weapons or loud roaring noises created with their enormous lungs.
Morphology
In writing, it looks incredibly complex, with detailed characters that can mean entire sentences. It is said to look very beautiful, but very difficult to read, write, and learn. Structurally, it mostly contains lines, dots, and very simple shapes like squares and triangles, but arranged into complex patterns that form its characters.
Syntax
Typically sentences are quite short, but able to convey a large amount of meaning through the short words. The words somewhat blend into each other to form more complex meanings and connotations within the words.
Tenses
Ancient Draconic has numerous tenses, including present, future, past, future specific, past specific, far past, far future, theoretical future, theoretical past, and theoretical present that all have unique conjugations and grammar rules surrounding them. However, most future tenses have similar conjugations, and the same goes for both past and present tenses.
Adjective Order
When written, the adjective is placed in the same character as the noun, creating a compound word that both details the noun and the nouns descriptors. When spoken, the adjective is placed before the noun.
Structural Markers
A marker similar to an apostrophe is used in place of a period, and slight alterations to it are made to symbolize things like exclamation, accents, and question marks.
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