The Ath Alphabet, used to write Baronh

Baronh is an artificial language created by Japanese science fiction author Morioka Hiroyuki and used in Crest of the Stars and Banner of the Stars. The name Baronh means "language of the Abh". Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... An artificial or constructed language (known colloquially as a conlang among aficionados), is a language whose vocabulary and grammar were specifically devised by an individual or small group, rather than having naturally evolved as part of a culture as with natural languages. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... Morioka Hiroyuki (森岡浩之: 1962-) is a Japanese sci-fi novelist. ... Crest of the Stars (1999, Japanese: 星界の紋章 Seikai no Monshō) is an anime science fiction (space opera (some parts could classify as military science fiction/military space opera)) series based on a Japanese trilogy of science fiction novels of the same title, the first of which was published in 1996. ... Seikai no Senki (Battle Flag of the Stars), better known in English as Banner of the Stars, are a series of novels written by Morioka Hiroyuki which serve as the sequel for the Seikai no Monshō (Crest of the Stars) Trilogy. ... For information on the Hebrew month, see Ab. ...

Origin

The Baronh language is derived from the ancient Japanese language, spoken till the beginning of the ninth century and recorded in Kojiki, Manyoshu and other ancient documents. It is not precisely the ancient language itself, but a reconstructed one which is named Takamagahara language after the mythological heaven in Kojiki. In Crest of the Stars, Japanese revolutionists seeking to remove foreign influence from the Japanese language created their own "purified" version, which removed borrowed words and expressions and revived ancient ones. It was these revolutionists who established the colony that created the Abh, giving them their language. The Japanese language is a spoken and written language used mainly in Japan. ... Kojiki or Furukotofumi (古事記) is the oldest known historical book about the ancient history of Japan. ... Manyoshu (万葉集 Manyōshū, Collection of Ten Thousand Leaves) is the oldest existing, and most highly revered, collection of Japanese poetry, compiled sometime in the Nara or early Heian periods. ... Crest of the Stars (1999, Japanese: 星界の紋章 Seikai no Monshō) is an anime science fiction (space opera (some parts could classify as military science fiction/military space opera)) series based on a Japanese trilogy of science fiction novels of the same title, the first of which was published in 1996. ... The Japanese language is a spoken and written language used mainly in Japan. ... For information on the Hebrew month, see Ab. ...

After the Abh were freed from slavery, their language quickly, in a few generations, changed into the form seen in Hiroyuki's works of fiction. Having not been allowed to write as slaves, the Abh previously had no writing system, and that is the biggest reason why this change proceeded so swiftly. In order to write Baronh, an alphabet called Ath, which means "letter", was created, based to some extent on the Japanese kana scripts. Morioka Hiroyuki (森岡浩之: 1962-) is a Japanese sci-fi novelist. ... A writing system, also called a script, is a type of symbolic communication system used to represent elements or statements expressible in some spoken language, for the purpose of communication. ... Ath is an alphabet created by Morioka Hiroyuki for his Crest of the Stars novels. ... Japanese writing Kanji 漢字 Kana 仮名 Hiragana 平仮名 Katakana 片仮名 Uses Furigana 振り仮名 Okurigana 送り仮名 Romaji ローマ字 For other meanings of Kana, see Kana (disambiguation). ...

Grammar

Baronh is an inflectional or synthetic language: affixes are attached to a fixed stem to express verbal aspect and mode, and case in nouns and pronouns, Nouns and pronouns have seven cases which affixes were derived from particles in the Japanese language. Some Japanese particles remain as such. A synthetic language, in linguistic typology, is a language with a high morpheme-to-word ratio. ... An affix is a morpheme that is attached to a base morpheme to form a word. ... A particle is Look up Particle in Wiktionary, the free dictionary In particle physics, a basic unit of matter or energy. ...

The seven cases of Baronh are:

1. nominative (used for the subject of a verb or calling the object),
2. accusative (used for the direct object of a verb),
3. genitive (used to indicate relation or possession, often represented by the English "of"),
4. dative (used of the indirect object of the verb, often represented by the English "to" or "for"),
5. directive (originally used to show the direction of movement, but used to show a location without movement in the modern Baronh)
6. ablative (separation, source, cause, start point of movment)
7. instrumental (instrumental, and a predicate in copula).

There are four types of declension of Baronh nouns. In the first declension there is usually only one vowel and its place shifts according to its cases. For example, Abh is Abh in its nominative but changes as Bar in its genetive. The nominative case is a grammatical case for a noun. ... The accusative case of a noun is, generally, the case used to mark the direct object of a verb. ... The genitive case is a grammatical case that indicates a relationship, primarily one of possession, between the noun in the genitive case and another noun. ... The dative case is a grammatical case for nouns and/or pronouns. ... This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... In linguistics, the ablative case is a noun case found in several languages, including Latin, Sanskrit and in the Finno_Ugric languages. ... In linguistics, the instrumental case indicates that a noun is the instrument or means by which the subject achieves or accomplishes an action. ... The word copula originates from the Latin noun for a link or tie that connects two different things. ... In linguistics, declension is a feature of inflected languages: generally, the alteration of a noun to indicate its grammatical role. ... Note: This page contains IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. ... For information on the Hebrew month, see Ab. ...

Adjectives have no change. Most of adjective consist of a stem and the ending -a, like bhoca ("large") or laca ("high"). A verb can be used as a sort of adjective in a form of its stem and -a affixes like the gerund in English. Usually adjectives follow nouns like lartnéc casna (literaly "princess first"). Adverbs have no change and many adverbs were derived from adjectives, like bhoci ("largely") or laci ("highly"). In linguistics, a gerund is a kind of verbal noun. ...

Spelling

Baronh is written both in Ath (their own letters) and in some other alphabets, like the Latin alphabet. Ath is an alphabet created by Morioka Hiroyuki for his Crest of the Stars novels. ... The Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world. ...

Each letter of Ath has its own sound, though some combinations like bh stand for other sounds. Such combinations appear between consonants letters.

Every vowel is clearly pronounced except occasionally "e". When "e" appears as a part of affixes, it frequently becomes silent (for example, byrec[by:r]: fleet, cluge [clu:g]: relax).

Some consonants become silent at the end of word or in a series of consonant letters. The letter which stands originally [h] has a special function to stand for fricatives when it follows other consonant letters. For example bh stands for [v], mh stands for [f]. Note: This page contains phonetic information presented in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) using Unicode. ...

Greetings

• Cluge sa?: "Hello" (literary "Are you relaxing?")
• Fe cluge: "Hello" as a reply. (literary "I am relaxing.")
• Carsisto!: "Hello" (in office: literary "Let's work")
• Bile éna!: "Bye" (literary "Good voyage")
• Froranto: "Farewell" (literary "I will never forget [you]")

External links

• Dadh Baronr - Universe of Baronh
• Ath alphabet at Omniglot
• Seikai no Monshou (Crest of the Stars)