======The Illúme language======

The [[Illúme]] language is exceedingly old and as such is extremely rich in poetry and non-litteral vivid imagary. It contains [[Illúme Language Vowels|7 vowel sounds]], and [[Illúme Language Consonants|14 consonants]], it is very formed, and has a enormous vocabulary, largely drawn from characters from history or litterature. Despite the huge vocabulary, there are only [[Illúme Irregular Verbs|3 irregular verbs]] and most words are concatenated. The utterances in it are harmonised and slightly inflectivly tonal. However it is not a tonal language per sé but there are so many false metaphors within it (that depend on a detailed historical awareness to really understand it's nuances) and many of these false metaphors rely on ancient pronounciation, so it gives the some semblence of a tonal language.

====== Poetic form ======

The grammar of the [[Illúme]] language is very beautiful and very vivid. There are usually only a very few ways of saying anything, yet the methods used are pictoral and contextual, for example if you were to say "the man owned a shop" you would say "herathe jujurén bis, [méren]" litterally "The vigour over the shop was his [for he remained to own it]" the word vigour is used because ownership is meaningless in the [[Jéem]] society so they focus on the emotional tie. The analogy comes here directly from an ancient story of Olseen and Mér; two pre collapse partners, friends of the elder days, who embodied the diligence and energy it needs to pioneer and build worlds. Olseen saught out the baron land, filled with potential and Mér laboured to build there: to achieve the very best that could be made, and togther these characters built huge empires. The form of ownership here is possesive in the extremely deep soulful sense, and it therfore refers to the birthing, the risk taking the selflessness, and the inherant tragedy in building anything, (because everything built must demise). However this is a false metaphor in that it has very little to do with "ownership" in the stricter sense. But the shop owner here is an implied spiritual child of Mér.


====== Dictionary ======


  * Nee-(prefix) means //near// as in ''assist'' or ''guard'' and even ''guardian of''.
  * Je-(prefix) means //I am//
  * -ém means //one//
  * Illú-(prefix) means //people// (pronounced ''illooo'')
  * -me means //white// (pronounced ''hmm'')
  * ei means //the//
  * Charain means //hope//
  * Troel //shield//
  * Marak //space//
  * Cir //of//
  * Yur //war//