[Adoken Razahl]

Talage! I am Adoken Razahl, the Left-Handed Angel, and I will guide you through the quest to learn my language! Before I start with the lessons, here is some useful information about the language as a whole:

This language was named after it's long departed and deceased speakers, the Tanolians, who derived from the country of Tanohel. Tanohel is located on the Northern Hemisphere on the Planet of Kashube (kash-bay). It was lost during the Mornad Cataclysm, and was recovered by monks, who thought to believe it was the Demon Language, and it was shunned for almost three hundred years. Only people of true Tanolian descent knew this language.

However, after the language's prolonged non-spoken ways, it was discovered once again by the Tanolian Philosopher, Adoken Razahl, and it is now available to the entire planet of Kashube, and now, it is available for Earth too!

I have always wanted to create my own language! I am still not done, but these kind of things take time...anyway, here are the Grammar Rules.

[Adoken Razahl]

Lesson 1: Pronunciation

The vowels are not that hard to remember.

A = Ah, as in father
E = Eh, as in Jet
I = EE, as in Believe
O = Oh, as in Hope
U = OO, as in Rude

They will stay like this, no matter what word they are in, or where they are placed. However, sometimes the U is silent in the middle of a word. Also, when faced with two of the same vowels, like "oo" you don't say "u", but you just hold out "oh" longer than when you would hold out a regular "O".

Some of the consonants have changed from the English pronunciation. The consonants that still undergo the English pronunciation though is: B, D, L, M, N, P, W, and Y. The others have taken on a new phonic sound.

C, K, And Q = They all make the same noise, a hacking noise. K is actually the main character, the C and Q are used for foreign words.
F = It is just the blowing of air with parted lips.
G = It is a combination of a growl and then a K hacking noise.
H = Very guttural. You place your tongue on the top of your mouth, and cover your throat, then expel air quickly.
J = It is a hissing noise, like you are telling some one "hush!"
R = It is trilled like in Spanish, but more breathy.
S = The S is very breathy also, and seems to be a slight hiss also.
T = It makes a CH noise, like CHURCH.
V = The English F.
X = The K hacking noise, then a Tanolian S.
Z = The same as the Tanolian S. It is used for foreign words.

Now, wasn't that fun? Remember, this language will NOT hurt your throat, so if your throat is hurting, you are probably pronouncing the characters wrong. Also, this takes a lot of practice. I created it, and I still really can't get it right, but it is fun trying to do it! Hee hee! Also, keep in mind that this is a very airy and breathy language. One more thing: When yelling, the S and Z is a normal English S.

[Chem6Afreak]

SWEET
I remember welcoming you about an hour ago in the new person forum thing.
Anyways Ill start learning.....

[Adoken Razahl]

Lesson 2: Nouns and Pronouns

The nouns are simple because, unlike many nouns in other languages, the noun will always stay the same. In some languages, when a noun is placed in a certain part of a sentence, it looks different. For example, I love my cat. The cat loves me. In other languages, because cat was in a different part of the sentence, it changes. When a noun is plural, add "a" to it.

Pronouns are the same way. They do not change like they do in other languages. For example, I love my cat. The cat loves me. "I" changed into "me." You will not see this in Tanolian. Also, if the subject of the sentence is a pronoun, you merely place a certain letter representing that pronoun by the verb root. You will learn more about that in the next lesson. Here is a list of the pronouns:

I = Gamen
You(masc.) = Nee
You(fem.) = Nei
He = Veu
She = Dana
It = Xet

We = Gameua
You (plural) = Nea
They(masc.) = Veua
They(fem.) = Danua
They(neut.) = xeta

[Adoken Razahl]

Lesson 3: Verbs

This is where it starts to twist around your brain.

Unlike most languages, including English, Tanolian only uses one type of verb. The stem determines the meaning, and the ending determines the tense and even the subject.

There is no voice aspect in Tanolian. All verbs are active, and never passive, with the exceptions of helping verbs and "be" verbs. Here are the endings to the verbs.

It goes from present, to past, to future:

I = u/ugh/uk
You = o/ogh/ok
He/She/It = i/igh/ik

We= us/ughe/uke
You(plural) = os/oghe/oke
They = is/ighe/ike

All verbs, when not in any tense, will all end in -r. For example, tar, meaning, "to regret" or "to be sorry" will stay like that unless you put one of the suffixes after the -r. For example:

I am sorry = Taru
You are sorry = Taro
You be sorry = Tarot

When the verb is a command, add a -t to the verb.

[Nolan L]

Sweet! How long did it take for you to come up with this?
I'll try to learn it.

[Cruelty*free]

Whoa Girl u got it all organized and down pacted....I remember I tried to make a language but it didnt work out lol Anywho it looks confusing but I'm sure its not...*tries to learn*

[JesusFrEaK0077]

Originally Posted by Cruelty*free

Whoa Girl u got it all organized and down pacted....I remember I tried to make a language but it didnt work out lol Anywho it looks confusing but I'm sure its not...*tries to learn*

The vowels are just like the spanish language... I can get those, not the rest.. haha...

[Athanasius]

I'm not good at the languages I do know - don't need yet another language to suck at.

[Adoken Razahl]

Originally Posted by JesusFrEaK0077

The vowels are just like the spanish language... I can get those, not the rest.. haha...

Yeah, and the vowels are also just like the Japanese vowel soundings. I based some of this language on Japanese.

[Adoken Razahl]

Lesson 4: Adjectives and Adverbs

Adjectives are very similar to verbs, i.e., they both have roots, and stems. ALL ADJECTIVES will end with -d, while the adverbs will be ending with -an, but the root of the adjective the adverb was taken from will be the root of the abverb.

Here is an example:

Fast = kied Quickly = Kiedan
Soft = Lokad Softly = Lokadan

[Adoken Razahl]

Lesson 5: Word Order

Now I am getting to the fun stuff.

Words in Tanolian are grouped together a certain way in sentences. These groups, or "families" can come in any order, though most orders are preferable than others. The words in a group must be put in a certain order. There are seven kinds of groups:

Verb Family
Noun Family
Prepositional Phrase Family
Clause Family
Adverb Family
Adjective Family
Pronoun Family

Just like a real family, these seven different families may have other families within it, or linked with it. Here is an example:

The blue car

In Tanolian, the word "car" begins the family because it is a noun being modified by something. It is being modified by "blue." So in order to have these words correctly placed, it would be

Car blue

The word "the" was dropped because there are no articles in Tanolian. Here is another example:

The slightly blue car

It would be: Car blue slightly

Car is being modified by blue, and blue is being modified by slightly. Slightly comes after blue, because a slightly blue car is a lot different from a blue slightly car. Simple, right? Now, I will demonstrate this with a more complicated sentence:

Stuck-up Jane took a very short ride in the slightly blue car.

Noun Family = "Jane" family (Jane(stuck-up))
Verb Family = "took" family (took)
Noun Family = "ride" family (ride(short(very)))
Preposition Family = "in" family (in(car(blue(slightly))))

Try it with shese sentences and see what you get. Even let me see your results.

1) The red calico cat ran quickly across the black pavement.
2) Her unmatched tears of weeping sadness let him know she was mourning greatly.

[Andrew]

This thread was so bizarre and random... I approve.

[LefseRae]

Vera interesting.

[Nate]

There was another user on here years ago that had started inventing his own language. It was interesting. Cool.