Felinese

Felinese is the lingua franca of the felin people. See also the Dictionary and Phrasebook.

Name
TODO: Explain how and why Felinese is "the people's speech".

History
Why yes, I am trying to copy Wikipedia's style.

Classification

 * Firrhnian
 * Old Firrhnese
 * Upperspeech
 * Felinese

Dialects
This is where things like Klethan are elaborated upon, like how it and Fhuraian differ from standard Felinese.

The subtext purr
One important thing about proper pronunciation of Felinese is a coarticulated purr that dramatically changes the meaning of an utterance in that an otherwise completely innocent statement becomes sexual, basically turning literally anything into a euphemism.

Grammar
Felinese has a mildly agglutinative, slightly fusional grammar. Verbs agree with the subject and mark for one of four tense-aspect combinations: present progressive, past, present, and future. On top of that, they can also inflect for imperative, interrogative, abilitative, and propositional moods. Furthermore, a noun can be zero-derived from a verb, and a verb or noun can take the -aw suffix to become an adjective. That's absolutely it for noun declensions. That's right: no numbers or cases are present in Felinese nouns, although pronouns do have number (singular and plural only).

Syntax is largely head-final, with SOV order in the clause, and adjectives and numerals preceding the noun. However, nouns precede the relative clause, which is formed using a gapped construction with an overall adjectival structure.

¹: Lacking plurality, *eun* is both "I" and "we". First person inclusive is implicitly plural, *eun* being "the group I am in, but you are not" and *iun* being "all of us, including you." ²: The exact nature of *chun* is up for debate. Is it childish? Is it coolkid? Does it have an historical basis?

Writing
Felinese can be written in two ways, not counting transcription into the Latin alphabet. The simplest (and best-developed from a real world perspective) is upper style, a simple alphabet. The lesser-developed is lower style, which is a syllabary.

The syllabary
''Lower style hasn't been developed enough to have its own font. An explanation and some examples will be provided in due time.''

''This is a work in progress. Gotta tweak up Template:Fel a bit for readability, add grammar info...''