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'''Adin''' is a conlang about which very little is known.  It was created by Nathaniel Knight prior to or during 2002, and was used to translate the [[Babel Text]].

==Grammar of Adin==
What little is known about the language's grammar has been taken from a single mailing-list post from 2002, in which the creator said:

"My conlang, Adin, conjugates almost every form of the verb, imperative 
included. To make an imperative form in Adin, you take the Basic Form of the 
Verb and add "-[e]nd", this making the general equivalent of "must" or "have 
to". 

1) Ji tolend. 
He deceive-must. 

To get the equivalent of the second one could use the imperative of "to be", 
or use the "-endoi" suffix. Thus you could have: 

2a) Ji toletol anend. 
He deceiving be-must. 

2b) Ji toletolendoi. 
He deceiving-surely-is. "

However, this snippet probably refers to an earlier form of the language.

==Texts in Adin==
Exactly one text, aside from the sentences above, is known to exist:  A translation of the [[Babel Text]], which can be found [http://web.archive.org/web/20071024014244/http://www.langmaker.com/db/Bbl_adinadinjo.htm here].

==External Links==
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20071012135029/http://www.langmaker.com/db/Adin Adin on LangMaker] (archived)
*[https://groups.google.com/group/alt.language.artificial/tree/browse_frm/month/2002-10/d430c59e91a5bec0?rnum=171&_done=/group/alt.language.artificial/browse_frm/month/2002-10?&hl=az The only post in existence about Adin] (archived from 2002)

[[Category: Conlangs]]