Classical Edun

Classical Edun is a language in the Edun sub-family, and was the language spoken during the first Empire of the Sun. Classical Edun is the most thoroughly discussed member of the Edun sub-family.

Summary
Evolving from Ancient Edun, Classical Edun served as the official language of the first Empire of the Sun. Following the collapse of the Empire, Classical Edun fractured into Modern Edun, which was the peasantry, and Ulazredhũn, which was spoken by the former ruling class.

Phonotactics
Classical Edun's syllable is comprised as #SCr/CCVCC/NCCK#.


 * Cː any consonant
 * Sː t, k and all fricatives except h
 * Vː any vowel
 * Nː m, n, ng, r, l
 * Kː pf, t, k, s

Allophony
Any vowel following a nasal is slightly nasalized, while vowels preceding nasal codas are heavily nasalized.

Writing System
Classical Edun continued to use the Edun script. Having deemed the spelling traditions of early rulers to be sacred, later rulers of the empire refused to alter the script despite over a thousand years of sound changes. As a result, the writing system in Classical Edun is plagued with historical spelling, and has become fiendishly difficult. Some consonants may have as many as 16 different glyphs to represent, while other glyphs may have no dedicated glyphs at all.

This helped to reinforce the Empire's class system, as only the royals and nobles could afford the decades necessary to learn the script.

Grammar
Classical Edun is a agglutinative, head-marking, and head-final.

Nouns

 * dvazgu: boy
 * gzamoshk: respect
 * ishkad: woman
 * ngwakhazi: whip, scourge (lit. "a tool for striking or beating", later ameliorated to "whip, reins")
 * ngwakhul: master, slave driver
 * vengar: world

Verbs

 * khtaryut: to ignite, to give birth to
 * ngwakh: to strike, beat (later ameliorated to "to discipline")
 * reliut: to be extinguished, to pass away

Adjectives

 * Kazvag: bright

Adpositions

 * kheb: from

Idioms

 * Kazvag tsakhchuch: I am doing well (lit. "I am burning bright")
 * Tsakhtadvuch: I'm not doing well (lit. "I am smoldering")