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Atario is the language spoken by the citizens of the Shalman Empire. It is also the universal language of the planet of Andromeda, alongside Greek.
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{{Infobox Language
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|name=Atario
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|nativename=Atârio
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|pronunciation=[Atario]
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|states=[[Shalman Empire]]
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|speakers=150,000,000
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|familycolor=Andromedan
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|fam2=[[Andromedan]]
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|fam3=[[Andromedan]]
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|fam4=Andromedan
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|script=[[Latin alphabet|Latin]]
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|nation=Shalman Empire
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|agency=[[Atario Language Board]]
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|iso1=At|iso2=Ata|iso3=Ata
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|map=}}
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[[Atario]] is the language spoken by the citizens of the [[Shalman Empire]]. It is also the universal language of the planet of [[Andromeda]], alongside Greek.
Atario grammar is basically based on Modern Greek. Whereas in English there is a certain word order in a sentense, in Atario (and thus in Greek) there is no word order. For example:
Atario grammar is basically based on Modern Greek. Whereas in English there is a certain word order in a sentense, in Atario (and thus in Greek) there is no word order. For example:
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Atario: <br>
Atario: <br>
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1) �ltiri Ylmêria'egg �tat (I went to Ylmeria yesterday)<br>
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1) ēltiri Ylmêria'egg ŝtat (I went to Ylmeria yesterday)<br>
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2) �ltiri �tat Ylmêria'egg (I went yesterday to Ylmeria)<br>
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2) ēltiri ŝtat Ylmêria'egg (I went yesterday to Ylmeria)<br>
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3) Ylmêria'egg �ltiri �tat (To Ylmeria I went yyesterday)<br>
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3) Ylmêria'egg ēltiri ŝtat (To Ylmeria I went yesterday)<br>
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Ylmêria'egg= to Ylmeria<br>
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4) ŝtat Ylmêria'egg ēltiri (Yesterday to Ylmeria I went)<br>
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�ltiri= I went<br>
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Ylmêria'egg= to Ylmeria<br>
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�tat= yesterday
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ēltiri= I went<br>
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ŝtat= yesterday
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Wusha = can, fa = you, wuvona = speak.
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==Geographic distribution==
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Zevino'shoma is spoken over much of the planet [[Vinawasho (planet)|Vinawasho]], and is an official language of all but two of the shimafugo'ti, [[Shimafugo Jorishuga]], and [[Shimafugo Khoritora]]. Zevino'shoma, along with its relative [[Belakho'shoma]], are the 2 official languages of [[Vinawasho (country)|Vinawasho.]]
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==Sounds==
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Zevino'shoma has 21 different sounds, 20 of which are used in "native" words, the 21st being found normally only in loanwords. Stress in Zevino'shoma falls on the first syllable.
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===Vowels===
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{| align="right"
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!align="center"|IPA chart for Zevino'shoma vowels
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|[[Image:Zevinoshoma vowels.PNG]]
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There are 5 vowels in Zevino'shoma; a, e, i, o, and u.
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{| style="margin: 1em 1em 1em 0; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 100%;" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="2" align="left" bgcolor="#BE0000" border="1"
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! IPA
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! Name
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! IPA
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! Meaning
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| {{Unicode  |É�}}
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| Open back unrounded vowel
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| G<font color=red>'''''a'''''</font>to
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| {{Unicode |g�to}}
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| Hello
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| {{Unicode  |É�}}
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| Open-mid front unrounded vowel
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| L<font color=red>'''''e'''''</font>sha
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| {{Unicode|l���}}
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| Leech
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| {{Unicode  |ɪ}}
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| Near-close near-front unrounded vowel
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| Belanush<font color=red>'''''i'''''</font>
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| {{Unicode|b�l�nu�ɪ}}
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| Planet
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| {{Unicode  |o}}
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| Close-mid back rounded vowel
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| G<font color=red>'''''o'''''</font>za
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| {{Unicode |go��}}
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| The
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| Close back rounded vowel
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| W<font color=red>'''''u'''''</font>vona
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| {{Unicode |wuvon�}}
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| To speak
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&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;<br>
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===Consonants===
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Zevino'shoma includes the following consonants: b, f, g, j, k, l, m, n, r, sh, t, v, w, z, with kh appearing in loanwords. Zevino'shoma aslo inlcudes the glottal stop, which has no written letter, and appears only between two consonants (not sh or kh). In the chart, IPA is shown with the corresponding letter in parenthesis.
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{| style="margin: 1em 1em 1em 0; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 100%;" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="2" align="Center" bgcolor="#BE0000" border="1"
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| rowspan=1 width="5%" bgcolor=#FFFFFF|<small><font color=white>-</font color=white>
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| rowspan=1 width="5%" bgcolor=#FFFFFF|'''bilabial'''
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| rowspan=1 width="5%" bgcolor=#FFFFFF|'''labio-dental'''
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| rowspan=1 width="5%" bgcolor=#FFFFFF|'''alveolar'''
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| rowspan=1 width="5%" bgcolor=#FFFFFF|'''post-alveolar'''
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| rowspan=1 width="5%" bgcolor=#FFFFFF|'''velar'''
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| rowspan=1 width="5%" bgcolor=#FFFFFF|'''glottal'''
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| '''plosive'''
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| style="text-align:center;"|{{Unicode |b (b)}}
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| style="text-align:center;" |{{Unicode | t (t)}}
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| style="text-align:center;"|{{Unicode  | k (k), g (g)}}
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| style="text-align:center;" |{{Unicode  | Ê�}}
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| '''nasal'''
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| style="text-align:center;"|{{Unicode  | m (m)}}
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| style="text-align:center;" |{{Unicode  | n (n)}}
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| '''fricative'''
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| style="text-align:center;"|{{Unicode  | f (f), v (v)}}
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| style="text-align:center;"|{{Unicode  | Ê� (sh), Ê� (z)}}
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| style="text-align:center;"|{{Unicode  | x (kh)}}
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| '''affricate'''
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| style="text-align:center;" |{{Unicode  | dÊ� (j)}}
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| style="text-align:center;" |{{Unicode  | ɹ (r)}}
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| style="text-align:center;" |{{Unicode  | l (l)}}
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{| style="margin: 1em 1em 1em 0; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 100%;" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="2" align="left" bgcolor="#BE0000" border="1"
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!labial-velar
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| style="text-align:center;"|{{Unicode | w (w)}}
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Note: /x/ is usually only found in loanwords.
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===Syllable formation===
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Each syllable is nearly always CV, with Kh and Sh acting as one consonant. CVC as a single syllable may be formed, but they are very rare. Once such example is "wuzekke" (pronounced {{Unicode |wu��k�k�}}), meaning "to cost (money)". Double consonants formed by this include the glottal stop between them.
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==Grammar==
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Zevino'shoma is an agglutinative language, and has an abundance of suffixes, but no prefixes. One word can have many suffixes, which can either show number or possession, describe the root word, change a verb to a noun or a noun to a verb, or create new words, and in some cases, form a sentence with one word.
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Examples: (Note: ' is considered a letter)
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'''Zevino'shoma'''                        '''English'''
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Lonirishi                          Car
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Lonirishi'zitabuki                  Big car
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Wushawave                          To fly
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Wushawave'she                      Flying
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Lonirishi'wushawave'she            Flying car
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Lonirishi'wushawave'she'ti          Flying cars
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Lonirishi'bori                      To drive
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Lemuzabe                            Judge
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Lemuzabe'jata                      Judge's â�¦
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Merukata                            Room
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Merukata'lemuzabe                  Courtroom
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Wuruzasho                          To Meet
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Wuruzasho'laja                      Meeting
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Wuruzasho'ganakatako.              A Person who runs a meeting.
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Merukata'wuruzasho'laja            Meeting room
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Merukata'wuruzasho'ganakatako.      A room where people run meetings.
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Merukata'wuruzasho'ganakatako'ti.  Rooms where people run meetings at.
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Zevino'shoma has 3 genders (masculine, neutral, and feminine) and 2 numbers (singular and plural), for a total of 6 different noun forms. Nouns with the root word ending in 'a', 'e', or 'o' are neutral gendered, 'i' feminine, and 'u' masculine, with 'ti' marking the plural form in all genders. Of the 3 endings for the neutral gender, 'a' is the most common.
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'''Zevino'shoma'''      '''English'''      '''Case'''
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Womajorisha      Circle      Neutral singular
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Lemuzabe          Judge        Neutral singular
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Torunavo          Military    Neutral singular
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Lesha'ti          Leeches      Neutral plural
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Lemashushate'ti  Presidents  Neutral plural
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Lemushako'ti      Cities      Neutral plural
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Belanushi        Planet      Feminine singular
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Vashameki'ti      Computers    Feminine plural
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Zevakalushu      Lord        Masculine singular
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Mefuratu'ti      Bricks      Masculine plural
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One notable feature of Zevino'shoma verbs is that they all begin with 'wu', the only exceptions being verbs formed from nouns such as "lonirishi'bori", "to drive". Zevino'shoma verbs have 3 tenses (past, present, future) and 4 aspects (simple, continuous, perfect, continuous perfect). The present tense and simple aspect are the default for unmarked verbs.
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'''Zevino'shoma'''  '''Tense or Aspect'''
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she            Continuous aspect
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zako          Perfect aspect
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she'zako      Continuous perfect aspect
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zako'she      Continuous perfect aspect
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go            Future tense
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li            Past tense
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Sample Verb inflection: (note: all the aspect and tense markers can go in any order)
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'''Zevino'shoma'''                  '''English'''                  '''Form'''
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Wutoshushiba                  To go                    Infinitive
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Wutoshushiba ba              I go                    Present simple
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Wutoshushiba'li ba            I went                  Past simple
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Wutoshushiba'go ba            I will go                Future simple
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Wutoshushiba'she ba          I am going              Present continuous
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Wutoshushiba'she'li ba        I was going              Past continuous
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Wutoshushiba'she'go ba        I will be going          Future continuous
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Wutoshushiba'zako ba          I have gone              Present perfect
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Wutoshushiba'zako'li ba      I had gone              Past perfect
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Wutoshushiba'zako'go ba      I will have gone        Future perfect
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Wutoshushiba'zako'she ba      I have been going        Present perfect continuous
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Wutoshushiba'zako'she'li ba  I had been going        Past perfect continuous
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Zevino'shoma makes no distinction between adjectives and adverbs in most cases, and the same word may be used as both. Adjectives and adverbs are attached to the word they modify, and do not have to match in gender or number.
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'''Zevino'shoma'''        '''English'''
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Shoma                Language
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Liratamora          Secret
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Wubomabi            To journey
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Wubomabi'liratamora  To journey secretly
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Zevino'shoma adpositions follow their object (postposition, as opposed to English prepositions, which precede their object), and have to match it in both gender and number.
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Wa                    In
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Womajorisha            Circle
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Womajorisha wa        In a circle
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Letulakasha            Province
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Letulakasha'ti wa'ti  In some provinces
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Lonirishi'ti wi'ti    In some cars
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Veshashoshashu wu      In heaven
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Menitolafu'ti wu'ti    In some mansions
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Word order in Zevino'shoma is object-verb-subject, and is largely left-branching except with adjectives and adverbs in most cases. This can be seen in the following sentence:
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'''Goza jago'losheriga kukaba wukubumu wushogabutu'barogakaretila wushuzavogo'go fa.'''
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Goza            The
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Jago            Game
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Losheriga        New
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Kukaba          Into
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Wukubumu        To enter
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Wushogabutu      To think
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barogakaretila  Thoroughly
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''You will need to think thoroughly to enter into the new game.''
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Zevino'shoma commonly forms new words by attaching different words together, in addition to what has already been described with adding adjectives and adverbs.
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'''Zevino'shoma'''              '''English'''
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Wikali                    Arch
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Wikali'womajorisha        Dome
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Womajorisha'lego          Ellipse, Oval
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Veshashushosha            Space
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Fetazuvi'veshashushosha  Meteorite
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Some other words are formed by taking two words and forming them into a single word, without a joining ' in them. The word order is opposite the normal order, to avoid confusion between the newly formed word, and the word formed by a normal compounding of the 2. The most common place where you can see this is in the names of the elements.
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'''Zevino'shoma'''          '''English'''
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==Geographic Distribution==
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Togota                Water
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Beru                  Gas
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==External Links==
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By the time the [[Andromedan Union]] was founded, Atario was already a universal language. All documents which were sent from government to government were written in [[Atario]]. The [[Andromedan Union]], of course, made [[Atario]] its primary language. [[Atario]] is spoken by everyone on the planetary system of [[Andromeda]]. It is the language of love, poetry, literature and diplomacy. [[Atario]] is the official language of only one Nation: the [[Shalman Empire]].
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[http://www.langmaker.com/db/Zevino'shoma Langmaker Zevino'shoma Article]
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==The Alphabet==
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The [[Atario]] alphabet has 31 letters, of which 9 are vowels. The [[Atario]] alphabet is as follows:<br>
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A a – Â â <br>
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B b <br>
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Ĉ ĉ <br>
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D d <br>
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E e – Ê ê <br>
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Ë ë – Ē ē <br>
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I ι – Ì ì <br>
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F f <br>
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G g <br>
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Ġ ġ <br>
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H h <br>
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I i – Î î <br>
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J j <br>
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K k <br>
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L l <br>
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M m <br>
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N n <br>
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O o – Ô ô <br>
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Ö ö – Ō ō <br>
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P p<br>
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R r <br>
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S s<br>
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Ŝ ŝ<br>
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T t<br>
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ß ß<br>
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U u – Û û<br>
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W w<br>
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X x<br>
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Y y – Ŷ ŷ<br>
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Z z<br>

Current revision as of 20:35, 30 July 2008

Template:Infobox Language

Atario is the language spoken by the citizens of the Shalman Empire. It is also the universal language of the planet of Andromeda, alongside Greek.

Atario grammar is basically based on Modern Greek. Whereas in English there is a certain word order in a sentense, in Atario (and thus in Greek) there is no word order. For example:

English: I went to Ylmeria yesterday.

Atario:
1) ēltiri Ylmêria'egg ŝtat (I went to Ylmeria yesterday)
2) ēltiri ŝtat Ylmêria'egg (I went yesterday to Ylmeria)
3) Ylmêria'egg ēltiri ŝtat (To Ylmeria I went yesterday)
4) ŝtat Ylmêria'egg ēltiri (Yesterday to Ylmeria I went)
Ylmêria'egg= to Ylmeria
ēltiri= I went
ŝtat= yesterday

Geographic Distribution

By the time the Andromedan Union was founded, Atario was already a universal language. All documents which were sent from government to government were written in Atario. The Andromedan Union, of course, made Atario its primary language. Atario is spoken by everyone on the planetary system of Andromeda. It is the language of love, poetry, literature and diplomacy. Atario is the official language of only one Nation: the Shalman Empire.

The Alphabet

The Atario alphabet has 31 letters, of which 9 are vowels. The Atario alphabet is as follows:
A a – Â â
B b
Ĉ ĉ
D d
E e – Ê ê
Ë ë – Ē ē
I ι – Ì ì
F f
G g
Ġ ġ
H h
I i – Î î
J j
K k
L l
M m
N n
O o – Ô ô
Ö ö – Ō ō
P p
R r
S s
Ŝ ŝ
T t
ß ß
U u – Û û
V v
W w
X x
Y y – Ŷ ŷ
Z z

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