Senáre

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Conlang	Sen%26#225;re
Author	Nicholas Yancey
Year Began	2003
Language Type	fictional diachronic language
Lexicon Size	N/A
Etymologies	No
Grammar	Yes
Sample Texts	Yes
Primer	No

Senáre is a [[fictional diachronic language and was created by Nicholas Yancey. It is written with a unique script.

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Language sources

Latin, Welsh, German, Arabic, Sanskrit, Hebrew, Italian, and Quenya.

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Design principles

The language's pronunciation is meant to be entirely phonetic, most sounds are familiar to a speaker of a Germanic tongue (including English) but not used exactly the same. It is meant to have regular grammar and semantics, so though resembling a logical language, the formation of the language merely gravitated to what would be irregularities in other language resolved nicely in the fashioning of Senáre. Sentence order is primarily VOS, but can have free word order when needed. It is an agglutinating language, but the endings themselves appear to inflect. There are 12 noun cases and 52 possible forms of the verb. There is no subject-verb agreement in terms of inflections or affixes, and there are no articles (if I had let articles in, I would have had to inflect them 296 different ways, and I plainly didn't want to do that.) However, though there is no subject-verb agreement, adjectives must strictly agree with their noun, based on case. There is no grammatical ! gender (though this makes the language seem less natural, the only system I am familiar with is German, which has gender on their articles, and Senáre doesn't have those at all.) I am contemplating anywhere from 2 to 5 possible forms of singular and plurals, based on certain quantity. Punctuation, aside from the period, question mark, and exclamation point, are completely different (as in the comma does almost nothing of what it does in English, and the semicolon is nearly nonexistant.)

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Interest of others

As of now the only speaker is myself, but some people have expressed interest in the language and learning it, as they found it pleasing to listen to and interesting in grammatical principles.

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