LANGUAGE NOTES:

Letters:
A: (“back”) á (ah)
D
E: (eh “deck”
G: (“Get”)
H
I (ee “bee” except ui then EYE/í “in”)
K
L
M
N
O (“no”)
R: (rd “”)
S: “Ess “mess”)
T:

U: “too” except before R and Y
V
Y: (Y “yes”) (“Sh” in front of S)

Dipthongs:
AI: (“eye”)
AE: (“day”)
TH: (“thing”)

Blends:
UI: (you-eye)
THR: (through)
SK: (sky)
NY: (“nyai” ncontinental yEYE)
SY: (sh)
KY Japanese pronunciation as in “Tokyo”.
GY:
DH: (soft “the”)
ANG: anG
UNG: (unG)

VOCABULARY:

NOUNS:

A

Ai: “pure” when standing alone, it refers to the High God who created the Kor.
aide: “home”

D

dae: “magic, sorcery”
dai: “day”
Daithrak: “Day-fire” The Sun.
dur: “shadow, black, dark” etc.
durnai: adj: “darkness”
durmen: “night”

E

e: “air”
en: “music” in general
en’ai: verb and noun,“Pure Music” English Translation: concept of Singing (En’ai: To sing, singing is the purist form of music, coming from the voice.) (adj: never changed, anything with “ai” in it is never changed, ai always comes last, except apostrophe’s)

G

gûl: “pain, agony”

K

kai: “warrior”
kómend-a: “Honor”
Kor: “Gods”
Koryae: “Gods Speech”
kyelda: “earth”
Kyeldinor: “earth-people” Sect of the Kor’Dae
kyínt-a: “cold”
Kyínturna: “Cold Ferocity” Sect of the Kor’Dae

L

linya: “City”
liya: “healer”

M

mae-da: “tree”
marínyai: “shore”
mede: “happy”
mende: “blue”
mek: “stars”

N

ne: “new”
nesyo: “ball, sphere, orb, globe”
-nor: “People” add i or e depending on which is needed.
nyai: “water”

S

sae: “sky”
syae: “sea”
sur-da: “heat”

T

tai: “light.”
thang: “evil”
thrak: “fire”
turn-a: “heat”

V

vae-la: “flower”
Var:-i or a:”Bards, musicians”

Y

ya: “healer”
yá: “woman”
yán-a: “love” can have masc. and fem. á and dred endings.
yae: “speech”
yaeyoká: “having knowledge of speech” a person who has a very good command of language, a linguist would be a modern equivalent
yoká: “knowledge”
yui: “year”
”love” can have masc. and fem. á and dred endings.

VERBS:
aedû-mene?
ainî-mene: “Shime!”
ándá-mene: “Come!”
ánû-meme “Attack!”imperative
argi-mene: “Shatter!”
en’ai-mene: “Sing True!”
en’garki-mene: “Sing”
gloki-mene: “Break!”
kari-mene: “Want!”
marthrako-mene: “Burn!”
nule-mene: “walk” imperative
nuli-mene: “Run!” Imperative
traedû-meme: “Destroy!”

Tense-endings:
-meme: imperative suffix
-ese: infinitive suffix
nyette: perfect infinitive
etene: Tense Time
ket: tense present
nyet: tense perfect
syet: tense imperfect “having been”
et: tense “Future” and used as a future” to be”

ADVERBS:
arna: when
varna: then
larna: where

Conjunctions:
i: “and”
ie:”because”

COMPARATIVE AND SUPERLATIVE:
koma: “small, little least”
komi: “middle moderate inbetwen”
komo: “big great, grand, extreme”
(koma/komi/komo have apostrophes before their adj.)

PREPOSITIONS
(Physical prep.)
lendan: “across”lende: “under”
lendi: “above/over/on top”
lendo: “beside”
lensye: “inside between enclosed”
lensyem: “outside surrounding”
PRONOUNS:
T’yámánae/T’dredmánae: an unnamed group of people, a crowd or more than one or two unnamed male and female persons.
Dredyámánae: Group of people male/female who have been named once and it would be impractical to name them again see Grammar
T’yá/T’Dred: Concept of unnamed persons, female (yá) male (dred) as saying the woman or man if the speaker doesn’t know that person’s name or epithet.

Grammar:

Adjectives: come after their nouns (exceptions: Kor, and curses/insults and proper nouns)

Adverbs: come after verb

Pronouns Male/Female: all persons are named by their proper name unless the speaker doesn’t know this person’s proper name, then they’re spoken of as T’ya (for women) and T’dred (for men). If the speaker knows the persons’ names (and has repeated them once) there are more than three or four persons to name one would use the term (all female) yámanae, (all male) dredmánae. If it is a mix of male and female, then dredyámánae

Tenses: past/present/future/

Tense indicator comes at beginning of sentence.

Adverbs: to what degree of…after subject after Adj.

Verbs: come after tense indicator if imperative has no tense indicator, had personal endings.

Nouns: function is determined by where the noun is in the sentence. nominative comes at the very end of sentence, accusative before it and genitive is set up as

Linya Kyínturna

“City (of the) Kyínturna”

One knows that the genitive is in use because the vowel endings of the nouns are the same. If one of the pair is ends in a consonant then the vowel of the other is adopted by the first word.

Basic structure of Koryae sentence:

etene’ket argi Daithrak Thangúldur Tence’present smashes sun Thangúldur.

Etene ’ket sae mende
Tense’present (is) sky blue.

etene’nyet ándá arna Kyínturna, traedû Dur’Kor”dae Kyínturna
Tense’past came when Kyínturna, destroyed Dur’Kor’Dae Kyínturna

Non-Koryae Letter/phonology equivolants:

B

CK

F

JY

P

WV

X

ZS

MORE SENTENCE EXAMPLES:
etene’ket nuli lendo-Duryá Lin
Lin walked beside Duryá

etene’ket komo’kari aide Durya
Durya greatly wished(a) home.

(etene’ket komo’kari aide Durya.) Old version
Durya greatly wishes (to be) home
(a/n: I’m not sure how this sentence construction should go, because -esse is the infin ending “to be” the Latinequivalent, which is the only way Ithink my brain can handle this concept is:ego voloesse domus”I want to be (at) home”, I know it’s not the same...forgive me if I can’t remember the locative ending forhome. So,I wonder if I can use the -esse ending by itself to represent to beI think so.
etene’ket komo-kari esse aide Durya.
Durya greatly wants to be home.

Good, now I have to edit the Koryae in my play...

Ándámene dredmanae traedúmene Dur’Kor Dae (Taken from text Durnai I Kyinta)
Come all of you destroy the Dur’Kor’Dae

etene’et ándá Kyínturna
The Kyínturna will come.

etene’nyet gloki Daithrak Thangûldur i argi Daithrak
Thangûldur smashed the Sun, and it shattered.

etene’nyet komo’kari’nyet syae Líndariya.
Líndariya greatly-wanted-to-be (at) sea.
etene’ket ailari lenda nesyo Kato dredyámánae Kat.
Kat welcomes all of you to the sphere of Kat.

Names of Characters in Koryae:

Thangûldur: “dark, cruel, evil”

Kaimekdur: “Dark warrior, stars”

Kyínturna: “Cold ferocity”

Kaiya: “Loyal healer”

Ai: “Pure”

Yaeyokádur: “dark speaker of knowledge”

Kómdurkai: “honorable dark warrior”

Kyíntukae: “Cold innocent”

Glokiyádur: “dark (smash) maiden”

Varya: “Loyal to the Var”