Pentalithic Ramblings

Personal Pronouns Atlantean’s personal pronouns have an ablative case and a reflexive case in addition to the standard set of noun cases. In the 3rd person singular, there are two gender-neutral forms - the “common” gender (shown as m/f in the table) is used for things that have a gender which is unknown, while the neuter …

£éŋωi has a total of seven noun cases: nominative, accusative, dative, genitive, instrumental, comitative, and vocative. Pronouns and some irregular nouns also have an ablative case. Other noun functions beyond those of the seven cases can be obtained using prepositions. Typically, prepositions take an object in the accusative or dative cast, though there are some exceptions, …

£éŋωi verbs inflect for tense, aspect, and voice, and agree with the subject of the sentence according to number and person. There are nine tenses, three voices, and four aspects. The infinitive inflects only for voice and aspect. Some verbs (especially auxiliary verbs) are defective, meaning that not every possible inflection is valid. In addition to …

Atlantean is a very old language and has had many writing systems over the millennia. The most ancient known one of these is the Anaglosian writing system, which is an alphabet similar in design to Tengwar. It was invented by one person in the city of Anaglosia, and is still used there (and in nearby cities, …

The Atlantean language is the oldest language in the Pentalithia setting, and it has magical properties. It’s far older than the Earth, even; the only reason Earthlings call it Atlantean is because it’s still spoken in Atlantis. The Atlanteans themselves call it by its proper name, £éŋωi. In this post, however, and probably in later posts, …