Dark Language

Sefira witnessed her intelligent creations display beggarly gestures for her to sustain them with the physical nourishment needed to survive. The Lesser Darkness relished in the language she had conceptualized for, and given to, the Adonim as part of their preternatural knowledge, for they would use it shortly.

The dark language was, to her, perfect in every way. The alphabet included over thirty vowels, over fifty pulmonic consonants, and over forty click consonants. It also included many other assorted consonants, as well as diacritics and prosodic marks. For ease of communication, the nouns were genderless.

The personal pronouns in the dark language were grouped into four cases. While there was the full use of subjective, direct objective, and possessive personal pronouns, there was also the partial use of indirect objective personal pronouns. Despite this simple division, each case consisted of an astounding thirteen personal pronouns.

In designing the dark language, the most knowledgeable created being in existence did not settle for a more limited set of personal pronouns per case. She made her mark on the language by establishing the word ego as the majestic first-person gender-neutral singular form of a subjective personal pronoun, and by establishing the word eziz as the majestic third-person gender-neutral singular form of a subjective personal pronoun. These, along with their direct objective, possessive, and indirect objective counterparts, were to be used in relation to her alone. Meanwhile, these were established as additional kinds of distinct personal pronouns in the subjective case: vu for the formal second-person gender-neutral singular, tus for the informal second-person gender-neutral plural, id for the inanimate third-person gender-neutral singular, and ziz for the non-majestic third-person gender-neutral singular.

Sefira ensured the absence of irregularity amongst the verbs of her dark language, and also established seven grammatical moods for them. The indicative or declarative mood consisted of simple, continuous, perfect, and perfect continuous aspects, which in turn consisted of past, present, and future tenses. The conditional mood also consisted of simple, continuous, perfect, and perfect continuous aspects. The epistemic moods consisted of the interrogative and subjunctive moods, while the deontic moods consisted of the imperative, necessitative, and optative moods. For her, the beauty of each tense of this dark language lay in its consistently morphological nature and in its use of only one conjugation.

The Lesser Darkness prepared for the Adonim to use this dark language to beg from her verbally.


Author's Note: Below is the full list of subjective personal pronouns in the dark language created by Sefira:

Io
(First-person gender-neutral singular – non-majestic from Italian and somewhat from Spanish)

Ego
(First-person gender-neutral singular majestic from Proto-Indo-European, Old Latin, and Classical Latin, as well as Greek)

Wei
(First-person gender-neutral plural from Proto-Indo-European)

Tu
(Second-person gender-neutral singular informal from Proto-Indo-European, Old Latin, and Classical Latin, as well as most Romance languages)

Vu
(Second-person gender-neutral singular formal from Lombard and somewhat from French)

Tus
(Second-person gender-neutral plural informal)

Vus
(Second-person gender-neutral plural formal from Romansh)

Iz
(Third-person masculine singular non-majestic from Proto-Germanic and somewhat from Classical Latin)

Zi
(Third-person feminine singular non-majestic)

Id
(Third-person gender-neutral singular inanimate from Classical Latin and somewhat from Proto-Germanic)

Ziz
(Third-person gender-neutral singular non-majestic)

Eziz
(Third-person gender-neutral singular majestic)

Idz
(Third-person gender-neutral plural)