Celestial Language

Celestial is the language of creatures from the positive planes, having exisited since creation.

...and he stood holding his hat and turned his wet face to the wind...
zo trehkayqo zma krado zma sloxi zo tranta zma ahta biyoda zilri ko
Pronunciation: /zo tɹɛhˈkajðo zma ˈkɹado zma ˈsloʧi zo ˈtɹanta zma ˈahta biˈʤoda ˈzilɹi ko/
Celestial word order: and stood he holding hat his and turned his face wet the wind to

Spelling & Phonology

Consonant inventory: b d f h j k l m n p s t v z ð ɹ ʤ ʧ θ

↓Manner/Place→	Bilabial	Labiodental	Dental	Alveolar	Palato-alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal	m			n
Stop	p b			t d			k
Affricate					ʧ ʤ
Fricative		f v	θ ð	s z				h
Approximant				ɹ		j
Lateral approximant				l

Vowel inventory: a i o ɛ

	Front	Back
High	i
High-mid		o
Low-mid	ɛ
Low	a

Syllable structure: (C)(C)V
Stress pattern: Penultimate — stress is on the second last syllable
Spelling rules:

Pronunciation	Spelling
b	b
k	k
ʤ	j
d	d
f	f
a	a
ɛ	e
m	m
i	i
j	y
h	h
l	l
p	p
ð	q
θ	q
n	n
ʧ	x
o	o
ɹ	r
z	z
v	v
s	s
t	t

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Grammar

Main word order: Verb Subject Object (Prepositional phrase). “Mary opened the door with a key” turns into Opened Mary the door with a key.
Adjective order: Adjectives are positioned after the noun.
Adposition: postpositions

Nouns

Nouns have two cases:

• Nominative is the doer of a verb: dog bites man.
• Accusative is the done-to of a verb: man bites dog.

Nominative	No affix kreyke /ˈkɹɛjkɛ/ dog (doing the verb)
Accusative	Suffix -pno kreykepno /kɹɛjˈkɛpno/ (verb done to) dog

Singular	No affix kreyke /ˈkɹɛjkɛ/ dog
Plural	Suffix -vli kreykevli /kɹɛjˈkɛvli/ dogs

Articles

	Definite	Indefinite
Singular	pla /pla/ the	fli /fli/ a
Plural	fro /fɹo/ the	ko /ko/ some

Uses of definite article that differ from English:

• Used for personal names in third person: ‘The Maria has left for school’

Pronouns

	Nominative	Accusative
1st singular	bli /bli/ I	vi /vi/ me
2nd singular	si /si/ you	da /da/ you
3rd singular	zma /zma/ he, she, it	dya /dja/ him, her, it
1st plural	bo /bo/ we	tre /tɹɛ/ us
2nd plural	bri /bɹi/ you all	na /na/ you all
3rd plural	dyo /djo/ they	ha /ha/ them

Possessive determiners

1st singular	bli /bli/ my
2nd singular	si /si/ your
3rd singular	zma /zma/ his, her, its
1st plural	bo /bo/ our
2nd plural	bri /bɹi/ your (pl)
3rd plural	dyo /djo/ their

Verbs

	Present	Past	Remote past	Future
1st singular	Suffix -kla vdinkanhikla /ˌvdinkanˈhikla/ (I) learn	Suffix -po vdinkanhipo /ˌvdinkanˈhipo/ (I) learned	Suffix -lði vdinkanhilqi /ˌvdinkanˈhilði/ (I) learned (long ago)	Suffix -tka vdinkanhitka /ˌvdinkanˈhitka/ (I) will learn
2nd singular	Suffix -ɹa vdinkanhira /ˌvdinkanˈhiɹa/ (you) learn	Suffix -jna vdinkanhiyna /ˌvdinkanˈhijna/ (you) learned	Suffix -vlo vdinkanhivlo /ˌvdinkanˈhivlo/ (you) learned (long ago)	Suffix -zmi vdinkanhizmi /ˌvdinkanˈhizmi/ (you) will learn
3rd singular	Suffix -si vdinkanhisi /ˌvdinkanˈhisi/ (he/she/it) learns	Suffix -ktɛ vdinkanhikte /ˌvdinkanˈhiktɛ/ (he/she/it) learned	Suffix -ɹʧa vdinkanhirxa /ˌvdinkanˈhiɹʧa/ (he/she/it) learned (long ago)	Suffix -mfi vdinkanhimfi /ˌvdinkanˈhimfi/ (he/she/it) will learn
1st plural	Suffix -mpa vdinkanhimpa /ˌvdinkanˈhimpa/ (we) learn	Suffix -tla vdinkanhitla /ˌvdinkanˈhitla/ (we) learned	Suffix -lvɛ vdinkanhilve /ˌvdinkanˈhilvɛ/ (we) learned (long ago)	Suffix -psɛ vdinkanhipse /ˌvdinkanˈhipsɛ/ (we) will learn
2nd plural	Suffix -nmɛ vdinkanhinme /ˌvdinkanˈhinmɛ/ (you all) learn	Suffix -ðji vdinkanhiqyi /ˌvdinkanˈhiðji/ (you all) learned	Suffix -sa vdinkanhisa /ˌvdinkanˈhisa/ (you all) learned (long ago)	Suffix -bi vdinkanhibi /ˌvdinkanˈhibi/ (you all) will learn
3rd plural	Suffix -la vdinkanhila /ˌvdinkanˈhila/ (they) learn	Suffix -do vdinkanhido /ˌvdinkanˈhido/ (they) learned	Suffix -mso vdinkanhimso /ˌvdinkanˈhimso/ (they) learned (long ago)	Suffix -fjo vdinkanhifyo /ˌvdinkanˈhifjo/ (they) will learn

Imperfective aspect

The ‘imperfective’ aspect refers to ongoing actions, such as I am learning and habitual actions, such as I learn (something new every day).
Celestial uses a standalone particle word for imperfective:

Imperfective

Particle before the verb: kno - kno vdinkanhi /kno vdinˈkanhi/ learns/is learning

Numbers

Celestial has a base-10 number system:
1 - ro
2 - qe
3 - xe
4 - tyo
5 - knafmi
6 - tse
7 - do
8 - qapsa
9 - fko
10 - sna
Hundred - fye
Thousand - dzo

Derivational morphology

Adjective → adverb = Suffix -kli
Adjective → noun (the quality of being [adj]) = Suffix -mpɛ
Adjective → verb (to make something [adj]) = Suffix -ɹa
Noun → adjective (having the quality of [noun]) = Suffix -tli
Noun → adjective relating to noun (e.g. economy → economic) = Suffix -ndo
Noun to verb = Suffix -pvi
Verb → adjective (result of doing [verb]) = Suffix -nʧa
Tending to = Suffix -ɹli
Verb → noun (the act of [verb]) = Suffix -mɹo
Verb → noun that verb produces (e.g. know → knowledge) = Suffix -tka
One who [verb]s (e.g. paint → painter) = Suffix -tlɛ
Place of (e.g. wine → winery) = Suffix -ha
Diminutive = Suffix -vni
Augmentative = Suffix -zdi

Dictionary

3029 Words.

Successor Languages

• Draconic Language
• Common Human Language
• Sylvan Language