Althian

Althian (sometimes also spelled Althean) is the "common" language (to use Dungeons and Dragons terms) of the land of Althia, the mystical fae realm that invisibly exists right alongside the mundane world. ("Althian" is also the term used to describe a person who is from/is a resident of Althia.) The language is in its very rudimentary stages, so this will be periodically added to as I invent more things. Below is a dictionary thus far and the general rules I will be using in creating this language.   I have yet to come up with a writing system for Althian, but it will be something akin to Tolkien's tengwar script. One major aspect of this language's writing is included written tone indicators. This means that it will have more varied punctuation than regular English does. I am a big fan of tone indicators in "Internet-speak," so to say, such as /gen and /hj (meaning "genuine" and "half-joking," respectively). It makes reading into how people are saying something much more easily than usual.   Tone Indicator Symbols For the ease of typing, these are all symbols that can be achieved using a standard English keyboard. They also all exist in the ISO Spanish keyboard, since that is the one that I use. (It makes it easier for me to type the accents in Spanish.) Periods, commas, colons, semicolons, and the various dashes all retain their usual meanings. A comma followed by a period (,.) is meant to convey something that is said gently or kindly, to the point that putting a period at the end of it would detract from the meaning. This is similar to how younger folks will often not end their texts with a period, whereas to some, ending a text with a period can be seen as someone being short with them or mildly annoyed. Two periods in a row indicate hesitance where an ellipse would be overkill. Putting ... or .... shows more of an unsure pause, while .. is a shorter hesitancy. (I personally usually type .... with four dots instead of three, solely because that is how the opening sequences of the Star Wars movies do it.)   Question marks and exclamation points are used the same as in English. There is also a symbol that combines the question mark and the exclamation point; think of it as a question mark with a vertical line through the top. This is used where we would write "!?" In typing, this is what our "mundane" characters would do; magical folk don't have typing or keyboards to worry about. If Althia had technology, the symbol would exist in the keyboard.   A sentence with a half-question, something which is part question and part statement, end with a question mark with a horizontal line through it. It's like a combination of a question mark and a plus sign. Once again, mundane characters would type "?+" to mean this.   For a sentiment that is very emphatic but not a situation in which an exclamation point (signifying excitement) is not appropriate has the typical upside-down exclamation point that is used in Spanish (¡).   Quotation marks work the same as in English, though when writing a quote within a quote, it is written such as this: "Here I am talking about 'this other quote.'"   Soft, comforting sentences end with ¸ which is similar to a comma.   General Linguistic Rules There are three "genders" for language in Althian: feminine, masculine, and neuter. This is similar to how German works in real life, or how the "-e" ending in Spanish functions (for example, words like alte instead of alto or alta. This is a newer variation of the Spanish language to allow for more appropriate language for nonbinary people, and is the method that I personally prefer to use).   Verbs usually end in a long ee sound followed by a final consonant, usually a v, n, m, r, s, or z. These consonants all are able to be elongated, and this is a trademark of the southernmost Althian accent: for example, the word "emive" (to speak) would be pronounced with a longer "v" sound than someone from central or northern Althia would pronounce the same word. Granted, Althia is not all that large, so there is not as big of a difference in Althian accents as there are between, for example, a Boston accent vs a Mississippi accent in the United States.   As stated above, this will be hugely updated in the future. But for now, I hope you have enjoyed my ramblings!