Getting ready to post the new Arvonian language here. If not today then tomorrow or at least a good bit of it. I've got to get it all organized now into some kind of coherent mess. At the moment I'm trying to get the Kralien dictionary pushed out again for Mike S.

Finally, after a long while, I've got a couple of pages of stuff, my font creator software back and operational, and still trying to get my other programs working to get the PDF I used to make the dictionary for Kralien. Here is how the Arvonian language works:

It has five vowels, a,e,i,o,u and eleven consonants. I was only going to have nine but I forgot that the Arvonian queen had an Sh sound in the name. So I figured I would expand by a couple of extra letters. Note, sh and zh count as one letter in the language as you won't find s, z, or h by themselves. With that said here they are: d, g, k, l, m, n, p, sh, t, w, zh.

No two consonants and no two vowels are ever adjacent. A word may start with either but must always be followed by the other and finally, all words end in a vowel.

An interesting quirk and a charming one is that degrees of severity are color based. There are seven letter-combinations each standing as a color on their own but most frequently used as prefixes with red meaning "utmost, supreme, no higher can one go". They would say that something or someone is "red-like" and violet meaning "lowest, deepest, can't get any lower". The colors from highest to lowest are: red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, violet. Green is right in the middle so it's considered "average, nothing special, no more and no less". While the colors dictate levels of good to bad, high to low, most to least, the Arvonians do not think of the colors themselves in the same way as all colors are beautiful equally. It could be said that perhaps they see further into the infrared and ultraviolet than we.

Red (most) = Li
Orange = Da
Yellow = Nu
Green = Ni
Cyan = Ta
Blue = Gu
Violet = We

A famous example of this in action is the word "Lilene" Le means "understand" and Ne means "one who" So Lene is one who understands. Now we add Li which is "red" and literally it means "one who understands in red" and we would translate that to be "Supreme one who understands" or simply "Supreme understander".

The word order is VSO or Verb-Subject-Object order. Adjectives come before the subject. Adverbs come before any word they modify. This is still a work in process so it may change.

The numbering system is based in hexadecimal or base-16. I haven't got the symbols yet for them but in the programming world we'd use 0123456789ABCDEF (0-15 with 16 becoming 10).

A preliminary rough draft dictionary is up now, It's not big because I wanted to get all the pieces working together again. I think I have everything set up including my font making software.