Naderian Language

Naderian ( st. ndr Sôttao Nódaru [sɨ˩tːɛ˧˩ nə˩də˧rɯ˥]) is the family of languages spoken by Squid People. The version most relevant to Flesh Kernel is Earth Colonial Naderian, spoken by Squid immigrants on Grey-occupied Earth. It is a full-fledged conlang.

Owing to its ultimate origin from a proto-language that was spoken underwater, Naderian is very bizarre by ground-dwelling standards. Its phonology places no importance on vowel quality, so that there's no distinction between an [a] and an [u], but pitch is extremely important, and carries most of the grammatical information through a system of consonantal roots accompanied by "songs" or musical movements. Syntactically, it's head-final with Object-Subject-Verb word order and a unique strong flavor of ergativity. The grammar involves a combination of pitch "ablaut" inflections and agglutination, a collective-singulative system, and downright puzzling verb agreement. It's notable for lacking 2nd person pronouns and conjugations, having replaced it entirely with honorifics to refer to the speaker.

Naderian is written in its unique writing system, an abjad known as pǎhocheta Ṣhógera ( phCt Sgr ). Through the world of Flesh Kernel, writings, signs and advertisement in double Grey (... i.e. latin) and Ṣhogera letters can be seen.

An extensive reference to Naderian is available here: Earth Naderian: a practical guide (wip)