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| == '''Overview''' == | | {{Infobox|name=Dal’qörian|pronounce=ɗælkuɹi:jæn (Eng: Dalcurian)<br>[[Media:Dalcurian.ogg|hear pronunciation]]|tu=Present|species=Human|in=[[Dalcuria]] |no=over 3 million|script=Latin alphabet<br>(Dalcurian variant)|tree= [[Thaduracian|Thaduracian]]<br> [[Proto-Dalcurian|Proto-Dalcurian]]<br> [[Old Dalcurian|Old Dalcurian]]<br> Middle Dalcurian<br> Modern Dalcurian|morph=Analytic (standard)<br/> Semi-synthetic (Halcarnian)|ms=Nominative-Accusative (pronouns only)|wo=SVO/SOV|creator=Dayle Hill|date= 2003-ongoing}} |
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| First of all, through my own experiences, I have purposely used only basic grammar terminology in this article, and I have also included brief descriptions of grammatical words and expressions in each respective sections. This is because I want newcomers to language study not to feel intimidated by heavy terminology and explanations. As I can remember when I first began to study German, I was very confused with 'intense, grammatical explanations'. Of course, when studying or creating a language, one must have some understanding of grammar to begin with, however, for the above reasons I have written this article in simple English.<BR/>I should also state that most of the examples and references here are based in comparison to the English language.
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| ===The dal'qörian language===
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| dal'qörian (pronounced: ''dal-koo-ree-yan'') is the language of dal'qöria-a small group of islands approx 300 miles south-westerly off the southwest coast of Ireland, the main island roughly the size of Cornwall in southwest England. It's basic style is Indo-European, with strong influences from ''English, German, Welsh, Cornish'' and ''Latin''. When spoken, it actually sounds like a hybrid of Romance and eastern European languages. There are 2 dialects to the language: modern/standard dal'qörian or ''dal'qöriádan'', and Eastern dal'qörian, spelled ''dal'qöréan''. The latter has a different case system, including a ''modal, ablative'' and an ''abessive'' case, plus there are a few spelling and grammatical differences (with the adjective-preposition rule). This is only spoken around the eastern coastal areas and in the north east valley region. However, very recently dal'qörian youth (mainly teenagers) seemed to have adopted it as their 'everyday speak'. Ironically, modern dal'qörian actually sounds slightly archaic by comparison, but is the most widely spoken and used in formal contexts. Both are understood by all dal'qörians but are not interchangeable.
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| Dal'qörian has 3 alphabets. Modern day standard and western dal'qörian both use the latin alphabet-especially since English and German have been the second languages for over 200 years. But up until around this time, it used the Cadoc writing system; a system devised by Dalin Cadoc of Cornwall in the 11th century. The original alphabet was a script of no known origin, and not seen anywhere else in the world apart from the islands. Cadoc, who was related to King henry III, was himself a wealthy hemp magnate and took over the islands with relative ease in 1145, in order to extend his empire and to cultivate massive hemp fields. At that time the islands inhabitants numbered around 10,000, and were of Gothic descent. Cadoc was generous to these people, giving them work and building them better homes and towns, sanitation, law and order and education. He also drove out bad Lords and Barons who ruled with an iron fist, creating poverty and fear among their people. The language at that time was almost unique to dal'qöria, and although there is still ambiguity as to its origins, Cadoc's own studies revealed that the first people on the islands were a group of persecuted Goths and Anglo-saxons (and possibly some Celts, though this cannot be substantiated) and the language had developed in an attemt at isolating themselves from the rest of Europe. This included the creation of the old dal'qörian script.<br/>By the time Cadoc took over the islands, dal'qörian had undergone a significent change from its early origins, and had become influenced by Old English, Low German and Latin-thought to have stemmed from an exodus by Europeans years before. These were mainly land owners and Barons seeking new worlds to extend their trades, thus making it easier for them to avoid invasions and piliging from rival factions and clans. However, most of them failed to leave behind anywhere near the legacy that Cadoc did<br/>Cadoc was himself a linguist, as was his father, Richard, Earl of Cornwall, (who was the brother of King Henry III), and was fluent in German, Welsh, Cornish and Latin. But he hated the writing system, and so created a new alphabet based on Old English, Gothic, Latin and arbitrarily invented characters (although out of respect, he decided to take grammatical influences from it which became a large feature of the new writing system). By decree, he banned the old script and ordered the dal'qörians to learn the new alphabet (he graciously set up an education programme for this), and within 3 years it was fully functional. Over the next 30 years, during Cadoc's reign, the language was modified through his own influence, and his successors continued refining the language. Over the next 600 years or so, dal'qörian continued to be influenced by migrators from all over Europe.<br/>This is where Eastern dal'qörian was developed. These were the fishing villages and ports and there were a lot of traders in and around these parts. Whislt under regional control around the mid 1600's, Governor Albert Hælgasson, a Finnish politician who was enticed to dal'qöria by a group of Finnish traders (relatives in fact, who had strong influences with the councillors of the Eastern province) developed plans to introduce elements from his native tongue into the language. At this time, dal'qöria was divided up into 7 provinces-each under the control of a council, which in turn would be monitored by a central parliament. Hælgasson had done good things to the eastern trading province (Halcánia) and had made this area very wealthy. He was held in high regard among his peers in the capital and, on occassions, a blind eye was turned, allowing him to 'favour' Finnish traders and their families with money from the Provincial treasury. Since he was a Province leader, he was also able to influence education. He used this 'control' to introduce a language curriculum-one which gave rise to 8 'new cases'! His explanation for this was that he wanted to clean up what he considered to be a 'sloppy, lithargic' language to be used in a formal or business sense; he wanted to create formal speech. Up until now, many words from latin and English were being used in formal contexts, but grammatically it was still as it had been for hundreds of years. Hælgasson, at this point, was on a power trip and saw himself (or more to the point, wanted himself to be) a highly influential and revered person among his constiuants. Being good at running the province wasn't enough for him-he wanted to leave behind his own legacy-just as Cadoc had done 500 years before.<br/>The Central Government wan't hugely in favour of his Speech reform, but as a highly regarded leader, they allowed the curriculum through. However, the other Provinces rejected this, citing that it was against old dal'qörian constitution, and since each Province retained the right to oversee its own education, sharply vetoed the idea. Hælgasson went ahead, and legislated his proposal in 1687. Business documents and many other literary sources quickly adopted the use of the new case system, and the use of prepositions faded away. Within 10 years, this new case system had crossed the barriers of formal writing and speech into everyday language. But this never extended beyond the borders of the eastern province. Such was the case in those days, that the province was, to a small extent, isolated from its main neighbouring province of Qalmánia by way of a long and deep valley. Traders and merchants from the other provinces used to travel to the Halcánian trading posts on the ridges of the valley to collect their ware. It was rare for the common people to venture across the valley. Due to this, this new inflection on the language failed to reach the rest of dal'qöria, although the traders themselves became fluent-they had too; most of the Halcánian merchants were Finnish and were quick to adopt thier leaders influence.
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| '''ela mantábel, am gravætas ön jerandel, nämambr eƒragörädn ön equahörädn.'''<br/>'''éren Þöldr, máriÞ resæÞámn ön qevésenámn, néba qväombr,, ön, máriÞ ela, am perös qve beröjelperös, agöentr.''' | | <font color=#151B8D><span style="font-size: 16px">''' Qiöra qoÞ. Aca re bán? Binä, te intevönæÞ dis déalecti Dal’qöria, velcamör ela . DérÞ, diö descöbræ däáträdn qörabárämösel qve májä, niaságrämös, liläárämös,, ön salö ni ænÞal degérø dis oragéanámn tiÞöra-lintöni di vosérämös qve tiÞöra qedérÞas.<br/> Binä, öcra di épø taÞ diö icaÞr besöcér siÞ intevönæÞ, iquirquas qnáÞr diöra,, ön méla diö, máriÞ éanö qomenträmösel ödri qualtédrämösel, iquirquas é-mäl binöra,, ödri méla diö natindr éanö enörämösel,, taÞ binä gä’ábravaqur,, ön diö qönér,, taÞ diö nöacr önestár,, nes efragörädnas maqur taÞ dérÞ: ''[email protected]. uk''''' |
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| ''All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.''<br/>''They should be endowed with reason and conscience and act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.''
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| '''Style''' | | <span style="font-size: 16px">''' Hi, and welcome to the Dalcurian language website. Here, you’ll find detailed descriptions of its grammar, pronunciation, style, and a basic history of its origins right up to its present day usage.<br/>I would like to thank you for taking the time to peruse this website, and if you would like to email me with any comments or questions, or if you notice any mistakes that you feel you could correct me on, then please feel free to do so at''' : '''''[email protected]''''' |
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| | Through my own experiences, I have purposely simplified the grammatical terminology in this article, and I have also included brief descriptions of grammatical words and expressions in each respective section. This is because I want newcomers to language study not to feel intimidated by heavy terminology and explanations. As I can remember when I first began to study German, I was very confused with 'intense grammatical explanations'. Of course, when studying or creating a language, one must have some understanding of grammar to begin with. However, for the above reasons I have, for the most part, written this article in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Simple_English_Wikipedia simple English].<BR/>I should also state that most of the examples and references here are based in comparison to the English language. |
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| dal'qörian is a 'rhotic' language; the letter 'r' is pronounced after every vowel. It's pronounciation is very deliberate. In fact, by and large, dal'qörian is quite formal; it has no 'slang' form, although there is a small colloquial element to it.
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| I created this language out of my interest in Elvish. I became fascinated with Lord of the Rings when the films were released. With that, I started studying the Quenyan alphabet and learned to write using the Tengwar system. I've also studied German for the last 3 years. Through learning German, I 're-educated' myself in English grammar and around the same time began to create dal'qörian.<br/>Initially, I wanted dal'qörian to sound like Elvish, to be spoken with a 'flowing tongue' if you like. However, as it developed, I guess it took on its own flavour and sounds-which is fine by me; it gives it its own character then.
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| == '''Alphabet and pronunciation''' == | | ===[[Dalcurian alphabet and pronunciation|Dalcurian alphabet and pronunciation]]=== |
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| ===[[dal'qörian adverbs|Adverbs]]=== | | ===[[Dal'qörian Telling the time|Time]]=== |
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| ===[[dal'qörian verbs|Verbs]]=== | | ===[[Dal'qörian numbers|Numbers]]=== |
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| ===[[dal'qörian prepositions|Prepositions]]=== | | =='''Miscellaneous word and phrase lists'''== |
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| ===[[Dal'qörian Telling the time|Telling the time]]=== | | ====[[Dal'qörian colours|Colours]]==== |
| | ====[[dal'qörian days/months/seasons|Days/months/seasons]]==== |
| | ====[[dal'qörian describing people|Describing people]]==== |
| | ====[[dal'qörian countries|Names of Countries]]==== |
| | ====[[Dalcurian hello/goodbye please/thankyou|Hello/goodbye Please/thankyou]]==== |
| | ====[[Dalcurian intensifiers|Intensifiers]]==== |
| | ====[http://docs.google.com/View?id=dmh9tc5_92r9dbhhr English Dalcurian Dictionary]==== |
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| ===[[Dal'qörian nouns|Nouns]]=== | | ====Links:==== |
| | [http://www.omniglot.com '''Omniglot'''] |
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| ===[[Dal'qörian numbers|Numbers]]===
| | [[Websites in Dalcurian|Various webpages in Dalcurian]] |
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| ===[[Dal'qörian Cases|Case system]]===
| | [[Category:Conlangs]] |
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| ===[[Dal'qörian pronouns|Pronouns]]===
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| ====[[dal'qörian days/months/seasons|days/months/seasons]]====
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| ====[[dal'qörian describing people|describing people]]====
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