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Rhean Language
Rheava Izka
Rhean is a fictional language. I
made the whole thing up for a comic book which may or may not ever get
published. The whole language-creation thing is still pretty obscure, so I know there's not much chance that someone who's reading this site hasn't heard of
constructed languages before. But if this really is your first encounter with a
made-up language, I'm sorry I don't have a good excuse for it except that
it's an art form, and that I'm not the only one who's doing this. Don't
believe me? Check the links page for more. Or, read on.
Rhean is one of the major languages of a
parallel Earth that shares no cultural connection with our own. It's Earth, and
it's populated by humans, but none of the civilisations that existed in our
history ever existed there. The natural history is the same*, but none of
the human history is the same. All the countries, cultures, religions and
languages are different. The Rhean language is spoken in Rhea, Ossica, and
Rhea's present and former colonies. The nation of Rhea itself was once the
center of a vast colonial empire, but in the last century and particularly in
the last fifty or sixty years the old empire has decayed into obsolescence.
* Maybe. At this point I'm not sure if the
continents are the same there as they are here. There's reason to
believe that they are not.
The following pages
are a grammar of the Rhean language. It's pretty big. If you're already familiar
with the art of language creation, then please enjoy my largest and most
complete language project. If this is your first look at a conlang, then welcome
to my insane hobby.
Introduction:
Introduction and Conventions
History
Alphabet and Phonology
Morphology:
Nouns and Declension
Prepositions
Verbs
Adjectives and Adverbs
Question Words and Demonstratives
Syntax:
Sentence Structure
Quotations
Relative Clauses
Bells and whistles:
Suffixes
Numbers
Verb Prefixes
The Rhean dictionary. (Excel spreadsheet)
Some Rhean texts:
Babel Text
Bokononist Last Rites
What Keeps Mankind Alive?
Coming eventually:
Notes on culture
Other languages of Rhea's Earth