Arangothian

Arangothian Arangothek
Timeline and Universe:	Arangoth
Spoken:	Arangoth
Total speakers:	In-game, approx. 2 million. Real-world, unknown.
Genealogy:	Family:
Typology
Morphosyntactic alignment:	Nominative-Accusative
Basic word order:	SVO
Credits
Creator:	Patrick Pfeaster
Created:	<2003

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Arangothian ( also Arangothek, "(speech) of the land" ) is an a priori fictional language which was created by Patrick Feaster prior to 2003. It is nominative-accusative in alignment.

The language is used for the fictional concountry of Arangoth, and in particular the port city of Drache, which is also the de-facto capital of that land. This language is also occasionally used in the related roleplay chatroom #blkdragon*inn on irc.darkmyst.org. The status of any actual speakers is unknown, though there has recently been some interest in continuing development and propagation of the language.

The website offers a "teach yourself"-styled introduction to the language with 8 lessons, a list of common Arangothian names, and an Arangothian-English dictionary. There are currently approximately 1300 words in the language, with room to form many more with provided suffixes.

Grammar

Nouns

Nouns have no separate ending which distinguishes them from verbs (or vice-versa), which can make telling the two apart a skill which must be acquired through much practice (or learning the language natively).

Nouns decline only by number.

Definite article

There are is only one article, '-(o)th', which marks both singular and plural nouns. It functions as a suffix:

• tespe (meaning 'woman')

becomes

• tespeth (meaning 'the woman')

• pej ('dog')

becomes

• pejoth ('dogs')

Declining by number:

• tespe (meaning 'woman')

becomes

• tespel (meaning 'women')

Note that to create a plural one simply adds +(e)l to the noun. To give a further example of creating a plural noun, we'll use 'pej', which means dog.

• pej ('dog')

becomes

• pejel ('dogs')

To form plurals with the definite article, one stacks the suffixes as PLURAL+ARTICLE, thus:

• tespel (meaning 'women')

becomes

• tespeloth (meaning 'the women')

• pejel ('dog')

becomes

• pejeloth ('the dogs')

Declining by case:

• tespe (meaning 'woman')

becomes

• ai tespe (meaning 'woman (acc.)')

• pej ('dog')

becomes

• ai pej ('dog' (acc.))

Pronouns

Subject pronouns decline like any other noun in Arangothek. One simply adds an "ai" before the noun:

	Subject	Object
I (1ps)	min	ai min
You (2ps)	ken	ai ken
He (3ps.m)	da	ai da
She (3ps.f)	da	ai da
It (3ps.n)	da	ai da
We (1pl)	melin	ai melin
You (2pl)	kalin	ai kalin
They (3pl)	delin	ai delin

Adjectives

Adjectives decline neither by number or case. They are not marked to distinguish them from other words in a sentence, but they generally precede their intended noun:

• sarla tespe "pretty woman"

Arangothek has a freeish word order, though, so "tespe sarla" is also accurate, if less commonly seen.

Adverbs

WIP

Verbs

Infinitive verbs end with -ua.

Infinitive form	Meaning
sartua	to drink
korkua	to thank
pipua	to drink

Present tense

Present tense adds a particle, "ve", and drops the infinitive verb ending, switching for the activated form "-ix".

Infinitive form	Present-tense form
sartua	ve sartix
korkua	ve korkix
pipua	ve pipix

Past tense

Present tense adds a particle, "in", and drops the infinitive verb ending. It also uses the activated form "-ix".

Infinitive form	Past-tense form
sartua	in sartix
korkua	in korkix
pipua	in pipix

Future tense

Future tense mirrors the construction of the present and past, but uses the particle "di".

Past tense

Command formation mirrors that of all the above, with the substitution of the particle "an".

Conditional

Formation of the conditional is unknown.

Auxiliary "tenses"

Arangothek has two "auxiliary tenses", one of which isn't really a verb tense at all, but both are included here on account of how they are formed.

	Infinitive	"kor" form	rough translation	"er" form	rough translation
sartua	kor sartix	"before drinking"	er sartix	*
korkua	kor korkix	"before thanking"	er korkix	*
pipua	kor pipix	"before seeing"	er pipix	*

Working with "er"

"er" is an especially hard form to translate. When used in sentences like

• "Koi min er pipix ai ken, in serpix bedelta ai ken."
• "but" I * see(actv) acc. you, past love only acc. you.
• But after I had seen you, I loved only you.

It shows something which happened previous to the action in the main clause, and thus functions as kind of a specialised past tense.

Another example of "er":

• "Gossath er flarix menxa, an branorgix ai orgod."
• the-king * say(actv.)thus, cmd dispatch acc. messenger.
• After/when the king says so, send a messenger.

Numbers

WIP

External links

• Home page of the Arangothek language (live web)
• Arangothek-English dictionary (live web)
• Two short texts in Arangothek (live web)