Runic

to weather a storm brings many tall mountainsnom waworsun tel kankat natoy natoyanos

— Common Runic Idiom (Hover for translation)

Runic, or as its known in the tongue Akonosni, is one of the most ancient languages in Nonvyrox, being one of the original languages brought to the world when The Weaver emerged from the Leylines. When traced back, many languages have their origins in Runic and its dialects.

a flip of the coin brings new lucktymons nomyrak telans sos eknyrun

— Runic Idiom (Hover for translation)

History

The true origins of Runic are unclear. There's a chance that it was a language that stemmed from the tongues of the divine as they first arrived on the mortal plane. Other theorize that it was developed by the hands of The Weaver and Thoura as a way for them to communicate with the mortals and grant them the ability to cast spells. As it developed further into The Dawning and more so in the Age of Creation, the language developed dialects from those who were reaching new heights of magical potential. This is when some of the better recorded variants of Runic were developed. The different communities wanted to find a way to make their communication about magical concepts and existence simpler.

In the modern day, Runic is most commonly found on ancient relics and ruins, there are few who can speak Runic as a primary or even secondary language. Those who can are often the most academically driven or are linked intensely with history. There are some Automaton who have an innate ability to speak the language, especially those who have recently been reawakened from the Age of Creation.

to chase earth's value is to conjure no growthropantorut nosis nomyrunsa telans kanuns kon

— Common Runic Idiom (Hover for translation)

Dictionary

60 Words.

Runic

Language Family	Ancient
Common Dialects	Arvadian Locathran Rhyndar Morreni Sovastra Hlotris
Script	Konsans
Spoken By	Arvadian Ancient People of Nonvyrox Deities

Phonology

Consonants

• Nasals: m, n
• Plosives: p, t k
• Fricatives: f, v, s, z, h
• Trills: r
• Approximants: l, j, w

Vowels

• Monothongs: a, i, ə, o
• Dipthongs: ij, oj, aj, aw

Phonotactics

Syllable Structure

1. The syllable structure is (C) V (C) (C).
2. C contains all available consonants.
3. V contains all vowels, including diphthongs.
4. The Coda can't contain /h/
5. In the Onset, there is no clustering.
6. In the Coda, clusters are a nasal followed by one of {p, t, k, f, s}
7. Monothong Vowels (except ə) elongate when left open.

Romanisation

m → <m>
n → <n>
p → <p>
t → <t>
k → <k>
f → <f>
v → <v>

s → <s>
z → <z>
h → <h>
r → <r>
l → <l>
j → <j>
w → <w>

a → <a>
ə → <u>
i → <i>
o → <o>
ij → <e>
oj → <oy>
aj → <y>
aw → <ah>

Grammar

Word Order: Subject-Verb-Object
Adjective order: Adjectives are positioned before the noun.
Adposition: Preposition comes before the noun
Possessor/Possessed: The Possessor comes before the Possessed

Demonstratives: Demonstratives come before the noun
Numerals: Numerals come before the noun.
Relative Clause: Relative clauses come after the noun
Cases: Gramatical cases come after the noun.

Nouns

Nouns have 7 possible cases:

1. Nominative Case: subject of a verb.
2. Accusative Case: direct object of a verb.
3. Genitive Case: possessor of another noun.
4. Dative Case: indirect object of a verb.
5. Locative Case: location, either physical or temporal.
6. Ablative Case: movement away from
7. Instrumental Case: a means or tool used while performing an action.

First Declension

Case	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	Suffix: /an/	Suffix: /ana/	Suffix: /anos/
Accusative	Suffix: /un/	Suffix: /uns/	Suffix: /unsa/
Genitive	Suffix: /is/	Suffix: /isi/	Suffix: /isi/
Dative	Suffix: /av/	Suffix: /avo/	Suffix: /avo/
Locative	Suffix: /ok/	Suffix: /oka/	Suffix: /oka/
Ablative	Suffix: /ap/	Suffix: /apa/	Suffix: /apa/
Instrumental	Suffix: /ak/	Suffix: /akta/	Suffix: /akara/

Second Declension (Vowel Final)

Case	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	Suffix: /n/	Suffix: /na/	Suffix: /nos/
Accusative	Suffix: /s/	Suffix: /ns/	Suffix: /nsa/
Genitive	Suffix: /si/	Suffix: /soy/	Suffix: /soya/
Dative	Suffix: /v/	Suffix: /vo/	Suffix: /vo/
Locative	Suffix: /k/	Suffix: /ka/	Suffix: /ka/
Ablative	Suffix: /p/	Suffix: /pa/	Suffix: /pas/
Instrumental	Suffix: /ka/	Suffix: /kar/	Suffix: /kara/

Numbers

Runic has a base-12 number system. The numbers are also broken down into sets of 6, which can be counted by counting each finger and then a closed fist.

Number	Runic
0	tova
1	os
2	am
3	no
4	ir
5	wu
6	ko
7	osra
8	amra
9	nora
A	sira
B	wura
10	kora
100	jatra
1000	kinja

When numbers go to a higher context place, the number is said as "X of Y" where X is a base digit, and Y is the place. For example, to say 2A6B it would be:

am kinja sira jatra ko kora wura
two one-thousand-seven-hundred-twenty-eights, ten one-hundred-forty-fours, six twelves, and eleven

This would be equal to the decimal number of 4,979. Which might seem weird to those used to a decimal system, but is a common way of couting for those who speak Runic, with twelve being an important concept to the culture and the language.

Verbs

Stative	Non-Past	Past
Perfective	Present stem	Past stem + (o)t
Imperfective	Habitual stem + (a)ns	Past Habitual stem + (a)not

Dynamic	Non-Past	Past
Perfective	Present stem	Past stem + (o)t
Imperfective	Imperfective stem + (a)ns	Past Imperfective stem + (a)not
Habitual	N/A	Past Habitual stem + (o)rut

Pronouns

Singular

Case	1st Person	2nd Person	3rd Person
Nominative	os /os/	ma /ma/	fa /fa/
Accusative	osun /osən/	mas /mas/	fas /fas/
Genitive	osis /osis/	masi /masi/	fasi /fasi/

Plural

Case	1st Person	2nd Person	3rd Person
Nominative	osu /osə/	myu /majə/	fya /faja/
Accusative	osunsa /osənsa	mynsa /majnsa/	fyunsa /fajənsa/
Genitive	osusya /osəsaja	myusya /majəsaja/	fyusya /fajəsaja/

Example Sentence

The cat chased the mouse in the gardens
feline-NOM.SG chase-DY.PST rodent-ACC.SG garden-LOC.PL
rosniron ropantolt tosynis namoka
rosniron ropantolt tosynis namoka

• rosniron = rosniro + n
• ropantolt = ropant + olt
• tosynis = tosyni + s
• namoka = namo + ka

Dialects

Over the millennia since the first possible word of Runic was spoken and the first stone carvings were made, the Runic language has changed drastically. Inspired by the communities who used it for their own purposes, different dialects helped to forge paths that led to new and emergent languages that are now wide spread across the realm. All of these dialects use Konsans as their writing system, though some of the symbols have developed different meanings within each of the dialects.

Arvadian

Among the most diverse of the dialects of Runic, Arvadian eventually evolved into a language unto itself. However, for many years it was still intellegable as a dialect of Runic. The Arvadians were inspired by the words and language spoken by majestic and terrifying creatures that they worked alongside, leading to several root words from ancient Primordial and Draconic becoming core to the language. Modern day languages such as Draconic, Infernal, and Primordial all seem to stem from Arvadian.

Locathran

Spoken mostly by those who remained on the ground, Locathran was a dialect of Runic that was once commonly spoken by those who would engage in trades and mercantile efforts. Typically having their own tongue would allow fellow merchants to communicate more effectively, while also hiding their prices. However, over time Locathran became a more commonly spoken tongue for those who were not arcane users of any kind, especially due to how wide spread the mercantile class was. The Common tongue and Halfling, both languages of freedom and communication, stem from Locathran.

Rhyndar

Rhyndar was one of the first dialects of Runic to start to exist. It was designed to be easily spoken and heard in the depths of mines. Even in the earliest days, the first dwarves, gnomes, and miners wanted a shorthand to keep track of everything they were mining and working on. After many decades of using different words and root words for certain nouns, they became core to the tongue of those who worked under the surface. Both Modern Dwarvish and Gnomish stem from Rhyndar, with the words innate connection to the world underground.

Morreni

An interesting dialect of Runic, Morreni stemmed primarily from a geographic change. It was developed by those who walked from the mortal realms into the , a world where truths mean more than anything. This linguistical difference was made even more important as different people populated the Fae Lands, despite an ancesteral difference of existence, the people had a common language. This would stem into Sylvan and eventually branch out to Elvish, Goblin, and Orcish, the modern day equivalents all having this original origin of Morreni.

Sovastra

Sovastra developed in the city of Sovmora and is one of the most well documented dialects of Runic, having been preserved somewhat in ancient religious texts that managed to survive The Shatter. It was only discovered to be a dialect of Runic in 614 AR, after similar glyphs were found in ruins around Vilura. Much of the language evolved into a dialect of the Common tongue, but there are some elements of Sovastra that survived in modern day Celestial, allowing those who speak the language an easier time comprehending Sovastra, and Runic in itself.

Hlotris

Considered by some to be the dark dialect of Runic, Hlotris was designed to flesh out more of the more unusual and strange aspects of language and was often used between societies to keep information secret. There are some historians who believe that Hlotris was designed to be a mirror dialect to Arvadian, hiding their information rather than making it public and obscuring the grandeous nature of the culture. While much of Hlotris was destroyed in the transitional period of The Shatter, some of it has survived in modern day Undercommon and Abyssal, with certain root words being taken from and used in Deep Speech.

Writing System

Konsans

Konsans is the combination of two writing scripts, Konsretta and Sanspon. Konsretta is a logography that was used to write a symbol for each word in Runic, while Sanspon was designed to write out each possible letter in an alphabet. However, it seemed that neither of these would suffice entirely for the language. Sanspon would lead to really long pieces of writing, while Konsretta would be an infinitely big set of symbols. As a result, the two were combined, if there isn't a symbol for a word it is spelled out using Sanspon, if there is a symbol, its written in Konsretta.

This article has had several examples of Konsans, primarily written with Sanspon. The different elements of Sanspon were originally designed to be written as glyphs with a simple brush and paper. This led to a very simplistic set of symbols that have over the years, been manipulated by personal style and preference.

Orthography

m → m
n → n
p → p
t → t
k → k
f → f
v → v

s → s
z → z
h → h
r → r
l → l
j → j
w → w

a → a
ə → u
i → i
o → o
ij → e
oj → O
aj → Y
aw → H

Dictionary

Key: adj. adjective / adv. adverb / art. article / conj. conjunction / det. determiner / interj. interjection / n. noun / num. numeral / prep. preposition / pron. pronoun / v. verb