Language scratchpad

This page contains languages currently under construction, which have yet to reach a stage where it can get its own article. Most, if not all, of these langauges will be part of either Innocence Seekers or one of its spinoffs.

Unnamed langauge #1
This is a language largely based on English, but with more inflections. No name has been decided yet, but it is intended to be spoken in Nodaima.

Nouns
Nouns have three cases: nominative, genitive and dative. Noun declension has largely been regularised.

Declension of fiš: This noun is in the first declension, which is productive.

Declension of nēm: This noun is in the second declension, which is marginally productive.

Declension of lèmb: This noun is in the third declension, which is no longer productive.

Declension of tūť This noun is in the fourth declension, which may or may not exhibit umlaut in the plural. This declension is no longer productive.

Pronouns
Unlike nouns, personal pronouns also have an accusative case.

Personal pronouns:

Interrogative/relative pronouns:

Verbs
Conjugation of wezen/bīn: This verb is highly irregular. Note that there are two forms each for the infinitive, first-person singular present, present participle and gerund. These forms are interchangeable.

Conjugation of beren: This verb is a strong verb, meaning it exhibits ablaut. Strong verbs have four principal parts: the infinitive, the singular indicative past tense form, the plural indicative past tense form (which is also used for the subjunctive), and the past participle.

Conjugation of fillen: This is a weak verb, meaning its past tense and past participle are formed with a dental suffix. The original weak verb classes have largely fallen together, with only a few irregularities surviving. The two principal parts of a weak verb are the infinitive and the past participle.

Conjugation of hèven: This verb is another weak verb; however, it is fairly irregular.

Conjugation of dūn: This verb is fairly irregular.

Conjugation of kannen: This is a preterite-present verb. All preterite-present verbs are irregular, with their present forms conjugating as if they were the past tense forms of a strong verb, while their past tense is similar to that of weak verbs.

Unnamed language #2
Like the above language, this language is also based on English. However, it is meant to be a possible descendant of a fictional dialect of English. It is intended to appear in Innocence Seekers III: Fragments of Time.

Verbs
In this language, verbs have several forms. These forms are the infinitive, which doubles as a singular present subjunctive and singular imperative, the plural present subjunctive (marked with -en), the singular and plural past subjunctive, the plural imperative, the negative forms of the subjunctive, the present and past participles, and the gerund. For most verbs, the indicative forms have fallen out of use.

Conjugation of sing:

The indicative form is always formed by using one of many auxillary verbs (with the exception of the copula, which, unique among all verbs, can stand alone in the indicative).

Conjugation of bī:

This is the copula. It can stand alone to form a copulative clause, or be used as an auxillary, either with the present participle to indicate progressive aspect, or with the past participle to indicate passive voice.

Conjugation of dū: This is the default auxillary (when used with the bare infinitive), and carries no meaning if used as such. As a main verb, it means "to do".

Conjugation of hev: This verb, if used as an auxillary, indicates the perfect when used with the past participle. As a main verb, it means "to have".