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Analytical constructions of Nûrlâm

The language is called analytic when grammar and relation between words is primarily expressed by word order rather then inflection. This term is a part of morphological typology. And as other types of language there are no pure examples for this concept, but rather a certain degree of this. This article focuses on analytical style of Nûrlâm instead of studying various analytical constructions used in all variants of language (like expressing modality or voice).

Orcish curse is the perfect example of existing a speech style different to “official” ring inscription. While the latter shows agglutination and word inflection, grammar of orcish curse is closer to English with it's analyticness. Svartiska dialect combined these styles, through mixing of it's subdialects though. Nûrlâm was also split into three branches or styles:

  • archaic, “high” speech, close to Ring Inscription, highly agglutinative with a lot of suffixes for grammatical forms;
  • standard language brings some analytic and fusion properties;
  • colloquial, similar to Orcish curse, highly analytical, easier for English-speaking users.

Differences from Standard Nûrlâm

Colloquial analytic speech differs from standard Nûrlâm in following ways:

  • no clitic words, all postpositions, adverbs, pronouns, short adjectives are written stand-alone and not joined to other words;
  • postpositions became prepositions;
  • few postpositions may be sometimes used for cases (genitive-possessive, dative, instrumental), mostly for pronouns (with addition of Objective/Accusative);
  • suffixes of verb's tense are sometimes written separately before verb;

Colloquial language however introduced a feature of synthetic language, suffixes for the category of number for nouns, pronouns, adjectives, participles.

As analytical Nûrlâm represents variety of orcish dialects, these features may occur in different combinations and be somewhere in between the Standard and Colloquial language.

Examples

Examples and practical comparisons with standard language are needed.

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