Silendion

Silendion
Pronounced:	[silɛndiɔn]
Species:	human
Spoken:	Hesperidia
Total speakers:	extinct
Writing system:	Alphabetic, similar to Mongolian
Typology
Morphological type:	agglutinative > fusional
Morphosyntactic alignment:	Fluid-S
Basic word order:	SOV, free
Credits
Creator:	Epeuthutēbetēs
Created:	late 2003-

Classical Silendion, also known as Hesperidian, is an extinct, non-Indo-European language believed to have been spoken in the Azores and the Madeira Islands from approximately the time of the Trojan War until shortly before the time of Herodotus. Greek texts from the Alexandrian library that have since disappeared tell us that the small descendant community living in Carthage and on the Purple Islands believed that their ancestors had lived on an island outside the gates of Heracles that had since sunken beneath the waves. The size of the island is unclear, since some said it was the size of Sicily, while others claimed it was as large as Iberia or even Gaul.

Scholars believe that the indigenous people were perhaps distantly related to the Basques. Later on, a group of Eteocretan-speaking proto-Minoans migrated for still unknown reasons, bringing their early Cretan civilization with them and strongly influencing the existing culture; at this time, cities started to emerge on the island, and a mixed language arose from the bilingualism of the two populations. After the Trojan War, Mycenaean-Greek-speaking Salaminians and Aegeans who had been driven to the island by stormy weather settled and culturally assimilated to the native population but left a clear mark on parts of the verbal morphology.

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Predicative Verbs

see section on stative verbs