Nother/Drake
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Drake (   ) | |
|---|---|
| Pronounced: | /ŋèʔa̰a̰/ |
| Timeline and Universe: | Nother 5th–10th c. AD |
| Species: | dragons |
| Spoken: | Atlanteia |
| Total speakers: | Extinct |
| Writing system: | Drake script |
| Genealogy: | Afro-Asiatic Drake (Old Menashean) Early Menashean Menashean |
| Typology | |
| Morphological type: | Fusional |
| Morphosyntactic alignment: | Accusative |
| Basic word order: | VSO |
| Credits | |
| Creator: | Muke Tever |
| Created: | 2003 |
Drake or Old Menashean[1] was a language spoken in Atlanteia from its foundation till roughly the tenth century A.D., after which point it is called Early Menashean.
The dragons who spoke the language had no ethnonym, and simply called themselves 
/ŋeʔḛ̀ɣaa/ "dragons", and the language name is derived from this. It is an Afro-Asiatic language, not their innate language; /ŋèʔa̰a̰/, for example, is cognate to Egyptian nˁw 'serpent'.
Phonology
- Main article: Drake phonology
Orthography
- Main article: Drake alphabet
Grammar
Nouns decline for singular/plural and five cases: nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, and locative. The declension for mīne "house" is given below as an example.
| sing. | plur. | |
|---|---|---|
| nom. | mīne | mīnā |
| gen. | nomīne | nomīnā |
| dat. | ermīne | ermīnā |
| acc. | lemīne | lemīnā |
| loc. | nimīne | nimīnā |
Notes
- ↑ Drake is the traditional English name, and most properly refers to Old Menashean, but is also used generically to refer to any stage of the language. The name Menashean, which refers to Menashe, legendary founder of the city, is a recent coinage also used to refer generically to any stage of the language, but without qualifiers usually means the modern stage of the language.
