Queranaran (The World)
| Auntimoanian Avantimanisc Spreihhô | |
| Spoken in: | Empire of Auntimoanye |
| Timeline/Universe: | The World |
| Total speakers: | More than 15 million |
| Genealogical classification: | Daine |
| Basic word order: | OSV |
| Morphological type: | inflecting |
| Created by: | |
| Elemtilas | late 1980s, revisited in 2010s |
Querannaran is the language spoken by very many Daine of the Eastlands of The World. Here, we'll take a look at a snippet of spoken Querannaran that appears as part of a humorous Turgun story. One thing even Daine and Men share in common is this basic dynamic of female-male relations:
eiyem an ossetiyas : amanou racasawatimnemiye damoman sjaereerenyest : nico : manadiradiralyost Here the girl is asking her fellow: "I know this already, but I'm asking anyway : my new raca, do you think it's pretty, love? It's so very blue!"
ha : manaerenyest : eiyem : sjahuuryost: enca And he responds: "Sure, tis pretty. But I'm sure it's grey, love."
liyieram : sjadiradiralyost : nico She says: "No, let's make this clear: it is indeed very blue, love!" And he replies: ya : eiyem : nahuuryo ateh tinnengast which means "Myeh. Anyway, I know what grey is."
sjuu This is a mark of slight exasperation.
asuy : tesarave Exasperated by the contradiction, she says "huh! boys!" while equally exasperated, he says "huh! girls!"
Querannaran sentences are basically OSV in structure and are prefaced by one or more pre-sentential evidential markers which help set the mood of what follows. Verbs in Querannaran conjugate primarily for aspect and mood; nouns decline for number and case and also conjugate for tense. In the exchange above, none of the nouns are conjugated for tense because the context of the conversation determines that it is a present tense raca being discussed. (A raca is an article of clothing, a long piece of cloth wrapped around the waist and tied up with a cord or fixed with a belt.)
Here it will help to understand that Daine (and Turgun) males can see the world with a kind of palette of sepia to grey tones with some darker reds. Females can see many hues and shades of color, so her obviously blue raca will bee seen by him as kind of dark grey.
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