Tradespeak
Writing System
Tradespeak has thirty two letters with eight being vowels and twenty four being consonants
Geographical Distribution
Tradespeak is used in every open port. With the variety of languages, both racial and regional, tradespeak became the norm when communicating with strangers.
Phonology
Stress on syllables is a Hallmark of Tradespeak. This came about from combining words from different sources to create an understandable meaning. An example being the Tradespeak work 'record' which comes from two roots. One being the Elvish word 'rea' which means to write and the Imperial word 'coard' which means to report.
Syntax
Tradespeak runs on the word order of subject-verb-object. (example The Dwarf hammered the steel). To do otherwise would drastically change the meaning of the sentence (Example The Steel hammered the Dwarf) as does adding words like only (example The Dwarf only hammers the steel vs Only the Dwarf hammers the steel)
Phonetics
Tradespeak phonetics involves studying the fifty two distinct speech sounds.
Tenses
Tradespeak has twelve verb tenses. The primary three being past present and future with four aspects (simple, continuous, perfect, perfect continuous) applied to each of the primary.
Adjective Order
Tradespeak follows the general sequence of Opinion, Size, Age, Shape, Color, Origin, Material, Purpose with determiners coming first and the noun coming last.
No one has a name in Tradespeak
No one has a name in Tradespeak
No one has a name in Tradespeak
Tradespeak is not a primary language for any one species such family names are not found in Tradespeak.
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