118 BS to 72 BS
Proto-Civic Phase
Early city-hold speech used in Human legal courts, heavy on command verbs and land law terms.
Home World
Aurelios Prime
Language Dossier // Planetary Primary
Aurelian Standard
Aurelian Standard (endonym: Aureth) is the majority language of Aurelios Prime and the oldest living civic language still used in modern interstellar law. It emerged from Human tribunal dialects and Vaelari testimony grammar, then became the base layer for both Dawn Cant and large parts of Trade Common.
Primary Speakers (392 AS)
~6.4 billion native / ~3.1 billion secondary
Status
Official civil language of Aurelios Prime
Typology
Agglutinative, case-marking, evidential system
Base Word Order
SOV (subject-object-verb)
Numeral Base
Duodecimal (base-12)
Historical Layers
How Aureth Formed
72 BS to 21 BS
Witness Fusion Phase
Vaelari testimony grammar merges into civic speech, adding evidential particles and precision markers.
21 BS to 27 AS
High Concord Phase
Formalized as Aurelios legal standard; becomes the source language for Dawnward oath documents.
27 AS onward
Split Register Era
Imperial and Concord institutions retain Aureth roots but diverge in tone, vocabulary, and rhetoric.
Writing System
Trilume Script (Modern Standard)
Script Structure
36 core graphemes: 18 consonant frames, 10 vowel marks, 8 grammatical seals.
Stroke Families
Stem strokes encode root class, Arc marks encode vowels, Crown marks encode case/evidence.
Directionality
Left-to-right in civilian print; vertical courtroom stacks still used for oath transcripts.
Digital Transliteration
Official transliteration uses capped digraphs for sealed morphemes, e.g. ka-THA-ren.
Phonology
Sound Inventory
System
Core Set
Notes
Vowels
a, e, i, o, u, ae
ae is long and often marks formal/legal vocabulary.Consonants
p b t d k g m n s z sh r l v h
Cluster limits are strict: max two-consonant onset in formal speech.
Stress Rule
Penultimate by default
Case suffixes do not shift stress unless evidential markers are attached.
Grammar Core
Advanced Structural Rules
Word Order
Default SOV; topic-fronting is legal in debate but requires explicit topic particle na.
Case Suffixes
-ar agentive, -en dative, -ith locative,
-vek instrumental, -os genitive.
Verb Aspect Chain
Verb roots take ordered suffixes: ROOT-Tense-Aspect-Mood-Evidence.
Evidential Markers
-ri witnessed directly, -sa verified by record, -nu inferred,
-ke hearsay. Court law requires evidential marking in testimonies.
Negation
Clause negation uses prefix ul- on verbs; moral/legal prohibition uses separate particle vara.
Registers
Three Active Speech Registers
Civic Formal
Tribunals and state decrees
Strict evidentials, full case marking, no clipped compounds.
Hearth Standard
Daily home and market use
Reduced case endings and faster stress shifts.
Command Register
Fleet and military coordination
Compressed syntax and standardized brevity codes.
Numerals
Base-12 System
Value
Aurelian Form
Usage
0 to 5
nul, ka, du, ter, ven, sal
Core civilian counting set.
6 to 11
mor, sen, val, kor, dra, zen
Used in dock ledgers and star-lane coordinates.
12
ka-nul
Literally "one cycle"; foundation of fiscal and navigation math.
Core Phrasebook
Operational Expressions
Aurelian
Literal Gloss
Function
Mereth kai-ri
Truth bind-command witnessed
Formal oath in civic offices and Concord hearings.
Aven talis
Shield before blade
Evacuation-first doctrine call in defense units.
Khar ven ash
Hold line in fire
Shared wartime command phrase used by multiple factions.
Liora veneth-sa
Witness stand verified-by-record
Court and archive authentication statement.
Ul-tharen nu
Not-confirmed inferred
Analyst warning when certainty is low.
Naming Engine
How Names Are Built In Aureth
Personal Names
ROOT + tone syllable + lineage suffix (example pattern: Ka-el, Aes-tra, Tor-ven).
Place Names
Terrain root + jurisdiction marker (example pattern: North-glass, Cinder-step).
Warship Names
Moral concept + directional or fate noun (example pattern: Morning Oath, Silent Debt).