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@j-parkhurst Well, the sentence structure just follows English. The only thing really unique about it is the nouns and verbs.

There are five different classes of nouns and each noun belongs to one class. Each class represents one of the four fantasy races + one that represents the evil monsters and such. Basically, nouns belong to a class because the culture associates them with how they view the races. For instance, the meredin are pure and uncorrupted creatures, so the noun “art” would probably be assigned to their corresponding noun class.

Each class has six different prefixes. The first division is between masculine and feminine and the second division is between singular, plural, and what I call “general” (“boats” would be an example of a general noun if they are being referenced as a group of transportation vehicles and not a specific set of boats.)

On top of this standard prefix, nouns can also have a “drm” prefix or suffix. “drm” has a special pronunciation which is hard to describe, but imagine saying “drum” without the u very fast on the tip of your tongue. An indicative noun (i.e. This sandwich) is prefixed by a “drm” while a definite noun “the sandwich” is suffixed by it.

With verbs, there are three declensions: one for “to be”, one for internal verbs, and one for external verbs. To describe the difference between internal and external, if you had the root form of the word “to leave”, you would give it the internal suffix to describe leaving a belief system and the external suffix to describe leaving a building. Within each declension are six suffixes for past present and future in both active and passive forms. There are also prefixes to show if a verb is continuous, perfect, or perfect continuous.

My base concept for this language is to make it sound swampy, since it is spoken by swamp creatures in my fantasy novel. Here’s an example of one sentence I wrote in the language. (Murglamin, by the way, is a crop that these swamp creatures grow.)

“Coho umkalla soom peth eeshgroom murglamin⁠”

That translates: “A bad neighbor is like rotten murglamin.”