Tirelat
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Introduction
Tirelat is a language with two overlapping versions. The basic core of the language common to both versions is a fictional language spoken by Sangari people of the Tirvor region, who call themselves the Tir people or Tiržaŕ. The Sangari version of the language, which branched off in 2004, includes a number of words and usages that are specific to the needs of the Sangari world. The other version of Tirelat is a personal language, suitable for humans of the 21st century, which continues the original branch of the language that began development in the spring of 1999.
History
After the success of Jarda, I wanted to create a language that would be easier to learn. My initial plan was to create eight words a day and memorize them as I went along, with the goal of having a fully functional vocabulary by the end of 2000 (in time for the new millennium). However, along the way my goals for the language changed, and the ability to quickly do search-and-replace operations over the entire vocabulary led to a very unstable structure that hindered learning. Partly as a result of those problems, I created Czirehlat as a stable "branch" of the Tirelat language family. Since then, I revised Tirelat to incorporate many of the developments in Czirehlat (including the entire verb morphology), and in the late summer of 2001, I updated the Tirelat vocabulary (with the exception of Jarda-derived words) to be more like Czirehlat. In March 2002, Tirelat went through another major phonology revision, which among other things eliminated the distinction between "è" and "y". Czirehlat was "frozen" at the end of 2001, so that it can act as a stable base from which to continue developing the Tirelat language, although much of the documentation for Czirehlat still reflects an earlier stage of the language. The latest development of the Tirelat language began in 2004, when I realized that Tirelat is actually a language spoken by Sangari (furry non-human people related to the Zireen). In the process of redesigning Tirelat as a Sangari language, I went back to earlier forms of words, and started undoing some of the more recent changes in Tirelat grammar (in particular, the addition of genders for nouns) and phonology (reintroducing the distinction between "ë" and "y").
Grammar
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