Wheatonian Language

Wheatonian or Tyeslantos IPA:/tjes.lɑn.tos/ is a language which was spoken in Rathnir on the coninent of Nieden. It is a Meybhanite language which was mainly spoken in the Kingdom of Weatonis, also known as Wheatonia. It was also a minority language in Bardonia and Escharia. Wheatonian is written in the Wheatonian script, which is derived from the Maeviqa script.

Origins
The origins of the Wheatonian language is very debated and causes many conflicts in the linguistic community of Wheatonia. There are several theories regarding the origins of the language. The most popular theories are the "Durite-Theory", "Creole-Theory", "Mixed Niedene-Theory", and the "Ashiro-Theory".

Durite Theory
The Durite Theory takes its name from the word "Dor" in Dorasterrock meaning "New" and "Dur" in Wheatonian also meaning "New". It proposes that the Meybhanite languages and people are related to the people of the Dorasterrock civilization. Most Meybhanites lived in today's Bardonia, and later were forced to move eastward because of the old Bardonian tribes migrating in masses from north-west Syltör, reducing the numbers of the Meybhanite people and speakers to almost nothing. Only leaving a few traces behind, like the name of the city of Dorasterrock. Additionally, the Niedene people were migrating westward, harming the Meybhanite communities even more and almost destroying all Meybhanite languages completely along the way. This theory is often criticized for its lack of proof, with the theory basically only stemming from the coincidently similar words "Dor" and "Dur" which both just happen to mean "New".

Creole Theory
The Creole Theory proposes the idea that the Meybhanite languages did not evolve the same way as it's neighbouring languages, because it was a creole used between the Bardonian, Daelyrian, Asterii and Audalad speaking worlds, explaining why Meybhanite languages have so many loanwords. And that with time this creole evolved into its own language. It could explain also how and why the Meybhanite languages have virtually no influence on any other languages. Many argue that it wouldn't make any sense because there were old Meybhanite manuscripts found with the same grammar as any other Meybhanite languages in the middle of the Escharian territories, far from any other nations. Additionally, the whole grammar and word structure did not resemble the neighbouring languages in any way or form, thus it wouldn't make sense for a V-S-O creole to be born, when all the surrounding languages are S-V-O.

Mixed Niedene Theory
The Mixed Niedene Theory proposes the idea that the Meybhanite people were known as the Kornikosii (Cornicans) who lived on the Ondemare peninsula. Later when the Niedene people migrated westward they came in contact with the Kornikosii. The Niedene people ended up overpopulating the native territories of the Kornikosii and thus the Kornikosii disappeared or assimilated into the Niedene communities. Although the Kornikosii were gone, the language that the Kornikosii spoke was preserved by the Niedene people, but not to its fullest, explaining why Wheatonian has a very high Asterii vocabulary influence, creating a bastardized version of the Kornikosii's language. Thus, these Niedene people who mixed with the Kornikosii came to be known as the Weisenosii, which in the Traveller's Tongue are known as Wheatonians.

Ashiro Theory
The Ashiro Theory is a theory that was proposed by the Wheatonian linguist Daliran Ashiro. He believed that the Meybhanite people lived in eastern Syltör and throughout most of Nieden before the Niedene people had settled in Nieden. He believes that the Meybhanite people built towers of gold in honour of the sun, because they were sun worshippers. The Meybhanite civilization was one of the greatest civilization in Rathnir's history and that eventually it's greatness would bring to its fall, by being too accepting of foreign people, in particular the Niedene, and being not militaristic enough, too peaceful and optimistic, giving a chance to the Niedene people to take power and rule over the Meybhanite people. Daliran Ashiro claims that everything that the Niedene people have ever discovered or built, was discovered and built by the Meybhanites first, and that the Escharian pride is based solely on the Meybhanite people's achievements. And that anything that is today known as Escharian, was once Meybhanite. The migration of the Niedene people had left the Meybhanite people disunited and too little, with only the Wheatonians standing, as he claims that the Wheatonians are the last, uncorrupted true Meybhanites to roam the soils of Rathnir. Daliran Ashiro was met with a wave of criticism for his theory, claiming that it is not based on any records, and that he entirely made it up, inspired only by his nationalistic and imperialistic views. He was deemed too extreme, radical and arrogant by most Wheatonian linguists. Yet he is somewhat protected for his achievements, which were the creation of the very first Wheatonian dictionary and the studies of the Meybhanite languages, as well as the idea that Meybhanite languages existed in the first place. He is seen as a hero for preserving the Wheatonian language, but this had also led him to rewrite history based on his views. Today, he still remains a very controversial figure.

Unknown origins & dead language
Throughout most of its history, the idea that Meybhanite languages even existed was unheard of. Instead, these languages were considered as distant languages or dialects, being related to their neighbouring languages like Asterii or Bardonian. The Wheatonian language was clearly very distinct from its neighbouring languages, nobody knows about the true origin of the language and who were the original speakers of the language. The Wheatonian language, along with all the other related Meybhanite languages only kept slowly dying through the years. It is unclear since how long did these people inhabited these lands and spoke this language, nobody truly knows, till this day the Meybhanite languages remain an anomaly. Wheatonian eventually would die out as the last Meybhanite language in all of Rathnir.

Standardization of the Wheatonian language
Throughout most of its history, the Wheatonian language was written in the Wheatonian script, derived from the Maeviqa script. Although most of the people did not know how to write or read, until the schools were made compulsory and Daliran Ashiro standardized the Wheatonian orthography.

Word Order
V-S-O

Pronouns
There is no grammatical gender in Wheatonian and no gendered pronouns either. “Eni” and “Ovo” both are translated as “We” but are not used in the exact same way. “Eni” is inclusive, while “Ovo” is exclusive, meaning that “Eni” is used in a sentence as “Me, you & all of us” while “Ovo” is used as “Me & him, without you” excluding the person we are addressing to directly.

Ca - I

Wun - You

Kalo - He/She/It

Eni/Ovo - We(inclusive)/We(exclusive)

Mev - You

Oka - They

Verb Conjugation
Verbs are composed of a stem and an infinite ending -bur e.g. Fenukbur (to like)

Whenever a verb is conjugated, it always drops the ending -bur. There are 6 tenses in the Wheatonian language, being Distant Past, Past, Present, Future and Distant Future. Note that there are not progressive/continuous tenses in Wheatonian contrary to the Traveller’s Tongue.

Present tense is used to show an action that is happening at the time being.

Past tense is used when referring to anything that had happened in the recent past.

Distant Past tense is used when referring to anything that had happened in the distant past.

Future is used when referring to anything that will happen in the recent future.

Distant Future tense is used when referring to anything that will happen in the distant future.

The Optative is used whenever giving orders to someone or a group of people. Drop the ending -bur and replace it with -pak. Sometimes, although rarely, you may find at the end of a conjugated verb “-iy” or “-eye”. These suffixes indicate that the person in question is inanimate. It is used when talking about an object or to personify it. Although it is rarely used, usually only to put emphasis. If the vowel of the last syllable is “o”, “u”, or “i” you write “-iy”. If the vowel of the last syllable is “e” or “a” you write “-eye”. Another form that can be found is “-eyek”, this is no longer used in the Wheatonian language. It was used whenever … This was just a little of extra information, because when conjugating verbs, the ending “-eyek” is no more used and the endings “-iy” or “-eye” are barely ever used in modern Wheatonian.

Negation is very simple, add "yad (V) ud". Example: I will not eat. → Yad adam asaviksa ud ca.

Articles
Wheatonian has only one article, which is the definite article "Na" e.g.

The wind. → Na wu.

The indefinite article does not exist, it is more of a suffix.

Wind. → Wu.

A wind. → Wek.

Flower. → Wuko.

A flower. → Wukek.

Empire. → Zamer.

An empire. → Zamerek.

The plural can also be used to mean "any" e.g.

Any flowers. → Wukolek.

Any slaves. → Ujatalek.

Plurals
Plurals are very simple, but they do require the knowledge of the origin of the word to add the correct plural ending.

If word is of Audalad/Sagaviri origin: -e

If word is of Bardonian/Ryzani/Korolian/Tontoni origin: -i

If word is of Daelyrian origin: -es

If word is of Asterii origin: -ii

If word is of Najer/Klobir origin: -(e)di

If word is of Wheatonian origin(or other): -(a)la

Words of any other origins than these will take the Wheatonian plural ending.

Examples:

Audalad origin: Sashay(Seed) → Sashaye(Seeds)

Bardonian origion: Yadrab(Hornet) → Yadrabi(Hornets)

Daelyrian origin: Mankar(Monkey) → Mankares(Monkeys)

Asterii origin: Senta(State) → Sentii(States)

Najer origin: Vespes(Massacre) → Vespesedi(Massacres)

Wheatonian: Usu(Star) → Usula(Stars)

Savyrian origin: Nesh(Cod fish) → Neshala(Cod fishes)

Adjectives
Adjectives always come after the noun, for example:

The black pillar → Na elar cirvis

Adjectives become plural if the noun is in plural:

The black pillars → Na elare cirvisala

Daily Phrases
Hello! → Hala!

Good morning. → Psan pupu.

Good evening. → Hohum pupu.

Good night. → Ktu pupu.

My name is _. → Aptani _ ca. / Acer zolet _ dulca.

How are you? → Abam wun lacer?

What is your name? → Opo zolet gacer dulwun?

I'm feeling good. → Ahevib pupu ca.

I'm feeling bad. → Ahevib odro ca.

Goodbye! → Jum! / Jumpupu!