Ārth

Ārth
Ārth is a language spoken in Atlantis. Ārth is renown for being extremely regular.

Grammar
Ārth has 4 genders, Animate, Inanimate, Neuter, and Enigmatic. Animate nouns are alive and graspable, and inanimate nouns are not alive but graspable. Graspable refers to being able to be touched, such as a tree or a mountain. Neuter things are incapable of being grasped, such as air, light, wind, fire, and so forth. Neuter nouns are also things that are abstract, such as love or anger. If whether or not the thing being spoken of is animate or inanimate, neuter is used. The final gender is enigmatic, which can convey a certain amount of respect, mystery, fear, or anything else deserving to be emphasised. Usage of the enigmatic gender will vary from speaker to speaker, as it can be applied to anything.

Cases
There are 10 cases in Ārth, Nominative, Accusative, Genitive, Instrumental, and Equative are the first class, and Locative, Lative, Ablative, Adessive, and Pertingent are the second class. These are abbreviated to Nom, Acc, Gen, Per, and Equ, and Loc, Lat, Abl, Ade, and Per.

The first set of cases contains all of the cases that do not involve motion or location. The second set of cases pertain to motion and location. These cases include Locative, Lative, Ablative, Adessive, and Pertingent.

Locative - shows location

Lative - motion to something

Ablative - motion from something

Adessive - near something

Pertingent - touching something

These endings are used on adjectives and nouns. When applying these endings to nouns, add a macron over the vowel to form the plural. If a word ends in a vowel, add an '-m' after the word and before the ending.

To form the definite article, use the adjective endings after 'th-', for the indefinite, do the same with 'v-'.

Verbs
Verbs are conjugated for person, number, and tense. To form the past tense, change the 's' ending into a 'th'.

Plural
Ārth has a singular and a plural. Plurality is shown by lengthening the vowel of the word ending. Plurality is shown in adjectives and nouns.

Orthography
Vowels with macrons are held longer than their unaccented counterparts.