Vrynsyss

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Language of the Eslyat minor race of the Vanguard Reaches. Vrynsyss was originally the ceremonial tongue of Sesshayr, the state religion, designed by the prophet Sansdantka. Few non-Eslyat are skilled in this unusual language and its shades of meaning. Vrynsyss, while simple to speak and write, is intricate in its grammatical characteristics. The changing of one or two letters in a verb changes meaning drastically. Verbs conjugate with the use of endings and have no intrinsic person, number or gender. For example, "fenser" (walk, walks, will walk), "fenshyf" (do, [does, will,] not walk), "fenssendy" (walk [imperative]), "fenslule" (I will walk or let us walk), or "fenskyes" (walk, has [have] walked). Such grammatical features as subject and object are expressed as case distinctions with particles added to the ends of words. For example, "ceskessi" (a man), "ceskessa" (of a man), "ceskesso" (from a man). Most of these endings are irregular in form and must be learned by rote memorization. Personal pronouns have a complex and intricate system, depending upon the social relationship of the addresser and addressee, including sex and age of the speaker.

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