Spirevan

Spirevan
enzpirs
Spoken natively in	Spirevo
Native speakers	18.5 million  (2011)
Language family	Cylaric Spirevan Spirevan
Early forms:	Cylaric Spirevan
Standard forms	Spirevan Voltanese Spirevan
Writing system	Latin Script
Official status
Official language in	Spirevo Spirevo
Language codes
ISO 639-1	sp
ISO 639-2	spv
ISO 639-3	spv

Spirevan is a Cylaric Language that derived from the early Cylaric language of the Cylari tribe that originated in what is now modern day Pebbleland. It is one of the 3 official languages of The Federal Kingdom of Spirevo alongside Suonic and English.

Lexical comparison

Due to Spirevo being quite an isolated country in Internatia, Spirevan does not have many resemblances to any language other than Suonic, another language that originated from the Suon tribe of the Kingdom of Alaikem, which is now a Spirevan State, and English, which is spoken in neighboring Pebbleland.

Lexical comparison among Romance languages

English	Cylaric	Spirevan	Suonic
"window"	fenestre	feneztra	ventanz
"to want"	deseja	desigs	tualen
"flag"	estwadern	vandersei	bandersaks
"quality"	delzons	cuadelzons	cualetaks
"water"	heidre	hyadraz	hyadaks

Cylaric and Spirevan cognates with different meanings

Old Cylaric	Cylaric		Spirevan
velentes	velenja	"to traverse"	valensei	"to be brave"
seladones	seladonja	"to make greener" "to perfume"	seladonsei	"to flower"
cordes	cordja	"to cut"	c'hordei	"to join"
afinit	afinit	"limitless"	efinit	"final"
dare	dari	"to give"	dare	"to exclude"
mesart	mesart	"virtuoso"	mezart	"sheet music"
sanca	santa	"heaven"	sant'xa	"saint"

Dialects

The dialects of the Spirevan language feature a relative uniformity, especially when compared to other Cylaric languages. The only exception is the isolated idiosyncratic Volanese dialect.

Writing system

The Spirevan alphabet is written in Spirevan script, which has 32 letters , but is often transliterated into Latin alphabet, where the basic 26 letter alphabet is joined by Á, É, Ú, Ó, ', and Ç. The letters of the Spirevan alphabet correspond directly to the Latin one.

Grammar

Spirevan is an inflected language. Nouns and pronouns are inflected for number (singular or plural); adjectives, for the number and gender (masculine, feminine or genderless) of their nouns; personal pronouns, for person, number, gender, and case; and verbs, for mood, tense, aspect and the person and number of their subjects. Case is primarily marked using word order and prepositions.

Gender and number inflection

Regular noun with definite article: dei felin ("the cat")

	masculine	feminine
singular	dei felin	deia felinea
plural	deizes felinz	deisas felineas

Adjective with 4 forms:
verdz ("green")

	masculine	feminine
singular	verdz	verds
plural	verdze	verdse

Adjective with 3 forms:
fyliça ("happy")

	masculine	feminine
singular	fyliç
plural	fyliçe	feliça

Adjective with 2 forms:
endeferntz ("indifferent")

	masculine	feminine
singular	endeferntz
plural	endeferntzy

Determiners

Definite article
(elided forms in brackets)

	masculine	feminine
singular	dei (l')	deia (l')
plural	deizes	deisas

Contractions of the definite article

		preposition
		é	déi	ló
article	el	éd (é d')	déilt (déi t')	l' (ló')
	els	édz	déilts	zl'

Indefinite article

	masculine	feminine
singular	ein	an
plural	einz	anz

Verbs

Finite Spirevan verb forms for cançeigs ("to sing")
1st person singular

mood	time		simple	composite
indicative	present		cançerts	has cançe
	past	imperfect	canzatts	havies cançe
		perfect	cançelts	hacueres cançe
	future		cançóls	haurás cançe
subjunctive	present		cançez	hagses cançe
	past		cançei	haguéssis cançe
conditional			cançezia	hauries cançe
imperative			canço	–

Non-finite Spirevan verb forms for cantar ("to sing")

	simple	composite
infinitive	cançeigs	haver cançe
gerund	cançents	havent cançe
participle	cançe	-

Verbs are divided into 4 groups, not unlike the Spanish -ar, -er and -ir: -igs, -egs, -ógs and -ags

Syntax

The grammar of Spirevan follows the general pattern of Cylaric languages. The primary word order is Subject–verb–object.