User:Brant/Dictionary of the Dragonstonian Language

The Dictionary of the Dragonstonian language (Dragonstonian: Turirsered ao kor muret Artedanara) is the standard dictionary of the Dragonstonian language, with the latest version being printed in Dragonport, Dragonstone and published by Random Igloo in 2018. Since the printing and publishing of the first version in 1730, the Dictionary of the Dragonstonian language has become the "official" dictionary for the language, and includes over 100,000 words and their explanations, including comparisons to the other Dragonstonic languages, phrases, and grammar rules.

History of the Dragonstonian language
Dragonstonian is a language isolate, completely unrelated to any other living language except those in the same language family. The Dragonstonian language itself is descended from Middle Dragonstonian, which all the languages in the Dragonstonic language family are descended from, with Middle Dragonstonian itself being descended from Old Dragonstonian, and that being descended from Proto-Dragonstonian. Proto-Dragonstonian was spoken by the ancestors of the Dragonstonians in old Valnor, and is also unrelated to Archaic Valnorian, which was spoken in Valnor at the time.

About the language
The Dragonstonian language has three grammatical cases, nominative, oblique, and genitive, similar to English in terms of grammatical cases. There are also three definite and indefinite articles, with one definite article and two indefinite articles, similar to English in that form. Additionally, there are no grammatical genders either, and there are three grammatical tenses, past, present, and future. Sentence structure is also different as well, with sentences in the verb-subject-object form, as opposed to the subject-verb-object form in English.

For example, the sentence "They are eating a fish" in Dragonstonian is "Refte hir bet ut kelonar", which, if translated directly into English, would mean "Eating they are a fish". "Eating", or "refte" in Dragonstonian, is the verb, "hir", which means "they" in Dragonstonian, is the subject, and "kelonar", which means "fish" in Dragonstonian, is the object. This form, verb-subject-object, isn't very common in the Hindo-Archipelagoan languages that the Dragonstonic languages are regionally close to, but the form is shared by some other languages around Antarctica.

Alphabet
Dragonstonian uses the Latin alphabet, with all 26 letters - Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz. The Old Dragonstonian language was written in the runic based alphabet of Archaic Valnorian, but the Kingdom of Dragonstone adopted the Latin alphabet as the official alphabet of the country during the middle ages to make communication and trade with other countries around Antarctica easier. Dragonstonian also has different pronunciations for most of the letters in the alphabet, since it is a different language.

Prepositions
These are not all the prepositions

about = deres

above = onnen

across = tureg

after = ent

against = varik

among = dur

around = eketir

as = ifte

at = ik

before = fenar

behind = orr

below = garek

beside = irren

between = ember

despite = pansar

for = eri

in = isht

of = ao

Adjectives
long = tura

beautiful = alisek

good = liri

Vocabulary
fish = kelonar

stone = arted

dragon = danen

king = ketter

kingdom = ketternen

country = efterhem

food = disi

house = biruv

chair = girid

table = purok

republic = respubliki

place = norgar

town = sektis

forest = pelesti

man = kevu

arm = meneg

shoe = zerek

Pronouns
I = ap

you = dak

he = af

she = ef

we = sel

they = hir