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Dominion Era Tretallë
Bone Elves
Istfet, The Strangers, Invaders, Deathriders
Imperial Standard of the Tretalleri Dominion
Land of Origin
Continent of Origin	Termalttë
Homeland	Teýrivellë
Capital	Ifatallë Cselvë
Racial Lore
Language	Tretalleri
Characteristics	Tretallë (Characteristics)
Culture	Tretallë (Culture)
History	Dominion Era
Government	Tretallë (Government)
Military	Tretallë (Military)
Stats	Tretallë (Stats)
Racial Relations
Allies	None
Enemies	Elledynnë
Neutrals	None

This page is meant as a Grammar and Syntax guide as well as lexicon of words for the Tretalleri 'dialect.' Though in modern linguistic parlance, Tretalleri is considered a 'dialect,' it is in fact a full language in and of itself. Tretalleri is only known as a dialect because it, along with the High Elfin tongue Elledyn'ni, fall under the blanket term of Elle'lyndë—typically translated as the Language of the Stars. It is important to note that Elle'lyndë is not considered a language in and of itself, except for theorists on the fringes of the Tretalleri linguistics community, who believe Elle'lyndë to be a hypothetical language bridging the two great languages of the Elves, one that is currently being rediscovered in the mixed communities that are allowed to exist in the Fen.

The most accepted theory is that Tretalleri is descended from a precursor language that it shares in common with Elledyn'ni: Aen_evelyndë, the language of the Great Elves of the East, the Aen_evë. Because what is known of Aen_evelyndë is limited to only what has been found in fragments of pottery scattered all over the southern regions of Di'Termalttë, little is empirically known about the way in which Tretalleri descended from Aen_evelyndë. Legend has it, however, that Tretalleri was a tongue that the Prophetess Llyrileýwa helped the ancestors of the Tretallë develop in order to maintain the façade that they were little but savage beasts—a façade that helped the building rebellion remain hidden from the Aen_evë. What is widely known is that compared to Aen_evelyndë, Tretalleri is guttural and harsh.

Alphabet

One of the most important things to note about the alphabet of the Tretalleri dialect, and that of Elle'lyndë in general, is that vowels do not and cannot exist as separate characters. They are used in ligatures with consonants—and only specific ones at that. It is also worth knowing that the vowel y in Elle'lyndë is generally absent in Tretalleri. It is only used in words that have more or less remained identical over the evolution of the dialect from the parent tongue of Elle'lyndë.

Note that the leftmost column lists the consonants while the rest of the table lists the consonant-vowel ligatures that are present in the language.

Terminal ë

There is only one vowel in Tretalleri and Elle'lyndë that can exist separately from other characters. This is the terminating vowel ë. Unless otherwise prescribed, a compound word in the Elfin tongue cannot end in a consonant. This is remedied by using the special character, latinized as ë to terminate the word except in the cases where the word is terminated by a consonant-vowel ligature not ending in e.

Nouns

Possessive

In Tretalleri, possession of something by a noun (or a pronoun), is displayed using the prefix " d' " which is placed on whatever it is that is owned. Furthermore, the owned word or phrase always comes before the noun or pronoun that owns it. That is: D'Kordë Cilanannë instead of Cilanannë D'Korde. The former means The Emperor's Crown, while the latter makes no grammatical sense.

Furthermore, a state of possession can be shown using the word dirë along with certain prefixes. This method comes in handy when describing possession of items that are said to belong to someone else, or do belong to someone else. For example, D'Kaldritë Lertanys s'dirë fitë means The Mercy of the Stranger is yours. This can be chained however many times as necessary, like: d'felli byrë dirë matrë dirë teýna siltanë d'kanë idë, which means The son belonging to the brother belonging to the mother belonging to her is my cousin, though this is typically taken to mean her mother's brother's son is my cousin.

To denote present ownership over something, the prefix " sid' " is used instead. Though formally, the prefix is supposed to be " fisid' ", like the word fillë which is always implied unless indicated otherwise, this form is only used if and when there is a contrast being made between past and present ownership. This means that Sid'Kordë Cilanannë translates to either The Crown is the Emperor's or The Crown belongs to the Emperor. In contrast, qara d'karra teýna lisi'dirë fitë nelterë fisid'vitti idë, means Perhaps her heart was yours, but now it is mine.

Plurals

Compound Word Construction

Word Order

Strictly speaking, a written verb phrase in Tretalleri, and Elle'lyndë before it, must always have an actor and an object of the action in the following order <modifiers> [verb] <actor-modifiers> [actor] <object-modifiers> [object], where the angular brackets denote optional parts of the verb phrase. When a verb phrase does not have an actor or an object, syntactically, the ζ character is used to represent the absent actor/object. Furthermore, when both subject and object are missing, but are implied, syntactically, ξ is used in their place.

Typically, an adjective precedes the noun or pronoun that it modifies, but there are certain cases wherein this is not the case. The same principle applies to adverbs, which typically precede the adjectives, verbs, or adverbs that they modify. Adverbs, in contrast with adjectives, follow this rule nearly universally. Cases where adverbs follow the modified word are rare, obscure, and certainly considered archaic in modern parlance.

d' can be used to represent what something is made of. e.g. d'mordë korvë a court made of ravens, more properly, a court of ravens

s' is used to represent the be-verb. Always applies to the subject/s, e.g. taterë ankë s'Teýna, she is trembling

except when expressing possession, in which case the compound prefix sid' is used, instead, and is applied to the possessed object/s. e.g. sid'zanno Idë this[inanimate] is mine

Tenses

Number System

Pronunciation

Lexicon

Nouns

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

I

K

L

M

N

P

R

T

V

Z

Pronouns

F

I

T

V

Adjectives

A

B

C

E

G

I

M

N

O

S

T

V

Z

Verbs

Verbs in Tretalleri, and in the Elle'lyndë that preceded it, verbs largely ended in digraphs ending in "a", in vë, or në.

A

B

D

E

G

L

M

P

Q

S

T

V

Adverbs

C

D

F

H

L

R

T

V

Prepositions

A

D

E

K

M

N

R

S

T

Conjunctions

N

S

Phrase/Auxiliary words

Q

T