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I should probably rewrite this. I'm well aware it's not super clear. Anyway! Welcome.
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Ravniconlang is a constructed language, still in progress, based on Magic: The Gathering guilds of Ravnica. Some languages have grammatical gender, wherein each noun, animate or inanimate, gendered or nongendered in real life, is given a gender and is conjugated differently based on that gender. However, in Ravniconlang, each noun has a "grammatical guild," and is conjugated differently based on that guild. Adjectives must match the guild of the noun they modify.
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Word order is VSO, meaning the verb is first in a sentence, then the subject, then the object. Verb conjugations do not replace pronouns or when the subject of the verb is a generic "one" (sometimes replaced with "you" in casual English).
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Adjectives follow nouns, and take their guild ending. If the adjective ends in a consonant or vowel which is inconsistent with the guild ending, the final consonant or vowel of the adjective is dropped. (The normal Selesnya singular of "medzhic" is "medzhina," not "medzhicna.") The same system exists with adverbs and verbs.
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Proper nouns: simply use a proper noun normally, without changing its ending. Lowercase it. After each proper noun, place the pronoun that you would use for that proper noun.
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The copula ("be" in English) is a special verb, since it conjugates differently based on the guild of the sentence's subject. Also, it's divided into three types–definitional (literally how the noun is defined), permanent (not definitional, but stays true for awhile, similar to Spanish ser), and temporary (will not necessarily be true for awhile, similar to Spanish estar). Really, it should be considered thirty verbs.* Each of those verbs, though, conjugates like a normal verb of that guild. "Exists" is the same verb, just without an object.
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*Gruul, like so many things, doesn't do copulas, and some guilds merge definitional and permanent or merge permanent and temporary, so it's actually fewer than thirty.
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"I, me" and "you, y'all" have their own nouns for each guild. These are not pronouns; when referred to another time, use the standard pronoun. For 3rd person, simply use the generic pronoun for that guild.
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No "the," "a," or "an" in Ravniconlang.
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Relative clauses: use the word "se" to replace "that," "what," etc, and it should go on both sides of the relative clause; there should be a full sentence, VSO, in the middle of the main sentence. The second "se" can be dropped if it would be the last word of the sentence. For multi-sentence relative clauses, place a colon after "se."
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Sometimes English uses infinitives when Ravniconlang doesn't, e.g. "want to know" – in Ravniconlang, just conjugate "want" and "know" the same. However, sometimes there's no way to avoid it, like "to be or not to be." In that case, use "se" to build a noun phrase, and it takes the guild of the verb.
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If-then pairs use the particles for "if" and "then," and are separated by a colon instead of a period.
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Numbers are typically adjectives, and cannot stand alone as nouns. However, there is a way to formulate them as nouns for doing math and stuff. They're in base ten because, there being ten guilds, it seems like a logical number. Not because I'm a decimalist or anything like that.
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Also note that guilds are sometimes abbreviated by their first two letters in all caps.
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Pronounce the words as listed in the pronunciation chart.
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Comparatives are required to be multiple sentences, with the particles "-errem" and "-erret" signaling more or less.
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For superlatives, add "mas" to the end of the adjective, for instance, "happiest" would be "hapmas" for Gruul, "haponmas" for Azorius nominative, etc.
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Work In Progress. In particular, the dictionary is nowhere near complete.
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