Shmeepicus 3942 Share Posted August 25, 2022 Common Words and Structure of the Balianite Tongue By Mariano Saturnino Ferraz INTRODUCTION After the southern diaspora of many Orenians following the St. Ari’s Day Massacre in 0 BA (1868 IST), the native population of the land became intertwined with the Balianites. The once proper-sounding language of their people mixed with the various waves of refugees from the northern wars and dissolutions. Throughout the venture, Canonist clergy baptized and taught various church-goers Flexio to ease communication between the disparate ethnicities. This has created the bastardized Flexio known today as Balianite, fundamentally shaping the Balianite culture into a unique novelty. This short work is to record the more established phrases of the Balianite tongue. Although Rhenyari, Rashidunian, and other native phrases are used by their respective groups, the acceptable courtly language of Balian has shifted. Below you will find these words and phrases, without which you will have trouble ascending the Ponterosa, bartering with Balianites, or mingling in the tea houses. PREPOSITIONS Al/La - ‘the’ - singular definite article for masculine and feminine nouns respectively. Als/Las - ‘the’ - plural definite article for masculine and feminine nouns respectively. De - ‘of’ - Used to denote affiliation, possession and also as a nobiliary particle Del/De La - ‘of the’ - ‘De’ with reference to a definite article, masculine and feminine respectively. In the masculine form, ‘de’ contracts with ‘al’ to form ‘del’. COMMON WORDS GENERAL WORDS Ave - Hail/Hello Vale - Farewell/Goodbye Fauri - Please Graza - Thanks Graza Teu - Thank you Ai - Yes Nen - No I - And Per - For Florin - Coin Annum - Year LOCATIONS Castel - Castle or Fortress. Forte - Outpost Frontera - Border Mont - Mountain. Palatio - Palace. Piata - Plaza, City Square Pont - Bridge. Torre - Tower -Poli - City. Roughly analogous to Common ‘burg’, Nordling ‘burgh’ or Haeseni ‘grad’. Villa - Village or Town Strada - Street Terra - Land, Earth, Country Via - Road Barcun - Tavern Nord - North Sur - South Imperium - Empire Regnum - Kingdom Granducato - Grand Duchy Ducato - Duchy Condato - County Viscondato - Viscounty Baronia - Barony RELATIONSHIPS AND TITLES Pater - Father, Male Priest Matera - Mother Frate - Brother Sorella - Sister Ver - Son Ven - Daughter Imperator/Imperatrix - Emperor / Empress Regne/Regna - King / Queen Granduque/ Granduquesa - Grand Duke / Grand Duchess Duque / Duquesa - Duke / Duchess Marques / Marquesa - Marquess / Marchioness Conde / Condesa - Count / Countess Visconde / Viscondesa - Viscount / Viscountess Baron / Baronesa - Baron / Baroness Don / Dona - Lord / Lady Cavalier - Knight. Addressed as Sir. San - Saint Ferrer - Blacksmith Neze - Shopkeeper/Merchant Barcar - Barkeep Condotier - Mercenary Surdat - Soldier Ordinar - Sergeant General - Commander/General ADJECTIVES Bona - Good Malu - Bad Prim - First Ultim - Last Lung - Long Abil - Able Oltre - Far, Beyond Alta - Upper, Higher, Taller Baixa - Lower Gran - Grand, Big, Large Nueva/Nuvi - New Piquen - Small Veca - Old Poca - Few Giuva - Young COLORS Rosa - Red Arancione - Orange Garnu - Yellow Verda - Green Azuro - Blue Viola - Purple Rossia - Pink Bianc - White Nero - Black GRAMMAR NOTE: COMPOUND WORDS In many cases where an adjective is combined with a noun into a single word, a vowel is added for connecting purposes. For example, ‘Ponterosa’ is the compound word of ‘pont’ and ‘rosa,’ and this vowel would not exist if the words were separate. However, this is not always the case - see the compound word ‘Granduque,’ which is ‘gran’ and ‘duque’. GRAMMAR NOTE: PLURALS Plurals are constructed similarly to Common - through the use of an -s as a suffix. If the word ends in a consonant, the suffix -es is used in its place. 20 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheepie 12 Share Posted August 25, 2022 (edited) Surdat Livia: Ave Al Granducato Balian! Ave al Granduque! Edited August 25, 2022 by Sheepie 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChirpySquire 48 Share Posted August 25, 2022 Vladrick Aurelian Novellen-Huntshill would grin proudly. "Ave al Granducato de Balian! Ave al Granduque!" 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeawithFrisket 2617 Share Posted August 26, 2022 Samuel Vuiller looks down on this missive "Ay....Ain' no one Makin meh spea' this crap." He said with his own way of talkin Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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