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Meyāni language/Dictionary

2025-10-04T17:02:53Z

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This is a list of words in [[Meyāni language|the '''Meyāni language''']], natively known as {{CustomScript|meyani|y}}̀ˋ˙{{CustomScript|meyani|t}}ˎ:{{CustomScript|meyani|n}}ˊ{{CustomScript|meyani|h@}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|n}}ˊ{{CustomScript|meyani|sir}}ˋ—{{CustomScript|meyani|i}} ('''Yáto Nehấnesira-i''').

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==Notes==
*The list below is arranged according to the Meyāni language's traditional {{w|alphabetical order}} and not by the alphabetical order used by the {{w|Latin alphabet}}.
*Most {{w|inflections}} of words are not shown, with the {{w|Root (linguistics)|base form}} being shown instead. This does not apply to words with forms indicated by {{w|suppletion}} (like the {{w|past tense}}-{{w|nonpast tense|present tense}} pair <sáista>-<íhu> "to go"), in which case the base form and the suppleted form are listed separately.
*The parts of speech assigned to certain words align with the traditional nine {{w|parts of speech}} assigned by Meyāni {{w|grammarians}}.
*{{W|Vowel length}} is not indicated in the IPA transcriptions, reflecting the pronunciation of "long vowels" as short by most native speakers.
*Any and all {{W|diacritics}} in the Meyāni orthography are written in this dictionary, though in most Meyāni texts these are not actually written. Because of this fact, these diacritics do not affect the order that words are arranged in this dictionary.

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==The List==

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===Â/A===
{| class="wikitable"
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! colspan="2" |Word
! colspan="2" |{{w|International Phonetic Alphabet|IPA}} transcription
! rowspan="2" |Part of speech
! rowspan="2" |English translation
! rowspan="2" |Etymology
|-
!In the romanization
!In the orthography
!Broad
!Narrow
|-
|''áihauñka''
|{{CustomScript|meyani|@}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|ih@unyk}}ˋ
|/ˈai.xauɲ.kæ/
|[ˈʔ̃ʲæ̃ɪ̯̃.x̃ɑ̃ʊ̯̃ɲ.k̃ʲæ̃]
|''verb''
|to save
|Inherited
|-
|''áinrokra''
|{{CustomScript|meyani|@}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|inr}}ˎ{{CustomScript|meyani|kr}}ˋ
|/ˈain.rok.ræ/
|[ˈʔ̃ʲæ̃ɪ̯̃nˠ.r̃ˠõ̞k̃.r̃ʲæ̃]
|''noun''
|blanket
|Inherited
|-
|''ấbone''
|{{CustomScript|meyani|@}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|b}}ˎ{{CustomScript|meyani|n}}ˊ
|/ˈɑ.bo.nɛ/
|[ˈʔ̃ˠɑ̃.b̃ˠõ̞.nʲẽ̞]
|''adjective''
|soon
|Inherited
|-
|''ačấn''
|{{CustomScript|meyani|@c@}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|n}}
|/æˈt͡ʃɑn/
|[ʔ̃ʲæ̃ˈt̃͡ɕ̃ɑ̃nˠ]
|''noun''
|hand, arm
|Inherited
|-
|''áčane''
|{{CustomScript|meyani|@}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|c}}ˋ{{CustomScript|meyani|n}}ˊ
|/ˈæ.t͡ʃæ.nɛ/
|[ˈʔ̃ʲæ̃.t̃͡ɕ̃æ̃.nʲẽ̞]
|''determiner''
|five
|Inherited
|-
|''ấhuvvâlain''
|{{CustomScript|meyani|@}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|huvv@l@in}}
|/ˈɑ.xu.vɑ.lain/
|[ˈʔ̃ˠɑ̃.x̃ũ.ṽˠɑ̃.l̃ʲæ̃ɪ̯̃nˠ]
|''adjective''
|numerous, widespread
|Inherited
|-
|''ahháum''
|{{CustomScript|meyani|@hh@}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|um}}
|/æˈxːaum/
|[ʔ̃ʲæ̃ˈx̃ːɑ̃ʊ̯̃mˠ]
|''verb''
|to care, to look out
|Inherited
|-
|''ấhano''
|{{CustomScript|meyani|@}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|h}}ˋ{{CustomScript|meyani|n}}ˎ
|/ˈɑ.xæ.no/
|[ˈʔ̃ˠɑ̃.x̃ʲæ̃.nˠõ̞]
|''verb''
|to coerce, to force into
|Inherited
|-
|''ak''
|{{CustomScript|meyani|@k}}
|/æk/
|[ʔ̃ʲæ̃k̃]
|''noun''
|[[Rdaqtva A]]
|Inherited
|-
|''ấna''
|{{CustomScript|meyani|@}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|n}}ˋ
|/ˈɑ.næ/
|[ʔ̃ˠɑ̃.nʲæ̃]
|''verb''
|to be free
|Inherited
|-
|''ấñimqlo''
|{{CustomScript|meyani|@}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|nyimq}}ˎ
|/ˈɑ.ɲim.q͡ʟo/
|[ˈʔ̃ˠɑ̃.ɲĩmˠ.k̃ˤ͡ʟ̃õ̞]
|''verb''
|to run away from
|Inherited
|-
|''ấnnam''
|{{CustomScript|meyani|@}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|nn}}ˋ{{CustomScript|meyani|m}}
|/ˈɑ.nːæm/
|[ˈʔ̃ˠɑ̃.nʲːæ̃mˠ]
|''verb''
|to update
|Inherited
|-
|''ấrau''
|{{CustomScript|meyani|@}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|r@u}}
|/ˈɑ.rau/
|[ˈʔ̃ˠɑ̃.r̃ˠɑ̃ʊ̯̃]
|''noun''
|ant
|Inherited
|-
|''ấvvâsa''
|{{CustomScript|meyani|@}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|vv@s}}ˋ
|/ˈɑ.vːɑ.sæ/
|[ˈʔ̃ˠɑ̃.ṽˠːɑ̃.s̃ʲæ̃]
|''noun''
|blood
|Inherited
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===I/E===
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! colspan="2" |{{w|International Phonetic Alphabet|IPA}} transcription
! rowspan="2" |Part of speech
! rowspan="2" |English translation
! rowspan="2" |Etymology
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!In the romanization
!In the orthography
!Broad
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===U/O===
{| class="wikitable"
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! colspan="2" |{{w|International Phonetic Alphabet|IPA}} transcription
! rowspan="2" |Part of speech
! rowspan="2" |English translation
! rowspan="2" |Etymology
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!In the romanization
!In the orthography
!Broad
!Narrow
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===B===
{| class="wikitable"
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! colspan="2" |Word
! colspan="2" |{{w|International Phonetic Alphabet|IPA}} transcription
! rowspan="2" |Part of speech
! rowspan="2" |English translation
! rowspan="2" |Etymology
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!In the romanization
!In the orthography
!Broad
!Narrow
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===Č===
{| class="wikitable"
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! colspan="2" |Word
! colspan="2" |{{w|International Phonetic Alphabet|IPA}} transcription
! rowspan="2" |Part of speech
! rowspan="2" |English translation
! rowspan="2" |Etymology
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!In the romanization
!In the orthography
!Broad
!Narrow
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===D===
{| class="wikitable"
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! colspan="2" |{{w|International Phonetic Alphabet|IPA}} transcription
! rowspan="2" |Part of speech
! rowspan="2" |English translation
! rowspan="2" |Etymology
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!In the romanization
!In the orthography
!Broad
!Narrow
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===F===
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! colspan="2" |{{w|International Phonetic Alphabet|IPA}} transcription
! rowspan="2" |Part of speech
! rowspan="2" |English translation
! rowspan="2" |Etymology
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!In the romanization
!In the orthography
!Broad
!Narrow
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===H===
{| class="wikitable"
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! colspan="2" |Word
! colspan="2" |{{w|International Phonetic Alphabet|IPA}} transcription
! rowspan="2" |Part of speech
! rowspan="2" |English translation
! rowspan="2" |Etymology
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!In the romanization
!In the orthography
!Broad
!Narrow
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===Y===
{| class="wikitable"
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! colspan="2" |Word
! colspan="2" |{{w|International Phonetic Alphabet|IPA}} transcription
! rowspan="2" |Part of speech
! rowspan="2" |English translation
! rowspan="2" |Etymology
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!In the romanization
!In the orthography
!Broad
!Narrow
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===K/G===
{| class="wikitable"
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! colspan="2" |Word
! colspan="2" |{{w|International Phonetic Alphabet|IPA}} transcription
! rowspan="2" |Part of speech
! rowspan="2" |English translation
! rowspan="2" |Etymology
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!In the romanization
!In the orthography
!Broad
!Narrow
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===L===
{| class="wikitable"
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! colspan="2" |{{w|International Phonetic Alphabet|IPA}} transcription
! rowspan="2" |Part of speech
! rowspan="2" |English translation
! rowspan="2" |Etymology
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!In the romanization
!In the orthography
!Broad
!Narrow
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===M===
{| class="wikitable"
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! colspan="2" |Word
! colspan="2" |{{w|International Phonetic Alphabet|IPA}} transcription
! rowspan="2" |Part of speech
! rowspan="2" |English translation
! rowspan="2" |Etymology
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!In the romanization
!In the orthography
!Broad
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===N/Ñ===
{| class="wikitable"
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! colspan="2" |Word
! colspan="2" |{{w|International Phonetic Alphabet|IPA}} transcription
! rowspan="2" |Part of speech
! rowspan="2" |English translation
! rowspan="2" |Etymology
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!In the romanization
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!Broad
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===P===
{| class="wikitable"
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! colspan="2" |Word
! colspan="2" |{{w|International Phonetic Alphabet|IPA}} transcription
! rowspan="2" |Part of speech
! rowspan="2" |English translation
! rowspan="2" |Etymology
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!In the romanization
!In the orthography
!Broad
!Narrow
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===R===
{| class="wikitable"
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! colspan="2" |Word
! colspan="2" |{{w|International Phonetic Alphabet|IPA}} transcription
! rowspan="2" |Part of speech
! rowspan="2" |English translation
! rowspan="2" |Etymology
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!In the romanization
!In the orthography
!Broad
!Narrow
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===S===
{| class="wikitable"
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! colspan="2" |Word
! colspan="2" |{{w|International Phonetic Alphabet|IPA}} transcription
! rowspan="2" |Part of speech
! rowspan="2" |English translation
! rowspan="2" |Etymology
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!In the romanization
!In the orthography
!Broad
!Narrow
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===T===
{| class="wikitable"
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! colspan="2" |Word
! colspan="2" |{{w|International Phonetic Alphabet|IPA}} transcription
! rowspan="2" |Part of speech
! rowspan="2" |English translation
! rowspan="2" |Etymology
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!In the romanization
!In the orthography
!Broad
!Narrow
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===V===
{| class="wikitable"
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! colspan="2" |Word
! colspan="2" |{{w|International Phonetic Alphabet|IPA}} transcription
! rowspan="2" |Part of speech
! rowspan="2" |English translation
! rowspan="2" |Etymology
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!In the romanization
!In the orthography
!Broad
!Narrow
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===Š===
{| class="wikitable"
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! colspan="2" |Word
! colspan="2" |{{w|International Phonetic Alphabet|IPA}} transcription
! rowspan="2" |Part of speech
! rowspan="2" |English translation
! rowspan="2" |Etymology
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!In the romanization
!In the orthography
!Broad
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'''[HEAVY WIP]'''

Meyāni language/Dictionary

2025-10-03T04:08:49Z

Triton2009: /* Â/A */

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This is a list of words in [[Meyāni language|the '''Meyāni language''']], natively known as {{CustomScript|meyani|y}}̀ˋ˙{{CustomScript|meyani|t}}ˎ:{{CustomScript|meyani|n}}ˊ{{CustomScript|meyani|h@}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|n}}ˊ{{CustomScript|meyani|sir}}ˋ—{{CustomScript|meyani|i}} ('''Yáto Nehấnesira-i''').

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==Notes==
*The list below is arranged according to the Meyāni language's traditional {{w|alphabetical order}} and not by the alphabetical order used by the {{w|Latin alphabet}}.
*Most {{w|inflections}} of words are not shown, with the {{w|Root (linguistics)|base form}} being shown instead. This does not apply to words with forms indicated by {{w|suppletion}} (like the {{w|past tense}}-{{w|nonpast tense|present tense}} pair <sáista>-<íhu> "to go"), in which case the base form and the suppleted form are listed separately.
*The parts of speech assigned to certain words align with the traditional nine {{w|parts of speech}} assigned by Meyāni {{w|grammarians}}.
*{{W|Vowel length}} is not indicated in the IPA transcriptions, reflecting the pronunciation of "long vowels" as short by most native speakers.
*Any and all {{W|diacritics}} in the Meyāni orthography are written in this dictionary, though in most Meyāni texts these are not actually written. Because of this fact, these do not affect the order that words are arranged in this dictionary.

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==The List==

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===Â/A===
{| class="wikitable"
|+
! colspan="2" |Word
! colspan="2" |{{w|International Phonetic Alphabet|IPA}} transcription
! rowspan="2" |Part of speech
! rowspan="2" |English translation
! rowspan="2" |Etymology
|-
!In the romanization
!In the orthography
!Broad
!Narrow
|-
|''áihauñka''
|{{CustomScript|meyani|@}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|ih@unyk}}ˋ
|/ˈai.xauɲ.kæ/
|/ˈʔ̃ʲæ̃ɪ̯̃.x̃ɑ̃ʊ̯̃ɲ.k̃ʲæ̃/
|''verb''
|to save
|Inherited
|-
|''áinrokra''
|{{CustomScript|meyani|@}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|inr}}ˎ{{CustomScript|meyani|kr}}ˋ
|/ˈain.rok.ræ/
|/ˈʔ̃ʲæ̃ɪ̯̃nˠ.r̃ˠõ̞k̃.r̃ʲæ̃/
|''noun''
|blanket
|Inherited
|-
|''áčane''
|{{CustomScript|meyani|@}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|c}}ˋ{{CustomScript|meyani|n}}ˊ
|/ˈæ.t͡ʃæ.nɛ/
|/ˈʔ̃ʲæ̃.t̃͡ɕ̃æ̃.nʲẽ̞/
|''determiner''
|five
|Inherited
|-
|''ahháum''
|{{CustomScript|meyani|@hh@}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|um}}
|/æˈxːaum/
|/ʔ̃ʲæ̃ˈx̃ːɑ̃ʊ̯̃mˠ/
|''verb''
|to care, to look out
|Inherited
|-
|''ấhano''
|{{CustomScript|meyani|@}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|h}}ˋ{{CustomScript|meyani|n}}ˎ
|/ˈɑ.xæ.no/
|/ˈʔ̃ˠɑ̃.x̃ʲæ̃.nˠõ̞/
|''verb''
|to coerce, to force into
|Inherited
|-
|''ấna''
|{{CustomScript|meyani|@}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|n}}ˋ
|/ˈɑ.næ/
|/ʔ̃ˠɑ̃.nʲæ̃/
|''verb''
|to be free
|Inherited
|-
|''ấnnam''
|{{CustomScript|meyani|@}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|nn}}ˋ{{CustomScript|meyani|m}}
|/ˈɑ.nːæm/
|/ˈʔ̃ˠɑ̃.nʲːæ̃mˠ/
|''verb''
|to update
|Inherited
|-
|''ấrau''
|{{CustomScript|meyani|@}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|r@u}}
|/ˈɑ.rau/
|/ˈʔ̃ˠɑ̃.r̃ˠɑ̃ʊ̯̃/
|''noun''
|ant
|Inherited
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===I/E===
{| class="wikitable"
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! colspan="2" |Word
! colspan="2" |{{w|International Phonetic Alphabet|IPA}} transcription
! rowspan="2" |Part of speech
! rowspan="2" |English translation
! rowspan="2" |Etymology
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!In the romanization
!In the orthography
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===U/O===
{| class="wikitable"
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! colspan="2" |{{w|International Phonetic Alphabet|IPA}} transcription
! rowspan="2" |Part of speech
! rowspan="2" |English translation
! rowspan="2" |Etymology
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!In the romanization
!In the orthography
!Broad
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===B===
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! colspan="2" |{{w|International Phonetic Alphabet|IPA}} transcription
! rowspan="2" |Part of speech
! rowspan="2" |English translation
! rowspan="2" |Etymology
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!In the romanization
!In the orthography
!Broad
!Narrow
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===Č===
{| class="wikitable"
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! colspan="2" |Word
! colspan="2" |{{w|International Phonetic Alphabet|IPA}} transcription
! rowspan="2" |Part of speech
! rowspan="2" |English translation
! rowspan="2" |Etymology
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!In the romanization
!In the orthography
!Broad
!Narrow
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===D===
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! colspan="2" |{{w|International Phonetic Alphabet|IPA}} transcription
! rowspan="2" |Part of speech
! rowspan="2" |English translation
! rowspan="2" |Etymology
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!In the romanization
!In the orthography
!Broad
!Narrow
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===F===
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! colspan="2" |Word
! colspan="2" |{{w|International Phonetic Alphabet|IPA}} transcription
! rowspan="2" |Part of speech
! rowspan="2" |English translation
! rowspan="2" |Etymology
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!In the romanization
!In the orthography
!Broad
!Narrow
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===H===
{| class="wikitable"
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! colspan="2" |Word
! colspan="2" |{{w|International Phonetic Alphabet|IPA}} transcription
! rowspan="2" |Part of speech
! rowspan="2" |English translation
! rowspan="2" |Etymology
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!In the romanization
!In the orthography
!Broad
!Narrow
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===Y===
{| class="wikitable"
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! colspan="2" |Word
! colspan="2" |{{w|International Phonetic Alphabet|IPA}} transcription
! rowspan="2" |Part of speech
! rowspan="2" |English translation
! rowspan="2" |Etymology
|-
!In the romanization
!In the orthography
!Broad
!Narrow
|-
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===K/G===
{| class="wikitable"
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! colspan="2" |Word
! colspan="2" |{{w|International Phonetic Alphabet|IPA}} transcription
! rowspan="2" |Part of speech
! rowspan="2" |English translation
! rowspan="2" |Etymology
|-
!In the romanization
!In the orthography
!Broad
!Narrow
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===L===
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! colspan="2" |Word
! colspan="2" |{{w|International Phonetic Alphabet|IPA}} transcription
! rowspan="2" |Part of speech
! rowspan="2" |English translation
! rowspan="2" |Etymology
|-
!In the romanization
!In the orthography
!Broad
!Narrow
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===M===
{| class="wikitable"
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! colspan="2" |Word
! colspan="2" |{{w|International Phonetic Alphabet|IPA}} transcription
! rowspan="2" |Part of speech
! rowspan="2" |English translation
! rowspan="2" |Etymology
|-
!In the romanization
!In the orthography
!Broad
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===N/Ñ===
{| class="wikitable"
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! colspan="2" |Word
! colspan="2" |{{w|International Phonetic Alphabet|IPA}} transcription
! rowspan="2" |Part of speech
! rowspan="2" |English translation
! rowspan="2" |Etymology
|-
!In the romanization
!In the orthography
!Broad
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===P===
{| class="wikitable"
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! colspan="2" |Word
! colspan="2" |{{w|International Phonetic Alphabet|IPA}} transcription
! rowspan="2" |Part of speech
! rowspan="2" |English translation
! rowspan="2" |Etymology
|-
!In the romanization
!In the orthography
!Broad
!Narrow
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===R===
{| class="wikitable"
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Meyāni language/Dictionary

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This is a list of words in [[Meyāni language|the '''Meyāni language''']], natively known as {{CustomScript|meyani|y}}̀ˋ˙{{CustomScript|meyani|t}}ˎ:{{CustomScript|meyani|n}}ˊ{{CustomScript|meyani|h@}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|n}}ˊ{{CustomScript|meyani|sir}}ˋ—{{CustomScript|meyani|i}} ('''Yáto Nehấnesira-i''').

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==Notes==
*The list below is arranged according to the Meyāni language's traditional {{w|alphabetical order}} and not by the alphabetical order used by the {{w|Latin alphabet}}.
*Most {{w|inflections}} of words are not shown, with the {{w|Root (linguistics)|base form}} being shown instead. This does not apply to words with forms indicated by {{w|suppletion}} (like the {{w|past tense}}-{{w|nonpast tense|present tense}} pair <sáista>-<íhu> "to go"), in which case the base form and the suppleted form are listed separately.
*The parts of speech assigned to certain words align with the traditional nine {{w|parts of speech}} assigned by Meyāni {{w|grammarians}}.
*{{W|Vowel length}} is not indicated in the IPA transcriptions, reflecting the pronunciation of "long vowels" as short by most native speakers.
*Any and all {{W|diacritics}} in the Meyāni orthography are written in this dictionary, though in most Meyāni texts these are not actually written. Because of this fact, these do not affect the order that words are arranged in this dictionary.

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==The List==

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===Â/A===
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|''áihauñka''
|{{CustomScript|meyani|@}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|ih@unyk}}ˋ
|/ˈai.xauɲ.kæ/
|/ˈʔ̃ʲæ̃ɪ̯̃.x̃ɑ̃ʊ̯̃ɲ.k̃ʲæ̃/
|''verb''
|to save
|Inherited
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|''áinrokra''
|{{CustomScript|meyani|@}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|inr}}ˎ{{CustomScript|meyani|kr}}ˋ
|/ˈain.rok.ræ/
|/ˈʔ̃ʲæ̃ɪ̯̃nˠ.r̃ˠõ̞k̃ˠ.r̃ʲæ̃/
|''noun''
|blanket
|Inherited
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|''áčane''
|{{CustomScript|meyani|@}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|c}}ˋ{{CustomScript|meyani|n}}ˊ
|/ˈæ.t͡ʃæ.nɛ/
|/ˈʔ̃ʲæ̃.t̃͡ɕ̃æ̃.nʲẽ̞/
|''determiner''
|five
|Inherited
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|''ahháum''
|{{CustomScript|meyani|@hh@}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|um}}
|/æˈxːaum/
|/ʔ̃ʲæ̃ˈx̃ːɑ̃ʊ̯̃mˠ/
|''verb''
|to care, to look out
|Inherited
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|''ấhano''
|{{CustomScript|meyani|@}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|h}}ˋ{{CustomScript|meyani|n}}ˎ
|/ˈɑ.xæ.no/
|/ˈʔ̃ˠɑ̃.x̃ʲæ̃.nˠõ̞/
|''verb''
|to coerce, to force into
|Inherited
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|''ấna''
|{{CustomScript|meyani|@}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|n}}ˋ
|/ˈɑ.næ/
|/ʔ̃ˠɑ̃.nʲæ̃/
|''verb''
|to be free
|Inherited
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|''ấnnam''
|{{CustomScript|meyani|@}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|nn}}ˋ{{CustomScript|meyani|m}}
|/ˈɑ.nːæm/
|/ˈʔ̃ˠɑ̃.nʲːæ̃mˠ/
|''verb''
|to update
|Inherited
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|''ấrau''
|{{CustomScript|meyani|@}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|r@u}}
|/ˈɑ.rau/
|/ˈʔ̃ˠɑ̃.r̃ˠɑ̃ʊ̯̃/
|''noun''
|ant
|Inherited
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===U/O===
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===B===
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===Č===
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===D===
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===F===
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===Y===
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===K/G===
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===M===
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===V===
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Meyāni language

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{{Short description|Qlerevi language spoken in Meyāni and other regions in the Prorinian peninsula}}
{{Infobox Levarianquevan Language
| title = Meyāni
| othername = Meyānisian
| nativename = {{CustomScript|meyani|y}}̀ˋ˙{{CustomScript|meyani|t}}ˎ:{{CustomScript|meyani|n}}ˊ{{CustomScript|meyani|h@}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|n}}ˊ{{CustomScript|meyani|sir}}ˋ—{{CustomScript|meyani|i}} (''Yáto Nehấnesira-i'')
| image = Meyani distribution.png
| imagecaption = The distribution of the Standard Meyāni language in the Prorinian peninsula based on first-language speakers, overlaid by political boundaries: 
{{Color box|#7387cf}}: Standard Meyāni is spoken by a majority of gators in the area as a {{w|First language|mother tongue}}. 
{{Color box|#8EA7ff}}: Standard Meyāni is spoken by a significant minority of gators in the area as a mother tongue. 
{{Color box|#bacbff}}: Standard Meyāni is spoken by a small minority of gators in the area as a mother tongue. 
{{Color box|#ffffff}}: Standard Meyāni is primarily learned as a {{w|second language}} by gators in the area, as little-to-no first-language speakers exist. 
{{Color box|#3f48cc}}: The area is covered by a body of {{w|water}}. 
{{Color box|#000000}}: Political boundary.|imagesize=250px|pronounciation=/ˈjæ.to nɛˈxɑː.nɛ.siː.ra.jiː/
| region=[[Prorinian peninsula]]
| speakers = ~ 9 million (L1) 
~ 16 million (L2) 
~ 25 million (total)
| family = [[Qlerevi languages|Qlerevi]]
*[[Eastern Qlerevi languages|Eastern Qlerevi]]
**[[Prorinian Qlerevi languages|Prorinian Qlerevi]]
***[[Central Prorinian Qlerevi languages|Central Prorinian Qlerevi]]
****[[Steppe Qlerevi languages|Steppe Qlerevi]]
*****[[Old Meyāni language|Old Meyāni]]
******[[Classical Meyāni language|Classical Meyāni]]
*******'''Meyāni'''
| script = [[Meyāni alphabet]]<ref>The script is classified as a partial {{w|abjad}} because "{{w|short vowels}}" are not written and require optional {{w|diacritics}} to be expressed properly without relying solely on {{w|context}}; see [[Meyāni language#Orthography|the orthography section of this article]].</ref>
| direction = {{w|Directionality and orientation|Left-to-right}}
| officialin = [[Meyāni]]
| recognized = [[Yaksōn]]
| consonants = 19
| vowels = 9 (6 {{w|monophthongs}}, 3 {{w|diphthongs}}
| syllablestructure = <nowiki>#</nowiki>((l)C)V/(N, h)(C)CV/(C, G)(C)#
| prosody = {{w|Stress (linguistics)|Stress}}
| inflectiontype = {{w|Analytic language|Analytic}}
| nouncase = m
| nounnumber = y
| noundefinite = n
| noungender = n
| adjectiveagreement = No
| verbtense = y
| verbaspect = m
| verbmood = m
| verbvoice = n
| verbsubject = n
| verbobject = n
| verbnumber = n
| verbevidence = n
| verbvalency = n
| markingposs = {{w|Dependent-marking language|Dependent-marking}}
| markingadj = {{w|Dependent-marking language|Dependent-marking}}
| markingverb = {{w|Zero-marking language|Zero-marking}}
| wordorder = {{w|Subject-verb-object}}
| otherorders = {{w|Verb-subject-object}} (in {{w|subordinate clauses}})
| headdirection = {{w|Head-directionality parameter#Head-final languages|Head-final}} ({{w|Head-directionality parameter#Head-initial languages|Head-initial}} in verb phrases)
| alignmenttype = {{w|Nominative-accusative alignment|Nominative-Accusative}}
}}

The '''Meyāni language''' is a [[Qlerevi languages|Qlerevi language]] primarily spoken on the [[Prorinian peninsula]]. The standard dialect is primarily spoken in southern [[Meyāni]], with significant minorities of speakers existing throughout the peninsula and adjacent lands. Its closest living relative that is not disputed to be a distinct {{w|language}} (either by the {{w|Linguistic description|descriptionism}} of {{w|Academic linguistics|scholarly linguistics}}, which is the primary form of {{w|Linguistic study|linguistic study}} used in this article, or {{w|linguistic prescription}}, which is promoted by [[Meyāni#Education|Meyāni's educational system]]) is the [[Bandit language]], which is spoken primarily in the northern and northwestern<ref>Due to Levarianqueva's retrograde rotation, east and west are swapped on maps.</ref> areas of the [[Great Prorinian Steppes (country)|Great Prorinian Steppes]]. The language is the sole {{w|official language}} of Meyāni, while it is recognized as a {{w|minority language}} in [[Yaksōn]] (where it was introduced to vast swathes of the country by lower-class {{w|refugees}} fleeing the low {{w|quality of life}} generated by [[Meyāni#Corporations|the corporations in ''de facto'' charge of the Meyāni government]]); in all other Prorinian countries, the language is not recognized.

The language has had a long history spanning back thousands of years. The ultimate accepted ancestor of Meyāni, the [[Proto-Qlerevi language]], was likely spoken in an area roughly overlapping with the modern-day nation of [[Qlerebam]]. After a {{w|drought}} that contributed to much of Qlerebam being covered in vast {{w|deserts}} today, the Qlerevi peoples then {{w|migrated}} throughout Levarianqueva, settling in locations as distant from [[Vreotannia]] to [[Arozdénia]] to the Prorinian peninsula. The Qlerevi languages that ultimately arrived at the Prorinian peninsula then diversified into two distinct {{w|language families}}: the [[Central Prorinian Qlerevi languages]] (which ultimately evolved into the Meyāni language and its relatives) and the [[Northwestern Prorinian Qlerevi languages]] (which ultimately evolved into the [[Nōlīnian language]] and its relatives), displacing the local [[Pre-Yaksōnian languages]] in the process while absorbing significant influences from them, including the development of a strict {{w|V2 word order}}.

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==Classification and Dialects==

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===Position in the Qlerevi family===
Meyāni is a [[Qlerevi languages|Qlerevi language]] belonging to the [[Eastern Qlerevi languages|eastern branch]], which includes the [[Prorinian Qlerevi languages]] (which Meyāni is a part of). The eastern branch of Qlerevi languages is primarily differentiated from other Qlerevi languages in that languages in this branch underwent various {{w|sound changes}} which were absent from other Proto-Qlerevi dialects, including, but not limited to:

* [[Proto-Qlerevi language|Proto-Qlerevi]] ''*p'' {{w|lenition|lenites}} into /''*β''/ between two {{w|vowels}} (and later disappears entirely in the Prorinian Qlerevi languages); e.g. Proto-Qlerevi ''*kapōñ'' "to form" > Proto-Eastern Qlerevi ''*kaβōñ'' > Meyāni {{CustomScript|meyani|k@}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|un}}ˊ (''káune'') "to build, to create," [[Nōlīnian language|Nōlīnian]] *SCRIPT TBA* (-''kaʔǫni''-) "to form."
* Proto-Qlerevi ''*w'' becomes /''*β''/ word-finally, which later disappeared in the Prorinian Qlerevi languages (and produced a four-way distinction in {{w|vowel length}} between short, half-long, long, and overlong which eventually disappeared in all of Proto-Prorinian Qlerevi's descendants in some way or another); e.g. Proto-Qlerevi ''*eqlew'' "eternal rival" > Proto-Eastern Qlerevi ''*eqleβ'' > Meyāni {{CustomScript|meyani|y}}ˋ˙{{CustomScript|meyani|ks}}ˋ (''yáksa'') "eternal rival," Nōlīnian *SCRIPT TBA* (''eqlè''-) "rival."
* Proto-Qlerevi ''*ts'' becomes /''*θ''/ in all positions, which later shifts into /''*s''/ in Proto-Prorinian Qlerevi; e.g. Proto-Qlerevi ''*wītsen'' "to see" > Proto-Eastern-Qlerevi ''*wīθān'' > Meyāni {{CustomScript|meyani|v@}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|is@n}} (''váisân'') "to see," Nōlīnian *SCRIPT TBA* (-''wįsąn''-) "to see."
* Some of Proto-Qlerevi's consonant clusters undergo heavy {{w|consonant assimilation}} in Eastern Qlerevi languages.

Modern Meyāni's closest living relative that is not disputed as being a distinct language is the [[Bandit language]], which is natively spoken in the northern and northwestern areas of the [[Great Prorinian Steppes (country)|Great Prorinian Steppes]]. The Bandit language shares many sound changes with Meyāni, which has diverged from it approximately 3,500 years ago. These include, but are not limited to:

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===Dialects===
Besides '''Standard Meyāni''' (which is what one typically means when they say "Meyāni language"), multiple other {{w|dialects}} of the Meyāni language exist each with their own unique properties. Standard Meyāni, which is based on the dialect spoken in the capital of [[Meraqlum]], is the official language of the country of [[Meyāni]] and is the dialect that is the closest to the [[Classical Meyāni|classical language]] spoken during the [[Bandit dynasty]] and also being the main {{w|liturgical language}} of the [[Áukanism|Áukanist]] faith. The main differences between Standard Meyāni and Classical Meyāni are the {{w|Conservative and innovative language|innovation}} of a separate {{w|optative mood}} in Standard Meyāni, the pronounciation of Standard Meyāni <v> as /w/ in Classical Meyāni, and the Classical Meyāni sequence /xl/ shifting in pronounciation to /q͡ʟ/ in standard Meyāni.

Some of the major dialect groups listed below. However, some of these dialects are dwindling in speakers as the standard dialect gains prominence ever since the establishment of a standardized [[Meyāni#Education|education system]]. Some quote-on-quote "dialects" that are more closely related to the Nōlīnian language than Standard Meyāni are excluded from the list.

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====Eastern Dialect Group====
The '''Eastern Dialect Group''' refers to a collection of Meyāni dialects that were spoken close to the border of [[Yaksōn]] and inside of the extreme eastern regions of the aforementioned country prior to massive standardization. Nowadays, dialects in this group are primarily spoken in the northeastern portions of Meyāni. These dialects are directly descended from early forms of the classical language and are closely related to the standard language; however, the Eastern Dialect Group has significant influences and {{w|loanwords}} from the [[Yaksōnian language]] due to centuries of contact which causes dialects in the Eastern Dialect Group to sound similar to Yaksōnian, so some speakers were mistakenly sent to {{w|concentration camps}} by the Nerấyavi regime on the basis that they were members of an "inferior race" despite not speaking Yaksōnian at all. These dialects are primarily written in both the [[Yaksōnian script]], which is an {{w|abugida}}, and the [[Meyāni script]], a partial {{w|abjad}}.

The main differences between the dialects in this group (with the Fidurin dialect given as an example, as it has most of the changes) and Standard Meyāni include:

'''Phonological differences:'''
* Standard Meyāni and Classical Meyāni non-{{w|Gemination|geminated}} <t> have turned into /r/ between {{w|vowels}} in dialects in the Eastern Dialect Group (compare Standard Meyāni {{CustomScript|meyani|s}}ˊ˙{{CustomScript|meyani|y}}ˋ{{CustomScript|meyani|t}}ˋ (''séyata'') "to fly" to [[Fidurin]] dialect *SCRIPT TBA* (''sáyoro'') "to fly").
* Dialects in the Eastern Dialect Group have undergone a massive {{w|vowel shift}} involving the following changes:
** Long vowels become short.
** Classical Meyāni <â> merged with <o>, then both shifted to /u/ (compare Standard Meyāni {{CustomScript|meyani|x@}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|by}}ˋ (''šấbya'') "good" to Fidurin dialect *SCRIPT TBA* (''šúppo'') "good").
** Former <nowiki></nowiki> became /y/ and later became /i/ (compare Standard Meyāni {{CustomScript|meyani|n}}ˋ{{CustomScript|meyani|gu}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|rt}}ˎ{{CustomScript|meyani|s}} (''nagúrtos'') "elephant" to Fidurin dialect *SCRIPT TBA* (''nokíttus'') "elephant").
** Former <nowiki></nowiki> became /e/ (compare Standard Meyāni {{CustomScript|meyani|i}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|n}}ˊ{{CustomScript|meyani|hiv}}ˋ (''ínehiva'') "instead of" to Fidurin dialect *SCRIPT TBA* (''énakewo'') "instead of")
** Former <e> became /ɐ̞/ (compare Standard Meyāni {{CustomScript|meyani|h}}ˊ{{CustomScript|meyani|xi}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|n}} (''hešín'') "to hear" to Fidurin dialect *SCRIPT TBA* (''kašén'') "to hear")
** Former <a> became /o/ (compare Standard Meyāni {{CustomScript|meyani|y}}ˋ˙{{CustomScript|meyani|x}}ˋ (''yáša'') "to think" to Fidurin dialect *SCRIPT TBA* (''yóšo'') "to decide")
** The diphthongs <ai>, <au>, and <eu> in Classical Meyāni have turned into monopthongs /e/, /o/, and /u/ respectively (compare Standard Meyāni {{CustomScript|meyani|y}}ˋ{{CustomScript|meyani|c}}ˋ{{CustomScript|meyani|ss@}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|i}} (''yačassái'') "bright," {{CustomScript|meyani|y}}ˋ{{CustomScript|meyani|v@}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|unk}}ˋ (''yaváunka'') "on the subject of," and {{CustomScript|meyani|l}}ˎ{{CustomScript|meyani|sti}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|u}} (''lostéu'') "to lose" to Fidurin dialect *SCRIPT TBA* (''yočossé'') "hot," *SCRIPT TBA* (''yowókko'') "on the subject of," and *SCRIPT TBA* (''lussú'') "to lose").
** The above changes have caused stress to be phonemic in these dialects.
* All consonant clusters from Classical Meyāni are heavily simplified in dialects in this group, simplifying into geminated consonants. Initial <lw-> becomes <w-> in these dialects.
* Most dialects in this group (including the Fidurin dialect) merge voiced obstruents with their voiceless counterparts, and allophonically turn non-geminated voiceless obstruents into voiced ones between vowels.
* Geminated consonants become short consonants at the ends of words in dialects in the Eastern Dialect Group.
* Some dialects in this group drop {{w|Stress (linguistics)|unstressed}} vowels at the ends of words. The Fidurin dialect does not have this feature, however.
* Standard Meyāni inserts the sound /x/ between two consecutive monopthongs. However, a different consonant is inserted in dialects in the Eastern Dialect Group: /k/. This is because Standard Meyāni <h> merges with /k/ in dialects in this group.

'''Grammatical differences:'''
* TBA

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====Meraqlum Dialect Group====
TBA

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====Southwestern Dialect Group====
TBA

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====Southern Dialect Group====
TBA

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====Veleonnean Vernacular Meyāni====
TBA

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==Phonology==

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===Vowels===
Modern Standard Meyāni has six {{w|vowel}} phonemes, with three being "{{w|Vowel length|long}}" and three being short. Note that "long vowels" are not pronounced longer than the short vowels in most dialects, but the long pronunciation is proscribed in school textbooks.

{| class="wikitable"
|+Meyāni vowels
!
!Front
!Back
|-
!High
|i(ː) <nowiki></nowiki>
|u(ː) <nowiki></nowiki>
|-
!Mid
|ɛ <e>
| o <o>
|-
!Low
|æ <a>
|ɑ(ː) <â>
|}

The language also has three {{w|diphthongs}} which are often categorized as "long vowels": /ai/ <ai>, /au/ <au>, and /eu/ <eu>, the latter of which is rare and only occurs in a few words.

The vowel inventory below is probably the closest approximation of the pronounciation used by native Meyāni speakers. Unlike {{w|humans}}, [[Alligatoris sapiens|gators']] {{w|soft palates}} (which are the practical equivalent of the human {{w|velum}} as gators lack it) are naturally lowered, and so do not redirect air into the {{w|mouth}}. Instead, all sounds (including all {{w|consonants}}) are {{w|Nasalization|nasalized}} (hence the tildes used all over the chart).

{| class="wikitable"
|+Actual vowel chart
! colspan="2" |
!Front
!Back
|-
! colspan="2" rowspan="2" |High
|i
|u
|-
|[ĩ(ː)]
|[ũ(ː)]
|-
! colspan="2" rowspan="2" |Mid
|e
|o
|-
|[ẽ̞]
|[õ̞]
|-
! colspan="2" rowspan="2" |Low
|a
|â
|-
|[æ̃ ~ ä̃]
|[ɐ̞̃(ː) ~ ɑ̃(ː)]
|-
! rowspan="4" |Dipthong
! rowspan="2" |e-
| rowspan="2" |
|eu
|-
|[ẽ̞ʊ̯̃]
|-
! rowspan="2" |a-
|ai
|au
|-
|[æ̃ɪ̯̃]
|[ɑ̃ʊ̯̃]
|}

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===Consonants===
Modern Standard Meyāni has nineteen phonemic consonant phonemes, with /g/ only being found in {{w|loanwords}}. In Meyāni, there are {{w|minimal pairs}} distinguished by {{w|gemination|consonant length}}. The following consonants are suitable approximations of those sounds by humans.

{| class="wikitable"
|+Meyāni consonants
! colspan="2" |
!{{w|Labial consonant|Labial}}
!{{w|Alveolar consonant|Alveolar}}
!{{w|Palatal consonant|Palatal}}
!{{w|Velar consonant|Velar}}
|-
! colspan="2" |{{w|Nasal consonant|Nasal}}
|/m/ <m>
|/n/ <n>
|/ɲ/ <ñ>
|
|-
! rowspan="2" |{{w|Stop consonant|Stop}}
!Voiceless
|/p/ <nowiki></nowiki>
|/t/ <t>
|
|/k/ <k>
|-
!Voiced
|/b/ <nowiki></nowiki>
|/d/ <d>
|
|/g/ <g>
|-
! colspan="2" |{{w|Affricate|Affricate}}
|
|
|/t͡ʃ/ <č>
|/q͡ʟ/ <ql>
|-
! rowspan="2" |{{w|Fricative}}
!Voiceless
|/f/ <f>
|/s/ <nowiki><s></nowiki>
|/ʃ/ <š>
|/x/ <h>
|-
!Voiced
|/v/ <v>
|
|
|
|-
! colspan="2" |{{w|Approximant}}
|
|/l/ <l>
|/j/ <y>
|
|-
! colspan="2" |{{w|Trill consonant|Trill}}
|
|/r/ <r>
|
|
|}

However, the consonant inventory below is the closest approximation to what native Meyāni speakers are actually saying in the human IPA, though the above inventory is intelligible to them. Unlike {{w|humans}}, gators' {{w|soft palates}} (which are the practical equivalent of the human {{w|velum}} as gators lack it) are naturally lowered, and so do not redirect air into the {{w|mouth}}. Instead, all sounds (including all {{w|consonants}}) are {{w|Nasalization|nasalized}} (hence the tildes used all over the chart).

{| class="wikitable"
|+Actual consonant chart
! colspan="2" rowspan="2" |
! colspan="2" |Labial
! colspan="2" |Alveolar
! rowspan="2" |Retroflex I [Palatal]
! colspan="2" |Palatal [Velar]
! colspan="2" |Glottal
|-
!B*
!F**
!B*
!F**
!B*
!F**
!B*
!F**
|-
! colspan="2" rowspan="2" |Nasal release
| colspan="2" |m
| colspan="2" |n
|ñ
| colspan="2" rowspan="2" |
| colspan="2" rowspan="2" |
|-
|[mˠ]
|[mʲ]
|[nˠ]
|[nʲ]
|[ɲ]
|-
! rowspan="4" |Stop
! rowspan="2" |Voiceless
| colspan="2" |p***
| colspan="2" |t***
| rowspan="2" |
| colspan="2" |k***
| colspan="2" rowspan="1" | -****
|-
|[p̃ˠ ~ p̃ʰˠ]
|[p̃ʲ ~ p̃ʰʲ]
|[t̃ˠ ~ t̃ʰˠ]
|[t̃ʲ ~ t̃ʰʲ]
|[k̃ ~ k̃ʰ]
|[k̃ʲ ~ k̃ʰʲ]
|[ʔ̃ˠ]
|[ʔ̃ʲ]
|-
! rowspan="2" |Voiced
| colspan="2" |b
| colspan="2" |d
| rowspan="2" |
| colspan="2" |g
| colspan="2" rowspan="2" |
|-
|[b̃ˠ]
|[b̃ʲ]
|[d̃ˠ]
|[d̃ʲ]
|[g̃]
|[g̃ʲ]
|-
! colspan="2" rowspan="2" |Affricate
| colspan="2" rowspan="2" |
| colspan="2" rowspan="2" |
|č
| colspan="2" |ql
| colspan="2" rowspan="2" |
|-
|[t̃͡ɕ̃]
|[k̃͡ˤʟ̃]
|[k̃͡ˤʟ̃ʲ]
|-
! rowspan="4" |Fricative
! rowspan="2" |Voiceless
| colspan="2" |f
| colspan="2" |s
|š
| colspan="2" |h
| colspan="2" rowspan="2" |
|-
|[f̃ˠ]
|[f̃ʲ]
|[s̃ˠ]
|[s̃ʲ]
|[ɕ̃]
|[x̃]
|[x̃ʲ]
|-
! rowspan="2" |Voiced
| colspan="2" |v
| colspan="2" rowspan="2" |
| rowspan="2" |
| colspan="2" rowspan="2" |
| colspan="2" rowspan="2" |
|-
|[ṽˠ]
|[ṽʲ]
|-
! colspan="2" rowspan="2" |Approximant
| colspan="2" rowspan="2" |
| colspan="2" |l
|y
| colspan="2" rowspan="2" |
| colspan="2" rowspan="2" |
|-
|[ɫ̃]
|[l̃ʲ ~ ʎ̃]
|[j̃ ~ ʝ̃]
|-
! colspan="2" rowspan="2" |Trill
| colspan="2" rowspan="2" |
| colspan="2" |r*****
| rowspan="2" |
| colspan="2" rowspan="2" |
| colspan="2" rowspan="2" |
|-
|[r̃ˠ ~ ɹ̃ˠ]
|[r̃ʲ]
|}

<nowiki>*</nowiki>, **: Most consonants can be {{w|Palatalization|palatalized}} (which is marked in the IPA by the addition of a subscript {{w|Latin script}} letter "j" [ʲ] after the symbol) before front vowels (marked with "F" above the palatalized realization). However, palatal [Retroflex I] consonants cannot undergo this process. Most linguists analyze non-palatalized consonants as velarized variations of regular consonants (which occur in all other environments, as represented by the "B" above the non-palatalized realization), similar to the broad-slender distinction found in the Terran languages {{w|Irish language|Irish}} and (according to some) {{w|Russian language|Russian}}, but this is not phonemic in the Meyāni language.

<nowiki>***:</nowiki> Voiceless plosives are highly {{w|Aspirated consonant|aspirated}} when adjacent to a stressed vowel, especially in the speech of the higher classes. This feature is thought to have been introduced during the [[Bandit dynasty]] under the influence of the [[Bandit language]], which has a phonemic distinction between aspirated and non-aspirated voiceless stops but has no voiced stops.

<nowiki>****:</nowiki> The glottal stop is not phonemic in Meyāni and only occurs word-initially. However, the presence of a non-phonemic glottal stop explains the soft glide that occurs when a front vowel occurs word-initially.

<nowiki>*****:</nowiki> <r> is usually pronounced as a trill [r̃]. Nevertheless, it could be pronounced as [ɹ̃] in {{w|Syllable coda|coda position}} if the {{w|syllable onset}} contains an alveolar or palatal consonant other than /j/.

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===Phonotactics===
Most words in Meyāni contain entirely open syllables. However, its maximum {{w|Syllable#Components|syllable structure}} is <code>#((l)C)V/(N, h)(C)CV/(C, G)(C)#</code>, where:

*"#" represents a boundary between words.
*"(l)" represents an optional /l/ that is only able to go before /v/, like in ''lvansa'', which means "sword".
*"(...)" represent optional components.
*"C" represents a consonant.
*"V" represents a vowel or diphthong.
*"G" represents a word-final consonant that undergoes {{w|gemination}}. This is optional.
*"/(N, h)(C)CV/" represents the possible phonotactical structure in syllables at the middle of a word.
*"N" represents any {{w|Nasal consonant|nasal consonant}}

Unlike the closely related [[Bandit language]], Meyāni does not allow for word-initial {{w|consonant clusters}} (other than /lv/). Loanwords with initial consonant clusters are usually dealt with by {{w|epenthesis}}, the insertion of extra vowels. Consonant clusters that consist of two consonants with the same place of articulation and manner of articulation and with the only distinction between the two consonants being different voicing are not allowed in the language; these types of clusters are typically turned into geminated consonants carrying the voicing of the last consonant in the illegal cluster prior to assimilation. Most words with final consonants end with just one consonant or geminated consonant, though it is possible for two consonants to be present. Most words that have medial consonant clusters only have just two consonants, though it is possible for three consonants to be present in these clusters as long as the first sound in the cluster is either a nasal or /x/.

Meyāni also does not allow the occurrence of {{w|vowel hiatuses}}. Therefore, the <-i> suffix used in adjectives and possessor nouns is realized as /jiː/ in words that end in vowels.

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===Prosody===
Meyāni is a strictly {{w|mora-timed language}}, with each syllable getting one {{w|mora}} (two if the vowel in the {{w|syllable nucleus}} is either a "long vowel" or a diphthong). Stress in Meyāni always falls on the first syllable with a "long vowel" or diphthong as a nucleus in a word, with stress falling instead on the first syllable if there are no "long vowels" or diphthongs in a word entirely. Suffixes cannot receive stress.

In foreign words that have not been assimilated, stress falls on the syllable where it fell in the original language. However, loanwords that have been fully assimilated often have a stress shift to match the regular stress patterns or irregular vowel shifts.

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==Orthography==
[[File:Meyani script.png|200px|right]]

The Meyāni language is written in its own script, which is descended from {{w|logographs}} used by Proto-Qlerevi speakers. The script itself has features of both an {{w|alphabet}} and an {{w|abjad}} because short vowels are not written and require optional {{w|diacritics}} to be expressed, with {{w|Linguistics|linguists}} coining the term '''alphabjad''' to classify the Meyāni script. The script is written from left-to-right and has the following letters:
{| class="wikitable"
|+
!Position
in order
!Letter
!Name
!Sound (other sounds)
|-
|1
|{{CustomScript|meyani|@}}
|''â''
|/ɑː/ (/æ/)
|-
|2
|{{CustomScript|meyani|i}}
|''i''
|/iː/ (/ɛ/)
|-
|3
|{{CustomScript|meyani|u}}
|''u''
|/uː/ (/o/)
|-
|4
|{{CustomScript|meyani|b}}
|''bâ''
|/b/
|-
|5
|{{CustomScript|meyani|c}}
|''čâ''
|/t͡ʃ/
|-
|6
|{{CustomScript|meyani|d}}
|''dâ''
|/d/
|-
|7
|{{CustomScript|meyani|f}}
|''fâ''
|/f/
|-
|8
|{{CustomScript|meyani|h}}
|''hâ''
|/x/
|-
|9
|{{CustomScript|meyani|y}}
|''yi''
|/j/
|-
|10
|{{CustomScript|meyani|k}}
|''kâ''
|/k/ (/g/)
|-
|11
|{{CustomScript|meyani|l}}
|''lâ''
|/l/
|-
|12
|{{CustomScript|meyani|m}}
|''mâ''
|/m/
|-
|13
|{{CustomScript|meyani|n}}
|''nâ''
|/n/
|-
|14
|{{CustomScript|meyani|p}}
|''pâ''
|/p/
|-
|15
|{{CustomScript|meyani|q}}
|''qlâ''
|/q͡ʟ/
|-
|16
|{{CustomScript|meyani|r}}
|''râ''
|/r/
|-
|17
|{{CustomScript|meyani|s}}
|''sâ''
|/s/
|-
|18
|{{CustomScript|meyani|t}}
|''tâ''
|/t/
|-
|19
|{{CustomScript|meyani|v}}
|''vu''
|/v/
|-
|20
|{{CustomScript|meyani|x}}
|''šâ''
|/ʃ/
|}

The sound /ɲ/ does not have its own letter in the Meyāni script, but is rather expressed as a {{w|digraph}} of the letters {{CustomScript|meyani|n}} and {{CustomScript|meyani|y}}, in that order; geminated /ɲː/ is expressed with the same characters but with the {{CustomScript|meyani|n}} doubled, while all other consonants are geminated by doubling the letter that represents it. Dipthongs are expressed with digraphs {{CustomScript|meyani|@i}}, {{CustomScript|meyani|@u}}, and {{CustomScript|meyani|iu}} for the sounds /ai/, /au/, and /eu/ respectively. When short vowels begin words, they are written with their corresponding long vowel letters (which produces a lot of near-{{w|homographs}} in the script, such as {{CustomScript|meyani|ih@}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|i}} (''ehái'') "{{w|water}}" and {{CustomScript|meyani|i}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|h@yi}} (''íhâyi'') "(reflexive pronoun)")

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===Diacritics===
TBA

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===Punctuation===
TBA

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===Numerals===
TBA

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==Grammar==
''Note: All Meyāni text in this section of this article, other than the "Parts of Speech" section below, are written in a modified form of the {{w|Latin alphabet}}, not in the actual Meyāni script.''

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===Parts of Speech===
Meyāni grammarians divide all Meyāni words into nine {{w|parts of speech}}, primarily based on the treatises of [[Ancient Venēmīan language|Ancient Venēmīan]] grammarians and adapted to fit to the Meyāni language's grammar:

* Noun ('''Meyāni''': *SCRIPT TBA* (''ñấmyuvaba'') "name-thing"): A word that represents a place, person, idea, or thing. Ancient Venēmīan grammarians did not distinguish between nouns and adjectives because they inflected similarily in their language, but the Meyāni grammarians, whose language does not have much case marking (other than the genitive case) or adjective agreement, felt like the two needed to be distinguished. Hence, the words for "noun" and "adjective" have the same initial root.
*Adjective ('''Meyāni''': *SCRIPT TBA* (''ñấmyuhupsiltos'') "name-descriptor"): A word that describes a noun, verb, or another adjective. Adjectives can be used as adverbs in Meyāni, so the two are not distinguished according to the Meyāni grammarians when adverbs are their own parts of speech in Ancient Venēmīan. Postpositions and determiners can also be used to fill the functions of adverbs in Meyāni, but the few "true adverbs" like "now" and "tomorrow" that are not already classified as adjectives, postpositions, or determiners in Meyāni are classified as adjectives by the Meyāni grammarians.

:In Meyāni, adjectives have three uses: nominal, verbal, and predicative. "Nominal" adectives are the types of adjectives that describe nouns, and they go before their nouns and receive the <-''i''> suffix. "Verbal" adjectives function like adverbs, and describe both verbs and other adjectives. "Predicative" adjectives are adjectives that go after verbs, but the usage category also includes some intransitive verbs like *SCRIPT TBA* (''šấsane'') "to be sweet", which can stand alone as a predicate without requiring an additional verb before it and requires a suffix -*SCRIPT TBA* (-''ba'') to be used as a nominal adjective and a verbal adjective.

*Determiner ('''Meyāni''': *SCRIPT TBA* (''qlávmam ra yúča-i sávo vábaqlâkera-i sai ro'') "a word in the large grouping of thinglings"): A category of words that includes both {{w|quantifiers}} and {{w|numerals}}, both of which behave similarily both morphologically and syntactically and can be used as adverbs. Ancient Venēmīan scholars did not distinguish between the Meyāni determinative and demonstrative because they all went before the noun in their language, whereas in Meyāni, determinatives go before the noun while demonstratives go after despite both behaving morphologically similar; in fact, the Meyāni word for "determinative" in general, *SCRIPT TBA* (''vábaqlâke''), is a {{w|calque}} of the Ancient Venēmīan term for "determiner," which literally means "thingling."
*Demonstrative ('''Meyāni''': *SCRIPT TBA* (''qlávmam ra bấñâneba-i sávo vábaqlâkera-i sai ro'') "a word in the small grouping of thinglings"): A category of words that includes just two words: *SCRIPT TBA* (''su'') "this/these" and *SCRIPT TBA* (''súkin'') "that/those." These words are {{w|deictic}} words that convey which nouns are being referred to in the discourse.
*Pronoun ('''Meyāni''': *SCRIPT TBA* (''ñấmyuperidon'') "name-substitute"): A word that can stand in for any noun in a sentence. This category does not include [[Meyāni language#Subordinate clauses|the relative and end-relative pronouns]] ''ra'' and ''ro'' respectively, which are both lumped into the category of conjunction instead.
*Postposition ('''Meyāni'''): *SCRIPT TBA* (''vehašehấva'') "before-position"<ref>The name is inaccurate since it is a calque of a word in Ancient Venēmīan, which has prepositions instead of postpositions.</ref>): A word used to express spatial or temporal relations with a noun, which is refered to as its object. In addition, postpositions can also be used as adverbs.
* Verb ('''Meyāni''': *SCRIPT TBA* (''qlávmam'') "word"): A word that expresses an action or a state of being. The vast majority of verbs are action verbs, while the two verbs that express a state of being in Meyāni are *SCRIPT TBA* (''rấmmau'') "am/are/is" and *SCRIPT TBA* (''túnutu'') "was/were" (which also functions as an action verb because it is also the past tense form of the verb *SCRIPT TBA* (''túno'') "to become"
*Auxiliary ('''Meyāni''': *SCRIPT TBA* (''qlávmam ra yóho ro'') "a word that helps"): A word that adds to the verb and helps it express tenses and aspects beyond just the present and past.
*Conjunction ('''Meyāni''': *SCRIPT TBA* (''sídrenos'') (a loanword from Ancient Venēmīan)): A word that connects two clauses or affects the flow of a sentence.

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===Morphology===
Meyāni is generally an {{w|analytic language}} and does not make much use of {{w|inflection}}, other than {{w|Grammatical number|number}}, {{w|possession}}, and some {{w|grammatical tenses}}.

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====Nominals====
Nominals (nouns and adjectives) do not inflect for {{w|grammatical case}} (other than the {{w|genitive case}}), but inflect for number. The language has no {{w|grammatical gender}}. Meyāni is one of the only major [[Qlerevi languages]] to lack case marking.

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===== Noun phrases=====
Meyāni is mostly {{w|Head-directionality parameter#Head-initial languages|head-initial}} in noun phrases. The default order of Meyāni noun phrases is the following:

{| class="wikitable"
|+Default order of a Meyāni noun phrase
!Position
!-2
!-1
!0
!+1
!+2
!+3
!+4
!+5
!+6
|-
!What goes in the position?
!Numerals
(Independent words)
!Adjectives
(Independent words)
!HEAD NOUN
!Plural
(Suffix)
!Genitive
(Suffix)
!Possessor's noun phrase
(Independent words)
!Relative clauses
(Independent words)
!Demonstrative pronouns
(Independent words)
!Postposition
(Independent word)
|-
!Is this position mandatory in the phrase?
!No
!No
!Yes
!No
!No
!No
!No
!No
!No
|}

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=====Number=====
There are two grammatical numbers in Meyāni: singular and plural. The singular expresses that there is exactly one of a thing, while the plural expresses that there is more than one of a thing. To indicate plural number, a suffix <-ra> is used, which was derived from a Proto-Qlerevi word meaning "many." The plural number is not used when cardinal numerals are used in the noun phrase, as in this simple phrase:

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| áčane ñéra
| five gator-SG
| "five gators"
}}

Some determiners (such as "all" or "many") that do not influence the number of their nouns in English make them singular in Meyāni instead, like numerals:

{{interlinear|indent=2
| báram ñéra
| all gator-SG
| "all gators"
}}

'''Mass nouns''' 
A mass noun is a noun which cannot be counted, and do not change between singular or plural numbers. Most mass nouns are ''singulare tantum'' (only taking the singular in all cases); however, some are ''plurare tantum'' (only taking the plural in all cases). To inflect for number, mass nouns are put into a possessive construction with a measure word or {{w|Classifier (linguistics)|classifier}} (depending on the grammar cited) being the possessee in the phrase.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| áčane áifâm yeláira-i
| five bucket-SG wine-SG-POSS
| "five glasses of wine" (literally: five buckets of wine)
}}

{{interlinear|indent=2
| áčane áifâm ehái-i
| five bucket-SG water-SG-POSS
| "five buckets of water" (literally: five buckets of water)
}}

Most abstract nouns (other than <''yáto''> "language," which also means "tongue") and most things that are very small are mass nouns in Meyāni, and require a measure word/classifier to be inflected for number.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| čáiva néčaqlo-i
| branch-SG magic-SG-POSS
| "a unit of magic" (i.e. "magic spell") (literally: branch of magic)
}}

{{interlinear|indent=2
| áukan píretes-i
| way/road-SG philosophy-SG-POSS
| "a philosophy" (literally: way/road of philosophy)
}}

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=====Possession=====
Meyāni has a {{w|genitive case}}, which is used for marking the possessor of a possessive phrase. The genitive case is marked with the suffix <-i>, which goes after the plural marker. Adjectives are also marked with the <-i> suffix, because both the genitive case and the adjectival marker are derived from a Proto-Qlerevi postposition meaning "of." Possessors go after their head nouns.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| néčaqloba-i ấnossu úne-i
| magic-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}}-ADJ snail-SG 1SG-POSS
| "my magical snail"
}}When a noun is being possessed by two other nouns in the genitive case that are separated by a coordinating conjunction, the conjunction is inflected for the genitive case as well.{{interlinear|indent=2
|kóra Sấvaren-i ča-i Reqlútton-i
|country-SG Sāvae-POSS and-POSS Reqlūndo-POSS| "Sāvae and Reqlūndo's country"
}}

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=====Adjectives=====
Like as mentioned in the previous section, Meyāni's adjectives are marked identically to the genitive case. However, adjectives are placed before their head nouns instead of after. Adjectives are not marked with the <-i> suffix when they are used alone as a predicate along with the copula.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne rấmmau '''šấbya''' .
| 1SG be.PRS good .
| "I am good."
}}

Numerals are also not marked with the <-i> suffix despite behaving like adjectives syntactically. Like numerals, determiners (like "all" and "many") do behave like adjectives syntactically.

Adjectives do not agree with their head nouns in terms of number, and stay the same form even if their head noun is plural.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| néčaqloba-i ấnossura
| magic-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}}-ADJ snail-PL
| "some/the magical snails"
}}

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======Adjective inflections======
Meyāni adjectives and adverbs inflect to mark comparison, intensity, and sufficiency. These evolved from independent words that were suffixed onto adjectives and heavily simplified. Heavily-suffixed adjectives with affixes to convey comparison, intensity, and sufficiency are a common linguistic feature across the [[Prorinian peninsula]], but they are rare across the Qlerevi family.
{| class="wikitable"
! colspan="3" |
!Marking
!Example
|-
! colspan="3" |Positive
|*none*, ''-(y)i''
|''šấbya(-i)'' "good"
|-
! rowspan="5" |Comparative
! rowspan="3" |of superiority
!neutral
|''-(a)ran''
|''šấbyaran'' "better"
|-
!affirming
|''-(a)šberan''
|''šấbyašberan'' "better, and still good"
|-
!denying
|''-(a)šñaran''
|''šấbyašñaran'' "better, but not good"
|-
! colspan="2" |of equality
| -''(a)nso''
|''šấbyanso'' "as good"
|-
! colspan="2" |of inferiority
|''-(a)rña''
|''šấbyarña'' "less good"
|-
! rowspan="2" |Superlative
! colspan="2" |of superiority
|''-(a)šhi''
|''šấbyašhi'' "best"
|-
! colspan="2" |of inferiority
|''-(a)šañ''
|''šấbyašañ'' "least good"
|-
! colspan="3" |Intensive
|''-(a)šo''
|''šấbyašo'' "very good, so good"
|-
! colspan="3" |Insufficientive
|''-(a)ñân''
|''šấbyañân'' "not good enough"

|-
! colspan="3" |Sufficientive
|''-(a)vân''
|''šấbyavân'' "good enough, too good"
|}

'''Comparatives''' 
Meyāni ajectives have five different comparative forms, which are used for comparing two or three different entities:
* The '''neutral comparative of superiority''' expresses that one noun has a greater quantity of an adjective than other nouns, but does not make any statement about the comparison.
{{Interlinear|indent=2
|Bâr rấmmau '''rấvvibaran''' ra áudda íhâyi-i ro .
|3SG be.PRS be.fast-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}}-{{gcl|COMP.N.SUP|neutral comparative of superiority}} {{gcl|REL|relative pronoun}} brother-SG {{gcl|R|reflexive pronoun}}-POSS {{gcl|END.REL|end-relative pronoun}} .
|"He/she is faster than his/her brother."
}}
* The '''affirming comparative of superiority''' expresses that one noun has a greater quantity of an adjective than other nouns, but affirms the comparison.
{{Interlinear|indent=2
|Bâr rấmmau '''rấvvibašberan''' ra áudda íhâyi-i ro .
|3SG be.PRS be.fast-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}}-{{gcl|COMP.A.SUP|affirming comparative of superiority}} {{gcl|REL|relative pronoun}} brother-SG {{gcl|R|reflexive pronoun}}-POSS {{gcl|END.REL|end-relative pronoun}} .
|"He/she is faster than his/her brother, and also fast."
}}
* The '''denying comparative of superiority''' expresses that one noun has a greater quantity of an adjective than other nouns, but denies the fact that the noun with a greater quantity of said adjective has that trait.
{{Interlinear|indent=2
|Bâr rấmmau '''rấvvibašñaran''' ra áudda íhâyi-i ro .
|3SG be.PRS be.fast-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}}-{{gcl|COMP.D.SUP|denying comparative of superiority}} {{gcl|REL|relative pronoun}} brother-SG {{gcl|R|reflexive pronoun}}-POSS {{gcl|END.REL|end-relative pronoun}} .
|"He/she is faster than his/her brother, but he is not fast.", "While he/she is faster than his/her brother, he/she is not fast."
}}
* The '''comparative of equality''' expresses that one noun does not have a greater or lesser quantity of an adjective than other nouns.
{{Interlinear|indent=2
|Kấraše rấmmau '''ahháumbanso''' ra áudda íhâyi-i ro .
|Kấraše be.PRS care-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}}-{{gcl|COMP.E|comparative of equality}} {{gcl|REL|relative pronoun}} brother-SG {{gcl|R|reflexive pronoun}}-POSS {{gcl|END.REL|end-relative pronoun}} .
|"Kấraše is as caring as his brother."
}}
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=====Pronouns=====

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======Personal pronouns======
Meyāni has six {{w|personal pronouns}}, with three being singular and three being plural. Personal pronouns do not change form for case or gender.

{| class="wikitable"
|+Meyāni personal pronouns
!Number →
Person
↓
!Singular
!Plural
|-
!1st person
|''úne''
|''úñra''
|-
!2nd person
|''qle'', ''qlíša''<ref><Qlíša> (the plural form) can be used as a polite form of address or to address strangers regardless of number, while <qle> (the singular form) is used among friends and family members or to insult one's superiors. A similar thing happens in [[Yaksōnian language|modern Yaksōnian]], which is a part of a pan-Prorinian linguistic ''{{w|sprachbund}}'' affecting the two languages.</ref>
|''qlíša''

|-
!3rd person
|''bâr''
|''bấrra''
|}

Meyāni is a partial {{w|pro-drop language}}, which means that subject or object personal pronouns are optional and can be dropped if the context gets rid of the need for them. This is especially seen in sentences relating to the weather or in informal conversation.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| ('''Bâr''') Šéha reñấn áčane qlísseyo sai . ('''Qlíša''') Túnutu sáudeče úne-i sai ?
| (3SG) rain-PRS FUT.AUX five qlisseo-SG in/on/at . (2PL) be.PST message-SG 1SG-POSS in/on/at ?
| "It will be raining in five ''qlisseo''<ref>A [[Levarianqueva|Levarianquevan]] unit of time roughly equivalent to 1.7933 hours in {{w|Time#Measurement|Terran time}}</ref>. Did you get my message?"
}}

Note that the above sentences lack subject pronouns, as they can be inferred from context.

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======Reflexive pronouns======
Meyāni has a single simple reflexive pronoun: <''íhâyi''>. This pronoun can be used for all persons and numbers when any noun in the predicate is the same as the subject.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne ámu '''íhâyi''' .
| 1SG love-PRS {{gcl|R|reflexive pronoun}} .
| "I love myself."
}}

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Ke ámu qle/qlíša '''íhâyi''' ?
| Q love-PRS 2SG/2PL {{gcl|R|reflexive pronoun}} ?
| "Do you love yourself?"
}}

When the possessor of the direct object, indirect object, or any noun in a postpositional phrase is the same as the subject, the reflexive pronoun is used as the possessor in the possessive phrase. This is similar to certain Terran languages like {{w|Russian language|Russian}} and (to a lesser extent) {{w|Latin}}.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Bâr ámu sấku '''íhâyi-i''' .
| 3SG love-PRS wife-SG {{gcl|R|reflexive pronoun}}-POSS .
| "He loves his own wife."
}}

Contrast the above sentence with the following sentence, where the possessor of the sentence's direct object is not the same as its subject:

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Bâr ámu sấku '''bấr-i''' .
| 3SG love-PRS wife-SG 3SG-POSS .
| "He loves someone else's wife."
}}

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======Indefinite pronouns======
Unlike certain colloquial forms of English, which use the second person personal pronoun to express an indefinite pronoun "one", Meyāni uses the third person singular personal pronoun for this purpose instead.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| '''Bâr''' ña ấhano bávva ra sáubune Eqlíssalos ra áqlo oñqlấmmuba-i šohčúqlau ro šấne ro .
| 3SG NEG coerce AUX.DEO {{gcl|REL|relative pronoun}} change-PRS Eqléssalos {{gcl|REL|relative pronoun}} start-PRS to.be.violent-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}}-ADJ protest-SG {{gcl|END.REL|end-relative pronoun}} up/after {{gcl|END.REL|end-relative pronoun}} .
| "One cannot force the Eqléssalos to reform by starting a violent protest."
| c1 = (A quote from Rírin-i Roqlínau, who famously advocated for a reformation of the [[Eqléssalos of Mages]] in order to reduce corruption within the magical institution and turn it into a bulwark against corporate influence.)
}}

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======Demonstrative pronouns======
Meyāni has two basic {{w|demonstrative pronouns}}: <''su''> "this" and <''súkin''> "that." Demonstrative pronouns behave like numerals morphologically, not agreeing in number with the nouns they modify and not taking the <-i> suffix that is taken by adjectives when in a noun phrase. However, they go after their head noun instead of before.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| šấbya-i ñéra '''súkin'''
| good-ADJ gator-SG that
| "that good gator"
}}

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======Interrogative pronouns======
Proto-Qlerevi had one simple interrogative pronoun (which was the ancestor of Meyāni <''vu''> "what, which"). However, new interrogative pronouns evolved in Meyāni (as well as in almost every other Qlerevi language) from combinations of this simple root with a series of postpositions. The resulting combinations then gradually simplified over time due to common usage.

{| class="wikitable"
|+Meyāni interrogative pronouns
!Meyāni word (source)
!English translation
|-
|''vu''
|"what," "which," "who/whom"

|-
|''vúši'' (< ''vu sai'' "in/on/at what")
|"where"
|-
|''vútu'' (< ''vu tau'' "from what")
|"whence"
|-
|''vúbña'' (< ''vu báne'' "towards what")
|"whither"
|-
|''váiba'' (< ''vu yáiba'' "during what")
|"when"

|-
|''vúra'' (< ''vu sára'' "by what means")
|"how"
|-
|''vúsa'' (< ''vu sa'' "for what")
|"why"
|}

The base interrogative pronoun can behave like numerals when used as adjectives, as shown in the following interrogative sentence:

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Ke yáira úne '''vu''' ñéra ?
| Q like-PRS 1SG what gator-SG ?
| "What/which gator do I like?"
}}

=====Articles=====
Meyāni does not have articles, so <''šấbya-i ñéra''> could either mean "a good gator" or "the good gator" depending on context.

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====Verbs====
Meyāni's verb system is generally analytic; the verb system relies on {{w|auxiliary verbs}} to express tense, aspect, or modal information outside of what the verbs themselves can express alone.

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=====Tense=====
Meyāni verbs inflect for just two tenses: {{w|past}} and {{w|Nonpast tense|non-past}}, which expresses events that happened in the past and events that did not happen in the past respectively. The non-past tense (which is often called simply the "{{w|present tense}}" and glossed in this article as such) is considered to be the default form of the verb and is listed in dictionaries alongside the past form in entries for irregular verbs. Most verbs indicate the past tense by the addition of a suffix <-tu>, which is derived from a verb meaning "to become." However, some verbs undergo {{w|suppletion}} between the non-past and past tenses (e.g. non-past <''rấmmau''> "am/are/is" → past <''túnutu''> "was/were" (which also means "became"); non-past <''íhu''> "go/goes" → past <''sáista''> "went").

However, some verbs indicate the past tense by changing the last vowel in the root in addition to using the <-tu> suffix (e.g. non-past <''ấnnaiha''> "receive/receives" → past <''ấnnaihâtu''> "received"; <''túno''> "become/becomes" → <''túnutu''> "became" (which also means "was/were")), which is ultimately caused by a final ''*w'' in the Proto-Qlerevi form. Some verbs indicate the past tense by means of a suffix <-ču> instead of the regular <-tu> (e.g. non-past <''yába''> "give up/gives up, surrender/surrenders" → past <''yábaču''> "gave up, surrendered"; non-past <''lvábba''> "fight/fights" → past <''lvábbaču''> "fought"); this also has an etymological origin, this time that of a final ''*y'' in the Proto-Qlerevi form instead of a ''*w''.

The {{w|future tense}} is formed by the addition of the verb <''reñấn''> "to want" after the non-past form of the verb. Unlike the [[Nōlīnian language]], Meyāni does not distinguish between any subdivisions of these three basic tenses and relies on adverbs or adverbial phrases to express these more concrete subdivisions instead.

The different tenses can be illustrated with the following three sentences:

{{interlinear|indent=2
|Úñra '''lvábba''' kídobâlo .
| 1PL fight-PRS corruption-SG .
| "We are fighting corruption."}}

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úñra '''lvábbaču''' kídobâlo .
| 1PL fight-PST corruption-SG .
| "We were fighting corruption."}}

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úñra '''lvábba''' '''reñấn''' kídobâlo .
| 1PL fight-PRS AUX.FUT corruption-SG .
| "We will be fighting corruption."}}

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=====Aspect=====
Meyāni distinguishes between just two {{w|grammatical aspects}}: the {{w|imperfective aspect}} and the {{w|perfective aspect}}. The imperfective is considered to be the default form of a verb; the perfective is expressed by turning the dictionary form of the verb into an adjective and adding the appropriate form of the verb <''rấmmau''> "to be" after the main verb.

'''Uses for the imperfective aspect''' 
The imperfective aspect's main usage is to express that an action is ongoing or is habitual. In the present tense, it expresses that the action stated by the verb is ongoing.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úñra '''lvábba''' tấbanra íhâyi-i , ča qlíša ña váhho óban . Yo váhho rấsâm rấnlaksara qlíša-i sai !
| 1PL fight-PRS enemy-PL {{gcl|R|reflexive pronoun}}-POSS , and 2PL NEG now party . IMP now get.back-PRS formation/line-PL 2PL-POSS in/on/at !
| "We are fighting our enemies, not partying. Get back in your formations immediately!"
}}

In the above sentences, the verb phrase with the main verb <''lvábba''> "to fight" is in the imperfective aspect in the present tense, expressing that the act of fighting enemies is an ongoing process.

In the past tense, the imperfective aspect expresses that an action was ongoing in the past but has been stopped in some way, either by being completed or by being interrupted.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne '''ấščâlârtu''' eredấnos Partấbala Meraqlúm-i sai .
| 1SG study-PST math-SG university-SG Meraqlum-POSS in/on/at .
| "I was study/used to study mathematics at the University of Meraqlum."
}}

In the above sentence, the verb phrase with the main verb <''ấščâlâr''> "studied" is in the imperfective aspect, expressing that the act of studying mathematics at a university was ongoing, but is not ongoing anymore in the present.

In the future tense, the imperfective aspect expresses that an action will be ongoing in the future.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úñra '''básso''' '''reñấn''' áiñeye .
| 1PL join-PRS AUX.FUT army-SG .
| "We will join the army."
}}

In the above sentence, the verb phrase with the main verb <''básso''> "to join" is in the imperfective, expressing that the act of joining the army is something that is going to happen.

Meyāni lacks a {{w|Progressive aspect|progressive}} aspect and a {{w|Habitual aspect|habitual}} aspect. The imperfective aspect is used instead to convey the roles expressed by the progressive and habitual aspects on their own.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne šíra .
| 1SG work-PRS .
| "I work/am working/habitually work."
}}

'''Uses for the perfective aspect''' 
The perfective aspect is primarily used to emphasize that an action has been completed. In the past tense, it is used to show that the action stated by the verb has been completed, with emphasis on the action being completed.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne '''róčaba''' '''túnutu''' yeláira áifâm-i .
| 1SG eat-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}} AUX.PFV.PST wine-SG bucket-SG-POSS .
| "I drank a glass of wine."
}}

In the above sentence, the verb phrase with the main verb <''róča''> "to eat/drink" is in the perfective aspect, expressing that the action of drinking wine has been completed, with emphasis on completion.

In the future tense, the perfective aspect is used to express that an action will be completed in the future.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne '''čétalataba''' '''rấmmau''' '''reñấn''' čétala .
| 1SG read-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}} AUX.PFV.PRS AUX.FUT book .
| "I will finish reading a book."
}}

In the above sentence, the verb phrase with the main verb <''čétalata''> "to read" is in the perfective aspect, expressing that an action will be completed in the future.

In the present tense, using the perfective aspect is ungrammatical in most formal varieties. However, some colloquial dialects use present tense and perfective aspect to express that an action will be completed soon or has been completed recently.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne '''čétalataba''' '''rấmmau''' čétala .
| 1SG read-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}} AUX.PFV.PRS book .
| "I will finish reading a book soon/I have finished reading a book recently."
}}

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=====Mood=====
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=====Voice=====
Standard Meyāni does not have any distinctions between the active and passive voices, which was already lost by the time of Early Classical Meyāni along with the entire case system. Therefore, the sentences "An elephant is chasing me" and "I am being chased by an elephant" are expressed by the same sentence:

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Nagúrtos ấñimqlo úne .| elephant-SG chase-PRS 1SG .
| "An/the elephant is chasing me./I am being chased by a/the elephant."
}}However, recent studies have found that younger Meyāni speakers have started to reinterpret {{w|cleft sentences}}, a very common construction which is primarily used to de-emphasize the subject in the Meyāni language, as a passive construction, and to use the aforementioned cleft sentences as such. This is likely due to influence from [[Meyāni language#Veleonnean Vernacular Meyāni|Veleonnean Vernacular Meyāni]], which does use cleft sentences as a construction that is used for the passive. Therefore, it is likely that the active-passive distinction might become standard in Meyāni in the near-future.

Therefore, the above Meyāni sentence may look like the below in the passive:{{interlinear|indent=2
| Bâr rấmmau nagúrtos ra bâv ấñimqlo úne ro .| 3SG be-PST elephant-SG {{gcl|REL|relative pronoun}} SJV chase-PRS 1SG {{gcl|END.REL|end-relative pronoun}} .
| "It is an elephant that is chasing me./I am being chased by an elephant."
}}

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===Syntax===

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==== Word order====
Standard Meyāni generally has a default word order of {{w|Subject-verb-object word order|subject-verb-object}} (SVO), as in English.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne rấmmau ñéra .
| 1SG be.PRS gator-SG .
| "I am a gator."
}}

However, this becomes {{w|Verb-subject-object word order|verb-subject-object}} (VSO) in {{w|subordinate clauses}}.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| ... ra ña rấmmau bâr ñéra ro .
| ... {{gcl|REL|relative pronoun}} NEG be.PRS 3SG gator-SG {{gcl|END.REL|end-relative pronoun}} .
| "... that he/she/it is not a gator."
}}

As said in the section on nominals, Meyāni's {{w|adjectives}} proceed the nouns they modify and {{w|Possession (linguistics)|possessors}} succeed their possessed nouns. Adverbs and adverbial phrases also proceed the parts of speech they modify and {{w|Numeral (linguistics)|numerals}} behave like adjectives in overall syntax.

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====Prepositional phrases and animacy====
In Meyāni, prepositional phrases (or postpositional phrases, as there are postpositions instead of prepositions) have an {{w|animacy}}-based {{w|Implicational hierarchy|hierarchy}} dependent on their objects which dictates the position of the postpositional phrase in relation to the direct object or intransitive verb of the sentence. Postpositional phrases with more animate objects tend to come closer to the direct object (or the verb, in sentences that lack a direct object) than postpositional phrases with more inanimate objects. In this example, the first and last postpositional phrases in the sentence are '''bolded'''.

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| Úne vehíčasaba túnutu '''ačấmra''' '''ahhaumba-i''' '''oksara-i''' '''lấčai''' nenáum ra rấmmau yánohe Meraqlúm-i sai ro sai '''ku-yáñña''' '''ča''' '''ku-áčane''' '''yáñña''' '''hấssâya-i''' '''yehấrum''' '''ra''' '''túnutu''' '''Bemumšo''' '''šấne''' '''ro''' '''sai''' .| 1SG hatch-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}} PFV.AUX.PST hand-PL care-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}}-ADJ parent-PL-POSS into carcass {{gcl|REL|relative pronoun}} be.PRS city.center-SG Meraqlum-SG-POSS in/on/at {{gcl|END.REL|end-relative pronoun}} in/on/at {{gcl|ORD|ordinal numeral}}-four and {{gcl|ORD|ordinal numeral}}-five four two.hundred.fifty.six-ADJ year {{gcl|REL|relative pronoun}} be.PST drought-{{gcl|INTS|intensifier}}-SG up/after {{gcl|END.REL|end-relative pronoun}} in/on/at .| "I was hatched into the hands of caring parents at a carcass in Meraqlum's city center in the 2,308th year AC (After the Collapse)."
| c1 = (An excerpt from ''An Autobiography of the Rebel-Mage'' by [[Rírin-i Roqlínau]])
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The sentence is grammatical because, in the Meyāni animacy hierarchy, "year" is less animate than "carcass," which is in turn less animate than "hands." However, Meyāni does not apply this animacy hierarchy to the subject, direct object, or adjectival predicates of a sentence like in [[Proto-Qlerevi language|Proto-Qlerevi]].

Meyāni maintains most of the Proto-Qlerevi animacy classes, but some have been merged into other classes; most notably, the inanimate and abstract classes of Proto-Qlerevi have merged into a single inanimate class and the megalozoic and microzoic classes have merged into a single biotic class in Meyāni. Also, the egordian and tuordian classes of Proto-Qlerevi have merged into a single "altordian" class in Meyāni, leaving only five animacy classes compared to the eight that Proto-Qlerevi has. Proto-Qlerevi itself is evidenced to have undergone a similar reduction in the amount of distinguished classes in its history, with earlier versions likely having massive {{w|noun class}} systems similar to Terran {{w|Bantu languages}} like {{w|Swahili language|Swahili}}.

The following five classes are distinguished in Meyāni:

{| class="wikitable"
|+Meyāni animacy hierarchy
!Rank
!Class name
!What falls into this class?

|-
!I
|Altordian
|first-person and second-person personal pronouns

|-
!II
|Masculine
|third-person personal pronouns and other pronouns, deities, and male gators
|-
!III
|Juvenofeminine
|primarily female gators and hatchlings, but also weather events, body parts, and {{w|extraterrestrial life}}
|-
!IV
|Biotic
|animals, plants, and other biological things
|-
!V
|Inanimate
|stationary non-biological things, landscape features, astronomical bodies, [[Magic (AWiEC)|magic]]-related concepts, and abstract concepts
|}

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====Interrogative and negative sentences====
In an {{w|interrogative sentence}} in Meyāni, the interrogative auxiliary <ke> goes before other constituents of the sentence, and the verb moves to where the subject would be in a normal sentence. This is a remnant of the older {{w|V2 word order}} in Prorinian Qlerevi languages, whereby the verb phrase is always the second constituent of a clause.

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| '''Ke''' róčaba túnutu úne ấvvâsa tấbanra-i úne-i ?
| Q eat.{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}} PFV.AUX.PST 1SG blood-SG enemy-PL-POSS 1SG-POSS ?
| "Did I drink the blood of my enemies?"
}}

Unlike English, Meyāni does not do {{w|wh-movement}} and does not have {{w|do-support}} in both questions and negative constructions.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Ke vóraba túnutu úne '''vu''' ra róča ấvvâsa tấbanra-i úne-i ro ?
| Q do-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}} PFV.AUX.PST 1SG what {{gcl|REL|relative pronoun}} eat blood-SG enemy-PL-POSS 1SG-POSS {{gcl|END.REL|end-relative pronoun}} ?
| "What did I do in order to drink the blood of my enemies?"
}}

According the [[Question word-first principle]] in Qlerevi languages whereby question particles always go first in a sentence, the negative particle <ña> goes after the main verb phrase in an interrogative sentence with negative mood.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Ke róčaba túnutu '''ña''' úne ấvvâsa tấbanra-i úne-i ?
| Q eat.{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}} PFV.AUX.PST NEG 1SG blood-SG enemy-PL-POSS 1SG-POSS ?
| "Did I not drink the blood of my enemies?"
}}

In a normal sentence with a negative, however, the sentence completely reverts to the verb going between the subject and direct object, with the negative particle going before the verb.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne '''ña''' róčaba túnutu ấvvâsa tấbanra-i úne-i .
| 1SG NEG eat.{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}} PFV.AUX.PST blood-SG enemy-PL-POSS 1SG-POSS .
| "I did not drink the blood of my enemies."
}}

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===="To Have"====
Meyāni does not have a verb meaning "to have", like many Qlerevi languages. Instead, it uses the appropriate form of the verb <rấmmau> "to be", with the postposition <sai> "in/on/at" being attached to the verb's direct object.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne '''rấmmau''' ấvvâsa '''sai''' .
| 1SG be.PRS blood-SG in/on/at .
| "I have blood." (literally: "I am in blood.")
}}

In an intransitive sentence or a sentence with a direct object that has been dropped, Meyāni uses a perfective construction with the verb <''táksa''> "to catch" in the present tense to express the meaning of "to have". This is descended from the earlier meaning of the verb as "to grab." In this usage of the verb, applying the imperfective aspect is ungrammatical.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne '''táksaba''' '''túnutu''' .
| 1SG catch-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}} AUX.PFV-PST .
| "I have." (literally: "I have caught.")
}}

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====Subordinate clauses====
In Meyāni, subordinate clauses are almost completely identical in both formation and usage to subordinate clauses in Proto-Qlerevi.

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=====Formation=====
Subordinate clauses in Meyāni are typically formed by using the particles <ra> and <ro>, termed the "relative pronoun" and the "end-relative pronoun" respectively (even though they aren't really pronouns in the strictest sense: a word that can stand for other words in a sentence). As the names suggest, the relative pronoun preceeds a subordinate clause and the end-relative pronoun succeeds a subordinate clause, functioning in order to revert the sentence back to the clause before the subordinate clause began.

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=====Usage=====
TBA

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==Numeral system==
''Note: All Meyāni text in this section of this article is written in a modified form of the {{w|Latin alphabet}}, not in the actual Meyāni script.''

The Meyāni language uses a {{w|Hexadecimal|hexadecimal}} or base-16 system, even though actual written numerals are expressed using {{w|Duodecimal|dozenal}} or base-12, with sub-bases of 5 and 10, remnants of the old vigesimal system. Linguists theorize that the hexadecimal system developed when speakers of [[Qlerevi languages]], with most of their languages using a {{W|vigesimal}} or base-20 system, encountered speakers of [[Pre-Yaksōnian languages]], whose languages primarily used {{w|12 (number)|12}} as a base. When these two languages encountered each other, the pre-Yaksōnian speakers who ultimately assimilated themselves into the Qlerevi languages and culture tried to use 20 as a base but were so used to their native base-12 system that they ended up using 16 as a base as a compromise between the two systems; the Qlerevi speakers later adopted this, hence the use of 16 as a base.

Meyāni numerals by default express their {{w|Cardinal numeral|cardinal}} form. Prefixes exist which are used to express the {{w|Ordinal numeral|ordinal}} and {{w|Fraction|fractional}} form. However, all of Meyāni's multiplicative forms for numerals are borrowed from the [[Ancient Venēmīan language]] and therefore {{w|Suppletion|suppletive}}, but these are archaic; alternatively, these forms could be expressed by using {{w|Adpositional phrase|postpositional phrases}} in most modern registers.
{| class="wikitable"
|+
! colspan="4" |Number
! colspan="4" |In spoken Meyāni
|-
! colspan="3" |In {{w|Hindu-Arabic numerals}}
! rowspan="2" |In [[Prorinian mathematics#Modern numeral system|Prorinian numerals]]
(modern notation)
! rowspan="2" |Cardinal form
! rowspan="2" |Ordinal form
! rowspan="2" |Fractional form
! rowspan="2" |Multiplicative form
(archaic)
|-
!Base-10
!Base-12
!Base-16
|-
| colspan="3" |0
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|0}}
|''ñíñta''
|''ku-ñíñta''
| colspan="2" |N/A
|-
| colspan="3" |1
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|1}}
|''bač''
| rowspan="38" |TBA
| rowspan="38" |TBA
| rowspan="38" |TBA
|-
| colspan="3" |2
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|2}}
|''šóten''
|-
| colspan="3" |3
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|3}}
|''sádam''
|-
| colspan="3" |4
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|4}}
|''yáñña''
|-
| colspan="3" |5
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|5}}
|''áčane''
|-
| colspan="3" |6
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|6}}
|''bač ča áčane''
|-
| colspan="3" |7
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|7}}
|''šóten ča áčane''
|-
| colspan="3" |8
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|8}}
|''sádam ča áčane''
|-
| colspan="3" |9
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|9}}
|''yáñña ča áčane''
|-
|10
| colspan="2" |A
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|a}}
|''yáda''
|-
|11
| colspan="2" |B
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|b}}
|''bač ča yáda''
|-
|12
|10
|C
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|10}}
|''šóten ča yáda''
|-
|13
|11
|D
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|11}}
|''sádam ča yáda''
|-
|14
|12
|E
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|12}}
|''yáñña ča yáda''
|-
|15
|13
|F
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|13}}
|''áčane ča yáda''
|-
|16
|14
|10
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|14}}
|''rấyone''
|-
|17
|15
|11
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|15}}
|''bač ča rấyone''
|-
|21
|19
|15
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|19}}
|''áčane ča rấyone''
|-
|24
|20
|18
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|20}}
|''sádam ča áčane ča rấyone''
|-
|26
|22
|1A
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|22}}
|''yáda ča rấyone''
|-
|32
|28
|20
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|28}}
|''šóten rấyone''
|-
|36
|30
|24
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|30}}
|''yáñña ča šóten rấyone''
|-
|48
|40
|30
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|40}}
|''sádam rấyone''
|-
|60
|50
|3C
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|50}}
|''šóten ča yáda ča sádam rấyone''
|-
|64
|54
|40
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|54}}
|''yáñña rấyone''
|-
|72
|60
|48
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|60}}
|''sádam ča áčane ča yáñña rấyone''
|-
|80
|68
|50
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|68}}
|''áčane rấyone''
|-
|84
|70
|54
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|70}}
|''yáñña ča áčane rấyone''
|-
|92
|80
|60
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|80}}
|''bač áčane rấyone''
|-
|108
|90
|6C
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|90}}
|''šóten ča yáda ča bač áčane rấyone''
|-
|112
|94
|70
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|94}}
|''šóten áčane rấyone''
|-
|120
|A0
|78
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|a0}}
|''sádam ča áčane ča šóten áčane rấyone''
|-
|128
|A8
|80
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|a8}}
|''sádam áčane rấyone''
|-
|132
|B0
|84
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|b0}}
|''yáñña ča sádam áčane rấyone''
|-
|144
|100
|90
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|100}}
|''yáñña áčane rấyone''
|-
|256
|194
|100
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|194}}
|''hấssâya''
|-
|4,096
|2,454
|1,000
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|2454}}
|''emmáufiša''
|-
|65,536
|31,B14
|10,000
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|31b14}}
|''hấssâya emmáufiša''
|}

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==Vocabulary==
Around 2/3rds of all Meyāni {{w|vocabulary}} is of [[Qlerevi languages|Qlerevi]] origin. Qlerevi words in Meyāni are either directly inherited from [[Proto-Qlerevi language|Proto-Qlerevi]] or were borrowed from other Qlerevi languages. The vast majority of these terms in Meyāni are directly inherited from Proto-Qlerevi; the Qlerevi terms that were borrowed from other Qlerevi languages only account for less than 5% of all of Meyāni's vocabulary. Qlerevi-derived words encompass most of Meyāni's core vocabulary, so most of the time, no conherent sentence can be formed in Meyāni without resorting to using words of Qlerevi origin, with very rare exceptions.

Now-extinct [[pre-Yaksōnian languages]], which account for over 1/5th of all Meyāni words, are the main sources of {{w|loanwords}} within Meyāni's vocabulary. [[Ancient Venēmīan]], a {{w|prestige language}} which used to be learned by Meyāni gators of all ranks of society to connect with classical texts from the [[First Venēmīan Empire]] until it was banned by [[Meyāni#Nerấyavi's régime and the Great Prorinian War|the then-fascist-led government of Meyāni]] in 1942 AC shortly after [[Operation Yaksaháihča|the start of Meyāni's failed invasion of Yaksōn]], is the original language for the vast majority of these pre-Yaksōnian terms. Pre-Yaksōnian words in the Meyāni language are mostly terms relating to technical fields studied in the Prorinian peninsula like {{w|mathematics}}, {{w|Science|the sciences}}, {{w|music theory}}, {{w|philosophy}}, and [[Magic (AWiEC)|the art of magic]]; however, Pre-Yaksōnian words are also found in words relating to features of the Prorinian peninsula that don't exist or rarely do exist in the Qlerevi homeland, such as fauna (e.g. Meyāni *SCRIPT TBA* (''nagúrtos'') "{{w|elephant}}," with irregular o > u shift typical of assimilated loanwords), flora (e.g. Meyāni *SCRIPT TBA* (''ấččevon'') "{{w|Sequoioideae|redwood tree}}"), drinks (e.g. Meyāni *SCRIPT TBA* (''yeláira'') "{{w|wine}}"), and musical instruments (e.g. Meyāni *SCRIPT TBA* (''erínis'') "[[Prorinian music#Bee-lute|bee-lute]];"). Pre-Yaksōnian influence may have affected the grammar of Meyāni as well as contributing to vocabulary, with the language developing a strict {{w|V2 word order}} (which later shifted into a default {{w|Subject-verb-object word order|SVO word order}}, with few traces of the old V2 system remaining in the modern language) and losing most of the Proto-Qlerevi {{w|Grammatical case|case}} system.

Another major contributor of loanwords in Meyāni is the [[Rudakami language]]. Most Rudakami loanwords in Meyāni arrived during the period of [[Rudakami trade colonies|Rudakami merchants colonizing large areas of land on or near the Prorinian peninsula's coastline for trade with the local pre-Yaksōnian speakers]], which lasted from around 1800 BC until around 800 BC; these loanwords are typically related to concepts such as {{w|economics}}. However, during the period of [[Meyāni#Rudakami conquest and rule|Rudakami rule over Meyāni from 1632 AC until 1794 AC]], more Rudakami loanwords entered the language, mostly terms relating to {{w|government}}, the {{w|legal system}}, and {{w|feudalism}}. After Meyāni regained its independence from Rudakami control, there was widespread {{w|linguistic purism}} in Meyāni which aimed to purge all traces of Rudakami words within the language's vocabulary, which succeeded in removing a sizeable portion of Rudakami borrowings in the Meyāni lexicon but did not succeed in removing all of them. Today, Rudakami words account for around 1/10th of the Meyāni language's vocabulary.

===Derivation===
Meyāni makes heavy usage of {{w|agglutination}} and {{w|Compound (linguistics)|compounding}} to form new words. For example, the word *SCRIPT TBA* (''qlavmamčấčâlu'') translates to "{{w|syntax}}" in English and can be broken up into the following:

{{Interlinear|indent=2|top = qlavmamčấčâlu
|qlavmam-čâčâ-lu
|word-{{gcl|COL|collective}}-study.of
|"syntax" (literally: the study of a group of words)
}}

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== Example text==
TBA

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==Footnotes==
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{{Infobox language
| name = T'hebhaú Raúl
| familycolor = Indo-European
| region = {{w|France|T'hebhaú}}
| pronunciation = /θeˈbʰɔ̃ ɰɔ̃ɮ̃/
| fam1 = {{w|Indo-European languages|Lraúl doŷraúbhê}}
| fam2 = {{w|Italic languages|Lraúl it'haý'ic'hâ}}
| fam3 = {{w|Romance languages|Lraúl raúvâsâ}}
| iso1 = th
| iso2 = thr
| iso3 = thr
| ld1 = Raúl Áheb’hèc’h
| lc1 = thr-nor
| fam4 = {{w|Gallo-Romance languages|Lraúl ráý'au-raúvâsâ}}
| fam5 = {{w|Langues d'oïl|Á-« oïl » lraúl}}
| fam6 = {{w|French language|Sýd'hau-T'hebhaú Raúl}}
| script = {{w|Latin alphabet|Lat'hé}}
| speakers = ~ 65 víwaú (L1) 
~ 9 víwaú (L2) 
~ 75 víwaú (au L1 au L2) 
}}

'''T'hebhaú Raúl''' ({{W|English language|Dwáraúl âłê}}: ULTRAFRENCH), T'hebhaú Raúl a sráhúrsír lybhárdyt’há '''Báłraúl''', sejú {{w|Romance languages|raúl raúvâsâ}} {{W|Conservative and innovative language|ledúrnâ}} {{w|Indo-European languages|dwáfávíy’ ledoŷraúbhê}}. Láraúl {{W|France|Dwát'hebhaú}} syáł révy’évâ, au vé {{W|Switzerland|Dwásy'ís}} au {{W|Belgium|Dwábeljic'h}} syáł. Láraúl adéraúl raúvâsâ slefávŷ c'haúr sès au {{W|Phonology|sb'haúnaúý'auje}} ledúrnâ au {{W|Grammar|srávér}} ledúrnâ; dýd'hib'hérâs lyéréâr {{W|French language|Dwásýd'hau-T'hebhaú Raúl}} auhit’hâ.

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{{Infobox language
| name = T'hebhaú Raúl
| familycolor = Indo-European
| region = {{w|France|T'hebhaú}}
| pronunciation = /θeˈbʰɔ̃ ɰɔ̃ɮ̃/
| fam1 = {{w|Indo-European languages|Lraúl doŷróbhê}}
| fam2 = {{w|Italic languages|Lraúl it'haý'ic'hâ}}
| fam3 = {{w|Romance languages|Lraúl raúvâsâ}}
| iso1 = th
| iso2 = thr
| iso3 = thr
| ld1 = Raúl Áheb’hèc’h
| lc1 = thr-nor
| fam4 = {{w|Gallo-Romance languages|Lraúl ráý'o-raúvâsâ}}
| fam5 = {{w|Langues d'oïl|Á-« oïl » lraúl}}
| fam6 = {{w|French language|Sýd'hau-T'hebhaú Raúl}}
| script = {{w|Latin alphabet|Lat'hé}}
| speakers = ~ 65 víwaú (L1) 
~ 9 víwaú (L2) 
~ 75 víwaú (au L1 au L2) 
}}

'''T'hebhaú Raúl''' ({{W|English language|Dwáraúl âłê}}: ULTRAFRENCH), T'hebhaú Raúl a sráhúrsír lybhárdyt’há '''Báłraúl''', se {{w|Romance languages|raúl raúvâsâ}} ledúrnâ {{w|Indo-European languages|dwáfávíy’ ledoŷróbhê}}. Láraúl {{W|France|Dwát'hebhaú}} syáł révy’évâ, bas au {{W|Switzerland|Dwásy'ís}} au {{W|Belgium|Dwábeljic'h}} syáłs. Láraúl TBA

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{{Infobox language
| name = T'hebhaú Raúl
| familycolor = Indo-European
| region = T'hebhaú
| pronunciation = /θeˈbʰɔ̃ ɰɔ̃ɮ̃/
| fam1 = {{w|Indo-European languages|Lraúl doŷróbhê}}
| fam2 = {{w|Italic languages|Lraúl it'haý'ic'hâ}}
| fam3 = {{w|Romance languages|Lraúl raúvâsâ}}
| iso1 = th
| iso2 = thr
| iso3 = thr
| ld1 = Raúl Áheb’hèc’h
| lc1 = thr-nor
| fam4 = {{w|Gallo-Romance languages|Lraúl ráý'o-raúvâsâ}}
| fam5 = {{w|Langues d'oïl|Á-« oïl » lraúl}}
| fam6 = {{w|French language|Sýd'hau-T'hebhaú Raúl}}
| script = {{w|Latin alphabet|Lat'hé}}
}}

'''T'hebhaú Raúl''' ({{W|English language|Dwáraúl âłê}}: ULTRAFRENCH) se {{w|Romance languages|raúl raúvâsâ}} ledúrnâ {{w|Indo-European languages|dwáfávíy’ ledoŷróbhê}}. TBA

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| LargestCity = Phoeŋix
| Capital = Agma Schwa's Secret Bungalow
| Lieutenant Governor =
| Senators = Ætérnal, ZeWei
| Representatives = *53 Velar Nasals
| population_demonym = Fwonnel
| OfficialLang = 21st Century Humorese, Ancient French, Ancient Fwonnel, Ancient Greek, Alkan, Arodjun, Atoki Maso, Basque (official language of diplomacy with the European Union), Basque-Whale Pidgin, Brexit-Geezer, Discombobulate (official lingua franca and Agma Schwa's native language), Douleur, English, Franco-Enochian (official language of worship), Gumsmaq, Goptjaam, HyperPirate, HyperFormal, Latin (both classical and ecclesiastical forms), Nashan, Navajo, Nuxalk, O'eaiā, Pacoyan, Permechikan, Phthm, Portug<s>ue</s>oose, Prins, Proto-Indo-European, Proto-Sern-Cahilan, Rabbid, ULTRAFRENCH, Santaa (the official language of diplomacy with Greenland and Mongolia), Seraphim, Shpre (all four varieties), some random Ester-Tarel languages, Snapdragon Rose, Spanish, and Xomitec
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| name = Arizoŋə
| Governor = Agma Schwa (Velar Nasal party)
| anthem = "Mogollon Rim" (in Arodjun)
| AdmittanceDate = 53 CE
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'''Arizoŋə''', officially the '''Divine Agmocratic <s>Basque Colony</s> Free and Fair Cursed Democratic Republic of Arizoŋə''', is a state in the Southwestern region of the United States, sharing the Four Corners region of the western United States with Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah. It also borders Nevada to the northwest and the Anizaukō Empire to the west and south. Arizoŋə also possesses land in the Fwonnel Peninsula and in Europe; however, these are not considered official parts of Arizoŋə. ''De facto'', Arizoŋə's capital is Phoeŋix, which is the state's largest city; however, the Divine Agmocrator '''Agma Schwa''' has since built a secret capital city inside of Phoeŋix itself nicknamed by international media sources as '''Agma Schwa's Secret Bungalow''' as access to the site is only granted to those who are especially loyal to the Divine Agmocrator and by those who have left at least 6969 messages on the Agma Schwa Discord Server.

Arizoŋə was historically inhabited by the Ancient French, who were created when the Divine Agmocrator created the Solar System (and all other dimensions of the Solar System that Laghari Portals knows of, including the recently-discovered Q dimensions) and gradually diverged into the Douleur-ites and ULTRAFRENCH over hundreds of thousands of years and started to fight with each other over the vast wastlands of Arizoŋə as the Anizaukō Empire began expanding eastwards. The Anizaukō Empire's expansion caused the formerly-warring ULTRAFRENCH and Douleur-ite tribes to summon.their creator using the ancient Franco-Enochian tongue in order to drive the invading palm trees away from their lands. Subsequently, Agma Schwa cursed the weather in the area so that the Anizaukō would not have enough water in order for them to photosynthesize to produce food, resulting in them retreating back to their homeland of California and causing Arizoŋə to be the wasteland that it is today; following this, Agma Schwa proclaimed himself as '''Divine Agmocrator.'''

Recently, on September 15th, 2024 CE, the Divine Agmocrator proclaimed the start of annual democratic elections in Arizoŋə. Votes were counted on December 28th of the same year and resulted in Agma Schwa of the Velar Nasal party winning 96.9% of the votes and ZeWei becoming one of the state's representatives to the U.S. senate. However, Ætérnal got to keep his seat in the U.S. Senate due to an earlier agreement with the Divine Agmocrator where he was given a seat in the U.S. Senate as a reward for his exceptional loyalty to Him. Despite the definitely free and fair elections, Arizoŋə is still an autocratic, heavily anti-prescriptivist theocracy under the rule of the Divine Agmocrator Agma Schwa where the only official religion recognized is worship of Agma Schwa and His son Gu Sabah as gods; all other religions and prescriptivists are heavily persecuted by the government under the pretext of "preserving order, stability, and the purity of the people of Arizoŋə" under an event some news sources refer to as the '''Arizoŋən Inquisition'''.

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Meyāni language

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{{Short description|Qlerevi language spoken in Meyāni and other regions in the Prorinian peninsula}}
{{Infobox Levarianquevan Language
| title = Meyāni
| othername = Meyānisian
| nativename = {{CustomScript|meyani|y}}̀ˋ˙{{CustomScript|meyani|t}}ˎ:{{CustomScript|meyani|n}}ˊ{{CustomScript|meyani|h@}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|n}}ˊ{{CustomScript|meyani|sir}}ˋ—{{CustomScript|meyani|i}} (''Yáto Nehấnesira-i'')
| image = Meyani distribution.png
| imagecaption = The distribution of the Standard Meyāni language in the Prorinian peninsula based on first-language speakers, overlaid by political boundaries: 
{{Color box|#7387cf}}: Standard Meyāni is spoken by a majority of gators in the area as a {{w|First language|mother tongue}}. 
{{Color box|#8EA7ff}}: Standard Meyāni is spoken by a significant minority of gators in the area as a mother tongue. 
{{Color box|#bacbff}}: Standard Meyāni is spoken by a small minority of gators in the area as a mother tongue. 
{{Color box|#ffffff}}: Standard Meyāni is primarily learned as a {{w|second language}} by gators in the area, as little-to-no first-language speakers exist. 
{{Color box|#3f48cc}}: The area is covered by a body of {{w|water}}. 
{{Color box|#000000}}: Political boundary.|imagesize=250px|pronounciation=/ˈjæ.to nɛˈxɑː.nɛ.siː.ra.jiː/
| region=[[Prorinian peninsula]]
| speakers = ~ 9 million (L1) 
~ 16 million (L2) 
~ 25 million (total)
| family = [[Qlerevi languages|Qlerevi]]
*[[Eastern Qlerevi languages|Eastern Qlerevi]]
**[[Prorinian Qlerevi languages|Prorinian Qlerevi]]
***[[Central Prorinian Qlerevi languages|Central Prorinian Qlerevi]]
****[[Steppe Qlerevi languages|Steppe Qlerevi]]
*****[[Old Meyāni language|Old Meyāni]]
******[[Classical Meyāni language|Classical Meyāni]]
*******'''Meyāni'''
| script = [[Meyāni alphabet]]<ref>The script is classified as a partial {{w|abjad}} because "{{w|short vowels}}" are not written and require optional {{w|diacritics}} to be expressed properly without relying solely on {{w|context}}; see [[Meyāni language#Orthography|the orthography section of this article]].</ref>
| direction = {{w|Directionality and orientation|Left-to-right}}
| officialin = [[Meyāni]]
| recognized = [[Yaksōn]]
| consonants = 19
| vowels = 9 (6 {{w|monophthongs}}, 3 {{w|diphthongs}}
| syllablestructure = <nowiki>#</nowiki>((l)C)V/(N, h)(C)CV/(C, G)(C)#
| prosody = {{w|Stress (linguistics)|Stress}}
| inflectiontype = {{w|Analytic language|Analytic}}
| nouncase = m
| nounnumber = y
| noundefinite = n
| noungender = n
| adjectiveagreement = No
| verbtense = y
| verbaspect = m
| verbmood = m
| verbvoice = n
| verbsubject = n
| verbobject = n
| verbnumber = n
| verbevidence = n
| verbvalency = n
| markingposs = {{w|Dependent-marking language|Dependent-marking}}
| markingadj = {{w|Dependent-marking language|Dependent-marking}}
| markingverb = {{w|Zero-marking language|Zero-marking}}
| wordorder = {{w|Subject-verb-object}}
| otherorders = {{w|Verb-subject-object}} (in {{w|subordinate clauses}})
| headdirection = {{w|Head-directionality parameter#Head-final languages|Head-final}} ({{w|Head-directionality parameter#Head-initial languages|Head-initial}} in verb phrases)
| alignmenttype = {{w|Nominative-accusative alignment|Nominative-Accusative}}
}}

The '''Meyāni language''' is a [[Qlerevi languages|Qlerevi language]] primarily spoken on the [[Prorinian peninsula]]. The standard dialect is primarily spoken in southern [[Meyāni]], with significant minorities of speakers existing throughout the peninsula and adjacent lands. Its closest living relative that is not disputed to be a distinct {{w|language}} (either by the {{w|Linguistic description|descriptionism}} of {{w|Academic linguistics|scholarly linguistics}}, which is the primary form of {{w|Linguistic study|linguistic study}} used in this article, or {{w|linguistic prescription}}, which is promoted by [[Meyāni#Education|Meyāni's educational system]]) is the [[Bandit language]], which is spoken primarily in the northern and northwestern<ref>Due to Levarianqueva's retrograde rotation, east and west are swapped on maps.</ref> areas of the [[Great Prorinian Steppes (country)|Great Prorinian Steppes]]. The language is the sole {{w|official language}} of Meyāni, while it is recognized as a {{w|minority language}} in [[Yaksōn]] (where it was introduced to vast swathes of the country by lower-class {{w|refugees}} fleeing the low {{w|quality of life}} generated by [[Meyāni#Corporations|the corporations in ''de facto'' charge of the Meyāni government]]); in all other Prorinian countries, the language is not recognized.

The language has had a long history spanning back thousands of years. The ultimate accepted ancestor of Meyāni, the [[Proto-Qlerevi language]], was likely spoken in an area roughly overlapping with the modern-day nation of [[Qlerebam]]. After a {{w|drought}} that contributed to much of Qlerebam being covered in vast {{w|deserts}} today, the Qlerevi peoples then {{w|migrated}} throughout Levarianqueva, settling in locations as distant from [[Vreotannia]] to [[Arozdénia]] to the Prorinian peninsula. The Qlerevi languages that ultimately arrived at the Prorinian peninsula then diversified into two distinct {{w|language families}}: the [[Central Prorinian Qlerevi languages]] (which ultimately evolved into the Meyāni language and its relatives) and the [[Northwestern Prorinian Qlerevi languages]] (which ultimately evolved into the [[Nōlīnian language]] and its relatives), displacing the local [[Pre-Yaksōnian languages]] in the process while absorbing significant influences from them, including the development of a strict {{w|V2 word order}}.

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==Classification and Dialects==

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===Position in the Qlerevi family===
Meyāni is a [[Qlerevi languages|Qlerevi language]] belonging to the [[Eastern Qlerevi languages|eastern branch]], which includes the [[Prorinian Qlerevi languages]] (which Meyāni is a part of). The eastern branch of Qlerevi languages is primarily differentiated from other Qlerevi languages in that languages in this branch underwent various {{w|sound changes}} which were absent from other Proto-Qlerevi dialects, including, but not limited to:

* [[Proto-Qlerevi language|Proto-Qlerevi]] ''*p'' {{w|lenition|lenites}} into /''*β''/ between two {{w|vowels}} (and later disappears entirely in the Prorinian Qlerevi languages); e.g. Proto-Qlerevi ''*kapōñ'' "to form" > Proto-Eastern Qlerevi ''*kaβōñ'' > Meyāni {{CustomScript|meyani|k@}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|un}}ˊ (''káune'') "to build, to create," [[Nōlīnian language|Nōlīnian]] *SCRIPT TBA* (-''kaʔǫni''-) "to form."
* Proto-Qlerevi ''*w'' becomes /''*β''/ word-finally, which later disappeared in the Prorinian Qlerevi languages (and produced a four-way distinction in {{w|vowel length}} between short, half-long, long, and overlong which eventually disappeared in all of Proto-Prorinian Qlerevi's descendants in some way or another); e.g. Proto-Qlerevi ''*eqlew'' "eternal rival" > Proto-Eastern Qlerevi ''*eqleβ'' > Meyāni {{CustomScript|meyani|y}}ˋ˙{{CustomScript|meyani|ks}}ˋ (''yáksa'') "eternal rival," Nōlīnian *SCRIPT TBA* (''eqlè''-) "rival."
* Proto-Qlerevi ''*ts'' becomes /''*θ''/ in all positions, which later shifts into /''*s''/ in Proto-Prorinian Qlerevi; e.g. Proto-Qlerevi ''*wītsen'' "to see" > Proto-Eastern-Qlerevi ''*wīθān'' > Meyāni {{CustomScript|meyani|v@}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|is@n}} (''váisân'') "to see," Nōlīnian *SCRIPT TBA* (-''wįsąn''-) "to see."
* Some of Proto-Qlerevi's consonant clusters undergo heavy {{w|consonant assimilation}} in Eastern Qlerevi languages.

Modern Meyāni's closest living relative that is not disputed as being a distinct language is the [[Bandit language]], which is natively spoken in the northern and northwestern areas of the [[Great Prorinian Steppes (country)|Great Prorinian Steppes]]. The Bandit language shares many sound changes with Meyāni, which has diverged from it approximately 3,500 years ago. These include, but are not limited to:

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===Dialects===
Besides '''Standard Meyāni''' (which is what one typically means when they say "Meyāni language"), multiple other {{w|dialects}} of the Meyāni language exist each with their own unique properties. Standard Meyāni, which is based on the dialect spoken in the capital of [[Meraqlum]], is the official language of the country of [[Meyāni]] and is the dialect that is the closest to the [[Classical Meyāni|classical language]] spoken during the [[Bandit dynasty]] and also being the main {{w|liturgical language}} of the [[Áukanism|Áukanist]] faith. The main differences between Standard Meyāni and Classical Meyāni are the {{w|Conservative and innovative language|innovation}} of a separate {{w|optative mood}} in Standard Meyāni, the pronounciation of Standard Meyāni <v> as /w/ in Classical Meyāni, and the Classical Meyāni sequence /xl/ shifting in pronounciation to /q͡ʟ/ in standard Meyāni.

Some of the major dialect groups listed below. However, some of these dialects are dwindling in speakers as the standard dialect gains prominence ever since the establishment of a standardized [[Meyāni#Education|education system]]. Some quote-on-quote "dialects" that are more closely related to the Nōlīnian language than Standard Meyāni are excluded from the list.

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====Eastern Dialect Group====
The '''Eastern Dialect Group''' refers to a collection of Meyāni dialects that were spoken close to the border of [[Yaksōn]] and inside of the extreme eastern regions of the aforementioned country prior to massive standardization. Nowadays, dialects in this group are primarily spoken in the northeastern portions of Meyāni. These dialects are directly descended from early forms of the classical language and are closely related to the standard language; however, the Eastern Dialect Group has significant influences and {{w|loanwords}} from the [[Yaksōnian language]] due to centuries of contact which causes dialects in the Eastern Dialect Group to sound similar to Yaksōnian, so some speakers were mistakenly sent to {{w|concentration camps}} by the Nerấyavi regime on the basis that they were members of an "inferior race" despite not speaking Yaksōnian at all. These dialects are primarily written in both the [[Yaksōnian script]], which is an {{w|abugida}}, and the [[Meyāni script]], a partial {{w|abjad}}.

The main differences between the dialects in this group (with the Fidurin dialect given as an example, as it has most of the changes) and Standard Meyāni include:

'''Phonological differences:'''
* Standard Meyāni and Classical Meyāni non-{{w|Gemination|geminated}} <t> have turned into /r/ between {{w|vowels}} in dialects in the Eastern Dialect Group (compare Standard Meyāni {{CustomScript|meyani|s}}ˊ˙{{CustomScript|meyani|y}}ˋ{{CustomScript|meyani|t}}ˋ (''séyata'') "to fly" to [[Fidurin]] dialect *SCRIPT TBA* (''sáyoro'') "to fly").
* Dialects in the Eastern Dialect Group have undergone a massive {{w|vowel shift}} involving the following changes:
** Long vowels become short.
** Classical Meyāni <â> merged with <o>, then both shifted to /u/ (compare Standard Meyāni {{CustomScript|meyani|x@}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|by}}ˋ (''šấbya'') "good" to Fidurin dialect *SCRIPT TBA* (''šúppo'') "good").
** Former <nowiki></nowiki> became /y/ and later became /i/ (compare Standard Meyāni {{CustomScript|meyani|n}}ˋ{{CustomScript|meyani|gu}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|rt}}ˎ{{CustomScript|meyani|s}} (''nagúrtos'') "elephant" to Fidurin dialect *SCRIPT TBA* (''nokíttus'') "elephant").
** Former <nowiki></nowiki> became /e/ (compare Standard Meyāni {{CustomScript|meyani|i}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|n}}ˊ{{CustomScript|meyani|hiv}}ˋ (''ínehiva'') "instead of" to Fidurin dialect *SCRIPT TBA* (''énakewo'') "instead of")
** Former <e> became /ɐ̞/ (compare Standard Meyāni {{CustomScript|meyani|h}}ˊ{{CustomScript|meyani|xi}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|n}} (''hešín'') "to hear" to Fidurin dialect *SCRIPT TBA* (''kašén'') "to hear")
** Former <a> became /o/ (compare Standard Meyāni {{CustomScript|meyani|y}}ˋ˙{{CustomScript|meyani|x}}ˋ (''yáša'') "to think" to Fidurin dialect *SCRIPT TBA* (''yóšo'') "to decide")
** The diphthongs <ai>, <au>, and <eu> in Classical Meyāni have turned into monopthongs /e/, /o/, and /u/ respectively (compare Standard Meyāni {{CustomScript|meyani|y}}ˋ{{CustomScript|meyani|c}}ˋ{{CustomScript|meyani|ss@}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|i}} (''yačassái'') "bright," {{CustomScript|meyani|y}}ˋ{{CustomScript|meyani|v@}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|unk}}ˋ (''yaváunka'') "on the subject of," and {{CustomScript|meyani|l}}ˎ{{CustomScript|meyani|sti}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|u}} (''lostéu'') "to lose" to Fidurin dialect *SCRIPT TBA* (''yočossé'') "hot," *SCRIPT TBA* (''yowókko'') "on the subject of," and *SCRIPT TBA* (''lussú'') "to lose").
** The above changes have caused stress to be phonemic in these dialects.
* All consonant clusters from Classical Meyāni are heavily simplified in dialects in this group, simplifying into geminated consonants. Initial <lw-> becomes <w-> in these dialects.
* Most dialects in this group (including the Fidurin dialect) merge voiced obstruents with their voiceless counterparts, and allophonically turn non-geminated voiceless obstruents into voiced ones between vowels.
* Geminated consonants become short consonants at the ends of words in dialects in the Eastern Dialect Group.
* Some dialects in this group drop {{w|Stress (linguistics)|unstressed}} vowels at the ends of words. The Fidurin dialect does not have this feature, however.
* Standard Meyāni inserts the sound /x/ between two consecutive monopthongs. However, a different consonant is inserted in dialects in the Eastern Dialect Group: /k/. This is because Standard Meyāni <h> merges with /k/ in dialects in this group.

'''Grammatical differences:'''
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====Meraqlum Dialect Group====
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====Southwestern Dialect Group====
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====Southern Dialect Group====
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====Veleonnean Vernacular Meyāni====
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==Phonology==

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===Vowels===
Modern Standard Meyāni has six {{w|vowel}} phonemes, with three being "{{w|Vowel length|long}}" and three being short. Note that "long vowels" are not pronounced longer than the short vowels in most dialects, but the long pronunciation is proscribed in school textbooks.

{| class="wikitable"
|+Meyāni vowels
!
!Front
!Back
|-
!High
|i(ː) <nowiki></nowiki>
|u(ː) <nowiki></nowiki>
|-
!Mid
|ɛ <e>
| o <o>
|-
!Low
|æ <a>
|ɑ(ː) <â>
|}

The language also has three {{w|diphthongs}} which are often categorized as "long vowels": /ai/ <ai>, /au/ <au>, and /eu/ <eu>, the latter of which is rare and only occurs in a few words.

The vowel inventory below is probably the closest approximation of the pronounciation used by native Meyāni speakers. Unlike {{w|humans}}, [[Alligatoris sapiens|gators']] {{w|soft palates}} (which are the practical equivalent of the human {{w|velum}} as gators lack it) are naturally lowered, and so do not redirect air into the {{w|mouth}}. Instead, all sounds (including all {{w|consonants}}) are {{w|Nasalization|nasalized}} (hence the tildes used all over the chart).

{| class="wikitable"
|+Actual vowel chart
! colspan="2" |
!Front
!Back
|-
! colspan="2" rowspan="2" |High
|i
|u
|-
|[ĩ(ː)]
|[ũ(ː)]
|-
! colspan="2" rowspan="2" |Mid
|e
|o
|-
|[ẽ̞]
|[õ̞]
|-
! colspan="2" rowspan="2" |Low
|a
|â
|-
|[æ̃ ~ ä̃]
|[ɐ̞̃(ː) ~ ɑ̃(ː)]
|-
! rowspan="4" |Dipthong
! rowspan="2" |e-
| rowspan="2" |
|eu
|-
|[ẽ̞ʊ̯̃]
|-
! rowspan="2" |a-
|ai
|au
|-
|[æ̃ɪ̯̃]
|[ɑ̃ʊ̯̃]
|}

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===Consonants===
Modern Standard Meyāni has nineteen phonemic consonant phonemes, with /g/ only being found in {{w|loanwords}}. In Meyāni, there are {{w|minimal pairs}} distinguished by {{w|gemination|consonant length}}. The following consonants are suitable approximations of those sounds by humans.

{| class="wikitable"
|+Meyāni consonants
! colspan="2" |
!{{w|Labial consonant|Labial}}
!{{w|Alveolar consonant|Alveolar}}
!{{w|Palatal consonant|Palatal}}
!{{w|Velar consonant|Velar}}
|-
! colspan="2" |{{w|Nasal consonant|Nasal}}
|/m/ <m>
|/n/ <n>
|/ɲ/ <ñ>
|
|-
! rowspan="2" |{{w|Stop consonant|Stop}}
!Voiceless
|/p/ <nowiki></nowiki>
|/t/ <t>
|
|/k/ <k>
|-
!Voiced
|/b/ <nowiki></nowiki>
|/d/ <d>
|
|/g/ <g>
|-
! colspan="2" |{{w|Affricate|Affricate}}
|
|
|/t͡ʃ/ <č>
|/q͡ʟ/ <ql>
|-
! rowspan="2" |{{w|Fricative}}
!Voiceless
|/f/ <f>
|/s/ <s><nowiki><s></nowiki>
|/ʃ/ <š>
|/x/ <h>
|-
!Voiced
|/v/ <v>
|
|
|
|-
! colspan="2" |{{w|Approximant}}
|
|/l/ <l>
|/j/ <y>
|
|-
! colspan="2" |{{w|Trill consonant|Trill}}
|
|/r/ <r>
|
|
|}

However, the consonant inventory below is the closest approximation to what native Meyāni speakers are actually saying in the human IPA, though the above inventory is intelligible to them. Unlike {{w|humans}}, gators' {{w|soft palates}} (which are the practical equivalent of the human {{w|velum}} as gators lack it) are naturally lowered, and so do not redirect air into the {{w|mouth}}. Instead, all sounds (including all {{w|consonants}}) are {{w|Nasalization|nasalized}} (hence the tildes used all over the chart).

{| class="wikitable"
|+Actual consonant chart
! colspan="2" rowspan="2" |
! colspan="2" |Labial
! colspan="2" |Alveolar
! rowspan="2" |Retroflex I [Palatal]
! colspan="2" |Palatal [Velar]
! colspan="2" |Glottal
|-
!B*
!F**
!B*
!F**
!B*
!F**
!B*
!F**
|-
! colspan="2" rowspan="2" |Nasal release
| colspan="2" |m
| colspan="2" |n
|ñ
| colspan="2" rowspan="2" |
| colspan="2" rowspan="2" |
|-
|[mˠ]
|[mʲ]
|[nˠ]
|[nʲ]
|[ɲ]
|-
! rowspan="4" |Stop
! rowspan="2" |Voiceless
| colspan="2" |p***
| colspan="2" |t***
| rowspan="2" |
| colspan="2" |k***
| colspan="2" rowspan="1" | -****
|-
|[p̃ˠ ~ p̃ʰˠ]
|[p̃ʲ ~ p̃ʰʲ]
|[t̃ˠ ~ t̃ʰˠ]
|[t̃ʲ ~ t̃ʰʲ]
|[k̃ ~ k̃ʰ]
|[k̃ʲ ~ k̃ʰʲ]
|[ʔ̃ˠ]
|[ʔ̃ʲ]
|-
! rowspan="2" |Voiced
| colspan="2" |b
| colspan="2" |d
| rowspan="2" |
| colspan="2" |g
| colspan="2" rowspan="2" |
|-
|[b̃ˠ]
|[b̃ʲ]
|[d̃ˠ]
|[d̃ʲ]
|[g̃]
|[g̃ʲ]
|-
! colspan="2" rowspan="2" |Affricate
| colspan="2" rowspan="2" |
| colspan="2" rowspan="2" |
|č
| colspan="2" |ql
| colspan="2" rowspan="2" |
|-
|[t̃͡ɕ̃]
|[k̃͡ˤʟ̃]
|[k̃͡ˤʟ̃ʲ]
|-
! rowspan="4" |Fricative
! rowspan="2" |Voiceless
| colspan="2" |f
| colspan="2" |s
|š
| colspan="2" |h
| colspan="2" rowspan="2" |
|-
|[f̃ˠ]
|[f̃ʲ]
|[s̃ˠ]
|[s̃ʲ]
|[ɕ̃]
|[x̃]
|[x̃ʲ]
|-
! rowspan="2" |Voiced
| colspan="2" |v
| colspan="2" rowspan="2" |
| rowspan="2" |
| colspan="2" rowspan="2" |
| colspan="2" rowspan="2" |
|-
|[ṽˠ]
|[ṽʲ]
|-
! colspan="2" rowspan="2" |Approximant
| colspan="2" rowspan="2" |
| colspan="2" |l
|y
| colspan="2" rowspan="2" |
| colspan="2" rowspan="2" |
|-
|[ɫ̃]
|[l̃ʲ ~ ʎ̃]
|[j̃ ~ ʝ̃]
|-
! colspan="2" rowspan="2" |Trill
| colspan="2" rowspan="2" |
| colspan="2" |r*****
| rowspan="2" |
| colspan="2" rowspan="2" |
| colspan="2" rowspan="2" |
|-
|[r̃ˠ ~ ɹ̃ˠ]
|[r̃ʲ]
|}

<nowiki>*</nowiki>, **: Most consonants can be {{w|Palatalization|palatalized}} (which is marked in the IPA by the addition of a subscript {{w|Latin script}} letter "j" [ʲ] after the symbol) before front vowels (marked with "F" above the palatalized realization). However, palatal [Retroflex I] consonants cannot undergo this process. Most linguists analyze non-palatalized consonants as velarized variations of regular consonants (which occur in all other environments, as represented by the "B" above the non-palatalized realization), similar to the broad-slender distinction found in the Terran languages {{w|Irish language|Irish}} and (according to some) {{w|Russian language|Russian}}, but this is not phonemic in the Meyāni language.

<nowiki>***:</nowiki> Voiceless plosives are highly {{w|Aspirated consonant|aspirated}} when adjacent to a stressed vowel, especially in the speech of the higher classes. This feature is thought to have been introduced during the [[Bandit dynasty]] under the influence of the [[Bandit language]], which has a phonemic distinction between aspirated and non-aspirated voiceless stops but has no voiced stops.

<nowiki>****:</nowiki> The glottal stop is not phonemic in Meyāni and only occurs word-initially. However, the presence of a non-phonemic glottal stop explains the soft glide that occurs when a front vowel occurs word-initially.

<nowiki>*****:</nowiki> <r> is usually pronounced as a trill [r̃]. Nevertheless, it could be pronounced as [ɹ̃] in {{w|Syllable coda|coda position}} if the {{w|syllable onset}} contains an alveolar or palatal consonant other than /j/.

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===Phonotactics===
Most words in Meyāni contain entirely open syllables. However, its maximum {{w|Syllable#Components|syllable structure}} is <code>#((l)C)V/(N, h)(C)CV/(C, G)(C)#</code>, where:

*"#" represents a boundary between words.
*"(l)" represents an optional /l/ that is only able to go before /v/, like in ''lvansa'', which means "sword".
*"(...)" represent optional components.
*"C" represents a consonant.
*"V" represents a vowel or diphthong.
*"G" represents a word-final consonant that undergoes {{w|gemination}}. This is optional.
*"/(N, h)(C)CV/" represents the possible phonotactical structure in syllables at the middle of a word.
*"N" represents any {{w|Nasal consonant|nasal consonant}}

Unlike the closely related [[Bandit language]], Meyāni does not allow for word-initial {{w|consonant clusters}} (other than /lv/). Loanwords with initial consonant clusters are usually dealt with by {{w|epenthesis}}, the insertion of extra vowels. Consonant clusters that consist of two consonants with the same place of articulation and manner of articulation and with the only distinction between the two consonants being different voicing are not allowed in the language; these types of clusters are typically turned into geminated consonants carrying the voicing of the last consonant in the illegal cluster prior to assimilation. Most words with final consonants end with just one consonant or geminated consonant, though it is possible for two consonants to be present. Most words that have medial consonant clusters only have just two consonants, though it is possible for three consonants to be present in these clusters as long as the first sound in the cluster is either a nasal or /x/.

Meyāni also does not allow the occurrence of {{w|vowel hiatuses}}. Therefore, the <-i> suffix used in adjectives and possessor nouns is realized as /jiː/ in words that end in vowels.

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===Prosody===
Meyāni is a strictly {{w|mora-timed language}}, with each syllable getting one {{w|mora}} (two if the vowel in the {{w|syllable nucleus}} is either a "long vowel" or a diphthong). Stress in Meyāni always falls on the first syllable with a "long vowel" or diphthong as a nucleus in a word, with stress falling instead on the first syllable if there are no "long vowels" or diphthongs in a word entirely. Suffixes cannot receive stress.

In foreign words that have not been assimilated, stress falls on the syllable where it fell in the original language. However, loanwords that have been fully assimilated often have a stress shift to match the regular stress patterns or irregular vowel shifts.

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==Orthography==
[[File:Meyani script.png|200px|right]]

The Meyāni language is written in its own script, which is descended from {{w|logographs}} used by Proto-Qlerevi speakers. The script itself has features of both an {{w|alphabet}} and an {{w|abjad}} because short vowels are not written and require optional {{w|diacritics}} to be expressed, with {{w|Linguistics|linguists}} coining the term '''alphabjad''' to classify the Meyāni script. The script is written from left-to-right and has the following letters:
{| class="wikitable"
|+
!Position
in order
!Letter
!Name
!Sound (other sounds)
|-
|1
|{{CustomScript|meyani|@}}
|''â''
|/ɑː/ (/æ/)
|-
|2
|{{CustomScript|meyani|i}}
|''i''
|/iː/ (/ɛ/)
|-
|3
|{{CustomScript|meyani|u}}
|''u''
|/uː/ (/o/)
|-
|4
|{{CustomScript|meyani|b}}
|''bâ''
|/b/
|-
|5
|{{CustomScript|meyani|c}}
|''čâ''
|/t͡ʃ/
|-
|6
|{{CustomScript|meyani|d}}
|''dâ''
|/d/
|-
|7
|{{CustomScript|meyani|f}}
|''fâ''
|/f/
|-
|8
|{{CustomScript|meyani|h}}
|''hâ''
|/x/
|-
|9
|{{CustomScript|meyani|y}}
|''yi''
|/j/
|-
|10
|{{CustomScript|meyani|k}}
|''kâ''
|/k/ (/g/)
|-
|11
|{{CustomScript|meyani|l}}
|''lâ''
|/l/
|-
|12
|{{CustomScript|meyani|m}}
|''mâ''
|/m/
|-
|13
|{{CustomScript|meyani|n}}
|''nâ''
|/n/
|-
|14
|{{CustomScript|meyani|p}}
|''pâ''
|/p/
|-
|15
|{{CustomScript|meyani|q}}
|''qlâ''
|/q͡ʟ/
|-
|16
|{{CustomScript|meyani|r}}
|''râ''
|/r/
|-
|17
|{{CustomScript|meyani|s}}
|''sâ''
|/s/
|-
|18
|{{CustomScript|meyani|t}}
|''tâ''
|/t/
|-
|19
|{{CustomScript|meyani|v}}
|''vu''
|/v/
|-
|20
|{{CustomScript|meyani|x}}
|''šâ''
|/ʃ/
|}

The sound /ɲ/ does not have its own letter in the Meyāni script, but is rather expressed as a {{w|digraph}} of the letters {{CustomScript|meyani|n}} and {{CustomScript|meyani|y}}, in that order; geminated /ɲː/ is expressed with the same characters but with the {{CustomScript|meyani|n}} doubled, while all other consonants are geminated by doubling the letter that represents it. Dipthongs are expressed with digraphs {{CustomScript|meyani|@i}}, {{CustomScript|meyani|@u}}, and {{CustomScript|meyani|iu}} for the sounds /ai/, /au/, and /eu/ respectively. When short vowels begin words, they are written with their corresponding long vowel letters (which produces a lot of near-{{w|homographs}} in the script, such as {{CustomScript|meyani|ih@}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|i}} (''ehái'') "{{w|water}}" and {{CustomScript|meyani|i}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|h@yi}} (''íhâyi'') "(reflexive pronoun)")

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===Diacritics===
TBA

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===Punctuation===
TBA

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===Numerals===
TBA

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==Grammar==
''Note: All Meyāni text in this section of this article, other than the "Parts of Speech" section below, are written in a modified form of the {{w|Latin alphabet}}, not in the actual Meyāni script.''

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===Parts of Speech===
Meyāni grammarians divide all Meyāni words into nine {{w|parts of speech}}, primarily based on the treatises of [[Ancient Venēmīan language|Ancient Venēmīan]] grammarians and adapted to fit to the Meyāni language's grammar:

* Noun ('''Meyāni''': *SCRIPT TBA* (''ñấmyuvaba'') "name-thing"): A word that represents a place, person, idea, or thing. Ancient Venēmīan grammarians did not distinguish between nouns and adjectives because they inflected similarily in their language, but the Meyāni grammarians, whose language does not have much case marking (other than the genitive case) or adjective agreement, felt like the two needed to be distinguished. Hence, the words for "noun" and "adjective" have the same initial root.
*Adjective ('''Meyāni''': *SCRIPT TBA* (''ñấmyuhupsiltos'') "name-descriptor"): A word that describes a noun, verb, or another adjective. Adjectives can be used as adverbs in Meyāni, so the two are not distinguished according to the Meyāni grammarians when adverbs are their own parts of speech in Ancient Venēmīan. Postpositions and determiners can also be used to fill the functions of adverbs in Meyāni, but the few "true adverbs" like "now" and "tomorrow" that are not already classified as adjectives, postpositions, or determiners in Meyāni are classified as adjectives by the Meyāni grammarians.

:In Meyāni, adjectives have three uses: nominal, verbal, and predicative. "Nominal" adectives are the types of adjectives that describe nouns, and they go before their nouns and receive the <-''i''> suffix. "Verbal" adjectives function like adverbs, and describe both verbs and other adjectives. "Predicative" adjectives are adjectives that go after verbs, but the usage category also includes some intransitive verbs like *SCRIPT TBA* (''šấsane'') "to be sweet", which can stand alone as a predicate without requiring an additional verb before it and requires a suffix -*SCRIPT TBA* (-''ba'') to be used as a nominal adjective and a verbal adjective.

*Determiner ('''Meyāni''': *SCRIPT TBA* (''qlávmam ra yúča-i sávo vábaqlâkera-i sai ro'') "a word in the large grouping of thinglings"): A category of words that includes both {{w|quantifiers}} and {{w|numerals}}, both of which behave similarily both morphologically and syntactically and can be used as adverbs. Ancient Venēmīan scholars did not distinguish between the Meyāni determinative and demonstrative because they all went before the noun in their language, whereas in Meyāni, determinatives go before the noun while demonstratives go after despite both behaving morphologically similar; in fact, the Meyāni word for "determinative" in general, *SCRIPT TBA* (''vábaqlâke''), is a {{w|calque}} of the Ancient Venēmīan term for "determiner," which literally means "thingling."
*Demonstrative ('''Meyāni''': *SCRIPT TBA* (''qlávmam ra bấñâneba-i sávo vábaqlâkera-i sai ro'') "a word in the small grouping of thinglings"): A category of words that includes just two words: *SCRIPT TBA* (''su'') "this/these" and *SCRIPT TBA* (''súkin'') "that/those." These words are {{w|deictic}} words that convey which nouns are being referred to in the discourse.
*Pronoun ('''Meyāni''': *SCRIPT TBA* (''ñấmyuperidon'') "name-substitute"): A word that can stand in for any noun in a sentence. This category does not include [[Meyāni language#Subordinate clauses|the relative and end-relative pronouns]] ''ra'' and ''ro'' respectively, which are both lumped into the category of conjunction instead.
*Postposition ('''Meyāni'''): *SCRIPT TBA* (''vehašehấva'') "before-position"<ref>The name is inaccurate since it is a calque of a word in Ancient Venēmīan, which has prepositions instead of postpositions.</ref>): A word used to express spatial or temporal relations with a noun, which is refered to as its object. In addition, postpositions can also be used as adverbs.
* Verb ('''Meyāni''': *SCRIPT TBA* (''qlávmam'') "word"): A word that expresses an action or a state of being. The vast majority of verbs are action verbs, while the two verbs that express a state of being in Meyāni are *SCRIPT TBA* (''rấmmau'') "am/are/is" and *SCRIPT TBA* (''túnutu'') "was/were" (which also functions as an action verb because it is also the past tense form of the verb *SCRIPT TBA* (''túno'') "to become"
*Auxiliary ('''Meyāni''': *SCRIPT TBA* (''qlávmam ra yóho ro'') "a word that helps"): A word that adds to the verb and helps it express tenses and aspects beyond just the present and past.
*Conjunction ('''Meyāni''': *SCRIPT TBA* (''sídrenos'') (a loanword from Ancient Venēmīan)): A word that connects two clauses or affects the flow of a sentence.

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===Morphology===
Meyāni is generally an {{w|analytic language}} and does not make much use of {{w|inflection}}, other than {{w|Grammatical number|number}}, {{w|possession}}, and some {{w|grammatical tenses}}.

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====Nominals====
Nominals (nouns and adjectives) do not inflect for {{w|grammatical case}} (other than the {{w|genitive case}}), but inflect for number. The language has no {{w|grammatical gender}}. Meyāni is one of the only major [[Qlerevi languages]] to lack case marking.

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===== Noun phrases=====
Meyāni is mostly {{w|Head-directionality parameter#Head-initial languages|head-initial}} in noun phrases. The default order of Meyāni noun phrases is the following:

{| class="wikitable"
|+Default order of a Meyāni noun phrase
!Position
!-2
!-1
!0
!+1
!+2
!+3
!+4
!+5
!+6
|-
!What goes in the position?
!Numerals
(Independent words)
!Adjectives
(Independent words)
!HEAD NOUN
!Plural
(Suffix)
!Genitive
(Suffix)
!Possessor's noun phrase
(Independent words)
!Relative clauses
(Independent words)
!Demonstrative pronouns
(Independent words)
!Postposition
(Independent word)
|-
!Is this position mandatory in the phrase?
!No
!No
!Yes
!No
!No
!No
!No
!No
!No
|}

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=====Number=====
There are two grammatical numbers in Meyāni: singular and plural. The singular expresses that there is exactly one of a thing, while the plural expresses that there is more than one of a thing. To indicate plural number, a suffix <-ra> is used, which was derived from a Proto-Qlerevi word meaning "many." The plural number is not used when cardinal numerals are used in the noun phrase, as in this simple phrase:

{{interlinear|indent=2
| áčane ñéra
| five gator-SG
| "five gators"
}}

Some determiners (such as "all" or "many") that do not influence the number of their nouns in English make them singular in Meyāni instead, like numerals:

{{interlinear|indent=2
| báram ñéra
| all gator-SG
| "all gators"
}}

'''Mass nouns''' 
A mass noun is a noun which cannot be counted, and do not change between singular or plural numbers. Most mass nouns are ''singulare tantum'' (only taking the singular in all cases); however, some are ''plurare tantum'' (only taking the plural in all cases). To inflect for number, mass nouns are put into a possessive construction with a measure word or {{w|Classifier (linguistics)|classifier}} (depending on the grammar cited) being the possessee in the phrase.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| áčane áifâm yeláira-i
| five bucket-SG wine-SG-POSS
| "five glasses of wine" (literally: five buckets of wine)
}}

{{interlinear|indent=2
| áčane áifâm ehái-i
| five bucket-SG water-SG-POSS
| "five buckets of water" (literally: five buckets of water)
}}

Most abstract nouns (other than <''yáto''> "language," which also means "tongue") and most things that are very small are mass nouns in Meyāni, and require a measure word/classifier to be inflected for number.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| čáiva néčaqlo-i
| branch-SG magic-SG-POSS
| "a unit of magic" (i.e. "magic spell") (literally: branch of magic)
}}

{{interlinear|indent=2
| áukan píretes-i
| way/road-SG philosophy-SG-POSS
| "a philosophy" (literally: way/road of philosophy)
}}

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=====Possession=====
Meyāni has a {{w|genitive case}}, which is used for marking the possessor of a possessive phrase. The genitive case is marked with the suffix <-i>, which goes after the plural marker. Adjectives are also marked with the <-i> suffix, because both the genitive case and the adjectival marker are derived from a Proto-Qlerevi postposition meaning "of." Possessors go after their head nouns.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| néčaqloba-i ấnossu úne-i
| magic-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}}-ADJ snail-SG 1SG-POSS
| "my magical snail"
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|kóra Sấvaren-i ča-i Reqlútton-i
|country-SG Sāvae-POSS and-POSS Reqlūndo-POSS| "Sāvae and Reqlūndo's country"
}}

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=====Adjectives=====
Like as mentioned in the previous section, Meyāni's adjectives are marked identically to the genitive case. However, adjectives are placed before their head nouns instead of after. Adjectives are not marked with the <-i> suffix when they are used alone as a predicate along with the copula.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne rấmmau '''šấbya''' .
| 1SG be.PRS good .
| "I am good."
}}

Numerals are also not marked with the <-i> suffix despite behaving like adjectives syntactically. Like numerals, determiners (like "all" and "many") do behave like adjectives syntactically.

Adjectives do not agree with their head nouns in terms of number, and stay the same form even if their head noun is plural.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| néčaqloba-i ấnossura
| magic-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}}-ADJ snail-PL
| "some/the magical snails"
}}

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======Adjective inflections======
Meyāni adjectives and adverbs inflect to mark comparison, intensity, and sufficiency. These evolved from independent words that were suffixed onto adjectives and heavily simplified. Heavily-suffixed adjectives with affixes to convey comparison, intensity, and sufficiency are a common linguistic feature across the [[Prorinian peninsula]], but they are rare across the Qlerevi family.
{| class="wikitable"
! colspan="3" |
!Marking
!Example
|-
! colspan="3" |Positive
|*none*, ''-(y)i''
|''šấbya(-i)'' "good"
|-
! rowspan="5" |Comparative
! rowspan="3" |of superiority
!neutral
|''-(a)ran''
|''šấbyaran'' "better"
|-
!affirming
|''-(a)šberan''
|''šấbyašberan'' "better, and still good"
|-
!denying
|''-(a)šñaran''
|''šấbyašñaran'' "better, but not good"
|-
! colspan="2" |of equality
| -''(a)nso''
|''šấbyanso'' "as good"
|-
! colspan="2" |of inferiority
|''-(a)rña''
|''šấbyarña'' "less good"
|-
! rowspan="2" |Superlative
! colspan="2" |of superiority
|''-(a)šhi''
|''šấbyašhi'' "best"
|-
! colspan="2" |of inferiority
|''-(a)šañ''
|''šấbyašañ'' "least good"
|-
! colspan="3" |Intensive
|''-(a)šo''
|''šấbyašo'' "very good, so good"
|-
! colspan="3" |Insufficientive
|''-(a)ñân''
|''šấbyañân'' "not good enough"

|-
! colspan="3" |Sufficientive
|''-(a)vân''
|''šấbyavân'' "good enough, too good"
|}

'''Comparatives''' 
Meyāni ajectives have five different comparative forms, which are used for comparing two or three different entities:
* The '''neutral comparative of superiority''' expresses that one noun has a greater quantity of an adjective than other nouns, but does not make any statement about the comparison.
{{Interlinear|indent=2
|Bâr rấmmau '''rấvvibaran''' ra áudda íhâyi-i ro .
|3SG be.PRS be.fast-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}}-{{gcl|COMP.N.SUP|neutral comparative of superiority}} {{gcl|REL|relative pronoun}} brother-SG {{gcl|R|reflexive pronoun}}-POSS {{gcl|END.REL|end-relative pronoun}} .
|"He/she is faster than his/her brother."
}}
* The '''affirming comparative of superiority''' expresses that one noun has a greater quantity of an adjective than other nouns, but affirms the comparison.
{{Interlinear|indent=2
|Bâr rấmmau '''rấvvibašberan''' ra áudda íhâyi-i ro .
|3SG be.PRS be.fast-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}}-{{gcl|COMP.A.SUP|affirming comparative of superiority}} {{gcl|REL|relative pronoun}} brother-SG {{gcl|R|reflexive pronoun}}-POSS {{gcl|END.REL|end-relative pronoun}} .
|"He/she is faster than his/her brother, and also fast."
}}
* The '''denying comparative of superiority''' expresses that one noun has a greater quantity of an adjective than other nouns, but denies the fact that the noun with a greater quantity of said adjective has that trait.
{{Interlinear|indent=2
|Bâr rấmmau '''rấvvibašñaran''' ra áudda íhâyi-i ro .
|3SG be.PRS be.fast-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}}-{{gcl|COMP.D.SUP|denying comparative of superiority}} {{gcl|REL|relative pronoun}} brother-SG {{gcl|R|reflexive pronoun}}-POSS {{gcl|END.REL|end-relative pronoun}} .
|"He/she is faster than his/her brother, but he is not fast.", "While he/she is faster than his/her brother, he/she is not fast."
}}
* The '''comparative of equality''' expresses that one noun does not have a greater or lesser quantity of an adjective than other nouns.
{{Interlinear|indent=2
|Kấraše rấmmau '''ahháumbanso''' ra áudda íhâyi-i ro .
|Kấraše be.PRS care-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}}-{{gcl|COMP.E|comparative of equality}} {{gcl|REL|relative pronoun}} brother-SG {{gcl|R|reflexive pronoun}}-POSS {{gcl|END.REL|end-relative pronoun}} .
|"Kấraše is as caring as his brother."
}}
*TBA

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=====Pronouns=====

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======Personal pronouns======
Meyāni has six {{w|personal pronouns}}, with three being singular and three being plural. Personal pronouns do not change form for case or gender.

{| class="wikitable"
|+Meyāni personal pronouns
!Number →
Person
↓
!Singular
!Plural
|-
!1st person
|''úne''
|''úñra''
|-
!2nd person
|''qle'', ''qlíša''<ref><Qlíša> (the plural form) can be used as a polite form of address or to address strangers regardless of number, while <qle> (the singular form) is used among friends and family members or to insult one's superiors. A similar thing happens in [[Yaksōnian language|modern Yaksōnian]], which is a part of a pan-Prorinian linguistic ''{{w|sprachbund}}'' affecting the two languages.</ref>
|''qlíša''

|-
!3rd person
|''bâr''
|''bấrra''
|}

Meyāni is a partial {{w|pro-drop language}}, which means that subject or object personal pronouns are optional and can be dropped if the context gets rid of the need for them. This is especially seen in sentences relating to the weather or in informal conversation.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| ('''Bâr''') Šéha reñấn áčane qlísseyo sai . ('''Qlíša''') Túnutu sáudeče úne-i sai ?
| (3SG) rain-PRS FUT.AUX five qlisseo-SG in/on/at . (2PL) be.PST message-SG 1SG-POSS in/on/at ?
| "It will be raining in five ''qlisseo''<ref>A [[Levarianqueva|Levarianquevan]] unit of time roughly equivalent to 1.7933 hours in {{w|Time#Measurement|Terran time}}</ref>. Did you get my message?"
}}

Note that the above sentences lack subject pronouns, as they can be inferred from context.

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======Reflexive pronouns======
Meyāni has a single simple reflexive pronoun: <''íhâyi''>. This pronoun can be used for all persons and numbers when any noun in the predicate is the same as the subject.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne ámu '''íhâyi''' .
| 1SG love-PRS {{gcl|R|reflexive pronoun}} .
| "I love myself."
}}

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Ke ámu qle/qlíša '''íhâyi''' ?
| Q love-PRS 2SG/2PL {{gcl|R|reflexive pronoun}} ?
| "Do you love yourself?"
}}

When the possessor of the direct object, indirect object, or any noun in a postpositional phrase is the same as the subject, the reflexive pronoun is used as the possessor in the possessive phrase. This is similar to certain Terran languages like {{w|Russian language|Russian}} and (to a lesser extent) {{w|Latin}}.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Bâr ámu sấku '''íhâyi-i''' .
| 3SG love-PRS wife-SG {{gcl|R|reflexive pronoun}}-POSS .
| "He loves his own wife."
}}

Contrast the above sentence with the following sentence, where the possessor of the sentence's direct object is not the same as its subject:

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Bâr ámu sấku '''bấr-i''' .
| 3SG love-PRS wife-SG 3SG-POSS .
| "He loves someone else's wife."
}}

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======Indefinite pronouns======
Unlike certain colloquial forms of English, which use the second person personal pronoun to express an indefinite pronoun "one", Meyāni uses the third person singular personal pronoun for this purpose instead.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| '''Bâr''' ña ấhano bávva ra sáubune Eqlíssalos ra áqlo oñqlấmmuba-i šohčúqlau ro šấne ro .
| 3SG NEG coerce AUX.DEO {{gcl|REL|relative pronoun}} change-PRS Eqléssalos {{gcl|REL|relative pronoun}} start-PRS to.be.violent-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}}-ADJ protest-SG {{gcl|END.REL|end-relative pronoun}} up/after {{gcl|END.REL|end-relative pronoun}} .
| "One cannot force the Eqléssalos to reform by starting a violent protest."
| c1 = (A quote from Rírin-i Roqlínau, who famously advocated for a reformation of the [[Eqléssalos of Mages]] in order to reduce corruption within the magical institution and turn it into a bulwark against corporate influence.)
}}

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======Demonstrative pronouns======
Meyāni has two basic {{w|demonstrative pronouns}}: <''su''> "this" and <''súkin''> "that." Demonstrative pronouns behave like numerals morphologically, not agreeing in number with the nouns they modify and not taking the <-i> suffix that is taken by adjectives when in a noun phrase. However, they go after their head noun instead of before.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| šấbya-i ñéra '''súkin'''
| good-ADJ gator-SG that
| "that good gator"
}}

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======Interrogative pronouns======
Proto-Qlerevi had one simple interrogative pronoun (which was the ancestor of Meyāni <''vu''> "what, which"). However, new interrogative pronouns evolved in Meyāni (as well as in almost every other Qlerevi language) from combinations of this simple root with a series of postpositions. The resulting combinations then gradually simplified over time due to common usage.

{| class="wikitable"
|+Meyāni interrogative pronouns
!Meyāni word (source)
!English translation
|-
|''vu''
|"what," "which," "who/whom"

|-
|''vúši'' (< ''vu sai'' "in/on/at what")
|"where"
|-
|''vútu'' (< ''vu tau'' "from what")
|"whence"
|-
|''vúbña'' (< ''vu báne'' "towards what")
|"whither"
|-
|''váiba'' (< ''vu yáiba'' "during what")
|"when"

|-
|''vúra'' (< ''vu sára'' "by what means")
|"how"
|-
|''vúsa'' (< ''vu sa'' "for what")
|"why"
|}

The base interrogative pronoun can behave like numerals when used as adjectives, as shown in the following interrogative sentence:

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Ke yáira úne '''vu''' ñéra ?
| Q like-PRS 1SG what gator-SG ?
| "What/which gator do I like?"
}}

=====Articles=====
Meyāni does not have articles, so <''šấbya-i ñéra''> could either mean "a good gator" or "the good gator" depending on context.

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====Verbs====
Meyāni's verb system is generally analytic; the verb system relies on {{w|auxiliary verbs}} to express tense, aspect, or modal information outside of what the verbs themselves can express alone.

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=====Tense=====
Meyāni verbs inflect for just two tenses: {{w|past}} and {{w|Nonpast tense|non-past}}, which expresses events that happened in the past and events that did not happen in the past respectively. The non-past tense (which is often called simply the "{{w|present tense}}" and glossed in this article as such) is considered to be the default form of the verb and is listed in dictionaries alongside the past form in entries for irregular verbs. Most verbs indicate the past tense by the addition of a suffix <-tu>, which is derived from a verb meaning "to become." However, some verbs undergo {{w|suppletion}} between the non-past and past tenses (e.g. non-past <''rấmmau''> "am/are/is" → past <''túnutu''> "was/were" (which also means "became"); non-past <''íhu''> "go/goes" → past <''sáista''> "went").

However, some verbs indicate the past tense by changing the last vowel in the root in addition to using the <-tu> suffix (e.g. non-past <''ấnnaiha''> "receive/receives" → past <''ấnnaihâtu''> "received"; <''túno''> "become/becomes" → <''túnutu''> "became" (which also means "was/were")), which is ultimately caused by a final ''*w'' in the Proto-Qlerevi form. Some verbs indicate the past tense by means of a suffix <-ču> instead of the regular <-tu> (e.g. non-past <''yába''> "give up/gives up, surrender/surrenders" → past <''yábaču''> "gave up, surrendered"; non-past <''lvábba''> "fight/fights" → past <''lvábbaču''> "fought"); this also has an etymological origin, this time that of a final ''*y'' in the Proto-Qlerevi form instead of a ''*w''.

The {{w|future tense}} is formed by the addition of the verb <''reñấn''> "to want" after the non-past form of the verb. Unlike the [[Nōlīnian language]], Meyāni does not distinguish between any subdivisions of these three basic tenses and relies on adverbs or adverbial phrases to express these more concrete subdivisions instead.

The different tenses can be illustrated with the following three sentences:

{{interlinear|indent=2
|Úñra '''lvábba''' kídobâlo .
| 1PL fight-PRS corruption-SG .
| "We are fighting corruption."}}

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| Úñra '''lvábbaču''' kídobâlo .
| 1PL fight-PST corruption-SG .
| "We were fighting corruption."}}

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úñra '''lvábba''' '''reñấn''' kídobâlo .
| 1PL fight-PRS AUX.FUT corruption-SG .
| "We will be fighting corruption."}}

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=====Aspect=====
Meyāni distinguishes between just two {{w|grammatical aspects}}: the {{w|imperfective aspect}} and the {{w|perfective aspect}}. The imperfective is considered to be the default form of a verb; the perfective is expressed by turning the dictionary form of the verb into an adjective and adding the appropriate form of the verb <''rấmmau''> "to be" after the main verb.

'''Uses for the imperfective aspect''' 
The imperfective aspect's main usage is to express that an action is ongoing or is habitual. In the present tense, it expresses that the action stated by the verb is ongoing.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úñra '''lvábba''' tấbanra íhâyi-i , ča qlíša ña váhho óban . Yo váhho rấsâm rấnlaksara qlíša-i sai !
| 1PL fight-PRS enemy-PL {{gcl|R|reflexive pronoun}}-POSS , and 2PL NEG now party . IMP now get.back-PRS formation/line-PL 2PL-POSS in/on/at !
| "We are fighting our enemies, not partying. Get back in your formations immediately!"
}}

In the above sentences, the verb phrase with the main verb <''lvábba''> "to fight" is in the imperfective aspect in the present tense, expressing that the act of fighting enemies is an ongoing process.

In the past tense, the imperfective aspect expresses that an action was ongoing in the past but has been stopped in some way, either by being completed or by being interrupted.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne '''ấščâlârtu''' eredấnos Partấbala Meraqlúm-i sai .
| 1SG study-PST math-SG university-SG Meraqlum-POSS in/on/at .
| "I was study/used to study mathematics at the University of Meraqlum."
}}

In the above sentence, the verb phrase with the main verb <''ấščâlâr''> "studied" is in the imperfective aspect, expressing that the act of studying mathematics at a university was ongoing, but is not ongoing anymore in the present.

In the future tense, the imperfective aspect expresses that an action will be ongoing in the future.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úñra '''básso''' '''reñấn''' áiñeye .
| 1PL join-PRS AUX.FUT army-SG .
| "We will join the army."
}}

In the above sentence, the verb phrase with the main verb <''básso''> "to join" is in the imperfective, expressing that the act of joining the army is something that is going to happen.

Meyāni lacks a {{w|Progressive aspect|progressive}} aspect and a {{w|Habitual aspect|habitual}} aspect. The imperfective aspect is used instead to convey the roles expressed by the progressive and habitual aspects on their own.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne šíra .
| 1SG work-PRS .
| "I work/am working/habitually work."
}}

'''Uses for the perfective aspect''' 
The perfective aspect is primarily used to emphasize that an action has been completed. In the past tense, it is used to show that the action stated by the verb has been completed, with emphasis on the action being completed.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne '''róčaba''' '''túnutu''' yeláira áifâm-i .
| 1SG eat-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}} AUX.PFV.PST wine-SG bucket-SG-POSS .
| "I drank a glass of wine."
}}

In the above sentence, the verb phrase with the main verb <''róča''> "to eat/drink" is in the perfective aspect, expressing that the action of drinking wine has been completed, with emphasis on completion.

In the future tense, the perfective aspect is used to express that an action will be completed in the future.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne '''čétalataba''' '''rấmmau''' '''reñấn''' čétala .
| 1SG read-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}} AUX.PFV.PRS AUX.FUT book .
| "I will finish reading a book."
}}

In the above sentence, the verb phrase with the main verb <''čétalata''> "to read" is in the perfective aspect, expressing that an action will be completed in the future.

In the present tense, using the perfective aspect is ungrammatical in most formal varieties. However, some colloquial dialects use present tense and perfective aspect to express that an action will be completed soon or has been completed recently.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne '''čétalataba''' '''rấmmau''' čétala .
| 1SG read-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}} AUX.PFV.PRS book .
| "I will finish reading a book soon/I have finished reading a book recently."
}}

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=====Mood=====
TBA

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=====Voice=====
Standard Meyāni does not have any distinctions between the active and passive voices, which was already lost by the time of Early Classical Meyāni along with the entire case system. Therefore, the sentences "An elephant is chasing me" and "I am being chased by an elephant" are expressed by the same sentence:

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Nagúrtos ấñimqlo úne .| elephant-SG chase-PRS 1SG .
| "An/the elephant is chasing me./I am being chased by a/the elephant."
}}However, recent studies have found that younger Meyāni speakers have started to reinterpret {{w|cleft sentences}}, a very common construction which is primarily used to de-emphasize the subject in the Meyāni language, as a passive construction, and to use the aforementioned cleft sentences as such. This is likely due to influence from [[Meyāni language#Veleonnean Vernacular Meyāni|Veleonnean Vernacular Meyāni]], which does use cleft sentences as a construction that is used for the passive. Therefore, it is likely that the active-passive distinction might become standard in Meyāni in the near-future.

Therefore, the above Meyāni sentence may look like the below in the passive:{{interlinear|indent=2
| Bâr rấmmau nagúrtos ra bâv ấñimqlo úne ro .| 3SG be-PST elephant-SG {{gcl|REL|relative pronoun}} SJV chase-PRS 1SG {{gcl|END.REL|end-relative pronoun}} .
| "It is an elephant that is chasing me./I am being chased by an elephant."
}}

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===Syntax===

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==== Word order====
Standard Meyāni generally has a default word order of {{w|Subject-verb-object word order|subject-verb-object}} (SVO), as in English.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne rấmmau ñéra .
| 1SG be.PRS gator-SG .
| "I am a gator."
}}

However, this becomes {{w|Verb-subject-object word order|verb-subject-object}} (VSO) in {{w|subordinate clauses}}.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| ... ra ña rấmmau bâr ñéra ro .
| ... {{gcl|REL|relative pronoun}} NEG be.PRS 3SG gator-SG {{gcl|END.REL|end-relative pronoun}} .
| "... that he/she/it is not a gator."
}}

As said in the section on nominals, Meyāni's {{w|adjectives}} proceed the nouns they modify and {{w|Possession (linguistics)|possessors}} succeed their possessed nouns. Adverbs and adverbial phrases also proceed the parts of speech they modify and {{w|Numeral (linguistics)|numerals}} behave like adjectives in overall syntax.

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====Prepositional phrases and animacy====
In Meyāni, prepositional phrases (or postpositional phrases, as there are postpositions instead of prepositions) have an {{w|animacy}}-based {{w|Implicational hierarchy|hierarchy}} dependent on their objects which dictates the position of the postpositional phrase in relation to the direct object or intransitive verb of the sentence. Postpositional phrases with more animate objects tend to come closer to the direct object (or the verb, in sentences that lack a direct object) than postpositional phrases with more inanimate objects. In this example, the first and last postpositional phrases in the sentence are '''bolded'''.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne vehíčasaba túnutu '''ačấmra''' '''ahhaumba-i''' '''oksara-i''' '''lấčai''' nenáum ra rấmmau yánohe Meraqlúm-i sai ro sai '''ku-yáñña''' '''ča''' '''ku-áčane''' '''yáñña''' '''hấssâya-i''' '''yehấrum''' '''ra''' '''túnutu''' '''Bemumšo''' '''šấne''' '''ro''' '''sai''' .| 1SG hatch-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}} PFV.AUX.PST hand-PL care-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}}-ADJ parent-PL-POSS into carcass {{gcl|REL|relative pronoun}} be.PRS city.center-SG Meraqlum-SG-POSS in/on/at {{gcl|END.REL|end-relative pronoun}} in/on/at {{gcl|ORD|ordinal numeral}}-four and {{gcl|ORD|ordinal numeral}}-five four two.hundred.fifty.six-ADJ year {{gcl|REL|relative pronoun}} be.PST drought-{{gcl|INTS|intensifier}}-SG up/after {{gcl|END.REL|end-relative pronoun}} in/on/at .| "I was hatched into the hands of caring parents at a carcass in Meraqlum's city center in the 2,308th year AC (After the Collapse)."
| c1 = (An excerpt from ''An Autobiography of the Rebel-Mage'' by [[Rírin-i Roqlínau]])
}}

The sentence is grammatical because, in the Meyāni animacy hierarchy, "year" is less animate than "carcass," which is in turn less animate than "hands." However, Meyāni does not apply this animacy hierarchy to the subject, direct object, or adjectival predicates of a sentence like in [[Proto-Qlerevi language|Proto-Qlerevi]].

Meyāni maintains most of the Proto-Qlerevi animacy classes, but some have been merged into other classes; most notably, the inanimate and abstract classes of Proto-Qlerevi have merged into a single inanimate class and the megalozoic and microzoic classes have merged into a single biotic class in Meyāni. Also, the egordian and tuordian classes of Proto-Qlerevi have merged into a single "altordian" class in Meyāni, leaving only five animacy classes compared to the eight that Proto-Qlerevi has. Proto-Qlerevi itself is evidenced to have undergone a similar reduction in the amount of distinguished classes in its history, with earlier versions likely having massive {{w|noun class}} systems similar to Terran {{w|Bantu languages}} like {{w|Swahili language|Swahili}}.

The following five classes are distinguished in Meyāni:

{| class="wikitable"
|+Meyāni animacy hierarchy
!Rank
!Class name
!What falls into this class?

|-
!I
|Altordian
|first-person and second-person personal pronouns

|-
!II
|Masculine
|third-person personal pronouns and other pronouns, deities, and male gators
|-
!III
|Juvenofeminine
|primarily female gators and hatchlings, but also weather events, body parts, and {{w|extraterrestrial life}}
|-
!IV
|Biotic
|animals, plants, and other biological things
|-
!V
|Inanimate
|stationary non-biological things, landscape features, astronomical bodies, [[Magic (AWiEC)|magic]]-related concepts, and abstract concepts
|}

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====Interrogative and negative sentences====
In an {{w|interrogative sentence}} in Meyāni, the interrogative auxiliary <ke> goes before other constituents of the sentence, and the verb moves to where the subject would be in a normal sentence. This is a remnant of the older {{w|V2 word order}} in Prorinian Qlerevi languages, whereby the verb phrase is always the second constituent of a clause.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| '''Ke''' róčaba túnutu úne ấvvâsa tấbanra-i úne-i ?
| Q eat.{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}} PFV.AUX.PST 1SG blood-SG enemy-PL-POSS 1SG-POSS ?
| "Did I drink the blood of my enemies?"
}}

Unlike English, Meyāni does not do {{w|wh-movement}} and does not have {{w|do-support}} in both questions and negative constructions.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Ke vóraba túnutu úne '''vu''' ra róča ấvvâsa tấbanra-i úne-i ro ?
| Q do-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}} PFV.AUX.PST 1SG what {{gcl|REL|relative pronoun}} eat blood-SG enemy-PL-POSS 1SG-POSS {{gcl|END.REL|end-relative pronoun}} ?
| "What did I do in order to drink the blood of my enemies?"
}}

According the [[Question word-first principle]] in Qlerevi languages whereby question particles always go first in a sentence, the negative particle <ña> goes after the main verb phrase in an interrogative sentence with negative mood.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Ke róčaba túnutu '''ña''' úne ấvvâsa tấbanra-i úne-i ?
| Q eat.{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}} PFV.AUX.PST NEG 1SG blood-SG enemy-PL-POSS 1SG-POSS ?
| "Did I not drink the blood of my enemies?"
}}

In a normal sentence with a negative, however, the sentence completely reverts to the verb going between the subject and direct object, with the negative particle going before the verb.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne '''ña''' róčaba túnutu ấvvâsa tấbanra-i úne-i .
| 1SG NEG eat.{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}} PFV.AUX.PST blood-SG enemy-PL-POSS 1SG-POSS .
| "I did not drink the blood of my enemies."
}}

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===="To Have"====
Meyāni does not have a verb meaning "to have", like many Qlerevi languages. Instead, it uses the appropriate form of the verb <rấmmau> "to be", with the postposition <sai> "in/on/at" being attached to the verb's direct object.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne '''rấmmau''' ấvvâsa '''sai''' .
| 1SG be.PRS blood-SG in/on/at .
| "I have blood." (literally: "I am in blood.")
}}

In an intransitive sentence or a sentence with a direct object that has been dropped, Meyāni uses a perfective construction with the verb <''táksa''> "to catch" in the present tense to express the meaning of "to have". This is descended from the earlier meaning of the verb as "to grab." In this usage of the verb, applying the imperfective aspect is ungrammatical.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne '''táksaba''' '''túnutu''' .
| 1SG catch-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}} AUX.PFV-PST .
| "I have." (literally: "I have caught.")
}}

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====Subordinate clauses====
In Meyāni, subordinate clauses are almost completely identical in both formation and usage to subordinate clauses in Proto-Qlerevi.

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=====Formation=====
Subordinate clauses in Meyāni are typically formed by using the particles <ra> and <ro>, termed the "relative pronoun" and the "end-relative pronoun" respectively (even though they aren't really pronouns in the strictest sense: a word that can stand for other words in a sentence). As the names suggest, the relative pronoun preceeds a subordinate clause and the end-relative pronoun succeeds a subordinate clause, functioning in order to revert the sentence back to the clause before the subordinate clause began.

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=====Usage=====
TBA

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==Numeral system==
''Note: All Meyāni text in this section of this article is written in a modified form of the {{w|Latin alphabet}}, not in the actual Meyāni script.''

The Meyāni language uses a {{w|Hexadecimal|hexadecimal}} or base-16 system, even though actual written numerals are expressed using {{w|Duodecimal|dozenal}} or base-12, with sub-bases of 5 and 10, remnants of the old vigesimal system. Linguists theorize that the hexadecimal system developed when speakers of [[Qlerevi languages]], with most of their languages using a {{W|vigesimal}} or base-20 system, encountered speakers of [[Pre-Yaksōnian languages]], whose languages primarily used {{w|12 (number)|12}} as a base. When these two languages encountered each other, the pre-Yaksōnian speakers who ultimately assimilated themselves into the Qlerevi languages and culture tried to use 20 as a base but were so used to their native base-12 system that they ended up using 16 as a base as a compromise between the two systems; the Qlerevi speakers later adopted this, hence the use of 16 as a base.

Meyāni numerals by default express their {{w|Cardinal numeral|cardinal}} form. Prefixes exist which are used to express the {{w|Ordinal numeral|ordinal}} and {{w|Fraction|fractional}} form. However, all of Meyāni's multiplicative forms for numerals are borrowed from the [[Ancient Venēmīan language]] and therefore {{w|Suppletion|suppletive}}, but these are archaic; alternatively, these forms could be expressed by using {{w|Adpositional phrase|postpositional phrases}} in most modern registers.
{| class="wikitable"
|+
! colspan="4" |Number
! colspan="4" |In spoken Meyāni
|-
! colspan="3" |In {{w|Hindu-Arabic numerals}}
! rowspan="2" |In [[Prorinian mathematics#Modern numeral system|Prorinian numerals]]
(modern notation)
! rowspan="2" |Cardinal form
! rowspan="2" |Ordinal form
! rowspan="2" |Fractional form
! rowspan="2" |Multiplicative form
(archaic)
|-
!Base-10
!Base-12
!Base-16
|-
| colspan="3" |0
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|0}}
|''ñíñta''
|''ku-ñíñta''
| colspan="2" |N/A
|-
| colspan="3" |1
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|1}}
|''bač''
| rowspan="38" |TBA
| rowspan="38" |TBA
| rowspan="38" |TBA
|-
| colspan="3" |2
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|2}}
|''šóten''
|-
| colspan="3" |3
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|3}}
|''sádam''
|-
| colspan="3" |4
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|4}}
|''yáñña''
|-
| colspan="3" |5
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|5}}
|''áčane''
|-
| colspan="3" |6
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|6}}
|''bač ča áčane''
|-
| colspan="3" |7
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|7}}
|''šóten ča áčane''
|-
| colspan="3" |8
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|8}}
|''sádam ča áčane''
|-
| colspan="3" |9
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|9}}
|''yáñña ča áčane''
|-
|10
| colspan="2" |A
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|a}}
|''yáda''
|-
|11
| colspan="2" |B
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|b}}
|''bač ča yáda''
|-
|12
|10
|C
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|10}}
|''šóten ča yáda''
|-
|13
|11
|D
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|11}}
|''sádam ča yáda''
|-
|14
|12
|E
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|12}}
|''yáñña ča yáda''
|-
|15
|13
|F
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|13}}
|''áčane ča yáda''
|-
|16
|14
|10
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|14}}
|''rấyone''
|-
|17
|15
|11
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|15}}
|''bač ča rấyone''
|-
|21
|19
|15
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|19}}
|''áčane ča rấyone''
|-
|24
|20
|18
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|20}}
|''sádam ča áčane ča rấyone''
|-
|26
|22
|1A
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|22}}
|''yáda ča rấyone''
|-
|32
|28
|20
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|28}}
|''šóten rấyone''
|-
|36
|30
|24
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|30}}
|''yáñña ča šóten rấyone''
|-
|48
|40
|30
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|40}}
|''sádam rấyone''
|-
|60
|50
|3C
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|50}}
|''šóten ča yáda ča sádam rấyone''
|-
|64
|54
|40
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|54}}
|''yáñña rấyone''
|-
|72
|60
|48
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|60}}
|''sádam ča áčane ča yáñña rấyone''
|-
|80
|68
|50
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|68}}
|''áčane rấyone''
|-
|84
|70
|54
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|70}}
|''yáñña ča áčane rấyone''
|-
|92
|80
|60
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|80}}
|''bač áčane rấyone''
|-
|108
|90
|6C
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|90}}
|''šóten ča yáda ča bač áčane rấyone''
|-
|112
|94
|70
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|94}}
|''šóten áčane rấyone''
|-
|120
|A0
|78
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|a0}}
|''sádam ča áčane ča šóten áčane rấyone''
|-
|128
|A8
|80
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|a8}}
|''sádam áčane rấyone''
|-
|132
|B0
|84
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|b0}}
|''yáñña ča sádam áčane rấyone''
|-
|144
|100
|90
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|100}}
|''yáñña áčane rấyone''
|-
|256
|194
|100
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|194}}
|''hấssâya''
|-
|4,096
|2,454
|1,000
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|2454}}
|''emmáufiša''
|-
|65,536
|31,B14
|10,000
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|31b14}}
|''hấssâya emmáufiša''
|}

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==Vocabulary==
Around 2/3rds of all Meyāni {{w|vocabulary}} is of [[Qlerevi languages|Qlerevi]] origin. Qlerevi words in Meyāni are either directly inherited from [[Proto-Qlerevi language|Proto-Qlerevi]] or were borrowed from other Qlerevi languages. The vast majority of these terms in Meyāni are directly inherited from Proto-Qlerevi; the Qlerevi terms that were borrowed from other Qlerevi languages only account for less than 5% of all of Meyāni's vocabulary. Qlerevi-derived words encompass most of Meyāni's core vocabulary, so most of the time, no conherent sentence can be formed in Meyāni without resorting to using words of Qlerevi origin, with very rare exceptions.

Now-extinct [[pre-Yaksōnian languages]], which account for over 1/5th of all Meyāni words, are the main sources of {{w|loanwords}} within Meyāni's vocabulary. [[Ancient Venēmīan]], a {{w|prestige language}} which used to be learned by Meyāni gators of all ranks of society to connect with classical texts from the [[First Venēmīan Empire]] until it was banned by [[Meyāni#Nerấyavi's régime and the Great Prorinian War|the then-fascist-led government of Meyāni]] in 1942 AC shortly after [[Operation Yaksaháihča|the start of Meyāni's failed invasion of Yaksōn]], is the original language for the vast majority of these pre-Yaksōnian terms. Pre-Yaksōnian words in the Meyāni language are mostly terms relating to technical fields studied in the Prorinian peninsula like {{w|mathematics}}, {{w|Science|the sciences}}, {{w|music theory}}, {{w|philosophy}}, and [[Magic (AWiEC)|the art of magic]]; however, Pre-Yaksōnian words are also found in words relating to features of the Prorinian peninsula that don't exist or rarely do exist in the Qlerevi homeland, such as fauna (e.g. Meyāni *SCRIPT TBA* (''nagúrtos'') "{{w|elephant}}," with irregular o > u shift typical of assimilated loanwords), flora (e.g. Meyāni *SCRIPT TBA* (''ấččevon'') "{{w|Sequoioideae|redwood tree}}"), drinks (e.g. Meyāni *SCRIPT TBA* (''yeláira'') "{{w|wine}}"), and musical instruments (e.g. Meyāni *SCRIPT TBA* (''erínis'') "[[Prorinian music#Bee-lute|bee-lute]];"). Pre-Yaksōnian influence may have affected the grammar of Meyāni as well as contributing to vocabulary, with the language developing a strict {{w|V2 word order}} (which later shifted into a default {{w|Subject-verb-object word order|SVO word order}}, with few traces of the old V2 system remaining in the modern language) and losing most of the Proto-Qlerevi {{w|Grammatical case|case}} system.

Another major contributor of loanwords in Meyāni is the [[Rudakami language]]. Most Rudakami loanwords in Meyāni arrived during the period of [[Rudakami trade colonies|Rudakami merchants colonizing large areas of land on or near the Prorinian peninsula's coastline for trade with the local pre-Yaksōnian speakers]], which lasted from around 1800 BC until around 800 BC; these loanwords are typically related to concepts such as {{w|economics}}. However, during the period of [[Meyāni#Rudakami conquest and rule|Rudakami rule over Meyāni from 1632 AC until 1794 AC]], more Rudakami loanwords entered the language, mostly terms relating to {{w|government}}, the {{w|legal system}}, and {{w|feudalism}}. After Meyāni regained its independence from Rudakami control, there was widespread {{w|linguistic purism}} in Meyāni which aimed to purge all traces of Rudakami words within the language's vocabulary, which succeeded in removing a sizeable portion of Rudakami borrowings in the Meyāni lexicon but did not succeed in removing all of them. Today, Rudakami words account for around 1/10th of the Meyāni language's vocabulary.

===Derivation===
Meyāni makes heavy usage of {{w|agglutination}} and {{w|Compound (linguistics)|compounding}} to form new words. For example, the word *SCRIPT TBA* (''qlavmamčấčâlu'') translates to "{{w|syntax}}" in English and can be broken up into the following:

{{Interlinear|indent=2|top = qlavmamčấčâlu
|qlavmam-čâčâ-lu
|word-{{gcl|COL|collective}}-study.of
|"syntax" (literally: the study of a group of words)
}}

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== Example text==
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==Footnotes==
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Meyāni language

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{{Short description|Qlerevi language spoken in Meyāni and other regions in the Prorinian peninsula}}
{{Infobox Levarianquevan Language
| title = Meyāni
| othername = Meyānisian
| nativename = {{CustomScript|meyani|y}}̀ˋ˙{{CustomScript|meyani|t}}ˎ:{{CustomScript|meyani|n}}ˊ{{CustomScript|meyani|h@}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|n}}ˊ{{CustomScript|meyani|sir}}ˋ—{{CustomScript|meyani|i}} (''Yáto Nehấnesira-i'')
| image = Meyani distribution.png
| imagecaption = The distribution of the Standard Meyāni language in the Prorinian peninsula based on first-language speakers, overlaid by political boundaries: 
{{Color box|#7387cf}}: Standard Meyāni is spoken by a majority of gators in the area as a {{w|First language|mother tongue}}. 
{{Color box|#8EA7ff}}: Standard Meyāni is spoken by a significant minority of gators in the area as a mother tongue. 
{{Color box|#bacbff}}: Standard Meyāni is spoken by a small minority of gators in the area as a mother tongue. 
{{Color box|#ffffff}}: Standard Meyāni is primarily learned as a {{w|second language}} by gators in the area, as little-to-no first-language speakers exist. 
{{Color box|#3f48cc}}: The area is covered by a body of {{w|water}}. 
{{Color box|#000000}}: Political boundary.|imagesize=250px|pronounciation=/ˈjæ.to nɛˈxɑː.nɛ.siː.ra.jiː/
| region=[[Prorinian peninsula]]
| speakers = ~ 9 million (L1) 
~ 16 million (L2) 
~ 25 million (total)
| family = [[Qlerevi languages|Qlerevi]]
*[[Eastern Qlerevi languages|Eastern Qlerevi]]
**[[Prorinian Qlerevi languages|Prorinian Qlerevi]]
***[[Central Prorinian Qlerevi languages|Central Prorinian Qlerevi]]
****[[Steppe Qlerevi languages|Steppe Qlerevi]]
*****[[Old Meyāni language|Old Meyāni]]
******[[Classical Meyāni language|Classical Meyāni]]
*******'''Meyāni'''
| script = [[Meyāni alphabet]]<ref>The script is classified as a partial {{w|abjad}} because "{{w|short vowels}}" are not written and require optional {{w|diacritics}} to be expressed properly without relying solely on {{w|context}}; see [[Meyāni language#Orthography|the orthography section of this article]].</ref>
| direction = {{w|Directionality and orientation|Left-to-right}}
| officialin = [[Meyāni]]
| recognized = [[Yaksōn]]
| consonants = 19
| vowels = 9 (6 {{w|monophthongs}}, 3 {{w|diphthongs}}
| syllablestructure = <nowiki>#</nowiki>((l)C)V/(N, h)(C)CV/(C, G)(C)#
| prosody = {{w|Stress (linguistics)|Stress}}
| inflectiontype = {{w|Analytic language|Analytic}}
| nouncase = m
| nounnumber = y
| noundefinite = n
| noungender = n
| adjectiveagreement = No
| verbtense = y
| verbaspect = m
| verbmood = m
| verbvoice = n
| verbsubject = n
| verbobject = n
| verbnumber = n
| verbevidence = n
| verbvalency = n
| markingposs = {{w|Dependent-marking language|Dependent-marking}}
| markingadj = {{w|Dependent-marking language|Dependent-marking}}
| markingverb = {{w|Zero-marking language|Zero-marking}}
| wordorder = {{w|Subject-verb-object}}
| otherorders = {{w|Verb-subject-object}} (in {{w|subordinate clauses}})
| headdirection = {{w|Head-directionality parameter#Head-final languages|Head-final}} ({{w|Head-directionality parameter#Head-initial languages|Head-initial}} in verb phrases)
| alignmenttype = {{w|Nominative-accusative alignment|Nominative-Accusative}}
}}

The '''Meyāni language''' is a [[Qlerevi languages|Qlerevi language]] primarily spoken on the [[Prorinian peninsula]]. The standard dialect is primarily spoken in southern [[Meyāni]], with significant minorities of speakers existing throughout the peninsula and adjacent lands. Its closest living relative that is not disputed to be a distinct {{w|language}} (either by the {{w|Linguistic description|descriptionism}} of {{w|Academic linguistics|scholarly linguistics}}, which is the primary form of {{w|Linguistic study|linguistic study}} used in this article, or {{w|linguistic prescription}}, which is promoted by [[Meyāni#Education|Meyāni's educational system]]) is the [[Bandit language]], which is spoken primarily in the northern and northwestern<ref>Due to Levarianqueva's retrograde rotation, east and west are swapped on maps.</ref> areas of the [[Great Prorinian Steppes (country)|Great Prorinian Steppes]]. The language is the sole {{w|official language}} of Meyāni, while it is recognized as a {{w|minority language}} in [[Yaksōn]] (where it was introduced to vast swathes of the country by lower-class {{w|refugees}} fleeing the low {{w|quality of life}} generated by [[Meyāni#Corporations|the corporations in ''de facto'' charge of the Meyāni government]]); in all other Prorinian countries, the language is not recognized.

The language has had a long history spanning back thousands of years. The ultimate accepted ancestor of Meyāni, the [[Proto-Qlerevi language]], was likely spoken in an area roughly overlapping with the modern-day nation of [[Qlerebam]]. After a {{w|drought}} that contributed to much of Qlerebam being covered in vast {{w|deserts}} today, the Qlerevi peoples then {{w|migrated}} throughout Levarianqueva, settling in locations as distant from [[Vreotannia]] to [[Arozdénia]] to the Prorinian peninsula. The Qlerevi languages that ultimately arrived at the Prorinian peninsula then diversified into two distinct {{w|language families}}: the [[Central Prorinian Qlerevi languages]] (which ultimately evolved into the Meyāni language and its relatives) and the [[Northwestern Prorinian Qlerevi languages]] (which ultimately evolved into the [[Nōlīnian language]] and its relatives), displacing the local [[Pre-Yaksōnian languages]] in the process while absorbing significant influences from them, including the development of a strict {{w|V2 word order}}.

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==Classification and Dialects==

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===Position in the Qlerevi family===
Meyāni is a [[Qlerevi languages|Qlerevi language]] belonging to the [[Eastern Qlerevi languages|eastern branch]], which includes the [[Prorinian Qlerevi languages]] (which Meyāni is a part of). The eastern branch of Qlerevi languages is primarily differentiated from other Qlerevi languages in that languages in this branch underwent various {{w|sound changes}} which were absent from other Proto-Qlerevi dialects, including, but not limited to:

* [[Proto-Qlerevi language|Proto-Qlerevi]] ''*p'' {{w|lenition|lenites}} into /''*β''/ between two {{w|vowels}} (and later disappears entirely in the Prorinian Qlerevi languages); e.g. Proto-Qlerevi ''*kapōñ'' "to form" > Proto-Eastern Qlerevi ''*kaβōñ'' > Meyāni {{CustomScript|meyani|k@}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|un}}ˊ (''káune'') "to build, to create," [[Nōlīnian language|Nōlīnian]] *SCRIPT TBA* (-''kaʔǫni''-) "to form."
* Proto-Qlerevi ''*w'' becomes /''*β''/ word-finally, which later disappeared in the Prorinian Qlerevi languages (and produced a four-way distinction in {{w|vowel length}} between short, half-long, long, and overlong which eventually disappeared in all of Proto-Prorinian Qlerevi's descendants in some way or another); e.g. Proto-Qlerevi ''*eqlew'' "eternal rival" > Proto-Eastern Qlerevi ''*eqleβ'' > Meyāni {{CustomScript|meyani|y}}ˋ˙{{CustomScript|meyani|ks}}ˋ (''yáksa'') "eternal rival," Nōlīnian *SCRIPT TBA* (''eqlè''-) "rival."
* Proto-Qlerevi ''*ts'' becomes /''*θ''/ in all positions, which later shifts into /''*s''/ in Proto-Prorinian Qlerevi; e.g. Proto-Qlerevi ''*wītsen'' "to see" > Proto-Eastern-Qlerevi ''*wīθān'' > Meyāni {{CustomScript|meyani|v@}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|is@n}} (''váisân'') "to see," Nōlīnian *SCRIPT TBA* (-''wįsąn''-) "to see."
* Some of Proto-Qlerevi's consonant clusters undergo heavy {{w|consonant assimilation}} in Eastern Qlerevi languages.

Modern Meyāni's closest living relative that is not disputed as being a distinct language is the [[Bandit language]], which is natively spoken in the northern and northwestern areas of the [[Great Prorinian Steppes (country)|Great Prorinian Steppes]]. The Bandit language shares many sound changes with Meyāni, which has diverged from it approximately 3,500 years ago. These include, but are not limited to:

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===Dialects===
Besides '''Standard Meyāni''' (which is what one typically means when they say "Meyāni language"), multiple other {{w|dialects}} of the Meyāni language exist each with their own unique properties. Standard Meyāni, which is based on the dialect spoken in the capital of [[Meraqlum]], is the official language of the country of [[Meyāni]] and is the dialect that is the closest to the [[Classical Meyāni|classical language]] spoken during the [[Bandit dynasty]] and also being the main {{w|liturgical language}} of the [[Áukanism|Áukanist]] faith. The main differences between Standard Meyāni and Classical Meyāni are the {{w|Conservative and innovative language|innovation}} of a separate {{w|optative mood}} in Standard Meyāni, the pronounciation of Standard Meyāni <v> as /w/ in Classical Meyāni, and the Classical Meyāni sequence /xl/ shifting in pronounciation to /q͡ʟ/ in standard Meyāni.

Some of the major dialect groups listed below. However, some of these dialects are dwindling in speakers as the standard dialect gains prominence ever since the establishment of a standardized [[Meyāni#Education|education system]]. Some quote-on-quote "dialects" that are more closely related to the Nōlīnian language than Standard Meyāni are excluded from the list.

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====Eastern Dialect Group====
The '''Eastern Dialect Group''' refers to a collection of Meyāni dialects that were spoken close to the border of [[Yaksōn]] and inside of the extreme eastern regions of the aforementioned country prior to massive standardization. Nowadays, dialects in this group are primarily spoken in the northeastern portions of Meyāni. These dialects are directly descended from early forms of the classical language and are closely related to the standard language; however, the Eastern Dialect Group has significant influences and {{w|loanwords}} from the [[Yaksōnian language]] due to centuries of contact which causes dialects in the Eastern Dialect Group to sound similar to Yaksōnian, so some speakers were mistakenly sent to {{w|concentration camps}} by the Nerấyavi regime on the basis that they were members of an "inferior race" despite not speaking Yaksōnian at all. These dialects are primarily written in both the [[Yaksōnian script]], which is an {{w|abugida}}, and the [[Meyāni script]], a partial {{w|abjad}}.

The main differences between the dialects in this group (with the Fidurin dialect given as an example, as it has most of the changes) and Standard Meyāni include:

'''Phonological differences:'''
* Standard Meyāni and Classical Meyāni non-{{w|Gemination|geminated}} <t> have turned into /r/ between {{w|vowels}} in dialects in the Eastern Dialect Group (compare Standard Meyāni {{CustomScript|meyani|s}}ˊ˙{{CustomScript|meyani|y}}ˋ{{CustomScript|meyani|t}}ˋ (''séyata'') "to fly" to [[Fidurin]] dialect *SCRIPT TBA* (''sáyoro'') "to fly").
* Dialects in the Eastern Dialect Group have undergone a massive {{w|vowel shift}} involving the following changes:
** Long vowels become short.
** Classical Meyāni <â> merged with <o>, then both shifted to /u/ (compare Standard Meyāni {{CustomScript|meyani|x@}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|by}}ˋ (''šấbya'') "good" to Fidurin dialect *SCRIPT TBA* (''šúppo'') "good").
** Former <nowiki></nowiki> became /y/ and later became /i/ (compare Standard Meyāni {{CustomScript|meyani|n}}ˋ{{CustomScript|meyani|gu}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|rt}}ˎ{{CustomScript|meyani|s}} (''nagúrtos'') "elephant" to Fidurin dialect *SCRIPT TBA* (''nokíttus'') "elephant").
** Former <nowiki></nowiki> became /e/ (compare Standard Meyāni {{CustomScript|meyani|i}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|n}}ˊ{{CustomScript|meyani|hiv}}ˋ (''ínehiva'') "instead of" to Fidurin dialect *SCRIPT TBA* (''énakewo'') "instead of")
** Former <e> became /ɐ̞/ (compare Standard Meyāni {{CustomScript|meyani|h}}ˊ{{CustomScript|meyani|xi}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|n}} (''hešín'') "to hear" to Fidurin dialect *SCRIPT TBA* (''kašén'') "to hear")
** Former <a> became /o/ (compare Standard Meyāni {{CustomScript|meyani|y}}ˋ˙{{CustomScript|meyani|x}}ˋ (''yáša'') "to think" to Fidurin dialect *SCRIPT TBA* (''yóšo'') "to decide")
** The diphthongs <ai>, <au>, and <eu> in Classical Meyāni have turned into monopthongs /e/, /o/, and /u/ respectively (compare Standard Meyāni {{CustomScript|meyani|y}}ˋ{{CustomScript|meyani|c}}ˋ{{CustomScript|meyani|ss@}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|i}} (''yačassái'') "bright," {{CustomScript|meyani|y}}ˋ{{CustomScript|meyani|v@}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|unk}}ˋ (''yaváunka'') "on the subject of," and {{CustomScript|meyani|l}}ˎ{{CustomScript|meyani|sti}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|u}} (''lostéu'') "to lose" to Fidurin dialect *SCRIPT TBA* (''yočossé'') "hot," *SCRIPT TBA* (''yowókko'') "on the subject of," and *SCRIPT TBA* (''lussú'') "to lose").
** The above changes have caused stress to be phonemic in these dialects.
* All consonant clusters from Classical Meyāni are heavily simplified in dialects in this group, simplifying into geminated consonants. Initial <lw-> becomes <w-> in these dialects.
* Most dialects in this group (including the Fidurin dialect) merge voiced obstruents with their voiceless counterparts, and allophonically turn non-geminated voiceless obstruents into voiced ones between vowels.
* Geminated consonants become short consonants at the ends of words in dialects in the Eastern Dialect Group.
* Some dialects in this group drop {{w|Stress (linguistics)|unstressed}} vowels at the ends of words. The Fidurin dialect does not have this feature, however.
* Standard Meyāni inserts the sound /x/ between two consecutive monopthongs. However, a different consonant is inserted in dialects in the Eastern Dialect Group: /k/. This is because Standard Meyāni <h> merges with /k/ in dialects in this group.

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====Meraqlum Dialect Group====
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====Southwestern Dialect Group====
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====Southern Dialect Group====
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==Phonology==

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===Vowels===
Modern Standard Meyāni has six {{w|vowel}} phonemes, with three being "{{w|Vowel length|long}}" and three being short. Note that "long vowels" are not pronounced longer than the short vowels in most dialects, but the long pronunciation is proscribed in school textbooks.

{| class="wikitable"
|+Meyāni vowels
!
!Front
!Back
|-
!High
|i(ː) <nowiki></nowiki>
|u(ː) <nowiki></nowiki>
|-
!Mid
|ɛ <e>
| o <o>
|-
!Low
|æ <a>
|ɑ(ː) <â>
|}

The language also has three {{w|diphthongs}} which are often categorized as "long vowels": /ai/ <ai>, /au/ <au>, and /eu/ <eu>, the latter of which is rare and only occurs in a few words.

The vowel inventory below is probably the closest approximation of the pronounciation used by native Meyāni speakers. Unlike {{w|humans}}, [[Alligatoris sapiens|gators']] {{w|soft palates}} (which are the practical equivalent of the human {{w|velum}} as gators lack it) are naturally lowered, and so do not redirect air into the {{w|mouth}}. Instead, all sounds (including all {{w|consonants}}) are {{w|Nasalization|nasalized}} (hence the tildes used all over the chart).

{| class="wikitable"
|+Actual vowel chart
! colspan="2" |
!Front
!Back
|-
! colspan="2" rowspan="2" |High
|i
|u
|-
|[ĩ(ː)]
|[ũ(ː)]
|-
! colspan="2" rowspan="2" |Mid
|e
|o
|-
|[ẽ̞]
|[õ̞]
|-
! colspan="2" rowspan="2" |Low
|a
|â
|-
|[æ̃ ~ ä̃]
|[ɐ̞̃(ː) ~ ɑ̃(ː)]
|-
! rowspan="4" |Dipthong
! rowspan="2" |e-
| rowspan="2" |
|eu
|-
|[ẽ̞ʊ̯̃]
|-
! rowspan="2" |a-
|ai
|au
|-
|[æ̃ɪ̯̃]
|[ɑ̃ʊ̯̃]
|}

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===Consonants===
Modern Standard Meyāni has nineteen phonemic consonant phonemes, with /g/ only being found in {{w|loanwords}}. In Meyāni, there are {{w|minimal pairs}} distinguished by {{w|gemination|consonant length}}. The following consonants are suitable approximations of those sounds by humans.

{| class="wikitable"
|+Meyāni consonants
! colspan="2" |
!{{w|Labial consonant|Labial}}
!{{w|Alveolar consonant|Alveolar}}
!{{w|Palatal consonant|Palatal}}
!{{w|Velar consonant|Velar}}
|-
! colspan="2" |{{w|Nasal consonant|Nasal}}
|/m/ <m>
|/n/ <n>
|/ɲ/ <ñ>
|
|-
! rowspan="2" |{{w|Stop consonant|Stop}}
!Voiceless
|/p/ <nowiki></nowiki>
|/t/ <t>
|
|/k/ <k>
|-
!Voiced
|/b/ <nowiki></nowiki>
|/d/ <d>
|
|/g/ <g>
|-
! colspan="2" |{{w|Affricate|Affricate}}
|
|
|/t͡ʃ/ <č>
|/q͡ʟ/ <ql>
|-
! rowspan="2" |{{w|Fricative}}
!Voiceless
|/f/ <f>
|/s/ <s><nowiki><s></nowiki>
|/ʃ/ <š>
|/x/ <h>
|-
!Voiced
|/v/ <v>
|
|
|
|-
! colspan="2" |{{w|Approximant}}
|
|/l/ <l>
|/j/ <y>
|
|-
! colspan="2" |{{w|Trill consonant|Trill}}
|
|/r/ <r>
|
|
|}

However, the consonant inventory below is the closest approximation to what native Meyāni speakers are actually saying in the human IPA, though the above inventory is intelligible to them. Unlike {{w|humans}}, gators' {{w|soft palates}} (which are the practical equivalent of the human {{w|velum}} as gators lack it) are naturally lowered, and so do not redirect air into the {{w|mouth}}. Instead, all sounds (including all {{w|consonants}}) are {{w|Nasalization|nasalized}} (hence the tildes used all over the chart).

{| class="wikitable"
|+Actual consonant chart
! colspan="2" rowspan="2" |
! colspan="2" |Labial
! colspan="2" |Alveolar
! rowspan="2" |Retroflex I [Palatal]
! colspan="2" |Palatal [Velar]
! colspan="2" |Glottal
|-
!B*
!F**
!B*
!F**
!B*
!F**
!B*
!F**
|-
! colspan="2" rowspan="2" |Nasal release
| colspan="2" |m
| colspan="2" |n
|ñ
| colspan="2" rowspan="2" |
| colspan="2" rowspan="2" |
|-
|[mˠ]
|[mʲ]
|[nˠ]
|[nʲ]
|[ɲ]
|-
! rowspan="4" |Stop
! rowspan="2" |Voiceless
| colspan="2" |p***
| colspan="2" |t***
| rowspan="2" |
| colspan="2" |k***
| colspan="2" rowspan="1" | -****
|-
|[p̃ˠ ~ p̃ʰˠ]
|[p̃ʲ ~ p̃ʰʲ]
|[t̃ˠ ~ t̃ʰˠ]
|[t̃ʲ ~ t̃ʰʲ]
|[k̃ ~ k̃ʰ]
|[k̃ʲ ~ k̃ʰʲ]
|[ʔ̃ˠ]
|[ʔ̃ʲ]
|-
! rowspan="2" |Voiced
| colspan="2" |b
| colspan="2" |d
| rowspan="2" |
| colspan="2" |g
| colspan="2" rowspan="2" |
|-
|[b̃ˠ]
|[b̃ʲ]
|[d̃ˠ]
|[d̃ʲ]
|[g̃]
|[g̃ʲ]
|-
! colspan="2" rowspan="2" |Affricate
| colspan="2" rowspan="2" |
| colspan="2" rowspan="2" |
|č
| colspan="2" |ql
| colspan="2" rowspan="2" |
|-
|[t̃͡ɕ̃]
|[k̃͡ˤʟ̃]
|[k̃͡ˤʟ̃ʲ]
|-
! rowspan="4" |Fricative
! rowspan="2" |Voiceless
| colspan="2" |f
| colspan="2" |s
|š
| colspan="2" |h
| colspan="2" rowspan="2" |
|-
|[f̃ˠ]
|[f̃ʲ]
|[s̃ˠ]
|[s̃ʲ]
|[ɕ̃]
|[x̃]
|[x̃ʲ]
|-
! rowspan="2" |Voiced
| colspan="2" |v
| colspan="2" rowspan="2" |
| rowspan="2" |
| colspan="2" rowspan="2" |
| colspan="2" rowspan="2" |
|-
|[ṽˠ]
|[ṽʲ]
|-
! colspan="2" rowspan="2" |Approximant
| colspan="2" rowspan="2" |
| colspan="2" |l
|y
| colspan="2" rowspan="2" |
| colspan="2" rowspan="2" |
|-
|[ɫ̃]
|[l̃ʲ ~ ʎ̃]
|[j̃ ~ ʝ̃]
|-
! colspan="2" rowspan="2" |Trill
| colspan="2" rowspan="2" |
| colspan="2" |r*****
| rowspan="2" |
| colspan="2" rowspan="2" |
| colspan="2" rowspan="2" |
|-
|[r̃ˠ ~ ɹ̃ˠ]
|[r̃ʲ]
|}

<nowiki>*</nowiki>, **: Most consonants can be {{w|Palatalization|palatalized}} (which is marked in the IPA by the addition of a subscript {{w|Latin script}} letter "j" [ʲ] after the symbol) before front vowels (marked with "F" above the palatalized realization). However, palatal [Retroflex I] consonants cannot undergo this process. Most linguists analyze non-palatalized consonants as velarized variations of regular consonants (which occur in all other environments, as represented by the "B" above the non-palatalized realization), similar to the broad-slender distinction found in the Terran languages {{w|Irish language|Irish}} and (according to some) {{w|Russian language|Russian}}, but this is not phonemic in the Meyāni language.

<nowiki>***:</nowiki> Voiceless plosives are highly {{w|Aspirated consonant|aspirated}} when adjacent to a stressed vowel, especially in the speech of the higher classes. This feature is thought to have been introduced during the [[Bandit dynasty]] under the influence of the [[Bandit language]], which has a phonemic distinction between aspirated and non-aspirated voiceless stops but has no voiced stops.

<nowiki>****:</nowiki> The glottal stop is not phonemic in Meyāni and only occurs word-initially. However, the presence of a non-phonemic glottal stop explains the soft glide that occurs when a front vowel occurs word-initially.

<nowiki>*****:</nowiki> <r> is usually pronounced as a trill [r̃]. Nevertheless, it could be pronounced as [ɹ̃] in {{w|Syllable coda|coda position}} if the {{w|syllable onset}} contains an alveolar or palatal consonant other than /j/.

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===Phonotactics===
Most words in Meyāni contain entirely open syllables. However, its maximum {{w|Syllable#Components|syllable structure}} is <code>#((l)C)V/(N, h)(C)CV/(C, G)(C)#</code>, where:

*"#" represents a boundary between words.
*"(l)" represents an optional /l/ that is only able to go before /v/, like in ''lvansa'', which means "sword".
*"(...)" represent optional components.
*"C" represents a consonant.
*"V" represents a vowel or diphthong.
*"G" represents a word-final consonant that undergoes {{w|gemination}}. This is optional.
*"/(N, h)(C)CV/" represents the possible phonotactical structure in syllables at the middle of a word.
*"N" represents any {{w|Nasal consonant|nasal consonant}}

Unlike the closely related [[Bandit language]], Meyāni does not allow for word-initial {{w|consonant clusters}} (other than /lv/). Loanwords with initial consonant clusters are usually dealt with by {{w|epenthesis}}, the insertion of extra vowels. Consonant clusters that consist of two consonants with the same place of articulation and manner of articulation and with the only distinction between the two consonants being different voicing are not allowed in the language; these types of clusters are typically turned into geminated consonants carrying the voicing of the last consonant in the illegal cluster prior to assimilation. Most words with final consonants end with just one consonant or geminated consonant, though it is possible for two consonants to be present. Most words that have medial consonant clusters only have just two consonants, though it is possible for three consonants to be present in these clusters as long as the first sound in the cluster is either a nasal or /x/.

Meyāni also does not allow the occurrence of {{w|vowel hiatuses}}. Therefore, the <-i> suffix used in adjectives and possessor nouns is realized as /jiː/ in words that end in vowels.

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===Prosody===
Meyāni is a strictly {{w|mora-timed language}}, with each syllable getting one {{w|mora}} (two if the vowel in the {{w|syllable nucleus}} is either a "long vowel" or a diphthong). Stress in Meyāni always falls on the first syllable with a "long vowel" or diphthong as a nucleus in a word, with stress falling instead on the first syllable if there are no "long vowels" or diphthongs in a word entirely. Suffixes cannot receive stress.

In foreign words that have not been assimilated, stress falls on the syllable where it fell in the original language. However, loanwords that have been fully assimilated often have a stress shift to match the regular stress patterns or irregular vowel shifts.

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==Orthography==
[[File:Meyani script.png|200px|right]]

The Meyāni language is written in its own script, which is descended from {{w|logographs}} used by Proto-Qlerevi speakers. The script itself has features of both an {{w|alphabet}} and an {{w|abjad}} because short vowels are not written and require optional {{w|diacritics}} to be expressed, with {{w|Linguistics|linguists}} coining the term '''alphabjad''' to classify the Meyāni script. The script is written from left-to-right and has the following letters:
{| class="wikitable"
|+
!Position
in order
!Letter
!Name
!Sound (other sounds)
|-
|1
|{{CustomScript|meyani|@}}
|''â''
|/ɑː/ (/æ/)
|-
|2
|{{CustomScript|meyani|i}}
|''i''
|/iː/ (/ɛ/)
|-
|3
|{{CustomScript|meyani|u}}
|''u''
|/uː/ (/o/)
|-
|4
|{{CustomScript|meyani|b}}
|''bâ''
|/b/
|-
|5
|{{CustomScript|meyani|c}}
|''čâ''
|/t͡ʃ/
|-
|6
|{{CustomScript|meyani|d}}
|''dâ''
|/d/
|-
|7
|{{CustomScript|meyani|f}}
|''fâ''
|/f/
|-
|8
|{{CustomScript|meyani|h}}
|''hâ''
|/x/
|-
|9
|{{CustomScript|meyani|y}}
|''yi''
|/j/
|-
|10
|{{CustomScript|meyani|k}}
|''kâ''
|/k/ (/g/)
|-
|11
|{{CustomScript|meyani|l}}
|''lâ''
|/l/
|-
|12
|{{CustomScript|meyani|m}}
|''mâ''
|/m/
|-
|13
|{{CustomScript|meyani|n}}
|''nâ''
|/n/
|-
|14
|{{CustomScript|meyani|p}}
|''pâ''
|/p/
|-
|15
|{{CustomScript|meyani|q}}
|''qlâ''
|/q͡ʟ/
|-
|16
|{{CustomScript|meyani|r}}
|''râ''
|/r/
|-
|17
|{{CustomScript|meyani|s}}
|''sâ''
|/s/
|-
|18
|{{CustomScript|meyani|t}}
|''tâ''
|/t/
|-
|19
|{{CustomScript|meyani|v}}
|''vu''
|/v/
|-
|20
|{{CustomScript|meyani|x}}
|''šâ''
|/ʃ/
|}

The sound /ɲ/ does not have its own letter in the Meyāni script, but is rather expressed as a {{w|digraph}} of the letters {{CustomScript|meyani|n}} and {{CustomScript|meyani|y}}, in that order; geminated /ɲː/ is expressed with the same characters but with the {{CustomScript|meyani|n}} doubled, while all other consonants are geminated by doubling the letter that represents it. Dipthongs are expressed with digraphs {{CustomScript|meyani|@i}}, {{CustomScript|meyani|@u}}, and {{CustomScript|meyani|iu}} for the sounds /ai/, /au/, and /eu/ respectively. When short vowels begin words, they are written with their corresponding long vowel letters (which produces a lot of near-{{w|homographs}} in the script, such as {{CustomScript|meyani|ih@}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|i}} (''ehái'') "{{w|water}}" and {{CustomScript|meyani|i}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|h@yi}} (''íhâyi'') "(reflexive pronoun)")

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===Diacritics===
TBA

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===Punctuation===
TBA

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===Numerals===
TBA

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==Grammar==
''Note: All Meyāni text in this section of this article, other than the "Parts of Speech" section below, are written in a modified form of the {{w|Latin alphabet}}, not in the actual Meyāni script.''

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===Parts of Speech===
Meyāni grammarians divide all Meyāni words into nine {{w|parts of speech}}, primarily based on the treatises of [[Ancient Venēmīan language|Ancient Venēmīan]] grammarians and adapted to fit to the Meyāni language's grammar:

* Noun ('''Meyāni''': *SCRIPT TBA* (''ñấmyuvaba'') "name-thing"): A word that represents a place, person, idea, or thing. Ancient Venēmīan grammarians did not distinguish between nouns and adjectives because they inflected similarily in their language, but the Meyāni grammarians, whose language does not have much case marking (other than the genitive case) or adjective agreement, felt like the two needed to be distinguished. Hence, the words for "noun" and "adjective" have the same initial root.
*Adjective ('''Meyāni''': *SCRIPT TBA* (''ñấmyuhupsiltos'') "name-descriptor"): A word that describes a noun, verb, or another adjective. Adjectives can be used as adverbs in Meyāni, so the two are not distinguished according to the Meyāni grammarians when adverbs are their own parts of speech in Ancient Venēmīan. Postpositions and determiners can also be used to fill the functions of adverbs in Meyāni, but the few "true adverbs" like "now" and "tomorrow" that are not already classified as adjectives, postpositions, or determiners in Meyāni are classified as adjectives by the Meyāni grammarians.

:In Meyāni, adjectives have three uses: nominal, verbal, and predicative. "Nominal" adectives are the types of adjectives that describe nouns, and they go before their nouns and receive the <-''i''> suffix. "Verbal" adjectives function like adverbs, and describe both verbs and other adjectives. "Predicative" adjectives are adjectives that go after verbs, but the usage category also includes some intransitive verbs like *SCRIPT TBA* (''šấsane'') "to be sweet", which can stand alone as a predicate without requiring an additional verb before it and requires a suffix -*SCRIPT TBA* (-''ba'') to be used as a nominal adjective and a verbal adjective.

*Determiner ('''Meyāni''': *SCRIPT TBA* (''qlávmam ra yúča-i sávo vábaqlâkera-i sai ro'') "a word in the large grouping of thinglings"): A category of words that includes both {{w|quantifiers}} and {{w|numerals}}, both of which behave similarily both morphologically and syntactically and can be used as adverbs. Ancient Venēmīan scholars did not distinguish between the Meyāni determinative and demonstrative because they all went before the noun in their language, whereas in Meyāni, determinatives go before the noun while demonstratives go after despite both behaving morphologically similar; in fact, the Meyāni word for "determinative" in general, *SCRIPT TBA* (''vábaqlâke''), is a {{w|calque}} of the Ancient Venēmīan term for "determiner," which literally means "thingling."
*Demonstrative ('''Meyāni''': *SCRIPT TBA* (''qlávmam ra bấñâneba-i sávo vábaqlâkera-i sai ro'') "a word in the small grouping of thinglings"): A category of words that includes just two words: *SCRIPT TBA* (''su'') "this/these" and *SCRIPT TBA* (''súkin'') "that/those." These words are {{w|deictic}} words that convey which nouns are being referred to in the discourse.
*Pronoun ('''Meyāni''': *SCRIPT TBA* (''ñấmyuperidon'') "name-substitute"): A word that can stand in for any noun in a sentence. This category does not include [[Meyāni language#Subordinate clauses|the relative and end-relative pronouns]] ''ra'' and ''ro'' respectively, which are both lumped into the category of conjunction instead.
*Postposition ('''Meyāni'''): *SCRIPT TBA* (''vehašehấva'') "before-position"<ref>The name is inaccurate since it is a calque of a word in Ancient Venēmīan, which has prepositions instead of postpositions.</ref>): A word used to express spatial or temporal relations with a noun, which is refered to as its object. In addition, postpositions can also be used as adverbs.
* Verb ('''Meyāni''': *SCRIPT TBA* (''qlávmam'') "word"): A word that expresses an action or a state of being. The vast majority of verbs are action verbs, while the two verbs that express a state of being in Meyāni are *SCRIPT TBA* (''rấmmau'') "am/are/is" and *SCRIPT TBA* (''túnutu'') "was/were" (which also functions as an action verb because it is also the past tense form of the verb *SCRIPT TBA* (''túno'') "to become"
*Auxiliary ('''Meyāni''': *SCRIPT TBA* (''qlávmam ra yóho ro'') "a word that helps"): A word that adds to the verb and helps it express tenses and aspects beyond just the present and past.
*Conjunction ('''Meyāni''': *SCRIPT TBA* (''sídrenos'') (a loanword from Ancient Venēmīan)): A word that connects two clauses or affects the flow of a sentence.

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===Morphology===
Meyāni is generally an {{w|analytic language}} and does not make much use of {{w|inflection}}, other than {{w|Grammatical number|number}}, {{w|possession}}, and some {{w|grammatical tenses}}.

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====Nominals====
Nominals (nouns and adjectives) do not inflect for {{w|grammatical case}} (other than the {{w|genitive case}}), but inflect for number. The language has no {{w|grammatical gender}}. Meyāni is one of the only major [[Qlerevi languages]] to lack case marking.

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===== Noun phrases=====
Meyāni is mostly {{w|Head-directionality parameter#Head-initial languages|head-initial}} in noun phrases. The default order of Meyāni noun phrases is the following:

{| class="wikitable"
|+Default order of a Meyāni noun phrase
!Position
!-2
!-1
!0
!+1
!+2
!+3
!+4
!+5
!+6
|-
!What goes in the position?
!Numerals
(Independent words)
!Adjectives
(Independent words)
!HEAD NOUN
!Plural
(Suffix)
!Genitive
(Suffix)
!Possessor's noun phrase
(Independent words)
!Relative clauses
(Independent words)
!Demonstrative pronouns
(Independent words)
!Postposition
(Independent word)
|-
!Is this position mandatory in the phrase?
!No
!No
!Yes
!No
!No
!No
!No
!No
!No
|}

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=====Number=====
There are two grammatical numbers in Meyāni: singular and plural. The singular expresses that there is exactly one of a thing, while the plural expresses that there is more than one of a thing. To indicate plural number, a suffix <-ra> is used, which was derived from a Proto-Qlerevi word meaning "many." The plural number is not used when cardinal numerals are used in the noun phrase, as in this simple phrase:

{{interlinear|indent=2
| áčane ñéra
| five gator-SG
| "five gators"
}}

Some determiners (such as "all" or "many") that do not influence the number of their nouns in English make them singular in Meyāni instead, like numerals:

{{interlinear|indent=2
| báram ñéra
| all gator-SG
| "all gators"
}}

'''Mass nouns''' 
A mass noun is a noun which cannot be counted, and do not change between singular or plural numbers. Most mass nouns are ''singulare tantum'' (only taking the singular in all cases); however, some are ''plurare tantum'' (only taking the plural in all cases). To inflect for number, mass nouns are put into a possessive construction with a measure word or {{w|Classifier (linguistics)|classifier}} (depending on the grammar cited) being the possessee in the phrase.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| áčane áifâm yeláira-i
| five bucket-SG wine-SG-POSS
| "five glasses of wine" (literally: five buckets of wine)
}}

{{interlinear|indent=2
| áčane áifâm ehái-i
| five bucket-SG water-SG-POSS
| "five buckets of water" (literally: five buckets of water)
}}

Most abstract nouns (other than <''yáto''> "language," which also means "tongue") and most things that are very small are mass nouns in Meyāni, and require a measure word/classifier to be inflected for number.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| čáiva néčaqlo-i
| branch-SG magic-SG-POSS
| "a unit of magic" (i.e. "magic spell") (literally: branch of magic)
}}

{{interlinear|indent=2
| áukan píretes-i
| way/road-SG philosophy-SG-POSS
| "a philosophy" (literally: way/road of philosophy)
}}

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=====Possession=====
Meyāni has a {{w|genitive case}}, which is used for marking the possessor of a possessive phrase. The genitive case is marked with the suffix <-i>, which goes after the plural marker. Adjectives are also marked with the <-i> suffix, because both the genitive case and the adjectival marker are derived from a Proto-Qlerevi postposition meaning "of." Possessors go after their head nouns.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| néčaqloba-i ấnossu úne-i
| magic-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}}-ADJ snail-SG 1SG-POSS
| "my magical snail"
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|kóra Sấvaren-i ča-i Reqlútton-i
|country-SG Sāvae-POSS and-POSS Reqlūndo-POSS| "Sāvae and Reqlūndo's country"
}}

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=====Adjectives=====
Like as mentioned in the previous section, Meyāni's adjectives are marked identically to the genitive case. However, adjectives are placed before their head nouns instead of after. Adjectives are not marked with the <-i> suffix when they are used alone as a predicate along with the copula.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne rấmmau '''šấbya''' .
| 1SG be.PRS good .
| "I am good."
}}

Numerals are also not marked with the <-i> suffix despite behaving like adjectives syntactically. Like numerals, determiners (like "all" and "many") do behave like adjectives syntactically.

Adjectives do not agree with their head nouns in terms of number, and stay the same form even if their head noun is plural.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| néčaqloba-i ấnossura
| magic-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}}-ADJ snail-PL
| "some/the magical snails"
}}

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======Adjective inflections======
Meyāni adjectives inflect to mark comparison, intensity, and sufficiency. These evolved from independent words that were suffixed onto adjectives and heavily simplified. Heavily-suffixed adjectives with affixes to convey comparison, intensity, and sufficiency are a common linguistic feature across the [[Prorinian peninsula]], but they are rare across the Qlerevi family.
{| class="wikitable"
! colspan="3" |
!Marking
!Example
|-
! colspan="3" |Positive
|*none*, ''-(y)i''
|''šấbya(-i)'' "good"
|-
! rowspan="5" |Comparative
! rowspan="3" |of superiority
!neutral
|''-(a)ran''
|''šấbyaran'' "better"
|-
!affirming
|''-(a)šberan''
|''šấbyašberan'' "better, and still good"
|-
!denying
|''-(a)šñaran''
|''šấbyašñaran'' "better, but not good"
|-
! colspan="2" |of equality
| -''(a)nso''
|''šấbyanso'' "as good"
|-
! colspan="2" |of inferiority
|''-(a)rña''
|''šấbyarña'' "less good"
|-
! rowspan="2" |Superlative
! colspan="2" |of superiority
|''-(a)šhi''
|''šấbyašhi'' "best"
|-
! colspan="2" |of inferiority
|''-(a)šañ''
|''šấbyašañ'' "least good"
|-
! colspan="3" |Intensive
|''-(a)šo''
|''šấbyašo'' "very good, so good"
|-
! colspan="3" |Insufficientive
|''-(a)ñân''
|''šấbyañân'' "not good enough"

|-
! colspan="3" |Sufficientive
|''-(a)vân''
|''šấbyavân'' "good enough, too good"
|}

'''Comparatives''' 
Meyāni ajectives have five different comparative forms, which are used for comparing two or three different entities:
* The '''neutral comparative of superiority''' expresses that one noun has a greater quantity of an adjective than other nouns, but does not make any statement about the comparison.
{{Interlinear|indent=2
|Bâr rấmmau '''rấvvibaran''' ra áudda íhâyi-i ro .
|3SG be.PRS be.fast-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}}-{{gcl|COMP.N.SUP|neutral comparative of superiority}} {{gcl|REL|relative pronoun}} brother-SG {{gcl|R|reflexive pronoun}}-POSS {{gcl|END.REL|end-relative pronoun}} .
|"He/she is faster than his/her brother."
}}
* The '''affirming comparative of superiority''' expresses that one noun has a greater quantity of an adjective than other nouns, but affirms the comparison.
{{Interlinear|indent=2
|Bâr rấmmau '''rấvvibašberan''' ra áudda íhâyi-i ro .
|3SG be.PRS be.fast-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}}-{{gcl|COMP.A.SUP|affirming comparative of superiority}} {{gcl|REL|relative pronoun}} brother-SG {{gcl|R|reflexive pronoun}}-POSS {{gcl|END.REL|end-relative pronoun}} .
|"He/she is faster than his/her brother, and also fast."
}}
* The '''denying comparative of superiority''' expresses that one noun has a greater quantity of an adjective than other nouns, but denies the fact that the noun with a greater quantity of said adjective has that trait.
{{Interlinear|indent=2
|Bâr rấmmau '''rấvvibašñaran''' ra áudda íhâyi-i ro .
|3SG be.PRS be.fast-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}}-{{gcl|COMP.D.SUP|denying comparative of superiority}} {{gcl|REL|relative pronoun}} brother-SG {{gcl|R|reflexive pronoun}}-POSS {{gcl|END.REL|end-relative pronoun}} .
|"He/she is faster than his/her brother, but he is not fast.", "While he/she is faster than his/her brother, he/she is not fast."
}}
* The '''comparative of equality''' expresses that one noun does not have a greater or lesser quantity of an adjective than other nouns.
{{Interlinear|indent=2
|Kấraše rấmmau '''ahháumbanso''' ra áudda íhâyi-i ro .
|Kấraše be.PRS care-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}}-{{gcl|COMP.E|comparative of equality}} {{gcl|REL|relative pronoun}} brother-SG {{gcl|R|reflexive pronoun}}-POSS {{gcl|END.REL|end-relative pronoun}} .
|"Kấraše is as caring as his brother."
}}
*TBA

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=====Pronouns=====

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======Personal pronouns======
Meyāni has six {{w|personal pronouns}}, with three being singular and three being plural. Personal pronouns do not change form for case or gender.

{| class="wikitable"
|+Meyāni personal pronouns
!Number →
Person
↓
!Singular
!Plural
|-
!1st person
|''úne''
|''úñra''
|-
!2nd person
|''qle'', ''qlíša''<ref><Qlíša> (the plural form) can be used as a polite form of address or to address strangers regardless of number, while <qle> (the singular form) is used among friends and family members or to insult one's superiors. A similar thing happens in [[Yaksōnian language|modern Yaksōnian]], which is a part of a pan-Prorinian linguistic ''{{w|sprachbund}}'' affecting the two languages.</ref>
|''qlíša''

|-
!3rd person
|''bâr''
|''bấrra''
|}

Meyāni is a partial {{w|pro-drop language}}, which means that subject or object personal pronouns are optional and can be dropped if the context gets rid of the need for them. This is especially seen in sentences relating to the weather or in informal conversation.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| ('''Bâr''') Šéha reñấn áčane qlísseyo sai . ('''Qlíša''') Túnutu sáudeče úne-i sai ?
| (3SG) rain-PRS FUT.AUX five qlisseo-SG in/on/at . (2PL) be.PST message-SG 1SG-POSS in/on/at ?
| "It will be raining in five ''qlisseo''<ref>A [[Levarianqueva|Levarianquevan]] unit of time roughly equivalent to 1.7933 hours in {{w|Time#Measurement|Terran time}}</ref>. Did you get my message?"
}}

Note that the above sentences lack subject pronouns, as they can be inferred from context.

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======Reflexive pronouns======
Meyāni has a single simple reflexive pronoun: <''íhâyi''>. This pronoun can be used for all persons and numbers when any noun in the predicate is the same as the subject.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne ámu '''íhâyi''' .
| 1SG love-PRS {{gcl|R|reflexive pronoun}} .
| "I love myself."
}}

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Ke ámu qle/qlíša '''íhâyi''' ?
| Q love-PRS 2SG/2PL {{gcl|R|reflexive pronoun}} ?
| "Do you love yourself?"
}}

When the possessor of the direct object, indirect object, or any noun in a postpositional phrase is the same as the subject, the reflexive pronoun is used as the possessor in the possessive phrase. This is similar to certain Terran languages like {{w|Russian language|Russian}} and (to a lesser extent) {{w|Latin}}.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Bâr ámu sấku '''íhâyi-i''' .
| 3SG love-PRS wife-SG {{gcl|R|reflexive pronoun}}-POSS .
| "He loves his own wife."
}}

Contrast the above sentence with the following sentence, where the possessor of the sentence's direct object is not the same as its subject:

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Bâr ámu sấku '''bấr-i''' .
| 3SG love-PRS wife-SG 3SG-POSS .
| "He loves someone else's wife."
}}

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======Indefinite pronouns======
Unlike certain colloquial forms of English, which use the second person personal pronoun to express an indefinite pronoun "one", Meyāni uses the third person singular personal pronoun for this purpose instead.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| '''Bâr''' ña ấhano bávva ra sáubune Eqlíssalos ra áqlo oñqlấmmuba-i šohčúqlau ro šấne ro .
| 3SG NEG coerce AUX.DEO {{gcl|REL|relative pronoun}} change-PRS Eqléssalos {{gcl|REL|relative pronoun}} start-PRS to.be.violent-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}}-ADJ protest-SG {{gcl|END.REL|end-relative pronoun}} up/after {{gcl|END.REL|end-relative pronoun}} .
| "One cannot force the Eqléssalos to reform by starting a violent protest."
| c1 = (A quote from Rírin-i Roqlínau, who famously advocated for a reformation of the [[Eqléssalos of Mages]] in order to reduce corruption within the magical institution and turn it into a bulwark against corporate influence.)
}}

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======Demonstrative pronouns======
Meyāni has two basic {{w|demonstrative pronouns}}: <''su''> "this" and <''súkin''> "that." Demonstrative pronouns behave like numerals morphologically, not agreeing in number with the nouns they modify and not taking the <-i> suffix that is taken by adjectives when in a noun phrase. However, they go after their head noun instead of before.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| šấbya-i ñéra '''súkin'''
| good-ADJ gator-SG that
| "that good gator"
}}

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======Interrogative pronouns======
Proto-Qlerevi had one simple interrogative pronoun (which was the ancestor of Meyāni <''vu''> "what, which"). However, new interrogative pronouns evolved in Meyāni (as well as in almost every other Qlerevi language) from combinations of this simple root with a series of postpositions. The resulting combinations then gradually simplified over time due to common usage.

{| class="wikitable"
|+Meyāni interrogative pronouns
!Meyāni word (source)
!English translation
|-
|''vu''
|"what," "which," "who/whom"

|-
|''vúši'' (< ''vu sai'' "in/on/at what")
|"where"
|-
|''vútu'' (< ''vu tau'' "from what")
|"whence"
|-
|''vúbña'' (< ''vu báne'' "towards what")
|"whither"
|-
|''váiba'' (< ''vu yáiba'' "during what")
|"when"

|-
|''vúra'' (< ''vu sára'' "by what means")
|"how"
|-
|''vúsa'' (< ''vu sa'' "for what")
|"why"
|}

The base interrogative pronoun can behave like numerals when used as adjectives, as shown in the following interrogative sentence:

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Ke yáira úne '''vu''' ñéra ?
| Q like-PRS 1SG what gator-SG ?
| "What/which gator do I like?"
}}

=====Articles=====
Meyāni does not have articles, so <''šấbya-i ñéra''> could either mean "a good gator" or "the good gator" depending on context.

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====Verbs====
Meyāni's verb system is generally analytic; the verb system relies on {{w|auxiliary verbs}} to express tense, aspect, or modal information outside of what the verbs themselves can express alone.

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=====Tense=====
Meyāni verbs inflect for just two tenses: {{w|past}} and {{w|Nonpast tense|non-past}}, which expresses events that happened in the past and events that did not happen in the past respectively. The non-past tense (which is often called simply the "{{w|present tense}}" and glossed in this article as such) is considered to be the default form of the verb and is listed in dictionaries alongside the past form in entries for irregular verbs. Most verbs indicate the past tense by the addition of a suffix <-tu>, which is derived from a verb meaning "to become." However, some verbs undergo {{w|suppletion}} between the non-past and past tenses (e.g. non-past <''rấmmau''> "am/are/is" → past <''túnutu''> "was/were" (which also means "became"); non-past <''íhu''> "go/goes" → past <''sáista''> "went").

However, some verbs indicate the past tense by changing the last vowel in the root in addition to using the <-tu> suffix (e.g. non-past <''ấnnaiha''> "receive/receives" → past <''ấnnaihâtu''> "received"; <''túno''> "become/becomes" → <''túnutu''> "became" (which also means "was/were")), which is ultimately caused by a final ''*w'' in the Proto-Qlerevi form. Some verbs indicate the past tense by means of a suffix <-ču> instead of the regular <-tu> (e.g. non-past <''yába''> "give up/gives up, surrender/surrenders" → past <''yábaču''> "gave up, surrendered"; non-past <''lvábba''> "fight/fights" → past <''lvábbaču''> "fought"); this also has an etymological origin, this time that of a final ''*y'' in the Proto-Qlerevi form instead of a ''*w''.

The {{w|future tense}} is formed by the addition of the verb <''reñấn''> "to want" after the non-past form of the verb. Unlike the [[Nōlīnian language]], Meyāni does not distinguish between any subdivisions of these three basic tenses and relies on adverbs or adverbial phrases to express these more concrete subdivisions instead.

The different tenses can be illustrated with the following three sentences:

{{interlinear|indent=2
|Úñra '''lvábba''' kídobâlo .
| 1PL fight-PRS corruption-SG .
| "We are fighting corruption."}}

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| Úñra '''lvábbaču''' kídobâlo .
| 1PL fight-PST corruption-SG .
| "We were fighting corruption."}}

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úñra '''lvábba''' '''reñấn''' kídobâlo .
| 1PL fight-PRS AUX.FUT corruption-SG .
| "We will be fighting corruption."}}

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=====Aspect=====
Meyāni distinguishes between just two {{w|grammatical aspects}}: the {{w|imperfective aspect}} and the {{w|perfective aspect}}. The imperfective is considered to be the default form of a verb; the perfective is expressed by turning the dictionary form of the verb into an adjective and adding the appropriate form of the verb <''rấmmau''> "to be" after the main verb.

'''Uses for the imperfective aspect''' 
The imperfective aspect's main usage is to express that an action is ongoing or is habitual. In the present tense, it expresses that the action stated by the verb is ongoing.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úñra '''lvábba''' tấbanra íhâyi-i , ča qlíša ña váhho óban . Yo váhho rấsâm rấnlaksara qlíša-i sai !
| 1PL fight-PRS enemy-PL {{gcl|R|reflexive pronoun}}-POSS , and 2PL NEG now party . IMP now get.back-PRS formation/line-PL 2PL-POSS in/on/at !
| "We are fighting our enemies, not partying. Get back in your formations immediately!"
}}

In the above sentences, the verb phrase with the main verb <''lvábba''> "to fight" is in the imperfective aspect in the present tense, expressing that the act of fighting enemies is an ongoing process.

In the past tense, the imperfective aspect expresses that an action was ongoing in the past but has been stopped in some way, either by being completed or by being interrupted.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne '''ấščâlârtu''' eredấnos Partấbala Meraqlúm-i sai .
| 1SG study-PST math-SG university-SG Meraqlum-POSS in/on/at .
| "I was study/used to study mathematics at the University of Meraqlum."
}}

In the above sentence, the verb phrase with the main verb <''ấščâlâr''> "studied" is in the imperfective aspect, expressing that the act of studying mathematics at a university was ongoing, but is not ongoing anymore in the present.

In the future tense, the imperfective aspect expresses that an action will be ongoing in the future.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úñra '''básso''' '''reñấn''' áiñeye .
| 1PL join-PRS AUX.FUT army-SG .
| "We will join the army."
}}

In the above sentence, the verb phrase with the main verb <''básso''> "to join" is in the imperfective, expressing that the act of joining the army is something that is going to happen.

Meyāni lacks a {{w|Progressive aspect|progressive}} aspect and a {{w|Habitual aspect|habitual}} aspect. The imperfective aspect is used instead to convey the roles expressed by the progressive and habitual aspects on their own.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne šíra .
| 1SG work-PRS .
| "I work/am working/habitually work."
}}

'''Uses for the perfective aspect''' 
The perfective aspect is primarily used to emphasize that an action has been completed. In the past tense, it is used to show that the action stated by the verb has been completed, with emphasis on the action being completed.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne '''róčaba''' '''túnutu''' yeláira áifâm-i .
| 1SG eat-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}} AUX.PFV.PST wine-SG bucket-SG-POSS .
| "I drank a glass of wine."
}}

In the above sentence, the verb phrase with the main verb <''róča''> "to eat/drink" is in the perfective aspect, expressing that the action of drinking wine has been completed, with emphasis on completion.

In the future tense, the perfective aspect is used to express that an action will be completed in the future.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne '''čétalataba''' '''rấmmau''' '''reñấn''' čétala .
| 1SG read-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}} AUX.PFV.PRS AUX.FUT book .
| "I will finish reading a book."
}}

In the above sentence, the verb phrase with the main verb <''čétalata''> "to read" is in the perfective aspect, expressing that an action will be completed in the future.

In the present tense, using the perfective aspect is ungrammatical in most formal varieties. However, some colloquial dialects use present tense and perfective aspect to express that an action will be completed soon or has been completed recently.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne '''čétalataba''' '''rấmmau''' čétala .
| 1SG read-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}} AUX.PFV.PRS book .
| "I will finish reading a book soon/I have finished reading a book recently."
}}

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=====Mood=====
TBA

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=====Voice=====
Standard Meyāni does not have any distinctions between the active and passive voices, which was already lost by the time of Early Classical Meyāni along with the entire case system. Therefore, the sentences "An elephant is chasing me" and "I am being chased by an elephant" are expressed by the same sentence:

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Nagúrtos ấñimqlo úne .| elephant-SG chase-PRS 1SG .
| "An/the elephant is chasing me./I am being chased by a/the elephant."
}}However, recent studies have found that younger Meyāni speakers have started to reinterpret {{w|cleft sentences}}, a very common construction which is primarily used to de-emphasize the subject in the Meyāni language, as a passive construction, and to use the aforementioned cleft sentences as such. This is likely due to influence from [[Meyāni language#Veleonnean Vernacular Meyāni|Veleonnean Vernacular Meyāni]], which does use cleft sentences as a construction that is used for the passive. Therefore, it is likely that the active-passive distinction might become standard in Meyāni in the near-future.

Therefore, the above Meyāni sentence may look like the below in the passive:{{interlinear|indent=2
| Bâr rấmmau nagúrtos ra bâv ấñimqlo úne ro .| 3SG be-PST elephant-SG {{gcl|REL|relative pronoun}} SJV chase-PRS 1SG {{gcl|END.REL|end-relative pronoun}} .
| "It is an elephant that is chasing me./I am being chased by an elephant."
}}

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===Syntax===

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==== Word order====
Standard Meyāni generally has a default word order of {{w|Subject-verb-object word order|subject-verb-object}} (SVO), as in English.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne rấmmau ñéra .
| 1SG be.PRS gator-SG .
| "I am a gator."
}}

However, this becomes {{w|Verb-subject-object word order|verb-subject-object}} (VSO) in {{w|subordinate clauses}}.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| ... ra ña rấmmau bâr ñéra ro .
| ... {{gcl|REL|relative pronoun}} NEG be.PRS 3SG gator-SG {{gcl|END.REL|end-relative pronoun}} .
| "... that he/she/it is not a gator."
}}

As said in the section on nominals, Meyāni's {{w|adjectives}} proceed the nouns they modify and {{w|Possession (linguistics)|possessors}} succeed their possessed nouns. Adverbs and adverbial phrases also proceed the parts of speech they modify and {{w|Numeral (linguistics)|numerals}} behave like adjectives in overall syntax.

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====Prepositional phrases and animacy====
In Meyāni, prepositional phrases (or postpositional phrases, as there are postpositions instead of prepositions) have an {{w|animacy}}-based {{w|Implicational hierarchy|hierarchy}} dependent on their objects which dictates the position of the postpositional phrase in relation to the direct object or intransitive verb of the sentence. Postpositional phrases with more animate objects tend to come closer to the direct object (or the verb, in sentences that lack a direct object) than postpositional phrases with more inanimate objects. In this example, the first and last postpositional phrases in the sentence are '''bolded'''.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne vehíčasaba túnutu '''ačấmra''' '''ahhaumba-i''' '''oksara-i''' '''lấčai''' nenáum ra rấmmau yánohe Meraqlúm-i sai ro sai '''ku-yáñña''' '''ča''' '''ku-áčane''' '''yáñña''' '''hấssâya-i''' '''yehấrum''' '''ra''' '''túnutu''' '''Bemumšo''' '''šấne''' '''ro''' '''sai''' .| 1SG hatch-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}} PFV.AUX.PST hand-PL care-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}}-ADJ parent-PL-POSS into carcass {{gcl|REL|relative pronoun}} be.PRS city.center-SG Meraqlum-SG-POSS in/on/at {{gcl|END.REL|end-relative pronoun}} in/on/at {{gcl|ORD|ordinal numeral}}-four and {{gcl|ORD|ordinal numeral}}-five four two.hundred.fifty.six-ADJ year {{gcl|REL|relative pronoun}} be.PST drought-{{gcl|INTS|intensifier}}-SG up/after {{gcl|END.REL|end-relative pronoun}} in/on/at .| "I was hatched into the hands of caring parents at a carcass in Meraqlum's city center in the 2,308th year AC (After the Collapse)."
| c1 = (An excerpt from ''An Autobiography of the Rebel-Mage'' by [[Rírin-i Roqlínau]])
}}

The sentence is grammatical because, in the Meyāni animacy hierarchy, "year" is less animate than "carcass," which is in turn less animate than "hands." However, Meyāni does not apply this animacy hierarchy to the subject, direct object, or adjectival predicates of a sentence like in [[Proto-Qlerevi language|Proto-Qlerevi]].

Meyāni maintains most of the Proto-Qlerevi animacy classes, but some have been merged into other classes; most notably, the inanimate and abstract classes of Proto-Qlerevi have merged into a single inanimate class and the megalozoic and microzoic classes have merged into a single biotic class in Meyāni. Also, the egordian and tuordian classes of Proto-Qlerevi have merged into a single "altordian" class in Meyāni, leaving only five animacy classes compared to the eight that Proto-Qlerevi has. Proto-Qlerevi itself is evidenced to have undergone a similar reduction in the amount of distinguished classes in its history, with earlier versions likely having massive {{w|noun class}} systems similar to Terran {{w|Bantu languages}} like {{w|Swahili language|Swahili}}.

The following five classes are distinguished in Meyāni:

{| class="wikitable"
|+Meyāni animacy hierarchy
!Rank
!Class name
!What falls into this class?

|-
!I
|Altordian
|first-person and second-person personal pronouns

|-
!II
|Masculine
|third-person personal pronouns and other pronouns, deities, and male gators
|-
!III
|Juvenofeminine
|primarily female gators and hatchlings, but also weather events, body parts, and {{w|extraterrestrial life}}
|-
!IV
|Biotic
|animals, plants, and other biological things
|-
!V
|Inanimate
|stationary non-biological things, landscape features, astronomical bodies, [[Magic (AWiEC)|magic]]-related concepts, and abstract concepts
|}

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====Interrogative and negative sentences====
In an {{w|interrogative sentence}} in Meyāni, the interrogative auxiliary <ke> goes before other constituents of the sentence, and the verb moves to where the subject would be in a normal sentence. This is a remnant of the older {{w|V2 word order}} in Prorinian Qlerevi languages, whereby the verb phrase is always the second constituent of a clause.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| '''Ke''' róčaba túnutu úne ấvvâsa tấbanra-i úne-i ?
| Q eat.{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}} PFV.AUX.PST 1SG blood-SG enemy-PL-POSS 1SG-POSS ?
| "Did I drink the blood of my enemies?"
}}

Unlike English, Meyāni does not do {{w|wh-movement}} and does not have {{w|do-support}} in both questions and negative constructions.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Ke vóraba túnutu úne '''vu''' ra róča ấvvâsa tấbanra-i úne-i ro ?
| Q do-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}} PFV.AUX.PST 1SG what {{gcl|REL|relative pronoun}} eat blood-SG enemy-PL-POSS 1SG-POSS {{gcl|END.REL|end-relative pronoun}} ?
| "What did I do in order to drink the blood of my enemies?"
}}

According the [[Question word-first principle]] in Qlerevi languages whereby question particles always go first in a sentence, the negative particle <ña> goes after the main verb phrase in an interrogative sentence with negative mood.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Ke róčaba túnutu '''ña''' úne ấvvâsa tấbanra-i úne-i ?
| Q eat.{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}} PFV.AUX.PST NEG 1SG blood-SG enemy-PL-POSS 1SG-POSS ?
| "Did I not drink the blood of my enemies?"
}}

In a normal sentence with a negative, however, the sentence completely reverts to the verb going between the subject and direct object, with the negative particle going before the verb.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne '''ña''' róčaba túnutu ấvvâsa tấbanra-i úne-i .
| 1SG NEG eat.{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}} PFV.AUX.PST blood-SG enemy-PL-POSS 1SG-POSS .
| "I did not drink the blood of my enemies."
}}

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===="To Have"====
Meyāni does not have a verb meaning "to have", like many Qlerevi languages. Instead, it uses the appropriate form of the verb <rấmmau> "to be", with the postposition <sai> "in/on/at" being attached to the verb's direct object.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne '''rấmmau''' ấvvâsa '''sai''' .
| 1SG be.PRS blood-SG in/on/at .
| "I have blood." (literally: "I am in blood.")
}}

In an intransitive sentence or a sentence with a direct object that has been dropped, Meyāni uses a perfective construction with the verb <''táksa''> "to catch" in the present tense to express the meaning of "to have". This is descended from the earlier meaning of the verb as "to grab." In this usage of the verb, applying the imperfective aspect is ungrammatical.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne '''táksaba''' '''túnutu''' .
| 1SG catch-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}} AUX.PFV-PST .
| "I have." (literally: "I have caught.")
}}

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====Subordinate clauses====
In Meyāni, subordinate clauses are almost completely identical in both formation and usage to subordinate clauses in Proto-Qlerevi.

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=====Formation=====
Subordinate clauses in Meyāni are typically formed by using the particles <ra> and <ro>, termed the "relative pronoun" and the "end-relative pronoun" respectively (even though they aren't really pronouns in the strictest sense: a word that can stand for other words in a sentence). As the names suggest, the relative pronoun preceeds a subordinate clause and the end-relative pronoun succeeds a subordinate clause, functioning in order to revert the sentence back to the clause before the subordinate clause began.

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=====Usage=====
TBA

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==Numeral system==
''Note: All Meyāni text in this section of this article is written in a modified form of the {{w|Latin alphabet}}, not in the actual Meyāni script.''

The Meyāni language uses a {{w|Hexadecimal|hexadecimal}} or base-16 system, even though actual written numerals are expressed using {{w|Duodecimal|dozenal}} or base-12, with sub-bases of 5 and 10, remnants of the old vigesimal system. Linguists theorize that the hexadecimal system developed when speakers of [[Qlerevi languages]], with most of their languages using a {{W|vigesimal}} or base-20 system, encountered speakers of [[Pre-Yaksōnian languages]], whose languages primarily used {{w|12 (number)|12}} as a base. When these two languages encountered each other, the pre-Yaksōnian speakers who ultimately assimilated themselves into the Qlerevi languages and culture tried to use 20 as a base but were so used to their native base-12 system that they ended up using 16 as a base as a compromise between the two systems; the Qlerevi speakers later adopted this, hence the use of 16 as a base.

Meyāni numerals by default express their {{w|Cardinal numeral|cardinal}} form. Prefixes exist which are used to express the {{w|Ordinal numeral|ordinal}} and {{w|Fraction|fractional}} form. However, all of Meyāni's multiplicative forms for numerals are borrowed from the [[Ancient Venēmīan language]] and therefore {{w|Suppletion|suppletive}}, but these are archaic; alternatively, these forms could be expressed by using {{w|Adpositional phrase|postpositional phrases}} in most modern registers.
{| class="wikitable"
|+
! colspan="4" |Number
! colspan="4" |In spoken Meyāni
|-
! colspan="3" |In {{w|Hindu-Arabic numerals}}
! rowspan="2" |In [[Prorinian mathematics#Modern numeral system|Prorinian numerals]]
(modern notation)
! rowspan="2" |Cardinal form
! rowspan="2" |Ordinal form
! rowspan="2" |Fractional form
! rowspan="2" |Multiplicative form
(archaic)
|-
!Base-10
!Base-12
!Base-16
|-
| colspan="3" |0
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|0}}
|''ñíñta''
|''ku-ñíñta''
| colspan="2" |N/A
|-
| colspan="3" |1
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|1}}
|''bač''
| rowspan="38" |TBA
| rowspan="38" |TBA
| rowspan="38" |TBA
|-
| colspan="3" |2
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|2}}
|''šóten''
|-
| colspan="3" |3
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|3}}
|''sádam''
|-
| colspan="3" |4
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|4}}
|''yáñña''
|-
| colspan="3" |5
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|5}}
|''áčane''
|-
| colspan="3" |6
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|6}}
|''bač ča áčane''
|-
| colspan="3" |7
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|7}}
|''šóten ča áčane''
|-
| colspan="3" |8
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|8}}
|''sádam ča áčane''
|-
| colspan="3" |9
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|9}}
|''yáñña ča áčane''
|-
|10
| colspan="2" |A
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|a}}
|''yáda''
|-
|11
| colspan="2" |B
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|b}}
|''bač ča yáda''
|-
|12
|10
|C
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|10}}
|''šóten ča yáda''
|-
|13
|11
|D
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|11}}
|''sádam ča yáda''
|-
|14
|12
|E
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|12}}
|''yáñña ča yáda''
|-
|15
|13
|F
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|13}}
|''áčane ča yáda''
|-
|16
|14
|10
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|14}}
|''rấyone''
|-
|17
|15
|11
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|15}}
|''bač ča rấyone''
|-
|21
|19
|15
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|19}}
|''áčane ča rấyone''
|-
|24
|20
|18
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|20}}
|''sádam ča áčane ča rấyone''
|-
|26
|22
|1A
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|22}}
|''yáda ča rấyone''
|-
|32
|28
|20
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|28}}
|''šóten rấyone''
|-
|36
|30
|24
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|30}}
|''yáñña ča šóten rấyone''
|-
|48
|40
|30
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|40}}
|''sádam rấyone''
|-
|60
|50
|3C
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|50}}
|''šóten ča yáda ča sádam rấyone''
|-
|64
|54
|40
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|54}}
|''yáñña rấyone''
|-
|72
|60
|48
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|60}}
|''sádam ča áčane ča yáñña rấyone''
|-
|80
|68
|50
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|68}}
|''áčane rấyone''
|-
|84
|70
|54
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|70}}
|''yáñña ča áčane rấyone''
|-
|92
|80
|60
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|80}}
|''bač áčane rấyone''
|-
|108
|90
|6C
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|90}}
|''šóten ča yáda ča bač áčane rấyone''
|-
|112
|94
|70
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|94}}
|''šóten áčane rấyone''
|-
|120
|A0
|78
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|a0}}
|''sádam ča áčane ča šóten áčane rấyone''
|-
|128
|A8
|80
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|a8}}
|''sádam áčane rấyone''
|-
|132
|B0
|84
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|b0}}
|''yáñña ča sádam áčane rấyone''
|-
|144
|100
|90
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|100}}
|''yáñña áčane rấyone''
|-
|256
|194
|100
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|194}}
|''hấssâya''
|-
|4,096
|2,454
|1,000
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|2454}}
|''emmáufiša''
|-
|65,536
|31,B14
|10,000
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|31b14}}
|''hấssâya emmáufiša''
|}

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==Vocabulary==
Around 2/3rds of all Meyāni {{w|vocabulary}} is of [[Qlerevi languages|Qlerevi]] origin. Qlerevi words in Meyāni are either directly inherited from [[Proto-Qlerevi language|Proto-Qlerevi]] or were borrowed from other Qlerevi languages. The vast majority of these terms in Meyāni are directly inherited from Proto-Qlerevi; the Qlerevi terms that were borrowed from other Qlerevi languages only account for less than 5% of all of Meyāni's vocabulary. Qlerevi-derived words encompass most of Meyāni's core vocabulary, so most of the time, no conherent sentence can be formed in Meyāni without resorting to using words of Qlerevi origin, with very rare exceptions.

Now-extinct [[pre-Yaksōnian languages]], which account for over 1/5th of all Meyāni words, are the main sources of {{w|loanwords}} within Meyāni's vocabulary. [[Ancient Venēmīan]], a {{w|prestige language}} which used to be learned by Meyāni gators of all ranks of society to connect with classical texts from the [[First Venēmīan Empire]] until it was banned by [[Meyāni#Nerấyavi's régime and the Great Prorinian War|the then-fascist-led government of Meyāni]] in 1942 AC shortly after [[Operation Yaksaháihča|the start of Meyāni's failed invasion of Yaksōn]], is the original language for the vast majority of these pre-Yaksōnian terms. Pre-Yaksōnian words in the Meyāni language are mostly terms relating to technical fields studied in the Prorinian peninsula like {{w|mathematics}}, {{w|Science|the sciences}}, {{w|music theory}}, {{w|philosophy}}, and [[Magic (AWiEC)|the art of magic]]; however, Pre-Yaksōnian words are also found in words relating to features of the Prorinian peninsula that don't exist or rarely do exist in the Qlerevi homeland, such as fauna (e.g. Meyāni *SCRIPT TBA* (''nagúrtos'') "{{w|elephant}}," with irregular o > u shift typical of assimilated loanwords), flora (e.g. Meyāni *SCRIPT TBA* (''ấččevon'') "{{w|Sequoioideae|redwood tree}}"), drinks (e.g. Meyāni *SCRIPT TBA* (''yeláira'') "{{w|wine}}"), and musical instruments (e.g. Meyāni *SCRIPT TBA* (''erínis'') "[[Prorinian music#Bee-lute|bee-lute]];"). Pre-Yaksōnian influence may have affected the grammar of Meyāni as well as contributing to vocabulary, with the language developing a strict {{w|V2 word order}} (which later shifted into a default {{w|Subject-verb-object word order|SVO word order}}, with few traces of the old V2 system remaining in the modern language) and losing most of the Proto-Qlerevi {{w|Grammatical case|case}} system.

Another major contributor of loanwords in Meyāni is the [[Rudakami language]]. Most Rudakami loanwords in Meyāni arrived during the period of [[Rudakami trade colonies|Rudakami merchants colonizing large areas of land on or near the Prorinian peninsula's coastline for trade with the local pre-Yaksōnian speakers]], which lasted from around 1800 BC until around 800 BC; these loanwords are typically related to concepts such as {{w|economics}}. However, during the period of [[Meyāni#Rudakami conquest and rule|Rudakami rule over Meyāni from 1632 AC until 1794 AC]], more Rudakami loanwords entered the language, mostly terms relating to {{w|government}}, the {{w|legal system}}, and {{w|feudalism}}. After Meyāni regained its independence from Rudakami control, there was widespread {{w|linguistic purism}} in Meyāni which aimed to purge all traces of Rudakami words within the language's vocabulary, which succeeded in removing a sizeable portion of Rudakami borrowings in the Meyāni lexicon but did not succeed in removing all of them. Today, Rudakami words account for around 1/10th of the Meyāni language's vocabulary.

===Derivation===
Meyāni makes heavy usage of {{w|agglutination}} and {{w|Compound (linguistics)|compounding}} to form new words. For example, the word *SCRIPT TBA* (''qlavmamčấčâlu'') translates to "{{w|syntax}}" in English and can be broken up into the following:

{{Interlinear|indent=2|top = qlavmamčấčâlu
|qlavmam-čâčâ-lu
|word-{{gcl|COL|collective}}-study.of
|"syntax" (literally: the study of a group of words)
}}

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== Example text==
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==Footnotes==
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Meyāni language

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{{Short description|Qlerevi language spoken in Meyāni and other regions in the Prorinian peninsula}}
{{Infobox Levarianquevan Language
| title = Meyāni
| othername = Meyānisian
| nativename = {{CustomScript|meyani|y}}̀ˋ˙{{CustomScript|meyani|t}}ˎ:{{CustomScript|meyani|n}}ˊ{{CustomScript|meyani|h@}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|n}}ˊ{{CustomScript|meyani|sir}}ˋ—{{CustomScript|meyani|i}} (''Yáto Nehấnesira-i'')
| image = Meyani distribution.png
| imagecaption = The distribution of the Standard Meyāni language in the Prorinian peninsula based on first-language speakers, overlaid by political boundaries: 
{{Color box|#7387cf}}: Standard Meyāni is spoken by a majority of gators in the area as a {{w|First language|mother tongue}}. 
{{Color box|#8EA7ff}}: Standard Meyāni is spoken by a significant minority of gators in the area as a mother tongue. 
{{Color box|#bacbff}}: Standard Meyāni is spoken by a small minority of gators in the area as a mother tongue. 
{{Color box|#ffffff}}: Standard Meyāni is primarily learned as a {{w|second language}} by gators in the area, as little-to-no first-language speakers exist. 
{{Color box|#3f48cc}}: The area is covered by a body of {{w|water}}. 
{{Color box|#000000}}: Political boundary.|imagesize=250px|pronounciation=/ˈjæ.to nɛˈxɑː.nɛ.siː.ra.jiː/
| region=[[Prorinian peninsula]]
| speakers = ~ 9 million (L1) 
~ 16 million (L2) 
~ 25 million (total)
| family = [[Qlerevi languages|Qlerevi]]
*[[Eastern Qlerevi languages|Eastern Qlerevi]]
**[[Prorinian Qlerevi languages|Prorinian Qlerevi]]
***[[Central Prorinian Qlerevi languages|Central Prorinian Qlerevi]]
****[[Steppe Qlerevi languages|Steppe Qlerevi]]
*****[[Old Meyāni language|Old Meyāni]]
******[[Classical Meyāni language|Classical Meyāni]]
*******'''Meyāni'''
| script = [[Meyāni alphabet]]<ref>The script is classified as a partial {{w|abjad}} because "{{w|short vowels}}" are not written and require optional {{w|diacritics}} to be expressed properly without relying solely on {{w|context}}; see [[Meyāni language#Orthography|the orthography section of this article]].</ref>
| direction = {{w|Directionality and orientation|Left-to-right}}
| officialin = [[Meyāni]]
| recognized = [[Yaksōn]]
| consonants = 19
| vowels = 9 (6 {{w|monophthongs}}, 3 {{w|diphthongs}}
| syllablestructure = <nowiki>#</nowiki>((l)C)V/(N, h)(C)CV/(C, G)(C)#
| prosody = {{w|Stress (linguistics)|Stress}}
| inflectiontype = {{w|Analytic language|Analytic}}
| nouncase = m
| nounnumber = y
| noundefinite = n
| noungender = n
| adjectiveagreement = No
| verbtense = y
| verbaspect = m
| verbmood = m
| verbvoice = n
| verbsubject = n
| verbobject = n
| verbnumber = n
| verbevidence = n
| verbvalency = n
| markingposs = {{w|Dependent-marking language|Dependent-marking}}
| markingadj = {{w|Dependent-marking language|Dependent-marking}}
| markingverb = {{w|Zero-marking language|Zero-marking}}
| wordorder = {{w|Subject-verb-object}}
| otherorders = {{w|Verb-subject-object}} (in {{w|subordinate clauses}})
| headdirection = {{w|Head-directionality parameter#Head-final languages|Head-final}} ({{w|Head-directionality parameter#Head-initial languages|Head-initial}} in verb phrases)
| alignmenttype = {{w|Nominative-accusative alignment|Nominative-Accusative}}
}}

The '''Meyāni language''' is a [[Qlerevi languages|Qlerevi language]] primarily spoken on the [[Prorinian peninsula]]. The standard dialect is primarily spoken in southern [[Meyāni]], with significant minorities of speakers existing throughout the peninsula and adjacent lands. Its closest living relative that is not disputed to be a distinct {{w|language}} (either by the {{w|Linguistic description|descriptionism}} of {{w|Academic linguistics|scholarly linguistics}}, which is the primary form of {{w|Linguistic study|linguistic study}} used in this article, or {{w|linguistic prescription}}, which is promoted by [[Meyāni#Education|Meyāni's educational system]]) is the [[Bandit language]], which is spoken primarily in the northern and northwestern<ref>Due to Levarianqueva's retrograde rotation, east and west are swapped on maps.</ref> areas of the [[Great Prorinian Steppes (country)|Great Prorinian Steppes]]. The language is the sole {{w|official language}} of Meyāni, while it is recognized as a {{w|minority language}} in [[Yaksōn]] (where it was introduced to vast swathes of the country by lower-class {{w|refugees}} fleeing the low {{w|quality of life}} generated by [[Meyāni#Corporations|the corporations in ''de facto'' charge of the Meyāni government]]); in all other Prorinian countries, the language is not recognized.

The language has had a long history spanning back thousands of years. The ultimate accepted ancestor of Meyāni, the [[Proto-Qlerevi language]], was likely spoken in an area roughly overlapping with the modern-day nation of [[Qlerebam]]. After a {{w|drought}} that contributed to much of Qlerebam being covered in vast {{w|deserts}} today, the Qlerevi peoples then {{w|migrated}} throughout Levarianqueva, settling in locations as distant from [[Vreotannia]] to [[Arozdénia]] to the Prorinian peninsula. The Qlerevi languages that ultimately arrived at the Prorinian peninsula then diversified into two distinct {{w|language families}}: the [[Central Prorinian Qlerevi languages]] (which ultimately evolved into the Meyāni language and its relatives) and the [[Northwestern Prorinian Qlerevi languages]] (which ultimately evolved into the [[Nōlīnian language]] and its relatives), displacing the local [[Pre-Yaksōnian languages]] in the process while absorbing significant influences from them, including the development of a strict {{w|V2 word order}}.

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==Classification and Dialects==

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===Position in the Qlerevi family===
Meyāni is a [[Qlerevi languages|Qlerevi language]] belonging to the [[Eastern Qlerevi languages|eastern branch]], which includes the [[Prorinian Qlerevi languages]] (which Meyāni is a part of). The eastern branch of Qlerevi languages is primarily differentiated from other Qlerevi languages in that languages in this branch underwent various {{w|sound changes}} which were absent from other Proto-Qlerevi dialects, including, but not limited to:

* [[Proto-Qlerevi language|Proto-Qlerevi]] ''*p'' {{w|lenition|lenites}} into /''*β''/ between two {{w|vowels}} (and later disappears entirely in the Prorinian Qlerevi languages); e.g. Proto-Qlerevi ''*kapōñ'' "to form" > Proto-Eastern Qlerevi ''*kaβōñ'' > Meyāni {{CustomScript|meyani|k@}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|un}}ˊ (''káune'') "to build, to create," [[Nōlīnian language|Nōlīnian]] *SCRIPT TBA* (-''kaʔǫni''-) "to form."
* Proto-Qlerevi ''*w'' becomes /''*β''/ word-finally, which later disappeared in the Prorinian Qlerevi languages (and produced a four-way distinction in {{w|vowel length}} between short, half-long, long, and overlong which eventually disappeared in all of Proto-Prorinian Qlerevi's descendants in some way or another); e.g. Proto-Qlerevi ''*eqlew'' "eternal rival" > Proto-Eastern Qlerevi ''*eqleβ'' > Meyāni {{CustomScript|meyani|y}}ˋ˙{{CustomScript|meyani|ks}}ˋ (''yáksa'') "eternal rival," Nōlīnian *SCRIPT TBA* (''eqlè''-) "rival."
* Proto-Qlerevi ''*ts'' becomes /''*θ''/ in all positions, which later shifts into /''*s''/ in Proto-Prorinian Qlerevi; e.g. Proto-Qlerevi ''*wītsen'' "to see" > Proto-Eastern-Qlerevi ''*wīθān'' > Meyāni {{CustomScript|meyani|v@}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|is@n}} (''váisân'') "to see," Nōlīnian *SCRIPT TBA* (-''wįsąn''-) "to see."
* Some of Proto-Qlerevi's consonant clusters undergo heavy {{w|consonant assimilation}} in Eastern Qlerevi languages.

Modern Meyāni's closest living relative that is not disputed as being a distinct language is the [[Bandit language]], which is natively spoken in the northern and northwestern areas of the [[Great Prorinian Steppes (country)|Great Prorinian Steppes]]. The Bandit language shares many sound changes with Meyāni, which has diverged from it approximately 3,500 years ago. These include, but are not limited to:

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===Dialects===
Besides '''Standard Meyāni''' (which is what one typically means when they say "Meyāni language"), multiple other {{w|dialects}} of the Meyāni language exist each with their own unique properties. Standard Meyāni, which is based on the dialect spoken in the capital of [[Meraqlum]], is the official language of the country of [[Meyāni]] and is the dialect that is the closest to the [[Classical Meyāni|classical language]] spoken during the [[Bandit dynasty]] and also being the main {{w|liturgical language}} of the [[Áukanism|Áukanist]] faith. The main differences between Standard Meyāni and Classical Meyāni are the {{w|Conservative and innovative language|innovation}} of a separate {{w|optative mood}} in Standard Meyāni, the pronounciation of Standard Meyāni <v> as /w/ in Classical Meyāni, and the Classical Meyāni sequence /xl/ shifting in pronounciation to /q͡ʟ/ in standard Meyāni.

Some of the major dialect groups listed below. However, some of these dialects are dwindling in speakers as the standard dialect gains prominence ever since the establishment of a standardized [[Meyāni#Education|education system]]. Some quote-on-quote "dialects" that are more closely related to the Nōlīnian language than Standard Meyāni are excluded from the list.

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====Eastern Dialect Group====
The '''Eastern Dialect Group''' refers to a collection of Meyāni dialects that were spoken close to the border of [[Yaksōn]] and inside of the extreme eastern regions of the aforementioned country prior to massive standardization. Nowadays, dialects in this group are primarily spoken in the northeastern portions of Meyāni. These dialects are directly descended from early forms of the classical language and are closely related to the standard language; however, the Eastern Dialect Group has significant influences and {{w|loanwords}} from the [[Yaksōnian language]] due to centuries of contact which causes dialects in the Eastern Dialect Group to sound similar to Yaksōnian, so some speakers were mistakenly sent to {{w|concentration camps}} by the Nerấyavi regime on the basis that they were members of an "inferior race" despite not speaking Yaksōnian at all. These dialects are primarily written in both the [[Yaksōnian script]], which is an {{w|abugida}}, and the [[Meyāni script]], a partial {{w|abjad}}.

The main differences between the dialects in this group (with the Fidurin dialect given as an example, as it has most of the changes) and Standard Meyāni include:

'''Phonological differences:'''
* Standard Meyāni and Classical Meyāni non-{{w|Gemination|geminated}} <t> have turned into /r/ between {{w|vowels}} in dialects in the Eastern Dialect Group (compare Standard Meyāni {{CustomScript|meyani|s}}ˊ˙{{CustomScript|meyani|y}}ˋ{{CustomScript|meyani|t}}ˋ (''séyata'') "to fly" to [[Fidurin]] dialect *SCRIPT TBA* (''sáyoro'') "to fly").
* Dialects in the Eastern Dialect Group have undergone a massive {{w|vowel shift}} involving the following changes:
** Long vowels become short.
** Classical Meyāni <â> merged with <o>, then both shifted to /u/ (compare Standard Meyāni {{CustomScript|meyani|x@}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|by}}ˋ (''šấbya'') "good" to Fidurin dialect *SCRIPT TBA* (''šúppo'') "good").
** Former <nowiki></nowiki> became /y/ and later became /i/ (compare Standard Meyāni {{CustomScript|meyani|n}}ˋ{{CustomScript|meyani|gu}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|rt}}ˎ{{CustomScript|meyani|s}} (''nagúrtos'') "elephant" to Fidurin dialect *SCRIPT TBA* (''nokíttus'') "elephant").
** Former <nowiki></nowiki> became /e/ (compare Standard Meyāni {{CustomScript|meyani|i}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|n}}ˊ{{CustomScript|meyani|hiv}}ˋ (''ínehiva'') "instead of" to Fidurin dialect *SCRIPT TBA* (''énakewo'') "instead of")
** Former <e> became /ɐ̞/ (compare Standard Meyāni {{CustomScript|meyani|h}}ˊ{{CustomScript|meyani|xi}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|n}} (''hešín'') "to hear" to Fidurin dialect *SCRIPT TBA* (''kašén'') "to hear")
** Former <a> became /o/ (compare Standard Meyāni {{CustomScript|meyani|y}}ˋ˙{{CustomScript|meyani|x}}ˋ (''yáša'') "to think" to Fidurin dialect *SCRIPT TBA* (''yóšo'') "to decide")
** The diphthongs <ai>, <au>, and <eu> in Classical Meyāni have turned into monopthongs /e/, /o/, and /u/ respectively (compare Standard Meyāni {{CustomScript|meyani|y}}ˋ{{CustomScript|meyani|c}}ˋ{{CustomScript|meyani|ss@}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|i}} (''yačassái'') "bright," {{CustomScript|meyani|y}}ˋ{{CustomScript|meyani|v@}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|unk}}ˋ (''yaváunka'') "on the subject of," and {{CustomScript|meyani|l}}ˎ{{CustomScript|meyani|sti}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|u}} (''lostéu'') "to lose" to Fidurin dialect *SCRIPT TBA* (''yočossé'') "hot," *SCRIPT TBA* (''yowókko'') "on the subject of," and *SCRIPT TBA* (''lussú'') "to lose").
** The above changes have caused stress to be phonemic in these dialects.
* All consonant clusters from Classical Meyāni are heavily simplified in dialects in this group, simplifying into geminated consonants. Initial <lw-> becomes <w-> in these dialects.
* Most dialects in this group (including the Fidurin dialect) merge voiced obstruents with their voiceless counterparts, and allophonically turn non-geminated voiceless obstruents into voiced ones between vowels.
* Geminated consonants become short consonants at the ends of words in dialects in the Eastern Dialect Group.
* Some dialects in this group drop {{w|Stress (linguistics)|unstressed}} vowels at the ends of words. The Fidurin dialect does not have this feature, however.
* Standard Meyāni inserts the sound /x/ between two consecutive monopthongs. However, a different consonant is inserted in dialects in the Eastern Dialect Group: /k/. This is because Standard Meyāni <h> merges with /k/ in dialects in this group.

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====Meraqlum Dialect Group====
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====Southwestern Dialect Group====
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====Southern Dialect Group====
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==Phonology==
Unlike {{w|humans}}, [[Alligatoris sapiens|gators']] {{w|soft palates}} (which are the practical equivalent of the human {{w|velum}} as gators lack it) are naturally lowered, and so do not redirect air into the {{w|mouth}}. Instead, all sounds (including all {{w|consonants}}) are {{w|Nasalization|nasalized}} (which is not indicated in the {{w|International Phonetic Alphabet|IPA}} charts for Levarianquevan languages). Therefore, to humans, gators sound like they are {{w|Disease|sick}}.

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===Vowels===
Modern Standard Meyāni has six {{w|vowel}} phonemes, with three being "{{w|Vowel length|long}}" and three being short. Note that "long vowels" are not pronounced longer than the short vowels in most dialects, but the long pronunciation is proscribed in school textbooks.

{| class="wikitable"
|+Meyāni vowels
!
!Front
!Back
|-
!High
|i(ː) <nowiki></nowiki>
|u(ː) <nowiki></nowiki>
|-
!Mid
|ɛ <e>
| o <o>
|-
!Low
|æ <a>
|ɑ(ː) <â>
|}

The language also has three {{w|diphthongs}} which are often categorized as "long vowels": /ai/ <ai>, /au/ <au>, and /eu/ <eu>, the latter of which is rare and only occurs in a few words.

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===Consonants===
Modern Standard Meyāni has nineteen phonemic consonant phonemes, with /g/ only being found in {{w|loanwords}}. Pairs of sounds distinguished only by {{w|Voicing (phonetics)|vibrations in the vocal cords}} (if any exist) are separated with dots. In Meyāni, there are {{w|minimal pairs}} distinguished by {{w|gemination|consonant length}}.

{| class="wikitable"
!
!{{w|Labial consonant|Labial}}
!{{w|Alveolar consonant|Alveolar}}
!Retroflex I ({{w|Palatal consonant|Palatal}})
!Palatal ({{w|Velar consonant|Velar}})
|-
!{{w|Nasal consonant|Nasal release}} (Nasal)
|/m/ <m>
|/n/ <n>
|/ɲ/ <ñ>
|
|-
!{{w|Stop consonant|Stop}}
|<nowiki>/p/ • /b/ </nowiki>
|/t/ <t> • /d/ <d>
|
|/k/ <k> • /g/ <g>
|-
!{{w|Affricate|Affricate}}
|
|
|/t͡ʃ/ <č>
|/q͡ʟ/ <ql>
|-
!{{w|Fricative}}
|/f/ <f> • /v/ <v>
|/s/ <s>
|/ʃ/ <š>
|/x/ <h>
|-
!{{w|Approximant}}
|
|/l/ <l>
|/j/ <y>
|
|-
!{{w|Trill consonant|Trill}}
|
|/r/ <r>
|
|
|}

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====Allophony====
Some consonants can recieve {{w|Allophony|allophones}} in certain situations in Standard Meyāni:

*Most consonants can be {{w|Palatalization|retroflex I-ized}} (which is marked in the IPA by the addition of a subscript {{w|Latin script}} letter "j" [ʲ] after the symbol) before front vowels. However, Retroflex I consonants cannot undergo this process.
*<r> is usually pronounced as a trill [r]. Nevertheless, it could be pronounced as [ɹ] in {{w|Syllable coda|coda position}} if the {{w|syllable onset}} contains an alveolar or retroflex I consonant other than /j/.
*Voiceless plosives are highly {{w|Aspirated consonant|aspirated}} when adjacent to a stressed vowel, especially in the speech of the higher classes. This feature is thought to have been introduced during the [[Bandit dynasty]] under the influence of the [[Bandit language]], which has a phonemic distinction between aspirated and non-aspirated voiceless stops but has no voiced stops.

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===Phonotactics===
Most words in Meyāni contain entirely open syllables. However, its maximum {{w|Syllable#Components|syllable structure}} is <code>#((l)C)V/(N, h)(C)CV/(C, G)(C)#</code>, where:

*"#" represents a boundary between words.
*"(l)" represents an optional /l/ that is only able to go before /v/, like in ''lvansa'', which means "sword".
*"(...)" represent optional components.
*"C" represents a consonant.
*"V" represents a vowel or diphthong.
*"G" represents a word-final consonant that undergoes {{w|gemination}}. This is optional.
*"/(N, h)(C)CV/" represents the possible phonotactical structure in syllables at the middle of a word.
*"N" represents any {{w|Nasal consonant|consonant with a nasal release}}

Unlike the closely related [[Bandit language]], Meyāni does not allow for word-initial {{w|consonant clusters}} (other than /lv/). Loanwords with initial consonant clusters are usually dealt with by {{w|epenthesis}}, the insertion of extra vowels. Consonant clusters that consist of two consonants with the same place of articulation and manner of articulation and with the only distinction between the two consonants being different voicing are not allowed in the language; these types of clusters are typically turned into geminated consonants carrying the voicing of the last consonant in the illegal cluster prior to assimilation. Most words with final consonants end with just one consonant or geminated consonant, though it is possible for two consonants to be present. Most words that have medial consonant clusters only have just two consonants, though it is possible for three consonants to be present in these clusters as long as the first sound in the cluster is either a nasal or /x/.

Meyāni also does not allow the occurrence of {{w|vowel hiatuses}}. Therefore, the <-i> suffix used in adjectives and possessor nouns is realized as /jiː/ in words that end in vowels.

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===Prosody===
Meyāni is a strictly {{w|mora-timed language}}, with each syllable getting one {{w|mora}} (two if the vowel in the {{w|syllable nucleus}} is either a "long vowel" or a diphthong). Stress in Meyāni always falls on the first syllable with a "long vowel" or diphthong as a nucleus in a word, with stress falling instead on the first syllable if there are no "long vowels" or diphthongs in a word entirely. Suffixes cannot receive stress.

In foreign words that have not been assimilated, stress falls on the syllable where it fell in the original language. However, loanwords that have been fully assimilated often have a stress shift to match the regular stress patterns or irregular vowel shifts.

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==Orthography==
[[File:Meyani script.png|200px|right]]

The Meyāni language is written in its own script, which is descended from {{w|logographs}} used by Proto-Qlerevi speakers. The script itself has features of both an {{w|alphabet}} and an {{w|abjad}} because short vowels are not written and require optional {{w|diacritics}} to be expressed, with {{w|Linguistics|linguists}} coining the term '''alphabjad''' to classify the Meyāni script. The script is written from left-to-right and has the following letters:
{| class="wikitable"
|+
!Position
in order
!Letter
!Name
!Sound (other sounds)
|-
|1
|{{CustomScript|meyani|@}}
|''â''
|/ɑː/ (/æ/)
|-
|2
|{{CustomScript|meyani|i}}
|''i''
|/iː/ (/ɛ/)
|-
|3
|{{CustomScript|meyani|u}}
|''u''
|/uː/ (/o/)
|-
|4
|{{CustomScript|meyani|b}}
|''bâ''
|/b/
|-
|5
|{{CustomScript|meyani|c}}
|''čâ''
|/t͡ʃ/
|-
|6
|{{CustomScript|meyani|d}}
|''dâ''
|/d/
|-
|7
|{{CustomScript|meyani|f}}
|''fâ''
|/f/
|-
|8
|{{CustomScript|meyani|h}}
|''hâ''
|/x/
|-
|9
|{{CustomScript|meyani|y}}
|''yi''
|/j/
|-
|10
|{{CustomScript|meyani|k}}
|''kâ''
|/k/ (/g/)
|-
|11
|{{CustomScript|meyani|l}}
|''lâ''
|/l/
|-
|12
|{{CustomScript|meyani|m}}
|''mâ''
|/m/
|-
|13
|{{CustomScript|meyani|n}}
|''nâ''
|/n/
|-
|14
|{{CustomScript|meyani|p}}
|''pâ''
|/p/
|-
|15
|{{CustomScript|meyani|q}}
|''qlâ''
|/q͡ʟ/
|-
|16
|{{CustomScript|meyani|r}}
|''râ''
|/r/
|-
|17
|{{CustomScript|meyani|s}}
|''sâ''
|/s/
|-
|18
|{{CustomScript|meyani|t}}
|''tâ''
|/t/
|-
|19
|{{CustomScript|meyani|v}}
|''vu''
|/v/
|-
|20
|{{CustomScript|meyani|x}}
|''šâ''
|/ʃ/
|}

The sound /ɲ/ does not have its own letter in the Meyāni script, but is rather expressed as a {{w|digraph}} of the letters {{CustomScript|meyani|n}} and {{CustomScript|meyani|y}}, in that order; geminated /ɲː/ is expressed with the same characters but with the {{CustomScript|meyani|n}} doubled, while all other consonants are geminated by doubling the letter that represents it. Dipthongs are expressed with digraphs {{CustomScript|meyani|@i}}, {{CustomScript|meyani|@u}}, and {{CustomScript|meyani|iu}} for the sounds /ai/, /au/, and /eu/ respectively. When short vowels begin words, they are written with their corresponding long vowel letters (which produces a lot of near-{{w|homographs}} in the script, such as {{CustomScript|meyani|ih@}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|i}} (''ehái'') "{{w|water}}" and {{CustomScript|meyani|i}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|h@yi}} (''íhâyi'') "(reflexive pronoun)")

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===Diacritics===
TBA

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===Punctuation===
TBA

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===Numerals===
TBA

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==Grammar==
''Note: All Meyāni text in this section of this article, other than the "Parts of Speech" section below, are written in a modified form of the {{w|Latin alphabet}}, not in the actual Meyāni script.''

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===Parts of Speech===
Meyāni grammarians divide all Meyāni words into nine {{w|parts of speech}}, primarily based on the treatises of [[Ancient Venēmīan language|Ancient Venēmīan]] grammarians and adapted to fit to the Meyāni language's grammar:

* Noun ('''Meyāni''': *SCRIPT TBA* (''ñấmyuvaba'') "name-thing"): A word that represents a place, person, idea, or thing. Ancient Venēmīan grammarians did not distinguish between nouns and adjectives because they inflected similarily in their language, but the Meyāni grammarians, whose language does not have much case marking (other than the genitive case) or adjective agreement, felt like the two needed to be distinguished. Hence, the words for "noun" and "adjective" have the same initial root.
*Adjective ('''Meyāni''': *SCRIPT TBA* (''ñấmyuhupsiltos'') "name-descriptor"): A word that describes a noun, verb, or another adjective. Adjectives can be used as adverbs in Meyāni, so the two are not distinguished according to the Meyāni grammarians when adverbs are their own parts of speech in Ancient Venēmīan. Postpositions and determiners can also be used to fill the functions of adverbs in Meyāni, but the few "true adverbs" like "now" and "tomorrow" that are not already classified as adjectives, postpositions, or determiners in Meyāni are classified as adjectives by the Meyāni grammarians.

:In Meyāni, adjectives have three uses: nominal, verbal, and predicative. "Nominal" adectives are the types of adjectives that describe nouns, and they go before their nouns and receive the <-''i''> suffix. "Verbal" adjectives function like adverbs, and describe both verbs and other adjectives. "Predicative" adjectives are adjectives that go after verbs, but the usage category also includes some intransitive verbs like *SCRIPT TBA* (''šấsane'') "to be sweet", which can stand alone as a predicate without requiring an additional verb before it and requires a suffix -*SCRIPT TBA* (-''ba'') to be used as a nominal adjective and a verbal adjective.

*Determiner ('''Meyāni''': *SCRIPT TBA* (''qlávmam ra yúča-i sávo vábaqlâkera-i sai ro'') "a word in the large grouping of thinglings"): A category of words that includes both {{w|quantifiers}} and {{w|numerals}}, both of which behave similarily both morphologically and syntactically and can be used as adverbs. Ancient Venēmīan scholars did not distinguish between the Meyāni determinative and demonstrative because they all went before the noun in their language, whereas in Meyāni, determinatives go before the noun while demonstratives go after despite both behaving morphologically similar; in fact, the Meyāni word for "determinative" in general, *SCRIPT TBA* (''vábaqlâke''), is a {{w|calque}} of the Ancient Venēmīan term for "determiner," which literally means "thingling."
*Demonstrative ('''Meyāni''': *SCRIPT TBA* (''qlávmam ra bấñâneba-i sávo vábaqlâkera-i sai ro'') "a word in the small grouping of thinglings"): A category of words that includes just two words: *SCRIPT TBA* (''su'') "this/these" and *SCRIPT TBA* (''súkin'') "that/those." These words are {{w|deictic}} words that convey which nouns are being referred to in the discourse.
*Pronoun ('''Meyāni''': *SCRIPT TBA* (''ñấmyuperidon'') "name-substitute"): A word that can stand in for any noun in a sentence. This category does not include [[Meyāni language#Subordinate clauses|the relative and end-relative pronouns]] ''ra'' and ''ro'' respectively, which are both lumped into the category of conjunction instead.
*Postposition ('''Meyāni'''): *SCRIPT TBA* (''vehašehấva'') "before-position"<ref>The name is inaccurate since it is a calque of a word in Ancient Venēmīan, which has prepositions instead of postpositions.</ref>): A word used to express spatial or temporal relations with a noun, which is refered to as its object. In addition, postpositions can also be used as adverbs.
* Verb ('''Meyāni''': *SCRIPT TBA* (''qlávmam'') "word"): A word that expresses an action or a state of being. The vast majority of verbs are action verbs, while the two verbs that express a state of being in Meyāni are *SCRIPT TBA* (''rấmmau'') "am/are/is" and *SCRIPT TBA* (''túnutu'') "was/were" (which also functions as an action verb because it is also the past tense form of the verb *SCRIPT TBA* (''túno'') "to become"
*Auxiliary ('''Meyāni''': *SCRIPT TBA* (''qlávmam ra yóho ro'') "a word that helps"): A word that adds to the verb and helps it express tenses and aspects beyond just the present and past.
*Conjunction ('''Meyāni''': *SCRIPT TBA* (''sídrenos'') (a loanword from Ancient Venēmīan)): A word that connects two clauses or affects the flow of a sentence.

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===Morphology===
Meyāni is generally an {{w|analytic language}} and does not make much use of {{w|inflection}}, other than {{w|Grammatical number|number}}, {{w|possession}}, and some {{w|grammatical tenses}}.

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====Nominals====
Nominals (nouns and adjectives) do not inflect for {{w|grammatical case}} (other than the {{w|genitive case}}), but inflect for number. The language has no {{w|grammatical gender}}. Meyāni is one of the only major [[Qlerevi languages]] to lack case marking.

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===== Noun phrases=====
Meyāni is mostly {{w|Head-directionality parameter#Head-initial languages|head-initial}} in noun phrases. The default order of Meyāni noun phrases is the following:

{| class="wikitable"
|+Default order of a Meyāni noun phrase
!Position
!-2
!-1
!0
!+1
!+2
!+3
!+4
!+5
!+6
|-
!What goes in the position?
!Numerals
(Independent words)
!Adjectives
(Independent words)
!HEAD NOUN
!Plural
(Suffix)
!Genitive
(Suffix)
!Possessor's noun phrase
(Independent words)
!Relative clauses
(Independent words)
!Demonstrative pronouns
(Independent words)
!Postposition
(Independent word)
|-
!Is this position mandatory in the phrase?
!No
!No
!Yes
!No
!No
!No
!No
!No
!No
|}

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=====Number=====
There are two grammatical numbers in Meyāni: singular and plural. The singular expresses that there is exactly one of a thing, while the plural expresses that there is more than one of a thing. To indicate plural number, a suffix <-ra> is used, which was derived from a Proto-Qlerevi word meaning "many." The plural number is not used when cardinal numerals are used in the noun phrase, as in this simple phrase:

{{interlinear|indent=2
| áčane ñéra
| five gator-SG
| "five gators"
}}

Some determiners (such as "all" or "many") that do not influence the number of their nouns in English make them singular in Meyāni instead, like numerals:

{{interlinear|indent=2
| báram ñéra
| all gator-SG
| "all gators"
}}

'''Mass nouns''' 
A mass noun is a noun which cannot be counted, and do not change between singular or plural numbers. Most mass nouns are ''singulare tantum'' (only taking the singular in all cases); however, some are ''plurare tantum'' (only taking the plural in all cases). To inflect for number, mass nouns are put into a possessive construction with a measure word or {{w|Classifier (linguistics)|classifier}} (depending on the grammar cited) being the possessee in the phrase.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| áčane áifâm yeláira-i
| five bucket-SG wine-SG-POSS
| "five glasses of wine" (literally: five buckets of wine)
}}

{{interlinear|indent=2
| áčane áifâm ehái-i
| five bucket-SG water-SG-POSS
| "five buckets of water" (literally: five buckets of water)
}}

Most abstract nouns (other than <''yáto''> "language," which also means "tongue") and most things that are very small are mass nouns in Meyāni, and require a measure word/classifier to be inflected for number.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| čáiva néčaqlo-i
| branch-SG magic-SG-POSS
| "a unit of magic" (i.e. "magic spell") (literally: branch of magic)
}}

{{interlinear|indent=2
| áukan píretes-i
| way/road-SG philosophy-SG-POSS
| "a philosophy" (literally: way/road of philosophy)
}}

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=====Possession=====
Meyāni has a {{w|genitive case}}, which is used for marking the possessor of a possessive phrase. The genitive case is marked with the suffix <-i>, which goes after the plural marker. Adjectives are also marked with the <-i> suffix, because both the genitive case and the adjectival marker are derived from a Proto-Qlerevi postposition meaning "of." Possessors go after their head nouns.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| néčaqloba-i ấnossu úne-i
| magic-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}}-ADJ snail-SG 1SG-POSS
| "my magical snail"
}}When a noun is being possessed by two other nouns in the genitive case that are separated by a coordinating conjunction, the conjunction is inflected for the genitive case as well.{{interlinear|indent=2
|kóra Sấvaren-i ča-i Reqlútton-i
|country-SG Sāvae-POSS and-POSS Reqlūndo-POSS| "Sāvae and Reqlūndo's country"
}}

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=====Adjectives=====
Like as mentioned in the previous section, Meyāni's adjectives are marked identically to the genitive case. However, adjectives are placed before their head nouns instead of after. Adjectives are not marked with the <-i> suffix when they are used alone as a predicate along with the copula.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne rấmmau '''šấbya''' .
| 1SG be.PRS good .
| "I am good."
}}

Numerals are also not marked with the <-i> suffix despite behaving like adjectives syntactically. Like numerals, determiners (like "all" and "many") do behave like adjectives syntactically.

Adjectives do not agree with their head nouns in terms of number, and stay the same form even if their head noun is plural.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| néčaqloba-i ấnossura
| magic-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}}-ADJ snail-PL
| "some/the magical snails"
}}

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======Adjective inflections======
Meyāni adjectives inflect to mark comparison, intensity, and sufficiency. These evolved from independent words that were suffixed onto adjectives and heavily simplified. Heavily-suffixed adjectives with affixes to convey comparison, intensity, and sufficiency are a common linguistic feature across the [[Prorinian peninsula]], but they are rare across the Qlerevi family.
{| class="wikitable"
! colspan="3" |
!Marking
!Example
|-
! colspan="3" |Positive
|*none*, ''-(y)i''
|''šấbya(-i)'' "good"
|-
! rowspan="5" |Comparative
! rowspan="3" |of superiority
!neutral
|''-(a)ran''
|''šấbyaran'' "better"
|-
!affirming
|''-(a)šberan''
|''šấbyašberan'' "better, and still good"
|-
!denying
|''-(a)šñaran''
|''šấbyašñaran'' "better, but not good"
|-
! colspan="2" |of equality
| -''(a)nso''
|''šấbyanso'' "as good"
|-
! colspan="2" |of inferiority
|''-(a)rña''
|''šấbyarña'' "less good"
|-
! rowspan="2" |Superlative
! colspan="2" |of superiority
|''-(a)šhi''
|''šấbyašhi'' "best"
|-
! colspan="2" |of inferiority
|''-(a)šañ''
|''šấbyašañ'' "least good"
|-
! colspan="3" |Intensive
|''-(a)šo''
|''šấbyašo'' "very good, so good"
|-
! colspan="3" |Insufficientive
|''-(a)ñân''
|''šấbyañân'' "not good enough"

|-
! colspan="3" |Sufficientive
|''-(a)vân''
|''šấbyavân'' "good enough, too good"
|}

'''Comparatives''' 
Meyāni ajectives have five different comparative forms, which are used for comparing two or three different entities:
* The '''neutral comparative of superiority''' expresses that one noun has a greater quantity of an adjective than other nouns, but does not make any statement about the comparison.
{{Interlinear|indent=2
|Bâr rấmmau '''rấvvibaran''' ra áudda íhâyi-i ro .
|3SG be.PRS be.fast-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}}-{{gcl|COMP.N.SUP|neutral comparative of superiority}} {{gcl|REL|relative pronoun}} brother-SG {{gcl|R|reflexive pronoun}}-POSS {{gcl|END.REL|end-relative pronoun}} .
|"He/she is faster than his/her brother."
}}
* The '''affirming comparative of superiority''' expresses that one noun has a greater quantity of an adjective than other nouns, but affirms the comparison.
{{Interlinear|indent=2
|Bâr rấmmau '''rấvvibašberan''' ra áudda íhâyi-i ro .
|3SG be.PRS be.fast-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}}-{{gcl|COMP.A.SUP|affirming comparative of superiority}} {{gcl|REL|relative pronoun}} brother-SG {{gcl|R|reflexive pronoun}}-POSS {{gcl|END.REL|end-relative pronoun}} .
|"He/she is faster than his/her brother, and also fast."
}}
* The '''denying comparative of superiority''' expresses that one noun has a greater quantity of an adjective than other nouns, but denies the fact that the noun with a greater quantity of said adjective has that trait.
{{Interlinear|indent=2
|Bâr rấmmau '''rấvvibašñaran''' ra áudda íhâyi-i ro .
|3SG be.PRS be.fast-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}}-{{gcl|COMP.D.SUP|denying comparative of superiority}} {{gcl|REL|relative pronoun}} brother-SG {{gcl|R|reflexive pronoun}}-POSS {{gcl|END.REL|end-relative pronoun}} .
|"He/she is faster than his/her brother, but he is not fast.", "While he/she is faster than his/her brother, he/she is not fast."
}}
* The '''comparative of equality''' expresses that one noun does not have a greater or lesser quantity of an adjective than other nouns.
{{Interlinear|indent=2
|Kấraše rấmmau '''ahháumbanso''' ra áudda íhâyi-i ro .
|Kấraše be.PRS care-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}}-{{gcl|COMP.E|comparative of equality}} {{gcl|REL|relative pronoun}} brother-SG {{gcl|R|reflexive pronoun}}-POSS {{gcl|END.REL|end-relative pronoun}} .
|"Kấraše is as caring as his brother."
}}
*TBA

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=====Pronouns=====

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======Personal pronouns======
Meyāni has six {{w|personal pronouns}}, with three being singular and three being plural. Personal pronouns do not change form for case or gender.

{| class="wikitable"
|+Meyāni personal pronouns
!Number →
Person
↓
!Singular
!Plural
|-
!1st person
|''úne''
|''úñra''
|-
!2nd person
|''qle'', ''qlíša''<ref><Qlíša> (the plural form) can be used as a polite form of address or to address strangers regardless of number, while <qle> (the singular form) is used among friends and family members or to insult one's superiors. A similar thing happens in [[Yaksōnian language|modern Yaksōnian]], which is a part of a pan-Prorinian linguistic ''{{w|sprachbund}}'' affecting the two languages.</ref>
|''qlíša''

|-
!3rd person
|''bâr''
|''bấrra''
|}

Meyāni is a partial {{w|pro-drop language}}, which means that subject or object personal pronouns are optional and can be dropped if the context gets rid of the need for them. This is especially seen in sentences relating to the weather or in informal conversation.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| ('''Bâr''') Šéha reñấn áčane qlísseyo sai . ('''Qlíša''') Túnutu sáudeče úne-i sai ?
| (3SG) rain-PRS FUT.AUX five qlisseo-SG in/on/at . (2PL) be.PST message-SG 1SG-POSS in/on/at ?
| "It will be raining in five ''qlisseo''<ref>A [[Levarianqueva|Levarianquevan]] unit of time roughly equivalent to 1.7933 hours in {{w|Time#Measurement|Terran time}}</ref>. Did you get my message?"
}}

Note that the above sentences lack subject pronouns, as they can be inferred from context.

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======Reflexive pronouns======
Meyāni has a single simple reflexive pronoun: <''íhâyi''>. This pronoun can be used for all persons and numbers when any noun in the predicate is the same as the subject.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne ámu '''íhâyi''' .
| 1SG love-PRS {{gcl|R|reflexive pronoun}} .
| "I love myself."
}}

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Ke ámu qle/qlíša '''íhâyi''' ?
| Q love-PRS 2SG/2PL {{gcl|R|reflexive pronoun}} ?
| "Do you love yourself?"
}}

When the possessor of the direct object, indirect object, or any noun in a postpositional phrase is the same as the subject, the reflexive pronoun is used as the possessor in the possessive phrase. This is similar to certain Terran languages like {{w|Russian language|Russian}} and (to a lesser extent) {{w|Latin}}.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Bâr ámu sấku '''íhâyi-i''' .
| 3SG love-PRS wife-SG {{gcl|R|reflexive pronoun}}-POSS .
| "He loves his own wife."
}}

Contrast the above sentence with the following sentence, where the possessor of the sentence's direct object is not the same as its subject:

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Bâr ámu sấku '''bấr-i''' .
| 3SG love-PRS wife-SG 3SG-POSS .
| "He loves someone else's wife."
}}

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======Indefinite pronouns======
Unlike certain colloquial forms of English, which use the second person personal pronoun to express an indefinite pronoun "one", Meyāni uses the third person singular personal pronoun for this purpose instead.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| '''Bâr''' ña ấhano bávva ra sáubune Eqlíssalos ra áqlo oñqlấmmuba-i šohčúqlau ro šấne ro .
| 3SG NEG coerce AUX.DEO {{gcl|REL|relative pronoun}} change-PRS Eqléssalos {{gcl|REL|relative pronoun}} start-PRS to.be.violent-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}}-ADJ protest-SG {{gcl|END.REL|end-relative pronoun}} up/after {{gcl|END.REL|end-relative pronoun}} .
| "One cannot force the Eqléssalos to reform by starting a violent protest."
| c1 = (A quote from Rírin-i Roqlínau, who famously advocated for a reformation of the [[Eqléssalos of Mages]] in order to reduce corruption within the magical institution and turn it into a bulwark against corporate influence.)
}}

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======Demonstrative pronouns======
Meyāni has two basic {{w|demonstrative pronouns}}: <''su''> "this" and <''súkin''> "that." Demonstrative pronouns behave like numerals morphologically, not agreeing in number with the nouns they modify and not taking the <-i> suffix that is taken by adjectives when in a noun phrase. However, they go after their head noun instead of before.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| šấbya-i ñéra '''súkin'''
| good-ADJ gator-SG that
| "that good gator"
}}

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======Interrogative pronouns======
Proto-Qlerevi had one simple interrogative pronoun (which was the ancestor of Meyāni <''vu''> "what, which"). However, new interrogative pronouns evolved in Meyāni (as well as in almost every other Qlerevi language) from combinations of this simple root with a series of postpositions. The resulting combinations then gradually simplified over time due to common usage.

{| class="wikitable"
|+Meyāni interrogative pronouns
!Meyāni word (source)
!English translation
|-
|''vu''
|"what," "which," "who/whom"

|-
|''vúši'' (< ''vu sai'' "in/on/at what")
|"where"
|-
|''vútu'' (< ''vu tau'' "from what")
|"whence"
|-
|''vúbña'' (< ''vu báne'' "towards what")
|"whither"
|-
|''váiba'' (< ''vu yáiba'' "during what")
|"when"

|-
|''vúra'' (< ''vu sára'' "by what means")
|"how"
|-
|''vúsa'' (< ''vu sa'' "for what")
|"why"
|}

The base interrogative pronoun can behave like numerals when used as adjectives, as shown in the following interrogative sentence:

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Ke yáira úne '''vu''' ñéra ?
| Q like-PRS 1SG what gator-SG ?
| "What/which gator do I like?"
}}

=====Articles=====
Meyāni does not have articles, so <''šấbya-i ñéra''> could either mean "a good gator" or "the good gator" depending on context.

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====Verbs====
Meyāni's verb system is generally analytic; the verb system relies on {{w|auxiliary verbs}} to express tense, aspect, or modal information outside of what the verbs themselves can express alone.

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=====Tense=====
Meyāni verbs inflect for just two tenses: {{w|past}} and {{w|Nonpast tense|non-past}}, which expresses events that happened in the past and events that did not happen in the past respectively. The non-past tense (which is often called simply the "{{w|present tense}}" and glossed in this article as such) is considered to be the default form of the verb and is listed in dictionaries alongside the past form in entries for irregular verbs. Most verbs indicate the past tense by the addition of a suffix <-tu>, which is derived from a verb meaning "to become." However, some verbs undergo {{w|suppletion}} between the non-past and past tenses (e.g. non-past <''rấmmau''> "am/are/is" → past <''túnutu''> "was/were" (which also means "became"); non-past <''íhu''> "go/goes" → past <''sáista''> "went").

However, some verbs indicate the past tense by changing the last vowel in the root in addition to using the <-tu> suffix (e.g. non-past <''ấnnaiha''> "receive/receives" → past <''ấnnaihâtu''> "received"; <''túno''> "become/becomes" → <''túnutu''> "became" (which also means "was/were")), which is ultimately caused by a final ''*w'' in the Proto-Qlerevi form. Some verbs indicate the past tense by means of a suffix <-ču> instead of the regular <-tu> (e.g. non-past <''yába''> "give up/gives up, surrender/surrenders" → past <''yábaču''> "gave up, surrendered"; non-past <''lvábba''> "fight/fights" → past <''lvábbaču''> "fought"); this also has an etymological origin, this time that of a final ''*y'' in the Proto-Qlerevi form instead of a ''*w''.

The {{w|future tense}} is formed by the addition of the verb <''reñấn''> "to want" after the non-past form of the verb. Unlike the [[Nōlīnian language]], Meyāni does not distinguish between any subdivisions of these three basic tenses and relies on adverbs or adverbial phrases to express these more concrete subdivisions instead.

The different tenses can be illustrated with the following three sentences:

{{interlinear|indent=2
|Úñra '''lvábba''' kídobâlo .
| 1PL fight-PRS corruption-SG .
| "We are fighting corruption."}}

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úñra '''lvábbaču''' kídobâlo .
| 1PL fight-PST corruption-SG .
| "We were fighting corruption."}}

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úñra '''lvábba''' '''reñấn''' kídobâlo .
| 1PL fight-PRS AUX.FUT corruption-SG .
| "We will be fighting corruption."}}

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=====Aspect=====
Meyāni distinguishes between just two {{w|grammatical aspects}}: the {{w|imperfective aspect}} and the {{w|perfective aspect}}. The imperfective is considered to be the default form of a verb; the perfective is expressed by turning the dictionary form of the verb into an adjective and adding the appropriate form of the verb <''rấmmau''> "to be" after the main verb.

'''Uses for the imperfective aspect''' 
The imperfective aspect's main usage is to express that an action is ongoing or is habitual. In the present tense, it expresses that the action stated by the verb is ongoing.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úñra '''lvábba''' tấbanra íhâyi-i , ča qlíša ña váhho óban . Yo váhho rấsâm rấnlaksara qlíša-i sai !
| 1PL fight-PRS enemy-PL {{gcl|R|reflexive pronoun}}-POSS , and 2PL NEG now party . IMP now get.back-PRS formation/line-PL 2PL-POSS in/on/at !
| "We are fighting our enemies, not partying. Get back in your formations immediately!"
}}

In the above sentences, the verb phrase with the main verb <''lvábba''> "to fight" is in the imperfective aspect in the present tense, expressing that the act of fighting enemies is an ongoing process.

In the past tense, the imperfective aspect expresses that an action was ongoing in the past but has been stopped in some way, either by being completed or by being interrupted.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne '''ấščâlârtu''' eredấnos Partấbala Meraqlúm-i sai .
| 1SG study-PST math-SG university-SG Meraqlum-POSS in/on/at .
| "I was study/used to study mathematics at the University of Meraqlum."
}}

In the above sentence, the verb phrase with the main verb <''ấščâlâr''> "studied" is in the imperfective aspect, expressing that the act of studying mathematics at a university was ongoing, but is not ongoing anymore in the present.

In the future tense, the imperfective aspect expresses that an action will be ongoing in the future.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úñra '''básso''' '''reñấn''' áiñeye .
| 1PL join-PRS AUX.FUT army-SG .
| "We will join the army."
}}

In the above sentence, the verb phrase with the main verb <''básso''> "to join" is in the imperfective, expressing that the act of joining the army is something that is going to happen.

Meyāni lacks a {{w|Progressive aspect|progressive}} aspect and a {{w|Habitual aspect|habitual}} aspect. The imperfective aspect is used instead to convey the roles expressed by the progressive and habitual aspects on their own.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne šíra .
| 1SG work-PRS .
| "I work/am working/habitually work."
}}

'''Uses for the perfective aspect''' 
The perfective aspect is primarily used to emphasize that an action has been completed. In the past tense, it is used to show that the action stated by the verb has been completed, with emphasis on the action being completed.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne '''róčaba''' '''túnutu''' yeláira áifâm-i .
| 1SG eat-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}} AUX.PFV.PST wine-SG bucket-SG-POSS .
| "I drank a glass of wine."
}}

In the above sentence, the verb phrase with the main verb <''róča''> "to eat/drink" is in the perfective aspect, expressing that the action of drinking wine has been completed, with emphasis on completion.

In the future tense, the perfective aspect is used to express that an action will be completed in the future.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne '''čétalataba''' '''rấmmau''' '''reñấn''' čétala .
| 1SG read-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}} AUX.PFV.PRS AUX.FUT book .
| "I will finish reading a book."
}}

In the above sentence, the verb phrase with the main verb <''čétalata''> "to read" is in the perfective aspect, expressing that an action will be completed in the future.

In the present tense, using the perfective aspect is ungrammatical in most formal varieties. However, some colloquial dialects use present tense and perfective aspect to express that an action will be completed soon or has been completed recently.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne '''čétalataba''' '''rấmmau''' čétala .
| 1SG read-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}} AUX.PFV.PRS book .
| "I will finish reading a book soon/I have finished reading a book recently."
}}

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=====Mood=====
TBA

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=====Voice=====
Standard Meyāni does not have any distinctions between the active and passive voices, which was already lost by the time of Early Classical Meyāni along with the entire case system. Therefore, the sentences "An elephant is chasing me" and "I am being chased by an elephant" are expressed by the same sentence:

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Nagúrtos ấñimqlo úne .| elephant-SG chase-PRS 1SG .
| "An/the elephant is chasing me./I am being chased by a/the elephant."
}}However, recent studies have found that younger Meyāni speakers have started to reinterpret {{w|cleft sentences}}, a very common construction which is primarily used to de-emphasize the subject in the Meyāni language, as a passive construction, and to use the aforementioned cleft sentences as such. This is likely due to influence from [[Meyāni language#Veleonnean Vernacular Meyāni|Veleonnean Vernacular Meyāni]], which does use cleft sentences as a construction that is used for the passive. Therefore, it is likely that the active-passive distinction might become standard in Meyāni in the near-future.

Therefore, the above Meyāni sentence may look like the below in the passive:{{interlinear|indent=2
| Bâr rấmmau nagúrtos ra bâv ấñimqlo úne ro .| 3SG be-PST elephant-SG {{gcl|REL|relative pronoun}} SJV chase-PRS 1SG {{gcl|END.REL|end-relative pronoun}} .
| "It is an elephant that is chasing me./I am being chased by an elephant."
}}

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===Syntax===

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==== Word order====
Standard Meyāni generally has a default word order of {{w|Subject-verb-object word order|subject-verb-object}} (SVO), as in English.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne rấmmau ñéra .
| 1SG be.PRS gator-SG .
| "I am a gator."
}}

However, this becomes {{w|Verb-subject-object word order|verb-subject-object}} (VSO) in {{w|subordinate clauses}}.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| ... ra ña rấmmau bâr ñéra ro .
| ... {{gcl|REL|relative pronoun}} NEG be.PRS 3SG gator-SG {{gcl|END.REL|end-relative pronoun}} .
| "... that he/she/it is not a gator."
}}

As said in the section on nominals, Meyāni's {{w|adjectives}} proceed the nouns they modify and {{w|Possession (linguistics)|possessors}} succeed their possessed nouns. Adverbs and adverbial phrases also proceed the parts of speech they modify and {{w|Numeral (linguistics)|numerals}} behave like adjectives in overall syntax.

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====Prepositional phrases and animacy====
In Meyāni, prepositional phrases (or postpositional phrases, as there are postpositions instead of prepositions) have an {{w|animacy}}-based {{w|Implicational hierarchy|hierarchy}} dependent on their objects which dictates the position of the postpositional phrase in relation to the direct object or intransitive verb of the sentence. Postpositional phrases with more animate objects tend to come closer to the direct object (or the verb, in sentences that lack a direct object) than postpositional phrases with more inanimate objects. In this example, the first and last postpositional phrases in the sentence are '''bolded'''.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne vehíčasaba túnutu '''ačấmra''' '''ahhaumba-i''' '''oksara-i''' '''lấčai''' nenáum ra rấmmau yánohe Meraqlúm-i sai ro sai '''ku-yáñña''' '''ča''' '''ku-áčane''' '''yáñña''' '''hấssâya-i''' '''yehấrum''' '''ra''' '''túnutu''' '''Bemumšo''' '''šấne''' '''ro''' '''sai''' .| 1SG hatch-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}} PFV.AUX.PST hand-PL care-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}}-ADJ parent-PL-POSS into carcass {{gcl|REL|relative pronoun}} be.PRS city.center-SG Meraqlum-SG-POSS in/on/at {{gcl|END.REL|end-relative pronoun}} in/on/at {{gcl|ORD|ordinal numeral}}-four and {{gcl|ORD|ordinal numeral}}-five four two.hundred.fifty.six-ADJ year {{gcl|REL|relative pronoun}} be.PST drought-{{gcl|INTS|intensifier}}-SG up/after {{gcl|END.REL|end-relative pronoun}} in/on/at .| "I was hatched into the hands of caring parents at a carcass in Meraqlum's city center in the 2,308th year AC (After the Collapse)."
| c1 = (An excerpt from ''An Autobiography of the Rebel-Mage'' by [[Rírin-i Roqlínau]])
}}

The sentence is grammatical because, in the Meyāni animacy hierarchy, "year" is less animate than "carcass," which is in turn less animate than "hands." However, Meyāni does not apply this animacy hierarchy to the subject, direct object, or adjectival predicates of a sentence like in [[Proto-Qlerevi language|Proto-Qlerevi]].

Meyāni maintains most of the Proto-Qlerevi animacy classes, but some have been merged into other classes; most notably, the inanimate and abstract classes of Proto-Qlerevi have merged into a single inanimate class and the megalozoic and microzoic classes have merged into a single biotic class in Meyāni. Also, the egordian and tuordian classes of Proto-Qlerevi have merged into a single "altordian" class in Meyāni, leaving only five animacy classes compared to the eight that Proto-Qlerevi has. Proto-Qlerevi itself is evidenced to have undergone a similar reduction in the amount of distinguished classes in its history, with earlier versions likely having massive {{w|noun class}} systems similar to Terran {{w|Bantu languages}} like {{w|Swahili language|Swahili}}.

The following five classes are distinguished in Meyāni:

{| class="wikitable"
|+Meyāni animacy hierarchy
!Rank
!Class name
!What falls into this class?

|-
!I
|Altordian
|first-person and second-person personal pronouns

|-
!II
|Masculine
|third-person personal pronouns and other pronouns, deities, and male gators
|-
!III
|Juvenofeminine
|primarily female gators and hatchlings, but also weather events, body parts, and {{w|extraterrestrial life}}
|-
!IV
|Biotic
|animals, plants, and other biological things
|-
!V
|Inanimate
|stationary non-biological things, landscape features, astronomical bodies, [[Magic (AWiEC)|magic]]-related concepts, and abstract concepts
|}

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====Interrogative and negative sentences====
In an {{w|interrogative sentence}} in Meyāni, the interrogative auxiliary <ke> goes before other constituents of the sentence, and the verb moves to where the subject would be in a normal sentence. This is a remnant of the older {{w|V2 word order}} in Prorinian Qlerevi languages, whereby the verb phrase is always the second constituent of a clause.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| '''Ke''' róčaba túnutu úne ấvvâsa tấbanra-i úne-i ?
| Q eat.{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}} PFV.AUX.PST 1SG blood-SG enemy-PL-POSS 1SG-POSS ?
| "Did I drink the blood of my enemies?"
}}

Unlike English, Meyāni does not do {{w|wh-movement}} and does not have {{w|do-support}} in both questions and negative constructions.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Ke vóraba túnutu úne '''vu''' ra róča ấvvâsa tấbanra-i úne-i ro ?
| Q do-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}} PFV.AUX.PST 1SG what {{gcl|REL|relative pronoun}} eat blood-SG enemy-PL-POSS 1SG-POSS {{gcl|END.REL|end-relative pronoun}} ?
| "What did I do in order to drink the blood of my enemies?"
}}

According the [[Question word-first principle]] in Qlerevi languages whereby question particles always go first in a sentence, the negative particle <ña> goes after the main verb phrase in an interrogative sentence with negative mood.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Ke róčaba túnutu '''ña''' úne ấvvâsa tấbanra-i úne-i ?
| Q eat.{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}} PFV.AUX.PST NEG 1SG blood-SG enemy-PL-POSS 1SG-POSS ?
| "Did I not drink the blood of my enemies?"
}}

In a normal sentence with a negative, however, the sentence completely reverts to the verb going between the subject and direct object, with the negative particle going before the verb.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne '''ña''' róčaba túnutu ấvvâsa tấbanra-i úne-i .
| 1SG NEG eat.{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}} PFV.AUX.PST blood-SG enemy-PL-POSS 1SG-POSS .
| "I did not drink the blood of my enemies."
}}

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===="To Have"====
Meyāni does not have a verb meaning "to have", like many Qlerevi languages. Instead, it uses the appropriate form of the verb <rấmmau> "to be", with the postposition <sai> "in/on/at" being attached to the verb's direct object.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne '''rấmmau''' ấvvâsa '''sai''' .
| 1SG be.PRS blood-SG in/on/at .
| "I have blood." (literally: "I am in blood.")
}}

In an intransitive sentence or a sentence with a direct object that has been dropped, Meyāni uses a perfective construction with the verb <''táksa''> "to catch" in the present tense to express the meaning of "to have". This is descended from the earlier meaning of the verb as "to grab." In this usage of the verb, applying the imperfective aspect is ungrammatical.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne '''táksaba''' '''túnutu''' .
| 1SG catch-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}} AUX.PFV-PST .
| "I have." (literally: "I have caught.")
}}

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====Subordinate clauses====
In Meyāni, subordinate clauses are almost completely identical in both formation and usage to subordinate clauses in Proto-Qlerevi.

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=====Formation=====
Subordinate clauses in Meyāni are typically formed by using the particles <ra> and <ro>, termed the "relative pronoun" and the "end-relative pronoun" respectively (even though they aren't really pronouns in the strictest sense: a word that can stand for other words in a sentence). As the names suggest, the relative pronoun preceeds a subordinate clause and the end-relative pronoun succeeds a subordinate clause, functioning in order to revert the sentence back to the clause before the subordinate clause began.

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=====Usage=====
TBA

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==Numeral system==
''Note: All Meyāni text in this section of this article is written in a modified form of the {{w|Latin alphabet}}, not in the actual Meyāni script.''

The Meyāni language uses a {{w|Hexadecimal|hexadecimal}} or base-16 system, even though actual written numerals are expressed using {{w|Duodecimal|dozenal}} or base-12, with sub-bases of 5 and 10, remnants of the old vigesimal system. Linguists theorize that the hexadecimal system developed when speakers of [[Qlerevi languages]], with most of their languages using a {{W|vigesimal}} or base-20 system, encountered speakers of [[Pre-Yaksōnian languages]], whose languages primarily used {{w|12 (number)|12}} as a base. When these two languages encountered each other, the pre-Yaksōnian speakers who ultimately assimilated themselves into the Qlerevi languages and culture tried to use 20 as a base but were so used to their native base-12 system that they ended up using 16 as a base as a compromise between the two systems; the Qlerevi speakers later adopted this, hence the use of 16 as a base.

Meyāni numerals by default express their {{w|Cardinal numeral|cardinal}} form. Prefixes exist which are used to express the {{w|Ordinal numeral|ordinal}} and {{w|Fraction|fractional}} form. However, all of Meyāni's multiplicative forms for numerals are borrowed from the [[Ancient Venēmīan language]] and therefore {{w|Suppletion|suppletive}}, but these are archaic; alternatively, these forms could be expressed by using {{w|Adpositional phrase|postpositional phrases}} in most modern registers.
{| class="wikitable"
|+
! colspan="4" |Number
! colspan="4" |In spoken Meyāni
|-
! colspan="3" |In {{w|Hindu-Arabic numerals}}
! rowspan="2" |In [[Prorinian mathematics#Modern numeral system|Prorinian numerals]]
(modern notation)
! rowspan="2" |Cardinal form
! rowspan="2" |Ordinal form
! rowspan="2" |Fractional form
! rowspan="2" |Multiplicative form
(archaic)
|-
!Base-10
!Base-12
!Base-16
|-
| colspan="3" |0
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|0}}
|''ñíñta''
|''ku-ñíñta''
| colspan="2" |N/A
|-
| colspan="3" |1
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|1}}
|''bač''
| rowspan="38" |TBA
| rowspan="38" |TBA
| rowspan="38" |TBA
|-
| colspan="3" |2
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|2}}
|''šóten''
|-
| colspan="3" |3
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|3}}
|''sádam''
|-
| colspan="3" |4
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|4}}
|''yáñña''
|-
| colspan="3" |5
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|5}}
|''áčane''
|-
| colspan="3" |6
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|6}}
|''bač ča áčane''
|-
| colspan="3" |7
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|7}}
|''šóten ča áčane''
|-
| colspan="3" |8
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|8}}
|''sádam ča áčane''
|-
| colspan="3" |9
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|9}}
|''yáñña ča áčane''
|-
|10
| colspan="2" |A
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|a}}
|''yáda''
|-
|11
| colspan="2" |B
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|b}}
|''bač ča yáda''
|-
|12
|10
|C
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|10}}
|''šóten ča yáda''
|-
|13
|11
|D
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|11}}
|''sádam ča yáda''
|-
|14
|12
|E
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|12}}
|''yáñña ča yáda''
|-
|15
|13
|F
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|13}}
|''áčane ča yáda''
|-
|16
|14
|10
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|14}}
|''rấyone''
|-
|17
|15
|11
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|15}}
|''bač ča rấyone''
|-
|21
|19
|15
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|19}}
|''áčane ča rấyone''
|-
|24
|20
|18
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|20}}
|''sádam ča áčane ča rấyone''
|-
|26
|22
|1A
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|22}}
|''yáda ča rấyone''
|-
|32
|28
|20
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|28}}
|''šóten rấyone''
|-
|36
|30
|24
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|30}}
|''yáñña ča šóten rấyone''
|-
|48
|40
|30
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|40}}
|''sádam rấyone''
|-
|60
|50
|3C
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|50}}
|''šóten ča yáda ča sádam rấyone''
|-
|64
|54
|40
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|54}}
|''yáñña rấyone''
|-
|72
|60
|48
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|60}}
|''sádam ča áčane ča yáñña rấyone''
|-
|80
|68
|50
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|68}}
|''áčane rấyone''
|-
|84
|70
|54
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|70}}
|''yáñña ča áčane rấyone''
|-
|92
|80
|60
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|80}}
|''bač áčane rấyone''
|-
|108
|90
|6C
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|90}}
|''šóten ča yáda ča bač áčane rấyone''
|-
|112
|94
|70
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|94}}
|''šóten áčane rấyone''
|-
|120
|A0
|78
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|a0}}
|''sádam ča áčane ča šóten áčane rấyone''
|-
|128
|A8
|80
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|a8}}
|''sádam áčane rấyone''
|-
|132
|B0
|84
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|b0}}
|''yáñña ča sádam áčane rấyone''
|-
|144
|100
|90
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|100}}
|''yáñña áčane rấyone''
|-
|256
|194
|100
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|194}}
|''hấssâya''
|-
|4,096
|2,454
|1,000
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|2454}}
|''emmáufiša''
|-
|65,536
|31,B14
|10,000
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|31b14}}
|''hấssâya emmáufiša''
|}

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==Vocabulary==
Around 2/3rds of all Meyāni {{w|vocabulary}} is of [[Qlerevi languages|Qlerevi]] origin. Qlerevi words in Meyāni are either directly inherited from [[Proto-Qlerevi language|Proto-Qlerevi]] or were borrowed from other Qlerevi languages. The vast majority of these terms in Meyāni are directly inherited from Proto-Qlerevi; the Qlerevi terms that were borrowed from other Qlerevi languages only account for less than 5% of all of Meyāni's vocabulary. Qlerevi-derived words encompass most of Meyāni's core vocabulary, so most of the time, no conherent sentence can be formed in Meyāni without resorting to using words of Qlerevi origin, with very rare exceptions.

Now-extinct [[pre-Yaksōnian languages]], which account for over 1/5th of all Meyāni words, are the main sources of {{w|loanwords}} within Meyāni's vocabulary. [[Ancient Venēmīan]], a {{w|prestige language}} which used to be learned by Meyāni gators of all ranks of society to connect with classical texts from the [[First Venēmīan Empire]] until it was banned by [[Meyāni#Nerấyavi's régime and the Great Prorinian War|the then-fascist-led government of Meyāni]] in 1942 AC shortly after [[Operation Yaksaháihča|the start of Meyāni's failed invasion of Yaksōn]], is the original language for the vast majority of these pre-Yaksōnian terms. Pre-Yaksōnian words in the Meyāni language are mostly terms relating to technical fields studied in the Prorinian peninsula like {{w|mathematics}}, {{w|Science|the sciences}}, {{w|music theory}}, {{w|philosophy}}, and [[Magic (AWiEC)|the art of magic]]; however, Pre-Yaksōnian words are also found in words relating to features of the Prorinian peninsula that don't exist or rarely do exist in the Qlerevi homeland, such as fauna (e.g. Meyāni *SCRIPT TBA* (''nagúrtos'') "{{w|elephant}}," with irregular o > u shift typical of assimilated loanwords), flora (e.g. Meyāni *SCRIPT TBA* (''ấččevon'') "{{w|Sequoioideae|redwood tree}}"), drinks (e.g. Meyāni *SCRIPT TBA* (''yeláira'') "{{w|wine}}"), and musical instruments (e.g. Meyāni *SCRIPT TBA* (''erínis'') "[[Prorinian music#Bee-lute|bee-lute]];"). Pre-Yaksōnian influence may have affected the grammar of Meyāni as well as contributing to vocabulary, with the language developing a strict {{w|V2 word order}} (which later shifted into a default {{w|Subject-verb-object word order|SVO word order}}, with few traces of the old V2 system remaining in the modern language) and losing most of the Proto-Qlerevi {{w|Grammatical case|case}} system.

Another major contributor of loanwords in Meyāni is the [[Rudakami language]]. Most Rudakami loanwords in Meyāni arrived during the period of [[Rudakami trade colonies|Rudakami merchants colonizing large areas of land on or near the Prorinian peninsula's coastline for trade with the local pre-Yaksōnian speakers]], which lasted from around 1800 BC until around 800 BC; these loanwords are typically related to concepts such as {{w|economics}}. However, during the period of [[Meyāni#Rudakami conquest and rule|Rudakami rule over Meyāni from 1632 AC until 1794 AC]], more Rudakami loanwords entered the language, mostly terms relating to {{w|government}}, the {{w|legal system}}, and {{w|feudalism}}. After Meyāni regained its independence from Rudakami control, there was widespread {{w|linguistic purism}} in Meyāni which aimed to purge all traces of Rudakami words within the language's vocabulary, which succeeded in removing a sizeable portion of Rudakami borrowings in the Meyāni lexicon but did not succeed in removing all of them. Today, Rudakami words account for around 1/10th of the Meyāni language's vocabulary.

===Derivation===
Meyāni makes heavy usage of {{w|agglutination}} and {{w|Compound (linguistics)|compounding}} to form new words. For example, the word *SCRIPT TBA* (''qlavmamčấčâlu'') translates to "{{w|syntax}}" in English and can be broken up into the following:

{{Interlinear|indent=2|top = qlavmamčấčâlu
|qlavmam-čâčâ-lu
|word-{{gcl|COL|collective}}-study.of
|"syntax" (literally: the study of a group of words)
}}

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== Example text==
TBA

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==Footnotes==
<references />

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Meyāni

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{{Infobox country
| conventional_long_name = Second Meyāni Republic
| common_name = Meyāni
| native_name = <nowiki>*</nowiki>SCRIPT TBA* (''Ku-šóten-i Úsaivâye Nehấne-i'') ([[Meyāni language|Meyāni]])
| image_flag = Meyani Flag.png
| image_coat = Meyani Coat of Arms.png
| national_anthem = <center>"Alấn bâv hấsaiñeba reñấn Nehấnesira-i ñéra-ra!" (Meyāni)</center> 
<center>English: "May God guide the Meyāni people!"</center>
[[File:Meyani Anthem (Bee-Lute Instrumental).mp3]]
| image_map = Meyani Location.png
| map_caption = Meyāni's location within [[Levarianqueva]] (shown in green). The [[Prorinian peninsula]] is shown in gray.
| capital = [[Meraqlum]]
| official_languages = [[Meyāni language#Standard Meyāni|Standard Meyāni]] (based on the Meraqlum dialect)
| religion = [[Áukanism]]
| demonym = Meyāni, Meyānisian/Meyānisiran (archaic)
| government_type = {{w|Consul|Consul-led republic}} under a {{w|Corporatism|corporatist}} {{w|Plutocracy|plutocracy}}
| population_estimate = 15,281,002
| population_estimate_year = 2350 AC
| GDP_PPP = $1.012 trillion
| GDP_PPP_year = 2350 AC
| HDI = 0.615
| HDI_year = 2350 AC
| currency = Tấnâñña
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'''Meyāni''' ([[Meyāni language|Meyāni]]: *SCRIPT TBA* (''Nehấne'')), officially the '''Second Republic of Meyāni''' ([[Meyāni language|Meyāni]]: *SCRIPT TBA* (''Ku-šóten-i Úsaivâye Nehấne-i'')), is a country located inside the [[Prorinian peninsula]] region of [[Levarianqueva]], which is itself one of the three {{w|planets}} within the [[Rdaqtva A system]]. It borders [[Yaksōn]] to the northeast<ref>On most maps of Levarianqueva, east and west are swapped and vice versa due to the planet's retrograde rotation.</ref> and east, the [[Great Prorinian Steppes]] to the southeast and south, a large {{w|anarchy|zone of anarchy}} to the southwest and west, [[Nōlīnia]] to the northwest, and the [[Ezen Ocean]] to the north and northeast.

The oldest known {{w|fossils}} of early modern ''[[Alligatoris sapiens]]'' anywhere in the world are found in Meyāni, dating to around 213,000 BC. {{w|Agriculture}} was discovered in Meyāni and adjacent regions of the [[Northern Prorinian plains]] in around 10,000 BC, leading to the rise of {{w|Human settlement|permanent settlements}} and constantly-warring {{w|city states}}. However, by 4500 BC, the central and eastern halves of the Prorinian peninsula were invaded by migrating [[Qlerevi languages|Qlerevi]]-speaking groups, who were described by surviving Prorinian sources on them as {{w|nomadic}} {{w|warrior}}-like people and likely {{w|Urheimat|originated}} in modern-day [[Qlerebam]]. The Qlerevi gradually took over the central and eastern portions of the peninsula over the course of two millennia and introduced a {{w|caste system}} with themselves at the top and the {{w|indigenous}} [[Pre-Yaksōnian]]-speaking gators at the bottom. Gradually, the gators at the bottom of said caste system {{w|assimilated}} into Qlerevi languages and culture while the gators at the top adopted elements of the sedentary Prorinian culture as their own.

According to Meyāni {{w|mythology}}, the Meyāni nation was founded after a malevolent spirit powered by sentient, malevolent {{w|fruit}} once controlled the world, but was {{w|Coup d'état|overthrown}} in 3671 BC by the mythical {{w|heroes}} '''Sāvae''' (Sấvaren) and '''Reqlūndo''' (Reqlútton), who {{w|Slavery|sold most of the local population into slavery}} for helping the evil spirit take over the world in the first place and built the city of [[Meraqlum]] with the help of slave labor. The two heroes ruled Meraqlum in a {{w|diarchy}} for more than half a century until Sāvae decided to gradually kill Reqlūndo by having him eat a {{w|gastrolith|rock}} with a {{w|parasitic}} [[Pseudomykite|pseudomykite]] on it in 3619 BC, forcing the latter to retire his position as co-ruler. Sāvae then ruled as a {{w|tyrant}}, expanding Meraqlum's dominion across neighboring lands until he himself was killed by one of Reqlūndo's illegitimate sons, causing the large "Meraqlumnian Empire" to {{w|civil war|collapse in an all-out civil war}} which lasted for more than three millennia. The myths were likely based on real historical events that got passed down via {{w|oral tradition}}; it is known that a civil war happened at some point before the 6th century BC, as suggested by Rudakami and ancient Venēmīan sources.

Regardless of mythohistorical legends, the first recorded king of Meyāni that is accepted by most scholars to have actually existed, '''Reqlūndo II''', conquered much of what is now northern Meyāni and went into war with the [[Rudakami trade colonies]] scattered across the Prorinian peninsula's northern coastline sometime in the late 6th century BC, thereby granting his realm access to maritime trade. However, further Meyāni king lists before 1 AC have been lost due to the city that they were stored in, Meraqlum, being [[Rudakami conquest of the Prorinian peninsula#Siege and burning of Meraqlum|burned down by Rudakami and Yaksōnian troops in the 16th century AC]], so {{w|archeologists}} and {{w|historians}} are forced to rely on heavily-biased external sources, even though they might not tell the full truth of what happened or who reigned at a given time.

During the last years of the 1st century BC, Meyāni took advantage of a [[First Venēmīan civil war|civil war]] within the [[First Venēmīan Empire]] to [[Meyāni conquest of the First Venēmīan Empire|conquer]] the latter and [[Meyāni conquest of the First Venēmīan Empire#Burning of Venēm|burn down the city of Venēm]], {{w|massacre|killing}} or enslaving an estimated three-quarters of Yaksōn's non-{{w|LGBTQ+}} population in the process and starting a long-lasting series of emmities between the Meyāni and the Yaksōnians which lasts in some form to this day. Due to this event, the Meyāni {{w|nobility}} became heavily divided over whether to continue {{w|expansion}} or halt it at Venēm, leading to the Meyāni empire to collapse into anarchy. During this time, an organization of {{w|Fanaticism|religious fanatics}}, now known as the '''First Alliance of Vúnaibâr''' or the '''Warriors of the Shadows''', accidentally discovered the {{w|ruins}} of ancient technology left behind by the [[Galactic Forefathers]] in 325 AC while attempting to {{w|religiously convert}} the [[Eastern Barbarians]] into an early form of [[Áukanism]]. The First Alliance of Vúnaibâr initially kept the ruins a secret from the rest of Levarianqueva's nations; however, the [[Wet Bandits]], a {{w|tribe}} in the present-day Great Prorinian Steppes closely related to the Meyāni, and their leader, '''Qlānīrestā''', offered the Alliance access to these technologies in exchange for an alliance in 360 AC. However, the Alliance refused and declared a {{w|crusade}} against the "{{w|heretical}}" Wet Bandits, only to be defeated.

Now with ancient Galactic Forefather technology, the Wet Bandits conquered the remaining Meyāni warlord states, establishing the [[Bandit dynasty]] in 365 AC. The Bandit dynasty claimed {{w|legitimacy}} by tracing its rulers' descent to the mythical heroes Sāvae and Reqlūndo as well as by implementing excessive {{w|taxation}} policies for wealthy gators, which involved {{w|Wealth redistribution|confiscating Meyāni gators' wealth once it exceeds a certain threshold and then redistributing it to gators with less wealth}}, therefore ensuring {{w|income equality}} and securing the loyalty of gators in lower castes. Other than initial expansion into Nōlīnia and southern Rudakam, a few {{w|wars}} with Yaksōn, and a few {{w|peasant revolts}}, life during the Bandit dynasty was mostly peaceful and little-to-no {{w|Economic regulations|restrictions}} were placed on the economy, allowing for substantial economic growth during the early years of the Bandit dynasty. Additionally, {{w|science}}, {{w|culture}}, {{w|philosophy}}, and [[Magic (AWiEC)|the study of magic]] all flourished during the time of the Bandit dynasty.

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==Etymology==
The word "Meyāni" in {{w|English language|English}} is derived from the [[Yaksōnian language]] term *SCRIPT TBA* (<Meyāni>; /mɛˈjɐ̞ː.nɪ/) "Meyāni", which was ultimately borrowed from a word ''*meyāni'' (/''*me̞ˈjɐ̞ː.ni''/) "young warrior" in a {{w|dialect}} of [[Proto-Central Prorinian Qlerevi language|Proto-Central Prorinian Qlerevi]] passed along multiple [[pre-Yaksōnian languages]], which was ultimately inherited from the [[Proto-Qlerevi language|Proto-Qlerevi]] word ''*mehyeñ'' (/''*'me̞h.jeŋʲ''/) "young warrior." The word "Meyāni" is therefore {{w|cognate}} with the native Meyāni term used to refer to the country, *SCRIPT TBA* (<Nehấne>; /nɛˈxɑː.nɛ/), which has entirely lost its original meaning of "young warrior." This is because the ultimate founding fathers of the Meyāni nation and culture were originally {{w|mercenaries}} for a pre-Yaksōnian-speaking {{w|city-state}} that overthrew the city's government and gradually started to identify themselves with the term "young warrior." Eventually, the term was used so much to refer to their ethnic group that the original connotation was lost entirely.

The archaic English {{w|demonym}} for Meyāni, "Meyānisian," is derived from the Yaksōnian term *SCRIPT TBA* (<Meyānisīya>; /mɛˈjɐ̞ː.nɪ.siːjɐ̞/), which was inherited from the [[Ancient Venēmīan language|Ancient Venēmīan]] word <Meyānisīa> /meˈjɐ̞ː.ni.siːjɐ̞/, which is derived from the aforementioned word <Meyāni>, which has stayed relatively unchanged since it was first borrowed, with the addition of a demonym-forming {{w|suffix}} <-sīa>, which was borrowed from the [[Old Meyāni language|Old Meyāni]] suffix <-sīra> (i.e. Meyāni *SCRIPT TBA* <-sira> /siː.ræ/). Ancient Venēmīan underwent a {{w|sound change}} that caused historic [[Pre-Yaksōnian languages#Proto-Pre-Yaksōnian|Proto-Pre-Yaksōnian]] ''*r'' to be lost between {{w|vowels}}, which is apparent in Qlerevi-borrowed words which had /r/ in the source word not having the /r/ in the loanword in Ancient Venēmīan; modern Yaksōnian retains this change. The suffix <-sīra> ultimately originated from the Proto-Qlerevi word ''*sēle'' /''*ˈse̞ː,le̞''/, which likely meant "gator" in an earlier version of the language until it was displaced by another word ''*neyxëy'' /''*ˈnej.ɧəj''/ (i.e. Meyāni *SCRIPT TBA* <ñéra> /ˈɲɛ.ræ/) and fossilized as a demonym suffix in the last common ancestor of all known recorded Qlerevi languages.

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==History==
''Note: All precise dates given in this article are given in the [[Rudakami calendar]].''

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===Ancient history===
The earliest known anatomically-modern fossils of ''[[Alligatoris sapiens]]'' in the present-day territory of Meyāni have been {{w|Radiocarbon dating|dated}} to around 217,000 years ago. This makes these fossils the oldest known ''Alligatoris sapiens'' fossils in all of [[Levarianqueva]]. The species itself, however, is theorized to originate in modern-day [[Yaksōn]] to the east. From the general region of the [[Prorinian peninsula]], ''A. sapiens'' spread throughout Levarianqueva, reaching locations as distant as [[Qlerebam]] and [[Storoia]].

Some scholars theorize that the ancestors of [[Pre-Yaksōnian languages|pre-Yaksōnian language]] speakers migrated to the Prorinian peninsula, including the modern territory of Meyāni, from the west a few thousand years before the discovery of {{w|agriculture}}, due to the presence of similar words in various [[Tiorōska|Tiorōskan]] languages and the [[Rudakami language]]. If this theory were true, then this would be the largest migration event in the Prorinian peninsula prior to the [[Qlerevi migrations|Qlerevi migrations and inventions]] over ten millennia later.

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[[File:Qlerevi migration map.png|thumb|600x600px|A map of the {{w|migrations}} of Qlerevi-speaking peoples and their descendants from the original Proto-Qlerevi {{w|Urheimat}} over time, overlaid by modern {{w|Border|borders}}. Migrations are represented by arrows signifying the direction of migration, with the colors of the arrows representing the time period that the migrations occurred. These colors represent the following: 
{{Color box|#ed1c24}}: Migrations that occurred between c. 9000 BC and c. 7500 BC. 
{{Color box|#ff7f27}}: Migrations that occurred between c. 7500 BC and c. 6000 BC. 
{{Color box|#fff200}}: Migrations that occurred between c. 6000 BC and c. 4500 BC. 
{{Color box|#22b14c}}: Migrations that occurred between c. 4500 BC and c. 2000 BC. 
{{Color box|#00a2e8}}: Migrations that occurred between c. 2000 BC and c. 1200 AC. 
{{Color box|#a349a4}}: Migrations that occurred later than c. 1200 AC. ]]

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=====Meyāni founding myth=====
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====The Old Kingdom====
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=====Conquest of Venēm=====
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===First Warlord States Period===
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===The Bandit dynasty===
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====Formation====
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====Early conquests====

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=====Conquest of Nōlīnia=====
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=====Conquest of Southern Rudakam=====
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====The First Meyāni Golden Age====
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====Wars with Yaksōn====
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====The Bandit Dynasty's Collapse====
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===Second Warlord States Period===
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===Qlúroči Republic===
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After unifying the country, Nấruhan Qlúroči set out to establish a stable, democratic government based on a combination of the beliefs of the Yaksōnian {{w|philosopher}} and {{w|monk}} '''Yōtokōn''' (which was in turn based on those of several Ancient Venēmīan philosophers) and the {{w|Chiefdom|tribal governments}} that constituted what is now the [[Great Prorinian Steppes]], the latter of which he personally experienced after being {{w|exiled}} there and being {{w|disowned}} by his own family. He established a '''Council of Advisors''', a body of twelve un-elected officials appointed directly by the President that would directly advise him on certain situations. The Council of Advisors constituted the upper house of a {{w|Bicameralism|bicameral}} {{w|parliament}}-like structure called the '''Great Assembly'''; the lower house, the '''Council of the People''', was composed of 300 members and represented the general populace. Laws were proposed by members of the Council of the People and passed if there was a 2/3rds majority; they were then passed on to the Council of Advisors, who debated along with the President if it should be vetoed. If a law is vetoed, it cannot be proposed again until the next session of the Great Assembly is started. Nấruhan Qlúroči officially codified this government structure into a {{w|constitution}} in 1578 AC, with himself becoming the first President of the '''[[Qlúroči republic]]'''.

Nấruhan Qlúroči's early rule was plagued with internal turmoil. For example, a major {{w|rebellion}} against the government in 1580 AC resulted in whole villages being destroyed and several thousand gators being either killed or displaced. These internal rebellions called into question the stability of the {{w|Democracy|democratic}} system in Meyāni, which forced the government to reform slightly. However, Nấruhan became paranoid about Rudakam exploiting internal instability in the country to conquer it as the country's god-king endorsed an {{w|expansionist}} policy, especially after Rudakam invaded and annexed Nōlīnia in 1581 AC. Although the Republic sent troops to fortify the border in case of a Rudakami attack, the Rudakami god-king, '''Kekórìyà XIII''', was assassinated and died a year after the conquest, causing a civil war because he had no heirs to succeed him and freeing up Meyāni's manpower and resources. Rumors spread that Nấruhan Qlúroči himself ordered the assassination attempt on Kekórìyà XIII to eliminate any chances of a strong power emerging to conquer his state; however, modern historians reject these rumors and believe that he was assassinated by a lesser-known Nōlīnian {{w|Guerilla warfare|guerilla}} fighter instead.

Nấruhan Qlúroči ordered that the troops that were sent to the Rudakami border the previous year be sent to the Yaksōnian border instead in 1583 AC, and declared war on the country a year later, with the aim of converting the country into a democracy. With no major allies, Yaksōn slowly lost territory until the Meyāni troops reached the city of Venēm in 1594 AC.

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===Modern history===
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==Geography==
[[File:Map of Meyani.png|500px|right|A map of Meyāni, showing neighboring countries, mountain ranges, and provincial capitals.]]
Meyāni is located in the central and central-western regions of the [[Prorinian peninsula]]. The country is primarily located within the northern {{w|Geographical zones#Temperate zones|temperate zone}} of [[Levarianqueva]]. However, some of Meyāni's territory is located south of the {{w|Tropic of Cancer|Tropic of Varaktai}} and therefore falls within the {{w|tropics}}; the country is entirely located within Levarianqueva's {{w|northern hemisphere}}. The country is mostly flat, expansive {{w|plains}} in terms of {{w|topography}}; despite this, it has two main {{w|mountain ranges}}: the [[Varaktai Range]], which covers a minor part of Meyāni and extends into [[Yaksōn]] and the [[Great Prorinian Steppes (country)|Great Prorinian Steppes]], and the [[Nōlīnian Range]], which is shared with [[Nōlīnia]].

Meyāni is home to a extensive network of {{w|navigable rivers}} which allow for the cheap transportation of {{w|goods}} from coastal areas into areas further inland and vice versa. Throughout its coast, there are multiple {{w|Harbor#Natural harbors|natural harbors}} where ships can be effectively {{w|moored}}. Meyāni has lots of annual surface water resources; these help grow crops and generate the country's large {{w|Agriculture|agricultural output}}. All natural water sources in Meyāni ultimately flow into the [[Ezen Ocean]], either indirectly via the [[Twin Deltas]] (twin deltas in the Prorinian peninsula which feed massive river systems allowing for the cheap transport of goods between Yaksōnian and Meyāni cities and vice versa; one delta falls within Meyāni territory, while the other falls within Yaksōnian territory) to the north of the Prorinian peninsula and the [[Bay of Spores]] or directly to the ocean.

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===Climate and Biodiversity===
Most of Meyāni is occupied by a {{w|Mediterranean climate}}, with most of the territory occupied by such a climate having hot {{w|Summer|summers}} and warm to cold {{w|Winter|winters}}. The country's Mediterranean climate regions receive high levels of {{w|precipitation}} in winter months and receive little-to-no precipitation in summer months, apart from precipitation generated by {{w|tropical cyclones}} that make {{w|landfall}}. Towards the coast, temperature extremes between the summer and winter months are moderated by the effects of the sea, but these differences are greatly exaggerated the more inland one goes inside the Mediterranean climate zones. In addition, some of Meyāni's territory is occupied by {{w|Semi-arid climates#Cold semi-arid climates|cold steppes}} to the south and northwest, with cold {{w|deserts}} occupying some of the extreme northwestern regions of the country due to {{w|rain shadow}} effects generated by the Nōlīnian Range.

Although much of the land has been cleared for agriculture and {{w|urban development}}, natural {{w|vegetation}} survives in many areas and mainly consists of {{w|Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub|Mediterranean vegetation}}, with minor amounts of {{w|alpine vegetation}} and {{w|grasslands}} as well as tiny amounts of {{w|desert vegetation}} occupying portions of Meyāni's territory generated by rain shadow effects from the Nōlīnian Range. These zones of natural vegetation are home to diverse species of {{w|wildlife}}. [[Erythrophyte|Erythrophytes]] grow in terrestrial areas near navigable rivers; in the Bay of Spores, the erythrophytes' spores that give the body of water its name are important food sources for many aquatic {{w|zooplankton}} in Meyāni's {{w|territorial waters}}. Meyāni's extensive rivers are home to diverse {{w|fish}} and {{w|cetacean}} species, with Meyāni having the highest amount of {{w|dolphin}} species anywhere on Levarianqueva.

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==Government and politics==
Meyāni is a highly {{w|centralized}} {{w|Consul|consular}} {{w|parliamentary republic}} wherein both the head of state and head of government are twelve consuls. One consul could veto the actions made by any other consul. The constitutional frameworks of the Meyāni government draw inspiration from the [[Qlúroči republic]], a democracy which existed over seven centuries ago, although the government of the modern Meyāni nation is structured differently in an attempt to prevent the flaws that led to its conquest. The government is divided into three branches:

*A '''{{w|Legislature|legislative branch}}''', which creates laws and passes them along to the executive if approved by at least 200 of the legislative branch's members. The legislature, which is known as the '''Great Assembly of Meyāni''', is a {{w|Unicameralism|unicameral}} legislative body which consists of 300 members, with the distribution of seats among the nation's provinces being affected by {{w|censuses}} which take place every ten years. The Great Assembly is officially defined as a "parliament" in the {{w|English language}} translation of the [[Meyāni constitution]], but it isn't actually one and may just be a translation error.
*An '''{{w|Executive (government)|executive branch}}''', which is occupied by the twelve consuls who debate over laws that were passed in the legislative branch. Laws are passed by the executive only if at least eight of the twelve consuls approve of them. Afterwards, the law is passed into the judicial branch of the government unless at least one of the consuls {{w|Liberum veto|decide to veto it}}, preventing it from being passed entirely until the next session of the government. The practice of free veto strengthened democratic elements within Meyāni's government; however, {{w|corporations}} and {{w|Chief Executive Officer|CEOs}} frequently bribed certain consuls in order to have them block legislation that may hurt their interests from passing into the judicial branch, effectively turning the nation into a ''de facto'' {{w|corporatocracy}}. Also, the executive branch has the power to declare war on other nations if at least eight out of the twelve consuls approve of war.
*A '''{{w|Judiciary|judicial branch}}''', which interprets laws passed by the executive branch in order to determine whether they are constitutional or not; it, called the '''Meyāni Supreme Court''', also has the power to punish criminals found guilty by the law. Despite corporations brainwashing the Meyāni population into thinking that the judicial branch is independent from their control, the Meyāni Supreme Court is under heavy influence from the corporations, and corporations and CEOs often {{w|Bribery|bribe}} judges into serving their interests or ideology. If the Meyāni Supreme Court considers a law to be constitutional, it is officially considered to be enforced.

The consuls and the members of the Great Assembly are {{w|Election|elected}} via ''de jure'' {{w|Direct election|direct popular vote}} every four years. However, in reality, individuals belonging to lower castes in the Meyāni {{w|Caste|caste system}} do not have the right to vote, and they are often given ballots which are not officially counted by electoral bodies to brainwash them into thinking that they can actually vote. Thus, significant {{w|electoral fraud}} is present in almost every single election since the elections of 2000 AC, with elected officials often showing bias towards the wealthiest individuals in the country.

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===Administrative divisions===
[[File:Meraqlum CoA.png|200px|thumb|The coat of arms of the Meraqlum province, the most populated province in Meyāni. This coat of arms features a dark sky above a green]]

Meyāni is subdivided into '''{{w|provinces}}''' ([[Meyāni language|Meyāni]]: *SCRIPT TBA* (''Lấyarara'')), each named after their {{w|Capital city|provincial capital}}. Provinces are not represented equally within the legislative branch of the government, with more populated provinces receiving a higher amount of representatives than provinces with a lower population; consequently, elected officials show bias towards more populated areas. Provinces are headed by '''governors''' ([[Meyāni language|Meyāni]]: *SCRIPT TBA* (''Yámeqlâkera'')) who enforce laws passed by the central government in their respective areas. Provinces do not receive any {{w|autonomy}} and do not have the right to succeed from their parent nation.

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===Foreign relations===
Meyāni maintains a vast network of diplomatic relations spanning across the entire world. The country maintains diplomatic relations with thirteen countries across Levarianqueva and has established {{w|embassies}} across the world in 17 different {{w|countries}} (including two {{w|unrecognized countries}}). Meyāni is a founding member of the [[Qlerevi Union]], a predominately economic-based {{w|alliance}} of [[Qlerevi languages|Qlerevi]]-speaking states that consists of seven other countries, as well as a founding member of the [[Peninsular Organization for Economic and Developmental Benefits]], which consists of four other nations and has since suspended the country over accusations of {{w|corruption}}, and the country is also a member of the [[Eqléssalos of Mages]], which has since also suspended the country over the corporations' {{w|expansionist}} plans of conquering the entire [[Great Prorinian Steppes (country)|Great Prorinian Steppes]].

The Meyāni government and its corporations are widely hated by civilians inside most of the Prorinian peninsula outside of its borders and [[Rudakam]] due to threats that corruption may soon take over their governments. Due to these fears, [[Yaksōn]] (which has a long, complicated history of rivalry with Meyāni lasting for over two milennia) and Rudakam have suspended diplomatic relationships with the country and have destroyed the Meyāni embassies in their territory while passing regulations to reduce corporate influence. The country also has a complicated relationship with [[Nōlīnia]], with it largely allowing Meyāni corporations to operate inside of its territory as long as they conform to specific regulations prohibiting them from having a say in the country's {{w|authoritarian}} government. Outside of the Prorinian peninsula, Meyāni is praised for bringing {{w|economic development}} to their land, and as such viewed positively by local governments. Ironically, Meyāni corporations have been involved in countless {{w|civil wars}} and internal {{w|rebellions}} to put corporate-friendly governments into power in several countries.

===Gator rights===
In the first few decades after the [[Great Prorinian War]] and the subsequent period of occupation, Meyāni had a fairly good {{w|Human rights|gator rights}} record. However, this has gradually declined in the centuries since the corporations took power over the Meyāni government. {{w|Journalist}} interviews of multiple refugees mostly born into the lowest-ranking castes of Meyāni society have revealed multiple gator rights abuses in Meyāni that have gone unreported in the largely corporation-funded {{w|news broadcasting|news broadcasters}} which predominate news broadcasting in Meyāni.

There is a huge discreptancy in gator rights between the rich and the poor. Rich females and {{w|LGBTQ|LGBTQ+}} gators enjoyed the same rights and privileges as wealthy men compared to their less wealthy counterparts, and all rich Meyāni live lives of luxury; however, even though all gators are technically allowed to vote as per constitutional amendments, {{w|grandfather clauses}} and other restrictions aimed at the poor exclude the poor from voting and secure members of higher castes as the only socioeconomic classes allowed to vote. However, gators who are less wealthy are often treated poorly and live lives in {{w|poverty}} and {{w|Exploitation of labor|exploitation}} by corporations. Gators who show disloyalty against the corporations or commit even minor crimes are often given harsh {{w|punishments}}; most are {{w|Forced labour|forced to work for the corporations in unhealthy work conditions for a set amount of time}} or put into {{w|solitary confinement}} in overcrowded {{w|Prison|jails}}, but some are sentenced to the {{w|Capital punishment|death penalty}}.

Even though the Meyāni constitution guarantees the {{w|separation of church and state}}, the Meyāni government does not respect religious freedoms and frequently persecutes those who do not follow the predominate religion of '''[[Áukanism]]''', a strictly {{w|Monotheism|monotheistic}} religion involving the worship of the god '''[[Áukanism#Deities|Alấn]]'''; Meyāni often punishes religious {{w|heretics}} with forced labor or death. The government does not authorize the construction of buildings of worship belonging to religions other than Áukanism, with Meyāni often commissioning the demolition of such buildings under the justification of them "occupying too much space" and "disrupting normal life in the area" once finding out about their existence. However, Meyāni doesn't often enforce its religious persecutions on poorer gators due to them tending to neglect the poor, so the poorest gators are more likely to openly follow other religions or become {{w|atheist}} than the wealthiest individuals in the country.

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==Economy==
Meyāni boasts a ''{{w|laissez-faire}}'' {{w|capitalist}} economy and has little-to-no {{w|Market interventions|economic interventions}} and {{w|Regulatory economics|regulations}}, which allows for {{w|corporations}} like the [[Alliance of Vúnaibâr]] corporate group to take power over the entire government and pass laws that favor their interests. As a result, the poorest gators in Meyāni live lives in {{w|poverty}} and exploitation, while the richest live lives in luxury, with the lives of the poor being frequently worsened by cycles of {{w|economic recessions}}. Despite widespread {{w|economic inequality}} in Meyāni, the country is one of the richest in Levarianqueva due to its highly capitalist economy, with a {{w|Gross domestic product|gross domestic product (GDP)}} of $1.012 trillion in {{w|International dollar|human dollars}}, or around 12.070 trillion ''tấnâñña''s.

For most of its history, Meyāni's economy was mostly {{w|Agrarian society|agrarian}}, with the main source of wealth being {{w|agriculture}}. However, minor contributions to wealth came from {{w|trade}}, {{w|war}}, and the extraction of {{w|natural resources}}. Since the rise of the corporations to power within Meyāni, however, the main source of wealth in the country has shifted to the {{w|manufacturing}} of {{w|consumer products}}; however, agriculture is still practiced as a means to gain money by poor families. {{w|Tourism}} and {{w|dolphin}}-watching are also increasingly occupying parts of the economy.

As of 2350 AC, 81% of Meyāni's GDP is privately-owned; the remaining 19% is dedicated to {{w|government spending}}. Of that 19%, 45% is dedicated to {{w|military spending}}, 26% is dedicated to {{w|education}}, and 18% is dedicated to enforcing law and order within the country. The remaining 11% of Meyāni's government spending is dedicated to other things.

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==Education==
In Meyāni, {{w|education}} is compulsory for all citizens from the ages of 8 to 15, the latter of which is the legal {{w|age of consent}} in the country; however, some Meyāni gators may leave the child education system at an age earlier than the age of 15, like [[Rírin-i Roqlínau]] (a prominent mage-turned anti-government activist, {{w|protestor}}, and child {{w|genius}} who skipped a grade and left his child education at the age of 14). After {{w|graduation}}, many gators may choose to attend a {{w|university}} to broaden their knowledge of the world before getting a job. Immigrants in Meyāni who wish to work, are older than the age of consent, and who do not complete their education may choose to attend {{w|adult education}} centers. Child education is {{w|segregated}} by {{w|caste}}, while adult education is not, as all who attend adult education are immigrants who do not have a registered caste in Meyāni society.

Legally speaking, child education is referred to as '''primary education''', and university education is referred to as '''secondary education'''. In order to graduate from primary education, one must earn 56 credits, seven for each {{w|Educational stage|grade level}}. In order to earn a credit for a class, one must master all of the material within that class by the end of the school year. Core subjects include {{w|mathematics}}, {{w|science}}, [[Meyāni language]] (which is lumped in with {{w|literature}}, despite the two being separate), {{w|social studies}} (which include {{w|history}}, {{w|religion}}, and {{w|philosophy}}), and {{w|elective courses|electives}}, a broad category of optional subjects which includes seemingly-distant topics that don't fit into the other four categories neatly such as {{w|art}}, {{w|engineering}}, foreign {{w|languages}}, and [[Magic (AWiEC)|magic]]. From Grade I to Grade V, the subjects that a child takes is determined by the {{w|legal parents}} and some of the top-ranking faculty members at a primary educational institution; after Grade V, he/she can pick the classes that he/she wants to take. Primary education is also where Meyāni gators receive the vast majority of their governmental propaganda in.

After graduating from primary education, gators may continue their education in secondary education universities. The most prestigious of these universities is the [[University of Meraqlum]], which has over 4 million {{w|alumni}} or actively-attending students as of 2350 AC.

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==Military==
Meyāni has a large, powerful {{w|military}} with 1,346,919 members, or 8.8% of the country's population. It is divided into three branches: the '''Meyāni Republican Army''', which deals with the {{w|land forces}} of the country, the '''Meyāni Republican Navy''', which deals with the {{w|naval forces}} of the country, and the '''Meyāni Special Forces''', which deals with [[Magic (AWiEC)#In war|magical]] and {{w|biological warfare}}. As of 2350 AC, military spending makes up around 8.6% of the country's total GDP.

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===Meyāni Republican Army===
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===Meyāni Republican Navy===
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===Meyāni Special Forces===
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==Demographics==
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==Culture==
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===Food===
{{See also|Prorinian cuisine}}
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===Art and architecture===
{{See also|Prorinian art}}
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====Literature and philosophy====
{{See also|Prorinian literature}}
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====Music====
{{See also|Prorinian music}}
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====Caste system====
{{See also|Qlerevi caste system#In Meyāni}}
Meyāni has a strict {{w|caste}} system which assigns each citizen of the country an individual {{w|social class}} or '''caste'''. A gator's caste at hatching is dependent on the caste of their {{w|Legal guardian#legal guardian|legal}} {{w|father}}.

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==Footnotes==
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Meyāni language

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{{Short description|Qlerevi language spoken in Meyāni and other regions in the Prorinian peninsula}}
{{Infobox Levarianquevan Language
| title = Meyāni
| othername = Meyānisian
| nativename = {{CustomScript|meyani|y}}̀ˋ˙{{CustomScript|meyani|t}}ˎ:{{CustomScript|meyani|n}}ˊ{{CustomScript|meyani|h@}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|n}}ˊ{{CustomScript|meyani|sir}}ˋ—{{CustomScript|meyani|i}} (''Yáto Nehấnesira-i'')
| image = Meyani distribution.png
| imagecaption = The distribution of the Standard Meyāni language in the Prorinian peninsula based on first-language speakers, overlaid by political boundaries: 
{{Color box|#7387cf}}: Standard Meyāni is spoken by a majority of gators in the area as a {{w|First language|mother tongue}}. 
{{Color box|#8EA7ff}}: Standard Meyāni is spoken by a significant minority of gators in the area as a mother tongue. 
{{Color box|#bacbff}}: Standard Meyāni is spoken by a small minority of gators in the area as a mother tongue. 
{{Color box|#ffffff}}: Standard Meyāni is primarily learned as a {{w|second language}} by gators in the area, as little-to-no first-language speakers exist. 
{{Color box|#3f48cc}}: The area is covered by a body of {{w|water}}. 
{{Color box|#000000}}: Political boundary.|imagesize=250px|pronounciation=/ˈjæ.to nɛˈxɑː.nɛ.siː.ra.jiː/
| region=[[Prorinian peninsula]]
| speakers = ~ 9 million (L1) 
~ 16 million (L2) 
~ 25 million (total)
| family = [[Qlerevi languages|Qlerevi]]
*[[Eastern Qlerevi languages|Eastern Qlerevi]]
**[[Prorinian Qlerevi languages|Prorinian Qlerevi]]
***[[Central Prorinian Qlerevi languages|Central Prorinian Qlerevi]]
****[[Steppe Qlerevi languages|Steppe Qlerevi]]
*****[[Old Meyāni language|Old Meyāni]]
******[[Classical Meyāni language|Classical Meyāni]]
*******'''Meyāni'''
| script = [[Meyāni alphabet]]<ref>The script is classified as a partial {{w|abjad}} because "{{w|short vowels}}" are not written and require optional {{w|diacritics}} to be expressed properly without relying solely on {{w|context}}; see [[Meyāni language#Orthography|the orthography section of this article]].</ref>
| direction = {{w|Directionality and orientation|Left-to-right}}
| officialin = [[Meyāni]]
| recognized = [[Yaksōn]]
| consonants = 19
| vowels = 9 (6 {{w|monophthongs}}, 3 {{w|diphthongs}}
| syllablestructure = <nowiki>#</nowiki>((l)C)V/(N, h)(C)CV/(C, G)(C)#
| prosody = {{w|Stress (linguistics)|Stress}}
| inflectiontype = {{w|Analytic language|Analytic}}
| nouncase = m
| nounnumber = y
| noundefinite = n
| noungender = n
| adjectiveagreement = No
| verbtense = y
| verbaspect = m
| verbmood = m
| verbvoice = n
| verbsubject = n
| verbobject = n
| verbnumber = n
| verbevidence = n
| verbvalency = n
| markingposs = {{w|Dependent-marking language|Dependent-marking}}
| markingadj = {{w|Dependent-marking language|Dependent-marking}}
| markingverb = {{w|Zero-marking language|Zero-marking}}
| wordorder = {{w|Subject-verb-object}}
| otherorders = {{w|Verb-subject-object}} (in {{w|subordinate clauses}})
| headdirection = {{w|Head-directionality parameter#Head-final languages|Head-final}} ({{w|Head-directionality parameter#Head-initial languages|Head-initial}} in verb phrases)
| alignmenttype = {{w|Nominative-accusative alignment|Nominative-Accusative}}
}}

The '''Meyāni language''' is a [[Qlerevi languages|Qlerevi language]] primarily spoken on the [[Prorinian peninsula]]. The standard dialect is primarily spoken in southern [[Meyāni]], with significant minorities of speakers existing throughout the peninsula and adjacent lands. Its closest living relative that is not disputed to be a distinct {{w|language}} (either by the {{w|Linguistic description|descriptionism}} of {{w|Academic linguistics|scholarly linguistics}}, which is the primary form of {{w|Linguistic study|linguistic study}} used in this article, or {{w|linguistic prescription}}, which is promoted by [[Meyāni#Education|Meyāni's educational system]]) is the [[Bandit language]], which is spoken primarily in the northern and northwestern<ref>Due to Levarianqueva's retrograde rotation, east and west are swapped on maps.</ref> areas of the [[Great Prorinian Steppes (country)|Great Prorinian Steppes]]. The language is the sole {{w|official language}} of Meyāni, while it is recognized as a {{w|minority language}} in [[Yaksōn]] (where it was introduced to vast swathes of the country by lower-class {{w|refugees}} fleeing the low {{w|quality of life}} generated by [[Meyāni#Corporations|the corporations in ''de facto'' charge of the Meyāni government]]); in all other Prorinian countries, the language is not recognized.

The language has had a long history spanning back thousands of years. The ultimate accepted ancestor of Meyāni, the [[Proto-Qlerevi language]], was likely spoken in an area roughly overlapping with the modern-day nation of [[Qlerebam]]. After a {{w|drought}} that contributed to much of Qlerebam being covered in vast {{w|deserts}} today, the Qlerevi peoples then {{w|migrated}} throughout Levarianqueva, settling in locations as distant from [[Vreotannia]] to [[Arozdénia]] to the Prorinian peninsula. The Qlerevi languages that ultimately arrived at the Prorinian peninsula then diversified into two distinct {{w|language families}}: the [[Central Prorinian Qlerevi languages]] (which ultimately evolved into the Meyāni language and its relatives) and the [[Northwestern Prorinian Qlerevi languages]] (which ultimately evolved into the [[Nōlīnian language]] and its relatives), displacing the local [[Pre-Yaksōnian languages]] in the process while absorbing significant influences from them, including the development of a strict {{w|V2 word order}}.

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==Classification and Dialects==

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===Position in the Qlerevi family===
Meyāni is a [[Qlerevi languages|Qlerevi language]] belonging to the [[Eastern Qlerevi languages|eastern branch]], which includes the [[Prorinian Qlerevi languages]] (which Meyāni is a part of). The eastern branch of Qlerevi languages is primarily differentiated from other Qlerevi languages in that languages in this branch underwent various {{w|sound changes}} which were absent from other Proto-Qlerevi dialects, including, but not limited to:

* [[Proto-Qlerevi language|Proto-Qlerevi]] ''*p'' {{w|lenition|lenites}} into /''*β''/ between two {{w|vowels}} (and later disappears entirely in the Prorinian Qlerevi languages); e.g. Proto-Qlerevi ''*kapōñ'' "to form" > Proto-Eastern Qlerevi ''*kaβōñ'' > Meyāni {{CustomScript|meyani|k@}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|un}}ˊ (''káune'') "to build, to create," [[Nōlīnian language|Nōlīnian]] *SCRIPT TBA* (-''kaʔǫni''-) "to form."
* Proto-Qlerevi ''*w'' becomes /''*β''/ word-finally, which later disappeared in the Prorinian Qlerevi languages (and produced a four-way distinction in {{w|vowel length}} between short, half-long, long, and overlong which eventually disappeared in all of Proto-Prorinian Qlerevi's descendants in some way or another); e.g. Proto-Qlerevi ''*eqlew'' "eternal rival" > Proto-Eastern Qlerevi ''*eqleβ'' > Meyāni {{CustomScript|meyani|y}}ˋ˙{{CustomScript|meyani|ks}}ˋ (''yáksa'') "eternal rival," Nōlīnian *SCRIPT TBA* (''eqlè''-) "rival."
* Proto-Qlerevi ''*ts'' becomes /''*θ''/ in all positions, which later shifts into /''*s''/ in Proto-Prorinian Qlerevi; e.g. Proto-Qlerevi ''*wītsen'' "to see" > Proto-Eastern-Qlerevi ''*wīθān'' > Meyāni {{CustomScript|meyani|v@}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|is@n}} (''váisân'') "to see," Nōlīnian *SCRIPT TBA* (-''wįsąn''-) "to see."
* Some of Proto-Qlerevi's consonant clusters undergo heavy {{w|consonant assimilation}} in Eastern Qlerevi languages.

Modern Meyāni's closest living relative that is not disputed as being a distinct language is the [[Bandit language]], which is natively spoken in the northern and northwestern areas of the [[Great Prorinian Steppes (country)|Great Prorinian Steppes]]. The Bandit language shares many sound changes with Meyāni, which has diverged from it approximately 3,500 years ago. These include, but are not limited to:

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===Dialects===
Besides '''Standard Meyāni''' (which is what one typically means when they say "Meyāni language"), multiple other {{w|dialects}} of the Meyāni language exist each with their own unique properties. Standard Meyāni, which is based on the dialect spoken in the capital of [[Meraqlum]], is the official language of the country of [[Meyāni]] and is the dialect that is the closest to the [[Classical Meyāni|classical language]] spoken during the [[Bandit dynasty]] and also being the main {{w|liturgical language}} of the [[Áukanism|Áukanist]] faith. The main differences between Standard Meyāni and Classical Meyāni are the {{w|Conservative and innovative language|innovation}} of a separate {{w|optative mood}} in Standard Meyāni, the pronounciation of Standard Meyāni <v> as /w/ in Classical Meyāni, and the Classical Meyāni sequence /xl/ shifting in pronounciation to /q͡ʟ/ in standard Meyāni.

Some of the major dialect groups listed below. However, some of these dialects are dwindling in speakers as the standard dialect gains prominence ever since the establishment of a standardized [[Meyāni#Education|education system]]. Some quote-on-quote "dialects" that are more closely related to the Nōlīnian language than Standard Meyāni are excluded from the list.

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====Eastern Dialect Group====
The '''Eastern Dialect Group''' refers to a collection of Meyāni dialects that were spoken close to the border of [[Yaksōn]] and inside of the extreme eastern regions of the aforementioned country prior to massive standardization. Nowadays, dialects in this group are primarily spoken in the northeastern portions of Meyāni. These dialects are directly descended from early forms of the classical language and are closely related to the standard language; however, the Eastern Dialect Group has significant influences and {{w|loanwords}} from the [[Yaksōnian language]] due to centuries of contact which causes dialects in the Eastern Dialect Group to sound similar to Yaksōnian, so some speakers were mistakenly sent to {{w|concentration camps}} by the Nerấyavi regime on the basis that they were members of an "inferior race" despite not speaking Yaksōnian at all. These dialects are primarily written in both the [[Yaksōnian script]], which is an {{w|abugida}}, and the [[Meyāni script]], a partial {{w|abjad}}.

The main differences between the dialects in this group (with the Fidurin dialect given as an example, as it has most of the changes) and Standard Meyāni include:

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* Standard Meyāni and Classical Meyāni non-{{w|Gemination|geminated}} <t> have turned into /r/ between {{w|vowels}} in dialects in the Eastern Dialect Group (compare Standard Meyāni {{CustomScript|meyani|s}}ˊ˙{{CustomScript|meyani|y}}ˋ{{CustomScript|meyani|t}}ˋ (''séyata'') "to fly" to [[Fidurin]] dialect *SCRIPT TBA* (''sáyoro'') "to fly").
* Dialects in the Eastern Dialect Group have undergone a massive {{w|vowel shift}} involving the following changes:
** Long vowels become short.
** Classical Meyāni <â> merged with <o>, then both shifted to /u/ (compare Standard Meyāni {{CustomScript|meyani|x@}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|by}}ˋ (''šấbya'') "good" to Fidurin dialect *SCRIPT TBA* (''šúppo'') "good").
** Former <nowiki></nowiki> became /y/ and later became /i/ (compare Standard Meyāni {{CustomScript|meyani|n}}ˋ{{CustomScript|meyani|gu}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|rt}}ˎ{{CustomScript|meyani|s}} (''nagúrtos'') "elephant" to Fidurin dialect *SCRIPT TBA* (''nokíttus'') "elephant").
** Former <nowiki></nowiki> became /e/ (compare Standard Meyāni {{CustomScript|meyani|i}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|n}}ˊ{{CustomScript|meyani|hiv}}ˋ (''ínehiva'') "instead of" to Fidurin dialect *SCRIPT TBA* (''énakewo'') "instead of")
** Former <e> became /ɐ̞/ (compare Standard Meyāni {{CustomScript|meyani|h}}ˊ{{CustomScript|meyani|xi}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|n}} (''hešín'') "to hear" to Fidurin dialect *SCRIPT TBA* (''kašén'') "to hear")
** Former <a> became /o/ (compare Standard Meyāni {{CustomScript|meyani|y}}ˋ˙{{CustomScript|meyani|x}}ˋ (''yáša'') "to think" to Fidurin dialect *SCRIPT TBA* (''yóšo'') "to decide")
** The diphthongs <ai>, <au>, and <eu> in Classical Meyāni have turned into monopthongs /e/, /o/, and /u/ respectively (compare Standard Meyāni {{CustomScript|meyani|y}}ˋ{{CustomScript|meyani|c}}ˋ{{CustomScript|meyani|ss@}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|i}} (''yačassái'') "bright," {{CustomScript|meyani|y}}ˋ{{CustomScript|meyani|v@}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|unk}}ˋ (''yaváunka'') "on the subject of," and {{CustomScript|meyani|l}}ˎ{{CustomScript|meyani|sti}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|u}} (''lostéu'') "to lose" to Fidurin dialect *SCRIPT TBA* (''yočossé'') "hot," *SCRIPT TBA* (''yowókko'') "on the subject of," and *SCRIPT TBA* (''lussú'') "to lose").
** The above changes have caused stress to be phonemic in these dialects.
* All consonant clusters from Classical Meyāni are heavily simplified in dialects in this group, simplifying into geminated consonants. Initial <lw-> becomes <w-> in these dialects.
* Most dialects in this group (including the Fidurin dialect) merge voiced obstruents with their voiceless counterparts, and allophonically turn non-geminated voiceless obstruents into voiced ones between vowels.
* Geminated consonants become short consonants at the ends of words in dialects in the Eastern Dialect Group.
* Some dialects in this group drop {{w|Stress (linguistics)|unstressed}} vowels at the ends of words. The Fidurin dialect does not have this feature, however.
* Standard Meyāni inserts the sound /x/ between two consecutive monopthongs. However, a different consonant is inserted in dialects in the Eastern Dialect Group: /k/. This is because Standard Meyāni <h> merges with /k/ in dialects in this group.

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==Phonology==
Unlike {{w|humans}}, [[Alligatoris sapiens|gators']] {{w|soft palates}} (which are the practical equivalent of the human {{w|velum}} as gators lack it) are naturally lowered, and so do not redirect air into the {{w|mouth}}. Instead, all sounds (including all {{w|consonants}}) are {{w|Nasalization|nasalized}} (which is not indicated in the {{w|International Phonetic Alphabet|IPA}} charts for Levarianquevan languages). Therefore, to humans, gators sound like they are {{w|Disease|sick}}.

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===Vowels===
Modern Standard Meyāni has six {{w|vowel}} phonemes, with three being "{{w|Vowel length|long}}" and three being short. Note that "long vowels" are not pronounced longer than the short vowels in most dialects, but the long pronunciation is proscribed in school textbooks.

{| class="wikitable"
|+Meyāni vowels
!
!Front
!Back
|-
!High
|i(ː) <nowiki></nowiki>
|u(ː) <nowiki></nowiki>
|-
!Mid
|ɛ <e>
| o <o>
|-
!Low
|æ <a>
|ɑ(ː) <â>
|}

The language also has three {{w|diphthongs}} which are often categorized as "long vowels": /ai/ <ai>, /au/ <au>, and /eu/ <eu>, the latter of which is rare and only occurs in a few words.

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===Consonants===
Modern Standard Meyāni has nineteen phonemic consonant phonemes, with /g/ only being found in {{w|loanwords}}. Pairs of sounds distinguished only by {{w|Voicing (phonetics)|vibrations in the vocal cords}} (if any exist) are separated with dots. In Meyāni, there are {{w|minimal pairs}} distinguished by {{w|gemination|consonant length}}.

{| class="wikitable"
!
!{{w|Labial consonant|Labial}}
!{{w|Alveolar consonant|Alveolar}}
!Retroflex I ({{w|Palatal consonant|Palatal}})
!Palatal ({{w|Velar consonant|Velar}})
|-
!{{w|Nasal consonant|Nasal release}} (Nasal)
|/m/ <m>
|/n/ <n>
|/ɲ/ <ñ>
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|-
!{{w|Stop consonant|Stop}}
|<nowiki>/p/ • /b/ </nowiki>
|/t/ <t> • /d/ <d>
|
|/k/ <k> • /g/ <g>
|-
!{{w|Affricate|Affricate}}
|
|
|/t͡ʃ/ <č>
|/q͡ʟ/ <ql>
|-
!{{w|Fricative}}
|/f/ <f> • /v/ <v>
|/s/ <s>
|/ʃ/ <š>
|/x/ <h>
|-
!{{w|Approximant}}
|
|/l/ <l>
|/j/ <y>
|
|-
!{{w|Trill consonant|Trill}}
|
|/r/ <r>
|
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|}

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====Allophony====
Some consonants can recieve {{w|Allophony|allophones}} in certain situations in Standard Meyāni:

*Most consonants can be {{w|Palatalization|retroflex I-ized}} (which is marked in the IPA by the addition of a subscript {{w|Latin script}} letter "j" [ʲ] after the symbol) before front vowels. However, Retroflex I consonants cannot undergo this process.
*<r> is usually pronounced as a trill [r]. Nevertheless, it could be pronounced as [ɹ] in {{w|Syllable coda|coda position}} if the {{w|syllable onset}} contains an alveolar or retroflex I consonant other than /j/.
*Voiceless plosives are highly {{w|Aspirated consonant|aspirated}} when adjacent to a stressed vowel, especially in the speech of the higher classes. This feature is thought to have been introduced during the [[Bandit dynasty]] under the influence of the [[Bandit language]], which has a phonemic distinction between aspirated and non-aspirated voiceless stops but has no voiced stops.

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===Phonotactics===
Most words in Meyāni contain entirely open syllables. However, its maximum {{w|Syllable#Components|syllable structure}} is <code>#((l)C)V/(N, h)(C)CV/(C, G)(C)#</code>, where:

*"#" represents a boundary between words.
*"(l)" represents an optional /l/ that is only able to go before /v/, like in ''lvansa'', which means "sword".
*"(...)" represent optional components.
*"C" represents a consonant.
*"V" represents a vowel or diphthong.
*"G" represents a word-final consonant that undergoes {{w|gemination}}. This is optional.
*"/(N, h)(C)CV/" represents the possible phonotactical structure in syllables at the middle of a word.
*"N" represents any {{w|Nasal consonant|consonant with a nasal release}}

Unlike the closely related [[Bandit language]], Meyāni does not allow for word-initial {{w|consonant clusters}} (other than /lv/). Loanwords with initial consonant clusters are usually dealt with by {{w|epenthesis}}, the insertion of extra vowels. Consonant clusters that consist of two consonants with the same place of articulation and manner of articulation and with the only distinction between the two consonants being different voicing are not allowed in the language; these types of clusters are typically turned into geminated consonants carrying the voicing of the last consonant in the illegal cluster prior to assimilation. Most words with final consonants end with just one consonant or geminated consonant, though it is possible for two consonants to be present. Most words that have medial consonant clusters only have just two consonants, though it is possible for three consonants to be present in these clusters as long as the first sound in the cluster is either a nasal or /x/.

Meyāni also does not allow the occurrence of {{w|vowel hiatuses}}. Therefore, the <-i> suffix used in adjectives and possessor nouns is realized as /jiː/ in words that end in vowels.

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===Prosody===
Meyāni is a strictly {{w|mora-timed language}}, with each syllable getting one {{w|mora}} (two if the vowel in the {{w|syllable nucleus}} is either a "long vowel" or a diphthong). Stress in Meyāni always falls on the first syllable with a "long vowel" or diphthong as a nucleus in a word, with stress falling instead on the first syllable if there are no "long vowels" or diphthongs in a word entirely. Suffixes cannot receive stress.

In foreign words that have not been assimilated, stress falls on the syllable where it fell in the original language. However, loanwords that have been fully assimilated often have a stress shift to match the regular stress patterns or irregular vowel shifts.

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==Orthography==
[[File:Meyani script.png|200px|right]]

The Meyāni language is written in its own script, which is descended from {{w|logographs}} used by Proto-Qlerevi speakers. The script itself has features of both an {{w|alphabet}} and an {{w|abjad}} because short vowels are not written and require optional {{w|diacritics}} to be expressed, with {{w|Linguistics|linguists}} coining the term '''alphabjad''' to classify the Meyāni script. The script is written from left-to-right and has the following letters:
{| class="wikitable"
|+
!Position
in order
!Letter
!Name
!Sound (other sounds)
|-
|1
|{{CustomScript|meyani|@}}
|''â''
|/ɑː/ (/æ/)
|-
|2
|{{CustomScript|meyani|i}}
|''i''
|/iː/ (/ɛ/)
|-
|3
|{{CustomScript|meyani|u}}
|''u''
|/uː/ (/o/)
|-
|4
|{{CustomScript|meyani|b}}
|''bâ''
|/b/
|-
|5
|{{CustomScript|meyani|c}}
|''čâ''
|/t͡ʃ/
|-
|6
|{{CustomScript|meyani|d}}
|''dâ''
|/d/
|-
|7
|{{CustomScript|meyani|f}}
|''fâ''
|/f/
|-
|8
|{{CustomScript|meyani|h}}
|''hâ''
|/x/
|-
|9
|{{CustomScript|meyani|y}}
|''yi''
|/j/
|-
|10
|{{CustomScript|meyani|k}}
|''kâ''
|/k/ (/g/)
|-
|11
|{{CustomScript|meyani|l}}
|''lâ''
|/l/
|-
|12
|{{CustomScript|meyani|m}}
|''mâ''
|/m/
|-
|13
|{{CustomScript|meyani|n}}
|''nâ''
|/n/
|-
|14
|{{CustomScript|meyani|p}}
|''pâ''
|/p/
|-
|15
|{{CustomScript|meyani|q}}
|''qlâ''
|/q͡ʟ/
|-
|16
|{{CustomScript|meyani|r}}
|''râ''
|/r/
|-
|17
|{{CustomScript|meyani|s}}
|''sâ''
|/s/
|-
|18
|{{CustomScript|meyani|t}}
|''tâ''
|/t/
|-
|19
|{{CustomScript|meyani|v}}
|''vu''
|/v/
|-
|20
|{{CustomScript|meyani|x}}
|''šâ''
|/ʃ/
|}

The sound /ɲ/ does not have its own letter in the Meyāni script, but is rather expressed as a {{w|digraph}} of the letters {{CustomScript|meyani|n}} and {{CustomScript|meyani|y}}, in that order; geminated /ɲː/ is expressed with the same characters but with the {{CustomScript|meyani|n}} doubled, while all other consonants are geminated by doubling the letter that represents it. Dipthongs are expressed with digraphs {{CustomScript|meyani|@i}}, {{CustomScript|meyani|@u}}, and {{CustomScript|meyani|iu}} for the sounds /ai/, /au/, and /eu/ respectively. When short vowels begin words, they are written with their corresponding long vowel letters (which produces a lot of near-{{w|homographs}} in the script, such as {{CustomScript|meyani|ih@}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|i}} (''ehái'') "{{w|water}}" and {{CustomScript|meyani|i}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|h@yi}} (''íhâyi'') "(reflexive pronoun)")

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===Diacritics===
TBA

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===Punctuation===
TBA

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===Numerals===
TBA

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==Grammar==
''Note: All Meyāni text in this section of this article, other than the "Parts of Speech" section below, are written in a modified form of the {{w|Latin alphabet}}, not in the actual Meyāni script.''

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===Parts of Speech===
Meyāni grammarians divide all Meyāni words into nine {{w|parts of speech}}, primarily based on the treatises of [[Ancient Venēmīan language|Ancient Venēmīan]] grammarians and adapted to fit to the Meyāni language's grammar:

* Noun ('''Meyāni''': *SCRIPT TBA* (''ñấmyuvaba'') "name-thing"): A word that represents a place, person, idea, or thing. Ancient Venēmīan grammarians did not distinguish between nouns and adjectives because they inflected similarily in their language, but the Meyāni grammarians, whose language does not have much case marking (other than the genitive case) or adjective agreement, felt like the two needed to be distinguished. Hence, the words for "noun" and "adjective" have the same initial root.
*Adjective ('''Meyāni''': *SCRIPT TBA* (''ñấmyuhupsiltos'') "name-descriptor"): A word that describes a noun, verb, or another adjective. Adjectives can be used as adverbs in Meyāni, so the two are not distinguished according to the Meyāni grammarians when adverbs are their own parts of speech in Ancient Venēmīan. Postpositions and determiners can also be used to fill the functions of adverbs in Meyāni, but the few "true adverbs" like "now" and "tomorrow" that are not already classified as adjectives, postpositions, or determiners in Meyāni are classified as adjectives by the Meyāni grammarians.

:In Meyāni, adjectives have three uses: nominal, verbal, and predicative. "Nominal" adectives are the types of adjectives that describe nouns, and they go before their nouns and receive the <-''i''> suffix. "Verbal" adjectives function like adverbs, and describe both verbs and other adjectives. "Predicative" adjectives are adjectives that go after verbs, but the usage category also includes some intransitive verbs like *SCRIPT TBA* (''šấsane'') "to be sweet", which can stand alone as a predicate without requiring an additional verb before it and requires a suffix -*SCRIPT TBA* (-''ba'') to be used as a nominal adjective and a verbal adjective.

*Determiner ('''Meyāni''': *SCRIPT TBA* (''qlávmam ra yúča-i sávo vábaqlâkera-i sai ro'') "a word in the large grouping of thinglings"): A category of words that includes both {{w|quantifiers}} and {{w|numerals}}, both of which behave similarily both morphologically and syntactically and can be used as adverbs. Ancient Venēmīan scholars did not distinguish between the Meyāni determinative and demonstrative because they all went before the noun in their language, whereas in Meyāni, determinatives go before the noun while demonstratives go after despite both behaving morphologically similar; in fact, the Meyāni word for "determinative" in general, *SCRIPT TBA* (''vábaqlâke''), is a {{w|calque}} of the Ancient Venēmīan term for "determiner," which literally means "thingling."
*Demonstrative ('''Meyāni''': *SCRIPT TBA* (''qlávmam ra bấñâneba-i sávo vábaqlâkera-i sai ro'') "a word in the small grouping of thinglings"): A category of words that includes just two words: *SCRIPT TBA* (''su'') "this/these" and *SCRIPT TBA* (''súkin'') "that/those." These words are {{w|deictic}} words that convey which nouns are being referred to in the discourse.
*Pronoun ('''Meyāni''': *SCRIPT TBA* (''ñấmyuperidon'') "name-substitute"): A word that can stand in for any noun in a sentence. This category does not include [[Meyāni language#Subordinate clauses|the relative and end-relative pronouns]] ''ra'' and ''ro'' respectively, which are both lumped into the category of conjunction instead.
*Postposition ('''Meyāni'''): *SCRIPT TBA* (''vehašehấva'') "before-position"<ref>The name is inaccurate since it is a calque of a word in Ancient Venēmīan, which has prepositions instead of postpositions.</ref>): A word used to express spatial or temporal relations with a noun, which is refered to as its object. In addition, postpositions can also be used as adverbs.
* Verb ('''Meyāni''': *SCRIPT TBA* (''qlávmam'') "word"): A word that expresses an action or a state of being. The vast majority of verbs are action verbs, while the two verbs that express a state of being in Meyāni are *SCRIPT TBA* (''rấmmau'') "am/are/is" and *SCRIPT TBA* (''túnutu'') "was/were" (which also functions as an action verb because it is also the past tense form of the verb *SCRIPT TBA* (''túno'') "to become"
*Auxiliary ('''Meyāni''': *SCRIPT TBA* (''qlávmam ra yóho ro'') "a word that helps"): A word that adds to the verb and helps it express tenses and aspects beyond just the present and past.
*Conjunction ('''Meyāni''': *SCRIPT TBA* (''sídrenos'') (a loanword from Ancient Venēmīan)): A word that connects two clauses or affects the flow of a sentence.

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===Morphology===
Meyāni is generally an {{w|analytic language}} and does not make much use of {{w|inflection}}, other than {{w|Grammatical number|number}}, {{w|possession}}, and some {{w|grammatical tenses}}.

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====Nominals====
Nominals (nouns and adjectives) do not inflect for {{w|grammatical case}} (other than the {{w|genitive case}}), but inflect for number. The language has no {{w|grammatical gender}}. Meyāni is one of the only major [[Qlerevi languages]] to lack case marking.

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===== Noun phrases=====
Meyāni is mostly {{w|Head-directionality parameter#Head-initial languages|head-initial}} in noun phrases. The default order of Meyāni noun phrases is the following:

{| class="wikitable"
|+Default order of a Meyāni noun phrase
!Position
!-2
!-1
!0
!+1
!+2
!+3
!+4
!+5
!+6
|-
!What goes in the position?
!Numerals
(Independent words)
!Adjectives
(Independent words)
!HEAD NOUN
!Plural
(Suffix)
!Genitive
(Suffix)
!Possessor's noun phrase
(Independent words)
!Relative clauses
(Independent words)
!Demonstrative pronouns
(Independent words)
!Postposition
(Independent word)
|-
!Is this position mandatory in the phrase?
!No
!No
!Yes
!No
!No
!No
!No
!No
!No
|}

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=====Number=====
There are two grammatical numbers in Meyāni: singular and plural. The singular expresses that there is exactly one of a thing, while the plural expresses that there is more than one of a thing. To indicate plural number, a suffix <-ra> is used, which was derived from a Proto-Qlerevi word meaning "many." The plural number is not used when cardinal numerals are used in the noun phrase, as in this simple phrase:

{{interlinear|indent=2
| áčane ñéra
| five gator-SG
| "five gators"
}}

Some determiners (such as "all" or "many") that do not influence the number of their nouns in English make them singular in Meyāni instead, like numerals:

{{interlinear|indent=2
| báram ñéra
| all gator-SG
| "all gators"
}}

'''Mass nouns''' 
A mass noun is a noun which cannot be counted, and do not change between singular or plural numbers. Most mass nouns are ''singulare tantum'' (only taking the singular in all cases); however, some are ''plurare tantum'' (only taking the plural in all cases). To inflect for number, mass nouns are put into a possessive construction with a measure word or {{w|Classifier (linguistics)|classifier}} (depending on the grammar cited) being the possessee in the phrase.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| áčane áifâm yeláira-i
| five bucket-SG wine-SG-POSS
| "five glasses of wine" (literally: five buckets of wine)
}}

{{interlinear|indent=2
| áčane áifâm ehái-i
| five bucket-SG water-SG-POSS
| "five buckets of water" (literally: five buckets of water)
}}

Most abstract nouns (other than <''yáto''> "language," which also means "tongue") and most things that are very small are mass nouns in Meyāni, and require a measure word/classifier to be inflected for number.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| čáiva néčaqlo-i
| branch-SG magic-SG-POSS
| "a unit of magic" (i.e. "magic spell") (literally: branch of magic)
}}

{{interlinear|indent=2
| áukan píretes-i
| way/road-SG philosophy-SG-POSS
| "a philosophy" (literally: way/road of philosophy)
}}

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=====Possession=====
Meyāni has a {{w|genitive case}}, which is used for marking the possessor of a possessive phrase. The genitive case is marked with the suffix <-i>, which goes after the plural marker. Adjectives are also marked with the <-i> suffix, because both the genitive case and the adjectival marker are derived from a Proto-Qlerevi postposition meaning "of." Possessors go after their head nouns.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| néčaqloba-i ấnossu úne-i
| magic-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}}-ADJ snail-SG 1SG-POSS
| "my magical snail"
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|kóra Sấvaren-i ča-i Reqlútton-i
|country-SG Sāvae-POSS and-POSS Reqlūndo-POSS| "Sāvae and Reqlūndo's country"
}}

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=====Adjectives=====
Like as mentioned in the previous section, Meyāni's adjectives are marked identically to the genitive case. However, adjectives are placed before their head nouns instead of after. Adjectives are not marked with the <-i> suffix when they are used alone as a predicate along with the copula.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne rấmmau '''šấbya''' .
| 1SG be.PRS good .
| "I am good."
}}

Numerals are also not marked with the <-i> suffix despite behaving like adjectives syntactically. Like numerals, determiners (like "all" and "many") do behave like adjectives syntactically.

Adjectives do not agree with their head nouns in terms of number, and stay the same form even if their head noun is plural.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| néčaqloba-i ấnossura
| magic-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}}-ADJ snail-PL
| "some/the magical snails"
}}

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======Adjective inflections======
Meyāni adjectives inflect to mark comparison, intensity, and sufficiency. These evolved from independent words that were suffixed onto adjectives and heavily simplified. Heavily-suffixed adjectives with affixes to convey comparison, intensity, and sufficiency are a common linguistic feature across the [[Prorinian peninsula]], but they are rare across the Qlerevi family.
{| class="wikitable"
! colspan="3" |
!Marking
!Example
|-
! colspan="3" |Positive
|*none*, ''-(y)i''
|''šấbya(-i)'' "good"
|-
! rowspan="5" |Comparative
! rowspan="3" |of superiority
!neutral
|''-(a)ran''
|''šấbyaran'' "better"
|-
!affirming
|''-(a)šberan''
|''šấbyašberan'' "better, and still good"
|-
!denying
|''-(a)šñaran''
|''šấbyašñaran'' "better, but not good"
|-
! colspan="2" |of equality
| -''(a)nso''
|''šấbyanso'' "as good"
|-
! colspan="2" |of inferiority
|''-(a)rña''
|''šấbyarña'' "less good"
|-
! rowspan="2" |Superlative
! colspan="2" |of superiority
|''-(a)šhi''
|''šấbyašhi'' "best"
|-
! colspan="2" |of inferiority
|''-(a)šañ''
|''šấbyašañ'' "least good"
|-
! colspan="3" |Intensive
|''-(a)šo''
|''šấbyašo'' "very good, so good"
|-
! colspan="3" |Insufficientive
|''-(a)ñân''
|''šấbyañân'' "not good enough"

|-
! colspan="3" |Sufficientive
|''-(a)vân''
|''šấbyavân'' "good enough, too good"
|}

'''Comparatives''' 
Meyāni ajectives have five different comparative forms, which are used for comparing two or three different entities:
* The '''neutral comparative of superiority''' expresses that one noun has a greater quantity of an adjective than other nouns, but does not make any statement about the comparison.
{{Interlinear|indent=2
|Bâr rấmmau '''rấvvibaran''' ra áudda íhâyi-i ro .
|3SG be.PRS be.fast-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}}-{{gcl|COMP.N.SUP|neutral comparative of superiority}} {{gcl|REL|relative pronoun}} brother-SG {{gcl|R|reflexive pronoun}}-POSS {{gcl|END.REL|end-relative pronoun}} .
|"He/she is faster than his/her brother."
}}
* The '''affirming comparative of superiority''' expresses that one noun has a greater quantity of an adjective than other nouns, but affirms the comparison.
{{Interlinear|indent=2
|Bâr rấmmau '''rấvvibašberan''' ra áudda íhâyi-i ro .
|3SG be.PRS be.fast-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}}-{{gcl|COMP.A.SUP|affirming comparative of superiority}} {{gcl|REL|relative pronoun}} brother-SG {{gcl|R|reflexive pronoun}}-POSS {{gcl|END.REL|end-relative pronoun}} .
|"He/she is faster than his/her brother, and also fast."
}}
* The '''denying comparative of superiority''' expresses that one noun has a greater quantity of an adjective than other nouns, but denies the fact that the noun with a greater quantity of said adjective has that trait.
{{Interlinear|indent=2
|Bâr rấmmau '''rấvvibašñaran''' ra áudda íhâyi-i ro .
|3SG be.PRS be.fast-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}}-{{gcl|COMP.D.SUP|denying comparative of superiority}} {{gcl|REL|relative pronoun}} brother-SG {{gcl|R|reflexive pronoun}}-POSS {{gcl|END.REL|end-relative pronoun}} .
|"He/she is faster than his/her brother, but he is not fast.", "While he/she is faster than his/her brother, he/she is not fast."
}}
* The '''comparative of equality''' expresses that one noun does not have a greater or lesser quantity of an adjective than other nouns.
{{Interlinear|indent=2
|Kấraše rấmmau '''ahháumbanso''' ra áudda íhâyi-i ro .
|Kấraše be.PRS care-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}}-{{gcl|COMP.E|comparative of equality}} {{gcl|REL|relative pronoun}} brother-SG {{gcl|R|reflexive pronoun}}-POSS {{gcl|END.REL|end-relative pronoun}} .
|"Kấraše is as caring as his brother."
}}
*TBA

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=====Pronouns=====

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======Personal pronouns======
Meyāni has six {{w|personal pronouns}}, with three being singular and three being plural. Personal pronouns do not change form for case or gender.

{| class="wikitable"
|+Meyāni personal pronouns
!Number →
Person
↓
!Singular
!Plural
|-
!1st person
|''úne''
|''úñra''
|-
!2nd person
|''qle'', ''qlíša''<ref><Qlíša> (the plural form) can be used as a polite form of address or to address strangers regardless of number, while <qle> (the singular form) is used among friends and family members or to insult one's superiors. A similar thing happens in [[Yaksōnian language|modern Yaksōnian]], which is a part of a pan-Prorinian linguistic ''{{w|sprachbund}}'' affecting the two languages.</ref>
|''qlíša''

|-
!3rd person
|''bâr''
|''bấrra''
|}

Meyāni is a partial {{w|pro-drop language}}, which means that subject or object personal pronouns are optional and can be dropped if the context gets rid of the need for them. This is especially seen in sentences relating to the weather or in informal conversation.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| ('''Bâr''') Šéha reñấn áčane qlísseyo sai . ('''Qlíša''') Túnutu sáudeče úne-i sai ?
| (3SG) rain-PRS FUT.AUX five qlisseo-SG in/on/at . (2PL) be.PST message-SG 1SG-POSS in/on/at ?
| "It will be raining in five ''qlisseo''<ref>A [[Levarianqueva|Levarianquevan]] unit of time roughly equivalent to 1.7933 hours in {{w|Time#Measurement|Terran time}}</ref>. Did you get my message?"
}}

Note that the above sentences lack subject pronouns, as they can be inferred from context.

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======Reflexive pronouns======
Meyāni has a single simple reflexive pronoun: <''íhâyi''>. This pronoun can be used for all persons and numbers when any noun in the predicate is the same as the subject.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne ámu '''íhâyi''' .
| 1SG love-PRS {{gcl|R|reflexive pronoun}} .
| "I love myself."
}}

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Ke ámu qle/qlíša '''íhâyi''' ?
| Q love-PRS 2SG/2PL {{gcl|R|reflexive pronoun}} ?
| "Do you love yourself?"
}}

When the possessor of the direct object, indirect object, or any noun in a postpositional phrase is the same as the subject, the reflexive pronoun is used as the possessor in the possessive phrase. This is similar to certain Terran languages like {{w|Russian language|Russian}} and (to a lesser extent) {{w|Latin}}.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Bâr ámu sấku '''íhâyi-i''' .
| 3SG love-PRS wife-SG {{gcl|R|reflexive pronoun}}-POSS .
| "He loves his own wife."
}}

Contrast the above sentence with the following sentence, where the possessor of the sentence's direct object is not the same as its subject:

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Bâr ámu sấku '''bấr-i''' .
| 3SG love-PRS wife-SG 3SG-POSS .
| "He loves someone else's wife."
}}

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======Indefinite pronouns======
Unlike certain colloquial forms of English, which use the second person personal pronoun to express an indefinite pronoun "one", Meyāni uses the third person singular personal pronoun for this purpose instead.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| '''Bâr''' ña ấhano bávva ra sáubune Eqlíssalos ra áqlo oñqlấmmuba-i šohčúqlau ro šấne ro .
| 3SG NEG coerce AUX.DEO {{gcl|REL|relative pronoun}} change-PRS Eqléssalos {{gcl|REL|relative pronoun}} start-PRS to.be.violent-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}}-ADJ protest-SG {{gcl|END.REL|end-relative pronoun}} up/after {{gcl|END.REL|end-relative pronoun}} .
| "One cannot force the Eqléssalos to reform by starting a violent protest."
| c1 = (A quote from Rírin-i Roqlínau, who famously advocated for a reformation of the [[Eqléssalos of Mages]] in order to reduce corruption within the magical institution and turn it into a bulwark against corporate influence.)
}}

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======Demonstrative pronouns======
Meyāni has two basic {{w|demonstrative pronouns}}: <''su''> "this" and <''súkin''> "that." Demonstrative pronouns behave like numerals morphologically, not agreeing in number with the nouns they modify and not taking the <-i> suffix that is taken by adjectives when in a noun phrase. However, they go after their head noun instead of before.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| šấbya-i ñéra '''súkin'''
| good-ADJ gator-SG that
| "that good gator"
}}

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======Interrogative pronouns======
Proto-Qlerevi had one simple interrogative pronoun (which was the ancestor of Meyāni <''vu''> "what, which"). However, new interrogative pronouns evolved in Meyāni (as well as in almost every other Qlerevi language) from combinations of this simple root with a series of postpositions. The resulting combinations then gradually simplified over time due to common usage.

{| class="wikitable"
|+Meyāni interrogative pronouns
!Meyāni word (source)
!English translation
|-
|''vu''
|"what," "which," "who/whom"

|-
|''vúši'' (< ''vu sai'' "in/on/at what")
|"where"
|-
|''vútu'' (< ''vu tau'' "from what")
|"whence"
|-
|''vúbña'' (< ''vu báne'' "towards what")
|"whither"
|-
|''váiba'' (< ''vu yáiba'' "during what")
|"when"

|-
|''vúra'' (< ''vu sára'' "by what means")
|"how"
|-
|''vúsa'' (< ''vu sa'' "for what")
|"why"
|}

The base interrogative pronoun can behave like numerals when used as adjectives, as shown in the following interrogative sentence:

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Ke yáira úne '''vu''' ñéra ?
| Q like-PRS 1SG what gator-SG ?
| "What/which gator do I like?"
}}

=====Articles=====
Meyāni does not have articles, so <''šấbya-i ñéra''> could either mean "a good gator" or "the good gator" depending on context.

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====Verbs====
Meyāni's verb system is generally analytic; the verb system relies on {{w|auxiliary verbs}} to express tense, aspect, or modal information outside of what the verbs themselves can express alone.

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=====Tense=====
Meyāni verbs inflect for just two tenses: {{w|past}} and {{w|Nonpast tense|non-past}}, which expresses events that happened in the past and events that did not happen in the past respectively. The non-past tense (which is often called simply the "{{w|present tense}}" and glossed in this article as such) is considered to be the default form of the verb and is listed in dictionaries alongside the past form in entries for irregular verbs. Most verbs indicate the past tense by the addition of a suffix <-tu>, which is derived from a verb meaning "to become." However, some verbs undergo {{w|suppletion}} between the non-past and past tenses (e.g. non-past <''rấmmau''> "am/are/is" → past <''túnutu''> "was/were" (which also means "became"); non-past <''íhu''> "go/goes" → past <''sáista''> "went").

However, some verbs indicate the past tense by changing the last vowel in the root in addition to using the <-tu> suffix (e.g. non-past <''ấnnaiha''> "receive/receives" → past <''ấnnaihâtu''> "received"; <''túno''> "become/becomes" → <''túnutu''> "became" (which also means "was/were")), which is ultimately caused by a final ''*w'' in the Proto-Qlerevi form. Some verbs indicate the past tense by means of a suffix <-ču> instead of the regular <-tu> (e.g. non-past <''yába''> "give up/gives up, surrender/surrenders" → past <''yábaču''> "gave up, surrendered"; non-past <''lvábba''> "fight/fights" → past <''lvábbaču''> "fought"); this also has an etymological origin, this time that of a final ''*y'' in the Proto-Qlerevi form instead of a ''*w''.

The {{w|future tense}} is formed by the addition of the verb <''reñấn''> "to want" after the non-past form of the verb. Unlike the [[Nōlīnian language]], Meyāni does not distinguish between any subdivisions of these three basic tenses and relies on adverbs or adverbial phrases to express these more concrete subdivisions instead.

The different tenses can be illustrated with the following three sentences:

{{interlinear|indent=2
|Úñra '''lvábba''' kídobâlo .
| 1PL fight-PRS corruption-SG .
| "We are fighting corruption."}}

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úñra '''lvábbaču''' kídobâlo .
| 1PL fight-PST corruption-SG .
| "We were fighting corruption."}}

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úñra '''lvábba''' '''reñấn''' kídobâlo .
| 1PL fight-PRS AUX.FUT corruption-SG .
| "We will be fighting corruption."}}

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=====Aspect=====
Meyāni distinguishes between just two {{w|grammatical aspects}}: the {{w|imperfective aspect}} and the {{w|perfective aspect}}. The imperfective is considered to be the default form of a verb; the perfective is expressed by turning the dictionary form of the verb into an adjective and adding the appropriate form of the verb <''rấmmau''> "to be" after the main verb.

'''Uses for the imperfective aspect''' 
The imperfective aspect's main usage is to express that an action is ongoing or is habitual. In the present tense, it expresses that the action stated by the verb is ongoing.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úñra '''lvábba''' tấbanra íhâyi-i , ča qlíša ña váhho óban . Yo váhho rấsâm rấnlaksara qlíša-i sai !
| 1PL fight-PRS enemy-PL {{gcl|R|reflexive pronoun}}-POSS , and 2PL NEG now party . IMP now get.back-PRS formation/line-PL 2PL-POSS in/on/at !
| "We are fighting our enemies, not partying. Get back in your formations immediately!"
}}

In the above sentences, the verb phrase with the main verb <''lvábba''> "to fight" is in the imperfective aspect in the present tense, expressing that the act of fighting enemies is an ongoing process.

In the past tense, the imperfective aspect expresses that an action was ongoing in the past but has been stopped in some way, either by being completed or by being interrupted.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne '''ấščâlârtu''' eredấnos Partấbala Meraqlúm-i sai .
| 1SG study-PST math-SG university-SG Meraqlum-POSS in/on/at .
| "I was study/used to study mathematics at the University of Meraqlum."
}}

In the above sentence, the verb phrase with the main verb <''ấščâlâr''> "studied" is in the imperfective aspect, expressing that the act of studying mathematics at a university was ongoing, but is not ongoing anymore in the present.

In the future tense, the imperfective aspect expresses that an action will be ongoing in the future.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úñra '''básso''' '''reñấn''' áiñeye .
| 1PL join-PRS AUX.FUT army-SG .
| "We will join the army."
}}

In the above sentence, the verb phrase with the main verb <''básso''> "to join" is in the imperfective, expressing that the act of joining the army is something that is going to happen.

Meyāni lacks a {{w|Progressive aspect|progressive}} aspect and a {{w|Habitual aspect|habitual}} aspect. The imperfective aspect is used instead to convey the roles expressed by the progressive and habitual aspects on their own.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne šíra .
| 1SG work-PRS .
| "I work/am working/habitually work."
}}

'''Uses for the perfective aspect''' 
The perfective aspect is primarily used to emphasize that an action has been completed. In the past tense, it is used to show that the action stated by the verb has been completed, with emphasis on the action being completed.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne '''róčaba''' '''túnutu''' yeláira áifâm-i .
| 1SG eat-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}} AUX.PFV.PST wine-SG bucket-SG-POSS .
| "I drank a glass of wine."
}}

In the above sentence, the verb phrase with the main verb <''róča''> "to eat/drink" is in the perfective aspect, expressing that the action of drinking wine has been completed, with emphasis on completion.

In the future tense, the perfective aspect is used to express that an action will be completed in the future.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne '''čétalataba''' '''rấmmau''' '''reñấn''' čétala .
| 1SG read-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}} AUX.PFV.PRS AUX.FUT book .
| "I will finish reading a book."
}}

In the above sentence, the verb phrase with the main verb <''čétalata''> "to read" is in the perfective aspect, expressing that an action will be completed in the future.

In the present tense, using the perfective aspect is ungrammatical in most formal varieties. However, some colloquial dialects use present tense and perfective aspect to express that an action will be completed soon or has been completed recently.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne '''čétalataba''' '''rấmmau''' čétala .
| 1SG read-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}} AUX.PFV.PRS book .
| "I will finish reading a book soon/I have finished reading a book recently."
}}

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=====Mood=====
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=====Voice=====
Meyāni does not have any distinctions between the active and passive voices.

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===Syntax===

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==== Word order====
Standard Meyāni generally has a default word order of {{w|Subject-verb-object word order|subject-verb-object}} (SVO), as in English.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne rấmmau ñéra .
| 1SG be.PRS gator-SG .
| "I am a gator."
}}

However, this becomes {{w|Verb-subject-object word order|verb-subject-object}} (VSO) in {{w|subordinate clauses}}.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| ... ra ña rấmmau bâr ñéra ro .
| ... {{gcl|REL|relative pronoun}} NEG be.PRS 3SG gator-SG {{gcl|END.REL|end-relative pronoun}} .
| "... that he/she/it is not a gator."
}}

As said in the section on nominals, Meyāni's {{w|adjectives}} proceed the nouns they modify and {{w|Possession (linguistics)|possessors}} succeed their possessed nouns. Adverbs and adverbial phrases also proceed the parts of speech they modify and {{w|Numeral (linguistics)|numerals}} behave like adjectives in overall syntax.

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====Prepositional phrases and animacy====
In Meyāni, prepositional phrases (or postpositional phrases, as there are postpositions instead of prepositions) have an {{w|animacy}}-based {{w|Implicational hierarchy|hierarchy}} dependent on their objects which dictates the position of the postpositional phrase in relation to the direct object or intransitive verb of the sentence. Postpositional phrases with more animate objects tend to come closer to the direct object (or the verb, in sentences that lack a direct object) than postpositional phrases with more inanimate objects. In this example, the first and last postpositional phrases in the sentence are '''bolded'''.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne vehíčasaba túnutu '''ačấmra''' '''ahhaumba-i''' '''oksara-i''' '''lấčai''' nenáum ra rấmmau yánohe Meraqlúm-i sai ro sai '''ku-yáñña''' '''ča''' '''ku-áčane''' '''yáñña''' '''hấssâya-i''' '''yehấrum''' '''ra''' '''túnutu''' '''Bemumšo''' '''šấne''' '''ro''' '''sai''' .| 1SG hatch-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}} PFV.AUX.PST hand-PL care-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}}-ADJ parent-PL-POSS into carcass {{gcl|REL|relative pronoun}} be.PRS city.center-SG Meraqlum-SG-POSS in/on/at {{gcl|END.REL|end-relative pronoun}} in/on/at {{gcl|ORD|ordinal numeral}}-four and {{gcl|ORD|ordinal numeral}}-five four two.hundred.fifty.six-ADJ year {{gcl|REL|relative pronoun}} be.PST drought-{{gcl|INTS|intensifier}}-SG up/after {{gcl|END.REL|end-relative pronoun}} in/on/at .| "I was hatched into the hands of caring parents at a carcass in Meraqlum's city center in the 2,308th year AC (After the Collapse)."
| c1 = (An excerpt from ''An Autobiography of the Rebel-Mage'' by [[Rírin-i Roqlínau]])
}}

The sentence is grammatical because, in the Meyāni animacy hierarchy, "year" is less animate than "carcass," which is in turn less animate than "hands." However, Meyāni does not apply this animacy hierarchy to the subject, direct object, or adjectival predicates of a sentence like in [[Proto-Qlerevi language|Proto-Qlerevi]].

Meyāni maintains most of the Proto-Qlerevi animacy classes, but some have been merged into other classes; most notably, the inanimate and abstract classes of Proto-Qlerevi have merged into a single inanimate class and the megalozoic and microzoic classes have merged into a single biotic class in Meyāni. Also, the egordian and tuordian classes of Proto-Qlerevi have merged into a single "altordian" class in Meyāni, leaving only five animacy classes compared to the eight that Proto-Qlerevi has. Proto-Qlerevi itself is evidenced to have undergone a similar reduction in the amount of distinguished classes in its history, with earlier versions likely having massive {{w|noun class}} systems similar to Terran {{w|Bantu languages}} like {{w|Swahili language|Swahili}}.

The following five classes are distinguished in Meyāni:

{| class="wikitable"
|+Meyāni animacy hierarchy
!Rank
!Class name
!What falls into this class?

|-
!I
|Altordian
|first-person and second-person personal pronouns

|-
!II
|Masculine
|third-person personal pronouns and other pronouns, deities, and male gators
|-
!III
|Juvenofeminine
|primarily female gators and hatchlings, but also weather events, body parts, and {{w|extraterrestrial life}}
|-
!IV
|Biotic
|animals, plants, and other biological things
|-
!V
|Inanimate
|stationary non-biological things, landscape features, astronomical bodies, [[Magic (AWiEC)|magic]]-related concepts, and abstract concepts
|}

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====Interrogative and negative sentences====
In an {{w|interrogative sentence}} in Meyāni, the interrogative auxiliary <ke> goes before other constituents of the sentence, and the verb moves to where the subject would be in a normal sentence. This is a remnant of the older {{w|V2 word order}} in Prorinian Qlerevi languages, whereby the verb phrase is always the second constituent of a clause.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| '''Ke''' róčaba túnutu úne ấvvâsa tấbanra-i úne-i ?
| Q eat.{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}} PFV.AUX.PST 1SG blood-SG enemy-PL-POSS 1SG-POSS ?
| "Did I drink the blood of my enemies?"
}}

Unlike English, Meyāni does not do {{w|wh-movement}} and does not have {{w|do-support}} in both questions and negative constructions.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Ke vóraba túnutu úne '''vu''' ra róča ấvvâsa tấbanra-i úne-i ro ?
| Q do-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}} PFV.AUX.PST 1SG what {{gcl|REL|relative pronoun}} eat blood-SG enemy-PL-POSS 1SG-POSS {{gcl|END.REL|end-relative pronoun}} ?
| "What did I do in order to drink the blood of my enemies?"
}}

According the [[Question word-first principle]] in Qlerevi languages whereby question particles always go first in a sentence, the negative particle <ña> goes after the main verb phrase in an interrogative sentence with negative mood.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Ke róčaba túnutu '''ña''' úne ấvvâsa tấbanra-i úne-i ?
| Q eat.{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}} PFV.AUX.PST NEG 1SG blood-SG enemy-PL-POSS 1SG-POSS ?
| "Did I not drink the blood of my enemies?"
}}

In a normal sentence with a negative, however, the sentence completely reverts to the verb going between the subject and direct object, with the negative particle going before the verb.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne '''ña''' róčaba túnutu ấvvâsa tấbanra-i úne-i .
| 1SG NEG eat.{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}} PFV.AUX.PST blood-SG enemy-PL-POSS 1SG-POSS .
| "I did not drink the blood of my enemies."
}}

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===="To Have"====
Meyāni does not have a verb meaning "to have", like many Qlerevi languages. Instead, it uses the appropriate form of the verb <rấmmau> "to be", with the postposition <sai> "in/on/at" being attached to the verb's direct object.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne '''rấmmau''' ấvvâsa '''sai''' .
| 1SG be.PRS blood-SG in/on/at .
| "I have blood." (literally: "I am in blood.")
}}

In an intransitive sentence or a sentence with a direct object that has been dropped, Meyāni uses a perfective construction with the verb <''táksa''> "to catch" in the present tense to express the meaning of "to have". This is descended from the earlier meaning of the verb as "to grab." In this usage of the verb, applying the imperfective aspect is ungrammatical.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne '''táksaba''' '''rấmmau''' .
| 1SG catch-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}} AUX.PFV-PRS .
| "I have." (literally: "I have caught.")
}}

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====Subordinate clauses====
In Meyāni, subordinate clauses are almost completely identical in both formation and usage to subordinate clauses in Proto-Qlerevi.

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=====Formation=====
Subordinate clauses in Meyāni are typically formed by using the particles <ra> and <ro>, termed the "relative pronoun" and the "end-relative pronoun" respectively (even though they aren't really pronouns in the strictest sense: a word that can stand for other words in a sentence). As the names suggest, the relative pronoun preceeds a subordinate clause and the end-relative pronoun succeeds a subordinate clause, functioning in order to revert the sentence back to the clause before the subordinate clause began.

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=====Usage=====
TBA

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==Numeral system==
''Note: All Meyāni text in this section of this article is written in a modified form of the {{w|Latin alphabet}}, not in the actual Meyāni script.''

The Meyāni language uses a {{w|Hexadecimal|hexadecimal}} or base-16 system, even though actual written numerals are expressed using {{w|Duodecimal|dozenal}} or base-12, with sub-bases of 5 and 10, remnants of the old vigesimal system. Linguists theorize that the hexadecimal system developed when speakers of [[Qlerevi languages]], with most of their languages using a {{W|vigesimal}} or base-20 system, encountered speakers of [[Pre-Yaksōnian languages]], whose languages primarily used {{w|12 (number)|12}} as a base. When these two languages encountered each other, the pre-Yaksōnian speakers who ultimately assimilated themselves into the Qlerevi languages and culture tried to use 20 as a base but were so used to their native base-12 system that they ended up using 16 as a base as a compromise between the two systems; the Qlerevi speakers later adopted this, hence the use of 16 as a base.

Meyāni numerals by default express their {{w|Cardinal numeral|cardinal}} form. Prefixes exist which are used to express the {{w|Ordinal numeral|ordinal}} and {{w|Fraction|fractional}} form. However, all of Meyāni's multiplicative forms for numerals are borrowed from the [[Ancient Venēmīan language]] and therefore {{w|Suppletion|suppletive}}, but these are archaic; alternatively, these forms could be expressed by using {{w|Adpositional phrase|postpositional phrases}} in most modern registers.
{| class="wikitable"
|+
! colspan="4" |Number
! colspan="4" |In spoken Meyāni
|-
! colspan="3" |In {{w|Hindu-Arabic numerals}}
! rowspan="2" |In [[Prorinian mathematics#Modern numeral system|Prorinian numerals]]
(modern notation)
! rowspan="2" |Cardinal form
! rowspan="2" |Ordinal form
! rowspan="2" |Fractional form
! rowspan="2" |Multiplicative form
(archaic)
|-
!Base-10
!Base-12
!Base-16
|-
| colspan="3" |0
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|0}}
|''ñíñta''
|''ku-ñíñta''
| colspan="2" |N/A
|-
| colspan="3" |1
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|1}}
|''bač''
| rowspan="38" |TBA
| rowspan="38" |TBA
| rowspan="38" |TBA
|-
| colspan="3" |2
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|2}}
|''šóten''
|-
| colspan="3" |3
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|3}}
|''sádam''
|-
| colspan="3" |4
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|4}}
|''yáñña''
|-
| colspan="3" |5
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|5}}
|''áčane''
|-
| colspan="3" |6
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|6}}
|''bač ča áčane''
|-
| colspan="3" |7
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|7}}
|''šóten ča áčane''
|-
| colspan="3" |8
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|8}}
|''sádam ča áčane''
|-
| colspan="3" |9
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|9}}
|''yáñña ča áčane''
|-
|10
| colspan="2" |A
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|a}}
|''yáda''
|-
|11
| colspan="2" |B
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|b}}
|''bač ča yáda''
|-
|12
|10
|C
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|10}}
|''šóten ča yáda''
|-
|13
|11
|D
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|11}}
|''sádam ča yáda''
|-
|14
|12
|E
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|12}}
|''yáñña ča yáda''
|-
|15
|13
|F
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|13}}
|''áčane ča yáda''
|-
|16
|14
|10
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|14}}
|''rấyone''
|-
|17
|15
|11
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|15}}
|''bač ča rấyone''
|-
|21
|19
|15
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|19}}
|''áčane ča rấyone''
|-
|24
|20
|18
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|20}}
|''sádam ča áčane ča rấyone''
|-
|26
|22
|1A
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|22}}
|''yáda ča rấyone''
|-
|32
|28
|20
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|28}}
|''šóten rấyone''
|-
|36
|30
|24
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|30}}
|''yáñña ča šóten rấyone''
|-
|48
|40
|30
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|40}}
|''sádam rấyone''
|-
|60
|50
|3C
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|50}}
|''šóten ča yáda ča sádam rấyone''
|-
|64
|54
|40
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|54}}
|''yáñña rấyone''
|-
|72
|60
|48
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|60}}
|''sádam ča áčane ča yáñña rấyone''
|-
|80
|68
|50
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|68}}
|''áčane rấyone''
|-
|84
|70
|54
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|70}}
|''yáñña ča áčane rấyone''
|-
|92
|80
|60
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|80}}
|''bač áčane rấyone''
|-
|108
|90
|6C
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|90}}
|''šóten ča yáda ča bač áčane rấyone''
|-
|112
|94
|70
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|94}}
|''šóten áčane rấyone''
|-
|120
|A0
|78
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|a0}}
|''sádam ča áčane ča šóten áčane rấyone''
|-
|128
|A8
|80
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|a8}}
|''sádam áčane rấyone''
|-
|132
|B0
|84
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|b0}}
|''yáñña ča sádam áčane rấyone''
|-
|144
|100
|90
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|100}}
|''yáñña áčane rấyone''
|-
|256
|194
|100
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|194}}
|''hấssâya''
|-
|4,096
|2,454
|1,000
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|2454}}
|''emmáufiša''
|-
|65,536
|31,B14
|10,000
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|31b14}}
|''hấssâya emmáufiša''
|}

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==Vocabulary==
Around 2/3rds of all Meyāni {{w|vocabulary}} is of [[Qlerevi languages|Qlerevi]] origin. Qlerevi words in Meyāni are either directly inherited from [[Proto-Qlerevi language|Proto-Qlerevi]] or were borrowed from other Qlerevi languages. The vast majority of these terms in Meyāni are directly inherited from Proto-Qlerevi; the Qlerevi terms that were borrowed from other Qlerevi languages only account for less than 5% of all of Meyāni's vocabulary. Qlerevi-derived words encompass most of Meyāni's core vocabulary, so most of the time, no conherent sentence can be formed in Meyāni without resorting to using words of Qlerevi origin, with very rare exceptions.

Now-extinct [[pre-Yaksōnian languages]], which account for over 1/5th of all Meyāni words, are the main sources of {{w|loanwords}} within Meyāni's vocabulary. [[Ancient Venēmīan]], a {{w|prestige language}} which used to be learned by Meyāni gators of all ranks of society to connect with classical texts from the [[First Venēmīan Empire]] until it was banned by [[Meyāni#Nerấyavi's régime and the Great Prorinian War|the then-fascist-led government of Meyāni]] in 1942 AC shortly after [[Operation Yaksaháihča|the start of Meyāni's failed invasion of Yaksōn]], is the original language for the vast majority of these pre-Yaksōnian terms. Pre-Yaksōnian words in the Meyāni language are mostly terms relating to technical fields studied in the Prorinian peninsula like {{w|mathematics}}, {{w|Science|the sciences}}, {{w|music theory}}, {{w|philosophy}}, and [[Magic (AWiEC)|the art of magic]]; however, Pre-Yaksōnian words are also found in words relating to features of the Prorinian peninsula that don't exist or rarely do exist in the Qlerevi homeland, such as fauna (e.g. Meyāni *SCRIPT TBA* (''nagúrtos'') "{{w|elephant}}," with irregular o > u shift typical of assimilated loanwords), flora (e.g. Meyāni *SCRIPT TBA* (''ấččevon'') "{{w|Sequoioideae|redwood tree}}"), drinks (e.g. Meyāni *SCRIPT TBA* (''yeláira'') "{{w|wine}}"), and musical instruments (e.g. Meyāni *SCRIPT TBA* (''erínis'') "[[Prorinian music#Bee-lute|bee-lute]];"). Pre-Yaksōnian influence may have affected the grammar of Meyāni as well as contributing to vocabulary, with the language developing a strict {{w|V2 word order}} (which later shifted into a default {{w|Subject-verb-object word order|SVO word order}}, with few traces of the old V2 system remaining in the modern language) and losing most of the Proto-Qlerevi {{w|Grammatical case|case}} system.

Another major contributor of loanwords in Meyāni is the [[Rudakami language]]. Most Rudakami loanwords in Meyāni arrived during the period of [[Rudakami trade colonies|Rudakami merchants colonizing large areas of land on or near the Prorinian peninsula's coastline for trade with the local pre-Yaksōnian speakers]], which lasted from around 1800 BC until around 800 BC; these loanwords are typically related to concepts such as {{w|economics}}. However, during the period of [[Meyāni#Rudakami conquest and rule|Rudakami rule over Meyāni from 1632 AC until 1794 AC]], more Rudakami loanwords entered the language, mostly terms relating to {{w|government}}, the {{w|legal system}}, and {{w|feudalism}}. After Meyāni regained its independence from Rudakami control, there was widespread {{w|linguistic purism}} in Meyāni which aimed to purge all traces of Rudakami words within the language's vocabulary, which succeeded in removing a sizeable portion of Rudakami borrowings in the Meyāni lexicon but did not succeed in removing all of them. Today, Rudakami words account for around 1/10th of the Meyāni language's vocabulary.

===Derivation===
Meyāni makes heavy usage of {{w|agglutination}} and {{w|Compound (linguistics)|compounding}} to form new words. For example, the word *SCRIPT TBA* (''qlavmamčấčâlu'') translates to "{{w|syntax}}" in English and can be broken up into the following:

{{Interlinear|indent=2|top = qlavmamčấčâlu
|qlavmam-čâčâ-lu
|word-{{gcl|COL|collective}}-study.of
|"syntax" (literally: the study of a group of words)
}}

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== Example text==
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==Footnotes==
<references />

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A map detailing the migrations of Qlerevi-speaking peoples from c.12,000 BC to the present-day.

Meyāni

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{{Infobox country
| conventional_long_name = Second Meyāni Republic
| common_name = Meyāni
| native_name = <nowiki>*</nowiki>SCRIPT TBA* (''Ku-šóten-i Úsaivâye Nehấne-i'') ([[Meyāni language|Meyāni]])
| image_flag = Meyani Flag.png
| image_coat = Meyani Coat of Arms.png
| national_anthem = <center>"Alấn bâv hấsaiñeba reñấn Nehấnesira-i ñéra-ra!" (Meyāni)</center> 
<center>English: "May God guide the Meyāni people!"</center>
[[File:Meyani Anthem (Bee-Lute Instrumental).mp3]]
| image_map = Meyani Location.png
| map_caption = Meyāni's location within [[Levarianqueva]] (shown in green). The [[Prorinian peninsula]] is shown in gray.
| capital = [[Meraqlum]]
| official_languages = [[Meyāni language#Standard Meyāni|Standard Meyāni]] (based on the Meraqlum dialect)
| religion = [[Áukanism]]
| demonym = Meyāni, Meyānisian/Meyānisiran (archaic)
| government_type = {{w|Consul|Consul-led republic}} under a {{w|Corporatism|corporatist}} {{w|Plutocracy|plutocracy}}
| population_estimate = 15,281,002
| population_estimate_year = 2350 AC
| GDP_PPP = $1.012 trillion
| GDP_PPP_year = 2350 AC
| HDI = 0.615
| HDI_year = 2350 AC
| currency = Tấnâñña
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'''Meyāni''' ([[Meyāni language|Meyāni]]: *SCRIPT TBA* (''Nehấne'')), officially the '''Second Republic of Meyāni''' ([[Meyāni language|Meyāni]]: *SCRIPT TBA* (''Ku-šóten-i Úsaivâye Nehấne-i'')), is a country located inside the [[Prorinian peninsula]] region of [[Levarianqueva]], which is itself one of the three {{w|planets}} within the [[Rdaqtva A system]]. It borders [[Yaksōn]] to the northeast<ref>On most maps of Levarianqueva, east and west are swapped and vice versa due to the planet's retrograde rotation.</ref> and east, the [[Great Prorinian Steppes]] to the southeast and south, a large {{w|anarchy|zone of anarchy}} to the southwest and west, [[Nōlīnia]] to the northwest, and the [[Ezen Ocean]] to the north and northeast.

The oldest known {{w|fossils}} of early modern ''[[Alligatoris sapiens]]'' anywhere in the world are found in Meyāni, dating to around 213,000 BC. {{w|Agriculture}} was discovered in Meyāni and adjacent regions of the [[Northern Prorinian plains]] in around 10,000 BC, leading to the rise of {{w|Human settlement|permanent settlements}} and constantly-warring {{w|city states}}. However, by 4500 BC, the central and eastern halves of the Prorinian peninsula were invaded by migrating [[Qlerevi languages|Qlerevi]]-speaking groups, who were described by surviving Prorinian sources on them as {{w|nomadic}} {{w|warrior}}-like people and likely {{w|Urheimat|originated}} in modern-day [[Qlerebam]]. The Qlerevi gradually took over the central and eastern portions of the peninsula over the course of two millennia and introduced a {{w|caste system}} with themselves at the top and the {{w|indigenous}} [[Pre-Yaksōnian]]-speaking gators at the bottom. Gradually, the gators at the bottom of said caste system {{w|assimilated}} into Qlerevi languages and culture while the gators at the top adopted elements of the sedentary Prorinian culture as their own.

According to Meyāni {{w|mythology}}, the Meyāni nation was founded after a malevolent spirit powered by sentient, malevolent {{w|fruit}} once controlled the world, but was {{w|Coup d'état|overthrown}} in 3671 BC by the mythical {{w|heroes}} '''Sāvae''' (Sấvaren) and '''Reqlūndo''' (Reqlútton), who {{w|Slavery|sold most of the local population into slavery}} for helping the evil spirit take over the world in the first place and built the city of [[Meraqlum]] with the help of slave labor. The two heroes ruled Meraqlum in a {{w|diarchy}} for more than half a century until Sāvae decided to gradually kill Reqlūndo by having him eat a {{w|gastrolith|rock}} with a {{w|parasitic}} [[Pseudomykite|pseudomykite]] on it in 3619 BC, forcing the latter to retire his position as co-ruler. Sāvae then ruled as a {{w|tyrant}}, expanding Meraqlum's dominion across neighboring lands until he himself was killed by one of Reqlūndo's illegitimate sons, causing the large "Meraqlumnian Empire" to {{w|civil war|collapse in an all-out civil war}} which lasted for more than three millennia. The myths were likely based on real historical events that got passed down via {{w|oral tradition}}; it is known that a civil war happened at some point before the 6th century BC, as suggested by Rudakami and ancient Venēmīan sources.

Regardless of mythohistorical legends, the first recorded king of Meyāni that is accepted by most scholars to have actually existed, '''Reqlūndo II''', conquered much of what is now northern Meyāni and went into war with the [[Rudakami trade colonies]] scattered across the Prorinian peninsula's northern coastline sometime in the late 6th century BC, thereby granting his realm access to maritime trade. However, further Meyāni king lists before 1 AC have been lost due to the city that they were stored in, Meraqlum, being [[Rudakami conquest of the Prorinian peninsula#Siege and burning of Meraqlum|burned down by Rudakami and Yaksōnian troops in the 16th century AC]], so {{w|archeologists}} and {{w|historians}} are forced to rely on heavily-biased external sources, even though they might not tell the full truth of what happened or who reigned at a given time.

During the last years of the 1st century BC, Meyāni took advantage of a [[First Venēmīan civil war|civil war]] within the [[First Venēmīan Empire]] to [[Meyāni conquest of the First Venēmīan Empire|conquer]] the latter and [[Meyāni conquest of the First Venēmīan Empire#Burning of Venēm|burn down the city of Venēm]], {{w|massacre|killing}} or enslaving an estimated three-quarters of Yaksōn's non-{{w|LGBTQ+}} population in the process and starting a long-lasting series of emmities between the Meyāni and the Yaksōnians which lasts in some form to this day. Due to this event, the Meyāni {{w|nobility}} became heavily divided over whether to continue {{w|expansion}} or halt it at Venēm, leading to the Meyāni empire to collapse into anarchy. During this time, an organization of {{w|Fanaticism|religious fanatics}}, now known as the '''First Alliance of Vúnaibâr''' or the '''Warriors of the Shadows''', accidentally discovered the {{w|ruins}} of ancient technology left behind by the [[Galactic Forefathers]] in 325 AC while attempting to {{w|religiously convert}} the [[Eastern Barbarians]] into an early form of [[Áukanism]]. The First Alliance of Vúnaibâr initially kept the ruins a secret from the rest of Levarianqueva's nations; however, the [[Wet Bandits]], a {{w|tribe}} in the present-day Great Prorinian Steppes closely related to the Meyāni, and their leader, '''Qlānīrestā''', offered the Alliance access to these technologies in exchange for an alliance in 360 AC. However, the Alliance refused and declared a {{w|crusade}} against the "{{w|heretical}}" Wet Bandits, only to be defeated.

Now with ancient Galactic Forefather technology, the Wet Bandits conquered the remaining Meyāni warlord states, establishing the [[Bandit dynasty]] in 365 AC. The Bandit dynasty claimed {{w|legitimacy}} by tracing its rulers' descent to the mythical heroes Sāvae and Reqlūndo as well as by implementing excessive {{w|taxation}} policies for wealthy gators, which involved {{w|Wealth redistribution|confiscating Meyāni gators' wealth once it exceeds a certain threshold and then redistributing it to gators with less wealth}}, therefore ensuring {{w|income equality}} and securing the loyalty of gators in lower castes. Other than initial expansion into Nōlīnia and southern Rudakam, a few {{w|wars}} with Yaksōn, and a few {{w|peasant revolts}}, life during the Bandit dynasty was mostly peaceful and little-to-no {{w|Economic regulations|restrictions}} were placed on the economy, allowing for substantial economic growth during the early years of the Bandit dynasty. Additionally, {{w|science}}, {{w|culture}}, {{w|philosophy}}, and [[Magic (AWiEC)|the study of magic]] all flourished during the time of the Bandit dynasty.

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==Etymology==
The word "Meyāni" in {{w|English language|English}} is derived from the [[Yaksōnian language]] term *SCRIPT TBA* (<Meyāni>; /mɛˈjɐ̞ː.nɪ/) "Meyāni", which was ultimately borrowed from a word ''*meyāni'' (/''*me̞ˈjɐ̞ː.ni''/) "young warrior" in a {{w|dialect}} of [[Proto-Central Prorinian Qlerevi language|Proto-Central Prorinian Qlerevi]] passed along multiple [[pre-Yaksōnian languages]], which was ultimately inherited from the [[Proto-Qlerevi language|Proto-Qlerevi]] word ''*mehyeñ'' (/''*'me̞h.jeŋʲ''/) "young warrior." The word "Meyāni" is therefore {{w|cognate}} with the native Meyāni term used to refer to the country, *SCRIPT TBA* (<Nehấne>; /nɛˈxɑː.nɛ/), which has entirely lost its original meaning of "young warrior." This is because the ultimate founding fathers of the Meyāni nation and culture were originally {{w|mercenaries}} for a pre-Yaksōnian-speaking {{w|city-state}} that overthrew the city's government and gradually started to identify themselves with the term "young warrior." Eventually, the term was used so much to refer to their ethnic group that the original connotation was lost entirely.

The archaic English {{w|demonym}} for Meyāni, "Meyānisian," is derived from the Yaksōnian term *SCRIPT TBA* (<Meyānisīya>; /mɛˈjɐ̞ː.nɪ.siːjɐ̞/), which was inherited from the [[Ancient Venēmīan language|Ancient Venēmīan]] word <Meyānisīa> /meˈjɐ̞ː.ni.siːjɐ̞/, which is derived from the aforementioned word <Meyāni>, which has stayed relatively unchanged since it was first borrowed, with the addition of a demonym-forming {{w|suffix}} <-sīa>, which was borrowed from the [[Old Meyāni language|Old Meyāni]] suffix <-sīra> (i.e. Meyāni *SCRIPT TBA* <-sira> /siː.ræ/). Ancient Venēmīan underwent a {{w|sound change}} that caused historic [[Pre-Yaksōnian languages#Proto-Pre-Yaksōnian|Proto-Pre-Yaksōnian]] ''*r'' to be lost between {{w|vowels}}, which is apparent in Qlerevi-borrowed words which had /r/ in the source word not having the /r/ in the loanword in Ancient Venēmīan; modern Yaksōnian retains this change. The suffix <-sīra> ultimately originated from the Proto-Qlerevi word ''*sēle'' /''*ˈse̞ː,le̞''/, which likely meant "gator" in an earlier version of the language until it was displaced by another word ''*neyxëy'' /''*ˈnej.ɧəj''/ (i.e. Meyāni *SCRIPT TBA* <ñéra> /ˈɲɛ.ræ/) and fossilized as a demonym suffix in the last common ancestor of all known recorded Qlerevi languages.

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==History==
''Note: All precise dates given in this article are given in the [[Rudakami calendar]].''

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===Ancient history===
The earliest known anatomically-modern fossils of ''[[Alligatoris sapiens]]'' in the present-day territory of Meyāni have been {{w|Radiocarbon dating|dated}} to around 217,000 years ago. This makes these fossils the oldest known ''Alligatoris sapiens'' fossils in all of [[Levarianqueva]]. The species itself, however, is theorized to originate in modern-day [[Yaksōn]] to the east. From the general region of the [[Prorinian peninsula]], ''A. sapiens'' spread throughout Levarianqueva, reaching locations as distant as [[Qlerebam]] and [[Storoia]].

Some scholars theorize that the ancestors of [[Pre-Yaksōnian languages|pre-Yaksōnian language]] speakers migrated to the Prorinian peninsula, including the modern territory of Meyāni, from the west a few thousand years before the discovery of {{w|agriculture}}, due to the presence of similar words in various [[Tiorōska|Tiorōskan]] languages and the [[Rudakami language]]. If this theory were true, then this would be the largest migration event in the Prorinian peninsula prior to the [[Qlerevi migrations|Qlerevi migrations and inventions]] over ten millennia later.

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====The Old Kingdom====
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=====Conquest of Venēm=====
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===The Bandit dynasty===
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====Formation====
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===Second Warlord States Period===
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===Qlúroči Republic===
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After unifying the country, Nấruhan Qlúroči set out to establish a stable, democratic government based on a combination of the beliefs of the Yaksōnian {{w|philosopher}} and {{w|monk}} '''Yōtokōn''' (which was in turn based on those of several Ancient Venēmīan philosophers) and the {{w|Chiefdom|tribal governments}} that constituted what is now the [[Great Prorinian Steppes]], the latter of which he personally experienced after being {{w|exiled}} there and being {{w|disowned}} by his own family. He established a '''Council of Advisors''', a body of twelve un-elected officials appointed directly by the President that would directly advise him on certain situations. The Council of Advisors constituted the upper house of a {{w|Bicameralism|bicameral}} {{w|parliament}}-like structure called the '''Great Assembly'''; the lower house, the '''Council of the People''', was composed of 300 members and represented the general populace. Laws were proposed by members of the Council of the People and passed if there was a 2/3rds majority; they were then passed on to the Council of Advisors, who debated along with the President if it should be vetoed. If a law is vetoed, it cannot be proposed again until the next session of the Great Assembly is started. Nấruhan Qlúroči officially codified this government structure into a {{w|constitution}} in 1578 AC, with himself becoming the first President of the '''[[Qlúroči republic]]'''.

Nấruhan Qlúroči's early rule was plagued with internal turmoil. For example, a major {{w|rebellion}} against the government in 1580 AC resulted in whole villages being destroyed and several thousand gators being either killed or displaced. These internal rebellions called into question the stability of the {{w|Democracy|democratic}} system in Meyāni, which forced the government to reform slightly. However, Nấruhan became paranoid about Rudakam exploiting internal instability in the country to conquer it as the country's god-king endorsed an {{w|expansionist}} policy, especially after Rudakam invaded and annexed Nōlīnia in 1581 AC. Although the Republic sent troops to fortify the border in case of a Rudakami attack, the Rudakami god-king, '''Kekórìyà XIII''', was assassinated and died a year after the conquest, causing a civil war because he had no heirs to succeed him and freeing up Meyāni's manpower and resources. Rumors spread that Nấruhan Qlúroči himself ordered the assassination attempt on Kekórìyà XIII to eliminate any chances of a strong power emerging to conquer his state; however, modern historians reject these rumors and believe that he was assassinated by a lesser-known Nōlīnian {{w|Guerilla warfare|guerilla}} fighter instead.

Nấruhan Qlúroči ordered that the troops that were sent to the Rudakami border the previous year be sent to the Yaksōnian border instead in 1583 AC, and declared war on the country a year later, with the aim of converting the country into a democracy. With no major allies, Yaksōn slowly lost territory until the Meyāni troops reached the city of Venēm in 1594 AC.

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==Geography==
[[File:Map of Meyani.png|500px|right|A map of Meyāni, showing neighboring countries, mountain ranges, and provincial capitals.]]
Meyāni is located in the central and central-western regions of the [[Prorinian peninsula]]. The country is primarily located within the northern {{w|Geographical zones#Temperate zones|temperate zone}} of [[Levarianqueva]]. However, some of Meyāni's territory is located south of the {{w|Tropic of Cancer|Tropic of Varaktai}} and therefore falls within the {{w|tropics}}; the country is entirely located within Levarianqueva's {{w|northern hemisphere}}. The country is mostly flat, expansive {{w|plains}} in terms of {{w|topography}}; despite this, it has two main {{w|mountain ranges}}: the [[Varaktai Range]], which covers a minor part of Meyāni and extends into [[Yaksōn]] and the [[Great Prorinian Steppes (country)|Great Prorinian Steppes]], and the [[Nōlīnian Range]], which is shared with [[Nōlīnia]].

Meyāni is home to a extensive network of {{w|navigable rivers}} which allow for the cheap transportation of {{w|goods}} from coastal areas into areas further inland and vice versa. Throughout its coast, there are multiple {{w|Harbor#Natural harbors|natural harbors}} where ships can be effectively {{w|moored}}. Meyāni has lots of annual surface water resources; these help grow crops and generate the country's large {{w|Agriculture|agricultural output}}. All natural water sources in Meyāni ultimately flow into the [[Ezen Ocean]], either indirectly via the [[Twin Deltas]] (twin deltas in the Prorinian peninsula which feed massive river systems allowing for the cheap transport of goods between Yaksōnian and Meyāni cities and vice versa; one delta falls within Meyāni territory, while the other falls within Yaksōnian territory) to the north of the Prorinian peninsula and the [[Bay of Spores]] or directly to the ocean.

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===Climate and Biodiversity===
Most of Meyāni is occupied by a {{w|Mediterranean climate}}, with most of the territory occupied by such a climate having hot {{w|Summer|summers}} and warm to cold {{w|Winter|winters}}. The country's Mediterranean climate regions receive high levels of {{w|precipitation}} in winter months and receive little-to-no precipitation in summer months, apart from precipitation generated by {{w|tropical cyclones}} that make {{w|landfall}}. Towards the coast, temperature extremes between the summer and winter months are moderated by the effects of the sea, but these differences are greatly exaggerated the more inland one goes inside the Mediterranean climate zones. In addition, some of Meyāni's territory is occupied by {{w|Semi-arid climates#Cold semi-arid climates|cold steppes}} to the south and northwest, with cold {{w|deserts}} occupying some of the extreme northwestern regions of the country due to {{w|rain shadow}} effects generated by the Nōlīnian Range.

Although much of the land has been cleared for agriculture and {{w|urban development}}, natural {{w|vegetation}} survives in many areas and mainly consists of {{w|Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub|Mediterranean vegetation}}, with minor amounts of {{w|alpine vegetation}} and {{w|grasslands}} as well as tiny amounts of {{w|desert vegetation}} occupying portions of Meyāni's territory generated by rain shadow effects from the Nōlīnian Range. These zones of natural vegetation are home to diverse species of {{w|wildlife}}. [[Erythrophyte|Erythrophytes]] grow in terrestrial areas near navigable rivers; in the Bay of Spores, the erythrophytes' spores that give the body of water its name are important food sources for many aquatic {{w|zooplankton}} in Meyāni's {{w|territorial waters}}. Meyāni's extensive rivers are home to diverse {{w|fish}} and {{w|cetacean}} species, with Meyāni having the highest amount of {{w|dolphin}} species anywhere on Levarianqueva.

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==Government and politics==
Meyāni is a highly {{w|centralized}} {{w|Consul|consular}} {{w|parliamentary republic}} wherein both the head of state and head of government are twelve consuls. One consul could veto the actions made by any other consul. The constitutional frameworks of the Meyāni government draw inspiration from the [[Qlúroči republic]], a democracy which existed over seven centuries ago, although the government of the modern Meyāni nation is structured differently in an attempt to prevent the flaws that led to its conquest. The government is divided into three branches:

*A '''{{w|Legislature|legislative branch}}''', which creates laws and passes them along to the executive if approved by at least 200 of the legislative branch's members. The legislature, which is known as the '''Great Assembly of Meyāni''', is a {{w|Unicameralism|unicameral}} legislative body which consists of 300 members, with the distribution of seats among the nation's provinces being affected by {{w|censuses}} which take place every ten years. The Great Assembly is officially defined as a "parliament" in the {{w|English language}} translation of the [[Meyāni constitution]], but it isn't actually one and may just be a translation error.
*An '''{{w|Executive (government)|executive branch}}''', which is occupied by the twelve consuls who debate over laws that were passed in the legislative branch. Laws are passed by the executive only if at least eight of the twelve consuls approve of them. Afterwards, the law is passed into the judicial branch of the government unless at least one of the consuls {{w|Liberum veto|decide to veto it}}, preventing it from being passed entirely until the next session of the government. The practice of free veto strengthened democratic elements within Meyāni's government; however, {{w|corporations}} and {{w|Chief Executive Officer|CEOs}} frequently bribed certain consuls in order to have them block legislation that may hurt their interests from passing into the judicial branch, effectively turning the nation into a ''de facto'' {{w|corporatocracy}}. Also, the executive branch has the power to declare war on other nations if at least eight out of the twelve consuls approve of war.
*A '''{{w|Judiciary|judicial branch}}''', which interprets laws passed by the executive branch in order to determine whether they are constitutional or not; it, called the '''Meyāni Supreme Court''', also has the power to punish criminals found guilty by the law. Despite corporations brainwashing the Meyāni population into thinking that the judicial branch is independent from their control, the Meyāni Supreme Court is under heavy influence from the corporations, and corporations and CEOs often {{w|Bribery|bribe}} judges into serving their interests or ideology. If the Meyāni Supreme Court considers a law to be constitutional, it is officially considered to be enforced.

The consuls and the members of the Great Assembly are {{w|Election|elected}} via ''de jure'' {{w|Direct election|direct popular vote}} every four years. However, in reality, individuals belonging to lower castes in the Meyāni {{w|Caste|caste system}} do not have the right to vote, and they are often given ballots which are not officially counted by electoral bodies to brainwash them into thinking that they can actually vote. Thus, significant {{w|electoral fraud}} is present in almost every single election since the elections of 2000 AC, with elected officials often showing bias towards the wealthiest individuals in the country.

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===Administrative divisions===
[[File:Meraqlum CoA.png|200px|thumb|The coat of arms of the Meraqlum province, the most populated province in Meyāni. This coat of arms features a dark sky above a green]]

Meyāni is subdivided into '''{{w|provinces}}''' ([[Meyāni language|Meyāni]]: *SCRIPT TBA* (''Lấyarara'')), each named after their {{w|Capital city|provincial capital}}. Provinces are not represented equally within the legislative branch of the government, with more populated provinces receiving a higher amount of representatives than provinces with a lower population; consequently, elected officials show bias towards more populated areas. Provinces are headed by '''governors''' ([[Meyāni language|Meyāni]]: *SCRIPT TBA* (''Yámeqlâkera'')) who enforce laws passed by the central government in their respective areas. Provinces do not receive any {{w|autonomy}} and do not have the right to succeed from their parent nation.

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===Foreign relations===
Meyāni maintains a vast network of diplomatic relations spanning across the entire world. The country maintains diplomatic relations with thirteen countries across Levarianqueva and has established {{w|embassies}} across the world in 17 different {{w|countries}} (including two {{w|unrecognized countries}}). Meyāni is a founding member of the [[Qlerevi Union]], a predominately economic-based {{w|alliance}} of [[Qlerevi languages|Qlerevi]]-speaking states that consists of seven other countries, as well as a founding member of the [[Peninsular Organization for Economic and Developmental Benefits]], which consists of four other nations and has since suspended the country over accusations of {{w|corruption}}, and the country is also a member of the [[Eqléssalos of Mages]], which has since also suspended the country over the corporations' {{w|expansionist}} plans of conquering the entire [[Great Prorinian Steppes (country)|Great Prorinian Steppes]].

The Meyāni government and its corporations are widely hated by civilians inside most of the Prorinian peninsula outside of its borders and [[Rudakam]] due to threats that corruption may soon take over their governments. Due to these fears, [[Yaksōn]] (which has a long, complicated history of rivalry with Meyāni lasting for over two milennia) and Rudakam have suspended diplomatic relationships with the country and have destroyed the Meyāni embassies in their territory while passing regulations to reduce corporate influence. The country also has a complicated relationship with [[Nōlīnia]], with it largely allowing Meyāni corporations to operate inside of its territory as long as they conform to specific regulations prohibiting them from having a say in the country's {{w|authoritarian}} government. Outside of the Prorinian peninsula, Meyāni is praised for bringing {{w|economic development}} to their land, and as such viewed positively by local governments. Ironically, Meyāni corporations have been involved in countless {{w|civil wars}} and internal {{w|rebellions}} to put corporate-friendly governments into power in several countries.

===Gator rights===
In the first few decades after the [[Great Prorinian War]] and the subsequent period of occupation, Meyāni had a fairly good {{w|Human rights|gator rights}} record. However, this has gradually declined in the centuries since the corporations took power over the Meyāni government. {{w|Journalist}} interviews of multiple refugees mostly born into the lowest-ranking castes of Meyāni society have revealed multiple gator rights abuses in Meyāni that have gone unreported in the largely corporation-funded {{w|news broadcasting|news broadcasters}} which predominate news broadcasting in Meyāni.

There is a huge discreptancy in gator rights between the rich and the poor. Rich females and {{w|LGBTQ|LGBTQ+}} gators enjoyed the same rights and privileges as wealthy men compared to their less wealthy counterparts, and all rich Meyāni live lives of luxury; however, even though all gators are technically allowed to vote as per constitutional amendments, {{w|grandfather clauses}} and other restrictions aimed at the poor exclude the poor from voting and secure members of higher castes as the only socioeconomic classes allowed to vote. However, gators who are less wealthy are often treated poorly and live lives in {{w|poverty}} and {{w|Exploitation of labor|exploitation}} by corporations. Gators who show disloyalty against the corporations or commit even minor crimes are often given harsh {{w|punishments}}; most are {{w|Forced labour|forced to work for the corporations in unhealthy work conditions for a set amount of time}} or put into {{w|solitary confinement}} in overcrowded {{w|Prison|jails}}, but some are sentenced to the {{w|Capital punishment|death penalty}}.

Even though the Meyāni constitution guarantees the {{w|separation of church and state}}, the Meyāni government does not respect religious freedoms and frequently persecutes those who do not follow the predominate religion of '''[[Áukanism]]''', a strictly {{w|Monotheism|monotheistic}} religion involving the worship of the god '''[[Áukanism#Deities|Alấn]]'''; Meyāni often punishes religious {{w|heretics}} with forced labor or death. The government does not authorize the construction of buildings of worship belonging to religions other than Áukanism, with Meyāni often commissioning the demolition of such buildings under the justification of them "occupying too much space" and "disrupting normal life in the area" once finding out about their existence. However, Meyāni doesn't often enforce its religious persecutions on poorer gators due to them tending to neglect the poor, so the poorest gators are more likely to openly follow other religions or become {{w|atheist}} than the wealthiest individuals in the country.

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==Economy==
Meyāni boasts a ''{{w|laissez-faire}}'' {{w|capitalist}} economy and has little-to-no {{w|Market interventions|economic interventions}} and {{w|Regulatory economics|regulations}}, which allows for {{w|corporations}} like the [[Alliance of Vúnaibâr]] corporate group to take power over the entire government and pass laws that favor their interests. As a result, the poorest gators in Meyāni live lives in {{w|poverty}} and exploitation, while the richest live lives in luxury, with the lives of the poor being frequently worsened by cycles of {{w|economic recessions}}. Despite widespread {{w|economic inequality}} in Meyāni, the country is one of the richest in Levarianqueva due to its highly capitalist economy, with a {{w|Gross domestic product|gross domestic product (GDP)}} of $1.012 trillion in {{w|International dollar|human dollars}}, or around 12.070 trillion ''tấnâñña''s.

For most of its history, Meyāni's economy was mostly {{w|Agrarian society|agrarian}}, with the main source of wealth being {{w|agriculture}}. However, minor contributions to wealth came from {{w|trade}}, {{w|war}}, and the extraction of {{w|natural resources}}. Since the rise of the corporations to power within Meyāni, however, the main source of wealth in the country has shifted to the {{w|manufacturing}} of {{w|consumer products}}; however, agriculture is still practiced as a means to gain money by poor families. {{w|Tourism}} and {{w|dolphin}}-watching are also increasingly occupying parts of the economy.

As of 2350 AC, 81% of Meyāni's GDP is privately-owned; the remaining 19% is dedicated to {{w|government spending}}. Of that 19%, 45% is dedicated to {{w|military spending}}, 26% is dedicated to {{w|education}}, and 18% is dedicated to enforcing law and order within the country. The remaining 11% of Meyāni's government spending is dedicated to other things.

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==Education==
In Meyāni, {{w|education}} is compulsory for all citizens from the ages of 8 to 15, the latter of which is the legal {{w|age of consent}} in the country; however, some Meyāni gators may leave the child education system at an age earlier than the age of 15, like [[Rírin-i Roqlínau]] (a prominent mage-turned anti-government activist, {{w|protestor}}, and child {{w|genius}} who skipped a grade and left his child education at the age of 14). After {{w|graduation}}, many gators may choose to attend a {{w|university}} to broaden their knowledge of the world before getting a job. Immigrants in Meyāni who wish to work, are older than the age of consent, and who do not complete their education may choose to attend {{w|adult education}} centers. Child education is {{w|segregated}} by {{w|caste}}, while adult education is not, as all who attend adult education are immigrants who do not have a registered caste in Meyāni society.

Legally speaking, child education is referred to as '''primary education''', and university education is referred to as '''secondary education'''. In order to graduate from primary education, one must earn 56 credits, seven for each {{w|Educational stage|grade level}}. In order to earn a credit for a class, one must master all of the material within that class by the end of the school year. Core subjects include {{w|mathematics}}, {{w|science}}, [[Meyāni language]] (which is lumped in with {{w|literature}}, despite the two being separate), {{w|social studies}} (which include {{w|history}}, {{w|religion}}, and {{w|philosophy}}), and {{w|elective courses|electives}}, a broad category of optional subjects which includes seemingly-distant topics that don't fit into the other four categories neatly such as {{w|art}}, {{w|engineering}}, foreign {{w|languages}}, and [[Magic (AWiEC)|magic]]. From Grade I to Grade V, the subjects that a child takes is determined by the {{w|legal parents}} and some of the top-ranking faculty members at a primary educational institution; after Grade V, he/she can pick the classes that he/she wants to take. Primary education is also where Meyāni gators receive the vast majority of their governmental propaganda in.

After graduating from primary education, gators may continue their education in secondary education universities. The most prestigious of these universities is the [[University of Meraqlum]], which has over 4 million {{w|alumni}} or actively-attending students as of 2350 AC.

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==Military==
Meyāni has a large, powerful {{w|military}} with 1,346,919 members, or 8.8% of the country's population. It is divided into three branches: the '''Meyāni Republican Army''', which deals with the {{w|land forces}} of the country, the '''Meyāni Republican Navy''', which deals with the {{w|naval forces}} of the country, and the '''Meyāni Special Forces''', which deals with [[Magic (AWiEC)#In war|magical]] and {{w|biological warfare}}. As of 2350 AC, military spending makes up around 8.6% of the country's total GDP.

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==Demographics==
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==Culture==
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===Food===
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===Art and architecture===
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====Caste system====
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Meyāni has a strict {{w|caste}} system which assigns each citizen of the country an individual {{w|social class}} or '''caste'''. A gator's caste at hatching is dependent on the caste of their {{w|Legal guardian#legal guardian|legal}} {{w|father}}.

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==Footnotes==
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Meyāni

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| conventional_long_name = Second Meyāni Republic
| common_name = Meyāni
| native_name = <nowiki>*</nowiki>SCRIPT TBA* (''Ku-šóten-i Úsaivâye Nehấne-i'') ([[Meyāni language|Meyāni]])
| image_flag = Meyani Flag.png
| image_coat = Meyani Coat of Arms.png
| national_anthem = <center>"Alấn bâv hấsaiñeba reñấn Nehấnesira-i ñéra-ra!" (Meyāni)</center> 
<center>English: "May God guide the Meyāni people!"</center>
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| image_map = Meyani Location.png
| map_caption = Meyāni's location within [[Levarianqueva]] (shown in green). The [[Prorinian peninsula]] is shown in gray.
| capital = [[Meraqlum]]
| official_languages = [[Meyāni language#Standard Meyāni|Standard Meyāni]] (based on the Meraqlum dialect)
| religion = [[Áukanism]]
| demonym = Meyāni, Meyānisian/Meyānisiran (archaic)
| government_type = {{w|Consul|Consul-led republic}} under a {{w|Corporatism|corporatist}} {{w|Plutocracy|plutocracy}}
| population_estimate = 15,281,002
| population_estimate_year = 2350 AC
| GDP_PPP = $1.012 trillion
| GDP_PPP_year = 2350 AC
| HDI = 0.615
| HDI_year = 2350 AC
| currency = Tấnâñña
}}

'''Meyāni''' ([[Meyāni language|Meyāni]]: *SCRIPT TBA* (''Nehấne'')), officially the '''Second Republic of Meyāni''' ([[Meyāni language|Meyāni]]: *SCRIPT TBA* (''Ku-šóten-i Úsaivâye Nehấne-i'')), is a country located inside the [[Prorinian peninsula]] region of [[Levarianqueva]], which is itself one of the three {{w|planets}} within the [[Rdaqtva A system]]. It borders [[Yaksōn]] to the northeast<ref>On most maps of Levarianqueva, east and west are swapped and vice versa due to the planet's retrograde rotation.</ref> and east, the [[Great Prorinian Steppes]] to the southeast and south, a large {{w|anarchy|zone of anarchy}} to the southwest and west, [[Nōlīnia]] to the northwest, and the [[Ezen Ocean]] to the north and northeast.

The oldest known {{w|fossils}} of early modern ''[[Alligatoris sapiens]]'' anywhere in the world are found in Meyāni, dating to around 213,000 BC. {{w|Agriculture}} was discovered in Meyāni and adjacent regions of the [[Northern Prorinian plains]] in around 10,000 BC, leading to the rise of {{w|Human settlement|permanent settlements}} and constantly-warring {{w|city states}}. However, by 4500 BC, the central and eastern halves of the Prorinian peninsula were invaded by migrating [[Qlerevi languages|Qlerevi]]-speaking groups, who were described by surviving Prorinian sources on them as {{w|nomadic}} {{w|warrior}}-like people and likely {{w|Urheimat|originated}} in modern-day [[Qlerebam]]. The Qlerevi gradually took over the central and eastern portions of the peninsula over the course of two millennia and introduced a {{w|caste system}} with themselves at the top and the {{w|indigenous}} [[Pre-Yaksōnian]]-speaking gators at the bottom. Gradually, the gators at the bottom of said caste system {{w|assimilated}} into Qlerevi languages and culture while the gators at the top adopted elements of the sedentary Prorinian culture as their own.

According to Meyāni {{w|mythology}}, the Meyāni nation was founded after a malevolent spirit powered by sentient, malevolent {{w|fruit}} once controlled the world, but was {{w|Coup d'état|overthrown}} in 3671 BC by the mythical {{w|heroes}} '''Sāvae''' (Sấvaren) and '''Reqlūndo''' (Reqlútton), who {{w|Slavery|sold most of the local population into slavery}} for helping the evil spirit take over the world in the first place and built the city of [[Meraqlum]] with the help of slave labor. The two heroes ruled Meraqlum in a {{w|diarchy}} for more than half a century until Sāvae decided to gradually kill Reqlūndo by having him eat a {{w|gastrolith|rock}} with a {{w|parasitic}} [[Pseudomykite|pseudomykite]] on it in 3619 BC, forcing the latter to retire his position as co-ruler. Sāvae then ruled as a {{w|tyrant}}, expanding Meraqlum's dominion across neighboring lands until he himself was killed by one of Reqlūndo's illegitimate sons, causing the large "Meraqlumnian Empire" to {{w|civil war|collapse in an all-out civil war}} which lasted for more than three millennia. The myths were likely based on real historical events that got passed down via {{w|oral tradition}}; it is known that a civil war happened at some point before the 6th century BC, as suggested by Rudakami and ancient Venēmīan sources.

Regardless of mythohistorical legends, the first recorded king of Meyāni that is accepted by most scholars to have actually existed, '''Reqlūndo II''', conquered much of what is now northern Meyāni and went into war with the [[Rudakami trade colonies]] scattered across the Prorinian peninsula's northern coastline sometime in the late 6th century BC, thereby granting his realm access to maritime trade. However, further Meyāni king lists before 1 AC have been lost due to the city that they were stored in, Meraqlum, being [[Rudakami conquest of the Prorinian peninsula#Siege and burning of Meraqlum|burned down by Rudakami and Yaksōnian troops in the 16th century AC]], so {{w|archeologists}} and {{w|historians}} are forced to rely on heavily-biased external sources, even though they might not tell the full truth of what happened or who reigned at a given time.

During the last years of the 1st century BC, Meyāni took advantage of a [[First Venēmīan civil war|civil war]] within the [[First Venēmīan Empire]] to [[Meyāni conquest of the First Venēmīan Empire|conquer]] the latter and [[Meyāni conquest of the First Venēmīan Empire#Burning of Venēm|burn down the city of Venēm]], {{w|massacre|killing}} or enslaving an estimated three-quarters of Yaksōn's non-{{w|LGBTQ+}} population in the process and starting a long-lasting series of emmities between the Meyāni and the Yaksōnians which lasts in some form to this day. Due to this event, the Meyāni {{w|nobility}} became heavily divided over whether to continue {{w|expansion}} or halt it at Venēm, leading to the Meyāni empire to collapse into anarchy. During this time, an organization of {{w|Fanaticism|religious fanatics}}, now known as the '''First Alliance of Vúnaibâr''' or the '''Warriors of the Shadows''', accidentally discovered the {{w|ruins}} of ancient technology left behind by the [[Galactic Forefathers]] in 325 AC while attempting to {{w|religiously convert}} the [[Eastern Barbarians]] into an early form of [[Áukanism]]. The First Alliance of Vúnaibâr initially kept the ruins a secret from the rest of Levarianqueva's nations; however, the [[Wet Bandits]], a {{w|tribe}} in the present-day Great Prorinian Steppes closely related to the Meyāni, and their leader, '''Qlānīrestā''', offered the Alliance access to these technologies in exchange for an alliance in 360 AC. However, the Alliance refused and declared a {{w|crusade}} against the "{{w|heretical}}" Wet Bandits, only to be defeated.

Now with ancient Galactic Forefather technology, the Wet Bandits conquered the remaining Meyāni warlord states, establishing the [[Bandit dynasty]] in 365 AC. The Bandit dynasty claimed {{w|legitimacy}} by tracing its rulers' descent to the mythical heroes Sāvae and Reqlūndo as well as by implementing excessive {{w|taxation}} policies for wealthy gators, which involved {{w|Wealth redistribution|confiscating Meyāni gators' wealth once it exceeds a certain threshold and then redistributing it to gators with less wealth}}, therefore ensuring {{w|income equality}} and securing the loyalty of gators in lower castes. Other than initial expansion into Nōlīnia and southern Rudakam, a few {{w|wars}} with Yaksōn, and a few {{w|peasant revolts}}, life during the Bandit dynasty was mostly peaceful and little-to-no {{w|Economic regulations|restrictions}} were placed on the economy, allowing for substantial economic growth during the early years of the Bandit dynasty. Additionally, {{w|science}}, {{w|culture}}, {{w|philosophy}}, and [[Magic (AWiEC)|the study of magic]] all flourished during the time of the Bandit dynasty.

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==Etymology==
The word "Meyāni" in {{w|English language|English}} is derived from the [[Yaksōnian language]] term *SCRIPT TBA* (<Meyāni>; /mɛˈjɐ̞ː.nɪ/) "Meyāni", which was ultimately borrowed from a word ''*meyāni'' (/''*me̞ˈjɐ̞ː.ni''/) "young warrior" in a {{w|dialect}} of [[Proto-Central Prorinian Qlerevi language|Proto-Central Prorinian Qlerevi]] passed along multiple [[pre-Yaksōnian languages]], which was ultimately inherited from the [[Proto-Qlerevi language|Proto-Qlerevi]] word ''*mehyeñ'' (/''*'me̞h.jeŋʲ''/) "young warrior." The word "Meyāni" is therefore {{w|cognate}} with the native Meyāni term used to refer to the country, *SCRIPT TBA* (<Nehấne>; /nɛˈxɑː.nɛ/), which has entirely lost its original meaning of "young warrior." This is because the ultimate founding fathers of the Meyāni nation and culture were originally {{w|mercenaries}} for a pre-Yaksōnian-speaking {{w|city-state}} that overthrew the city's government and gradually started to identify themselves with the term "young warrior." Eventually, the term was used so much to refer to their ethnic group that the original connotation was lost entirely.

The archaic English {{w|demonym}} for Meyāni, "Meyānisian," is derived from the Yaksōnian term *SCRIPT TBA* (<Meyānisīya>; /mɛˈjɐ̞ː.nɪ.siːjɐ̞/), which was inherited from the [[Ancient Venēmīan language|Ancient Venēmīan]] word <Meyānisīa> /meˈjɐ̞ː.ni.siːjɐ̞/, which is derived from the aforementioned word <Meyāni>, which has stayed relatively unchanged since it was first borrowed, with the addition of a demonym-forming {{w|suffix}} <-sīa>, which was borrowed from the [[Old Meyāni language|Old Meyāni]] suffix <-sīra> (i.e. Meyāni *SCRIPT TBA* <-sira> /siː.ræ/). Ancient Venēmīan underwent a {{w|sound change}} that caused historic [[Pre-Yaksōnian languages#Proto-Pre-Yaksōnian|Proto-Pre-Yaksōnian]] ''*r'' to be lost between {{w|vowels}}, which is apparent in Qlerevi-borrowed words which had /r/ in the source word not having the /r/ in the loanword in Ancient Venēmīan; modern Yaksōnian retains this change. The suffix <-sīra> ultimately originated from the Proto-Qlerevi word ''*sēle'' /''*ˈse̞ː,le̞''/, which likely meant "gator" in an earlier version of the language until it was displaced by another word ''*neyxëy'' /''*ˈnej.ɧəj''/ (i.e. Meyāni *SCRIPT TBA* <ñéra> /ˈɲɛ.ræ/) and fossilized as a demonym suffix in the last common ancestor of all known recorded Qlerevi languages.

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==History==
''Note: All precise dates given in this article are given in the [[Rudakami calendar]].''

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===Ancient history===
The earliest known anatomically-modern fossils of ''[[Alligatoris sapiens]]'' in the present-day territory of Meyāni have been {{w|Radiocarbon dating|dated}} to around 217,000 years ago. This makes these fossils the oldest known ''Alligatoris sapiens'' fossils in all of [[Levarianqueva]]. The species itself, however, is theorized to originate in modern-day [[Yaksōn]] to the east. From the general region of the [[Prorinian peninsula]], ''A. sapiens'' spread throughout Levarianqueva, reaching locations as distant as [[Qlerebam]] and [[Storoia]].

Some scholars theorize that the ancestors of [[Pre-Yaksōnian languages|pre-Yaksōnian language]] speakers migrated to the Prorinian peninsula, including the modern territory of Meyāni, from the west a few thousand years before the discovery of {{w|agriculture}}, due to the presence of similar words in various [[Tiorōska|Tiorōskan]] languages and the [[Rudakami language]]. If this theory were true, then this would be the largest migration event in the Prorinian peninsula prior to the [[Qlerevi migrations|Qlerevi migrations and inventions]] over ten millennia later.

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====The Old Kingdom====
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===The Bandit dynasty===
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====Formation====
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===Second Warlord States Period===
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===Qlúroči Republic===
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After unifying the country, Nấruhan Qlúroči set out to establish a stable, democratic government based on a combination of the beliefs of the Yaksōnian {{w|philosopher}} and {{w|monk}} '''Yōtokōn''' (which was in turn based on those of several Ancient Venēmīan philosophers) and the {{w|Chiefdom|tribal governments}} that constituted what is now the [[Great Prorinian Steppes]], the latter of which he personally experienced after being {{w|exiled}} there and being {{w|disowned}} by his own family. He established a '''Council of Advisors''', a body of twelve un-elected officials appointed directly by the President that would directly advise him on certain situations. The Council of Advisors constituted the upper house of a {{w|Bicameralism|bicameral}} {{w|parliament}}-like structure called the '''Great Assembly'''; the lower house, the '''Council of the People''', was composed of 300 members and represented the general populace. Laws were proposed by members of the Council of the People and passed if there was a 2/3rds majority; they were then passed on to the Council of Advisors, who debated along with the President if it should be vetoed. If a law is vetoed, it cannot be proposed again until the next session of the Great Assembly is started. Nấruhan Qlúroči officially codified this government structure into a {{w|constitution}} in 1578 AC, with himself becoming the first President of the '''[[Qlúroči republic]]'''.

Nấruhan Qlúroči's early rule was plagued with internal turmoil. For example, a major {{w|rebellion}} against the government in 1580 AC resulted in whole villages being destroyed and several thousand gators being either killed or displaced. These internal rebellions called into question the stability of the {{w|Democracy|democratic}} system in Meyāni, which forced the government to reform slightly. However, Nấruhan became paranoid about Rudakam exploiting internal instability in the country to conquer it as the country's god-king endorsed an {{w|expansionist}} policy, especially after Rudakam invaded and annexed Nōlīnia in 1581 AC. Although the Republic sent troops to fortify the border in case of a Rudakami attack, the Rudakami god-king, '''Kekórìyà XIII''', was assassinated and died a year after the conquest, causing a civil war because he had no heirs to succeed him and freeing up Meyāni's manpower and resources. Rumors spread that Nấruhan Qlúroči himself ordered the assassination attempt on Kekórìyà XIII to eliminate any chances of a strong power emerging to conquer his state; however, modern historians reject these rumors and believe that he was assassinated by a lesser-known Nōlīnian {{w|Guerilla warfare|guerilla}} fighter instead.

Nấruhan Qlúroči ordered that the troops that were sent to the Rudakami border the previous year be sent to the Yaksōnian border instead in 1583 AC, and declared war on the country a year later, with the aim of converting the country into a democracy. With no major allies, Yaksōn slowly lost territory until the Meyāni troops reached the city of Venēm in 1594 AC.

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==Geography==
[[File:Map of Meyani.png|500px|right|A map of Meyāni, showing neighboring countries, mountain ranges, and provincial capitals.]]
Meyāni is located in the central and central-western regions of the [[Prorinian peninsula]]. The country is primarily located within the northern {{w|Geographical zones#Temperate zones|temperate zone}} of [[Levarianqueva]]. However, some of Meyāni's territory is located south of the {{w|Tropic of Cancer|Tropic of Varaktai}} and therefore falls within the {{w|tropics}}; the country is entirely located within Levarianqueva's {{w|northern hemisphere}}. The country is mostly flat, expansive {{w|plains}} in terms of {{w|topography}}; despite this, it has two main {{w|mountain ranges}}: the [[Varaktai Range]], which covers a minor part of Meyāni and extends into [[Yaksōn]] and the [[Great Prorinian Steppes (country)|Great Prorinian Steppes]], and the [[Nōlīnian Range]], which is shared with [[Nōlīnia]].

Meyāni is home to a extensive network of {{w|navigable rivers}} which allow for the cheap transportation of {{w|goods}} from coastal areas into areas further inland and vice versa. Throughout its coast, there are multiple {{w|Harbor#Natural harbors|natural harbors}} where ships can be effectively {{w|moored}}. Meyāni has lots of annual surface water resources; these help grow crops and generate the country's large {{w|Agriculture|agricultural output}}. All natural water sources in Meyāni ultimately flow into the [[Ezen Ocean]], either indirectly via the [[Twin Deltas]] (twin deltas in the Prorinian peninsula which feed massive river systems allowing for the cheap transport of goods between Yaksōnian and Meyāni cities and vice versa; one delta falls within Meyāni territory, while the other falls within Yaksōnian territory) to the north of the Prorinian peninsula and the [[Bay of Spores]] or directly to the ocean.

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===Climate and Biodiversity===
Most of Meyāni is occupied by a {{w|Mediterranean climate}}, with most of the territory occupied by such a climate having hot {{w|Summer|summers}} and warm to cold {{w|Winter|winters}}. The country's Mediterranean climate regions receive high levels of {{w|precipitation}} in winter months and receive little-to-no precipitation in summer months, apart from precipitation generated by {{w|tropical cyclones}} that make {{w|landfall}}. Towards the coast, temperature extremes between the summer and winter months are moderated by the effects of the sea, but these differences are greatly exaggerated the more inland one goes inside the Mediterranean climate zones. In addition, some of Meyāni's territory is occupied by {{w|Semi-arid climates#Cold semi-arid climates|cold steppes}} to the south and northwest, with cold {{w|deserts}} occupying some of the extreme northwestern regions of the country due to {{w|rain shadow}} effects generated by the Nōlīnian Range.

Although much of the land has been cleared for agriculture and {{w|urban development}}, natural {{w|vegetation}} survives in many areas and mainly consists of {{w|Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub|Mediterranean vegetation}}, with minor amounts of {{w|alpine vegetation}} and {{w|grasslands}} as well as tiny amounts of {{w|desert vegetation}} occupying portions of Meyāni's territory generated by rain shadow effects from the Nōlīnian Range. These zones of natural vegetation are home to diverse species of {{w|wildlife}}. [[Erythrophyte|Erythrophytes]] grow in terrestrial areas near navigable rivers; in the Bay of Spores, the erythrophytes' spores that give the body of water its name are important food sources for many aquatic {{w|zooplankton}} in Meyāni's {{w|territorial waters}}. Meyāni's extensive rivers are home to diverse {{w|fish}} and {{w|cetacean}} species, with Meyāni having the highest amount of {{w|dolphin}} species anywhere on Levarianqueva.

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==Government and politics==
Meyāni is a highly {{w|centralized}} {{w|Consul|consular}} {{w|parliamentary republic}} wherein both the head of state and head of government are twelve consuls. One consul could veto the actions made by any other consul. The constitutional frameworks of the Meyāni government draw inspiration from the [[Qlúroči republic]], a democracy which existed over seven centuries ago, although the government of the modern Meyāni nation is structured differently in an attempt to prevent the flaws that led to its conquest. The government is divided into three branches:

*A '''{{w|Legislature|legislative branch}}''', which creates laws and passes them along to the executive if approved by at least 200 of the legislative branch's members. The legislature, which is known as the '''Great Assembly of Meyāni''', is a {{w|Unicameralism|unicameral}} legislative body which consists of 300 members, with the distribution of seats among the nation's provinces being affected by {{w|censuses}} which take place every ten years. The Great Assembly is officially defined as a "parliament" in the {{w|English language}} translation of the [[Meyāni constitution]], but it isn't actually one and may just be a translation error.
*An '''{{w|Executive (government)|executive branch}}''', which is occupied by the twelve consuls who debate over laws that were passed in the legislative branch. Laws are passed by the executive only if at least eight of the twelve consuls approve of them. Afterwards, the law is passed into the judicial branch of the government unless at least one of the consuls {{w|Liberum veto|decide to veto it}}, preventing it from being passed entirely until the next session of the government. The practice of free veto strengthened democratic elements within Meyāni's government; however, {{w|corporations}} and {{w|Chief Executive Officer|CEOs}} frequently bribed certain consuls in order to have them block legislation that may hurt their interests from passing into the judicial branch, effectively turning the nation into a ''de facto'' {{w|corporatocracy}}. Also, the executive branch has the power to declare war on other nations if at least eight out of the twelve consuls approve of war.
*A '''{{w|Judiciary|judicial branch}}''', which interprets laws passed by the executive branch in order to determine whether they are constitutional or not; it, called the '''Meyāni Supreme Court''', also has the power to punish criminals found guilty by the law. Despite corporations brainwashing the Meyāni population into thinking that the judicial branch is independent from their control, the Meyāni Supreme Court is under heavy influence from the corporations, and corporations and CEOs often {{w|Bribery|bribe}} judges into serving their interests or ideology. If the Meyāni Supreme Court considers a law to be constitutional, it is officially considered to be enforced.

The consuls and the members of the Great Assembly are {{w|Election|elected}} via ''de jure'' {{w|Direct election|direct popular vote}} every four years. However, in reality, individuals belonging to lower castes in the Meyāni {{w|Caste|caste system}} do not have the right to vote, and they are often given ballots which are not officially counted by electoral bodies to brainwash them into thinking that they can actually vote. Thus, significant {{w|electoral fraud}} is present in almost every single election since the elections of 2000 AC, with elected officials often showing bias towards the wealthiest individuals in the country.

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===Administrative divisions===
[[File:Meraqlum CoA.png|200px|thumb|The coat of arms of the Meraqlum province, the most populated province in Meyāni. This coat of arms features a dark sky above a green]]

Meyāni is subdivided into '''{{w|provinces}}''' ([[Meyāni language|Meyāni]]: *SCRIPT TBA* (''Lấyarara'')), each named after their {{w|Capital city|provincial capital}}. Provinces are not represented equally within the legislative branch of the government, with more populated provinces receiving a higher amount of representatives than provinces with a lower population; consequently, elected officials show bias towards more populated areas. Provinces are headed by '''governors''' ([[Meyāni language|Meyāni]]: *SCRIPT TBA* (''Yámeqlâkera'')) who enforce laws passed by the central government in their respective areas. Provinces do not receive any {{w|autonomy}} and do not have the right to succeed from their parent nation.

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===Foreign relations===
Meyāni maintains a vast network of diplomatic relations spanning across the entire world. The country maintains diplomatic relations with thirteen countries across Levarianqueva and has established {{w|embassies}} across the world in 17 different {{w|countries}} (including two {{w|unrecognized countries}}). Meyāni is a founding member of the [[Qlerevi Union]], a predominately economic-based {{w|alliance}} of [[Qlerevi languages|Qlerevi]]-speaking states that consists of seven other countries, as well as a founding member of the [[Peninsular Organization for Economic and Developmental Benefits]], which consists of four other nations and has since suspended the country over accusations of {{w|corruption}}, and the country is also a member of the [[Eqléssalos of Mages]], which has since also suspended the country over the corporations' {{w|expansionist}} plans of conquering the entire [[Great Prorinian Steppes (country)|Great Prorinian Steppes]].

The Meyāni government and its corporations are widely hated by civilians inside most of the Prorinian peninsula outside of its borders and [[Rudakam]] due to threats that corruption may soon take over their governments. Due to these fears, [[Yaksōn]] (which has a long, complicated history of rivalry with Meyāni lasting for over two milennia) and Rudakam have suspended diplomatic relationships with the country and have destroyed the Meyāni embassies in their territory while passing regulations to reduce corporate influence. The country also has a complicated relationship with [[Nōlīnia]], with it largely allowing Meyāni corporations to operate inside of its territory as long as they conform to specific regulations prohibiting them from having a say in the country's {{w|authoritarian}} government. Outside of the Prorinian peninsula, Meyāni is praised for bringing {{w|economic development}} to their land, and as such viewed positively by local governments. Ironically, Meyāni corporations have been involved in countless {{w|civil wars}} and internal {{w|rebellions}} to put corporate-friendly governments into power in several countries.

===Gator rights===
In the first few decades after the [[Great Prorinian War]] and the subsequent period of occupation, Meyāni had a fairly good {{w|Human rights|gator rights}} record. However, this has gradually declined in the centuries since the corporations took power over the Meyāni government. {{w|Journalist}} interviews of multiple refugees mostly born into the lowest-ranking castes of Meyāni society have revealed multiple gator rights abuses in Meyāni that have gone unreported in the largely corporation-funded {{w|news broadcasting|news broadcasters}} which predominate news broadcasting in Meyāni.

There is a huge discreptancy in gator rights between the rich and the poor. Rich females and {{w|LGBTQ|LGBTQ+}} gators enjoyed the same rights and privileges as wealthy men compared to their less wealthy counterparts, and all rich Meyāni live lives of luxury; however, even though all gators are technically allowed to vote as per constitutional amendments, {{w|grandfather clauses}} and other restrictions aimed at the poor exclude the poor from voting and secure members of higher castes as the only socioeconomic classes allowed to vote. However, gators who are less wealthy are often treated poorly and live lives in {{w|poverty}} and {{w|Exploitation of labor|exploitation}} by corporations. Gators who show disloyalty against the corporations or commit even minor crimes are often given harsh {{w|punishments}}; most are {{w|Forced labour|forced to work for the corporations in unhealthy work conditions for a set amount of time}} or put into {{w|solitary confinement}} in overcrowded {{w|Prison|jails}}, but some are sentenced to the {{w|Capital punishment|death penalty}}.

Even though the Meyāni constitution guarantees the {{w|separation of church and state}}, the Meyāni government does not respect religious freedoms and frequently persecutes those who do not follow the predominate religion of '''[[Áukanism]]''', a strictly {{w|Monotheism|monotheistic}} religion involving the worship of the god '''[[Áukanism#Deities|Alấn]]'''; Meyāni often punishes religious {{w|heretics}} with forced labor or death. The government does not authorize the construction of buildings of worship belonging to religions other than Áukanism, with Meyāni often commissioning the demolition of such buildings under the justification of them "occupying too much space" and "disrupting normal life in the area" once finding out about their existence. However, Meyāni doesn't often enforce its religious persecutions on poorer gators due to them tending to neglect the poor, so the poorest gators are more likely to openly follow other religions or become {{w|atheist}} than the wealthiest individuals in the country.

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==Economy==
Meyāni boasts a ''{{w|laissez-faire}}'' {{w|capitalist}} economy and has little-to-no {{w|Market interventions|economic interventions}} and {{w|Regulatory economics|regulations}}, which allows for {{w|corporations}} like the [[Alliance of Vúnaibâr]] corporate group to take power over the entire government and pass laws that favor their interests. As a result, the poorest gators in Meyāni live lives in {{w|poverty}} and exploitation, while the richest live lives in luxury, with the lives of the poor being frequently worsened by cycles of {{w|economic recessions}}. Despite widespread {{w|economic inequality}} in Meyāni, the country is one of the richest in Levarianqueva due to its highly capitalist economy, with a {{w|Gross domestic product|gross domestic product (GDP)}} of $1.012 trillion in {{w|International dollar|human dollars}}, or around 12.070 trillion ''tấnâñña''s.

For most of its history, Meyāni's economy was mostly {{w|Agrarian society|agrarian}}, with the main source of wealth being {{w|agriculture}}. However, minor contributions to wealth came from {{w|trade}}, {{w|war}}, and the extraction of {{w|natural resources}}. Since the rise of the corporations to power within Meyāni, however, the main source of wealth in the country has shifted to the {{w|manufacturing}} of {{w|consumer products}}; however, agriculture is still practiced as a means to gain money by poor families. {{w|Tourism}} and {{w|dolphin}}-watching are also increasingly occupying parts of the economy.

As of 2350 AC, 81% of Meyāni's GDP is privately-owned; the remaining 19% is dedicated to {{w|government spending}}. Of that 19%, 45% is dedicated to {{w|military spending}}, 26% is dedicated to {{w|education}}, and 18% is dedicated to enforcing law and order within the country. The remaining 11% of Meyāni's government spending is dedicated to other things.

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==Education==
In Meyāni, {{w|education}} is compulsory for all citizens from the ages of 8 to 15, the latter of which is the legal {{w|age of consent}} in the country; however, some Meyāni gators may leave the child education system at an age earlier than the age of 15, like [[Rírin-i Roqlínau]] (a prominent mage-turned anti-government activist, {{w|protestor}}, and child {{w|genius}} who skipped a grade and left his child education at the age of 14). After {{w|graduation}}, many gators may choose to attend a {{w|university}} to broaden their knowledge of the world before getting a job. Immigrants in Meyāni who wish to work, are older than the age of consent, and who do not complete their education may choose to attend {{w|adult education}} centers. Child education is {{w|segregated}} by {{w|caste}}, while adult education is not, as all who attend adult education are immigrants who do not have a registered caste in Meyāni society.

Legally speaking, child education is referred to as '''primary education''', and university education is referred to as '''secondary education'''. In order to graduate from primary education, one must earn 56 credits, seven for each {{w|Educational stage|grade level}}. In order to earn a credit for a class, one must master all of the material within that class by the end of the school year. Core subjects include {{w|mathematics}}, {{w|science}}, [[Meyāni language]] (which is lumped in with {{w|literature}}, despite the two being separate), {{w|social studies}} (which include {{w|history}}, {{w|religion}}, and {{w|philosophy}}), and {{w|elective courses|electives}}, a broad category of optional subjects which includes seemingly-distant topics that don't fit into the other four categories neatly such as {{w|art}}, {{w|engineering}}, foreign {{w|languages}}, and [[Magic (AWiEC)|magic]]. From Grade I to Grade V, the subjects that a child takes is determined by the {{w|legal parents}} and some of the top-ranking faculty members at a primary educational institution; after Grade V, he/she can pick the classes that he/she wants to take. Primary education is also where Meyāni gators receive the vast majority of their governmental propaganda in.

After graduating from primary education, gators may continue their education in secondary education universities. The most prestigious of these universities is the [[University of Meraqlum]], which has over 4 million {{w|alumni}} or actively-attending students as of 2350 AC.

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==Military==
Meyāni has a large, powerful {{w|military}} with 1,346,919 members, or 8.8% of the country's population. It is divided into three branches: the '''Meyāni Republican Army''', which deals with the {{w|land forces}} of the country, the '''Meyāni Republican Navy''', which deals with the {{w|naval forces}} of the country, and the '''Meyāni Special Forces''', which deals with [[Magic (AWiEC)#In war|magical]] and {{w|biological warfare}}. As of 2350 AC, military spending makes up around 8.6% of the country's total GDP.

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==Demographics==
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==Culture==
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===Food===
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===Art and architecture===
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====Caste system====
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Meyāni has a strict {{w|caste}} system which assigns each citizen of the country an individual {{w|social class}} or '''caste'''. A gator's caste at hatching is dependent on the caste of their {{w|Legal guardian#legal guardian|legal}} {{w|father}}.

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==Footnotes==
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| conventional_long_name = Second Meyāni Republic
| common_name = Meyāni
| native_name = <nowiki>*</nowiki>SCRIPT TBA* (''Ku-šóten-i Úsaivâye Nehấne-i'') ([[Meyāni language|Meyāni]])
| image_flag = Meyani Flag.png
| image_coat = Meyani Coat of Arms.png
| national_anthem = <center>"Alấn bâv hấsaiñeba reñấn Nehấnesira-i ñéra-ra!" (Meyāni)</center> 
<center>English: "May God guide the Meyāni people!"</center>
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| image_map = Meyani Location.png
| map_caption = Meyāni's location within [[Levarianqueva]] (shown in green). The [[Prorinian peninsula]] is shown in gray.
| capital = [[Meraqlum]]
| official_languages = [[Meyāni language#Standard Meyāni|Standard Meyāni]] (based on the Meraqlum dialect)
| religion = [[Áukanism]]
| demonym = Meyāni, Meyānisian/Meyānisiran (archaic)
| government_type = {{w|Consul|Consul-led republic}} under a {{w|Corporatism|corporatist}} {{w|Plutocracy|plutocracy}}
| population_estimate = 15,281,002
| population_estimate_year = 2350 AC
| GDP_PPP = $1.012 trillion
| GDP_PPP_year = 2350 AC
| HDI = 0.615
| HDI_year = 2350 AC
| currency = Tấnâñña
}}

'''Meyāni''' ([[Meyāni language|Meyāni]]: *SCRIPT TBA* (''Nehấne'')), officially the '''Second Republic of Meyāni''' ([[Meyāni language|Meyāni]]: *SCRIPT TBA* (''Ku-šóten-i Úsaivâye Nehấne-i'')), is a country located inside the [[Prorinian peninsula]] region of [[Levarianqueva]], which is itself one of the three {{w|planets}} within the [[Rdaqtva A system]]. It borders [[Yaksōn]] to the northeast<ref>On most maps of Levarianqueva, east and west are swapped and vice versa due to the planet's retrograde rotation.</ref> and east, the [[Great Prorinian Steppes]] to the southeast and south, a large {{w|anarchy|zone of anarchy}} to the southwest and west, [[Nōlīnia]] to the northwest, and the [[Ezen Ocean]] to the north and northeast.

The oldest known {{w|fossils}} of early modern ''[[Alligatoris sapiens]]'' anywhere in the world are found in Meyāni, dating to around 213,000 BC. {{w|Agriculture}} was discovered in Meyāni and adjacent regions of the [[Northern Prorinian plains]] in around 10,000 BC, leading to the rise of {{w|Human settlement|permanent settlements}} and constantly-warring {{w|city states}}. However, by 4500 BC, the central and eastern halves of the Prorinian peninsula were invaded by migrating [[Qlerevi languages|Qlerevi]]-speaking groups, who were described by surviving Prorinian sources on them as {{w|nomadic}} {{w|warrior}}-like people and likely {{w|Urheimat|originated}} in modern-day [[Qlerebam]]. The Qlerevi gradually took over the central and eastern portions of the peninsula over the course of two millennia and introduced a {{w|caste system}} with themselves at the top and the {{w|indigenous}} [[Pre-Yaksōnian]]-speaking gators at the bottom. Gradually, the gators at the bottom of said caste system {{w|assimilated}} into Qlerevi languages and culture while the gators at the top adopted elements of the sedentary Prorinian culture as their own.

According to Meyāni {{w|mythology}}, the Meyāni nation was founded after a malevolent spirit powered by sentient, malevolent {{w|fruit}} once controlled the world, but was {{w|Coup d'état|overthrown}} in 3671 BC by the mythical {{w|heroes}} '''Sāvae''' (Sấvaren) and '''Reqlūndo''' (Reqlútton), who {{w|Slavery|sold most of the local population into slavery}} for helping the evil spirit take over the world in the first place and built the city of [[Meraqlum]] with the help of slave labor. The two heroes ruled Meraqlum in a {{w|diarchy}} for more than half a century until Sāvae decided to gradually kill Reqlūndo by having him eat a {{w|gastrolith|rock}} with a {{w|parasitic}} [[Pseudomykite|pseudomykite]] on it in 3619 BC, forcing the latter to retire his position as co-ruler. Sāvae then ruled as a {{w|tyrant}}, expanding Meraqlum's dominion across neighboring lands until he himself was killed by one of Reqlūndo's illegitimate sons, causing the large "Meraqlumnian Empire" to {{w|civil war|collapse in an all-out civil war}} which lasted for more than three millennia. The myths were likely based on real historical events that got passed down via {{w|oral tradition}}; it is known that a civil war happened at some point before the 6th century BC, as suggested by Rudakami and ancient Venēmīan sources.

Regardless of mythohistorical legends, the first recorded king of Meyāni that is accepted by most scholars to have actually existed, '''Reqlūndo II''', conquered much of what is now northern Meyāni and went into war with the [[Rudakami trade colonies]] scattered across the Prorinian peninsula's northern coastline sometime in the late 6th century BC, thereby granting his realm access to maritime trade. However, further Meyāni king lists before 1 AC have been lost due to the city that they were stored in, Meraqlum, being [[Rudakami conquest of the Prorinian peninsula#Siege and burning of Meraqlum|burned down by Rudakami and Yaksōnian troops in the 16th century AC]], so {{w|archeologists}} and {{w|historians}} are forced to rely on heavily-biased external sources, even though they might not tell the full truth of what happened or who reigned at a given time.

During the last years of the 1st century BC, Meyāni took advantage of a [[First Venēmīan civil war|civil war]] within the [[First Venēmīan Empire]] to [[Meyāni conquest of the First Venēmīan Empire|conquer]] the latter and [[Meyāni conquest of the First Venēmīan Empire#Burning of Venēm|burn down the city of Venēm]], {{w|massacre|killing}} or enslaving an estimated three-quarters of Yaksōn's non-{{w|LGBTQ+}} population in the process and starting a long-lasting series of emmities between the Meyāni and the Yaksōnians which lasts in some form to this day. Due to this event, the Meyāni {{w|nobility}} became heavily divided over whether to continue {{w|expansion}} or halt it at Venēm, leading to the Meyāni empire to collapse into anarchy. During this time, an organization of {{w|Fanaticism|religious fanatics}}, now known as the '''First Alliance of Vúnaibâr''' or the '''Warriors of the Shadows''', accidentally discovered the {{w|ruins}} of ancient technology left behind by the [[Galactic Forefathers]] in 325 AC while attempting to {{w|religiously convert}} the [[Eastern Barbarians]] into an early form of [[Áukanism]]. The First Alliance of Vúnaibâr initially kept the ruins a secret from the rest of Levarianqueva's nations; however, the [[Wet Bandits]], a {{w|tribe}} in the present-day Great Prorinian Steppes closely related to the Meyāni, and their leader, '''Qlānīrestā''', offered the Alliance access to these technologies in exchange for an alliance in 360 AC. However, the Alliance refused and declared a {{w|crusade}} against the "{{w|heretical}}" Wet Bandits, only to be defeated.

Now with ancient Galactic Forefather technology, the Wet Bandits conquered the remaining Meyāni warlord states, establishing the [[Bandit dynasty]] in 365 AC. The Bandit dynasty claimed {{w|legitimacy}} by tracing its rulers' descent to the mythical heroes Sāvae and Reqlūndo as well as by implementing excessive {{w|taxation}} policies for wealthy gators, which involved {{w|Wealth redistribution|confiscating Meyāni gators' wealth once it exceeds a certain threshold and then redistributing it to gators with less wealth}}, therefore ensuring {{w|income equality}} and securing the loyalty of gators in lower castes. Other than initial expansion into Nōlīnia and southern Rudakam, a few {{w|wars}} with Yaksōn, and a few {{w|peasant revolts}}, life during the Bandit dynasty was mostly peaceful and little-to-no {{w|Economic regulations|restrictions}} were placed on the economy, allowing for substantial economic growth during the early years of the Bandit dynasty. Additionally, {{w|science}}, {{w|culture}}, {{w|philosophy}}, and [[Magic (AWiEC)|the study of magic]] all flourished during the time of the Bandit dynasty.

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==Etymology==
The word "Meyāni" in {{w|English language|English}} is derived from the [[Yaksōnian language]] term *SCRIPT TBA* (<Meyāni>; /mɛˈjɐ̞ː.nɪ/) "Meyāni", which was ultimately borrowed from a word ''*meyāni'' (/''*me̞ˈjɐ̞ː.ni''/) "young warrior" in a {{w|dialect}} of [[Proto-Central Prorinian Qlerevi language|Proto-Central Prorinian Qlerevi]] passed along multiple [[pre-Yaksōnian languages]], which was ultimately inherited from the [[Proto-Qlerevi language|Proto-Qlerevi]] word ''*mehyeñ'' (/''*'me̞h.jeŋʲ''/) "young warrior." The word "Meyāni" is therefore {{w|cognate}} with the native Meyāni term used to refer to the country, *SCRIPT TBA* (<Nehấne>; /nɛˈxɑː.nɛ/), which has entirely lost its original meaning of "young warrior." This is because the ultimate founding fathers of the Meyāni nation and culture were originally {{w|mercenaries}} for a pre-Yaksōnian-speaking {{w|city-state}} that overthrew the city's government and gradually started to identify themselves with the term "young warrior." Eventually, the term was used so much to refer to their ethnic group that the original connotation was lost entirely.

The archaic English {{w|demonym}} for Meyāni, "Meyānisian," is derived from the Yaksōnian term *SCRIPT TBA* (<Meyānisīya>; /mɛˈjɐ̞ː.nɪ.siːjɐ̞/), which was inherited from the [[Ancient Venēmīan language|Ancient Venēmīan]] word <Meyānisīa> /meˈjɐ̞ː.ni.siːjɐ̞/, which is derived from the aforementioned word <Meyāni>, which has stayed relatively unchanged since it was first borrowed, with the addition of a demonym-forming {{w|suffix}} <-sīa>, which was borrowed from the [[Old Meyāni language|Old Meyāni]] suffix <-sīra> (i.e. Meyāni *SCRIPT TBA* <-sira> /siː.ræ/). Ancient Venēmīan underwent a {{w|sound change}} that caused historic [[Pre-Yaksōnian languages#Proto-Pre-Yaksōnian|Proto-Pre-Yaksōnian]] ''*r'' to be lost between {{w|vowels}}, which is apparent in Qlerevi-borrowed words which had /r/ in the source word not having the /r/ in the loanword in Ancient Venēmīan; modern Yaksōnian retains this change. The suffix <-sīra> ultimately originated from the Proto-Qlerevi word ''*sēle'' /''*ˈse̞ː,le̞''/, which likely meant "gator" in an earlier version of the language until it was displaced by another word ''*neyxëy'' /''*ˈnej.ɧəj''/ (i.e. Meyāni *SCRIPT TBA* <ñéra> /ˈɲɛ.ræ/) and fossilized as a demonym suffix in the last common ancestor of all known recorded Qlerevi languages.

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==History==
''Note: All precise dates given in this article are given in the [[Rudakami calendar]].''

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===Ancient history===
The earliest known anatomically-modern fossils of ''[[Alligatoris sapiens]]'' in the present-day territory of Meyāni have been {{w|Radiocarbon dating|dated}} to around 217,000 years ago. This makes these fossils the oldest known ''Alligatoris sapiens'' fossils in all of [[Levarianqueva]]. The species itself, however, is theorized to originate in modern-day [[Yaksōn]] to the east. From the general region of the [[Prorinian peninsula]], ''A. sapiens'' spread throughout Levarianqueva, reaching locations as distant as [[Qlerebam]] and [[Storoia]].

Some scholars theorize that the ancestors of [[Pre-Yaksōnian languages|pre-Yaksōnian language]] speakers migrated to the Prorinian peninsula, including the modern territory of Meyāni, from the west a few thousand years before the discovery of {{w|agriculture}}, due to the presence of similar words in various [[Tiorōska|Tiorōskan]] languages and the [[Rudakami language]]. If this theory were true, then this would be the largest migration event in the Prorinian peninsula prior to the [[Qlerevi migrations|Qlerevi migrations and inventions]] over ten millennia later.

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===Qlúroči Republic===
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After unifying the country, Nấruhan Qlúroči set out to establish a stable, democratic government based on a combination of the beliefs of the Yaksōnian {{w|philosopher}} and {{w|monk}} '''Yōtokōn''' (which was in turn based on those of several Ancient Venēmīan philosophers) and the {{w|Chiefdom|tribal governments}} that constituted what is now the [[Great Prorinian Steppes]], the latter of which he personally experienced after being {{w|exiled}} there and being {{w|disowned}} by his own family. He established a '''Council of Advisors''', a body of twelve un-elected officials appointed directly by the President that would directly advise him on certain situations. The Council of Advisors constituted the upper house of a {{w|Bicameralism|bicameral}} {{w|parliament}}-like structure called the '''Great Assembly'''; the lower house, the '''Council of the People''', was composed of 300 members and represented the general populace. Laws were proposed by members of the Council of the People and passed if there was a 2/3rds majority; they were then passed on to the Council of Advisors, who debated along with the President if it should be vetoed. If a law is vetoed, it cannot be proposed again until the next session of the Great Assembly is started. Nấruhan Qlúroči officially codified this government structure into a {{w|constitution}} in 1578 AC, with himself becoming the first President of the '''[[Qlúroči republic]]'''.

Nấruhan Qlúroči's early rule was plagued with internal turmoil. For example, a major {{w|rebellion}} against the government in 1580 AC resulted in whole villages being destroyed and several thousand gators being either killed or displaced. These internal rebellions called into question the stability of the {{w|Democracy|democratic}} system in Meyāni, which forced the government to reform slightly.

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==Geography==
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Meyāni is located in the central and central-western regions of the [[Prorinian peninsula]]. The country is primarily located within the northern {{w|Geographical zones#Temperate zones|temperate zone}} of [[Levarianqueva]]. However, some of Meyāni's territory is located south of the {{w|Tropic of Cancer|Tropic of Varaktai}} and therefore falls within the {{w|tropics}}; the country is entirely located within Levarianqueva's {{w|northern hemisphere}}. The country is mostly flat, expansive {{w|plains}} in terms of {{w|topography}}; despite this, it has two main {{w|mountain ranges}}: the [[Varaktai Range]], which covers a minor part of Meyāni and extends into [[Yaksōn]] and the [[Great Prorinian Steppes (country)|Great Prorinian Steppes]], and the [[Nōlīnian Range]], which is shared with [[Nōlīnia]].

Meyāni is home to a extensive network of {{w|navigable rivers}} which allow for the cheap transportation of {{w|goods}} from coastal areas into areas further inland and vice versa. Throughout its coast, there are multiple {{w|Harbor#Natural harbors|natural harbors}} where ships can be effectively {{w|moored}}. Meyāni has lots of annual surface water resources; these help grow crops and generate the country's large {{w|Agriculture|agricultural output}}. All natural water sources in Meyāni ultimately flow into the [[Ezen Ocean]], either indirectly via the [[Twin Deltas]] (twin deltas in the Prorinian peninsula which feed massive river systems allowing for the cheap transport of goods between Yaksōnian and Meyāni cities and vice versa; one delta falls within Meyāni territory, while the other falls within Yaksōnian territory) to the north of the Prorinian peninsula and the [[Bay of Spores]] or directly to the ocean.

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===Climate and Biodiversity===
Most of Meyāni is occupied by a {{w|Mediterranean climate}}, with most of the territory occupied by such a climate having hot {{w|Summer|summers}} and warm to cold {{w|Winter|winters}}. The country's Mediterranean climate regions receive high levels of {{w|precipitation}} in winter months and receive little-to-no precipitation in summer months, apart from precipitation generated by {{w|tropical cyclones}} that make {{w|landfall}}. Towards the coast, temperature extremes between the summer and winter months are moderated by the effects of the sea, but these differences are greatly exaggerated the more inland one goes inside the Mediterranean climate zones. In addition, some of Meyāni's territory is occupied by {{w|Semi-arid climates#Cold semi-arid climates|cold steppes}} to the south and northwest, with cold {{w|deserts}} occupying some of the extreme northwestern regions of the country due to {{w|rain shadow}} effects generated by the Nōlīnian Range.

Although much of the land has been cleared for agriculture and {{w|urban development}}, natural {{w|vegetation}} survives in many areas and mainly consists of {{w|Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub|Mediterranean vegetation}}, with minor amounts of {{w|alpine vegetation}} and {{w|grasslands}} as well as tiny amounts of {{w|desert vegetation}} occupying portions of Meyāni's territory generated by rain shadow effects from the Nōlīnian Range. These zones of natural vegetation are home to diverse species of {{w|wildlife}}. [[Erythrophyte|Erythrophytes]] grow in terrestrial areas near navigable rivers; in the Bay of Spores, the erythrophytes' spores that give the body of water its name are important food sources for many aquatic {{w|zooplankton}} in Meyāni's {{w|territorial waters}}. Meyāni's extensive rivers are home to diverse {{w|fish}} and {{w|cetacean}} species, with Meyāni having the highest amount of {{w|dolphin}} species anywhere on Levarianqueva.

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==Government and politics==
Meyāni is a highly {{w|centralized}} {{w|Consul|consular}} {{w|parliamentary republic}} wherein both the head of state and head of government are twelve consuls. One consul could veto the actions made by any other consul. The constitutional frameworks of the Meyāni government draw inspiration from the [[Qlúroči republic]], a democracy which existed over seven centuries ago, although the government of the modern Meyāni nation is structured differently in an attempt to prevent the flaws that led to its conquest. The government is divided into three branches:

*A '''{{w|Legislature|legislative branch}}''', which creates laws and passes them along to the executive if approved by at least 200 of the legislative branch's members. The legislature, which is known as the '''Great Assembly of Meyāni''', is a {{w|Unicameralism|unicameral}} legislative body which consists of 300 members, with the distribution of seats among the nation's provinces being affected by {{w|censuses}} which take place every ten years. The Great Assembly is officially defined as a "parliament" in the {{w|English language}} translation of the [[Meyāni constitution]], but it isn't actually one and may just be a translation error.
*An '''{{w|Executive (government)|executive branch}}''', which is occupied by the twelve consuls who debate over laws that were passed in the legislative branch. Laws are passed by the executive only if at least eight of the twelve consuls approve of them. Afterwards, the law is passed into the judicial branch of the government unless at least one of the consuls {{w|Liberum veto|decide to veto it}}, preventing it from being passed entirely until the next session of the government. The practice of free veto strengthened democratic elements within Meyāni's government; however, {{w|corporations}} and {{w|Chief Executive Officer|CEOs}} frequently bribed certain consuls in order to have them block legislation that may hurt their interests from passing into the judicial branch, effectively turning the nation into a ''de facto'' {{w|corporatocracy}}. Also, the executive branch has the power to declare war on other nations if at least eight out of the twelve consuls approve of war.
*A '''{{w|Judiciary|judicial branch}}''', which interprets laws passed by the executive branch in order to determine whether they are constitutional or not; it, called the '''Meyāni Supreme Court''', also has the power to punish criminals found guilty by the law. Despite corporations brainwashing the Meyāni population into thinking that the judicial branch is independent from their control, the Meyāni Supreme Court is under heavy influence from the corporations, and corporations and CEOs often {{w|Bribery|bribe}} judges into serving their interests or ideology. If the Meyāni Supreme Court considers a law to be constitutional, it is officially considered to be enforced.

The consuls and the members of the Great Assembly are {{w|Election|elected}} via ''de jure'' {{w|Direct election|direct popular vote}} every four years. However, in reality, individuals belonging to lower castes in the Meyāni {{w|Caste|caste system}} do not have the right to vote, and they are often given ballots which are not officially counted by electoral bodies to brainwash them into thinking that they can actually vote. Thus, significant {{w|electoral fraud}} is present in almost every single election since the elections of 2000 AC, with elected officials often showing bias towards the wealthiest individuals in the country.

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===Administrative divisions===
[[File:Meraqlum CoA.png|200px|thumb|The coat of arms of the Meraqlum province, the most populated province in Meyāni. This coat of arms features a dark sky above a green]]

Meyāni is subdivided into '''{{w|provinces}}''' ([[Meyāni language|Meyāni]]: *SCRIPT TBA* (''Lấyarara'')), each named after their {{w|Capital city|provincial capital}}. Provinces are not represented equally within the legislative branch of the government, with more populated provinces receiving a higher amount of representatives than provinces with a lower population; consequently, elected officials show bias towards more populated areas. Provinces are headed by '''governors''' ([[Meyāni language|Meyāni]]: *SCRIPT TBA* (''Yámeqlâkera'')) who enforce laws passed by the central government in their respective areas. Provinces do not receive any {{w|autonomy}} and do not have the right to succeed from their parent nation.

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===Foreign relations===
Meyāni maintains a vast network of diplomatic relations spanning across the entire world. The country maintains diplomatic relations with thirteen countries across Levarianqueva and has established {{w|embassies}} across the world in 17 different {{w|countries}} (including two {{w|unrecognized countries}}). Meyāni is a founding member of the [[Qlerevi Union]], a predominately economic-based {{w|alliance}} of [[Qlerevi languages|Qlerevi]]-speaking states that consists of seven other countries, as well as a founding member of the [[Peninsular Organization for Economic and Developmental Benefits]], which consists of four other nations and has since suspended the country over accusations of {{w|corruption}}, and the country is also a member of the [[Eqléssalos of Mages]], which has since also suspended the country over the corporations' {{w|expansionist}} plans of conquering the entire [[Great Prorinian Steppes (country)|Great Prorinian Steppes]].

The Meyāni government and its corporations are widely hated by civilians inside most of the Prorinian peninsula outside of its borders and [[Rudakam]] due to threats that corruption may soon take over their governments. Due to these fears, [[Yaksōn]] (which has a long, complicated history of rivalry with Meyāni lasting for over two milennia) and Rudakam have suspended diplomatic relationships with the country and have destroyed the Meyāni embassies in their territory while passing regulations to reduce corporate influence. The country also has a complicated relationship with [[Nōlīnia]], with it largely allowing Meyāni corporations to operate inside of its territory as long as they conform to specific regulations prohibiting them from having a say in the country's {{w|authoritarian}} government. Outside of the Prorinian peninsula, Meyāni is praised for bringing {{w|economic development}} to their land, and as such viewed positively by local governments. Ironically, Meyāni corporations have been involved in countless {{w|civil wars}} and internal {{w|rebellions}} to put corporate-friendly governments into power in several countries.

===Gator rights===
In the first few decades after the [[Great Prorinian War]] and the subsequent period of occupation, Meyāni had a fairly good {{w|Human rights|gator rights}} record. However, this has gradually declined in the centuries since the corporations took power over the Meyāni government. {{w|Journalist}} interviews of multiple refugees mostly born into the lowest-ranking castes of Meyāni society have revealed multiple gator rights abuses in Meyāni that have gone unreported in the largely corporation-funded {{w|news broadcasting|news broadcasters}} which predominate news broadcasting in Meyāni.

There is a huge discreptancy in gator rights between the rich and the poor. Rich females and {{w|LGBTQ|LGBTQ+}} gators enjoyed the same rights and privileges as wealthy men compared to their less wealthy counterparts, and all rich Meyāni live lives of luxury; however, even though all gators are technically allowed to vote as per constitutional amendments, {{w|grandfather clauses}} and other restrictions aimed at the poor exclude the poor from voting and secure members of higher castes as the only socioeconomic classes allowed to vote. However, gators who are less wealthy are often treated poorly and live lives in {{w|poverty}} and {{w|Exploitation of labor|exploitation}} by corporations. Gators who show disloyalty against the corporations or commit even minor crimes are often given harsh {{w|punishments}}; most are {{w|Forced labour|forced to work for the corporations in unhealthy work conditions for a set amount of time}} or put into {{w|solitary confinement}} in overcrowded {{w|Prison|jails}}, but some are sentenced to the {{w|Capital punishment|death penalty}}.

Even though the Meyāni constitution guarantees the {{w|separation of church and state}}, the Meyāni government does not respect religious freedoms and frequently persecutes those who do not follow the predominate religion of '''[[Áukanism]]''', a strictly {{w|Monotheism|monotheistic}} religion involving the worship of the god '''[[Áukanism#Deities|Alấn]]'''; Meyāni often punishes religious {{w|heretics}} with forced labor or death. The government does not authorize the construction of buildings of worship belonging to religions other than Áukanism, with Meyāni often commissioning the demolition of such buildings under the justification of them "occupying too much space" and "disrupting normal life in the area" once finding out about their existence. However, Meyāni doesn't often enforce its religious persecutions on poorer gators due to them tending to neglect the poor, so the poorest gators are more likely to openly follow other religions or become {{w|atheist}} than the wealthiest individuals in the country.

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==Economy==
Meyāni boasts a ''{{w|laissez-faire}}'' {{w|capitalist}} economy and has little-to-no {{w|Market interventions|economic interventions}} and {{w|Regulatory economics|regulations}}, which allows for {{w|corporations}} like the [[Alliance of Vúnaibâr]] corporate group to take power over the entire government and pass laws that favor their interests. As a result, the poorest gators in Meyāni live lives in {{w|poverty}} and exploitation, while the richest live lives in luxury, with the lives of the poor being frequently worsened by cycles of {{w|economic recessions}}. Despite widespread {{w|economic inequality}} in Meyāni, the country is one of the richest in Levarianqueva due to its highly capitalist economy, with a {{w|Gross domestic product|gross domestic product (GDP)}} of $1.012 trillion in {{w|International dollar|human dollars}}, or around 12.070 trillion ''tấnâñña''s.

For most of its history, Meyāni's economy was mostly {{w|Agrarian society|agrarian}}, with the main source of wealth being {{w|agriculture}}. However, minor contributions to wealth came from {{w|trade}}, {{w|war}}, and the extraction of {{w|natural resources}}. Since the rise of the corporations to power within Meyāni, however, the main source of wealth in the country has shifted to the {{w|manufacturing}} of {{w|consumer products}}; however, agriculture is still practiced as a means to gain money by poor families. {{w|Tourism}} and {{w|dolphin}}-watching are also increasingly occupying parts of the economy.

As of 2350 AC, 81% of Meyāni's GDP is privately-owned; the remaining 19% is dedicated to {{w|government spending}}. Of that 19%, 45% is dedicated to {{w|military spending}}, 26% is dedicated to {{w|education}}, and 18% is dedicated to enforcing law and order within the country. The remaining 11% of Meyāni's government spending is dedicated to other things.

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==Education==
In Meyāni, {{w|education}} is compulsory for all citizens from the ages of 8 to 15, the latter of which is the legal {{w|age of consent}} in the country; however, some Meyāni gators may leave the child education system at an age earlier than the age of 15, like [[Rírin-i Roqlínau]] (a prominent mage-turned anti-government activist, {{w|protestor}}, and child {{w|genius}} who skipped a grade and left his child education at the age of 14). After {{w|graduation}}, many gators may choose to attend a {{w|university}} to broaden their knowledge of the world before getting a job. Immigrants in Meyāni who wish to work, are older than the age of consent, and who do not complete their education may choose to attend {{w|adult education}} centers. Child education is {{w|segregated}} by {{w|caste}}, while adult education is not, as all who attend adult education are immigrants who do not have a registered caste in Meyāni society.

Legally speaking, child education is referred to as '''primary education''', and university education is referred to as '''secondary education'''. In order to graduate from primary education, one must earn 56 credits, seven for each {{w|Educational stage|grade level}}. In order to earn a credit for a class, one must master all of the material within that class by the end of the school year. Core subjects include {{w|mathematics}}, {{w|science}}, [[Meyāni language]] (which is lumped in with {{w|literature}}, despite the two being separate), {{w|social studies}} (which include {{w|history}}, {{w|religion}}, and {{w|philosophy}}), and {{w|elective courses|electives}}, a broad category of optional subjects which includes seemingly-distant topics that don't fit into the other four categories neatly such as {{w|art}}, {{w|engineering}}, foreign {{w|languages}}, and [[Magic (AWiEC)|magic]]. From Grade I to Grade V, the subjects that a child takes is determined by the {{w|legal parents}} and some of the top-ranking faculty members at a primary educational institution; after Grade V, he/she can pick the classes that he/she wants to take. Primary education is also where Meyāni gators receive the vast majority of their governmental propaganda in.

After graduating from primary education, gators may continue their education in secondary education universities. The most prestigious of these universities is the [[University of Meraqlum]], which has over 4 million {{w|alumni}} or actively-attending students as of 2350 AC.

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==Military==
Meyāni has a large, powerful {{w|military}} with 1,346,919 members, or 8.8% of the country's population. It is divided into three branches: the '''Meyāni Republican Army''', which deals with the {{w|land forces}} of the country, the '''Meyāni Republican Navy''', which deals with the {{w|naval forces}} of the country, and the '''Meyāni Special Forces''', which deals with [[Magic (AWiEC)#In war|magical]] and {{w|biological warfare}}. As of 2350 AC, military spending makes up around 8.6% of the country's total GDP.

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===Meyāni Republican Army===
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==Demographics==
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==Culture==
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===Food===
{{See also|Prorinian cuisine}}
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===Art and architecture===
{{See also|Prorinian art}}
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{{See also|Prorinian literature}}
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====Music====
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====Caste system====
{{See also|Qlerevi caste system#In Meyāni}}
Meyāni has a strict {{w|caste}} system which assigns each citizen of the country an individual {{w|social class}} or '''caste'''. A gator's caste at hatching is dependent on the caste of their {{w|Legal guardian#legal guardian|legal}} {{w|father}}.

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==Footnotes==
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Levarianqueva

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{{Infobox planet
| name = Levarianqueva
| alt_names = Rdaqtva B ([[Galactic Forefathers|Galactic Forefather]] name)
| background = #809fc0
| discoverer = N/A
| discovered = Prehistory
| discovery_method = {{w|Oral tradition|Word of mouth}}
| pronounced = {{IPA-en|ləˌvɑː.riːˈjɔːn.kwɪ.və}}
| named_after = [[Yaksōnian language|Yaksōnian]] word for "middle realm"
| satellites = 240 (including [[Tevaiqlam]])
| semimajor = 1 {{w|Astronomical unit|AU}}
| period = 365.2417 {{w|Day|Terran days}} (1 {{w|Year|Terran year}}) (407.3328 [[Levarianqueva#Timekeeping|Levarianquevan days]]
| sidereal_day = 12 ''[[Levarianqueva#Timekeeping|qlisseo]]'' (21.52 hours in Terran time) ({{w|Retrograde and prograde motion|retrograde}})
| volume = 4.492 trillion cubic {{w|kilometers}} (1.078 trillion cubic {{w|miles}})
| mass = 6.569 x 1024 {{w|kilograms}} (1.448 x 1025 {{w|Pound (mass)|pounds}})
| mean_radius = 6,524.834 kilometers (4054.344 miles)
| density = 5.656 {{w|Gram per cubic centimetre|grams per cubic centimeter}} (353.093 pounds per cubic foot)
| surface_grav = 10.32 {{w|meters per second squared}} (33.86 {{w|feet per second squared}}
| single_temperature = 13.5 °C (56.3 °F)
| atmosphere_composition = 75.509% {{w|nitrogen}}, 19.912% {{w|oxygen}}, 1.851% {{w|argon}}, 1.469% {{w|water vapor}}, 0.933% {{w|carbon dioxide}}, and 0.543% {{w|hydrogen sulfide}}, with {{w|Trace gases|trace amounts}} of {{w|neon}}, {{w|helium}}, {{w|ozone}}, {{w|hydrogen}}, molecular nitrogen, molecular oxygen, and {{w|sulfur}}.
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'''Levarianqueva''' is the second {{w|planet}} in the [[Rdaqtva A system]], which itself is a small {{w|planetary system}} consisting of two other planets besides Levarianqueva, of the {{w|Galactic Center}} of the {{w|Milky Way}}. The planet is the only known {{w|astronomical object}} that has been correctly identified to be habitable for {{w|carbon}}-based {{w|life}}. Most of the planet's living organisms are directly descended from life imported from the planet {{w|Earth|Terra}} around 20,000 {{w|light years}} away around 10 million years ago; some, like the [[Erythrophyte|erythrophytes]] and the [[Pseudomykite|pseudomykites]], are instead descended from native {{w|unicellular organisms}} that underwent {{w|endosymbiosis}} with the Terran-descended life forms. [[Alligatoris sapiens|Gators]] are the dominant {{w|sophont}} species present on Levarianqueva, though the planet once had a significant [[Galactic Forefathers|Galactic Forefather]] population before it was forced to evacuate to other systems shortly before the [[Immortal Scientists]]' starship crash-landed on the planet and destroyed all present Galactic Forefather settlement at the time.

Levarianqueva likely formed before the [[Rdaqtva A system#Formation and stabilization|Great Disruption]], an event that occurred around 3 billion years ago caused by [[Corqlanare]] and another gas giant entering the system and destabilizing it, from the {{w|Accretion (astrophysics)|accretion}} of {{w|planetesimals}} into a single body. During the Great Disruption, Levarianqueva was {{w|Collision#Hypervelocity impacts|impacted}} by a planet that is approximately 70% of the size of the {{w|Solar System}}'s {{w|Mars}}, generating the planet's {{w|axial tilt}} and {{w|Retrograde and prograde motion|retrograde}} rotation and triggering the formation of Levarianqueva's only major satellite—[[Tevaiqlam]]. Near the end of the Great Disruption, hundreds of thousands of {{w|comets}} from Rdaqtva A's {{w|Oort cloud}} rained down on the surviving terrestrial planets of the Rdaqtva A system and delivered liquid {{w|water}} to Levarianqueva's surface, but Levarianqueva did not have large {{w|oceans}} until very late in its history.

Levarianqueva's only inhabitants were unicellular organisms living in {{w|lakes}} of liquid water generated by comet impacts until the arrival of the '''Parveans''', a species of {{w|Reptile|reptilians}} similar in overall appearance to {{w|lizards}} that are yet to be contacted by gatority. The Parveans had turned to a life of raiding and capturing other species as they discovered the planet and constructed massive {{w|concentration camps}} designed to exploit {{w|forced labor}} in species' simulated natural environments; they even performed {{w|Human sacrifice|sentient being sacrifice}} to satisfy their gods and attempt to end a {{w|drought}} that drove the Parveans to near-extinction. The [[Galactic Forefathers]] put an end to this practice after they achieved victory in a war against the Parveans and received the entire Rdaqtva A system. Following their victory, the Galactic Forefathers {{w|Terraforming|terraformed}} Levarianqueva and colonized the planet with Galactic Forefather settlers. However, all Galactic Forefather settlements on Levarianqueva were destroyed in late 3471 CE when a starship from the Immortal Scientists collided with the planet. Following this impact, the Galactic Forefathers {{w|Panspermia|seeded Terran life onto Levarianqueva}}; one of the imported species would eventually go on to evolve into the ''Alligatoris sapiens''.

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==Timekeeping==
Levarianquevan {{w|cultures}} use a wide variety of {{w|calendars}} to keep track of {{w|time}}. Some Levarianquevan calendars are {{w|solar calendars}}, which are primarily based on Levarianqueva's orbital period around Rdaqtva A and attempt to keep track of {{w|seasons}}, while others are {{w|lunar calendars}}, primarily based on [[Tevaiqlam]]'s orbital period around Rdaqtva A, ignoring the seasons in the process. However, some are {{w|lunisolar calendars}}, containing elements of both solar calendars (such as attempting to keep track of seasons) and lunar calendars (such as attempting to keep track of Tevaiqlam as it moves around Levarianqueva). The most widespread of these calendars is the [[Rudakami calendar]], a solar calendar which is primarily used for {{w|business}} outside of areas it is used in daily usage (which are [[Rudakam]] and [[Harvyúrdai]]), which will be described below.

Levarianqueva has an {{w|orbital period}} of 407.3328 Levarianquevan days, and Levarianqueva's moon Tevaiqlam takes 19.3006 Levarianquevan days to complete one full revolution around its parent planet. This means that most Levarianquevan calendars have 21 months, as there are around 21 lunar months in a solar year, which is analogous to how {{w|humans}} divide their year into 12 months. The Rudakami calendar has the following months, with day lengths in parentheses:

# Rekiliyeth (20 days long)
# Mepayeth (19 days long)
# Nekoroyeth (19 days long
# Weliyeth (20 days long)
# Riyaniyeth (19 days long)
# Aratoniyeth (19 days long)
# Yekeyeth (19 days long)
# Paralayeth (20 days long)
# Oriyeth (19 days long)
# Melethitheyeth (20 days long)
# Rekithitheyeth (19 days long)
# Moropayeth (20 days long)
# Neyoriyeth (19 days long)
# Sareyeth (19 days long)
# Mekoriyeth (20 days long)
# Iloyeth (19 days long)
# Areteyeth (20 days long)
# Wokalayeth (19 days long)
# Soyipaleth (20 days long)
# Tesasayeth (19 days long)
# Melethiyeth (normally 19 days long, but 20 in leap years)

Because Levarianqueva does not have an orbital period that is an {{w|integer}}, solar calendars, like the Rudakami calendar, need {{w|leap years}} with intercalary days to keep it accurate to the seasons. Prior to the calendar reform initiated by the god-king [[Kekórìyà XIII]] in 1582 AC, leap years occurred every three years with no exceptions, causing the calendar to gradually drift from seasonal cycles. However, Kekórìyà XIII initiated a reform to make it so that leap years mostly occur every three years, except for every 1,920 years, where leap years do not occur. However, the calendar is currently drifting away from the seasons at a very slow rate that is unnoticed by ordinary citizens.

The Levarianquevan {{w|vernal equinox}} (in the northern hemisphere) and the {{w|fall equinox}} (in the southern hemisphere), which take place at around July 4th in the {{w|Gregorian calendar}} used by the [[Galactic Forefathers]], occur at 2 Rekiliyeth. The Levarianquevan {{w|summer solstice}} (in the northern hemisphere) and the {{w|winter solstice}} (in the southern hemisphere), which take place at around October 1st in the Gregorian calendar, occur at 6 Aratoniyeth. The Levarianquevan fall equinox (in the northern hemisphere) and the vernal equinox (in the southern hemisphere), which take place at around January 2nd in the Gregorian calendar, occur at 11 Rekithitheyeth. Finally, the Levarianquevan winter solstice (in the northern hemisphere) and summer solstice (in the southern hemisphere), which take place at around April 2nd, occurs at 16 Iloyeth. These fixed dates for the solstices and equinoxes make it easy to convert the Rudakami calendar into other Levarianquevan calendars, but converting it into the Gregorian calendar is challenging due to the different rotational periods between Levarianqueva and Terra.

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===Days of the Week===
Most Levarianquevan cultures have a five-day {{w|week}}. The name of the five days of the week in the Rudakami calendar is as follows:

# Rekilirim
# Mepalirim
# Thelirim
# Aritorim
# Melethirim

Other cultures, like the Prorinians, use different names for the days of the week even if they are using the Rudakami calendar.

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===Subdivisions of the Day===
All Levarianquevan cultures agree on how to divide their planet's day. These subdivisions originated in the [[Prorinian peninsula]] and were later adopted by the rest of the planet via {{w|cultural diffusion}}.

The '''qlisseo''', the longest-lasting subdivision, is defined as 1/12ths of a Levarianquevan day. In Terran time, the ''qlisseo'' is equivalent to 1.793 hours.

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==Etymology==
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Meyāni language

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{{Short description|Qlerevi language spoken in Meyāni and other regions in the Prorinian peninsula}}
{{Infobox Levarianquevan Language
| title = Meyāni
| othername = Meyānisian
| nativename = {{CustomScript|meyani|y}}̀ˋ˙{{CustomScript|meyani|t}}ˎ:{{CustomScript|meyani|n}}ˊ{{CustomScript|meyani|h@}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|n}}ˊ{{CustomScript|meyani|sir}}ˋ—{{CustomScript|meyani|i}} (''Yáto Nehấnesira-i'')
| image = Meyani distribution.png
| imagecaption = The distribution of the Standard Meyāni language in the Prorinian peninsula based on first-language speakers, overlaid by political boundaries: 
{{Color box|#7387Cf}}: Standard Meyāni is spoken by a majority of gators in the area as a {{w|First language|mother tongue}}. 
{{Color box|#8EA7ff}}: Standard Meyāni is spoken by a significant minority of gators in the area as a mother tongue. 
{{Color box|#bacbff}}: Standard Meyāni is spoken by a small minority of gators in the area as a mother tongue. 
{{Color box|#ffffff}}: Standard Meyāni is primarily learned as a {{w|second language}} by gators in the area, as little-to-no first-language speakers exist. 
{{Color box|#3f48cc}}: The area is covered by a body of {{w|water}}. 
{{Color box|#000000}}: Political boundary.|imagesize=250px|pronounciation=/ˈjæ.to nɛˈxɑː.nɛ.siː.ra.jiː/
| region=[[Prorinian peninsula]]
| speakers = ~ 9 million (L1) 
~ 16 million (L2) 
~ 25 million (total)
| family = [[Qlerevi languages|Qlerevi]]
*[[Eastern Qlerevi languages|Eastern Qlerevi]]
**[[Prorinian Qlerevi languages|Prorinian Qlerevi]]
***[[Central Prorinian Qlerevi languages|Central Prorinian Qlerevi]]
****[[Steppe Qlerevi languages|Steppe Qlerevi]]
*****[[Old Meyāni language|Old Meyāni]]
******[[Classical Meyāni language|Classical Meyāni]]
*******'''Meyāni'''
| script = [[Meyāni alphabet]]<ref>The script is classified as a partial {{w|abjad}} because "{{w|short vowels}}" are not written and require optional {{w|diacritics}} to be expressed properly without relying solely on {{w|context}}; see [[Meyāni language#Orthography|the orthography section of this article]].</ref>
| direction = {{w|Directionality and orientation|Left-to-right}}
| officialin = [[Meyāni]]
| recognized = [[Yaksōn]]
| consonants = 19
| vowels = 9 (6 {{w|monophthongs}}, 3 {{w|diphthongs}}
| syllablestructure = <nowiki>#</nowiki>((l)C)V/(N, h)(C)CV/(C, G)(C)#
| prosody = {{w|Stress (linguistics)|Stress}}
| inflectiontype = {{w|Analytic language|Analytic}}
| nouncase = m
| nounnumber = y
| noundefinite = n
| noungender = n
| adjectiveagreement = No
| verbtense = y
| verbaspect = m
| verbmood = m
| verbvoice = n
| verbsubject = n
| verbobject = n
| verbnumber = n
| verbevidence = n
| verbvalency = n
| markingposs = {{w|Dependent-marking language|Dependent-marking}}
| markingadj = {{w|Dependent-marking language|Dependent-marking}}
| markingverb = {{w|Zero-marking language|Zero-marking}}
| wordorder = {{w|Subject-verb-object}}
| otherorders = {{w|Verb-subject-object}} (in {{w|subordinate clauses}})
| headdirection = {{w|Head-directionality parameter#Head-final languages|Head-final}} ({{w|Head-directionality parameter#Head-initial languages|Head-initial}} in verb phrases)
| alignmenttype = {{w|Nominative-accusative alignment|Nominative-Accusative}}
}}

The '''Meyāni language''' is a [[Qlerevi languages|Qlerevi language]] primarily spoken on the [[Prorinian peninsula]]. The standard dialect is primarily spoken in southern [[Meyāni]], with significant minorities of speakers existing throughout the peninsula and adjacent lands. Its closest living relative that is not disputed to be a distinct {{w|language}} (either by the {{w|Linguistic description|descriptionism}} of {{w|Academic linguistics|scholarly linguistics}}, which is the primary form of {{w|Linguistic study|linguistic study}} used in this article, or {{w|linguistic prescription}}, which is promoted by [[Meyāni#Education|Meyāni's educational system]]) is the [[Bandit language]], which is spoken primarily in the northern and northwestern<ref>Due to Levarianqueva's retrograde rotation, east and west are swapped on maps.</ref> areas of the [[Great Prorinian Steppes (country)|Great Prorinian Steppes]]. The language is the sole {{w|official language}} of Meyāni, while it is recognized as a {{w|minority language}} in [[Yaksōn]] (where it was introduced to vast swathes of the country by lower-class {{w|refugees}} fleeing the low {{w|quality of life}} generated by [[Meyāni#Corporations|the corporations in ''de facto'' charge of the Meyāni government]]); in all other Prorinian countries, the language is not recognized.

The language has had a long history spanning back thousands of years. The ultimate accepted ancestor of Meyāni, the [[Proto-Qlerevi language]], was likely spoken in an area roughly overlapping with the modern-day nation of [[Qlerebam]]. After a {{w|drought}} that contributed to much of Qlerebam being covered in vast {{w|deserts}} today, the Qlerevi peoples then {{w|migrated}} throughout Levarianqueva, settling in locations as distant from [[Vreotannia]] to [[Arozdénia]] to the Prorinian peninsula. The Qlerevi languages that ultimately arrived at the Prorinian peninsula then diversified into two distinct {{w|language families}}: the [[Central Prorinian Qlerevi languages]] (which ultimately evolved into the Meyāni language and its relatives) and the [[Northwestern Prorinian Qlerevi languages]] (which ultimately evolved into the [[Nōlīnian language]] and its relatives), displacing the local [[Pre-Yaksōnian languages]] in the process while absorbing significant influences from them, including the development of a strict {{w|V2 word order}}.

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==Classification and Dialects==

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===Position in the Qlerevi family===
Meyāni is a [[Qlerevi languages|Qlerevi language]] belonging to the [[Eastern Qlerevi languages|eastern branch]], which includes the [[Prorinian Qlerevi languages]] (which Meyāni is a part of). The eastern branch of Qlerevi languages is primarily differentiated from other Qlerevi languages in that languages in this branch underwent various {{w|sound changes}} which were absent from other Proto-Qlerevi dialects, including, but not limited to:

* [[Proto-Qlerevi language|Proto-Qlerevi]] ''*p'' {{w|lenition|lenites}} into /''*β''/ between two {{w|vowels}} (and later disappears entirely in the Prorinian Qlerevi languages); e.g. Proto-Qlerevi ''*kapōñ'' "to form" > Proto-Eastern Qlerevi ''*kaβōñ'' > Meyāni {{CustomScript|meyani|k@}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|un}}ˊ (''káune'') "to build, to create," [[Nōlīnian language|Nōlīnian]] *SCRIPT TBA* (-''kaʔǫni''-) "to form."
* Proto-Qlerevi ''*w'' becomes /''*β''/ word-finally, which later disappeared in the Prorinian Qlerevi languages (and produced a four-way distinction in {{w|vowel length}} between short, half-long, long, and overlong which eventually disappeared in all of Proto-Prorinian Qlerevi's descendants in some way or another); e.g. Proto-Qlerevi ''*eqlew'' "eternal rival" > Proto-Eastern Qlerevi ''*eqleβ'' > Meyāni {{CustomScript|meyani|y}}ˋ˙{{CustomScript|meyani|ks}}ˋ (''yáksa'') "eternal rival," Nōlīnian *SCRIPT TBA* (''eqlè''-) "rival."
* Proto-Qlerevi ''*ts'' becomes /''*θ''/ in all positions, which later shifts into /''*s''/ in Proto-Prorinian Qlerevi; e.g. Proto-Qlerevi ''*wītsen'' "to see" > Proto-Eastern-Qlerevi ''*wīθān'' > Meyāni {{CustomScript|meyani|v@}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|is@n}} (''váisân'') "to see," Nōlīnian *SCRIPT TBA* (-''wįsąn''-) "to see."
* Some of Proto-Qlerevi's consonant clusters undergo heavy {{w|consonant assimilation}} in Eastern Qlerevi languages.

Modern Meyāni's closest living relative that is not disputed as being a distinct language is the [[Bandit language]], which is natively spoken in the northern and northwestern areas of the [[Great Prorinian Steppes (country)|Great Prorinian Steppes]]. The Bandit language shares many sound changes with Meyāni, which has diverged from it approximately 3,500 years ago. These include, but are not limited to:

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===Dialects===
Besides '''Standard Meyāni''' (which is what one typically means when they say "Meyāni language"), multiple other {{w|dialects}} of the Meyāni language exist each with their own unique properties. Standard Meyāni, which is based on the dialect spoken in the capital of [[Meraqlum]], is the official language of the country of [[Meyāni]] and is the dialect that is the closest to the [[Classical Meyāni|classical language]] spoken during the [[Bandit dynasty]] and also being the main {{w|liturgical language}} of the [[Áukanism|Áukanist]] faith. The main differences between Standard Meyāni and Classical Meyāni are the {{w|Conservative and innovative language|innovation}} of a separate {{w|optative mood}} in Standard Meyāni, the pronounciation of Standard Meyāni <v> as /w/ in Classical Meyāni, and the Classical Meyāni sequence /xl/ shifting in pronounciation to /q͡ʟ/ in standard Meyāni.

Some of the major dialect groups listed below. However, some of these dialects are dwindling in speakers as the standard dialect gains prominence ever since the establishment of a standardized [[Meyāni#Education|education system]]. Some quote-on-quote "dialects" that are more closely related to the Nōlīnian language than Standard Meyāni are excluded from the list.

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====Eastern Dialect Group====
The '''Eastern Dialect Group''' refers to a collection of Meyāni dialects that were spoken close to the border of [[Yaksōn]] and inside of the extreme eastern regions of the aforementioned country prior to massive standardization. Nowadays, dialects in this group are primarily spoken in the northeastern portions of Meyāni. These dialects are directly descended from early forms of the classical language and are closely related to the standard language; however, the Eastern Dialect Group has significant influences and {{w|loanwords}} from the [[Yaksōnian language]] due to centuries of contact which causes dialects in the Eastern Dialect Group to sound similar to Yaksōnian, so some speakers were mistakenly sent to {{w|concentration camps}} by the Nerấyavi regime on the basis that they were members of an "inferior race" despite not speaking Yaksōnian at all. These dialects are primarily written in both the [[Yaksōnian script]], which is an {{w|abugida}}, and the [[Meyāni script]], a partial {{w|abjad}}.

The main differences between the dialects in this group (with the Fidurin dialect given as an example, as it has most of the changes) and Standard Meyāni include:

'''Phonological differences:'''
* Standard Meyāni and Classical Meyāni non-{{w|Gemination|geminated}} <t> have turned into /r/ between {{w|vowels}} in dialects in the Eastern Dialect Group (compare Standard Meyāni {{CustomScript|meyani|s}}ˊ˙{{CustomScript|meyani|y}}ˋ{{CustomScript|meyani|t}}ˋ (''séyata'') "to fly" to [[Fidurin]] dialect *SCRIPT TBA* (''sáyoro'') "to fly").
* Dialects in the Eastern Dialect Group have undergone a massive {{w|vowel shift}} involving the following changes:
** Long vowels become short.
** Classical Meyāni <â> merged with <o>, then both shifted to /u/ (compare Standard Meyāni {{CustomScript|meyani|x@}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|by}}ˋ (''šấbya'') "good" to Fidurin dialect *SCRIPT TBA* (''šúppo'') "good").
** Former <nowiki></nowiki> became /y/ and later became /i/ (compare Standard Meyāni {{CustomScript|meyani|n}}ˋ{{CustomScript|meyani|gu}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|rt}}ˎ{{CustomScript|meyani|s}} (''nagúrtos'') "elephant" to Fidurin dialect *SCRIPT TBA* (''nokíttus'') "elephant").
** Former <nowiki></nowiki> became /e/ (compare Standard Meyāni {{CustomScript|meyani|i}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|n}}ˊ{{CustomScript|meyani|hiv}}ˋ (''ínehiva'') "instead of" to Fidurin dialect *SCRIPT TBA* (''énakewo'') "instead of")
** Former <e> became /ɐ̞/ (compare Standard Meyāni {{CustomScript|meyani|h}}ˊ{{CustomScript|meyani|xi}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|n}} (''hešín'') "to hear" to Fidurin dialect *SCRIPT TBA* (''kašén'') "to hear")
** Former <a> became /o/ (compare Standard Meyāni {{CustomScript|meyani|y}}ˋ˙{{CustomScript|meyani|x}}ˋ (''yáša'') "to think" to Fidurin dialect *SCRIPT TBA* (''yóšo'') "to decide")
** The diphthongs <ai>, <au>, and <eu> in Classical Meyāni have turned into monopthongs /e/, /o/, and /u/ respectively (compare Standard Meyāni {{CustomScript|meyani|y}}ˋ{{CustomScript|meyani|c}}ˋ{{CustomScript|meyani|ss@}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|i}} (''yačassái'') "bright," {{CustomScript|meyani|y}}ˋ{{CustomScript|meyani|v@}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|unk}}ˋ (''yaváunka'') "on the subject of," and {{CustomScript|meyani|l}}ˎ{{CustomScript|meyani|sti}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|u}} (''lostéu'') "to lose" to Fidurin dialect *SCRIPT TBA* (''yočossé'') "hot," *SCRIPT TBA* (''yowókko'') "on the subject of," and *SCRIPT TBA* (''lussú'') "to lose").
** The above changes have caused stress to be phonemic in these dialects.
* All consonant clusters from Classical Meyāni are heavily simplified in dialects in this group, simplifying into geminated consonants. Initial <lw-> becomes <w-> in these dialects.
* Most dialects in this group (including the Fidurin dialect) merge voiced obstruents with their voiceless counterparts, and allophonically turn non-geminated voiceless obstruents into voiced ones between vowels.
* Geminated consonants become short consonants at the ends of words in dialects in the Eastern Dialect Group.
* Some dialects in this group drop {{w|Stress (linguistics)|unstressed}} vowels at the ends of words. The Fidurin dialect does not have this feature, however.
* Standard Meyāni inserts the sound /x/ between two consecutive monopthongs. However, a different consonant is inserted in dialects in the Eastern Dialect Group: /k/. This is because Standard Meyāni <h> merges with /k/ in dialects in this group.

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====Meraqlum Dialect Group====
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====Southwestern Dialect Group====
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====Southern Dialect Group====
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==Phonology==
Unlike {{w|humans}}, [[Alligatoris sapiens|gators']] {{w|soft palates}} (which are the practical equivalent of the human {{w|velum}} as gators lack it) are naturally lowered, and so do not redirect air into the {{w|mouth}}. Instead, all sounds (including all {{w|consonants}}) are {{w|Nasalization|nasalized}} (which is not indicated in the {{w|International Phonetic Alphabet|IPA}} charts for Levarianquevan languages). Therefore, to humans, gators sound like they are {{w|Disease|sick}}.

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===Vowels===
Modern Standard Meyāni has six {{w|vowel}} phonemes, with three being "{{w|Vowel length|long}}" and three being short. Note that "long vowels" are not pronounced longer than the short vowels in most dialects, but the long pronunciation is proscribed in school textbooks.

{| class="wikitable"
|+Meyāni vowels
!
!Front
!Back
|-
!High
|i(ː) <nowiki></nowiki>
|u(ː) <nowiki></nowiki>
|-
!Mid
|ɛ <e>
| o <o>
|-
!Low
|æ <a>
|ɑ(ː) <â>
|}

The language also has three {{w|diphthongs}} which are often categorized as "long vowels": /ai/ <ai>, /au/ <au>, and /eu/ <eu>, the latter of which is rare and only occurs in a few words.

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===Consonants===
Modern Standard Meyāni has nineteen phonemic consonant phonemes, with /g/ only being found in {{w|loanwords}}. Pairs of sounds distinguished only by {{w|Voicing (phonetics)|vibrations in the vocal cords}} (if any exist) are separated with dots. In Meyāni, there are {{w|minimal pairs}} distinguished by {{w|gemination|consonant length}}.

{| class="wikitable"
!
!{{w|Labial consonant|Labial}}
!{{w|Alveolar consonant|Alveolar}}
!Retroflex I ({{w|Palatal consonant|Palatal}})
!Palatal ({{w|Velar consonant|Velar}})
|-
!{{w|Nasal consonant|Nasal release}} (Nasal)
|/m/ <m>
|/n/ <n>
|/ɲ/ <ñ>
|
|-
!{{w|Stop consonant|Stop}}
|<nowiki>/p/ • /b/ </nowiki>
|/t/ <t> • /d/ <d>
|
|/k/ <k> • /g/ <g>
|-
!{{w|Affricate|Affricate}}
|
|
|/t͡ʃ/ <č>
|/q͡ʟ/ <ql>
|-
!{{w|Fricative}}
|/f/ <f> • /v/ <v>
|/s/ <s>
|/ʃ/ <š>
|/x/ <h>
|-
!{{w|Approximant}}
|
|/l/ <l>
|/j/ <y>
|
|-
!{{w|Trill consonant|Trill}}
|
|/r/ <r>
|
|
|}

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====Allophony====
Some consonants can recieve {{w|Allophony|allophones}} in certain situations in Standard Meyāni:

*Most consonants can be {{w|Palatalization|retroflex I-ized}} (which is marked in the IPA by the addition of a subscript {{w|Latin script}} letter "j" [ʲ] after the symbol) before front vowels. However, Retroflex I consonants cannot undergo this process.
*<r> is usually pronounced as a trill [r]. Nevertheless, it could be pronounced as [ɹ] in {{w|Syllable coda|coda position}} if the {{w|syllable onset}} contains an alveolar or retroflex I consonant other than /j/.
*Voiceless plosives are highly {{w|Aspirated consonant|aspirated}} when adjacent to a stressed vowel, especially in the speech of the higher classes. This feature is thought to have been introduced during the [[Bandit dynasty]] under the influence of the [[Bandit language]], which has a phonemic distinction between aspirated and non-aspirated voiceless stops but has no voiced stops.

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===Phonotactics===
Most words in Meyāni contain entirely open syllables. However, its maximum {{w|Syllable#Components|syllable structure}} is <code>#((l)C)V/(N, h)(C)CV/(C, G)(C)#</code>, where:

*"#" represents a boundary between words.
*"(l)" represents an optional /l/ that is only able to go before /v/, like in ''lvansa'', which means "sword".
*"(...)" represent optional components.
*"C" represents a consonant.
*"V" represents a vowel or diphthong.
*"G" represents a word-final consonant that undergoes {{w|gemination}}. This is optional.
*"/(N, h)(C)CV/" represents the possible phonotactical structure in syllables at the middle of a word.
*"N" represents any {{w|Nasal consonant|consonant with a nasal release}}

Unlike the closely related [[Bandit language]], Meyāni does not allow for word-initial {{w|consonant clusters}} (other than /lv/). Loanwords with initial consonant clusters are usually dealt with by {{w|epenthesis}}, the insertion of extra vowels. Consonant clusters that consist of two consonants with the same place of articulation and manner of articulation and with the only distinction between the two consonants being different voicing are not allowed in the language; these types of clusters are typically turned into geminated consonants carrying the voicing of the last consonant in the illegal cluster prior to assimilation. Most words with final consonants end with just one consonant or geminated consonant, though it is possible for two consonants to be present. Most words that have medial consonant clusters only have just two consonants, though it is possible for three consonants to be present in these clusters as long as the first sound in the cluster is either a nasal or /x/.

Meyāni also does not allow the occurrence of {{w|vowel hiatuses}}. Therefore, the <-i> suffix used in adjectives and possessor nouns is realized as /jiː/ in words that end in vowels.

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===Prosody===
Meyāni is a strictly {{w|mora-timed language}}, with each syllable getting one {{w|mora}} (two if the vowel in the {{w|syllable nucleus}} is either a "long vowel" or a diphthong). Stress in Meyāni always falls on the first syllable with a "long vowel" or diphthong as a nucleus in a word, with stress falling instead on the first syllable if there are no "long vowels" or diphthongs in a word entirely. Suffixes cannot receive stress.

In foreign words that have not been assimilated, stress falls on the syllable where it fell in the original language. However, loanwords that have been fully assimilated often have a stress shift to match the regular stress patterns or irregular vowel shifts.

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==Orthography==
[[File:Meyani script.png|200px|right]]

The Meyāni language is written in its own script, which is descended from {{w|logographs}} used by Proto-Qlerevi speakers. The script itself has features of both an {{w|alphabet}} and an {{w|abjad}} because short vowels are not written and require optional {{w|diacritics}} to be expressed, with {{w|Linguistics|linguists}} coining the term '''alphabjad''' to classify the Meyāni script. The script is written from left-to-right and has the following letters:
{| class="wikitable"
|+
!Position
in order
!Letter
!Name
!Sound (other sounds)
|-
|1
|{{CustomScript|meyani|@}}
|''â''
|/ɑː/ (/æ/)
|-
|2
|{{CustomScript|meyani|i}}
|''i''
|/iː/ (/ɛ/)
|-
|3
|{{CustomScript|meyani|u}}
|''u''
|/uː/ (/o/)
|-
|4
|{{CustomScript|meyani|b}}
|''bâ''
|/b/
|-
|5
|{{CustomScript|meyani|c}}
|''čâ''
|/t͡ʃ/
|-
|6
|{{CustomScript|meyani|d}}
|''dâ''
|/d/
|-
|7
|{{CustomScript|meyani|f}}
|''fâ''
|/f/
|-
|8
|{{CustomScript|meyani|h}}
|''hâ''
|/x/
|-
|9
|{{CustomScript|meyani|y}}
|''yi''
|/j/
|-
|10
|{{CustomScript|meyani|k}}
|''kâ''
|/k/ (/g/)
|-
|11
|{{CustomScript|meyani|l}}
|''lâ''
|/l/
|-
|12
|{{CustomScript|meyani|m}}
|''mâ''
|/m/
|-
|13
|{{CustomScript|meyani|n}}
|''nâ''
|/n/
|-
|14
|{{CustomScript|meyani|p}}
|''pâ''
|/p/
|-
|15
|{{CustomScript|meyani|q}}
|''qlâ''
|/q͡ʟ/
|-
|16
|{{CustomScript|meyani|r}}
|''râ''
|/r/
|-
|17
|{{CustomScript|meyani|s}}
|''sâ''
|/s/
|-
|18
|{{CustomScript|meyani|t}}
|''tâ''
|/t/
|-
|19
|{{CustomScript|meyani|v}}
|''vu''
|/v/
|-
|20
|{{CustomScript|meyani|x}}
|''šâ''
|/ʃ/
|}

The sound /ɲ/ does not have its own letter in the Meyāni script, but is rather expressed as a {{w|digraph}} of the letters {{CustomScript|meyani|n}} and {{CustomScript|meyani|y}}, in that order; geminated /ɲː/ is expressed with the same characters but with the {{CustomScript|meyani|n}} doubled, while all other consonants are geminated by doubling the letter that represents it. Dipthongs are expressed with digraphs {{CustomScript|meyani|@i}}, {{CustomScript|meyani|@u}}, and {{CustomScript|meyani|iu}} for the sounds /ai/, /au/, and /eu/ respectively. When short vowels begin words, they are written with their corresponding long vowel letters (which produces a lot of near-{{w|homographs}} in the script, such as {{CustomScript|meyani|ih@}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|i}} (''ehái'') "{{w|water}}" and {{CustomScript|meyani|i}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|h@yi}} (''íhâyi'') "(reflexive pronoun)")

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===Diacritics===
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===Punctuation===
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===Numerals===
TBA

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==Grammar==
''Note: All Meyāni text in this section of this article, other than the "Parts of Speech" section below, are written in a modified form of the {{w|Latin alphabet}}, not in the actual Meyāni script.''

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===Parts of Speech===
Meyāni grammarians divide all Meyāni words into nine {{w|parts of speech}}, primarily based on the treatises of [[Ancient Venēmīan language|Ancient Venēmīan]] grammarians and adapted to fit to the Meyāni language's grammar:

* Noun ('''Meyāni''': *SCRIPT TBA* (''ñấmyuvaba'') "name-thing"): A word that represents a place, person, idea, or thing. Ancient Venēmīan grammarians did not distinguish between nouns and adjectives because they inflected similarily in their language, but the Meyāni grammarians, whose language does not have much case marking (other than the genitive case) or adjective agreement, felt like the two needed to be distinguished. Hence, the words for "noun" and "adjective" have the same initial root.
*Adjective ('''Meyāni''': *SCRIPT TBA* (''ñấmyuhupsiltos'') "name-descriptor"): A word that describes a noun, verb, or another adjective. Adjectives can be used as adverbs in Meyāni, so the two are not distinguished according to the Meyāni grammarians when adverbs are their own parts of speech in Ancient Venēmīan. Postpositions and determiners can also be used to fill the functions of adverbs in Meyāni, but the few "true adverbs" like "now" and "tomorrow" that are not already classified as adjectives, postpositions, or determiners in Meyāni are classified as adjectives by the Meyāni grammarians.

:In Meyāni, adjectives have three uses: nominal, verbal, and predicative. "Nominal" adectives are the types of adjectives that describe nouns, and they go before their nouns and receive the <-''i''> suffix. "Verbal" adjectives function like adverbs, and describe both verbs and other adjectives. "Predicative" adjectives are adjectives that go after verbs, but the usage category also includes some intransitive verbs like *SCRIPT TBA* (''šấsane'') "to be sweet", which can stand alone as a predicate without requiring an additional verb before it and requires a suffix -*SCRIPT TBA* (-''ba'') to be used as a nominal adjective and a verbal adjective.

*Determiner ('''Meyāni''': *SCRIPT TBA* (''qlávmam ra yúča-i sávo vábaqlâkera-i sai ro'') "a word in the large grouping of thinglings"): A category of words that includes both {{w|quantifiers}} and {{w|numerals}}, both of which behave similarily both morphologically and syntactically and can be used as adverbs. Ancient Venēmīan scholars did not distinguish between the Meyāni determinative and demonstrative because they all went before the noun in their language, whereas in Meyāni, determinatives go before the noun while demonstratives go after despite both behaving morphologically similar; in fact, the Meyāni word for "determinative" in general, *SCRIPT TBA* (''vábaqlâke''), is a {{w|calque}} of the Ancient Venēmīan term for "determiner," which literally means "thingling."
*Demonstrative ('''Meyāni''': *SCRIPT TBA* (''qlávmam ra bấñâneba-i sávo vábaqlâkera-i sai ro'') "a word in the small grouping of thinglings"): A category of words that includes just two words: *SCRIPT TBA* (''su'') "this/these" and *SCRIPT TBA* (''súkin'') "that/those." These words are {{w|deictic}} words that convey which nouns are being referred to in the discourse.
*Pronoun ('''Meyāni''': *SCRIPT TBA* (''ñấmyuperidon'') "name-substitute"): A word that can stand in for any noun in a sentence. This category does not include [[Meyāni language#Subordinate clauses|the relative and end-relative pronouns]] ''ra'' and ''ro'' respectively, which are both lumped into the category of conjunction instead.
*Postposition ('''Meyāni'''): *SCRIPT TBA* (''vehašehấva'') "before-position"<ref>The name is inaccurate since it is a calque of a word in Ancient Venēmīan, which has prepositions instead of postpositions.</ref>): A word used to express spatial or temporal relations with a noun, which is refered to as its object. In addition, postpositions can also be used as adverbs.
* Verb ('''Meyāni''': *SCRIPT TBA* (''qlávmam'') "word"): A word that expresses an action or a state of being. The vast majority of verbs are action verbs, while the two verbs that express a state of being in Meyāni are *SCRIPT TBA* (''rấmmau'') "am/are/is" and *SCRIPT TBA* (''túnutu'') "was/were" (which also functions as an action verb because it is also the past tense form of the verb *SCRIPT TBA* (''túno'') "to become"
*Auxiliary ('''Meyāni''': *SCRIPT TBA* (''qlávmam ra yóho ro'') "a word that helps"): A word that adds to the verb and helps it express tenses and aspects beyond just the present and past.
*Conjunction ('''Meyāni''': *SCRIPT TBA* (''sídrenos'') (a loanword from Ancient Venēmīan)): A word that connects two clauses or affects the flow of a sentence.

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===Morphology===
Meyāni is generally an {{w|analytic language}} and does not make much use of {{w|inflection}}, other than {{w|Grammatical number|number}}, {{w|possession}}, and some {{w|grammatical tenses}}.

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====Nominals====
Nominals (nouns and adjectives) do not inflect for {{w|grammatical case}} (other than the {{w|genitive case}}), but inflect for number. The language has no {{w|grammatical gender}}. Meyāni is one of the only major [[Qlerevi languages]] to lack case marking.

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===== Noun phrases=====
Meyāni is mostly {{w|Head-directionality parameter#Head-initial languages|head-initial}} in noun phrases. The default order of Meyāni noun phrases is the following:

{| class="wikitable"
|+Default order of a Meyāni noun phrase
!Position
!-2
!-1
!0
!+1
!+2
!+3
!+4
!+5
!+6
|-
!What goes in the position?
!Numerals
(Independent words)
!Adjectives
(Independent words)
!HEAD NOUN
!Plural
(Suffix)
!Genitive
(Suffix)
!Possessor's noun phrase
(Independent words)
!Relative clauses
(Independent words)
!Demonstrative pronouns
(Independent words)
!Postposition
(Independent word)
|-
!Is this position mandatory in the phrase?
!No
!No
!Yes
!No
!No
!No
!No
!No
!No
|}

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=====Number=====
There are two grammatical numbers in Meyāni: singular and plural. The singular expresses that there is exactly one of a thing, while the plural expresses that there is more than one of a thing. To indicate plural number, a suffix <-ra> is used, which was derived from a Proto-Qlerevi word meaning "many." The plural number is not used when cardinal numerals are used in the noun phrase, as in this simple phrase:

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| áčane ñéra
| five gator-SG
| "five gators"
}}

Some determiners (such as "all" or "many") that do not influence the number of their nouns in English make them singular in Meyāni instead, like numerals:

{{interlinear|indent=2
| báram ñéra
| all gator-SG
| "all gators"
}}

'''Mass nouns''' 
A mass noun is a noun which cannot be counted, and do not change between singular or plural numbers. Most mass nouns are ''singulare tantum'' (only taking the singular in all cases); however, some are ''plurare tantum'' (only taking the plural in all cases). To inflect for number, mass nouns are put into a possessive construction with a measure word or {{w|Classifier (linguistics)|classifier}} (depending on the grammar cited) being the possessee in the phrase.

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| áčane áifâm yeláira-i
| five bucket-SG wine-SG-POSS
| "five glasses of wine" (literally: five buckets of wine)
}}

{{interlinear|indent=2
| áčane áifâm ehái-i
| five bucket-SG water-SG-POSS
| "five buckets of water" (literally: five buckets of water)
}}

Most abstract nouns (other than <''yáto''> "language," which also means "tongue") and most things that are very small are mass nouns in Meyāni, and require a measure word/classifier to be inflected for number.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| čáiva néčaqlo-i
| branch-SG magic-SG-POSS
| "a unit of magic" (i.e. "magic spell") (literally: branch of magic)
}}

{{interlinear|indent=2
| áukan píretes-i
| way/road-SG philosophy-SG-POSS
| "a philosophy" (literally: way/road of philosophy)
}}

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=====Possession=====
Meyāni has a {{w|genitive case}}, which is used for marking the possessor of a possessive phrase. The genitive case is marked with the suffix <-i>, which goes after the plural marker. Adjectives are also marked with the <-i> suffix, because both the genitive case and the adjectival marker are derived from a Proto-Qlerevi postposition meaning "of." Possessors go after their head nouns.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| néčaqloba-i ấnossu úne-i
| magic-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}}-ADJ snail-SG 1SG-POSS
| "my magical snail"
}}When a noun is being possessed by two other nouns in the genitive case that are separated by a coordinating conjunction, the conjunction is inflected for the genitive case as well.{{interlinear|indent=2
|kóra Sấvaren-i ča-i Reqlútton-i
|country-SG Sāvae-POSS and-POSS Reqlūndo-POSS| "Sāvae and Reqlūndo's country"
}}

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=====Adjectives=====
Like as mentioned in the previous section, Meyāni's adjectives are marked identically to the genitive case. However, adjectives are placed before their head nouns instead of after. Adjectives are not marked with the <-i> suffix when they are used alone as a predicate along with the copula.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne rấmmau '''šấbya''' .
| 1SG be.PRS good .
| "I am good."
}}

Numerals are also not marked with the <-i> suffix despite behaving like adjectives syntactically. Like numerals, determiners (like "all" and "many") do behave like adjectives syntactically.

Adjectives do not agree with their head nouns in terms of number, and stay the same form even if their head noun is plural.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| néčaqloba-i ấnossura
| magic-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}}-ADJ snail-PL
| "some/the magical snails"
}}

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======Adjective inflections======
Meyāni adjectives inflect to mark comparison, intensity, and sufficiency. These evolved from independent words that were suffixed onto adjectives and heavily simplified. Heavily-suffixed adjectives with affixes to convey comparison, intensity, and sufficiency are a common linguistic feature across the [[Prorinian peninsula]], but they are rare across the Qlerevi family.
{| class="wikitable"
! colspan="3" |
!Marking
!Example
|-
! colspan="3" |Positive
|*none*, ''-(y)i''
|''šấbya(-i)'' "good"
|-
! rowspan="5" |Comparative
! rowspan="3" |of superiority
!neutral
|''-(a)ran''
|''šấbyaran'' "better"
|-
!affirming
|''-(a)šberan''
|''šấbyašberan'' "better, and still good"
|-
!denying
|''-(a)šñaran''
|''šấbyašñaran'' "better, but not good"
|-
! colspan="2" |of equality
| -''(a)nso''
|''šấbyanso'' "as good"
|-
! colspan="2" |of inferiority
|''-(a)rña''
|''šấbyarña'' "less good"
|-
! rowspan="2" |Superlative
! colspan="2" |of superiority
|''-(a)šhi''
|''šấbyašhi'' "best"
|-
! colspan="2" |of inferiority
|''-(a)šañ''
|''šấbyašañ'' "least good"
|-
! colspan="3" |Intensive
|''-(a)šo''
|''šấbyašo'' "very good, so good"
|-
! colspan="3" |Insufficientive
|''-(a)ñân''
|''šấbyañân'' "not good enough"

|-
! colspan="3" |Sufficientive
|''-(a)vân''
|''šấbyavân'' "good enough, too good"
|}

'''Comparatives''' 
Meyāni ajectives have five different comparative forms, which are used for comparing two or three different entities:
* The '''neutral comparative of superiority''' expresses that one noun has a greater quantity of an adjective than other nouns, but does not make any statement about the comparison.
{{Interlinear|indent=2
|Bâr rấmmau '''rấvvibaran''' ra áudda íhâyi-i ro .
|3SG be.PRS be.fast-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}}-{{gcl|COMP.N.SUP|neutral comparative of superiority}} {{gcl|REL|relative pronoun}} brother-SG {{gcl|R|reflexive pronoun}}-POSS {{gcl|END.REL|end-relative pronoun}} .
|"He/she is faster than his/her brother."
}}
* The '''affirming comparative of superiority''' expresses that one noun has a greater quantity of an adjective than other nouns, but affirms the comparison.
{{Interlinear|indent=2
|Bâr rấmmau '''rấvvibašberan''' ra áudda íhâyi-i ro .
|3SG be.PRS be.fast-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}}-{{gcl|COMP.A.SUP|affirming comparative of superiority}} {{gcl|REL|relative pronoun}} brother-SG {{gcl|R|reflexive pronoun}}-POSS {{gcl|END.REL|end-relative pronoun}} .
|"He/she is faster than his/her brother, and also fast."
}}
* The '''denying comparative of superiority''' expresses that one noun has a greater quantity of an adjective than other nouns, but denies the fact that the noun with a greater quantity of said adjective has that trait.
{{Interlinear|indent=2
|Bâr rấmmau '''rấvvibašñaran''' ra áudda íhâyi-i ro .
|3SG be.PRS be.fast-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}}-{{gcl|COMP.D.SUP|denying comparative of superiority}} {{gcl|REL|relative pronoun}} brother-SG {{gcl|R|reflexive pronoun}}-POSS {{gcl|END.REL|end-relative pronoun}} .
|"He/she is faster than his/her brother, but he is not fast.", "While he/she is faster than his/her brother, he/she is not fast."
}}
* The '''comparative of equality''' expresses that one noun does not have a greater or lesser quantity of an adjective than other nouns.
{{Interlinear|indent=2
|Kấraše rấmmau '''ahháumbanso''' ra áudda íhâyi-i ro .
|Kấraše be.PRS care-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}}-{{gcl|COMP.E|comparative of equality}} {{gcl|REL|relative pronoun}} brother-SG {{gcl|R|reflexive pronoun}}-POSS {{gcl|END.REL|end-relative pronoun}} .
|"Kấraše is as caring as his brother."
}}
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=====Pronouns=====

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======Personal pronouns======
Meyāni has six {{w|personal pronouns}}, with three being singular and three being plural. Personal pronouns do not change form for case or gender.

{| class="wikitable"
|+Meyāni personal pronouns
!Number →
Person
↓
!Singular
!Plural
|-
!1st person
|''úne''
|''úñra''
|-
!2nd person
|''qle'', ''qlíša''<ref><Qlíša> (the plural form) can be used as a polite form of address or to address strangers regardless of number, while <qle> (the singular form) is used among friends and family members or to insult one's superiors. A similar thing happens in [[Yaksōnian language|modern Yaksōnian]], which is a part of a pan-Prorinian linguistic ''{{w|sprachbund}}'' affecting the two languages.</ref>
|''qlíša''

|-
!3rd person
|''bâr''
|''bấrra''
|}

Meyāni is a partial {{w|pro-drop language}}, which means that subject or object personal pronouns are optional and can be dropped if the context gets rid of the need for them. This is especially seen in sentences relating to the weather or in informal conversation.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| ('''Bâr''') Šéha reñấn áčane qlísseyo sai . ('''Qlíša''') Túnutu sáudeče úne-i sai ?
| (3SG) rain-PRS FUT.AUX five qlisseo-SG in/on/at . (2PL) be.PST message-SG 1SG-POSS in/on/at ?
| "It will be raining in five ''qlisseo''<ref>A [[Levarianqueva|Levarianquevan]] unit of time roughly equivalent to 1.7933 hours in {{w|Time#Measurement|Terran time}}</ref>. Did you get my message?"
}}

Note that the above sentences lack subject pronouns, as they can be inferred from context.

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======Reflexive pronouns======
Meyāni has a single simple reflexive pronoun: <''íhâyi''>. This pronoun can be used for all persons and numbers when any noun in the predicate is the same as the subject.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne ámu '''íhâyi''' .
| 1SG love-PRS {{gcl|R|reflexive pronoun}} .
| "I love myself."
}}

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Ke ámu qle/qlíša '''íhâyi''' ?
| Q love-PRS 2SG/2PL {{gcl|R|reflexive pronoun}} ?
| "Do you love yourself?"
}}

When the possessor of the direct object, indirect object, or any noun in a postpositional phrase is the same as the subject, the reflexive pronoun is used as the possessor in the possessive phrase. This is similar to certain Terran languages like {{w|Russian language|Russian}} and (to a lesser extent) {{w|Latin}}.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Bâr ámu sấku '''íhâyi-i''' .
| 3SG love-PRS wife-SG {{gcl|R|reflexive pronoun}}-POSS .
| "He loves his own wife."
}}

Contrast the above sentence with the following sentence, where the possessor of the sentence's direct object is not the same as its subject:

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Bâr ámu sấku '''bấr-i''' .
| 3SG love-PRS wife-SG 3SG-POSS .
| "He loves someone else's wife."
}}

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======Indefinite pronouns======
Unlike certain colloquial forms of English, which use the second person personal pronoun to express an indefinite pronoun "one", Meyāni uses the third person singular personal pronoun for this purpose instead.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| '''Bâr''' ña ấhano bávva ra sáubune Eqlíssalos ra áqlo oñqlấmmuba-i šohčúqlau ro šấne ro .
| 3SG NEG coerce AUX.DEO {{gcl|REL|relative pronoun}} change-PRS Eqléssalos {{gcl|REL|relative pronoun}} start-PRS to.be.violent-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}}-ADJ protest-SG {{gcl|END.REL|end-relative pronoun}} up/after {{gcl|END.REL|end-relative pronoun}} .
| "One cannot force the Eqléssalos to reform by starting a violent protest."
| c1 = (A quote from Rírin-i Roqlínau, who famously advocated for a reformation of the [[Eqléssalos of Mages]] in order to reduce corruption within the magical institution and turn it into a bulwark against corporate influence.)
}}

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======Demonstrative pronouns======
Meyāni has two basic {{w|demonstrative pronouns}}: <''su''> "this" and <''súkin''> "that." Demonstrative pronouns behave like numerals morphologically, not agreeing in number with the nouns they modify and not taking the <-i> suffix that is taken by adjectives when in a noun phrase. However, they go after their head noun instead of before.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| šấbya-i ñéra '''súkin'''
| good-ADJ gator-SG that
| "that good gator"
}}

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======Interrogative pronouns======
Proto-Qlerevi had one simple interrogative pronoun (which was the ancestor of Meyāni <''vu''> "what, which"). However, new interrogative pronouns evolved in Meyāni (as well as in almost every other Qlerevi language) from combinations of this simple root with a series of postpositions. The resulting combinations then gradually simplified over time due to common usage.

{| class="wikitable"
|+Meyāni interrogative pronouns
!Meyāni word (source)
!English translation
|-
|''vu''
|"what," "which," "who/whom"

|-
|''vúši'' (< ''vu sai'' "in/on/at what")
|"where"
|-
|''vútu'' (< ''vu tau'' "from what")
|"whence"
|-
|''vúbña'' (< ''vu báne'' "towards what")
|"whither"
|-
|''váiba'' (< ''vu yáiba'' "during what")
|"when"

|-
|''vúra'' (< ''vu sára'' "by what means")
|"how"
|-
|''vúsa'' (< ''vu sa'' "for what")
|"why"
|}

The base interrogative pronoun can behave like numerals when used as adjectives, as shown in the following interrogative sentence:

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Ke yáira úne '''vu''' ñéra ?
| Q like-PRS 1SG what gator-SG ?
| "What/which gator do I like?"
}}

=====Articles=====
Meyāni does not have articles, so <''šấbya-i ñéra''> could either mean "a good gator" or "the good gator" depending on context.

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====Verbs====
Meyāni's verb system is generally analytic; the verb system relies on {{w|auxiliary verbs}} to express tense, aspect, or modal information outside of what the verbs themselves can express alone.

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=====Tense=====
Meyāni verbs inflect for just two tenses: {{w|past}} and {{w|Nonpast tense|non-past}}, which expresses events that happened in the past and events that did not happen in the past respectively. The non-past tense (which is often called simply the "{{w|present tense}}" and glossed in this article as such) is considered to be the default form of the verb and is listed in dictionaries alongside the past form in entries for irregular verbs. Most verbs indicate the past tense by the addition of a suffix <-tu>, which is derived from a verb meaning "to become." However, some verbs undergo {{w|suppletion}} between the non-past and past tenses (e.g. non-past <''rấmmau''> "am/are/is" → past <''túnutu''> "was/were" (which also means "became"); non-past <''íhu''> "go/goes" → past <''sáista''> "went").

However, some verbs indicate the past tense by changing the last vowel in the root in addition to using the <-tu> suffix (e.g. non-past <''ấnnaiha''> "receive/receives" → past <''ấnnaihâtu''> "received"; <''túno''> "become/becomes" → <''túnutu''> "became" (which also means "was/were")), which is ultimately caused by a final ''*w'' in the Proto-Qlerevi form. Some verbs indicate the past tense by means of a suffix <-ču> instead of the regular <-tu> (e.g. non-past <''yába''> "give up/gives up, surrender/surrenders" → past <''yábaču''> "gave up, surrendered"; non-past <''lvábba''> "fight/fights" → past <''lvábbaču''> "fought"); this also has an etymological origin, this time that of a final ''*y'' in the Proto-Qlerevi form instead of a ''*w''.

The {{w|future tense}} is formed by the addition of the verb <''reñấn''> "to want" after the non-past form of the verb. Unlike the [[Nōlīnian language]], Meyāni does not distinguish between any subdivisions of these three basic tenses and relies on adverbs or adverbial phrases to express these more concrete subdivisions instead.

The different tenses can be illustrated with the following three sentences:

{{interlinear|indent=2
|Úñra '''lvábba''' kídobâlo .
| 1PL fight-PRS corruption-SG .
| "We are fighting corruption."}}

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| Úñra '''lvábbaču''' kídobâlo .
| 1PL fight-PST corruption-SG .
| "We were fighting corruption."}}

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| Úñra '''lvábba''' '''reñấn''' kídobâlo .
| 1PL fight-PRS AUX.FUT corruption-SG .
| "We will be fighting corruption."}}

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=====Aspect=====
Meyāni distinguishes between just two {{w|grammatical aspects}}: the {{w|imperfective aspect}} and the {{w|perfective aspect}}. The imperfective is considered to be the default form of a verb; the perfective is expressed by turning the dictionary form of the verb into an adjective and adding the appropriate form of the verb <''rấmmau''> "to be" after the main verb.

'''Uses for the imperfective aspect''' 
The imperfective aspect's main usage is to express that an action is ongoing or is habitual. In the present tense, it expresses that the action stated by the verb is ongoing.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úñra '''lvábba''' tấbanra íhâyi-i , ča qlíša ña váhho óban . Yo váhho rấsâm rấnlaksara qlíša-i sai !
| 1PL fight-PRS enemy-PL {{gcl|R|reflexive pronoun}}-POSS , and 2PL NEG now party . IMP now get.back-PRS formation/line-PL 2PL-POSS in/on/at !
| "We are fighting our enemies, not partying. Get back in your formations immediately!"
}}

In the above sentences, the verb phrase with the main verb <''lvábba''> "to fight" is in the imperfective aspect in the present tense, expressing that the act of fighting enemies is an ongoing process.

In the past tense, the imperfective aspect expresses that an action was ongoing in the past but has been stopped in some way, either by being completed or by being interrupted.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne '''ấščâlârtu''' eredấnos Partấbala Meraqlúm-i sai .
| 1SG study-PST math-SG university-SG Meraqlum-POSS in/on/at .
| "I was study/used to study mathematics at the University of Meraqlum."
}}

In the above sentence, the verb phrase with the main verb <''ấščâlâr''> "studied" is in the imperfective aspect, expressing that the act of studying mathematics at a university was ongoing, but is not ongoing anymore in the present.

In the future tense, the imperfective aspect expresses that an action will be ongoing in the future.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úñra '''básso''' '''reñấn''' áiñeye .
| 1PL join-PRS AUX.FUT army-SG .
| "We will join the army."
}}

In the above sentence, the verb phrase with the main verb <''básso''> "to join" is in the imperfective, expressing that the act of joining the army is something that is going to happen.

Meyāni lacks a {{w|Progressive aspect|progressive}} aspect and a {{w|Habitual aspect|habitual}} aspect. The imperfective aspect is used instead to convey the roles expressed by the progressive and habitual aspects on their own.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne šíra .
| 1SG work-PRS .
| "I work/am working/habitually work."
}}

'''Uses for the perfective aspect''' 
The perfective aspect is primarily used to emphasize that an action has been completed. In the past tense, it is used to show that the action stated by the verb has been completed, with emphasis on the action being completed.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne '''róčaba''' '''túnutu''' yeláira áifâm-i .
| 1SG eat-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}} AUX.PFV.PST wine-SG bucket-SG-POSS .
| "I drank a glass of wine."
}}

In the above sentence, the verb phrase with the main verb <''róča''> "to eat/drink" is in the perfective aspect, expressing that the action of drinking wine has been completed, with emphasis on completion.

In the future tense, the perfective aspect is used to express that an action will be completed in the future.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne '''čétalataba''' '''rấmmau''' '''reñấn''' čétala .
| 1SG read-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}} AUX.PFV.PRS AUX.FUT book .
| "I will finish reading a book."
}}

In the above sentence, the verb phrase with the main verb <''čétalata''> "to read" is in the perfective aspect, expressing that an action will be completed in the future.

In the present tense, using the perfective aspect is ungrammatical in most formal varieties. However, some colloquial dialects use present tense and perfective aspect to express that an action will be completed soon or has been completed recently.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne '''čétalataba''' '''rấmmau''' čétala .
| 1SG read-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}} AUX.PFV.PRS book .
| "I will finish reading a book soon/I have finished reading a book recently."
}}

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=====Mood=====
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=====Voice=====
Meyāni does not have any distinctions between the active and passive voices.

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===Syntax===

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==== Word order====
Standard Meyāni generally has a default word order of {{w|Subject-verb-object word order|subject-verb-object}} (SVO), as in English.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne rấmmau ñéra .
| 1SG be.PRS gator-SG .
| "I am a gator."
}}

However, this becomes {{w|Verb-subject-object word order|verb-subject-object}} (VSO) in {{w|subordinate clauses}}.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| ... ra ña rấmmau bâr ñéra ro .
| ... {{gcl|REL|relative pronoun}} NEG be.PRS 3SG gator-SG {{gcl|END.REL|end-relative pronoun}} .
| "... that he/she/it is not a gator."
}}

As said in the section on nominals, Meyāni's {{w|adjectives}} proceed the nouns they modify and {{w|Possession (linguistics)|possessors}} succeed their possessed nouns. Adverbs and adverbial phrases also proceed the parts of speech they modify and {{w|Numeral (linguistics)|numerals}} behave like adjectives in overall syntax.

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====Prepositional phrases and animacy====
In Meyāni, prepositional phrases (or postpositional phrases, as there are postpositions instead of prepositions) have an {{w|animacy}}-based {{w|Implicational hierarchy|hierarchy}} dependent on their objects which dictates the position of the postpositional phrase in relation to the direct object or intransitive verb of the sentence. Postpositional phrases with more animate objects tend to come closer to the direct object (or the verb, in sentences that lack a direct object) than postpositional phrases with more inanimate objects. In this example, the first and last postpositional phrases in the sentence are '''bolded'''.

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| Úne vehíčasaba túnutu '''ačấmra''' '''ahhaumba-i''' '''oksara-i''' '''lấčai''' nenáum ra rấmmau yánohe Meraqlúm-i sai ro sai '''ku-yáñña''' '''ča''' '''ku-áčane''' '''yáñña''' '''hấssâya-i''' '''yehấrum''' '''ra''' '''túnutu''' '''Bemumšo''' '''šấne''' '''ro''' '''sai''' .| 1SG hatch-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}} PFV.AUX.PST hand-PL care-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}}-ADJ parent-PL-POSS into carcass {{gcl|REL|relative pronoun}} be.PRS city.center-SG Meraqlum-SG-POSS in/on/at {{gcl|END.REL|end-relative pronoun}} in/on/at {{gcl|ORD|ordinal numeral}}-four and {{gcl|ORD|ordinal numeral}}-five four two.hundred.fifty.six-ADJ year {{gcl|REL|relative pronoun}} be.PST drought-{{gcl|INTS|intensifier}}-SG up/after {{gcl|END.REL|end-relative pronoun}} in/on/at .| "I was hatched into the hands of caring parents at a carcass in Meraqlum's city center in the 2,308th year AC (After the Collapse)."
| c1 = (An excerpt from ''An Autobiography of the Rebel-Mage'' by [[Rírin-i Roqlínau]])
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The sentence is grammatical because, in the Meyāni animacy hierarchy, "year" is less animate than "carcass," which is in turn less animate than "hands." However, Meyāni does not apply this animacy hierarchy to the subject, direct object, or adjectival predicates of a sentence like in [[Proto-Qlerevi language|Proto-Qlerevi]].

Meyāni maintains most of the Proto-Qlerevi animacy classes, but some have been merged into other classes; most notably, the inanimate and abstract classes of Proto-Qlerevi have merged into a single inanimate class and the megalozoic and microzoic classes have merged into a single biotic class in Meyāni. Also, the egordian and tuordian classes of Proto-Qlerevi have merged into a single "altordian" class in Meyāni, leaving only five animacy classes compared to the eight that Proto-Qlerevi has. Proto-Qlerevi itself is evidenced to have undergone a similar reduction in the amount of distinguished classes in its history, with earlier versions likely having massive {{w|noun class}} systems similar to Terran {{w|Bantu languages}} like {{w|Swahili language|Swahili}}.

The following five classes are distinguished in Meyāni:

{| class="wikitable"
|+Meyāni animacy hierarchy
!Rank
!Class name
!What falls into this class?

|-
!I
|Altordian
|first-person and second-person personal pronouns

|-
!II
|Masculine
|third-person personal pronouns and other pronouns, deities, and male gators
|-
!III
|Juvenofeminine
|primarily female gators and hatchlings, but also weather events, body parts, and {{w|extraterrestrial life}}
|-
!IV
|Biotic
|animals, plants, and other biological things
|-
!V
|Inanimate
|stationary non-biological things, landscape features, astronomical bodies, [[Magic (AWiEC)|magic]]-related concepts, and abstract concepts
|}

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====Interrogative and negative sentences====
In an {{w|interrogative sentence}} in Meyāni, the interrogative auxiliary <ke> goes before other constituents of the sentence, and the verb moves to where the subject would be in a normal sentence. This is a remnant of the older {{w|V2 word order}} in Prorinian Qlerevi languages, whereby the verb phrase is always the second constituent of a clause.

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| '''Ke''' róčaba túnutu úne ấvvâsa tấbanra-i úne-i ?
| Q eat.{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}} PFV.AUX.PST 1SG blood-SG enemy-PL-POSS 1SG-POSS ?
| "Did I drink the blood of my enemies?"
}}

Unlike English, Meyāni does not do {{w|wh-movement}} and does not have {{w|do-support}} in both questions and negative constructions.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Ke vóraba túnutu úne '''vu''' ra róča ấvvâsa tấbanra-i úne-i ro ?
| Q do-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}} PFV.AUX.PST 1SG what {{gcl|REL|relative pronoun}} eat blood-SG enemy-PL-POSS 1SG-POSS {{gcl|END.REL|end-relative pronoun}} ?
| "What did I do in order to drink the blood of my enemies?"
}}

According the [[Question word-first principle]] in Qlerevi languages whereby question particles always go first in a sentence, the negative particle <ña> goes after the main verb phrase in an interrogative sentence with negative mood.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Ke róčaba túnutu '''ña''' úne ấvvâsa tấbanra-i úne-i ?
| Q eat.{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}} PFV.AUX.PST NEG 1SG blood-SG enemy-PL-POSS 1SG-POSS ?
| "Did I not drink the blood of my enemies?"
}}

In a normal sentence with a negative, however, the sentence completely reverts to the verb going between the subject and direct object, with the negative particle going before the verb.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne '''ña''' róčaba túnutu ấvvâsa tấbanra-i úne-i .
| 1SG NEG eat.{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}} PFV.AUX.PST blood-SG enemy-PL-POSS 1SG-POSS .
| "I did not drink the blood of my enemies."
}}

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===="To Have"====
Meyāni does not have a verb meaning "to have", like many Qlerevi languages. Instead, it uses the appropriate form of the verb <rấmmau> "to be", with the postposition <sai> "in/on/at" being attached to the verb's direct object.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne '''rấmmau''' ấvvâsa '''sai''' .
| 1SG be.PRS blood-SG in/on/at .
| "I have blood." (literally: "I am in blood.")
}}

In an intransitive sentence or a sentence with a direct object that has been dropped, Meyāni uses a perfective construction with the verb <''táksa''> "to catch" in the present tense to express the meaning of "to have". This is descended from the earlier meaning of the verb as "to grab." In this usage of the verb, applying the imperfective aspect is ungrammatical.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne '''táksaba''' '''rấmmau''' .
| 1SG catch-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}} AUX.PFV-PRS .
| "I have." (literally: "I have caught.")
}}

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====Subordinate clauses====
In Meyāni, subordinate clauses are almost completely identical in both formation and usage to subordinate clauses in Proto-Qlerevi.

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=====Formation=====
Subordinate clauses in Meyāni are typically formed by using the particles <ra> and <ro>, termed the "relative pronoun" and the "end-relative pronoun" respectively (even though they aren't really pronouns in the strictest sense: a word that can stand for other words in a sentence). As the names suggest, the relative pronoun preceeds a subordinate clause and the end-relative pronoun succeeds a subordinate clause, functioning in order to revert the sentence back to the clause before the subordinate clause began.

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=====Usage=====
TBA

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==Numeral system==
''Note: All Meyāni text in this section of this article is written in a modified form of the {{w|Latin alphabet}}, not in the actual Meyāni script.''

The Meyāni language uses a {{w|Hexadecimal|hexadecimal}} or base-16 system, even though actual written numerals are expressed using {{w|Duodecimal|dozenal}} or base-12, with sub-bases of 5 and 10, remnants of the old vigesimal system. Linguists theorize that the hexadecimal system developed when speakers of [[Qlerevi languages]], with most of their languages using a {{W|vigesimal}} or base-20 system, encountered speakers of [[Pre-Yaksōnian languages]], whose languages primarily used {{w|12 (number)|12}} as a base. When these two languages encountered each other, the pre-Yaksōnian speakers who ultimately assimilated themselves into the Qlerevi languages and culture tried to use 20 as a base but were so used to their native base-12 system that they ended up using 16 as a base as a compromise between the two systems; the Qlerevi speakers later adopted this, hence the use of 16 as a base.

Meyāni numerals by default express their {{w|Cardinal numeral|cardinal}} form. Prefixes exist which are used to express the {{w|Ordinal numeral|ordinal}} and {{w|Fraction|fractional}} form. However, all of Meyāni's multiplicative forms for numerals are borrowed from the [[Ancient Venēmīan language]] and therefore {{w|Suppletion|suppletive}}, but these are archaic; alternatively, these forms could be expressed by using {{w|Adpositional phrase|postpositional phrases}} in most modern registers.
{| class="wikitable"
|+
! colspan="4" |Number
! colspan="4" |In spoken Meyāni
|-
! colspan="3" |In {{w|Hindu-Arabic numerals}}
! rowspan="2" |In [[Prorinian mathematics#Modern numeral system|Prorinian numerals]]
(modern notation)
! rowspan="2" |Cardinal form
! rowspan="2" |Ordinal form
! rowspan="2" |Fractional form
! rowspan="2" |Multiplicative form
(archaic)
|-
!Base-10
!Base-12
!Base-16
|-
| colspan="3" |0
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|0}}
|''ñíñta''
|''ku-ñíñta''
| colspan="2" |N/A
|-
| colspan="3" |1
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|1}}
|''bač''
| rowspan="38" |TBA
| rowspan="38" |TBA
| rowspan="38" |TBA
|-
| colspan="3" |2
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|2}}
|''šóten''
|-
| colspan="3" |3
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|3}}
|''sádam''
|-
| colspan="3" |4
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|4}}
|''yáñña''
|-
| colspan="3" |5
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|5}}
|''áčane''
|-
| colspan="3" |6
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|6}}
|''bač ča áčane''
|-
| colspan="3" |7
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|7}}
|''šóten ča áčane''
|-
| colspan="3" |8
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|8}}
|''sádam ča áčane''
|-
| colspan="3" |9
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|9}}
|''yáñña ča áčane''
|-
|10
| colspan="2" |A
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|a}}
|''yáda''
|-
|11
| colspan="2" |B
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|b}}
|''bač ča yáda''
|-
|12
|10
|C
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|10}}
|''šóten ča yáda''
|-
|13
|11
|D
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|11}}
|''sádam ča yáda''
|-
|14
|12
|E
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|12}}
|''yáñña ča yáda''
|-
|15
|13
|F
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|13}}
|''áčane ča yáda''
|-
|16
|14
|10
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|14}}
|''rấyone''
|-
|17
|15
|11
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|15}}
|''bač ča rấyone''
|-
|21
|19
|15
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|19}}
|''áčane ča rấyone''
|-
|24
|20
|18
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|20}}
|''sádam ča áčane ča rấyone''
|-
|26
|22
|1A
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|22}}
|''yáda ča rấyone''
|-
|32
|28
|20
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|28}}
|''šóten rấyone''
|-
|36
|30
|24
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|30}}
|''yáñña ča šóten rấyone''
|-
|48
|40
|30
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|40}}
|''sádam rấyone''
|-
|60
|50
|3C
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|50}}
|''šóten ča yáda ča sádam rấyone''
|-
|64
|54
|40
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|54}}
|''yáñña rấyone''
|-
|72
|60
|48
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|60}}
|''sádam ča áčane ča yáñña rấyone''
|-
|80
|68
|50
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|68}}
|''áčane rấyone''
|-
|84
|70
|54
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|70}}
|''yáñña ča áčane rấyone''
|-
|92
|80
|60
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|80}}
|''bač áčane rấyone''
|-
|108
|90
|6C
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|90}}
|''šóten ča yáda ča bač áčane rấyone''
|-
|112
|94
|70
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|94}}
|''šóten áčane rấyone''
|-
|120
|A0
|78
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|a0}}
|''sádam ča áčane ča šóten áčane rấyone''
|-
|128
|A8
|80
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|a8}}
|''sádam áčane rấyone''
|-
|132
|B0
|84
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|b0}}
|''yáñña ča sádam áčane rấyone''
|-
|144
|100
|90
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|100}}
|''yáñña áčane rấyone''
|-
|256
|194
|100
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|194}}
|''hấssâya''
|-
|4,096
|2,454
|1,000
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|2454}}
|''emmáufiša''
|-
|65,536
|31,B14
|10,000
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|31b14}}
|''hấssâya emmáufiša''
|}

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==Vocabulary==
Around 2/3rds of all Meyāni {{w|vocabulary}} is of [[Qlerevi languages|Qlerevi]] origin. Qlerevi words in Meyāni are either directly inherited from [[Proto-Qlerevi language|Proto-Qlerevi]] or were borrowed from other Qlerevi languages. The vast majority of these terms in Meyāni are directly inherited from Proto-Qlerevi; the Qlerevi terms that were borrowed from other Qlerevi languages only account for less than 5% of all of Meyāni's vocabulary. Qlerevi-derived words encompass most of Meyāni's core vocabulary, so most of the time, no conherent sentence can be formed in Meyāni without resorting to using words of Qlerevi origin, with very rare exceptions.

Now-extinct [[pre-Yaksōnian languages]], which account for over 1/5th of all Meyāni words, are the main sources of {{w|loanwords}} within Meyāni's vocabulary. [[Ancient Venēmīan]], a {{w|prestige language}} which used to be learned by Meyāni gators of all ranks of society to connect with classical texts from the [[First Venēmīan Empire]] until it was banned by [[Meyāni#Nerấyavi's régime and the Great Prorinian War|the then-fascist-led government of Meyāni]] in 1942 AC shortly after [[Operation Yaksaháihča|the start of Meyāni's failed invasion of Yaksōn]], is the original language for the vast majority of these pre-Yaksōnian terms. Pre-Yaksōnian words in the Meyāni language are mostly terms relating to technical fields studied in the Prorinian peninsula like {{w|mathematics}}, {{w|Science|the sciences}}, {{w|music theory}}, {{w|philosophy}}, and [[Magic (AWiEC)|the art of magic]]; however, Pre-Yaksōnian words are also found in words relating to features of the Prorinian peninsula that don't exist or rarely do exist in the Qlerevi homeland, such as fauna (e.g. Meyāni *SCRIPT TBA* (''nagúrtos'') "{{w|elephant}}," with irregular o > u shift typical of assimilated loanwords), flora (e.g. Meyāni *SCRIPT TBA* (''ấččevon'') "{{w|Sequoioideae|redwood tree}}"), drinks (e.g. Meyāni *SCRIPT TBA* (''yeláira'') "{{w|wine}}"), and musical instruments (e.g. Meyāni *SCRIPT TBA* (''erínis'') "[[Prorinian music#Bee-lute|bee-lute]];"). Pre-Yaksōnian influence may have affected the grammar of Meyāni as well as contributing to vocabulary, with the language developing a strict {{w|V2 word order}} (which later shifted into a default {{w|Subject-verb-object word order|SVO word order}}, with few traces of the old V2 system remaining in the modern language) and losing most of the Proto-Qlerevi {{w|Grammatical case|case}} system.

Another major contributor of loanwords in Meyāni is the [[Rudakami language]]. Most Rudakami loanwords in Meyāni arrived during the period of [[Rudakami trade colonies|Rudakami merchants colonizing large areas of land on or near the Prorinian peninsula's coastline for trade with the local pre-Yaksōnian speakers]], which lasted from around 1800 BC until around 800 BC; these loanwords are typically related to concepts such as {{w|economics}}. However, during the period of [[Meyāni#Rudakami conquest and rule|Rudakami rule over Meyāni from 1632 AC until 1794 AC]], more Rudakami loanwords entered the language, mostly terms relating to {{w|government}}, the {{w|legal system}}, and {{w|feudalism}}. After Meyāni regained its independence from Rudakami control, there was widespread {{w|linguistic purism}} in Meyāni which aimed to purge all traces of Rudakami words within the language's vocabulary, which succeeded in removing a sizeable portion of Rudakami borrowings in the Meyāni lexicon but did not succeed in removing all of them. Today, Rudakami words account for around 1/10th of the Meyāni language's vocabulary.

===Derivation===
Meyāni makes heavy usage of {{w|agglutination}} and {{w|Compound (linguistics)|compounding}} to form new words. For example, the word *SCRIPT TBA* (''qlavmamčấčâlu'') translates to "{{w|syntax}}" in English and can be broken up into the following:

{{Interlinear|indent=2|top = qlavmamčấčâlu
|qlavmam-čâčâ-lu
|word-{{gcl|COL|collective}}-study.of
|"syntax" (literally: the study of a group of words)
}}

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== Example text==
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==Footnotes==
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Meyāni language

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{{Short description|Qlerevi language spoken in Meyāni and other regions in the Prorinian peninsula}}
{{Infobox Levarianquevan Language
| title = Meyāni
| othername = Meyānisian
| nativename = {{CustomScript|meyani|y}}̀ˋ˙{{CustomScript|meyani|t}}ˎ:{{CustomScript|meyani|n}}ˊ{{CustomScript|meyani|h@}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|n}}ˊ{{CustomScript|meyani|sir}}ˋ—{{CustomScript|meyani|i}} (''Yáto Nehấnesira-i'')
| image = Meyani distribution.png
| imagecaption = The distribution of the Standard Meyāni language in the Prorinian peninsula based on first-language speakers, overlaid by political boundaries: 
{{Color box|#7387Cf}}: Standard Meyāni is spoken by a majority of gators in the area as a {{w|First language|mother tongue}}. 
{{Color box|#8EA7ff}}: Standard Meyāni is spoken by a significant minority of gators in the area as a mother tongue. 
{{Color box|#bacbff}}: Standard Meyāni is spoken by a small minority of gators in the area as a mother tongue. 
{{Color box|#ffffff}}: Standard Meyāni is primarily learned as a {{w|second language}} by gators in the area, as little-to-no first-language speakers exist. 
{{Color box|#3f48cc}}: The area is covered by a body of {{w|water}}. 
{{Color box|#000000}}: Political boundary.|imagesize=250px|pronounciation=/ˈjæ.to nɛˈxɑː.nɛ.siː.ra.jiː/
| region=[[Prorinian peninsula]]
| speakers = ~ 9 million (L1) 
~ 16 million (L2) 
~ 25 million (total)
| family = [[Qlerevi languages|Qlerevi]]
*[[Eastern Qlerevi languages|Eastern Qlerevi]]
**[[Prorinian Qlerevi languages|Prorinian Qlerevi]]
***[[Central Prorinian Qlerevi languages|Central Prorinian Qlerevi]]
****[[Steppe Qlerevi languages|Steppe Qlerevi]]
*****[[Old Meyāni language|Old Meyāni]]
******[[Classical Meyāni language|Classical Meyāni]]
*******'''Meyāni'''
| script = [[Meyāni alphabet]]<ref>The script is classified as a partial {{w|abjad}} because "{{w|short vowels}}" are not written and require optional {{w|diacritics}} to be expressed properly without relying solely on {{w|context}}; see [[Meyāni language#Orthography|the orthography section of this article]].</ref>
| direction = {{w|Directionality and orientation|Left-to-right}}
| officialin = [[Meyāni]]
| recognized = [[Yaksōn]]
| consonants = 19
| vowels = 9 (6 {{w|monophthongs}}, 3 {{w|diphthongs}}
| syllablestructure = <nowiki>#</nowiki>((l)C)V/(N, h)(C)CV/(C, G)(C)#
| prosody = {{w|Stress (linguistics)|Stress}}
| inflectiontype = {{w|Analytic language|Analytic}}
| nouncase = m
| nounnumber = y
| noundefinite = n
| noungender = n
| adjectiveagreement = No
| verbtense = y
| verbaspect = m
| verbmood = m
| verbvoice = n
| verbsubject = n
| verbobject = n
| verbnumber = n
| verbevidence = n
| verbvalency = n
| markingposs = {{w|Dependent-marking language|Dependent-marking}}
| markingadj = {{w|Dependent-marking language|Dependent-marking}}
| markingverb = {{w|Zero-marking language|Zero-marking}}
| wordorder = {{w|Subject-verb-object}}
| otherorders = {{w|Verb-subject-object}} (in {{w|subordinate clauses}})
| headdirection = {{w|Head-directionality parameter#Head-final languages|Head-final}} ({{w|Head-directionality parameter#Head-initial languages|Head-initial}} in verb phrases)
| alignmenttype = {{w|Nominative-accusative alignment|Nominative-Accusative}}
}}

The '''Meyāni language''' is a [[Qlerevi languages|Qlerevi language]] primarily spoken on the [[Prorinian peninsula]]. The standard dialect is primarily spoken in southern [[Meyāni]], with significant minorities of speakers existing throughout the peninsula and adjacent lands. Its closest living relative that is not disputed to be a distinct {{w|language}} (either by the {{w|Linguistic description|descriptionism}} of {{w|Academic linguistics|scholarly linguistics}}, which is the primary form of {{w|Linguistic study|linguistic study}} used in this article, or {{w|linguistic prescription}}, which is promoted by [[Meyāni#Education|Meyāni's educational system]]) is the [[Bandit language]], which is spoken primarily in the northern and northwestern<ref>Due to Levarianqueva's retrograde rotation, east and west are swapped on maps.</ref> areas of the [[Great Prorinian Steppes (country)|Great Prorinian Steppes]]. The language is the sole {{w|official language}} of Meyāni, while it is recognized as a {{w|minority language}} in [[Yaksōn]] (where it was introduced to vast swathes of the country by lower-class {{w|refugees}} fleeing the low {{w|quality of life}} generated by [[Meyāni#Corporations|the corporations in ''de facto'' charge of the Meyāni government]]); in all other Prorinian countries, the language is not recognized.

The language has had a long history spanning back thousands of years. The ultimate accepted ancestor of Meyāni, the [[Proto-Qlerevi language]], was likely spoken in an area roughly overlapping with the modern-day nation of [[Qlerebam]]. After a {{w|drought}} that contributed to much of Qlerebam being covered in vast {{w|deserts}} today, the Qlerevi peoples then {{w|migrated}} throughout Levarianqueva, settling in locations as distant from [[Vreotannia]] to [[Arozdénia]] to the Prorinian peninsula. The Qlerevi languages that ultimately arrived at the Prorinian peninsula then diversified into two distinct {{w|language families}}: the [[Central Prorinian Qlerevi languages]] (which ultimately evolved into the Meyāni language and its relatives) and the [[Northwestern Prorinian Qlerevi languages]] (which ultimately evolved into the [[Nōlīnian language]] and its relatives), displacing the local [[Pre-Yaksōnian languages]] in the process while absorbing significant influences from them, including the development of a strict {{w|V2 word order}}.

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==Classification and Dialects==

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===Position in the Qlerevi family===
Meyāni is a [[Qlerevi languages|Qlerevi language]] belonging to the [[Eastern Qlerevi languages|eastern branch]], which includes the [[Prorinian Qlerevi languages]] (which Meyāni is a part of). The eastern branch of Qlerevi languages is primarily differentiated from other Qlerevi languages in that languages in this branch underwent various {{w|sound changes}} which were absent from other Proto-Qlerevi dialects, including, but not limited to:

* [[Proto-Qlerevi language|Proto-Qlerevi]] ''*p'' {{w|lenition|lenites}} into /''*β''/ between two {{w|vowels}} (and later disappears entirely in the Prorinian Qlerevi languages); e.g. Proto-Qlerevi ''*kapōñ'' "to form" > Proto-Eastern Qlerevi ''*kaβōñ'' > Meyāni {{CustomScript|meyani|k@}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|un}}ˊ (''káune'') "to build, to create," [[Nōlīnian language|Nōlīnian]] *SCRIPT TBA* (-''kaʔǫni''-) "to form."
* Proto-Qlerevi ''*w'' becomes /''*β''/ word-finally, which later disappeared in the Prorinian Qlerevi languages (and produced a four-way distinction in {{w|vowel length}} between short, half-long, long, and overlong which eventually disappeared in all of Proto-Prorinian Qlerevi's descendants in some way or another); e.g. Proto-Qlerevi ''*eqlew'' "eternal rival" > Proto-Eastern Qlerevi ''*eqleβ'' > Meyāni {{CustomScript|meyani|y}}ˋ˙{{CustomScript|meyani|ks}}ˋ (''yáksa'') "eternal rival," Nōlīnian *SCRIPT TBA* (''eqlè''-) "rival."
* Proto-Qlerevi ''*ts'' becomes /''*θ''/ in all positions, which later shifts into /''*s''/ in Proto-Prorinian Qlerevi; e.g. Proto-Qlerevi ''*wītsen'' "to see" > Proto-Eastern-Qlerevi ''*wīθān'' > Meyāni {{CustomScript|meyani|v@}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|is@n}} (''váisân'') "to see," Nōlīnian *SCRIPT TBA* (-''wįsąn''-) "to see."
* Some of Proto-Qlerevi's consonant clusters undergo heavy {{w|consonant assimilation}} in Eastern Qlerevi languages.

Modern Meyāni's closest living relative that is not disputed as being a distinct language is the [[Bandit language]], which is natively spoken in the northern and northwestern areas of the [[Great Prorinian Steppes (country)|Great Prorinian Steppes]]. The Bandit language shares many sound changes with Meyāni, which has diverged from it approximately 3,500 years ago. These include, but are not limited to:

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===Dialects===
Besides '''Standard Meyāni''' (which is what one typically means when they say "Meyāni language"), multiple other {{w|dialects}} of the Meyāni language exist each with their own unique properties. Standard Meyāni, which is based on the dialect spoken in the capital of [[Meraqlum]], is the official language of the country of [[Meyāni]] and is the dialect that is the closest to the [[Classical Meyāni|classical language]] spoken during the [[Bandit dynasty]] and also being the main {{w|liturgical language}} of the [[Áukanism|Áukanist]] faith. The main differences between Standard Meyāni and Classical Meyāni are the {{w|Conservative and innovative language|innovation}} of a separate {{w|optative mood}} in Standard Meyāni, the pronounciation of Standard Meyāni <v> as /w/ in Classical Meyāni, and the Classical Meyāni sequence /xl/ shifting in pronounciation to /q͡ʟ/ in standard Meyāni.

Some of the major dialect groups listed below. However, some of these dialects are dwindling in speakers as the standard dialect gains prominence ever since the establishment of a standardized [[Meyāni#Education|education system]]. Some quote-on-quote "dialects" that are more closely related to the Nōlīnian language than Standard Meyāni are excluded from the list.

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====Eastern Dialect Group====
The '''Eastern Dialect Group''' refers to a collection of Meyāni dialects that were spoken close to the border of [[Yaksōn]] and inside of the extreme eastern regions of the aforementioned country prior to massive standardization. Nowadays, dialects in this group are primarily spoken in the northeastern portions of Meyāni. These dialects are directly descended from early forms of the classical language and are closely related to the standard language; however, the Eastern Dialect Group has significant influences and {{w|loanwords}} from the [[Yaksōnian language]] due to centuries of contact which causes dialects in the Eastern Dialect Group to sound similar to Yaksōnian, so some speakers were mistakenly sent to {{w|concentration camps}} by the Nerấyavi regime on the basis that they were members of an "inferior race" despite not speaking Yaksōnian at all. These dialects are primarily written in both the [[Yaksōnian script]], which is an {{w|abugida}}, and the [[Meyāni script]], a partial {{w|abjad}}.

The main differences between the dialects in this group (with the Fidurin dialect given as an example, as it has most of the changes) and Standard Meyāni include:

'''Phonological differences:'''
* Standard Meyāni and Classical Meyāni non-{{w|Gemination|geminated}} <t> have turned into /r/ between {{w|vowels}} in dialects in the Eastern Dialect Group (compare Standard Meyāni {{CustomScript|meyani|s}}ˊ˙{{CustomScript|meyani|y}}ˋ{{CustomScript|meyani|t}}ˋ (''séyata'') "to fly" to [[Fidurin]] dialect *SCRIPT TBA* (''sáyoro'') "to fly").
* Dialects in the Eastern Dialect Group have undergone a massive {{w|vowel shift}} involving the following changes:
** Long vowels become short.
** Classical Meyāni <â> merged with <o>, then both shifted to /u/ (compare Standard Meyāni {{CustomScript|meyani|x@}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|by}}ˋ (''šấbya'') "good" to Fidurin dialect *SCRIPT TBA* (''šúppo'') "good").
** Former <nowiki></nowiki> became /y/ and later became /i/ (compare Standard Meyāni {{CustomScript|meyani|n}}ˋ{{CustomScript|meyani|gu}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|rt}}ˎ{{CustomScript|meyani|s}} (''nagúrtos'') "elephant" to Fidurin dialect *SCRIPT TBA* (''nokíttus'') "elephant").
** Former <nowiki></nowiki> became /e/ (compare Standard Meyāni {{CustomScript|meyani|i}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|n}}ˊ{{CustomScript|meyani|hiv}}ˋ (''ínehiva'') "instead of" to Fidurin dialect *SCRIPT TBA* (''énakewo'') "instead of")
** Former <e> became /ɐ̞/ (compare Standard Meyāni {{CustomScript|meyani|h}}ˊ{{CustomScript|meyani|xi}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|n}} (''hešín'') "to hear" to Fidurin dialect *SCRIPT TBA* (''kašén'') "to hear")
** Former <a> became /o/ (compare Standard Meyāni {{CustomScript|meyani|y}}ˋ˙{{CustomScript|meyani|x}}ˋ (''yáša'') "to think" to Fidurin dialect *SCRIPT TBA* (''yóšo'') "to decide")
** The diphthongs <ai>, <au>, and <eu> in Classical Meyāni have turned into monopthongs /e/, /o/, and /u/ respectively (compare Standard Meyāni {{CustomScript|meyani|y}}ˋ{{CustomScript|meyani|c}}ˋ{{CustomScript|meyani|ss@}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|i}} (''yačassái'') "bright," {{CustomScript|meyani|y}}ˋ{{CustomScript|meyani|v@}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|unk}}ˋ (''yaváunka'') "on the subject of," and {{CustomScript|meyani|l}}ˎ{{CustomScript|meyani|sti}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|u}} (''lostéu'') "to lose" to Fidurin dialect *SCRIPT TBA* (''yočossé'') "hot," *SCRIPT TBA* (''yowókko'') "on the subject of," and *SCRIPT TBA* (''lussú'') "to lose").
** The above changes have caused stress to be phonemic in these dialects.
* All consonant clusters from Classical Meyāni are heavily simplified in dialects in this group, simplifying into geminated consonants. Initial <lw-> becomes <w-> in these dialects.
* Most dialects in this group (including the Fidurin dialect) merge voiced obstruents with their voiceless counterparts, and allophonically turn non-geminated voiceless obstruents into voiced ones between vowels.
* Geminated consonants become short consonants at the ends of words in dialects in the Eastern Dialect Group.
* Some dialects in this group drop {{w|Stress (linguistics)|unstressed}} vowels at the ends of words. The Fidurin dialect does not have this feature, however.
* Standard Meyāni inserts the sound /x/ between two consecutive monopthongs. However, a different consonant is inserted in dialects in the Eastern Dialect Group: /k/. This is because Standard Meyāni <h> merges with /k/ in dialects in this group.

'''Grammatical differences:'''
* TBA

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====Meraqlum Dialect Group====
TBA

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====Southwestern Dialect Group====
TBA

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====Southern Dialect Group====
TBA

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====Veleonnean Vernacular Meyāni====
TBA

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==Phonology==
Unlike {{w|humans}}, [[Alligatoris sapiens|gators']] {{w|soft palates}} (which are the practical equivalent of the human {{w|velum}} as gators lack it) are naturally lowered, and so do not redirect air into the {{w|mouth}}. Instead, all sounds (including all {{w|consonants}}) are {{w|Nasalization|nasalized}} (which is not indicated in the {{w|International Phonetic Alphabet|IPA}} charts for Levarianquevan languages). Therefore, to humans, gators sound like they are {{w|Disease|sick}}.

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===Vowels===
Modern Standard Meyāni has six {{w|vowel}} phonemes, with three being "{{w|Vowel length|long}}" and three being short. Note that "long vowels" are not pronounced longer than the short vowels in most dialects, but the long pronunciation is proscribed in school textbooks.

{| class="wikitable"
|+Meyāni vowels
!
!Front
!Back
|-
!High
|i(ː) <nowiki></nowiki>
|u(ː) <nowiki></nowiki>
|-
!Mid
|ɛ <e>
| o <o>
|-
!Low
|æ <a>
|ɑ(ː) <â>
|}

The language also has three {{w|diphthongs}} which are often categorized as "long vowels": /ai/ <ai>, /au/ <au>, and /eu/ <eu>, the latter of which is rare and only occurs in a few words.

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===Consonants===
Modern Standard Meyāni has nineteen phonemic consonant phonemes, with /g/ only being found in {{w|loanwords}}. Pairs of sounds distinguished only by {{w|Voicing (phonetics)|vibrations in the vocal cords}} (if any exist) are separated with dots. In Meyāni, there are {{w|minimal pairs}} distinguished by {{w|gemination|consonant length}}.

{| class="wikitable"
!
!{{w|Labial consonant|Labial}}
!{{w|Alveolar consonant|Alveolar}}
!Retroflex I ({{w|Palatal consonant|Palatal}})
!Palatal ({{w|Velar consonant|Velar}})
|-
!{{w|Nasal consonant|Nasal release}} (Nasal)
|/m/ <m>
|/n/ <n>
|/ɲ/ <ñ>
|
|-
!{{w|Stop consonant|Stop}}
|<nowiki>/p/ • /b/ </nowiki>
|/t/ <t> • /d/ <d>
|
|/k/ <k> • /g/ <g>
|-
!{{w|Affricate|Affricate}}
|
|
|/t͡ʃ/ <č>
|/q͡ʟ/ <ql>
|-
!{{w|Fricative}}
|/f/ <f> • /v/ <v>
|/s/ <s>
|/ʃ/ <š>
|/x/ <h>
|-
!{{w|Approximant}}
|
|/l/ <l>
|/j/ <y>
|
|-
!{{w|Trill consonant|Trill}}
|
|/r/ <r>
|
|
|}

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====Allophony====
Some consonants can recieve {{w|Allophony|allophones}} in certain situations in Standard Meyāni:

*Most consonants can be {{w|Palatalization|retroflex I-ized}} (which is marked in the IPA by the addition of a subscript {{w|Latin script}} letter "j" [ʲ] after the symbol) before front vowels. However, Retroflex I consonants cannot undergo this process.
*<r> is usually pronounced as a trill [r]. Nevertheless, it could be pronounced as [ɹ] in {{w|Syllable coda|coda position}} if the {{w|syllable onset}} contains an alveolar or retroflex I consonant other than /j/.

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===Phonotactics===
Most words in Meyāni contain entirely open syllables. However, its maximum {{w|Syllable#Components|syllable structure}} is <code>#((l)C)V/(N, h)(C)CV/(C, G)(C)#</code>, where:

*"#" represents a boundary between words.
*"(l)" represents an optional /l/ that is only able to go before /v/, like in ''lvansa'', which means "sword".
*"(...)" represent optional components.
*"C" represents a consonant.
*"V" represents a vowel or diphthong.
*"G" represents a word-final consonant that undergoes {{w|gemination}}. This is optional.
*"/(N, h)(C)CV/" represents the possible phonotactical structure in syllables at the middle of a word.
*"N" represents any {{w|Nasal consonant|consonant with a nasal release}}

Unlike the closely related [[Bandit language]], Meyāni does not allow for word-initial {{w|consonant clusters}} (other than /lv/). Loanwords with initial consonant clusters are usually dealt with by {{w|epenthesis}}, the insertion of extra vowels. Consonant clusters that consist of two consonants with the same place of articulation and manner of articulation and with the only distinction between the two consonants being different voicing are not allowed in the language; these types of clusters are typically turned into geminated consonants carrying the voicing of the last consonant in the illegal cluster prior to assimilation. Most words with final consonants end with just one consonant or geminated consonant, though it is possible for two consonants to be present. Most words that have medial consonant clusters only have just two consonants, though it is possible for three consonants to be present in these clusters as long as the first sound in the cluster is either a nasal or /x/.

Meyāni also does not allow the occurrence of {{w|vowel hiatuses}}. Therefore, the <-i> suffix used in adjectives and possessor nouns is realized as /jiː/ in words that end in vowels.

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===Prosody===
Meyāni is a strictly {{w|mora-timed language}}, with each syllable getting one {{w|mora}} (two if the vowel in the {{w|syllable nucleus}} is either a "long vowel" or a diphthong). Stress in Meyāni always falls on the first syllable with a "long vowel" or diphthong as a nucleus in a word, with stress falling instead on the first syllable if there are no "long vowels" or diphthongs in a word entirely. Suffixes cannot receive stress.

In foreign words that have not been assimilated, stress falls on the syllable where it fell in the original language. However, loanwords that have been fully assimilated often have a stress shift to match the regular stress patterns or irregular vowel shifts.

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==Orthography==
[[File:Meyani script.png|200px|right]]

The Meyāni language is written in its own script, which is descended from {{w|logographs}} used by Proto-Qlerevi speakers. The script itself has features of both an {{w|alphabet}} and an {{w|abjad}} because short vowels are not written and require optional {{w|diacritics}} to be expressed, with {{w|Linguistics|linguists}} coining the term '''alphabjad''' to classify the Meyāni script. The script is written from left-to-right and has the following letters:
{| class="wikitable"
|+
!Position
in order
!Letter
!Name
!Sound (other sounds)
|-
|1
|{{CustomScript|meyani|@}}
|''â''
|/ɑː/ (/æ/)
|-
|2
|{{CustomScript|meyani|i}}
|''i''
|/iː/ (/ɛ/)
|-
|3
|{{CustomScript|meyani|u}}
|''u''
|/uː/ (/o/)
|-
|4
|{{CustomScript|meyani|b}}
|''bâ''
|/b/
|-
|5
|{{CustomScript|meyani|c}}
|''čâ''
|/t͡ʃ/
|-
|6
|{{CustomScript|meyani|d}}
|''dâ''
|/d/
|-
|7
|{{CustomScript|meyani|f}}
|''fâ''
|/f/
|-
|8
|{{CustomScript|meyani|h}}
|''hâ''
|/x/
|-
|9
|{{CustomScript|meyani|y}}
|''yi''
|/j/
|-
|10
|{{CustomScript|meyani|k}}
|''kâ''
|/k/ (/g/)
|-
|11
|{{CustomScript|meyani|l}}
|''lâ''
|/l/
|-
|12
|{{CustomScript|meyani|m}}
|''mâ''
|/m/
|-
|13
|{{CustomScript|meyani|n}}
|''nâ''
|/n/
|-
|14
|{{CustomScript|meyani|p}}
|''pâ''
|/p/
|-
|15
|{{CustomScript|meyani|q}}
|''qlâ''
|/q͡ʟ/
|-
|16
|{{CustomScript|meyani|r}}
|''râ''
|/r/
|-
|17
|{{CustomScript|meyani|s}}
|''sâ''
|/s/
|-
|18
|{{CustomScript|meyani|t}}
|''tâ''
|/t/
|-
|19
|{{CustomScript|meyani|v}}
|''vu''
|/v/
|-
|20
|{{CustomScript|meyani|x}}
|''šâ''
|/ʃ/
|}

The sound /ɲ/ does not have its own letter in the Meyāni script, but is rather expressed as a {{w|digraph}} of the letters {{CustomScript|meyani|n}} and {{CustomScript|meyani|y}}, in that order; geminated /ɲː/ is expressed with the same characters but with the {{CustomScript|meyani|n}} doubled, while all other consonants are geminated by doubling the letter that represents it. Dipthongs are expressed with digraphs {{CustomScript|meyani|@i}}, {{CustomScript|meyani|@u}}, and {{CustomScript|meyani|iu}} for the sounds /ai/, /au/, and /eu/ respectively. When short vowels begin words, they are written with their corresponding long vowel letters (which produces a lot of near-{{w|homographs}} in the script, such as {{CustomScript|meyani|ih@}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|i}} (''ehái'') "{{w|water}}" and {{CustomScript|meyani|i}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|h@yi}} (''íhâyi'') "(reflexive pronoun)")

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===Diacritics===
TBA

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===Punctuation===
TBA

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===Numerals===
TBA

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==Grammar==
''Note: All Meyāni text in this section of this article, other than the "Parts of Speech" section below, are written in a modified form of the {{w|Latin alphabet}}, not in the actual Meyāni script.''

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===Parts of Speech===
Meyāni grammarians divide all Meyāni words into nine {{w|parts of speech}}, primarily based on the treatises of [[Ancient Venēmīan language|Ancient Venēmīan]] grammarians and adapted to fit to the Meyāni language's grammar:

* Noun ('''Meyāni''': *SCRIPT TBA* (''ñấmyuvaba'') "name-thing"): A word that represents a place, person, idea, or thing. Ancient Venēmīan grammarians did not distinguish between nouns and adjectives because they inflected similarily in their language, but the Meyāni grammarians, whose language does not have much case marking (other than the genitive case) or adjective agreement, felt like the two needed to be distinguished. Hence, the words for "noun" and "adjective" have the same initial root.
*Adjective ('''Meyāni''': *SCRIPT TBA* (''ñấmyuhupsiltos'') "name-descriptor"): A word that describes a noun, verb, or another adjective. Adjectives can be used as adverbs in Meyāni, so the two are not distinguished according to the Meyāni grammarians when adverbs are their own parts of speech in Ancient Venēmīan. Postpositions and determiners can also be used to fill the functions of adverbs in Meyāni, but the few "true adverbs" like "now" and "tomorrow" that are not already classified as adjectives, postpositions, or determiners in Meyāni are classified as adjectives by the Meyāni grammarians.

:In Meyāni, adjectives have three uses: nominal, verbal, and predicative. "Nominal" adectives are the types of adjectives that describe nouns, and they go before their nouns and receive the <-''i''> suffix. "Verbal" adjectives function like adverbs, and describe both verbs and other adjectives. "Predicative" adjectives are adjectives that go after verbs, but the usage category also includes some intransitive verbs like *SCRIPT TBA* (''šấsane'') "to be sweet", which can stand alone as a predicate without requiring an additional verb before it and requires a suffix -*SCRIPT TBA* (-''ba'') to be used as a nominal adjective and a verbal adjective.

*Determiner ('''Meyāni''': *SCRIPT TBA* (''qlávmam ra yúča-i sávo vábaqlâkera-i sai ro'') "a word in the large grouping of thinglings"): A category of words that includes both {{w|quantifiers}} and {{w|numerals}}, both of which behave similarily both morphologically and syntactically and can be used as adverbs. Ancient Venēmīan scholars did not distinguish between the Meyāni determinative and demonstrative because they all went before the noun in their language, whereas in Meyāni, determinatives go before the noun while demonstratives go after despite both behaving morphologically similar; in fact, the Meyāni word for "determinative" in general, *SCRIPT TBA* (''vábaqlâke''), is a {{w|calque}} of the Ancient Venēmīan term for "determiner," which literally means "thingling."
*Demonstrative ('''Meyāni''': *SCRIPT TBA* (''qlávmam ra bấñâneba-i sávo vábaqlâkera-i sai ro'') "a word in the small grouping of thinglings"): A category of words that includes just two words: *SCRIPT TBA* (''su'') "this/these" and *SCRIPT TBA* (''súkin'') "that/those." These words are {{w|deictic}} words that convey which nouns are being referred to in the discourse.
*Pronoun ('''Meyāni''': *SCRIPT TBA* (''ñấmyuperidon'') "name-substitute"): A word that can stand in for any noun in a sentence. This category does not include [[Meyāni language#Subordinate clauses|the relative and end-relative pronouns]] ''ra'' and ''ro'' respectively, which are both lumped into the category of conjunction instead.
*Postposition ('''Meyāni'''): *SCRIPT TBA* (''vehašehấva'') "before-position"<ref>The name is inaccurate since it is a calque of a word in Ancient Venēmīan, which has prepositions instead of postpositions.</ref>): A word used to express spatial or temporal relations with a noun, which is refered to as its object. In addition, postpositions can also be used as adverbs.
* Verb ('''Meyāni''': *SCRIPT TBA* (''qlávmam'') "word"): A word that expresses an action or a state of being. The vast majority of verbs are action verbs, while the two verbs that express a state of being in Meyāni are *SCRIPT TBA* (''rấmmau'') "am/are/is" and *SCRIPT TBA* (''túnutu'') "was/were" (which also functions as an action verb because it is also the past tense form of the verb *SCRIPT TBA* (''túno'') "to become"
*Auxiliary ('''Meyāni''': *SCRIPT TBA* (''qlávmam ra yóho ro'') "a word that helps"): A word that adds to the verb and helps it express tenses and aspects beyond just the present and past.
*Conjunction ('''Meyāni''': *SCRIPT TBA* (''sídrenos'') (a loanword from Ancient Venēmīan)): A word that connects two clauses or affects the flow of a sentence.

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===Morphology===
Meyāni is generally an {{w|analytic language}} and does not make much use of {{w|inflection}}, other than {{w|Grammatical number|number}}, {{w|possession}}, and some {{w|grammatical tenses}}.

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====Nominals====
Nominals (nouns and adjectives) do not inflect for {{w|grammatical case}} (other than the {{w|genitive case}}), but inflect for number. The language has no {{w|grammatical gender}}. Meyāni is one of the only major [[Qlerevi languages]] to lack case marking.

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===== Noun phrases=====
Meyāni is mostly {{w|Head-directionality parameter#Head-initial languages|head-initial}} in noun phrases. The default order of Meyāni noun phrases is the following:

{| class="wikitable"
|+Default order of a Meyāni noun phrase
!Position
!-2
!-1
!0
!+1
!+2
!+3
!+4
!+5
!+6
|-
!What goes in the position?
!Numerals
(Independent words)
!Adjectives
(Independent words)
!HEAD NOUN
!Plural
(Suffix)
!Genitive
(Suffix)
!Possessor's noun phrase
(Independent words)
!Relative clauses
(Independent words)
!Demonstrative pronouns
(Independent words)
!Postposition
(Independent word)
|-
!Is this position mandatory in the phrase?
!No
!No
!Yes
!No
!No
!No
!No
!No
!No
|}

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=====Number=====
There are two grammatical numbers in Meyāni: singular and plural. The singular expresses that there is exactly one of a thing, while the plural expresses that there is more than one of a thing. To indicate plural number, a suffix <-ra> is used, which was derived from a Proto-Qlerevi word meaning "many." The plural number is not used when cardinal numerals are used in the noun phrase, as in this simple phrase:

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| áčane ñéra
| five gator-SG
| "five gators"
}}

Some determiners (such as "all" or "many") that do not influence the number of their nouns in English make them singular in Meyāni instead, like numerals:

{{interlinear|indent=2
| báram ñéra
| all gator-SG
| "all gators"
}}

'''Mass nouns''' 
A mass noun is a noun which cannot be counted, and do not change between singular or plural numbers. Most mass nouns are ''singulare tantum'' (only taking the singular in all cases); however, some are ''plurare tantum'' (only taking the plural in all cases). To inflect for number, mass nouns are put into a possessive construction with a measure word or {{w|Classifier (linguistics)|classifier}} (depending on the grammar cited) being the possessee in the phrase.

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| áčane áifâm yeláira-i
| five bucket-SG wine-SG-POSS
| "five glasses of wine" (literally: five buckets of wine)
}}

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| áčane áifâm ehái-i
| five bucket-SG water-SG-POSS
| "five buckets of water" (literally: five buckets of water)
}}

Most abstract nouns (other than <''yáto''> "language," which also means "tongue") and most things that are very small are mass nouns in Meyāni, and require a measure word/classifier to be inflected for number.

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| čáiva néčaqlo-i
| branch-SG magic-SG-POSS
| "a unit of magic" (i.e. "magic spell") (literally: branch of magic)
}}

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| áukan píretes-i
| way/road-SG philosophy-SG-POSS
| "a philosophy" (literally: way/road of philosophy)
}}

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=====Possession=====
Meyāni has a {{w|genitive case}}, which is used for marking the possessor of a possessive phrase. The genitive case is marked with the suffix <-i>, which goes after the plural marker. Adjectives are also marked with the <-i> suffix, because both the genitive case and the adjectival marker are derived from a Proto-Qlerevi postposition meaning "of." Possessors go after their head nouns.

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| néčaqloba-i ấnossu úne-i
| magic-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}}-ADJ snail-SG 1SG-POSS
| "my magical snail"
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|kóra Sấvaren-i ča-i Reqlútton-i
|country-SG Sāvae-POSS and-POSS Reqlūndo-POSS| "Sāvae and Reqlūndo's country"
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=====Adjectives=====
Like as mentioned in the previous section, Meyāni's adjectives are marked identically to the genitive case. However, adjectives are placed before their head nouns instead of after. Adjectives are not marked with the <-i> suffix when they are used alone as a predicate along with the copula.

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| Úne rấmmau '''šấbya''' .
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| "I am good."
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Numerals are also not marked with the <-i> suffix despite behaving like adjectives syntactically. Like numerals, determiners (like "all" and "many") do behave like adjectives syntactically.

Adjectives do not agree with their head nouns in terms of number, and stay the same form even if their head noun is plural.

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| néčaqloba-i ấnossura
| magic-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}}-ADJ snail-PL
| "some/the magical snails"
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======Adjective inflections======
Meyāni adjectives inflect to mark comparison, intensity, and sufficiency. These evolved from independent words that were suffixed onto adjectives and heavily simplified. Heavily-suffixed adjectives with affixes to convey comparison, intensity, and sufficiency are a common linguistic feature across the [[Prorinian peninsula]], but they are rare across the Qlerevi family.
{| class="wikitable"
! colspan="3" |
!Marking
!Example
|-
! colspan="3" |Positive
|*none*, ''-(y)i''
|''šấbya(-i)'' "good"
|-
! rowspan="5" |Comparative
! rowspan="3" |of superiority
!neutral
|''-(a)ran''
|''šấbyaran'' "better"
|-
!affirming
|''-(a)šberan''
|''šấbyašberan'' "better, and still good"
|-
!denying
|''-(a)šñaran''
|''šấbyašñaran'' "better, but not good"
|-
! colspan="2" |of equality
| -''(a)nso''
|''šấbyanso'' "as good"
|-
! colspan="2" |of inferiority
|''-(a)rña''
|''šấbyarña'' "less good"
|-
! rowspan="2" |Superlative
! colspan="2" |of superiority
|''-(a)šhi''
|''šấbyašhi'' "best"
|-
! colspan="2" |of inferiority
|''-(a)šañ''
|''šấbyašañ'' "least good"
|-
! colspan="3" |Intensive
|''-(a)šo''
|''šấbyašo'' "very good, so good"
|-
! colspan="3" |Insufficientive
|''-(a)ñân''
|''šấbyañân'' "not good enough"

|-
! colspan="3" |Sufficientive
|''-(a)vân''
|''šấbyavân'' "good enough, too good"
|}

'''Comparatives''' 
Meyāni ajectives have five different comparative forms, which are used for comparing two or three different entities:
* The '''neutral comparative of superiority''' expresses that one noun has a greater quantity of an adjective than other nouns, but does not make any statement about the comparison.
{{Interlinear|indent=2
|Bâr rấmmau '''rấvvibaran''' ra áudda íhâyi-i ro .
|3SG be.PRS be.fast-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}}-{{gcl|COMP.N.SUP|neutral comparative of superiority}} {{gcl|REL|relative pronoun}} brother-SG {{gcl|R|reflexive pronoun}}-POSS {{gcl|END.REL|end-relative pronoun}} .
|"He/she is faster than his/her brother."
}}
* The '''affirming comparative of superiority''' expresses that one noun has a greater quantity of an adjective than other nouns, but affirms the comparison.
{{Interlinear|indent=2
|Bâr rấmmau '''rấvvibašberan''' ra áudda íhâyi-i ro .
|3SG be.PRS be.fast-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}}-{{gcl|COMP.A.SUP|affirming comparative of superiority}} {{gcl|REL|relative pronoun}} brother-SG {{gcl|R|reflexive pronoun}}-POSS {{gcl|END.REL|end-relative pronoun}} .
|"He/she is faster than his/her brother, and also fast."
}}
* The '''denying comparative of superiority''' expresses that one noun has a greater quantity of an adjective than other nouns, but denies the fact that the noun with a greater quantity of said adjective has that trait.
{{Interlinear|indent=2
|Bâr rấmmau '''rấvvibašñaran''' ra áudda íhâyi-i ro .
|3SG be.PRS be.fast-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}}-{{gcl|COMP.D.SUP|denying comparative of superiority}} {{gcl|REL|relative pronoun}} brother-SG {{gcl|R|reflexive pronoun}}-POSS {{gcl|END.REL|end-relative pronoun}} .
|"He/she is faster than his/her brother, but he is not fast.", "While he/she is faster than his/her brother, he/she is not fast."
}}
* The '''comparative of equality''' expresses that one noun does not have a greater or lesser quantity of an adjective than other nouns.
{{Interlinear|indent=2
|Kấraše rấmmau '''ahháumbanso''' ra áudda íhâyi-i ro .
|Kấraše be.PRS care-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}}-{{gcl|COMP.E|comparative of equality}} {{gcl|REL|relative pronoun}} brother-SG {{gcl|R|reflexive pronoun}}-POSS {{gcl|END.REL|end-relative pronoun}} .
|"Kấraše is as caring as his brother."
}}
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=====Pronouns=====

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======Personal pronouns======
Meyāni has six {{w|personal pronouns}}, with three being singular and three being plural. Personal pronouns do not change form for case or gender.

{| class="wikitable"
|+Meyāni personal pronouns
!Number →
Person
↓
!Singular
!Plural
|-
!1st person
|''úne''
|''úñra''
|-
!2nd person
|''qle'', ''qlíša''<ref><Qlíša> (the plural form) can be used as a polite form of address or to address strangers regardless of number, while <qle> (the singular form) is used among friends and family members or to insult one's superiors. A similar thing happens in [[Yaksōnian language|modern Yaksōnian]], which is a part of a pan-Prorinian linguistic ''{{w|sprachbund}}'' affecting the two languages.</ref>
|''qlíša''

|-
!3rd person
|''bâr''
|''bấrra''
|}

Meyāni is a partial {{w|pro-drop language}}, which means that subject or object personal pronouns are optional and can be dropped if the context gets rid of the need for them. This is especially seen in sentences relating to the weather or in informal conversation.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| ('''Bâr''') Šéha reñấn áčane qlísseyo sai . ('''Qlíša''') Túnutu sáudeče úne-i sai ?
| (3SG) rain-PRS FUT.AUX five qlisseo-SG in/on/at . (2PL) be.PST message-SG 1SG-POSS in/on/at ?
| "It will be raining in five ''qlisseo''<ref>A [[Levarianqueva|Levarianquevan]] unit of time roughly equivalent to 1.7933 hours in {{w|Time#Measurement|Terran time}}</ref>. Did you get my message?"
}}

Note that the above sentences lack subject pronouns, as they can be inferred from context.

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======Reflexive pronouns======
Meyāni has a single simple reflexive pronoun: <''íhâyi''>. This pronoun can be used for all persons and numbers when any noun in the predicate is the same as the subject.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne ámu '''íhâyi''' .
| 1SG love-PRS {{gcl|R|reflexive pronoun}} .
| "I love myself."
}}

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Ke ámu qle/qlíša '''íhâyi''' ?
| Q love-PRS 2SG/2PL {{gcl|R|reflexive pronoun}} ?
| "Do you love yourself?"
}}

When the possessor of the direct object, indirect object, or any noun in a postpositional phrase is the same as the subject, the reflexive pronoun is used as the possessor in the possessive phrase. This is similar to certain Terran languages like {{w|Russian language|Russian}} and (to a lesser extent) {{w|Latin}}.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Bâr ámu sấku '''íhâyi-i''' .
| 3SG love-PRS wife-SG {{gcl|R|reflexive pronoun}}-POSS .
| "He loves his own wife."
}}

Contrast the above sentence with the following sentence, where the possessor of the sentence's direct object is not the same as its subject:

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Bâr ámu sấku '''bấr-i''' .
| 3SG love-PRS wife-SG 3SG-POSS .
| "He loves someone else's wife."
}}

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======Indefinite pronouns======
Unlike certain colloquial forms of English, which use the second person personal pronoun to express an indefinite pronoun "one", Meyāni uses the third person singular personal pronoun for this purpose instead.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| '''Bâr''' ña ấhano bávva ra sáubune Eqlíssalos ra áqlo oñqlấmmuba-i šohčúqlau ro šấne ro .
| 3SG NEG coerce AUX.DEO {{gcl|REL|relative pronoun}} change-PRS Eqléssalos {{gcl|REL|relative pronoun}} start-PRS to.be.violent-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}}-ADJ protest-SG {{gcl|END.REL|end-relative pronoun}} up/after {{gcl|END.REL|end-relative pronoun}} .
| "One cannot force the Eqléssalos to reform by starting a violent protest."
| c1 = (A quote from Rírin-i Roqlínau, who famously advocated for a reformation of the [[Eqléssalos of Mages]] in order to reduce corruption within the magical institution and turn it into a bulwark against corporate influence.)
}}

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======Demonstrative pronouns======
Meyāni has two basic {{w|demonstrative pronouns}}: <''su''> "this" and <''súkin''> "that." Demonstrative pronouns behave like numerals morphologically, not agreeing in number with the nouns they modify and not taking the <-i> suffix that is taken by adjectives when in a noun phrase. However, they go after their head noun instead of before.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| šấbya-i ñéra '''súkin'''
| good-ADJ gator-SG that
| "that good gator"
}}

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======Interrogative pronouns======
Proto-Qlerevi had one simple interrogative pronoun (which was the ancestor of Meyāni <''vu''> "what, which"). However, new interrogative pronouns evolved in Meyāni (as well as in almost every other Qlerevi language) from combinations of this simple root with a series of postpositions. The resulting combinations then gradually simplified over time due to common usage.

{| class="wikitable"
|+Meyāni interrogative pronouns
!Meyāni word (source)
!English translation
|-
|''vu''
|"what," "which," "who/whom"

|-
|''vúši'' (< ''vu sai'' "in/on/at what")
|"where"
|-
|''vútu'' (< ''vu tau'' "from what")
|"whence"
|-
|''vúbña'' (< ''vu báne'' "towards what")
|"whither"
|-
|''váiba'' (< ''vu yáiba'' "during what")
|"when"

|-
|''vúra'' (< ''vu sára'' "by what means")
|"how"
|-
|''vúsa'' (< ''vu sa'' "for what")
|"why"
|}

The base interrogative pronoun can behave like numerals when used as adjectives, as shown in the following interrogative sentence:

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Ke yáira úne '''vu''' ñéra ?
| Q like-PRS 1SG what gator-SG ?
| "What/which gator do I like?"
}}

=====Articles=====
Meyāni does not have articles, so <''šấbya-i ñéra''> could either mean "a good gator" or "the good gator" depending on context.

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====Verbs====
Meyāni's verb system is generally analytic; the verb system relies on {{w|auxiliary verbs}} to express tense, aspect, or modal information outside of what the verbs themselves can express alone.

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=====Tense=====
Meyāni verbs inflect for just two tenses: {{w|past}} and {{w|Nonpast tense|non-past}}, which expresses events that happened in the past and events that did not happen in the past respectively. The non-past tense (which is often called simply the "{{w|present tense}}" and glossed in this article as such) is considered to be the default form of the verb and is listed in dictionaries alongside the past form in entries for irregular verbs. Most verbs indicate the past tense by the addition of a suffix <-tu>, which is derived from a verb meaning "to become." However, some verbs undergo {{w|suppletion}} between the non-past and past tenses (e.g. non-past <''rấmmau''> "am/are/is" → past <''túnutu''> "was/were" (which also means "became"); non-past <''íhu''> "go/goes" → past <''sáista''> "went").

However, some verbs indicate the past tense by changing the last vowel in the root in addition to using the <-tu> suffix (e.g. non-past <''ấnnaiha''> "receive/receives" → past <''ấnnaihâtu''> "received"; <''túno''> "become/becomes" → <''túnutu''> "became" (which also means "was/were")), which is ultimately caused by a final ''*w'' in the Proto-Qlerevi form. Some verbs indicate the past tense by means of a suffix <-ču> instead of the regular <-tu> (e.g. non-past <''yába''> "give up/gives up, surrender/surrenders" → past <''yábaču''> "gave up, surrendered"; non-past <''lvábba''> "fight/fights" → past <''lvábbaču''> "fought"); this also has an etymological origin, this time that of a final ''*y'' in the Proto-Qlerevi form instead of a ''*w''.

The {{w|future tense}} is formed by the addition of the verb <''reñấn''> "to want" after the non-past form of the verb. Unlike the [[Nōlīnian language]], Meyāni does not distinguish between any subdivisions of these three basic tenses and relies on adverbs or adverbial phrases to express these more concrete subdivisions instead.

The different tenses can be illustrated with the following three sentences:

{{interlinear|indent=2
|Úñra '''lvábba''' kídobâlo .
| 1PL fight-PRS corruption-SG .
| "We are fighting corruption."}}

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úñra '''lvábbaču''' kídobâlo .
| 1PL fight-PST corruption-SG .
| "We were fighting corruption."}}

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úñra '''lvábba''' '''reñấn''' kídobâlo .
| 1PL fight-PRS AUX.FUT corruption-SG .
| "We will be fighting corruption."}}

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=====Aspect=====
Meyāni distinguishes between just two {{w|grammatical aspects}}: the {{w|imperfective aspect}} and the {{w|perfective aspect}}. The imperfective is considered to be the default form of a verb; the perfective is expressed by turning the dictionary form of the verb into an adjective and adding the appropriate form of the verb <''rấmmau''> "to be" after the main verb.

'''Uses for the imperfective aspect''' 
The imperfective aspect's main usage is to express that an action is ongoing or is habitual. In the present tense, it expresses that the action stated by the verb is ongoing.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úñra '''lvábba''' tấbanra íhâyi-i , ča qlíša ña váhho óban . Yo váhho rấsâm rấnlaksara qlíša-i sai !
| 1PL fight-PRS enemy-PL {{gcl|R|reflexive pronoun}}-POSS , and 2PL NEG now party . IMP now get.back-PRS formation/line-PL 2PL-POSS in/on/at !
| "We are fighting our enemies, not partying. Get back in your formations immediately!"
}}

In the above sentences, the verb phrase with the main verb <''lvábba''> "to fight" is in the imperfective aspect in the present tense, expressing that the act of fighting enemies is an ongoing process.

In the past tense, the imperfective aspect expresses that an action was ongoing in the past but has been stopped in some way, either by being completed or by being interrupted.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne '''ấščâlârtu''' eredấnos Partấbala Meraqlúm-i sai .
| 1SG study-PST math-SG university-SG Meraqlum-POSS in/on/at .
| "I was study/used to study mathematics at the University of Meraqlum."
}}

In the above sentence, the verb phrase with the main verb <''ấščâlâr''> "studied" is in the imperfective aspect, expressing that the act of studying mathematics at a university was ongoing, but is not ongoing anymore in the present.

In the future tense, the imperfective aspect expresses that an action will be ongoing in the future.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úñra '''básso''' '''reñấn''' áiñeye .
| 1PL join-PRS AUX.FUT army-SG .
| "We will join the army."
}}

In the above sentence, the verb phrase with the main verb <''básso''> "to join" is in the imperfective, expressing that the act of joining the army is something that is going to happen.

Meyāni lacks a {{w|Progressive aspect|progressive}} aspect and a {{w|Habitual aspect|habitual}} aspect. The imperfective aspect is used instead to convey the roles expressed by the progressive and habitual aspects on their own.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne šíra .
| 1SG work-PRS .
| "I work/am working/habitually work."
}}

'''Uses for the perfective aspect''' 
The perfective aspect is primarily used to emphasize that an action has been completed. In the past tense, it is used to show that the action stated by the verb has been completed, with emphasis on the action being completed.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne '''róčaba''' '''túnutu''' yeláira áifâm-i .
| 1SG eat-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}} AUX.PFV.PST wine-SG bucket-SG-POSS .
| "I drank a glass of wine."
}}

In the above sentence, the verb phrase with the main verb <''róča''> "to eat/drink" is in the perfective aspect, expressing that the action of drinking wine has been completed, with emphasis on completion.

In the future tense, the perfective aspect is used to express that an action will be completed in the future.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne '''čétalataba''' '''rấmmau''' '''reñấn''' čétala .
| 1SG read-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}} AUX.PFV.PRS AUX.FUT book .
| "I will finish reading a book."
}}

In the above sentence, the verb phrase with the main verb <''čétalata''> "to read" is in the perfective aspect, expressing that an action will be completed in the future.

In the present tense, using the perfective aspect is ungrammatical in most formal varieties. However, some colloquial dialects use present tense and perfective aspect to express that an action will be completed soon or has been completed recently.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne '''čétalataba''' '''rấmmau''' čétala .
| 1SG read-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}} AUX.PFV.PRS book .
| "I will finish reading a book soon/I have finished reading a book recently."
}}

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=====Mood=====
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=====Voice=====
Meyāni does not have any distinctions between the active and passive voices.

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===Syntax===

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==== Word order====
Standard Meyāni generally has a default word order of {{w|Subject-verb-object word order|subject-verb-object}} (SVO), as in English.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne rấmmau ñéra .
| 1SG be.PRS gator-SG .
| "I am a gator."
}}

However, this becomes {{w|Verb-subject-object word order|verb-subject-object}} (VSO) in {{w|subordinate clauses}}.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| ... ra ña rấmmau bâr ñéra ro .
| ... {{gcl|REL|relative pronoun}} NEG be.PRS 3SG gator-SG {{gcl|END.REL|end-relative pronoun}} .
| "... that he/she/it is not a gator."
}}

As said in the section on nominals, Meyāni's {{w|adjectives}} proceed the nouns they modify and {{w|Possession (linguistics)|possessors}} succeed their possessed nouns. Adverbs and adverbial phrases also proceed the parts of speech they modify and {{w|Numeral (linguistics)|numerals}} behave like adjectives in overall syntax.

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====Prepositional phrases and animacy====
In Meyāni, prepositional phrases (or postpositional phrases, as there are postpositions instead of prepositions) have an {{w|animacy}}-based {{w|Implicational hierarchy|hierarchy}} dependent on their objects which dictates the position of the postpositional phrase in relation to the direct object or intransitive verb of the sentence. Postpositional phrases with more animate objects tend to come closer to the direct object (or the verb, in sentences that lack a direct object) than postpositional phrases with more inanimate objects. In this example, the first and last postpositional phrases in the sentence are '''bolded'''.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne vehíčasaba túnutu '''ačấmra''' '''ahhaumba-i''' '''oksara-i''' '''lấčai''' nenáum ra rấmmau yánohe Meraqlúm-i sai ro sai '''ku-yáñña''' '''ča''' '''ku-áčane''' '''yáñña''' '''hấssâya-i''' '''yehấrum''' '''ra''' '''túnutu''' '''Bemumšo''' '''šấne''' '''ro''' '''sai''' .| 1SG hatch-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}} PFV.AUX.PST hand-PL care-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}}-ADJ parent-PL-POSS into carcass {{gcl|REL|relative pronoun}} be.PRS city.center-SG Meraqlum-SG-POSS in/on/at {{gcl|END.REL|end-relative pronoun}} in/on/at {{gcl|ORD|ordinal numeral}}-four and {{gcl|ORD|ordinal numeral}}-five four two.hundred.fifty.six-ADJ year {{gcl|REL|relative pronoun}} be.PST drought-{{gcl|INTS|intensifier}}-SG up/after {{gcl|END.REL|end-relative pronoun}} in/on/at .| "I was hatched into the hands of caring parents at a carcass in Meraqlum's city center in the 2,308th year AC (After the Collapse)."
| c1 = (An excerpt from ''An Autobiography of the Rebel-Mage'' by [[Rírin-i Roqlínau]])
}}

The sentence is grammatical because, in the Meyāni animacy hierarchy, "year" is less animate than "carcass," which is in turn less animate than "hands." However, Meyāni does not apply this animacy hierarchy to the subject, direct object, or adjectival predicates of a sentence like in [[Proto-Qlerevi language|Proto-Qlerevi]].

Meyāni maintains most of the Proto-Qlerevi animacy classes, but some have been merged into other classes; most notably, the inanimate and abstract classes of Proto-Qlerevi have merged into a single inanimate class and the megalozoic and microzoic classes have merged into a single biotic class in Meyāni. Also, the egordian and tuordian classes of Proto-Qlerevi have merged into a single "altordian" class in Meyāni, leaving only five animacy classes compared to the eight that Proto-Qlerevi has. Proto-Qlerevi itself is evidenced to have undergone a similar reduction in the amount of distinguished classes in its history, with earlier versions likely having massive {{w|noun class}} systems similar to Terran {{w|Bantu languages}} like {{w|Swahili language|Swahili}}.

The following five classes are distinguished in Meyāni:

{| class="wikitable"
|+Meyāni animacy hierarchy
!Rank
!Class name
!What falls into this class?

|-
!I
|Altordian
|first-person and second-person personal pronouns

|-
!II
|Masculine
|third-person personal pronouns and other pronouns, deities, and male gators
|-
!III
|Juvenofeminine
|primarily female gators and hatchlings, but also weather events, body parts, and {{w|extraterrestrial life}}
|-
!IV
|Biotic
|animals, plants, and other biological things
|-
!V
|Inanimate
|stationary non-biological things, landscape features, astronomical bodies, [[Magic (AWiEC)|magic]]-related concepts, and abstract concepts
|}

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====Interrogative and negative sentences====
In an {{w|interrogative sentence}} in Meyāni, the interrogative auxiliary <ke> goes before other constituents of the sentence, and the verb moves to where the subject would be in a normal sentence. This is a remnant of the older {{w|V2 word order}} in Prorinian Qlerevi languages, whereby the verb phrase is always the second constituent of a clause.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| '''Ke''' róčaba túnutu úne ấvvâsa tấbanra-i úne-i ?
| Q eat.{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}} PFV.AUX.PST 1SG blood-SG enemy-PL-POSS 1SG-POSS ?
| "Did I drink the blood of my enemies?"
}}

Unlike English, Meyāni does not do {{w|wh-movement}} and does not have {{w|do-support}} in both questions and negative constructions.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Ke vóraba túnutu úne '''vu''' ra róča ấvvâsa tấbanra-i úne-i ro ?
| Q do-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}} PFV.AUX.PST 1SG what {{gcl|REL|relative pronoun}} eat blood-SG enemy-PL-POSS 1SG-POSS {{gcl|END.REL|end-relative pronoun}} ?
| "What did I do in order to drink the blood of my enemies?"
}}

According the [[Question word-first principle]] in Qlerevi languages whereby question particles always go first in a sentence, the negative particle <ña> goes after the main verb phrase in an interrogative sentence with negative mood.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Ke róčaba túnutu '''ña''' úne ấvvâsa tấbanra-i úne-i ?
| Q eat.{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}} PFV.AUX.PST NEG 1SG blood-SG enemy-PL-POSS 1SG-POSS ?
| "Did I not drink the blood of my enemies?"
}}

In a normal sentence with a negative, however, the sentence completely reverts to the verb going between the subject and direct object, with the negative particle going before the verb.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne '''ña''' róčaba túnutu ấvvâsa tấbanra-i úne-i .
| 1SG NEG eat.{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}} PFV.AUX.PST blood-SG enemy-PL-POSS 1SG-POSS .
| "I did not drink the blood of my enemies."
}}

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===="To Have"====
Meyāni does not have a verb meaning "to have", like many Qlerevi languages. Instead, it uses the appropriate form of the verb <rấmmau> "to be", with the postposition <sai> "in/on/at" being attached to the verb's direct object.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne '''rấmmau''' ấvvâsa '''sai''' .
| 1SG be.PRS blood-SG in/on/at .
| "I have blood." (literally: "I am in blood.")
}}

In an intransitive sentence or a sentence with a direct object that has been dropped, Meyāni uses a perfective construction with the verb <''táksa''> "to catch" in the present tense to express the meaning of "to have". This is descended from the earlier meaning of the verb as "to grab." In this usage of the verb, applying the imperfective aspect is ungrammatical.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne '''táksaba''' '''rấmmau''' .
| 1SG catch-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}} AUX.PFV-PRS .
| "I have." (literally: "I have caught.")
}}

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====Subordinate clauses====
In Meyāni, subordinate clauses are almost completely identical in both formation and usage to subordinate clauses in Proto-Qlerevi.

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=====Formation=====
Subordinate clauses in Meyāni are typically formed by using the particles <ra> and <ro>, termed the "relative pronoun" and the "end-relative pronoun" respectively (even though they aren't really pronouns in the strictest sense: a word that can stand for other words in a sentence). As the names suggest, the relative pronoun preceeds a subordinate clause and the end-relative pronoun succeeds a subordinate clause, functioning in order to revert the sentence back to the clause before the subordinate clause began.

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=====Usage=====
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==Numeral system==
''Note: All Meyāni text in this section of this article is written in a modified form of the {{w|Latin alphabet}}, not in the actual Meyāni script.''

The Meyāni language uses a {{w|Hexadecimal|hexadecimal}} or base-16 system, even though actual written numerals are expressed using {{w|Duodecimal|dozenal}} or base-12, with sub-bases of 5 and 10, remnants of the old vigesimal system. Linguists theorize that the hexadecimal system developed when speakers of [[Qlerevi languages]], with most of their languages using a {{W|vigesimal}} or base-20 system, encountered speakers of [[Pre-Yaksōnian languages]], whose languages primarily used {{w|12 (number)|12}} as a base. When these two languages encountered each other, the pre-Yaksōnian speakers who ultimately assimilated themselves into the Qlerevi languages and culture tried to use 20 as a base but were so used to their native base-12 system that they ended up using 16 as a base as a compromise between the two systems; the Qlerevi speakers later adopted this, hence the use of 16 as a base.

Meyāni numerals by default express their {{w|Cardinal numeral|cardinal}} form. Prefixes exist which are used to express the {{w|Ordinal numeral|ordinal}} and {{w|Fraction|fractional}} form. However, all of Meyāni's multiplicative forms for numerals are borrowed from the [[Ancient Venēmīan language]] and therefore {{w|Suppletion|suppletive}}, but these are archaic; alternatively, these forms could be expressed by using {{w|Adpositional phrase|postpositional phrases}} in most modern registers.
{| class="wikitable"
|+
! colspan="4" |Number
! colspan="4" |In spoken Meyāni
|-
! colspan="3" |In {{w|Hindu-Arabic numerals}}
! rowspan="2" |In [[Prorinian mathematics#Modern numeral system|Prorinian numerals]]
(modern notation)
! rowspan="2" |Cardinal form
! rowspan="2" |Ordinal form
! rowspan="2" |Fractional form
! rowspan="2" |Multiplicative form
(archaic)
|-
!Base-10
!Base-12
!Base-16
|-
| colspan="3" |0
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|0}}
|''ñíñta''
|''ku-ñíñta''
| colspan="2" |N/A
|-
| colspan="3" |1
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|1}}
|''bač''
| rowspan="38" |TBA
| rowspan="38" |TBA
| rowspan="38" |TBA
|-
| colspan="3" |2
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|2}}
|''šóten''
|-
| colspan="3" |3
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|3}}
|''sádam''
|-
| colspan="3" |4
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|4}}
|''yáñña''
|-
| colspan="3" |5
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|5}}
|''áčane''
|-
| colspan="3" |6
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|6}}
|''bač ča áčane''
|-
| colspan="3" |7
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|7}}
|''šóten ča áčane''
|-
| colspan="3" |8
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|8}}
|''sádam ča áčane''
|-
| colspan="3" |9
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|9}}
|''yáñña ča áčane''
|-
|10
| colspan="2" |A
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|a}}
|''yáda''
|-
|11
| colspan="2" |B
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|b}}
|''bač ča yáda''
|-
|12
|10
|C
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|10}}
|''šóten ča yáda''
|-
|13
|11
|D
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|11}}
|''sádam ča yáda''
|-
|14
|12
|E
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|12}}
|''yáñña ča yáda''
|-
|15
|13
|F
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|13}}
|''áčane ča yáda''
|-
|16
|14
|10
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|14}}
|''rấyone''
|-
|17
|15
|11
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|15}}
|''bač ča rấyone''
|-
|21
|19
|15
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|19}}
|''áčane ča rấyone''
|-
|24
|20
|18
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|20}}
|''sádam ča áčane ča rấyone''
|-
|26
|22
|1A
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|22}}
|''yáda ča rấyone''
|-
|32
|28
|20
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|28}}
|''šóten rấyone''
|-
|36
|30
|24
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|30}}
|''yáñña ča šóten rấyone''
|-
|48
|40
|30
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|40}}
|''sádam rấyone''
|-
|60
|50
|3C
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|50}}
|''šóten ča yáda ča sádam rấyone''
|-
|64
|54
|40
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|54}}
|''yáñña rấyone''
|-
|72
|60
|48
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|60}}
|''sádam ča áčane ča yáñña rấyone''
|-
|80
|68
|50
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|68}}
|''áčane rấyone''
|-
|84
|70
|54
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|70}}
|''yáñña ča áčane rấyone''
|-
|92
|80
|60
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|80}}
|''bač áčane rấyone''
|-
|108
|90
|6C
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|90}}
|''šóten ča yáda ča bač áčane rấyone''
|-
|112
|94
|70
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|94}}
|''šóten áčane rấyone''
|-
|120
|A0
|78
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|a0}}
|''sádam ča áčane ča šóten áčane rấyone''
|-
|128
|A8
|80
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|a8}}
|''sádam áčane rấyone''
|-
|132
|B0
|84
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|b0}}
|''yáñña ča sádam áčane rấyone''
|-
|144
|100
|90
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|100}}
|''yáñña áčane rấyone''
|-
|256
|194
|100
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|194}}
|''hấssâya''
|-
|4,096
|2,454
|1,000
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|2454}}
|''emmáufiša''
|-
|65,536
|31,B14
|10,000
|{{CustomScript|proriniannum|31b14}}
|''hấssâya emmáufiša''
|}

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==Vocabulary==
Around 2/3rds of all Meyāni {{w|vocabulary}} is of [[Qlerevi languages|Qlerevi]] origin. Qlerevi words in Meyāni are either directly inherited from [[Proto-Qlerevi language|Proto-Qlerevi]] or were borrowed from other Qlerevi languages. The vast majority of these terms in Meyāni are directly inherited from Proto-Qlerevi; the Qlerevi terms that were borrowed from other Qlerevi languages only account for less than 5% of all of Meyāni's vocabulary. Qlerevi-derived words encompass most of Meyāni's core vocabulary, so most of the time, no conherent sentence can be formed in Meyāni without resorting to using words of Qlerevi origin, with very rare exceptions.

Now-extinct [[pre-Yaksōnian languages]], which account for over 1/5th of all Meyāni words, are the main sources of {{w|loanwords}} within Meyāni's vocabulary. [[Ancient Venēmīan]], a {{w|prestige language}} which used to be learned by Meyāni gators of all ranks of society to connect with classical texts from the [[First Venēmīan Empire]] until it was banned by [[Meyāni#Nerấyavi's régime and the Great Prorinian War|the then-fascist-led government of Meyāni]] in 1942 AC shortly after [[Operation Yaksaháihča|the start of Meyāni's failed invasion of Yaksōn]], is the original language for the vast majority of these pre-Yaksōnian terms. Pre-Yaksōnian words in the Meyāni language are mostly terms relating to technical fields studied in the Prorinian peninsula like {{w|mathematics}}, {{w|Science|the sciences}}, {{w|music theory}}, {{w|philosophy}}, and [[Magic (AWiEC)|the art of magic]]; however, Pre-Yaksōnian words are also found in words relating to features of the Prorinian peninsula that don't exist or rarely do exist in the Qlerevi homeland, such as fauna (e.g. Meyāni *SCRIPT TBA* (''nagúrtos'') "{{w|elephant}}," with irregular o > u shift typical of assimilated loanwords), flora (e.g. Meyāni *SCRIPT TBA* (''ấččevon'') "{{w|Sequoioideae|redwood tree}}"), drinks (e.g. Meyāni *SCRIPT TBA* (''yeláira'') "{{w|wine}}"), and musical instruments (e.g. Meyāni *SCRIPT TBA* (''erínis'') "[[Prorinian music#Bee-lute|bee-lute]];"). Pre-Yaksōnian influence may have affected the grammar of Meyāni as well as contributing to vocabulary, with the language developing a strict {{w|V2 word order}} (which later shifted into a default {{w|Subject-verb-object word order|SVO word order}}, with few traces of the old V2 system remaining in the modern language) and losing most of the Proto-Qlerevi {{w|Grammatical case|case}} system.

Another major contributor of loanwords in Meyāni is the [[Rudakami language]]. Most Rudakami loanwords in Meyāni arrived during the period of [[Rudakami trade colonies|Rudakami merchants colonizing large areas of land on or near the Prorinian peninsula's coastline for trade with the local pre-Yaksōnian speakers]], which lasted from around 1800 BC until around 800 BC; these loanwords are typically related to concepts such as {{w|economics}}. However, during the period of [[Meyāni#Rudakami conquest and rule|Rudakami rule over Meyāni from 1632 AC until 1794 AC]], more Rudakami loanwords entered the language, mostly terms relating to {{w|government}}, the {{w|legal system}}, and {{w|feudalism}}. After Meyāni regained its independence from Rudakami control, there was widespread {{w|linguistic purism}} in Meyāni which aimed to purge all traces of Rudakami words within the language's vocabulary, which succeeded in removing a sizeable portion of Rudakami borrowings in the Meyāni lexicon but did not succeed in removing all of them. Today, Rudakami words account for around 1/10th of the Meyāni language's vocabulary.

===Derivation===
Meyāni makes heavy usage of {{w|agglutination}} and {{w|Compound (linguistics)|compounding}} to form new words. For example, the word *SCRIPT TBA* (''qlavmamčấčâlu'') translates to "{{w|syntax}}" in English and can be broken up into the following:

{{Interlinear|indent=2|top = qlavmamčấčâlu
|qlavmam-čâčâ-lu
|word-{{gcl|COL|collective}}-study.of
|"syntax" (literally: the study of a group of words)
}}

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== Example text==
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==Footnotes==
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Meyāni language

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{{Short description|Qlerevi language spoken in Meyāni and other regions in the Prorinian peninsula}}
{{Infobox Levarianquevan Language
| title = Meyāni
| othername = Meyānisian
| nativename = {{CustomScript|meyani|y}}̀ˋ˙{{CustomScript|meyani|t}}ˎ:{{CustomScript|meyani|n}}ˊ{{CustomScript|meyani|h@}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|n}}ˊ{{CustomScript|meyani|sir}}ˋ—{{CustomScript|meyani|i}} (''Yáto Nehấnesira-i'')
| image = Meyani distribution.png
| imagecaption = The distribution of the Standard Meyāni language in the Prorinian peninsula based on first-language speakers, overlaid by political boundaries: 
{{Color box|#7387Cf}}: Standard Meyāni is spoken by a majority of gators in the area as a {{w|First language|mother tongue}}. 
{{Color box|#8EA7ff}}: Standard Meyāni is spoken by a significant minority of gators in the area as a mother tongue. 
{{Color box|#bacbff}}: Standard Meyāni is spoken by a small minority of gators in the area as a mother tongue. 
{{Color box|#ffffff}}: Standard Meyāni is primarily learned as a {{w|second language}} by gators in the area, as little-to-no first-language speakers exist. 
{{Color box|#3f48cc}}: The area is covered by a body of {{w|water}}. 
{{Color box|#000000}}: Political boundary.|imagesize=250px|pronounciation=/ˈjæ.to nɛˈxɑː.nɛ.siː.ra.jiː/
| region=[[Prorinian peninsula]]
| speakers = ~ 9 million (L1) 
~ 16 million (L2) 
~ 25 million (total)
| family = [[Qlerevi languages|Qlerevi]]
*[[Eastern Qlerevi languages|Eastern Qlerevi]]
**[[Prorinian Qlerevi languages|Prorinian Qlerevi]]
***[[Central Prorinian Qlerevi languages|Central Prorinian Qlerevi]]
****[[Steppe Qlerevi languages|Steppe Qlerevi]]
*****[[Old Meyāni language|Old Meyāni]]
******[[Classical Meyāni language|Classical Meyāni]]
*******'''Meyāni'''
| script = [[Meyāni alphabet]]<ref>The script is classified as a partial {{w|abjad}} because "{{w|short vowels}}" are not written and require optional {{w|diacritics}} to be expressed properly without relying solely on {{w|context}}; see [[Meyāni language#Orthography|the orthography section of this article]].</ref>
| direction = {{w|Directionality and orientation|Left-to-right}}
| officialin = [[Meyāni]]
| recognized = [[Yaksōn]]
| consonants = 19
| vowels = 9 (6 {{w|monophthongs}}, 3 {{w|diphthongs}}
| syllablestructure = <nowiki>#</nowiki>((l)C)V/(N, h)(C)CV/(C, G)(C)#
| prosody = {{w|Stress (linguistics)|Stress}}
| inflectiontype = {{w|Analytic language|Analytic}}
| nouncase = m
| nounnumber = y
| noundefinite = n
| noungender = n
| adjectiveagreement = No
| verbtense = y
| verbaspect = m
| verbmood = m
| verbvoice = n
| verbsubject = n
| verbobject = n
| verbnumber = n
| verbevidence = n
| verbvalency = n
| markingposs = {{w|Dependent-marking language|Dependent-marking}}
| markingadj = {{w|Dependent-marking language|Dependent-marking}}
| markingverb = {{w|Zero-marking language|Zero-marking}}
| wordorder = {{w|Subject-verb-object}}
| otherorders = {{w|Verb-subject-object}} (in {{w|subordinate clauses}})
| headdirection = {{w|Head-directionality parameter#Head-final languages|Head-final}} ({{w|Head-directionality parameter#Head-initial languages|Head-initial}} in verb phrases)
| alignmenttype = {{w|Nominative-accusative alignment|Nominative-Accusative}}
}}

The '''Meyāni language''' is a [[Qlerevi languages|Qlerevi language]] primarily spoken on the [[Prorinian peninsula]]. The standard dialect is primarily spoken in southern [[Meyāni]], with significant minorities of speakers existing throughout the peninsula and adjacent lands. Its closest living relative that is not disputed to be a distinct {{w|language}} (either by the {{w|Linguistic description|descriptionism}} of {{w|Academic linguistics|scholarly linguistics}}, which is the primary form of {{w|Linguistic study|linguistic study}} used in this article, or {{w|linguistic prescription}}, which is promoted by [[Meyāni#Education|Meyāni's educational system]]) is the [[Bandit language]], which is spoken primarily in the northern and northwestern<ref>Due to Levarianqueva's retrograde rotation, east and west are swapped on maps.</ref> areas of the [[Great Prorinian Steppes (country)|Great Prorinian Steppes]]. The language is the sole {{w|official language}} of Meyāni, while it is recognized as a {{w|minority language}} in [[Yaksōn]] (where it was introduced to vast swathes of the country by lower-class {{w|refugees}} fleeing the low {{w|quality of life}} generated by [[Meyāni#Corporations|the corporations in ''de facto'' charge of the Meyāni government]]); in all other Prorinian countries, the language is not recognized.

The language has had a long history spanning back thousands of years. The ultimate accepted ancestor of Meyāni, the [[Proto-Qlerevi language]], was likely spoken in an area roughly overlapping with the modern-day nation of [[Qlerebam]]. After a {{w|drought}} that contributed to much of Qlerebam being covered in vast {{w|deserts}} today, the Qlerevi peoples then {{w|migrated}} throughout Levarianqueva, settling in locations as distant from [[Vreotannia]] to [[Arozdénia]] to the Prorinian peninsula. The Qlerevi languages that ultimately arrived at the Prorinian peninsula then diversified into two distinct {{w|language families}}: the [[Central Prorinian Qlerevi languages]] (which ultimately evolved into the Meyāni language and its relatives) and the [[Northwestern Prorinian Qlerevi languages]] (which ultimately evolved into the [[Nōlīnian language]] and its relatives), displacing the local [[Pre-Yaksōnian languages]] in the process while absorbing significant influences from them, including the development of a strict {{w|V2 word order}}.

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==Classification and Dialects==

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===Position in the Qlerevi family===
Meyāni is a [[Qlerevi languages|Qlerevi language]] belonging to the [[Eastern Qlerevi languages|eastern branch]], which includes the [[Prorinian Qlerevi languages]] (which Meyāni is a part of). The eastern branch of Qlerevi languages is primarily differentiated from other Qlerevi languages in that languages in this branch underwent various {{w|sound changes}} which were absent from other Proto-Qlerevi dialects, including, but not limited to:

* [[Proto-Qlerevi language|Proto-Qlerevi]] ''*p'' {{w|lenition|lenites}} into /''*β''/ between two {{w|vowels}} (and later disappears entirely in the Prorinian Qlerevi languages); e.g. Proto-Qlerevi ''*kapōñ'' "to form" > Proto-Eastern Qlerevi ''*kaβōñ'' > Meyāni {{CustomScript|meyani|k@}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|un}}ˊ (''káune'') "to build, to create," [[Nōlīnian language|Nōlīnian]] *SCRIPT TBA* (-''kaʔǫni''-) "to form."
* Proto-Qlerevi ''*w'' becomes /''*β''/ word-finally, which later disappeared in the Prorinian Qlerevi languages (and produced a four-way distinction in {{w|vowel length}} between short, half-long, long, and overlong which eventually disappeared in all of Proto-Prorinian Qlerevi's descendants in some way or another); e.g. Proto-Qlerevi ''*eqlew'' "eternal rival" > Proto-Eastern Qlerevi ''*eqleβ'' > Meyāni {{CustomScript|meyani|y}}ˋ˙{{CustomScript|meyani|ks}}ˋ (''yáksa'') "eternal rival," Nōlīnian *SCRIPT TBA* (''eqlè''-) "rival."
* Proto-Qlerevi ''*ts'' becomes /''*θ''/ in all positions, which later shifts into /''*s''/ in Proto-Prorinian Qlerevi; e.g. Proto-Qlerevi ''*wītsen'' "to see" > Proto-Eastern-Qlerevi ''*wīθān'' > Meyāni {{CustomScript|meyani|v@}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|is@n}} (''váisân'') "to see," Nōlīnian *SCRIPT TBA* (-''wįsąn''-) "to see."
* Some of Proto-Qlerevi's consonant clusters undergo heavy {{w|consonant assimilation}} in Eastern Qlerevi languages.

Modern Meyāni's closest living relative that is not disputed as being a distinct language is the [[Bandit language]], which is natively spoken in the northern and northwestern areas of the [[Great Prorinian Steppes (country)|Great Prorinian Steppes]]. The Bandit language shares many sound changes with Meyāni, which has diverged from it approximately 3,500 years ago. These include, but are not limited to:

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===Dialects===
Besides '''Standard Meyāni''' (which is what one typically means when they say "Meyāni language"), multiple other {{w|dialects}} of the Meyāni language exist each with their own unique properties. Standard Meyāni, which is based on the dialect spoken in the capital of [[Meraqlum]], is the official language of the country of [[Meyāni]] and is the dialect that is the closest to the [[Classical Meyāni|classical language]] spoken during the [[Bandit dynasty]] and also being the main {{w|liturgical language}} of the [[Áukanism|Áukanist]] faith. The main differences between Standard Meyāni and Classical Meyāni are the {{w|Conservative and innovative language|innovation}} of a separate {{w|optative mood}} in Standard Meyāni, the pronounciation of Standard Meyāni <v> as /w/ in Classical Meyāni, and the Classical Meyāni sequence /xl/ shifting in pronounciation to /q͡ʟ/ in standard Meyāni.

Some of the major dialect groups listed below. However, some of these dialects are dwindling in speakers as the standard dialect gains prominence ever since the establishment of a standardized [[Meyāni#Education|education system]]. Some quote-on-quote "dialects" that are more closely related to the Nōlīnian language than Standard Meyāni are excluded from the list.

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====Eastern Dialect Group====
The '''Eastern Dialect Group''' refers to a collection of Meyāni dialects that were spoken close to the border of [[Yaksōn]] and inside of the extreme eastern regions of the aforementioned country prior to massive standardization. Nowadays, dialects in this group are primarily spoken in the northeastern portions of Meyāni. These dialects are directly descended from early forms of the classical language and are closely related to the standard language; however, the Eastern Dialect Group has significant influences and {{w|loanwords}} from the [[Yaksōnian language]] due to centuries of contact which causes dialects in the Eastern Dialect Group to sound similar to Yaksōnian, so some speakers were mistakenly sent to {{w|concentration camps}} by the Nerấyavi regime on the basis that they were members of an "inferior race" despite not speaking Yaksōnian at all. These dialects are primarily written in both the [[Yaksōnian script]], which is an {{w|abugida}}, and the [[Meyāni script]], a partial {{w|abjad}}.

The main differences between the dialects in this group (with the Fidurin dialect given as an example, as it has most of the changes) and Standard Meyāni include:

'''Phonological differences:'''
* Standard Meyāni and Classical Meyāni non-{{w|Gemination|geminated}} <t> have turned into /r/ between {{w|vowels}} in dialects in the Eastern Dialect Group (compare Standard Meyāni {{CustomScript|meyani|s}}ˊ˙{{CustomScript|meyani|y}}ˋ{{CustomScript|meyani|t}}ˋ (''séyata'') "to fly" to [[Fidurin]] dialect *SCRIPT TBA* (''sáyoro'') "to fly").
* Dialects in the Eastern Dialect Group have undergone a massive {{w|vowel shift}} involving the following changes:
** Long vowels become short.
** Classical Meyāni <â> merged with <o>, then both shifted to /u/ (compare Standard Meyāni {{CustomScript|meyani|x@}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|by}}ˋ (''šấbya'') "good" to Fidurin dialect *SCRIPT TBA* (''šúppo'') "good").
** Former <nowiki></nowiki> became /y/ and later became /i/ (compare Standard Meyāni {{CustomScript|meyani|n}}ˋ{{CustomScript|meyani|gu}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|rt}}ˎ{{CustomScript|meyani|s}} (''nagúrtos'') "elephant" to Fidurin dialect *SCRIPT TBA* (''nokíttus'') "elephant").
** Former <nowiki></nowiki> became /e/ (compare Standard Meyāni {{CustomScript|meyani|i}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|n}}ˊ{{CustomScript|meyani|hiv}}ˋ (''ínehiva'') "instead of" to Fidurin dialect *SCRIPT TBA* (''énakewo'') "instead of")
** Former <e> became /ɐ̞/ (compare Standard Meyāni {{CustomScript|meyani|h}}ˊ{{CustomScript|meyani|xi}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|n}} (''hešín'') "to hear" to Fidurin dialect *SCRIPT TBA* (''kašén'') "to hear")
** Former <a> became /o/ (compare Standard Meyāni {{CustomScript|meyani|y}}ˋ˙{{CustomScript|meyani|x}}ˋ (''yáša'') "to think" to Fidurin dialect *SCRIPT TBA* (''yóšo'') "to decide")
** The diphthongs <ai>, <au>, and <eu> in Classical Meyāni have turned into monopthongs /e/, /o/, and /u/ respectively (compare Standard Meyāni {{CustomScript|meyani|y}}ˋ{{CustomScript|meyani|c}}ˋ{{CustomScript|meyani|ss@}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|i}} (''yačassái'') "bright," {{CustomScript|meyani|y}}ˋ{{CustomScript|meyani|v@}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|unk}}ˋ (''yaváunka'') "on the subject of," and {{CustomScript|meyani|l}}ˎ{{CustomScript|meyani|sti}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|u}} (''lostéu'') "to lose" to Fidurin dialect *SCRIPT TBA* (''yočossé'') "hot," *SCRIPT TBA* (''yowókko'') "on the subject of," and *SCRIPT TBA* (''lussú'') "to lose").
** The above changes have caused stress to be phonemic in these dialects.
* All consonant clusters from Classical Meyāni are heavily simplified in dialects in this group, simplifying into geminated consonants. Initial <lw-> becomes <w-> in these dialects.
* Most dialects in this group (including the Fidurin dialect) merge voiced obstruents with their voiceless counterparts, and allophonically turn non-geminated voiceless obstruents into voiced ones between vowels.
* Geminated consonants become short consonants at the ends of words in dialects in the Eastern Dialect Group.
* Some dialects in this group drop {{w|Stress (linguistics)|unstressed}} vowels at the ends of words. The Fidurin dialect does not have this feature, however.
* Standard Meyāni inserts the sound /x/ between two consecutive monopthongs. However, a different consonant is inserted in dialects in the Eastern Dialect Group: /k/. This is because Standard Meyāni <h> merges with /k/ in dialects in this group.

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====Meraqlum Dialect Group====
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====Southwestern Dialect Group====
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====Southern Dialect Group====
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====Veleonnean Vernacular Meyāni====
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==Phonology==
Unlike {{w|humans}}, [[Alligatoris sapiens|gators']] {{w|soft palates}} (which are the practical equivalent of the human {{w|velum}} as gators lack it) are naturally lowered, and so do not redirect air into the {{w|mouth}}. Instead, all sounds (including all {{w|consonants}}) are {{w|Nasalization|nasalized}} (which is not indicated in the {{w|International Phonetic Alphabet|IPA}} charts for Levarianquevan languages). Therefore, to humans, gators sound like they are {{w|Disease|sick}}.

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===Vowels===
Modern Standard Meyāni has six {{w|vowel}} phonemes, with three being "{{w|Vowel length|long}}" and three being short. Note that "long vowels" are not pronounced longer than the short vowels in most dialects, but the long pronunciation is proscribed in school textbooks.

{| class="wikitable"
|+Meyāni vowels
!
!Front
!Back
|-
!High
|i(ː) <nowiki></nowiki>
|u(ː) <nowiki></nowiki>
|-
!Mid
|ɛ <e>
| o <o>
|-
!Low
|æ <a>
|ɑ(ː) <â>
|}

The language also has three {{w|diphthongs}} which are often categorized as "long vowels": /ai/ <ai>, /au/ <au>, and /eu/ <eu>, the latter of which is rare and only occurs in a few words.

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===Consonants===
Modern Standard Meyāni has nineteen phonemic consonant phonemes, with /g/ only being found in {{w|loanwords}}. Pairs of sounds distinguished only by {{w|Voicing (phonetics)|vibrations in the vocal cords}} (if any exist) are separated with dots. In Meyāni, there are {{w|minimal pairs}} distinguished by {{w|gemination|consonant length}}.

{| class="wikitable"
!
!{{w|Labial consonant|Labial}}
!{{w|Alveolar consonant|Alveolar}}
!Retroflex I ({{w|Palatal consonant|Palatal}})
!Palatal ({{w|Velar consonant|Velar}})
|-
!{{w|Nasal consonant|Nasal release}} (Nasal)
|/m/ <m>
|/n/ <n>
|/ɲ/ <ñ>
|
|-
!{{w|Stop consonant|Stop}}
|<nowiki>/p/ • /b/ </nowiki>
|/t/ <t> • /d/ <d>
|
|/k/ <k> • /g/ <g>
|-
!{{w|Affricate|Affricate}}
|
|
|/t͡ʃ/ <č>
|/q͡ʟ/ <ql>
|-
!{{w|Fricative}}
|/f/ <f> • /v/ <v>
|/s/ <s>
|/ʃ/ <š>
|/x/ <h>
|-
!{{w|Approximant}}
|
|/l/ <l>
|/j/ <y>
|
|-
!{{w|Trill consonant|Trill}}
|
|/r/ <r>
|
|
|}

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====Allophony====
Some consonants can recieve {{w|Allophony|allophones}} in certain situations in Standard Meyāni:

*Most consonants can be {{w|Palatalization|retroflex I-ized}} (which is marked in the IPA by the addition of a subscript {{w|Latin script}} letter "j" [ʲ] after the symbol) before front vowels. However, Retroflex I consonants cannot undergo this process.
*<r> is usually pronounced as a trill [r]. Nevertheless, it could be pronounced as [ɹ] in {{w|Syllable coda|coda position}} if the {{w|syllable onset}} contains an alveolar or retroflex I consonant other than /j/.

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===Phonotactics===
Most words in Meyāni contain entirely open syllables. However, its maximum {{w|Syllable#Components|syllable structure}} is <code>#((l)C)V/(N, h)(C)CV/(C, G)(C)#</code>, where:

*"#" represents a boundary between words.
*"(l)" represents an optional /l/ that is only able to go before /v/, like in ''lvansa'', which means "sword".
*"(...)" represent optional components.
*"C" represents a consonant.
*"V" represents a vowel or diphthong.
*"G" represents a word-final consonant that undergoes {{w|gemination}}. This is optional.
*"/(N, h)(C)CV/" represents the possible phonotactical structure in syllables at the middle of a word.
*"N" represents any {{w|Nasal consonant|consonant with a nasal release}}

Unlike the closely related [[Bandit language]], Meyāni does not allow for word-initial {{w|consonant clusters}} (other than /lv/). Loanwords with initial consonant clusters are usually dealt with by {{w|epenthesis}}, the insertion of extra vowels. Consonant clusters that consist of two consonants with the same place of articulation and manner of articulation and with the only distinction between the two consonants being different voicing are not allowed in the language; these types of clusters are typically turned into geminated consonants carrying the voicing of the last consonant in the illegal cluster prior to assimilation. Most words with final consonants end with just one consonant or geminated consonant, though it is possible for two consonants to be present. Most words that have medial consonant clusters only have just two consonants, though it is possible for three consonants to be present in these clusters as long as the first sound in the cluster is either a nasal or /x/.

Meyāni also does not allow the occurrence of {{w|vowel hiatuses}}. Therefore, the <-i> suffix used in adjectives and possessor nouns is realized as /jiː/ in words that end in vowels.

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===Prosody===
Meyāni is a strictly {{w|mora-timed language}}, with each syllable getting one {{w|mora}} (two if the vowel in the {{w|syllable nucleus}} is either a "long vowel" or a diphthong). Stress in Meyāni always falls on the first syllable with a "long vowel" or diphthong as a nucleus in a word, with stress falling instead on the first syllable if there are no "long vowels" or diphthongs in a word entirely. Suffixes cannot receive stress.

In foreign words that have not been assimilated, stress falls on the syllable where it fell in the original language. However, loanwords that have been fully assimilated often have a stress shift to match the regular stress patterns or irregular vowel shifts.

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==Orthography==
[[File:Meyani script.png|200px|right]]

The Meyāni language is written in its own script, which is descended from {{w|logographs}} used by Proto-Qlerevi speakers. The script itself has features of both an {{w|alphabet}} and an {{w|abjad}} because short vowels are not written and require optional {{w|diacritics}} to be expressed, with {{w|Linguistics|linguists}} coining the term '''alphabjad''' to classify the Meyāni script. The script is written from left-to-right and has the following letters:
{| class="wikitable"
|+
!Letter
!Position in order
!Name
!Sound (other sounds)
|-
| rowspan="20" |TBA
|1
|''â''
|/ɑː/ (/æ/)
|-
|2
|''i''
|/iː/ (/ɛ/)
|-
|3
|''u''
|/uː/ (/o/)
|-
|4
|''bâ''
|/b/
|-
|5
|''čâ''
|/t͡ʃ/
|-
|6
|''dâ''
|/d/
|-
|7
|''fâ''
|/f/
|-
|8
|''hâ''
|/x/
|-
|9
|''yi''
|/j/
|-
|10
|''kâ''
|/k/ (/g/)
|-
|11
|''lâ''
|/l/
|-
|12
|''mâ''
|/m/
|-
|13
|''nâ''
|/n/
|-
|14
|''pâ''
|/p/
|-
|15
|''qlâ''
|/q͡ʟ/
|-
|16
|''râ''
|/r/
|-
|17
|''sâ''
|/s/
|-
|18
|''tâ''
|/t/
|-
|19
|''vu''
|/v/
|-
|20
|''šâ''
|/ʃ/
|}
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===Diacritics===

TBA
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===Punctuation===
TBA

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===Numerals===
TBA

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==Grammar==
''Note: All Meyāni text in this section of this article, other than the "Parts of Speech" section below, are written in a modified form of the {{w|Latin alphabet}}, not in the actual Meyāni script.''

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===Parts of Speech===
Meyāni grammarians divide all Meyāni words into nine {{w|parts of speech}}, primarily based on the treatises of [[Ancient Venēmīan language|Ancient Venēmīan]] grammarians and adapted to fit to the Meyāni language's grammar:

* Noun ('''Meyāni''': *SCRIPT TBA* (''ñấmyuvaba'') "name-thing"): A word that represents a place, person, idea, or thing. Ancient Venēmīan grammarians did not distinguish between nouns and adjectives because they inflected similarily in their language, but the Meyāni grammarians, whose language does not have much case marking (other than the genitive case) or adjective agreement, felt like the two needed to be distinguished. Hence, the words for "noun" and "adjective" have the same initial root.
*Adjective ('''Meyāni''': *SCRIPT TBA* (''ñấmyuhupsiltos'') "name-descriptor"): A word that describes a noun, verb, or another adjective. Adjectives can be used as adverbs in Meyāni, so the two are not distinguished according to the Meyāni grammarians when adverbs are their own parts of speech in Ancient Venēmīan. Postpositions and determiners can also be used to fill the functions of adverbs in Meyāni, but the few "true adverbs" like "now" and "tomorrow" that are not already classified as adjectives, postpositions, or determiners in Meyāni are classified as adjectives by the Meyāni grammarians.

:In Meyāni, adjectives have three uses: nominal, verbal, and predicative. "Nominal" adectives are the types of adjectives that describe nouns, and they go before their nouns and receive the <-''i''> suffix. "Verbal" adjectives function like adverbs, and describe both verbs and other adjectives. "Predicative" adjectives are adjectives that go after verbs, but the usage category also includes some intransitive verbs like *SCRIPT TBA* (''šấsane'') "to be sweet", which can stand alone as a predicate without requiring an additional verb before it and requires a suffix -*SCRIPT TBA* (-''ba'') to be used as a nominal adjective and a verbal adjective.

*Determiner ('''Meyāni''': *SCRIPT TBA* (''qlávmam ra yúča-i sávo vábaqlâkera-i sai ro'') "a word in the large grouping of thinglings"): A category of words that includes both {{w|quantifiers}} and {{w|numerals}}, both of which behave similarily both morphologically and syntactically and can be used as adverbs. Ancient Venēmīan scholars did not distinguish between the Meyāni determinative and demonstrative because they all went before the noun in their language, whereas in Meyāni, determinatives go before the noun while demonstratives go after despite both behaving morphologically similar; in fact, the Meyāni word for "determinative" in general, *SCRIPT TBA* (''vábaqlâke''), is a {{w|calque}} of the Ancient Venēmīan term for "determiner," which literally means "thingling."
*Demonstrative ('''Meyāni''': *SCRIPT TBA* (''qlávmam ra bấñâneba-i sávo vábaqlâkera-i sai ro'') "a word in the small grouping of thinglings"): A category of words that includes just two words: *SCRIPT TBA* (''su'') "this/these" and *SCRIPT TBA* (''súkin'') "that/those." These words are {{w|deictic}} words that convey which nouns are being referred to in the discourse.
*Pronoun ('''Meyāni''': *SCRIPT TBA* (''ñấmyuperidon'') "name-substitute"): A word that can stand in for any noun in a sentence. This category does not include [[Meyāni language#Subordinate clauses|the relative and end-relative pronouns]] ''ra'' and ''ro'' respectively, which are both lumped into the category of conjunction instead.
*Postposition ('''Meyāni'''): *SCRIPT TBA* (''vehašehấva'') "before-position"<ref>The name is inaccurate since it is a calque of a word in Ancient Venēmīan, which has prepositions instead of postpositions.</ref>): A word used to express spatial or temporal relations with a noun, which is refered to as its object. In addition, postpositions can also be used as adverbs.
* Verb ('''Meyāni''': *SCRIPT TBA* (''qlávmam'') "word"): A word that expresses an action or a state of being. The vast majority of verbs are action verbs, while the two verbs that express a state of being in Meyāni are *SCRIPT TBA* (''rấmmau'') "am/are/is" and *SCRIPT TBA* (''túnutu'') "was/were" (which also functions as an action verb because it is also the past tense form of the verb *SCRIPT TBA* (''túno'') "to become"
*Auxiliary ('''Meyāni''': *SCRIPT TBA* (''qlávmam ra yóho ro'') "a word that helps"): A word that adds to the verb and helps it express tenses and aspects beyond just the present and past.
*Conjunction ('''Meyāni''': *SCRIPT TBA* (''sídrenos'') (a loanword from Ancient Venēmīan)): A word that connects two clauses or affects the flow of a sentence.

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===Morphology===
Meyāni is generally an {{w|analytic language}} and does not make much use of {{w|inflection}}, other than {{w|Grammatical number|number}}, {{w|possession}}, and some {{w|grammatical tenses}}.

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====Nominals====
Nominals (nouns and adjectives) do not inflect for {{w|grammatical case}} (other than the {{w|genitive case}}), but inflect for number. The language has no {{w|grammatical gender}}. Meyāni is one of the only major [[Qlerevi languages]] to lack case marking.

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===== Noun phrases=====
Meyāni is mostly {{w|Head-directionality parameter#Head-initial languages|head-initial}} in noun phrases. The default order of Meyāni noun phrases is the following:

{| class="wikitable"
|+Default order of a Meyāni noun phrase
!Position
!-2
!-1
!0
!+1
!+2
!+3
!+4
!+5
!+6
|-
!What goes in the position?
!Numerals
(Independent words)
!Adjectives
(Independent words)
!HEAD NOUN
!Plural
(Suffix)
!Genitive
(Suffix)
!Possessor's noun phrase
(Independent words)
!Relative clauses
(Independent words)
!Demonstrative pronouns
(Independent words)
!Postposition
(Independent word)
|-
!Is this position mandatory in the phrase?
!No
!No
!Yes
!No
!No
!No
!No
!No
!No
|}

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=====Number=====
There are two grammatical numbers in Meyāni: singular and plural. The singular expresses that there is exactly one of a thing, while the plural expresses that there is more than one of a thing. To indicate plural number, a suffix <-ra> is used, which was derived from a Proto-Qlerevi word meaning "many." The plural number is not used when cardinal numerals are used in the noun phrase, as in this simple phrase:

{{interlinear|indent=2
| áčane ñéra
| five gator-SG
| "five gators"
}}

Some determiners (such as "all" or "many") that do not influence the number of their nouns in English make them singular in Meyāni instead, like numerals:

{{interlinear|indent=2
| báram ñéra
| all gator-SG
| "all gators"
}}

'''Mass nouns''' 
A mass noun is a noun which cannot be counted, and do not change between singular or plural numbers. Most mass nouns are ''singulare tantum'' (only taking the singular in all cases); however, some are ''plurare tantum'' (only taking the plural in all cases). To inflect for number, mass nouns are put into a possessive construction with a measure word or {{w|Classifier (linguistics)|classifier}} (depending on the grammar cited) being the possessee in the phrase.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| áčane áifâm yeláira-i
| five bucket-SG wine-SG-POSS
| "five glasses of wine" (literally: five buckets of wine)
}}

{{interlinear|indent=2
| áčane áifâm ehái-i
| five bucket-SG water-SG-POSS
| "five buckets of water" (literally: five buckets of water)
}}

Most abstract nouns (other than <''yáto''> "language," which also means "tongue") and most things that are very small are mass nouns in Meyāni, and require a measure word/classifier to be inflected for number.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| čáiva néčaqlo-i
| branch-SG magic-SG-POSS
| "a unit of magic" (i.e. "magic spell") (literally: branch of magic)
}}

{{interlinear|indent=2
| áukan píretes-i
| way/road-SG philosophy-SG-POSS
| "a philosophy" (literally: way/road of philosophy)
}}

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=====Possession=====
Meyāni has a {{w|genitive case}}, which is used for marking the possessor of a possessive phrase. The genitive case is marked with the suffix <-i>, which goes after the plural marker. Adjectives are also marked with the <-i> suffix, because both the genitive case and the adjectival marker are derived from a Proto-Qlerevi postposition meaning "of." Possessors go after their head nouns.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| néčaqloba-i ấnossu úne-i
| magic-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}}-ADJ snail-SG 1SG-POSS
| "my magical snail"
}}When a noun is being possessed by two other nouns in the genitive case that are separated by a coordinating conjunction, the conjunction is inflected for the genitive case as well.{{interlinear|indent=2
|kóra Sấvaren-i ča-i Reqlútton-i
|country-SG Sāvae-POSS and-POSS Reqlūndo-POSS| "Sāvae and Reqlūndo's country"
}}

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=====Adjectives=====
Like as mentioned in the previous section, Meyāni's adjectives are marked identically to the genitive case. However, adjectives are placed before their head nouns instead of after. Adjectives are not marked with the <-i> suffix when they are used alone as a predicate along with the copula.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne rấmmau '''šấbya''' .
| 1SG be.PRS good .
| "I am good."
}}

Numerals are also not marked with the <-i> suffix despite behaving like adjectives syntactically. Like numerals, determiners (like "all" and "many") do behave like adjectives syntactically.

Adjectives do not agree with their head nouns in terms of number, and stay the same form even if their head noun is plural.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| néčaqloba-i ấnossura
| magic-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}}-ADJ snail-PL
| "some/the magical snails"
}}

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======Adjective inflections======
Meyāni adjectives inflect to mark comparison, intensity, and sufficiency. These evolved from independent words that were suffixed onto adjectives and heavily simplified. Heavily-suffixed adjectives with affixes to convey comparison, intensity, and sufficiency are a common linguistic feature across the [[Prorinian peninsula]], but they are rare across the Qlerevi family.
{| class="wikitable"
! colspan="3" |
!Marking
!Example
|-
! colspan="3" |Positive
|*none*, ''-(y)i''
|''šấbya(-i)'' "good"
|-
! rowspan="5" |Comparative
! rowspan="3" |of superiority
!neutral
|''-(a)ran''
|''šấbyaran'' "better"
|-
!affirming
|''-(a)šberan''
|''šấbyašberan'' "better, and still good"
|-
!denying
|''-(a)šñaran''
|''šấbyašñaran'' "better, but not good"
|-
! colspan="2" |of equality
| -''(a)nso''
|''šấbyanso'' "as good"
|-
! colspan="2" |of inferiority
|''-(a)rña''
|''šấbyarña'' "less good"
|-
! rowspan="2" |Superlative
! colspan="2" |of superiority
|''-(a)šhi''
|''šấbyašhi'' "best"
|-
! colspan="2" |of inferiority
|''-(a)šañ''
|''šấbyašañ'' "least good"
|-
! colspan="3" |Intensive
|''-(a)šo''
|''šấbyašo'' "very good, so good"
|-
! colspan="3" |Insufficientive
|''-(a)ñân''
|''šấbyañân'' "not good enough"

|-
! colspan="3" |Sufficientive
|''-(a)vân''
|''šấbyavân'' "good enough, too good"
|}

'''Comparatives''' 
Meyāni ajectives have five different comparative forms, which are used for comparing two or three different entities:
* The '''neutral comparative of superiority''' expresses that one noun has a greater quantity of an adjective than other nouns, but does not make any statement about the comparison.
{{Interlinear|indent=2
|Bâr rấmmau '''rấvvibaran''' ra áudda íhâyi-i ro .
|3SG be.PRS be.fast-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}}-{{gcl|COMP.N.SUP|neutral comparative of superiority}} {{gcl|REL|relative pronoun}} brother-SG {{gcl|R|reflexive pronoun}}-POSS {{gcl|END.REL|end-relative pronoun}} .
|"He/she is faster than his/her brother."
}}
* The '''affirming comparative of superiority''' expresses that one noun has a greater quantity of an adjective than other nouns, but affirms the comparison.
{{Interlinear|indent=2
|Bâr rấmmau '''rấvvibašberan''' ra áudda íhâyi-i ro .
|3SG be.PRS be.fast-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}}-{{gcl|COMP.A.SUP|affirming comparative of superiority}} {{gcl|REL|relative pronoun}} brother-SG {{gcl|R|reflexive pronoun}}-POSS {{gcl|END.REL|end-relative pronoun}} .
|"He/she is faster than his/her brother, and also fast."
}}
* The '''denying comparative of superiority''' expresses that one noun has a greater quantity of an adjective than other nouns, but denies the fact that the noun with a greater quantity of said adjective has that trait.
{{Interlinear|indent=2
|Bâr rấmmau '''rấvvibašñaran''' ra áudda íhâyi-i ro .
|3SG be.PRS be.fast-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}}-{{gcl|COMP.D.SUP|denying comparative of superiority}} {{gcl|REL|relative pronoun}} brother-SG {{gcl|R|reflexive pronoun}}-POSS {{gcl|END.REL|end-relative pronoun}} .
|"He/she is faster than his/her brother, but he is not fast.", "While he/she is faster than his/her brother, he/she is not fast."
}}
* The '''comparative of equality''' expresses that one noun does not have a greater or lesser quantity of an adjective than other nouns.
{{Interlinear|indent=2
|Kấraše rấmmau '''ahháumbanso''' ra áudda íhâyi-i ro .
|Kấraše be.PRS care-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}}-{{gcl|COMP.E|comparative of equality}} {{gcl|REL|relative pronoun}} brother-SG {{gcl|R|reflexive pronoun}}-POSS {{gcl|END.REL|end-relative pronoun}} .
|"Kấraše is as caring as his brother."
}}
*TBA

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=====Pronouns=====

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======Personal pronouns======
Meyāni has six {{w|personal pronouns}}, with three being singular and three being plural. Personal pronouns do not change form for case or gender.

{| class="wikitable"
|+Meyāni personal pronouns
!Number →
Person
↓
!Singular
!Plural
|-
!1st person
|''úne''
|''úñra''
|-
!2nd person
|''qle'', ''qlíša''<ref><Qlíša> (the plural form) can be used as a polite form of address or to address strangers regardless of number, while <qle> (the singular form) is used among friends and family members or to insult one's superiors. A similar thing happens in [[Yaksōnian language|modern Yaksōnian]], which is a part of a pan-Prorinian linguistic ''{{w|sprachbund}}'' affecting the two languages.</ref>
|''qlíša''

|-
!3rd person
|''bâr''
|''bấrra''
|}

Meyāni is a partial {{w|pro-drop language}}, which means that subject or object personal pronouns are optional and can be dropped if the context gets rid of the need for them. This is especially seen in sentences relating to the weather or in informal conversation.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| ('''Bâr''') Šéha reñấn áčane qlísseyo sai . ('''Qlíša''') Túnutu sáudeče úne-i sai ?
| (3SG) rain-PRS FUT.AUX five qlisseo-SG in/on/at . (2PL) be.PST message-SG 1SG-POSS in/on/at ?
| "It will be raining in five ''qlisseo''<ref>A [[Levarianqueva|Levarianquevan]] unit of time roughly equivalent to 1.7933 hours in {{w|Time#Measurement|Terran time}}</ref>. Did you get my message?"
}}

Note that the above sentences lack subject pronouns, as they can be inferred from context.

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======Reflexive pronouns======
Meyāni has a single simple reflexive pronoun: <''íhâyi''>. This pronoun can be used for all persons and numbers when any noun in the predicate is the same as the subject.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne ámu '''íhâyi''' .
| 1SG love-PRS {{gcl|R|reflexive pronoun}} .
| "I love myself."
}}

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Ke ámu qle/qlíša '''íhâyi''' ?
| Q love-PRS 2SG/2PL {{gcl|R|reflexive pronoun}} ?
| "Do you love yourself?"
}}

When the possessor of the direct object, indirect object, or any noun in a postpositional phrase is the same as the subject, the reflexive pronoun is used as the possessor in the possessive phrase. This is similar to certain Terran languages like {{w|Russian language|Russian}} and (to a lesser extent) {{w|Latin}}.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Bâr ámu sấku '''íhâyi-i''' .
| 3SG love-PRS wife-SG {{gcl|R|reflexive pronoun}}-POSS .
| "He loves his own wife."
}}

Contrast the above sentence with the following sentence, where the possessor of the sentence's direct object is not the same as its subject:

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Bâr ámu sấku '''bấr-i''' .
| 3SG love-PRS wife-SG 3SG-POSS .
| "He loves someone else's wife."
}}

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======Indefinite pronouns======
Unlike certain colloquial forms of English, which use the second person personal pronoun to express an indefinite pronoun "one", Meyāni uses the third person singular personal pronoun for this purpose instead.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| '''Bâr''' ña ấhano bávva ra sáubune Eqlíssalos ra áqlo oñqlấmmuba-i šohčúqlau ro šấne ro .
| 3SG NEG coerce AUX.DEO {{gcl|REL|relative pronoun}} change-PRS Eqléssalos {{gcl|REL|relative pronoun}} start-PRS to.be.violent-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}}-ADJ protest-SG {{gcl|END.REL|end-relative pronoun}} up/after {{gcl|END.REL|end-relative pronoun}} .
| "One cannot force the Eqléssalos to reform by starting a violent protest."
| c1 = (A quote from Rírin-i Roqlínau, who famously advocated for a reformation of the [[Eqléssalos of Mages]] in order to reduce corruption within the magical institution and turn it into a bulwark against corporate influence.)
}}

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======Demonstrative pronouns======
Meyāni has two basic {{w|demonstrative pronouns}}: <''su''> "this" and <''súkin''> "that." Demonstrative pronouns behave like numerals morphologically, not agreeing in number with the nouns they modify and not taking the <-i> suffix that is taken by adjectives when in a noun phrase. However, they go after their head noun instead of before.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| šấbya-i ñéra '''súkin'''
| good-ADJ gator-SG that
| "that good gator"
}}

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======Interrogative pronouns======
Proto-Qlerevi had one simple interrogative pronoun (which was the ancestor of Meyāni <''vu''> "what, which"). However, new interrogative pronouns evolved in Meyāni (as well as in almost every other Qlerevi language) from combinations of this simple root with a series of postpositions. The resulting combinations then gradually simplified over time due to common usage.

{| class="wikitable"
|+Meyāni interrogative pronouns
!Meyāni word (source)
!English translation
|-
|''vu''
|"what," "which," "who/whom"

|-
|''vúši'' (< ''vu sai'' "in/on/at what")
|"where"
|-
|''vútu'' (< ''vu tau'' "from what")
|"whence"
|-
|''vúbña'' (< ''vu báne'' "towards what")
|"whither"
|-
|''váiba'' (< ''vu yáiba'' "during what")
|"when"

|-
|''vúra'' (< ''vu sára'' "by what means")
|"how"
|-
|''vúsa'' (< ''vu sa'' "for what")
|"why"
|}

The base interrogative pronoun can behave like numerals when used as adjectives, as shown in the following interrogative sentence:

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Ke yáira úne '''vu''' ñéra ?
| Q like-PRS 1SG what gator-SG ?
| "What/which gator do I like?"
}}

=====Articles=====
Meyāni does not have articles, so <''šấbya-i ñéra''> could either mean "a good gator" or "the good gator" depending on context.

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====Verbs====
Meyāni's verb system is generally analytic; the verb system relies on {{w|auxiliary verbs}} to express tense, aspect, or modal information outside of what the verbs themselves can express alone.

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=====Tense=====
Meyāni verbs inflect for just two tenses: {{w|past}} and {{w|Nonpast tense|non-past}}, which expresses events that happened in the past and events that did not happen in the past respectively. The non-past tense (which is often called simply the "{{w|present tense}}" and glossed in this article as such) is considered to be the default form of the verb and is listed in dictionaries alongside the past form in entries for irregular verbs. Most verbs indicate the past tense by the addition of a suffix <-tu>, which is derived from a verb meaning "to become." However, some verbs undergo {{w|suppletion}} between the non-past and past tenses (e.g. non-past <''rấmmau''> "am/are/is" → past <''túnutu''> "was/were" (which also means "became"); non-past <''íhu''> "go/goes" → past <''sáista''> "went").

However, some verbs indicate the past tense by changing the last vowel in the root in addition to using the <-tu> suffix (e.g. non-past <''ấnnaiha''> "receive/receives" → past <''ấnnaihâtu''> "received"; <''túno''> "become/becomes" → <''túnutu''> "became" (which also means "was/were")), which is ultimately caused by a final ''*w'' in the Proto-Qlerevi form. Some verbs indicate the past tense by means of a suffix <-ču> instead of the regular <-tu> (e.g. non-past <''yába''> "give up/gives up, surrender/surrenders" → past <''yábaču''> "gave up, surrendered"; non-past <''lvábba''> "fight/fights" → past <''lvábbaču''> "fought"); this also has an etymological origin, this time that of a final ''*y'' in the Proto-Qlerevi form instead of a ''*w''.

The {{w|future tense}} is formed by the addition of the verb <''reñấn''> "to want" after the non-past form of the verb. Unlike the [[Nōlīnian language]], Meyāni does not distinguish between any subdivisions of these three basic tenses and relies on adverbs or adverbial phrases to express these more concrete subdivisions instead.

The different tenses can be illustrated with the following three sentences:

{{interlinear|indent=2
|Úñra '''lvábba''' kídobâlo .
| 1PL fight-PRS corruption-SG .
| "We are fighting corruption."}}

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| Úñra '''lvábbaču''' kídobâlo .
| 1PL fight-PST corruption-SG .
| "We were fighting corruption."}}

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úñra '''lvábba''' '''reñấn''' kídobâlo .
| 1PL fight-PRS AUX.FUT corruption-SG .
| "We will be fighting corruption."}}

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=====Aspect=====
Meyāni distinguishes between just two {{w|grammatical aspects}}: the {{w|imperfective aspect}} and the {{w|perfective aspect}}. The imperfective is considered to be the default form of a verb; the perfective is expressed by turning the dictionary form of the verb into an adjective and adding the appropriate form of the verb <''rấmmau''> "to be" after the main verb.

'''Uses for the imperfective aspect''' 
The imperfective aspect's main usage is to express that an action is ongoing or is habitual. In the present tense, it expresses that the action stated by the verb is ongoing.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úñra '''lvábba''' tấbanra íhâyi-i , ča qlíša ña váhho óban . Yo váhho rấsâm rấnlaksara qlíša-i sai !
| 1PL fight-PRS enemy-PL {{gcl|R|reflexive pronoun}}-POSS , and 2PL NEG now party . IMP now get.back-PRS formation/line-PL 2PL-POSS in/on/at !
| "We are fighting our enemies, not partying. Get back in your formations immediately!"
}}

In the above sentences, the verb phrase with the main verb <''lvábba''> "to fight" is in the imperfective aspect in the present tense, expressing that the act of fighting enemies is an ongoing process.

In the past tense, the imperfective aspect expresses that an action was ongoing in the past but has been stopped in some way, either by being completed or by being interrupted.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne '''ấščâlârtu''' eredấnos Partấbala Meraqlúm-i sai .
| 1SG study-PST math-SG university-SG Meraqlum-POSS in/on/at .
| "I was study/used to study mathematics at the University of Meraqlum."
}}

In the above sentence, the verb phrase with the main verb <''ấščâlâr''> "studied" is in the imperfective aspect, expressing that the act of studying mathematics at a university was ongoing, but is not ongoing anymore in the present.

In the future tense, the imperfective aspect expresses that an action will be ongoing in the future.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úñra '''básso''' '''reñấn''' áiñeye .
| 1PL join-PRS AUX.FUT army-SG .
| "We will join the army."
}}

In the above sentence, the verb phrase with the main verb <''básso''> "to join" is in the imperfective, expressing that the act of joining the army is something that is going to happen.

Meyāni lacks a {{w|Progressive aspect|progressive}} aspect and a {{w|Habitual aspect|habitual}} aspect. The imperfective aspect is used instead to convey the roles expressed by the progressive and habitual aspects on their own.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne šíra .
| 1SG work-PRS .
| "I work/am working/habitually work."
}}

'''Uses for the perfective aspect''' 
The perfective aspect is primarily used to emphasize that an action has been completed. In the past tense, it is used to show that the action stated by the verb has been completed, with emphasis on the action being completed.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne '''róčaba''' '''túnutu''' yeláira áifâm-i .
| 1SG eat-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}} AUX.PFV.PST wine-SG bucket-SG-POSS .
| "I drank a glass of wine."
}}

In the above sentence, the verb phrase with the main verb <''róča''> "to eat/drink" is in the perfective aspect, expressing that the action of drinking wine has been completed, with emphasis on completion.

In the future tense, the perfective aspect is used to express that an action will be completed in the future.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne '''čétalataba''' '''rấmmau''' '''reñấn''' čétala .
| 1SG read-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}} AUX.PFV.PRS AUX.FUT book .
| "I will finish reading a book."
}}

In the above sentence, the verb phrase with the main verb <''čétalata''> "to read" is in the perfective aspect, expressing that an action will be completed in the future.

In the present tense, using the perfective aspect is ungrammatical in most formal varieties. However, some colloquial dialects use present tense and perfective aspect to express that an action will be completed soon or has been completed recently.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne '''čétalataba''' '''rấmmau''' čétala .
| 1SG read-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}} AUX.PFV.PRS book .
| "I will finish reading a book soon/I have finished reading a book recently."
}}

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=====Mood=====
TBA

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=====Voice=====
Meyāni does not have any distinctions between the active and passive voices.

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===Syntax===

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==== Word order====
Standard Meyāni generally has a default word order of {{w|Subject-verb-object word order|subject-verb-object}} (SVO), as in English.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne rấmmau ñéra .
| 1SG be.PRS gator-SG .
| "I am a gator."
}}

However, this becomes {{w|Verb-subject-object word order|verb-subject-object}} (VSO) in {{w|subordinate clauses}}.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| ... ra ña rấmmau bâr ñéra ro .
| ... {{gcl|REL|relative pronoun}} NEG be.PRS 3SG gator-SG {{gcl|END.REL|end-relative pronoun}} .
| "... that he/she/it is not a gator."
}}

As said in the section on nominals, Meyāni's {{w|adjectives}} proceed the nouns they modify and {{w|Possession (linguistics)|possessors}} succeed their possessed nouns. Adverbs and adverbial phrases also proceed the parts of speech they modify and {{w|Numeral (linguistics)|numerals}} behave like adjectives in overall syntax.

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====Prepositional phrases and animacy====
In Meyāni, prepositional phrases (or postpositional phrases, as there are postpositions instead of prepositions) have an {{w|animacy}}-based {{w|Implicational hierarchy|hierarchy}} dependent on their objects which dictates the position of the postpositional phrase in relation to the direct object or intransitive verb of the sentence. Postpositional phrases with more animate objects tend to come closer to the direct object (or the verb, in sentences that lack a direct object) than postpositional phrases with more inanimate objects. In this example, the first and last postpositional phrases in the sentence are '''bolded'''.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne vehíčasaba túnutu '''ačấmra''' '''ahhaumba-i''' '''oksara-i''' '''lấčai''' nenáum ra rấmmau yánohe Meraqlúm-i sai ro sai '''ku-yáñña''' '''ča''' '''ku-áčane''' '''yáñña''' '''hấssâya-i''' '''yehấrum''' '''ra''' '''túnutu''' '''Bemumšo''' '''šấne''' '''ro''' '''sai''' .| 1SG hatch-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}} PFV.AUX.PST hand-PL care-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}}-ADJ parent-PL-POSS into carcass {{gcl|REL|relative pronoun}} be.PRS city.center-SG Meraqlum-SG-POSS in/on/at {{gcl|END.REL|end-relative pronoun}} in/on/at {{gcl|ORD|ordinal numeral}}-four and {{gcl|ORD|ordinal numeral}}-five four two.hundred.fifty.six-ADJ year {{gcl|REL|relative pronoun}} be.PST drought-{{gcl|INTS|intensifier}}-SG up/after {{gcl|END.REL|end-relative pronoun}} in/on/at .| "I was hatched into the hands of caring parents at a carcass in Meraqlum's city center in the 2,308th year AC (After the Collapse)."
| c1 = (An excerpt from ''An Autobiography of the Rebel-Mage'' by [[Rírin-i Roqlínau]])
}}

The sentence is grammatical because, in the Meyāni animacy hierarchy, "year" is less animate than "carcass," which is in turn less animate than "hands." However, Meyāni does not apply this animacy hierarchy to the subject, direct object, or adjectival predicates of a sentence like in [[Proto-Qlerevi language|Proto-Qlerevi]].

Meyāni maintains most of the Proto-Qlerevi animacy classes, but some have been merged into other classes; most notably, the inanimate and abstract classes of Proto-Qlerevi have merged into a single inanimate class and the megalozoic and microzoic classes have merged into a single biotic class in Meyāni. Also, the egordian and tuordian classes of Proto-Qlerevi have merged into a single "altordian" class in Meyāni, leaving only five animacy classes compared to the eight that Proto-Qlerevi has. Proto-Qlerevi itself is evidenced to have undergone a similar reduction in the amount of distinguished classes in its history, with earlier versions likely having massive {{w|noun class}} systems similar to Terran {{w|Bantu languages}} like {{w|Swahili language|Swahili}}.

The following five classes are distinguished in Meyāni:

{| class="wikitable"
|+Meyāni animacy hierarchy
!Rank
!Class name
!What falls into this class?

|-
!I
|Altordian
|first-person and second-person personal pronouns

|-
!II
|Masculine
|third-person personal pronouns and other pronouns, deities, and male gators
|-
!III
|Juvenofeminine
|primarily female gators and hatchlings, but also weather events, body parts, and {{w|extraterrestrial life}}
|-
!IV
|Biotic
|animals, plants, and other biological things
|-
!V
|Inanimate
|stationary non-biological things, landscape features, astronomical bodies, [[Magic (AWiEC)|magic]]-related concepts, and abstract concepts
|}

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====Interrogative and negative sentences====
In an {{w|interrogative sentence}} in Meyāni, the interrogative auxiliary <ke> goes before other constituents of the sentence, and the verb moves to where the subject would be in a normal sentence. This is a remnant of the older {{w|V2 word order}} in Prorinian Qlerevi languages, whereby the verb phrase is always the second constituent of a clause.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| '''Ke''' róčaba túnutu úne ấvvâsa tấbanra-i úne-i ?
| Q eat.{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}} PFV.AUX.PST 1SG blood-SG enemy-PL-POSS 1SG-POSS ?
| "Did I drink the blood of my enemies?"
}}

Unlike English, Meyāni does not do {{w|wh-movement}} and does not have {{w|do-support}} in both questions and negative constructions.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Ke vóraba túnutu úne '''vu''' ra róča ấvvâsa tấbanra-i úne-i ro ?
| Q do-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}} PFV.AUX.PST 1SG what {{gcl|REL|relative pronoun}} eat blood-SG enemy-PL-POSS 1SG-POSS {{gcl|END.REL|end-relative pronoun}} ?
| "What did I do in order to drink the blood of my enemies?"
}}

According the [[Question word-first principle]] in Qlerevi languages whereby question particles always go first in a sentence, the negative particle <ña> goes after the main verb phrase in an interrogative sentence with negative mood.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Ke róčaba túnutu '''ña''' úne ấvvâsa tấbanra-i úne-i ?
| Q eat.{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}} PFV.AUX.PST NEG 1SG blood-SG enemy-PL-POSS 1SG-POSS ?
| "Did I not drink the blood of my enemies?"
}}

In a normal sentence with a negative, however, the sentence completely reverts to the verb going between the subject and direct object, with the negative particle going before the verb.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne '''ña''' róčaba túnutu ấvvâsa tấbanra-i úne-i .
| 1SG NEG eat.{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}} PFV.AUX.PST blood-SG enemy-PL-POSS 1SG-POSS .
| "I did not drink the blood of my enemies."
}}

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===="To Have"====
Meyāni does not have a verb meaning "to have", like many Qlerevi languages. Instead, it uses the appropriate form of the verb <rấmmau> "to be", with the postposition <sai> "in/on/at" being attached to the verb's direct object.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne '''rấmmau''' ấvvâsa '''sai''' .
| 1SG be.PRS blood-SG in/on/at .
| "I have blood." (literally: "I am in blood.")
}}

In an intransitive sentence or a sentence with a direct object that has been dropped, Meyāni uses a perfective construction with the verb <''táksa''> "to catch" in the present tense to express the meaning of "to have". This is descended from the earlier meaning of the verb as "to grab." In this usage of the verb, applying the imperfective aspect is ungrammatical.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne '''táksaba''' '''rấmmau''' .
| 1SG catch-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}} AUX.PFV-PRS .
| "I have." (literally: "I have caught.")
}}

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====Subordinate clauses====
In Meyāni, subordinate clauses are almost completely identical in both formation and usage to subordinate clauses in Proto-Qlerevi.

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=====Formation=====
Subordinate clauses in Meyāni are typically formed by using the particles <ra> and <ro>, termed the "relative pronoun" and the "end-relative pronoun" respectively (even though they aren't really pronouns in the strictest sense: a word that can stand for other words in a sentence). As the names suggest, the relative pronoun preceeds a subordinate clause and the end-relative pronoun succeeds a subordinate clause, functioning in order to revert the sentence back to the clause before the subordinate clause began.

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=====Usage=====
TBA

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==Numeral system==
''Note: All Meyāni text in this section of this article is written in a modified form of the {{w|Latin alphabet}}, not in the actual Meyāni script.''

The Meyāni language uses a {{w|Hexadecimal|hexadecimal}} or base-16 system, even though actual written numerals are expressed using {{w|Duodecimal|dozenal}} or base-12, with sub-bases of 5 and 10, remnants of the old vigesimal system. Linguists theorize that the hexadecimal system developed when speakers of [[Qlerevi languages]], with most of their languages using a {{W|vigesimal}} or base-20 system, encountered speakers of [[Pre-Yaksōnian languages]], whose languages primarily used {{w|12 (number)|12}} as a base. When these two languages encountered each other, the pre-Yaksōnian speakers who ultimately assimilated themselves into the Qlerevi languages and culture tried to use 20 as a base but were so used to their native base-12 system that they ended up using 16 as a base as a compromise between the two systems; the Qlerevi speakers later adopted this, hence the use of 16 as a base.

Meyāni numerals by default express their {{w|Cardinal numeral|cardinal}} form. Prefixes exist which are used to express the {{w|Ordinal numeral|ordinal}} and {{w|Fraction|fractional}} form. However, all of Meyāni's multiplicative forms for numerals are borrowed from the [[Ancient Venēmīan language]] and therefore {{w|Suppletion|suppletive}}, but these are archaic; alternatively, these forms could be expressed by using {{w|Adpositional phrase|postpositional phrases}} in most modern registers.
{| class="wikitable"
|+
! colspan="4" |Number
! colspan="4" |In spoken Meyāni
|-
! colspan="3" |In {{w|Hindu-Arabic numerals}}
! rowspan="2" |In [[Prorinian mathematics#Modern numeral system|Prorinian numerals]]
(modern notation)
! rowspan="2" |Cardinal form
! rowspan="2" |Ordinal form
! rowspan="2" |Fractional form
! rowspan="2" |Multiplicative form
(archaic)
|-
!Base-10
!Base-12
!Base-16
|-
| colspan="3" |0
| rowspan="39" |TBA
|''ñíñta''
|''ku-ñíñta''
| colspan="2" |N/A
|-
| colspan="3" |1
|''bač''
| rowspan="38" |TBA
| rowspan="38" |TBA
| rowspan="38" |TBA
|-
| colspan="3" |2
|''šóten''
|-
| colspan="3" |3
|''sádam''
|-
| colspan="3" |4
|''yáñña''
|-
| colspan="3" |5
|''áčane''
|-
| colspan="3" |6
|''bač ča áčane''
|-
| colspan="3" |7
|''šóten ča áčane''
|-
| colspan="3" |8
|''sádam ča áčane''
|-
| colspan="3" |9
|''yáñña ča áčane''
|-
|10
| colspan="2" |A
|''yáda''
|-
|11
| colspan="2" |B
|''bač ča yáda''
|-
|12
|10
|C
|''šóten ča yáda''
|-
|13
|11
|D
|''sádam ča yáda''
|-
|14
|12
|E
|''yáñña ča yáda''
|-
|15
|13
|F
|''áčane ča yáda''
|-
|16
|14
|10
|''rấyone''
|-
|17
|15
|11
|''bač ča rấyone''
|-
|21
|19
|15
|''áčane ča rấyone''
|-
|24
|20
|18
|''sádam ča áčane ča rấyone''
|-
|26
|22
|1A
|''yáda ča rấyone''
|-
|32
|28
|20
|''šóten rấyone''
|-
|36
|30
|24
|''yáñña ča šóten rấyone''
|-
|48
|40
|30
|''sádam rấyone''
|-
|60
|50
|3C
|''šóten ča yáda ča sádam rấyone''
|-
|64
|54
|40
|''yáñña rấyone''
|-
|72
|60
|48
|''sádam ča áčane ča yáñña rấyone''
|-
|80
|68
|50
|''áčane rấyone''
|-
|84
|70
|54
|''yáñña ča áčane rấyone''
|-
|92
|80
|60
|''bač áčane rấyone''
|-
|108
|90
|6C
|''šóten ča yáda ča bač áčane rấyone''
|-
|112
|94
|70
|''šóten áčane rấyone''
|-
|120
|A0
|78
|''sádam ča áčane ča šóten áčane rấyone''
|-
|128
|A8
|80
|''sádam áčane rấyone''
|-
|132
|B0
|84
|''yáñña ča sádam áčane rấyone''
|-
|144
|100
|90
|''yáñña áčane rấyone''
|-
|256
|194
|100
|''hấssâya''
|-
|4,096
|2,454
|1,000
|''emmáufiša''
|-
|65,536
|31,B14
|10,000
|''hấssâya emmáufiša''
|}

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==Vocabulary==
Around 2/3rds of all Meyāni {{w|vocabulary}} is of [[Qlerevi languages|Qlerevi]] origin. Qlerevi words in Meyāni are either directly inherited from [[Proto-Qlerevi language|Proto-Qlerevi]] or were borrowed from other Qlerevi languages. The vast majority of these terms in Meyāni are directly inherited from Proto-Qlerevi; the Qlerevi terms that were borrowed from other Qlerevi languages only account for less than 5% of all of Meyāni's vocabulary. Qlerevi-derived words encompass most of Meyāni's core vocabulary, so most of the time, no conherent sentence can be formed in Meyāni without resorting to using words of Qlerevi origin, with very rare exceptions.

Now-extinct [[pre-Yaksōnian languages]], which account for over 1/5th of all Meyāni words, are the main sources of {{w|loanwords}} within Meyāni's vocabulary. [[Ancient Venēmīan]], a {{w|prestige language}} which used to be learned by Meyāni gators of all ranks of society to connect with classical texts from the [[First Venēmīan Empire]] until it was banned by [[Meyāni#Nerấyavi's régime and the Great Prorinian War|the then-fascist-led government of Meyāni]] in 1942 AC shortly after [[Operation Yaksaháihča|the start of Meyāni's failed invasion of Yaksōn]], is the original language for the vast majority of these pre-Yaksōnian terms. Pre-Yaksōnian words in the Meyāni language are mostly terms relating to technical fields studied in the Prorinian peninsula like {{w|mathematics}}, {{w|Science|the sciences}}, {{w|music theory}}, {{w|philosophy}}, and [[Magic (AWiEC)|the art of magic]]; however, Pre-Yaksōnian words are also found in words relating to features of the Prorinian peninsula that don't exist or rarely do exist in the Qlerevi homeland, such as fauna (e.g. Meyāni *SCRIPT TBA* (''nagúrtos'') "{{w|elephant}}," with irregular o > u shift typical of assimilated loanwords), flora (e.g. Meyāni *SCRIPT TBA* (''ấččevon'') "{{w|Sequoioideae|redwood tree}}"), drinks (e.g. Meyāni *SCRIPT TBA* (''yeláira'') "{{w|wine}}"), and musical instruments (e.g. Meyāni *SCRIPT TBA* (''erínis'') "[[Prorinian music#Bee-lute|bee-lute]];"). Pre-Yaksōnian influence may have affected the grammar of Meyāni as well as contributing to vocabulary, with the language developing a strict {{w|V2 word order}} (which later shifted into a default {{w|Subject-verb-object word order|SVO word order}}, with few traces of the old V2 system remaining in the modern language) and losing most of the Proto-Qlerevi {{w|Grammatical case|case}} system.

Another major contributor of loanwords in Meyāni is the [[Rudakami language]]. Most Rudakami loanwords in Meyāni arrived during the period of [[Rudakami trade colonies|Rudakami merchants colonizing large areas of land on or near the Prorinian peninsula's coastline for trade with the local pre-Yaksōnian speakers]], which lasted from around 1800 BC until around 800 BC; these loanwords are typically related to concepts such as {{w|economics}}. However, during the period of [[Meyāni#Rudakami conquest and rule|Rudakami rule over Meyāni from 1632 AC until 1794 AC]], more Rudakami loanwords entered the language, mostly terms relating to {{w|government}}, the {{w|legal system}}, and {{w|feudalism}}. After Meyāni regained its independence from Rudakami control, there was widespread {{w|linguistic purism}} in Meyāni which aimed to purge all traces of Rudakami words within the language's vocabulary, which succeeded in removing a sizeable portion of Rudakami borrowings in the Meyāni lexicon but did not succeed in removing all of them. Today, Rudakami words account for around 1/10th of the Meyāni language's vocabulary.

===Derivation===
Meyāni makes heavy usage of {{w|agglutination}} and {{w|Compound (linguistics)|compounding}} to form new words. For example, the word *SCRIPT TBA* (''qlavmamčấčâlu'') translates to "{{w|syntax}}" in English and can be broken up into the following:

{{Interlinear|indent=2|top = qlavmamčấčâlu
|qlavmam-čâčâ-lu
|word-{{gcl|COL|collective}}-study.of
|"syntax" (literally: the study of a group of words)
}}

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== Example text==
TBA

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==Footnotes==
<references />

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["r"] = "Mikaean R.svg",
["s"] = "Mikaean S.svg",
["š"] = "Mikaean Š.svg",
["t"] = "Mikaean T.svg",
["u"] = "Mikaean U.svg",
["v"] = "Mikaean V.svg",
["w"] = "Mikaean W.svg",
["x"] = "Mikaean X.svg",
["y"] = "Mikaean Y.svg",
["z"] = "Mikaean Z.svg",
["ž"] = "Mikaean Ž.svg",
["'"] = "Mikaean Apostrophe.svg",
[":"] = "Mikaean Colon.svg",
[";"] = "Mikaean Semicolon.svg",
[","] = "Mikaean Comma.svg",
["."] = "Mikaean Period.svg",
["("] = "Mikaean Left Parentheses.svg",
[")"] = "Mikaean Right Parentheses.svg",
["!"] = "Mikaean Exclamation Mark.svg",
["?"] = "Mikaean Question Mark.svg",
["%"] = "Mikaean Percent Sign.svg",
["1"] = "Mikaean One.svg",
["2"] = "Mikaean Two.svg",
["3"] = "Mikaean Three.svg",
["4"] = "Mikaean Four.svg",
["5"] = "Mikaean Five.svg",
["6"] = "Mikaean Six.svg",
["7"] = "Mikaean Seven.svg",
["8"] = "Mikaean Eight.svg",
["9"] = "Mikaean Nine.svg",
["0"] = "Mikaean Zero.svg",
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["b"] = "Erykan B.svg",
["c"] = "Erykan C.svg",
["d"] = "Erykan D.svg",
["e"] = "Erykan E.svg",
["f"] = "Erykan F.svg",
["g"] = "Erykan G.svg",
["h"] = "Erykan H.svg",
["i"] = "Erykan I.svg",
["j"] = "Erykan J.svg",
["k"] = "Erykan K.svg",
["l"] = "Erykan L.svg",
["m"] = "Erykan M.svg",
["n"] = "Erykan N.svg",
["o"] = "Erykan O.svg",
["p"] = "Erykan P.svg",
["q"] = "Erykan Q.svg",
["r"] = "Erykan R.svg",
["s"] = "Erykan S.svg",
["t"] = "Erykan T.svg",
["u"] = "Erykan U.svg",
["v"] = "Erykan V.svg",
["w"] = "Erykan W.svg",
["x"] = "Erykan X.svg",
["y"] = "Erykan Y.svg",
["z"] = "Erykan Z.svg",
["'"] = "Erykan Apostrophe.svg",
[":"] = "Erykan Colon.svg",
[";"] = "Erykan Semicolon.svg",
[","] = "Erykan Comma.svg",
["."] = "Erykan Period.svg",
["("] = "Erykan Left Parentheses.svg",
[")"] = "Erykan Right Parentheses.svg",
["!"] = "Erykan Exclamation Mark.svg",
["?"] = "Erykan Question Mark.svg",
["%"] = "Erykan Percent Sign.svg",
["1"] = "Erykan One.svg",
["2"] = "Erykan Two.svg",
["3"] = "Erykan Three.svg",
["4"] = "Erykan Four.svg",
["5"] = "Erykan Five.svg",
["6"] = "Erykan Six.svg",
["7"] = "Erykan Seven.svg",
["8"] = "Erykan Eight.svg",
["9"] = "Erykan Nine.svg",
["0"] = "Erykan Zero.svg",
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["â"] = "Serran Â.svg",
["ă"] = "Serran Ă.svg",
["b"] = "Serran B.svg",
["ƃ"] = "Serran Ƃ.svg",
["c"] = "Serran C.svg",
["ç"] = "Serran Ç.svg",
["d"] = "Serran D.svg",
["e"] = "Serran E.svg",
["f"] = "Serran F.svg",
["g"] = "Serran G.svg",
["h"] = "Serran H.svg",
["i"] = "Serran I.svg",
["j"] = "Serran J.svg",
["k"] = "Serran K.svg",
["l"] = "Serran L.svg",
["m"] = "Serran M.svg",
["n"] = "Serran N.svg",
["ñ"] = "Serran Ñ.svg",
["o"] = "Serran O.svg",
["ø"] = "Serran Ø.svg",
["p"] = "Serran P.svg",
["q"] = "Serran Q.svg",
["r"] = "Serran R.svg",
["s"] = "Serran S.svg",
["ß"] = "Serran ẞ.svg",
["t"] = "Serran T.svg",
["u"] = "Serran U.svg",
["v"] = "Serran V.svg",
["w"] = "Serran W.svg",
["x"] = "Serran X.svg",
["y"] = "Serran Y.svg",
["z"] = "Serran Z.svg",
},

["LurberanChar"] = {
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["l"] = "Lurberan LU.svg",
["r"] = "Lurberan RU.svg",
["p"] = "Lurberan PE.svg",
["m"] = "Lurberan ME.svg",
["y"] = "Lurberan YU.svg",
["n"] = "Lurberan NA.svg",
["e"] = "Lurberan EN.svg",
["t"] = "Lurberan TU.svg",
["i"] = "Lurberan IU.svg",
["k"] = "Lurberan KA.svg",
["u"] = "Lurberan KU.svg",
["z"] = "Lurberan ZA.svg",
["b"] = "Lurberan BE.svg",
["v"] = "Lurberan LA.svg",
},

["PrusianChar"] = {
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["e"] = "Prusian E.svg",
["f"] = "Prusian F.svg",
["g"] = "Prusian G.svg",
["h"] = "Prusian H.svg",
["i"] = "Prusian I.svg",
["m"] = "Prusian M.svg",
["n"] = "Prusian N.svg",
["o"] = "Prusian O.svg",
["p"] = "Prusian P.svg",
["r"] = "Prusian R.svg",
["s"] = "Prusian S.svg",
["t"] = "Prusian T.svg",
["u"] = "Prusian U.svg",
["!"] = "Prusian exclamation point.svg",
["?"] = "Prusian question mark.svg",
["~"] = "Prusian initium.svg",
},
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["e"] = "Saelic E.svg",
["i"] = "Saelic I.svg",
["o"] = "Saelic O.svg",
["tha"] = "Saelic Tha.svg",
["the"] = "Saelic The.svg",
["thi"] = "Saelic Thi.svg",
["tho"] = "Saelic Tho.svg",
["pha"] = "Saelic Pha.svg",
["phe"] = "Saelic Phe.svg",
["phi"] = "Saelic Phi.svg",
["pho"] = "Saelic Pho.svg",
["ska"] = "Saelic Ska.svg",
["ske"] = "Saelic Ske.svg",
["ski"] = "Saelic Ski.svg",
["sko"] = "Saelic Sko.svg",
["ath"] = "Saelic Ath.svg",
["eth"] = "Saelic Eth.svg",
["ith"] = "Saelic Ith.svg",
["oth"] = "Saelic Oth.svg",
["aph"] = "Saelic Aph.svg",
["eph"] = "Saelic Eph.svg",
["iph"] = "Saelic Iph.svg",
["oph"] = "Saelic Oph.svg",
["ask"] = "Saelic Ask.svg",
["esk"] = "Saelic Esk.svg",
["isk"] = "Saelic Isk.svg",
["osk"] = "Saelic Osk.svg",
["ta"] = "Saelic Ta.svg",
["te"] = "Saelic Te.svg",
["ti"] = "Saelic Ti.svg",
["to"] = "Saelic To.svg",
["tath"] = "Saelic Tath.svg",
["teth"] = "Saelic Teth.svg",
["tith"] = "Saelic Tith.svg",
["toph"] = "Saelic Toph.svg",
["task"] = "Saelic Task.svg",
["tesk"] = "Saelic Tesk.svg",
["tisk"] = "Saelic Tisk.svg",
["tosk"] = "Saelic Tosk.svg",
["sa"] = "Saelic Sa.svg",
["se"] = "Saelic Se.svg",
["si"] = "Saelic Si.svg",
["so"] = "Saelic So.svg",
["sath"] = "Saelic Sath.svg",
["seth"] = "Saelic Seth.svg",
["sith"] = "Saelic Sith.svg",
["soth"] = "Saelic Soth.svg",
["saph"] = "Saelic Saph.svg",
["seph"] = "Saelic Seph.svg",
["siph"] = "Saelic Siph.svg",
["soph"] = "Saelic Soph.svg",
["sask"] = "Saelic Sask.svg",
["sesk"] = "Saelic Sesk.svg",
["sisk"] = "Saelic Sisk.svg",
["sosk"] = "Saelic Sosk.svg",
["la"] = "Saelic La.svg",
["le"] = "Saelic Le.svg",
["li"] = "Saelic Li.svg",
["lo"] = "Saelic Lo.svg",
["lath"] = "Saelic Lath.svg",
["leth"] = "Saelic Leth.svg",
["lith"] = "Saelic Lith.svg",
["loth"] = "Saelic Loth.svg",
["laph"] = "Saelic Laph.svg",
["leph"] = "Saelic Leph.svg",
["loph"] = "Saelic Loph.svg",
["lask"] = "Saelic Lask.svg",
["lesk"] = "Saelic Lesk.svg",
["lisk"] = "Saelic Lisk.svg",
["losk"] = "Saelic Losk.svg",
["pa"] = "Saelic Pa.svg",
["pe"] = "Saelic Pe.svg",
["pi"] = "Saelic Pi.svg",
["po"] = "Saelic Po.svg",
["path"] = "Saelic Path.svg",
["peth"] = "Saelic Peth.svg",
["pith"] = "Saelic Pith.svg",
["poth"] = "Saelic Poth.svg",
["paph"] = "Saelic Paph.svg",
["peph"] = "Saelic Peph.svg",
["piph"] = "Saelic Piph.svg",
["poph"] = "Saelic Poph.svg",
["pask"] = "Saelic Pask.svg",
["pesk"] = "Saelic Pesk.svg",
["pisk"] = "Saelic Pisk.svg",
["posk"] = "Saelic Posk.svg",
},

["IsokyrianChar"] = {
["f"] = "ᚠ",
},

["KanianChar"] = {
["a"] = "Kanian A.svg",
["b"] = "Kanian B.svg",
["c"] = "Kanian C.svg",
["d"] = "Kanian D.svg",
["e"] = "Kanian E.svg",
["f"] = "Kanian F.svg",
["g"] = "Kanian G.svg",
["h"] = "Kanian H.svg",
["i"] = "Kanian I.svg",
["j"] = "Kanian J.svg",
["k"] = "Kanian K.svg",
["l"] = "Kanian L.svg",
["m"] = "Kanian M.svg",
["n"] = "Kanian N.svg",
["o"] = "Kanian O.svg",
["p"] = "Kanian P.svg",
["q"] = "Kanian Q.svg",
["r"] = "Kanian R.svg",
["s"] = "Kanian S.svg",
["š"] = "Kanian Š.svg",
["t"] = "Kanian T.svg",
["u"] = "Kanian U.svg",
["v"] = "Kanian V.svg",
["w"] = "Kanian W.svg",
["x"] = "Kanian X.svg",
["y"] = "Kanian Y.svg",
["z"] = "Kanian Z.svg",
["'"] = "Kanian Apostrophe.svg",
[":"] = "Kanian Colon.svg",
[";"] = "Kanian Semicolon.svg",
[","] = "Kanian Comma.svg",
["."] = "Kanian Period.svg",
["("] = "Kanian Left Parentheses.svg",
[")"] = "Kanian Right Parentheses.svg",
["!"] = "Kanian Exclamation Mark.svg",
["?"] = "Kanian Question Mark.svg",
["%"] = "Kanian Percent Sign.svg",
["1"] = "໑",
["2"] = "໒",
["3"] = "໓",
["4"] = "໔",
["5"] = "໕",
["6"] = "໖",
["7"] = "໗",
["8"] = "໘",
["9"] = "໙",
["0"] = "໐",
},

["VespianChar"] = {
["a"] = "Vespian A.svg",
["â"] = "Vespian Â.svg",
["b"] = "Vespian B.svg",
["c"] = "Vespian C.svg",
["d"] = "Vespian D.svg",
["e"] = "Vespian E.svg",
["f"] = "Vespian F.svg",
["g"] = "Vespian G.svg",
["h"] = "Vespian H.svg",
["i"] = "Vespian I.svg",
["j"] = "Vespian J.svg",
["k"] = "Vespian K.svg",
["l"] = "Vespian L.svg",
["m"] = "Vespian M.svg",
["n"] = "Vespian N.svg",
["o"] = "Vespian O.svg",
["ö"] = "Vespian Ö.svg",
["p"] = "Vespian P.svg",
["q"] = "Vespian Q.svg",
["r"] = "Vespian R.svg",
["s"] = "Vespian S.svg",
["š"] = "Vespian Š.svg",
["t"] = "Vespian T.svg",
["u"] = "Vespian U.svg",
["v"] = "Vespian V.svg",
["w"] = "Vespian W.svg",
["x"] = "Vespian X.svg",
["y"] = "Vespian Y.svg",
["z"] = "Vespian Z.svg",
["ž"] = "Vespian Ž.svg",
["'"] = "Vespian Apostrophe.svg",
[":"] = "Vespian Colon.svg",
[";"] = "Vespian Semicolon.svg",
[","] = "Vespian Comma.svg",
["."] = "Vespian Period.svg",
["("] = "Vespian Left Parentheses.svg",
[")"] = "Vespian Right Parentheses.svg",
["!"] = "Vespian Exclamation Mark.svg",
["?"] = "Vespian Question Mark.svg",
["%"] = "Vespian Percent Sign.svg",
["-"] = "Vespian Dash.svg",
["1"] = "Vespian One.svg",
["2"] = "Vespian Two.svg",
["3"] = "Vespian Three.svg",
["4"] = "Vespian Four.svg",
["5"] = "Vespian Five.svg",
["6"] = "Vespian Six.svg",
["7"] = "Vespian Seven.svg",
["8"] = "Vespian Eight.svg",
["9"] = "Vespian Nine.svg",
["0"] = "Vespian Zero.svg",
},

["MikazhiChar"] = {
["a"] = "Mikazhi A.svg",
["b"] = "Mikazhi B.svg",
["c"] = "Mikazhi C.svg",
["d"] = "Mikazhi D.svg",
["e"] = "Mikazhi E.svg",
["f"] = "Mikazhi F.svg",
["g"] = "Mikazhi G.svg",
["h"] = "Mikazhi H.svg",
["i"] = "Mikazhi I.svg",
["j"] = "Mikazhi J.svg",
["k"] = "Mikazhi K.svg",
["l"] = "Mikazhi L.svg",
["m"] = "Mikazhi M.svg",
["n"] = "Mikazhi N.svg",
["o"] = "Mikazhi O.svg",
["p"] = "Mikazhi P.svg",
["q"] = "Mikazhi Q.svg",
["r"] = "Mikazhi R.svg",
["s"] = "Mikazhi S.svg",
["t"] = "Mikazhi T.svg",
["u"] = "Mikazhi U.svg",
["v"] = "Mikazhi V.svg",
["w"] = "Mikazhi W.svg",
["x"] = "Mikazhi X.svg",
["y"] = "Mikazhi Y.svg",
["z"] = "Mikazhi Z.svg",
["'"] = "Mikazhi Apostrophe.svg",
[","] = "Mikazhi Comma.svg",
["."] = "Mikazhi Period.svg",
["("] = "Mikazhi Left Parentheses.svg",
[")"] = "Mikazhi Right Parentheses.svg",
["!"] = "Mikazhi Exclamation Mark.svg",
["?"] = "Mikazhi Question Mark.svg",
["-"] = "Mikazhi Dash.svg",
["1"] = "Mikazhi One.svg",
["2"] = "Mikazhi Two.svg",
["3"] = "Mikazhi Three.svg",
["4"] = "Mikazhi Four.svg",
["5"] = "Mikazhi Five.svg",
["6"] = "Mikazhi Six.svg",
["7"] = "Mikazhi Seven.svg",
["8"] = "Mikazhi Eight.svg",
["9"] = "Mikazhi Nine.svg",
["0"] = "Mikazhi Zero.svg",
},

["KaiChar"] = {
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["b"] = "Kai B.svg",
["c"] = "Kai C.svg",
["d"] = "Kai D.svg",
["e"] = "Kai E.svg",
["f"] = "Kai F.svg",
["g"] = "Kai G.svg",
["h"] = "Kai H.svg",
["i"] = "Kai I.svg",
["j"] = "Kai J.svg",
["k"] = "Kai K.svg",
["l"] = "Kai L.svg",
["m"] = "Kai M.svg",
["n"] = "Kai N.svg",
["o"] = "Kai O.svg",
["p"] = "Kai P.svg",
["q"] = "Kai Q.svg",
["r"] = "Kai R.svg",
["s"] = "Kai S.svg",
["t"] = "Kai T.svg",
["u"] = "Kai U.svg",
["v"] = "Kai V.svg",
["w"] = "Kai W.svg",
["y"] = "Kai Y.svg",
["z"] = "Kai Z.svg",
},

["AssaiChar"] = {
["a"] = "Assai A.svg",
["b"] = "Assai B.svg",
["d"] = "Assai D.svg",
["g"] = "Assai G.svg",
["k"] = "Assai K.svg",
["n"] = "Assai N.svg",
["p"] = "Assai P.svg",
["!"] = "Assai PS.svg",
["t"] = "Assai T.svg",
["@"] = "Assai TS.svg",
["#"] = "Assai TSH.svg",
},

["OldKaiChar"] = {
["a"] = "Old Kai a.svg",
["b"] = "Old Kai b.svg",
["c"] = "Old Kai c.svg",
["d"] = "Old Kai d.svg",
["e"] = "Old Kai e.svg",
["f"] = "Old Kai f.svg",
["g"] = "Old Kai g.svg",
["h"] = "Old Kai h.svg",
["i"] = "Old Kai i.svg",
["j"] = "Old Kai j.svg",
["k"] = "Old Kai k.svg",
["l"] = "Old Kai l.svg",
["m"] = "Old Kai m.svg",
["n"] = "Old Kai n.svg",
["o"] = "Old Kai o.svg",
["p"] = "Old Kai p.svg",
["q"] = "Old Kai q.svg",
["r"] = "Old Kai r.svg",
["s"] = "Old Kai s.svg",
["t"] = "Old Kai t.svg",
["u"] = "Old Kai u.svg",
["v"] = "Old Kai v.svg",
["w"] = "Old Kai w.svg",
["y"] = "Old Kai y.svg",
["z"] = "Old Kai z.svg",
},

["EerieChar"] = {
["a"] = "Eerie Ah.png",
["b"] = "Eerie Dje.png",
["c"] = "Eerie Ceh.png",
["d"] = "Eerie Deh.png",
["e"] = "Eerie Eph.png",
["f"] = "Eerie Eph (small).png",
["h"] = "Eerie Heh.png",
["i"] = "Eerie Ihh.png",
["l"] = "Eerie Leh.png",
["m"] = "Eerie Meh.png",
["n"] = "Eerie Njeh.png",
["o"] = "Eerie Oeh.png",
["p"] = "Eerie Peh.png",
["r"] = "Eerie Reh.png",
["s"] = "Eerie Seh.png",
["t"] = "Eerie Thef.png",
["u"] = "Eerie Ueh.png",
["v"] = "Eerie Ujuh.png",
["y]"] = "Eerie Yuh.png",

},

["OhaxaChar"] = {
["a"] = "Ohaxa A.png",
["e"] = "Ohaxa E.png",
["i"] = "Ohaxa I.png",
["k"] = "Ohaxa K.png",
["m"] = "Ohaxa M.png",
["n"] = "Ohaxa N.png",
["o"] = "Ohaxa O.png",
["p"] = "Ohaxa P.png",
["r"] = "Ohaxa R.png",
["s"] = "Ohaxa S.png",
["t"] = "Ohaxa T.png",
["u"] = "Ohaxa U.png",
["w"] = "Ohaxa W.png",
["x"] = "Ohaxa X.png",
["y"] = "Ohaxa Y.png",

},

["OroChar"] = {
["a"] = "Oro A.png",
["b"] = "Oro B.png",
["j"] = "Oro Bj.png",
["c"] = "Oro Ç.png",
["d"] = "Oro D.png",
["z"] = "Oro Dz.png",
["e"] = "Oro E.png",
["g"] = "Oro g.png",
["y"] = "Oro gj.png",
["i"] = "Oro I.png",
["k"] = "Oro k.png",
["m"] = "Oro m.png",
["n"] = "Oro n.png",
["o"] = "Oro O.png",
["f"] = "Oro ɸ.png",
["s"] = "Oro Sh.png",
["t"] = "Oro T.png",
["1"] = "Oro Tɕ.png",
["h"] = "Oro Ts.png",
["u"] = "Oro U.png",
["l"] = "Oro L.png",
["2"] = "Oro ʑ.png",
["0"] = "Oro ʔ.png",
["r"] = "Oro R.png",
["'"] = "Oro End.png",
},

["IioouyaChar"] = {
["1"] = "BaseLong.png",
["2"] = "BaseUp.png",
["3"] = "DownLong.png",
["4"] = "UpLong.png",

},

["OsiiarnChar"] = {
["a"] = "Osiiarn A.svg",
["5"] = "Osiiarn Ai.svg",
["6"] = "Osiiarn Au.svg",
["b"] = "Osiiarn B.svg",
["d"] = "Osiiarn D.svg",
["d́"] = "Osiiarn Dz.svg",
["e"] = "Osiiarn E.svg",
["g"] = "Osiiarn G.svg",
["'"] = "Osiiarn GStop.svg",
["h"] = "Osiiarn H.svg",
["w"] = "Osiiarn Hw.svg",
["i"] = "Osiiarn I.svg",
["7"] = "Osiiarn Ia.svg",
["8"] = "Osiiarn Iu.svg",
["k"] = "Osiiarn K.svg",
["l"] = "Osiiarn L.svg",
["m"] = "Osiiarn M.svg",
["n"] = "Osiiarn N.svg",
["ŋ"] = "Osiiarn Ng.svg",
["o"] = "Osiiarn O.svg",
["p"] = "Osiiarn P.svg",
["R"] = "Osiiarn RR.svg",
["s"] = "Osiiarn S.svg",
["t"] = "Osiiarn T.svg",
["t́"] = "Osiiarn Ts.svg",
["u"] = "Osiiarn U.svg",
["9"] = "Osiiarn Ua.svg",
["ə"] = "Osiiarn Uh.svg",
["+"] = "Osiiarn Ui.svg",
["x"] = "Osiiarn X.svg",
["z"] = "Osiiarn Z.svg",
["!"] = "Osiiarn !.svg",
["."] = "Osiiarn Period.svg",
["0"] = "Osiiarn 0.svg",
["1"] = "Osiiarn 1.svg",
["2"] = "Osiiarn 2.svg",
["3"] = "Osiiarn 3.svg",
["4"] = "Osiiarn 4.svg",

},

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["a"] = "SurresiNewA.JPG",
["b"] = "SurresiNewB.JPG",
["c"] = "SurresiKreal.JPG",
["d"] = "SurresiNewD.JPG",
["e"] = "SurresiNewE.JPG",
["f"] = "SurresiNewF.JPG",
["g"] = "SurresiNewG.JPG",
["h"] = "SurresiNewH.JPG",
["i"] = "SurresiNewI.JPG",
["k"] = "SurresiNewK.JPG",
["l"] = "SurresiNewL.JPG",
["m"] = "SurresiNewM.JPG",
["n"] = "SurresiNewN.JPG",
["o"] = "SurresiNewO.JPG",
["p"] = "SurresiNewP.JPG",
["r"] = "SurresiNewR.JPG",
["s"] = "SurresiNewS.JPG",
["t"] = "SurresiNewT.JPG",
["u"] = "SurresiNewU.JPG",
["v"] = "SurresiNewV.JPG",
["w"] = "SurresiNewW.JPG",
["y"] = "SurresiNewY.JPG",
["z"] = "SurresiNewZ.JPG",
[","] = "SurresiComma.JPG",
["."] = "SurresiPeriod.JPG",
["!"] = "SurresiExclamatory.JPG",
["?"] = "SurresiInterrogatory.JPG",
["1"] = "Surresi11111.JPG",
["2"] = "Surresi22222.JPG",
["3"] = "Surresi33333.JPG",
["4"] = "Surresi44444.JPG",
["5"] = "Surresi55555.JPG",
["6"] = "Surresi66666.JPG",
["7"] = "Surresi77777.JPG",
["8"] = "Surresi88888.JPG",
["9"] = "Surresi99999.JPG",
["0"] = "Surresi00000.JPG"

},

["KaiArialChar"] = {
["a"] = "Kai Arial A.svg",
["b"] = "Kai Arial B.svg",
["c"] = "Kai Arial C.svg",
["d"] = "Kai Arial D.svg",
["e"] = "Kai Arial E.svg",
["f"] = "Kai Arial F.svg",
["g"] = "Kai Arial G.svg",
["h"] = "Kai Arial H.svg",
["i"] = "Kai Arial I.svg",
["j"] = "Kai Arial J.svg",
["k"] = "Kai Arial K.svg",
["l"] = "Kai Arial L.svg",
["m"] = "Kai Arial M.svg",
["n"] = "Kai Arial N.svg",
["o"] = "Kai Arial O.svg",
["p"] = "Kai Arial P.svg",
["q"] = "Kai Arial Q.svg",
["r"] = "Kai Arial R.svg",
["s"] = "Kai Arial S.svg",
["t"] = "Kai Arial T.svg",
["u"] = "Kai Arial U.svg",
["v"] = "Kai Arial V.svg",
["w"] = "Kai Arial W.svg",
["y"] = "Kai Arial Y.svg",
["z"] = "Kai Arial Z.svg",
},

["OnshokoeseChar"] = {
["cha"] = "Onshokoese_cha.svg",
["che"] = "Onshokoese_che.svg",
["chi"] = "Onshokoese_chi.svg",
["cho"] = "Onshokoese_cho.svg",
["chu"] = "Onshokoese_chu.svg",
["chw"] = "Onshokoese_chw.svg",
["ch"] = "Onshokoese_chu.svg",
["dha"] = "Onshokoese_da.svg",
["dhe"] = "Onshokoese_de.svg",
["dhi"] = "Onshokoese_di.svg",
["dho"] = "Onshokoese_do.svg",
["dhu"] = "Onshokoese_du.svg",
["dhw"] = "Onshokoese_dw.svg",
["dhy"] = "Onshokoese_dy.svg",
["dh"] = "Onshokoese_du.svg",
["gha"] = "Onshokoese_ga.svg",
["ghe"] = "Onshokoese_ge.svg",
["ghi"] = "Onshokoese_gi.svg",
["gho"] = "Onshokoese_go.svg",
["ghu"] = "Onshokoese_gu.svg",
["gh"] = "Onshokoese_gu.svg",
["kha"] = "Onshokoese_ha.svg",
["khe"] = "Onshokoese_he.svg",
["khi"] = "Onshokoese_hi.svg",
["kho"] = "Onshokoese_ho.svg",
["khu"] = "Onshokoese_hu.svg",
["kh"] = "Onshokoese_hu.svg",
["pha"] = "Onshokoese_wha.svg",
["phe"] = "Onshokoese_whe.svg",
["phi"] = "Onshokoese_whi.svg",
["pho"] = "Onshokoese_who.svg",
["phu"] = "Onshokoese_fu.svg",
["ph"] = "Onshokoese_fu.svg",
["sha"] = "Onshokoese_sha.svg",
["she"] = "Onshokoese_she.svg",
["shi"] = "Onshokoese_shi.svg",
["sho"] = "Onshokoese_sho.svg",
["shu"] = "Onshokoese_shu.svg",
["shw"] = "Onshokoese_shw.svg",
["sh"] = "Onshokoese_sh.svg",
["tha"] = "Onshokoese_ta.svg",
["the"] = "Onshokoese_te.svg",
["thi"] = "Onshokoese_ti.svg",
["tho"] = "Onshokoese_to.svg",
["thu"] = "Onshokoese_tu.svg",
["thw"] = "Onshokoese_tw.svg",
["thy"] = "Onshokoese_ty.svg",
["th"] = "Onshokoese_tu.svg",
["wha"] = "Onshokoese_wha.svg",
["whe"] = "Onshokoese_whe.svg",
["whi"] = "Onshokoese_whi.svg",
["who"] = "Onshokoese_who.svg",
["whu"] = "Onshokoese_fu.svg",
["wh"] = "Onshokoese_wh.svg",
["gua"] = "Onshokoese_gwa.svg",
["gue"] = "Onshokoese_gwe.svg",
["gui"] = "Onshokoese_gwi.svg",
["guo"] = "Onshokoese_gwo.svg",
["gwa"] = "Onshokoese_gwa.svg",
["gwe"] = "Onshokoese_gwe.svg",
["gwi"] = "Onshokoese_gwi.svg",
["gwo"] = "Onshokoese_gwo.svg",
["gwu"] = "Onshokoese_gu.svg",
["gw"] = "Onshokoese_gu.svg",
["qua"] = "Onshokoese_kwa.svg",
["que"] = "Onshokoese_kwe.svg",
["qui"] = "Onshokoese_kwi.svg",
["quo"] = "Onshokoese_kwo.svg",
["kwa"] = "Onshokoese_kwa.svg",
["kwe"] = "Onshokoese_kwe.svg",
["kwi"] = "Onshokoese_kwi.svg",
["kwo"] = "Onshokoese_kwo.svg",
["kwu"] = "Onshokoese_ku.svg",
["kw"] = "Onshokoese_ku.svg",
["qwa"] = "Onshokoese_kwa.svg",
["qwe"] = "Onshokoese_kwe.svg",
["qwi"] = "Onshokoese_kwi.svg",
["qwo"] = "Onshokoese_kwo.svg",
["qwu"] = "Onshokoese_ku.svg",
["qw"] = "Onshokoese_ku.svg",
["dza"] = "Onshokoese_dza.svg",
["dze"] = "Onshokoese_dze.svg",
["dzi"] = "Onshokoese_dzi.svg",
["dzo"] = "Onshokoese_dzo.svg",
["dzu"] = "Onshokoese_dzu.svg",
["dzw"] = "Onshokoese_dzw.svg",
["dz"] = "Onshokoese_dzu.svg",
["tsa"] = "Onshokoese_tsa.svg",
["tse"] = "Onshokoese_tse.svg",
["tsi"] = "Onshokoese_tsi.svg",
["tso"] = "Onshokoese_tso.svg",
["tsu"] = "Onshokoese_tsu.svg",
["tsw"] = "Onshokoese_tsw.svg",
["ts"] = "Onshokoese_tsu.svg",
["ba"] = "Onshokoese_ba.svg",
["be"] = "Onshokoese_be.svg",
["bi"] = "Onshokoese_bi.svg",
["bo"] = "Onshokoese_bo.svg",
["bu"] = "Onshokoese_bu.svg",
["bw"] = "Onshokoese_bw.svg",
["by"] = "Onshokoese_by.svg",
["b"] = "Onshokoese_bu.svg",
["ca"] = "Onshokoese_ka.svg",
["ce"] = "Onshokoese_se.svg",
["ci"] = "Onshokoese_si.svg",
["co"] = "Onshokoese_ko.svg",
["cu"] = "Onshokoese_ku.svg",
["cw"] = "Onshokoese_kw.svg",
["c"] = "Onshokoese_q.svg",
["da"] = "Onshokoese_da.svg",
["de"] = "Onshokoese_de.svg",
["di"] = "Onshokoese_di.svg",
["do"] = "Onshokoese_do.svg",
["du"] = "Onshokoese_du.svg",
["dw"] = "Onshokoese_dw.svg",
["dy"] = "Onshokoese_dy.svg",
["d"] = "Onshokoese_du.svg",
["fa"] = "Onshokoese_wha.svg",
["fe"] = "Onshokoese_whe.svg",
["fi"] = "Onshokoese_whi.svg",
["fo"] = "Onshokoese_who.svg",
["fu"] = "Onshokoese_fu.svg",
["f"] = "Onshokoese_fu.svg",
["ga"] = "Onshokoese_ga.svg",
["ge"] = "Onshokoese_ge.svg",
["gi"] = "Onshokoese_gi.svg",
["go"] = "Onshokoese_go.svg",
["gu"] = "Onshokoese_gu.svg",
["gy"] = "Onshokoese_gy.svg",
["g"] = "Onshokoese_gu.svg",
["ha"] = "Onshokoese_ha.svg",
["he"] = "Onshokoese_he.svg",
["hi"] = "Onshokoese_hi.svg",
["ho"] = "Onshokoese_ho.svg",
["hu"] = "Onshokoese_hu.svg",
["dy"] = "Onshokoese_dy.svg",
["h"] = "Onshokoese_hu.svg",
["ja"] = "Onshokoese_ja.svg",
["je"] = "Onshokoese_je.svg",
["ji"] = "Onshokoese_ji.svg",
["jo"] = "Onshokoese_jo.svg",
["ju"] = "Onshokoese_ju.svg",
["jw"] = "Onshokoese_jw.svg",
["j"] = "Onshokoese_ju.svg",
["ka"] = "Onshokoese_ka.svg",
["ke"] = "Onshokoese_ke.svg",
["ki"] = "Onshokoese_ki.svg",
["ko"] = "Onshokoese_ko.svg",
["ku"] = "Onshokoese_ku.svg",
["ky"] = "Onshokoese_ky.svg",
["k"] = "Onshokoese_q.svg",
["la"] = "Onshokoese_ra.svg",
["le"] = "Onshokoese_re.svg",
["li"] = "Onshokoese_ri.svg",
["lo"] = "Onshokoese_ro.svg",
["lu"] = "Onshokoese_ru.svg",
["ly"] = "Onshokoese_ry.svg",
["l"] = "Onshokoese_ru.svg",
["ma"] = "Onshokoese_ma.svg",
["me"] = "Onshokoese_me.svg",
["mi"] = "Onshokoese_mi.svg",
["mo"] = "Onshokoese_mo.svg",
["mu"] = "Onshokoese_mu.svg",
["my"] = "Onshokoese_my.svg",
["m"] = "Onshokoese_n.svg",
["na"] = "Onshokoese_na.svg",
["ne"] = "Onshokoese_ne.svg",
["ni"] = "Onshokoese_ni.svg",
["no"] = "Onshokoese_no.svg",
["nu"] = "Onshokoese_nu.svg",
["ny"] = "Onshokoese_ny.svg",
["n'"] = "Onshokoese_n.svg",
["n"] = "Onshokoese_n.svg",
["pa"] = "Onshokoese_pa.svg",
["pe"] = "Onshokoese_pe.svg",
["pi"] = "Onshokoese_pi.svg",
["po"] = "Onshokoese_po.svg",
["pu"] = "Onshokoese_pu.svg",
["pw"] = "Onshokoese_pw.svg",
["py"] = "Onshokoese_py.svg",
["p"] = "Onshokoese_q.svg",
["qa"] = "Onshokoese_ka.svg",
["qe"] = "Onshokoese_ke.svg",
["qi"] = "Onshokoese_ki.svg",
["qo"] = "Onshokoese_ko.svg",
["qu"] = "Onshokoese_ku.svg",
["q"] = "Onshokoese_q.svg",
["ra"] = "Onshokoese_ra.svg",
["re"] = "Onshokoese_re.svg",
["ri"] = "Onshokoese_ri.svg",
["ro"] = "Onshokoese_ro.svg",
["ru"] = "Onshokoese_ru.svg",
["ry"] = "Onshokoese_ry.svg",
["r"] = "Onshokoese_r.svg",
["sa"] = "Onshokoese_sa.svg",
["se"] = "Onshokoese_se.svg",
["si"] = "Onshokoese_si.svg",
["so"] = "Onshokoese_so.svg",
["su"] = "Onshokoese_su.svg",
["sw"] = "Onshokoese_sw.svg",
["s"] = "Onshokoese_s.svg",
["ta"] = "Onshokoese_ta.svg",
["te"] = "Onshokoese_te.svg",
["ti"] = "Onshokoese_ti.svg",
["to"] = "Onshokoese_to.svg",
["tu"] = "Onshokoese_tu.svg",
["tw"] = "Onshokoese_tw.svg",
["ty"] = "Onshokoese_ty.svg",
["t"] = "Onshokoese_q.svg",
["va"] = "Onshokoese_wa.svg",
["ve"] = "Onshokoese_we.svg",
["vi"] = "Onshokoese_wi.svg",
["vo"] = "Onshokoese_wo.svg",
["vu"] = "Onshokoese_vu.svg",
["v"] = "Onshokoese_fu.svg",
["wa"] = "Onshokoese_wa.svg",
["we"] = "Onshokoese_we.svg",
["wi"] = "Onshokoese_wi.svg",
["wo"] = "Onshokoese_wo.svg",
["wu"] = "Onshokoese_vu.svg",
["w"] = "Onshokoese_o.svg",
["ya"] = "Onshokoese_ya.svg",
["ye"] = "Onshokoese_ye.svg",
["yi"] = "Onshokoese_yi.svg",
["yo"] = "Onshokoese_yo.svg",
["yu"] = "Onshokoese_yu.svg",
["y"] = "Onshokoese_i.svg",
["za"] = "Onshokoese_za.svg",
["ze"] = "Onshokoese_ze.svg",
["zi"] = "Onshokoese_zi.svg",
["zo"] = "Onshokoese_zo.svg",
["zu"] = "Onshokoese_zu.svg",
["zw"] = "Onshokoese_zw.svg",
["z"] = "Onshokoese_zu.svg",
["a"] = "Onshokoese_a.svg",
["e"] = "Onshokoese_e.svg",
["i"] = "Onshokoese_i.svg",
["o"] = "Onshokoese_o.svg",
["u"] = "Onshokoese_u.svg",
},

["MeyaniScript"] = {
["@"] = "Meyani Letter Ah.png",
["i"] = "Meyani Letter Ee.png",
["u"] = "Meyani Letter Oo.png",
["a"] = "̀",
["e"] = "́",
["o"] = "̗",
["z"] = "̇",
["b"] = "Meyani Letter B.png",
["c"] = "Meyani Letter Ch.png",
["d"] = "Meyani Letter D.png",
["f"] = "Meyani Letter F.png",
["g"] = "Meyani Letter K - G.png",
["h"] = "Meyani Letter Kh.png",
["j"] = "Meyani Letter Y.png",
["y"] = "Meyani Letter Y.png",
["k"] = "Meyani Letter K - G.png",
["l"] = "Meyani Letter L.png",
["m"] = "Meyani Letter M.png",
["n"] = "Meyani Letter N.png",
["p"] = "Meyani Letter P.png",
["q"] = "Meyani Letter Ql.png",
["r"] = "Meyani Letter R.png",
["s"] = "Meyani Letter S.png",
["t"] = "Meyani Letter T.png",
["v"] = "Meyani Letter V.png",
["x"] = "Meyani Letter Sh.png",
[" "] = ":",
["."] = "=",
},

["ProrinianNumeral"] = {
["0"] = "Common Prorinian Null Character.png",
["1"] = "Prorinian Numeral One.png",
["2"] = "Prorinian Numeral Two.png",
["3"] = "Prorinian Numeral Three.png",
["4"] = "Prorinian Numeral Four.png",
["5"] = "Prorinian Numeral Five.png",
["6"] = "Prorinian Numeral Six.png",
["7"] = "Prorinian Numeral Seven.png",
["8"] = "Prorinian Numeral Eight.png",
["9"] = "Prorinian Numeral Nine.png",
["a"] = "Prorinian Numeral Ten.png",
["b"] = "Prorinian Numeral Eleven.png",
},

}
return CharData

Module:CustomScript

2025-05-11T21:43:49Z

Triton2009:

--Conworlds Wiki Custom Language Conversion
--http://conworld.wikia.com/
--Initial wikitext implementation by User:Flaicher
--Lua conversion by User:ChickenBar
--Modified for Conworlds Wiki by User:Vivaporius

local p = {}

local CharData = mw.loadData( 'Module:CustomScript/data' )

function p._mikaean( humanwords, size )
local output_string = {}
local humanwords = string.lower(humanwords)
local span = mw.html.create( 'span' )
if (size == nil or size == '') then size='14' end
for i=1, string.len(humanwords) do
local replacement = CharData["MikaeanChar"][humanwords:sub(i,i)]
if replacement ~= nil then
table.insert(output_string,'[[File:'..replacement..'|x'..size..'px|link=]]')
else
table.insert(output_string,'  ')
end
end
span :css( 'font-size', size..'px' )
:wikitext( table.concat(output_string) )
return tostring(span)
end

function p.mikaean( frame )
local string_input = frame.args[1]
local num_input = frame.args[2]
return p._mikaean(string_input, num_input)

end

function p._erykan( humanwords, size )
local output_string = {}
local humanwords = string.lower(humanwords)
local span = mw.html.create( 'span' )
if (size == nil or size == '') then size='14' end
for i=1, string.len(humanwords) do
local replacement = CharData["ErykanChar"][humanwords:sub(i,i)]
if replacement ~= nil then
table.insert(output_string,'[[File:'..replacement..'|x'..size..'px|link=]]')
else
table.insert(output_string,'  ')
end
end
span :css( 'font-size', size..'px' )
:wikitext( table.concat(output_string) )
return tostring(span)
end

function p.erykan( frame )
local string_input = frame.args[1]
local num_input = frame.args[2]
return p._erykan(string_input, num_input)

end

function p._serran( humanwords, size )
local output_string = {}
local humanwords = string.lower(humanwords)
local span = mw.html.create( 'span' )
if (size == nil or size == '') then size='10' end
for i=1, string.len(humanwords) do
local replacement = CharData["SerranChar"][humanwords:sub(i,i)]
if replacement ~= nil then
table.insert(output_string,'[[File:'..replacement..'|x'..size..'px|link=]]')
else
table.insert(output_string,'  ')
end
end
span :css( 'font-size', size..'px' )
:wikitext( table.concat(output_string) )
return tostring(span)
end

function p.serran( frame )
local string_input = frame.args[1]
local num_input = frame.args[2]
return p._serran(string_input, num_input)

end

function p._lurberan( humanwords, size )
local output_string = {}
local humanwords = string.lower(humanwords)
local span = mw.html.create( 'span' )
if (size == nil or size == '') then size='14' end
for i=1, string.len(humanwords) do
local replacement = CharData["LurberanChar"][humanwords:sub(i,i)]
if replacement ~= nil then
table.insert(output_string,'[[File:'..replacement..'|x'..size..'px|link=]]')
else
table.insert(output_string,'  ')
end
end
span :css( 'font-size', size..'px' )
:wikitext( table.concat(output_string) )
return tostring(span)
end

function p.lurberan( frame )
local string_input = frame.args[1]
local num_input = frame.args[2]
return p._lurberan(string_input, num_input)

end

function p._prusian( humanwords, size )
local output_string = {}
local humanwords = string.lower(humanwords)
local span = mw.html.create( 'span' )
if (size == nil or size == '') then size='14' end
for i=1, string.len(humanwords) do
local replacement = CharData["PrusianChar"][humanwords:sub(i,i)]
if replacement ~= nil then
table.insert(output_string,'[[File:'..replacement..'|x'..size..'px|link=]]')
else
table.insert(output_string,'  ')
end
end
span :css( 'font-size', size..'px' )
:wikitext( table.concat(output_string) )
return tostring(span)
end

function p.prusian( frame )
local string_input = frame.args[1]
local num_input = frame.args[2]
return p._prusian(string_input, num_input)
end

function p._isokyrian( humanwords, size )
local output_string = {}
local humanwords = string.lower(humanwords)
local span = mw.html.create( 'span' )
if (size == nil or size == '') then size='14' end
for i=1, string.len(humanwords) do
local replacement = CharData["IsokyrianChar"][humanwords:sub(i,i)]
if replacement ~= nil then
table.insert(output_string,'[[File:'..replacement..'|x'..size..'px|link=]]')
else
table.insert(output_string,'  ')
end
end
span :css( 'font-size', size..'px' )
:wikitext( table.concat(output_string) )
return tostring(span)
end

function p.isokyrian( frame )
local string_input = frame.args[1]
local num_input = frame.args[2]
return p._isokyrian(string_input, num_input)

end

function p._kanian( humanwords, size )
local output_string = {}
local humanwords = string.lower(humanwords)
local span = mw.html.create( 'span' )
if (size == nil or size == '') then size='14' end
for i=1, string.len(humanwords) do
local replacement = CharData["KanianChar"][humanwords:sub(i,i)]
if replacement ~= nil then
table.insert(output_string,'[[File:'..replacement..'|x'..size..'px|link=]]')
else
table.insert(output_string,'  ')
end
end
span :css( 'font-size', size..'px' )
:wikitext( table.concat(output_string) )
return tostring(span)
end

function p.kanian( frame )
local string_input = frame.args[1]
local num_input = frame.args[2]
return p._kanian(string_input, num_input)

end

function p._vespian( humanwords, size )
local output_string = {}
local humanwords = string.lower(humanwords)
local span = mw.html.create( 'span' )
if (size == nil or size == '') then size='14' end
for i=1, string.len(humanwords) do
local replacement = CharData["VespianChar"][humanwords:sub(i,i)]
if replacement ~= nil then
table.insert(output_string,'[[File:'..replacement..'|x'..size..'px|link=]]')
else
table.insert(output_string,'  ')
end
end
span :css( 'font-size', size..'px' )
:wikitext( table.concat(output_string) )
return tostring(span)
end

function p.vespian( frame )
local string_input = frame.args[1]
local num_input = frame.args[2]
return p._vespian(string_input, num_input)

end

function p._mikazhi( humanwords, size )
local output_string = {}
local humanwords = string.lower(humanwords)
local span = mw.html.create( 'span' )
if (size == nil or size == '') then size='14' end
for i=1, string.len(humanwords) do
local replacement = CharData["MikazhiChar"][humanwords:sub(i,i)]
if replacement ~= nil then
table.insert(output_string,'[[File:'..replacement..'|x'..size..'px|link=]]')
else
table.insert(output_string,'  ')
end
end
span :css( 'font-size', size..'px' )
:wikitext( table.concat(output_string) )
return tostring(span)
end

function p.mikazhi( frame )
local string_input = frame.args[1]
local num_input = frame.args[2]
return p._mikazhi(string_input, num_input)

end

function p._kai( humanwords, size )
local output_string = {}
local humanwords = string.lower(humanwords)
local span = mw.html.create( 'span' )
if (size == nil or size == '') then size='10' end
for i=1, string.len(humanwords) do
local replacement = CharData["KaiChar"][humanwords:sub(i,i)]
if replacement ~= nil then
table.insert(output_string,'[[File:'..replacement..'|x'..size..'px|link=]]')
else
table.insert(output_string,'  ')
end
end
span :css( 'font-size', size..'px' )
:wikitext( table.concat(output_string) )
return tostring(span)
end

function p.kai( frame )
local string_input = frame.args[1]
local num_input = frame.args[2]
return p._kai(string_input, num_input)

end

function p._oldkai( humanwords, size )
local output_string = {}
local humanwords = string.lower(humanwords)
local span = mw.html.create( 'span' )
if (size == nil or size == '') then size='10' end
for i=1, string.len(humanwords) do
local replacement = CharData["OldKaiChar"][humanwords:sub(i,i)]
if replacement ~= nil then
table.insert(output_string,'[[File:'..replacement..'|x'..size..'px|link=]]')
else
table.insert(output_string,'  ')
end
end
span :css( 'font-size', size..'px' )
:wikitext( table.concat(output_string) )
return tostring(span)
end

function p.oldkai( frame )
local string_input = frame.args[1]
local num_input = frame.args[2]
return p._oldkai(string_input, num_input)

end

function p._eerie( humanwords, size )
local output_string = {}
local humanwords = string.lower(humanwords)
local span = mw.html.create( 'span' )
if (size == nil or size == '') then size='10' end
for i=1, string.len(humanwords) do
local replacement = CharData["EerieChar"][humanwords:sub(i,i)]
if replacement ~= nil then
table.insert(output_string,'[[File:'..replacement..'|x'..size..'px|link=]]')
else
table.insert(output_string,'  ')
end
end
span :css( 'font-size', size..'px' )
:wikitext( table.concat(output_string) )
return tostring(span)
end

function p.eerie( frame )
local string_input = frame.args[1]
local num_input = frame.args[2]
return p._eerie(string_input, num_input)

end

function p._ohaxa( humanwords, size )
local output_string = {}
local humanwords = string.lower(humanwords)
local span = mw.html.create( 'span' )
if (size == nil or size == '') then size='10' end
for i=1, string.len(humanwords) do
local replacement = CharData["OhaxaChar"][humanwords:sub(i,i)]
if replacement ~= nil then
table.insert(output_string,'[[File:'..replacement..'|x'..size..'px|link=]]')
else
table.insert(output_string,'  ')
end
end
span :css( 'font-size', size..'px' )
:wikitext( table.concat(output_string) )
return tostring(span)
end

function p.ohaxa( frame )
local string_input = frame.args[1]
local num_input = frame.args[2]
return p._ohaxa(string_input, num_input)

end

function p._oro( humanwords, size )
local output_string = {}
local humanwords = string.lower(humanwords)
local span = mw.html.create( 'span' )
if (size == nil or size == '') then size='10' end
for i=1, string.len(humanwords) do
local replacement = CharData["OroChar"][humanwords:sub(i,i)]
if replacement ~= nil then
table.insert(output_string,'[[File:'..replacement..'|x'..size..'px|link=]]')
else
table.insert(output_string,'  ')
end
end
span :css( 'font-size', size..'px' )
:wikitext( table.concat(output_string) )
return tostring(span)
end

function p.oro( frame )
local string_input = frame.args[1]
local num_input = frame.args[2]
return p._oro(string_input, num_input)

end

function p._iioouya( humanwords, size )
local output_string = {}
local humanwords = string.lower(humanwords)
local span = mw.html.create( 'span' )
if (size == nil or size == '') then size='10' end
for i=1, string.len(humanwords) do
local replacement = CharData["IioouyaChar"][humanwords:sub(i,i)]
if replacement ~= nil then
table.insert(output_string,'[[File:'..replacement..'|x'..size..'px|link=]]')
else
table.insert(output_string,'  ')
end
end
span :css( 'font-size', size..'px' )
:wikitext( table.concat(output_string) )
return tostring(span)
end

function p.iioouya( frame )
local string_input = frame.args[1]
local num_input = frame.args[2]
return p._iioouya(string_input, num_input)

end

function p._osiiarn( humanwords, size )
local output_string = {}
local humanwords = string.lower(humanwords)
local span = mw.html.create( 'span' )
if (size == nil or size == '') then size='14' end
for i=1, string.len(humanwords) do
local replacement = CharData["OsiiarnChar"][humanwords:sub(i,i)]
if replacement ~= nil then
table.insert(output_string,'[[File:'..replacement..'|x'..size..'px|link=]]')
else
table.insert(output_string,'  ')
end
end
span :css( 'font-size', size..'px' )
:wikitext( table.concat(output_string) )
return tostring(span)
end

function p.osiiarn( frame )
local string_input = frame.args[1]
local num_input = frame.args[2]
return p._osiiarn(string_input, num_input)

end

function p._kaiarial( humanwords, size )
local output_string = {}
local humanwords = string.lower(humanwords)
local span = mw.html.create( 'span' )
if (size == nil or size == '') then size='10' end
for i=1, string.len(humanwords) do
local replacement = CharData["KaiArialChar"][humanwords:sub(i,i)]
if replacement ~= nil then
table.insert(output_string,'[[File:'..replacement..'|x'..size..'px|link=]]')
else
table.insert(output_string,'  ')
end
end
span :css( 'font-size', size..'px' )
:wikitext( table.concat(output_string) )
return tostring(span)
end

function p.kaiarial( frame )
local string_input = frame.args[1]
local num_input = frame.args[2]
return p._kaiarial(string_input, num_input)

end

function p._assai( humanwords, size )
local output_string = {}
local humanwords = string.lower(humanwords)
local span = mw.html.create( 'span' )
if (size == nil or size == '') then size='10' end
for i=1, string.len(humanwords) do
local replacement = CharData["AssaiChar"][humanwords:sub(i,i)]
if replacement ~= nil then
table.insert(output_string,'[[File:'..replacement..'|x'..size..'px|link=]]')
else
table.insert(output_string,'  ')
end
end
span :css( 'font-size', size..'px' )
:wikitext( table.concat(output_string) )
return tostring(span)
end

function p.assai( frame )
local string_input = frame.args[1]
local num_input = frame.args[2]
return p._assai(string_input, num_input)

end

function p._ohaxan( humanwords, size )
local output_string = {}
local humanwords = string.lower(humanwords)
local span = mw.html.create( 'span' )
if (size == nil or size == '') then size='14' end
for i=1, string.len(humanwords) do
local replacement = CharData["OhaxanChar"][humanwords:sub(i,i)]
if replacement ~= nil then
table.insert(output_string,'[[File:'..replacement..'|x'..size..'px|link=]]')
else
table.insert(output_string,'  ')
end
end
span :css( 'font-size', size..'px' )
:wikitext( table.concat(output_string) )
return tostring(span)
end

function p.ohaxan( frame )
local string_input = frame.args[1]
local num_input = frame.args[2]
return p._ohaxan(string_input, num_input)

end

function p._surresi( humanwords, size )
local output_string = {}
local humanwords = string.lower(humanwords)
local span = mw.html.create( 'span' )
if (size == nil or size == '') then size='12' end
for i=1, string.len(humanwords) do
local replacement = CharData["SurresiChar"][humanwords:sub(i,i)]
if replacement ~= nil then
table.insert(output_string,'[[File:'..replacement..'|x'..size..'px|link=]]')
else
table.insert(output_string,'  ')
end
end
span :css( 'font-size', size..'px' )
:wikitext( table.concat(output_string) )
return tostring(span)
end

function p.surresi( frame )
local string_input = frame.args[1]
local num_input = frame.args[2]
return p._surresi(string_input, num_input)

end

function p._onshokoese( humanwords, size )
local output_string = {}
local humanwords = string.lower(humanwords)
local span = mw.html.create( 'span' )
if (size == nil or size == '') then size='14' end
for i=1, string.len(humanwords) do
local replacement = CharData["OnshokoeseChar"][humanwords:sub(i,i + 2)]
if replacement ~= nil then
table.insert(output_string,'[[File:'..replacement..'|x'..size..'px|link=]]')
i = i + 2
else
local replacement = CharData["OnshokoeseChar"][humanwords:sub(i,i + 1)]
if replacement ~= nil then
table.insert(output_string,'[[File:'..replacement..'|x'..size..'px|link=]]')
i = i + 1
else
local replacement = CharData["OnshokoeseChar"][humanwords:sub(i,i)]
if replacement ~= nil then
table.insert(output_string,'[[File:'..replacement..'|x'..size..'px|link=]]')
else
table.insert(output_string,'  ')
end
end
end
end
span :css( 'font-size', size..'px' )
:wikitext( table.concat(output_string) )
return tostring(span)
end

function p.onshokoese( frame )
local string_input = frame.args[1]
local num_input = frame.args[2]
return p._onshokoese(string_input, num_input)

end

function p._meyani( humanwords, size )
local output_string = {}
local humanwords = string.lower(humanwords)
local span = mw.html.create( 'span' )
if (size == nil or size == '') then size='14' end
for i=1, string.len(humanwords) do
local replacement = CharData["MeyaniScript"][humanwords:sub(i,i + 2)]
if replacement ~= nil then
table.insert(output_string,'[[File:'..replacement..'|x'..size..'px|link=]]')
i = i + 2
else
local replacement = CharData["MeyaniScript"][humanwords:sub(i,i + 1)]
if replacement ~= nil then
table.insert(output_string,'[[File:'..replacement..'|x'..size..'px|link=]]')
i = i + 1
else
local replacement = CharData["MeyaniScript"][humanwords:sub(i,i)]
if replacement ~= nil then
table.insert(output_string,'[[File:'..replacement..'|x'..size..'px|link=]]')
else
table.insert(output_string,'  ')
end
end
end
end
span :css( 'font-size', size..'px' )
:wikitext( table.concat(output_string) )
return tostring(span)
end

function p.meyani( frame )
local string_input = frame.args[1]
local num_input = frame.args[2]
return p._meyani(string_input, num_input)

end

function p._proriniannum( humanwords, size )
local output_string = {}
local humanwords = string.lower(humanwords)
local span = mw.html.create( 'span' )
if (size == nil or size == '') then size='14' end
for i=1, string.len(humanwords) do
local replacement = CharData["ProrinianNumeral"][humanwords:sub(i,i + 2)]
if replacement ~= nil then
table.insert(output_string,'[[File:'..replacement..'|x'..size..'px|link=]]')
i = i + 2
else
local replacement = CharData["ProrinianNumeral"][humanwords:sub(i,i + 1)]
if replacement ~= nil then
table.insert(output_string,'[[File:'..replacement..'|x'..size..'px|link=]]')
i = i + 1
else
local replacement = CharData["ProrinianNumeral"][humanwords:sub(i,i)]
if replacement ~= nil then
table.insert(output_string,'[[File:'..replacement..'|x'..size..'px|link=]]')
else
table.insert(output_string,'  ')
end
end
end
end
span :css( 'font-size', size..'px' )
:wikitext( table.concat(output_string) )
return tostring(span)
end

function p.proriniannum( frame )
local string_input = frame.args[1]
local num_input = frame.args[2]
return p._proriniannum(string_input, num_input)

end

return p

Module:CustomScript/data

2025-05-11T21:42:27Z

Triton2009: Adding the modern Prorinian numerals.

local CharData = {

["MikaeanChar"] = {
["a"] = "Mikaean A.svg",
["â"] = "Mikaean Â.svg",
["b"] = "Mikaean B.svg",
["c"] = "Mikaean C.svg",
["d"] = "Mikaean D.svg",
["e"] = "Mikaean E.svg",
["f"] = "Mikaean F.svg",
["g"] = "Mikaean G.svg",
["h"] = "Mikaean H.svg",
["i"] = "Mikaean I.svg",
["j"] = "Mikaean J.svg",
["k"] = "Mikaean K.svg",
["l"] = "Mikaean L.svg",
["m"] = "Mikaean M.svg",
["n"] = "Mikaean N.svg",
["o"] = "Mikaean O.svg",
["ö"] = "Mikaean Ö.svg",
["p"] = "Mikaean P.svg",
["q"] = "Mikaean Q.svg",
["r"] = "Mikaean R.svg",
["s"] = "Mikaean S.svg",
["š"] = "Mikaean Š.svg",
["t"] = "Mikaean T.svg",
["u"] = "Mikaean U.svg",
["v"] = "Mikaean V.svg",
["w"] = "Mikaean W.svg",
["x"] = "Mikaean X.svg",
["y"] = "Mikaean Y.svg",
["z"] = "Mikaean Z.svg",
["ž"] = "Mikaean Ž.svg",
["'"] = "Mikaean Apostrophe.svg",
[":"] = "Mikaean Colon.svg",
[";"] = "Mikaean Semicolon.svg",
[","] = "Mikaean Comma.svg",
["."] = "Mikaean Period.svg",
["("] = "Mikaean Left Parentheses.svg",
[")"] = "Mikaean Right Parentheses.svg",
["!"] = "Mikaean Exclamation Mark.svg",
["?"] = "Mikaean Question Mark.svg",
["%"] = "Mikaean Percent Sign.svg",
["1"] = "Mikaean One.svg",
["2"] = "Mikaean Two.svg",
["3"] = "Mikaean Three.svg",
["4"] = "Mikaean Four.svg",
["5"] = "Mikaean Five.svg",
["6"] = "Mikaean Six.svg",
["7"] = "Mikaean Seven.svg",
["8"] = "Mikaean Eight.svg",
["9"] = "Mikaean Nine.svg",
["0"] = "Mikaean Zero.svg",
},

["ErykanChar"] = {
["a"] = "Erykan A.svg",
["b"] = "Erykan B.svg",
["c"] = "Erykan C.svg",
["d"] = "Erykan D.svg",
["e"] = "Erykan E.svg",
["f"] = "Erykan F.svg",
["g"] = "Erykan G.svg",
["h"] = "Erykan H.svg",
["i"] = "Erykan I.svg",
["j"] = "Erykan J.svg",
["k"] = "Erykan K.svg",
["l"] = "Erykan L.svg",
["m"] = "Erykan M.svg",
["n"] = "Erykan N.svg",
["o"] = "Erykan O.svg",
["p"] = "Erykan P.svg",
["q"] = "Erykan Q.svg",
["r"] = "Erykan R.svg",
["s"] = "Erykan S.svg",
["t"] = "Erykan T.svg",
["u"] = "Erykan U.svg",
["v"] = "Erykan V.svg",
["w"] = "Erykan W.svg",
["x"] = "Erykan X.svg",
["y"] = "Erykan Y.svg",
["z"] = "Erykan Z.svg",
["'"] = "Erykan Apostrophe.svg",
[":"] = "Erykan Colon.svg",
[";"] = "Erykan Semicolon.svg",
[","] = "Erykan Comma.svg",
["."] = "Erykan Period.svg",
["("] = "Erykan Left Parentheses.svg",
[")"] = "Erykan Right Parentheses.svg",
["!"] = "Erykan Exclamation Mark.svg",
["?"] = "Erykan Question Mark.svg",
["%"] = "Erykan Percent Sign.svg",
["1"] = "Erykan One.svg",
["2"] = "Erykan Two.svg",
["3"] = "Erykan Three.svg",
["4"] = "Erykan Four.svg",
["5"] = "Erykan Five.svg",
["6"] = "Erykan Six.svg",
["7"] = "Erykan Seven.svg",
["8"] = "Erykan Eight.svg",
["9"] = "Erykan Nine.svg",
["0"] = "Erykan Zero.svg",
},

["SerranChar"] = {
["a"] = "Serran A.svg",
["â"] = "Serran Â.svg",
["ă"] = "Serran Ă.svg",
["b"] = "Serran B.svg",
["ƃ"] = "Serran Ƃ.svg",
["c"] = "Serran C.svg",
["ç"] = "Serran Ç.svg",
["d"] = "Serran D.svg",
["e"] = "Serran E.svg",
["f"] = "Serran F.svg",
["g"] = "Serran G.svg",
["h"] = "Serran H.svg",
["i"] = "Serran I.svg",
["j"] = "Serran J.svg",
["k"] = "Serran K.svg",
["l"] = "Serran L.svg",
["m"] = "Serran M.svg",
["n"] = "Serran N.svg",
["ñ"] = "Serran Ñ.svg",
["o"] = "Serran O.svg",
["ø"] = "Serran Ø.svg",
["p"] = "Serran P.svg",
["q"] = "Serran Q.svg",
["r"] = "Serran R.svg",
["s"] = "Serran S.svg",
["ß"] = "Serran ẞ.svg",
["t"] = "Serran T.svg",
["u"] = "Serran U.svg",
["v"] = "Serran V.svg",
["w"] = "Serran W.svg",
["x"] = "Serran X.svg",
["y"] = "Serran Y.svg",
["z"] = "Serran Z.svg",
},

["LurberanChar"] = {
["a"] = "Lurberan AS.svg",
["l"] = "Lurberan LU.svg",
["r"] = "Lurberan RU.svg",
["p"] = "Lurberan PE.svg",
["m"] = "Lurberan ME.svg",
["y"] = "Lurberan YU.svg",
["n"] = "Lurberan NA.svg",
["e"] = "Lurberan EN.svg",
["t"] = "Lurberan TU.svg",
["i"] = "Lurberan IU.svg",
["k"] = "Lurberan KA.svg",
["u"] = "Lurberan KU.svg",
["z"] = "Lurberan ZA.svg",
["b"] = "Lurberan BE.svg",
["v"] = "Lurberan LA.svg",
},

["PrusianChar"] = {
["a"] = "Prusian A.svg",
["e"] = "Prusian E.svg",
["f"] = "Prusian F.svg",
["g"] = "Prusian G.svg",
["h"] = "Prusian H.svg",
["i"] = "Prusian I.svg",
["m"] = "Prusian M.svg",
["n"] = "Prusian N.svg",
["o"] = "Prusian O.svg",
["p"] = "Prusian P.svg",
["r"] = "Prusian R.svg",
["s"] = "Prusian S.svg",
["t"] = "Prusian T.svg",
["u"] = "Prusian U.svg",
["!"] = "Prusian exclamation point.svg",
["?"] = "Prusian question mark.svg",
["~"] = "Prusian initium.svg",
},
["SaelicChar"] = {
["a"] = "Saelic A.svg",
["e"] = "Saelic E.svg",
["i"] = "Saelic I.svg",
["o"] = "Saelic O.svg",
["tha"] = "Saelic Tha.svg",
["the"] = "Saelic The.svg",
["thi"] = "Saelic Thi.svg",
["tho"] = "Saelic Tho.svg",
["pha"] = "Saelic Pha.svg",
["phe"] = "Saelic Phe.svg",
["phi"] = "Saelic Phi.svg",
["pho"] = "Saelic Pho.svg",
["ska"] = "Saelic Ska.svg",
["ske"] = "Saelic Ske.svg",
["ski"] = "Saelic Ski.svg",
["sko"] = "Saelic Sko.svg",
["ath"] = "Saelic Ath.svg",
["eth"] = "Saelic Eth.svg",
["ith"] = "Saelic Ith.svg",
["oth"] = "Saelic Oth.svg",
["aph"] = "Saelic Aph.svg",
["eph"] = "Saelic Eph.svg",
["iph"] = "Saelic Iph.svg",
["oph"] = "Saelic Oph.svg",
["ask"] = "Saelic Ask.svg",
["esk"] = "Saelic Esk.svg",
["isk"] = "Saelic Isk.svg",
["osk"] = "Saelic Osk.svg",
["ta"] = "Saelic Ta.svg",
["te"] = "Saelic Te.svg",
["ti"] = "Saelic Ti.svg",
["to"] = "Saelic To.svg",
["tath"] = "Saelic Tath.svg",
["teth"] = "Saelic Teth.svg",
["tith"] = "Saelic Tith.svg",
["toph"] = "Saelic Toph.svg",
["task"] = "Saelic Task.svg",
["tesk"] = "Saelic Tesk.svg",
["tisk"] = "Saelic Tisk.svg",
["tosk"] = "Saelic Tosk.svg",
["sa"] = "Saelic Sa.svg",
["se"] = "Saelic Se.svg",
["si"] = "Saelic Si.svg",
["so"] = "Saelic So.svg",
["sath"] = "Saelic Sath.svg",
["seth"] = "Saelic Seth.svg",
["sith"] = "Saelic Sith.svg",
["soth"] = "Saelic Soth.svg",
["saph"] = "Saelic Saph.svg",
["seph"] = "Saelic Seph.svg",
["siph"] = "Saelic Siph.svg",
["soph"] = "Saelic Soph.svg",
["sask"] = "Saelic Sask.svg",
["sesk"] = "Saelic Sesk.svg",
["sisk"] = "Saelic Sisk.svg",
["sosk"] = "Saelic Sosk.svg",
["la"] = "Saelic La.svg",
["le"] = "Saelic Le.svg",
["li"] = "Saelic Li.svg",
["lo"] = "Saelic Lo.svg",
["lath"] = "Saelic Lath.svg",
["leth"] = "Saelic Leth.svg",
["lith"] = "Saelic Lith.svg",
["loth"] = "Saelic Loth.svg",
["laph"] = "Saelic Laph.svg",
["leph"] = "Saelic Leph.svg",
["loph"] = "Saelic Loph.svg",
["lask"] = "Saelic Lask.svg",
["lesk"] = "Saelic Lesk.svg",
["lisk"] = "Saelic Lisk.svg",
["losk"] = "Saelic Losk.svg",
["pa"] = "Saelic Pa.svg",
["pe"] = "Saelic Pe.svg",
["pi"] = "Saelic Pi.svg",
["po"] = "Saelic Po.svg",
["path"] = "Saelic Path.svg",
["peth"] = "Saelic Peth.svg",
["pith"] = "Saelic Pith.svg",
["poth"] = "Saelic Poth.svg",
["paph"] = "Saelic Paph.svg",
["peph"] = "Saelic Peph.svg",
["piph"] = "Saelic Piph.svg",
["poph"] = "Saelic Poph.svg",
["pask"] = "Saelic Pask.svg",
["pesk"] = "Saelic Pesk.svg",
["pisk"] = "Saelic Pisk.svg",
["posk"] = "Saelic Posk.svg",
},

["IsokyrianChar"] = {
["f"] = "ᚠ",
},

["KanianChar"] = {
["a"] = "Kanian A.svg",
["b"] = "Kanian B.svg",
["c"] = "Kanian C.svg",
["d"] = "Kanian D.svg",
["e"] = "Kanian E.svg",
["f"] = "Kanian F.svg",
["g"] = "Kanian G.svg",
["h"] = "Kanian H.svg",
["i"] = "Kanian I.svg",
["j"] = "Kanian J.svg",
["k"] = "Kanian K.svg",
["l"] = "Kanian L.svg",
["m"] = "Kanian M.svg",
["n"] = "Kanian N.svg",
["o"] = "Kanian O.svg",
["p"] = "Kanian P.svg",
["q"] = "Kanian Q.svg",
["r"] = "Kanian R.svg",
["s"] = "Kanian S.svg",
["š"] = "Kanian Š.svg",
["t"] = "Kanian T.svg",
["u"] = "Kanian U.svg",
["v"] = "Kanian V.svg",
["w"] = "Kanian W.svg",
["x"] = "Kanian X.svg",
["y"] = "Kanian Y.svg",
["z"] = "Kanian Z.svg",
["'"] = "Kanian Apostrophe.svg",
[":"] = "Kanian Colon.svg",
[";"] = "Kanian Semicolon.svg",
[","] = "Kanian Comma.svg",
["."] = "Kanian Period.svg",
["("] = "Kanian Left Parentheses.svg",
[")"] = "Kanian Right Parentheses.svg",
["!"] = "Kanian Exclamation Mark.svg",
["?"] = "Kanian Question Mark.svg",
["%"] = "Kanian Percent Sign.svg",
["1"] = "໑",
["2"] = "໒",
["3"] = "໓",
["4"] = "໔",
["5"] = "໕",
["6"] = "໖",
["7"] = "໗",
["8"] = "໘",
["9"] = "໙",
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["b"] = "Vespian B.svg",
["c"] = "Vespian C.svg",
["d"] = "Vespian D.svg",
["e"] = "Vespian E.svg",
["f"] = "Vespian F.svg",
["g"] = "Vespian G.svg",
["h"] = "Vespian H.svg",
["i"] = "Vespian I.svg",
["j"] = "Vespian J.svg",
["k"] = "Vespian K.svg",
["l"] = "Vespian L.svg",
["m"] = "Vespian M.svg",
["n"] = "Vespian N.svg",
["o"] = "Vespian O.svg",
["ö"] = "Vespian Ö.svg",
["p"] = "Vespian P.svg",
["q"] = "Vespian Q.svg",
["r"] = "Vespian R.svg",
["s"] = "Vespian S.svg",
["š"] = "Vespian Š.svg",
["t"] = "Vespian T.svg",
["u"] = "Vespian U.svg",
["v"] = "Vespian V.svg",
["w"] = "Vespian W.svg",
["x"] = "Vespian X.svg",
["y"] = "Vespian Y.svg",
["z"] = "Vespian Z.svg",
["ž"] = "Vespian Ž.svg",
["'"] = "Vespian Apostrophe.svg",
[":"] = "Vespian Colon.svg",
[";"] = "Vespian Semicolon.svg",
[","] = "Vespian Comma.svg",
["."] = "Vespian Period.svg",
["("] = "Vespian Left Parentheses.svg",
[")"] = "Vespian Right Parentheses.svg",
["!"] = "Vespian Exclamation Mark.svg",
["?"] = "Vespian Question Mark.svg",
["%"] = "Vespian Percent Sign.svg",
["-"] = "Vespian Dash.svg",
["1"] = "Vespian One.svg",
["2"] = "Vespian Two.svg",
["3"] = "Vespian Three.svg",
["4"] = "Vespian Four.svg",
["5"] = "Vespian Five.svg",
["6"] = "Vespian Six.svg",
["7"] = "Vespian Seven.svg",
["8"] = "Vespian Eight.svg",
["9"] = "Vespian Nine.svg",
["0"] = "Vespian Zero.svg",
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["b"] = "Mikazhi B.svg",
["c"] = "Mikazhi C.svg",
["d"] = "Mikazhi D.svg",
["e"] = "Mikazhi E.svg",
["f"] = "Mikazhi F.svg",
["g"] = "Mikazhi G.svg",
["h"] = "Mikazhi H.svg",
["i"] = "Mikazhi I.svg",
["j"] = "Mikazhi J.svg",
["k"] = "Mikazhi K.svg",
["l"] = "Mikazhi L.svg",
["m"] = "Mikazhi M.svg",
["n"] = "Mikazhi N.svg",
["o"] = "Mikazhi O.svg",
["p"] = "Mikazhi P.svg",
["q"] = "Mikazhi Q.svg",
["r"] = "Mikazhi R.svg",
["s"] = "Mikazhi S.svg",
["t"] = "Mikazhi T.svg",
["u"] = "Mikazhi U.svg",
["v"] = "Mikazhi V.svg",
["w"] = "Mikazhi W.svg",
["x"] = "Mikazhi X.svg",
["y"] = "Mikazhi Y.svg",
["z"] = "Mikazhi Z.svg",
["'"] = "Mikazhi Apostrophe.svg",
[","] = "Mikazhi Comma.svg",
["."] = "Mikazhi Period.svg",
["("] = "Mikazhi Left Parentheses.svg",
[")"] = "Mikazhi Right Parentheses.svg",
["!"] = "Mikazhi Exclamation Mark.svg",
["?"] = "Mikazhi Question Mark.svg",
["-"] = "Mikazhi Dash.svg",
["1"] = "Mikazhi One.svg",
["2"] = "Mikazhi Two.svg",
["3"] = "Mikazhi Three.svg",
["4"] = "Mikazhi Four.svg",
["5"] = "Mikazhi Five.svg",
["6"] = "Mikazhi Six.svg",
["7"] = "Mikazhi Seven.svg",
["8"] = "Mikazhi Eight.svg",
["9"] = "Mikazhi Nine.svg",
["0"] = "Mikazhi Zero.svg",
},

["KaiChar"] = {
["a"] = "Kai A.svg",
["b"] = "Kai B.svg",
["c"] = "Kai C.svg",
["d"] = "Kai D.svg",
["e"] = "Kai E.svg",
["f"] = "Kai F.svg",
["g"] = "Kai G.svg",
["h"] = "Kai H.svg",
["i"] = "Kai I.svg",
["j"] = "Kai J.svg",
["k"] = "Kai K.svg",
["l"] = "Kai L.svg",
["m"] = "Kai M.svg",
["n"] = "Kai N.svg",
["o"] = "Kai O.svg",
["p"] = "Kai P.svg",
["q"] = "Kai Q.svg",
["r"] = "Kai R.svg",
["s"] = "Kai S.svg",
["t"] = "Kai T.svg",
["u"] = "Kai U.svg",
["v"] = "Kai V.svg",
["w"] = "Kai W.svg",
["y"] = "Kai Y.svg",
["z"] = "Kai Z.svg",
},

["AssaiChar"] = {
["a"] = "Assai A.svg",
["b"] = "Assai B.svg",
["d"] = "Assai D.svg",
["g"] = "Assai G.svg",
["k"] = "Assai K.svg",
["n"] = "Assai N.svg",
["p"] = "Assai P.svg",
["!"] = "Assai PS.svg",
["t"] = "Assai T.svg",
["@"] = "Assai TS.svg",
["#"] = "Assai TSH.svg",
},

["OldKaiChar"] = {
["a"] = "Old Kai a.svg",
["b"] = "Old Kai b.svg",
["c"] = "Old Kai c.svg",
["d"] = "Old Kai d.svg",
["e"] = "Old Kai e.svg",
["f"] = "Old Kai f.svg",
["g"] = "Old Kai g.svg",
["h"] = "Old Kai h.svg",
["i"] = "Old Kai i.svg",
["j"] = "Old Kai j.svg",
["k"] = "Old Kai k.svg",
["l"] = "Old Kai l.svg",
["m"] = "Old Kai m.svg",
["n"] = "Old Kai n.svg",
["o"] = "Old Kai o.svg",
["p"] = "Old Kai p.svg",
["q"] = "Old Kai q.svg",
["r"] = "Old Kai r.svg",
["s"] = "Old Kai s.svg",
["t"] = "Old Kai t.svg",
["u"] = "Old Kai u.svg",
["v"] = "Old Kai v.svg",
["w"] = "Old Kai w.svg",
["y"] = "Old Kai y.svg",
["z"] = "Old Kai z.svg",
},

["EerieChar"] = {
["a"] = "Eerie Ah.png",
["b"] = "Eerie Dje.png",
["c"] = "Eerie Ceh.png",
["d"] = "Eerie Deh.png",
["e"] = "Eerie Eph.png",
["f"] = "Eerie Eph (small).png",
["h"] = "Eerie Heh.png",
["i"] = "Eerie Ihh.png",
["l"] = "Eerie Leh.png",
["m"] = "Eerie Meh.png",
["n"] = "Eerie Njeh.png",
["o"] = "Eerie Oeh.png",
["p"] = "Eerie Peh.png",
["r"] = "Eerie Reh.png",
["s"] = "Eerie Seh.png",
["t"] = "Eerie Thef.png",
["u"] = "Eerie Ueh.png",
["v"] = "Eerie Ujuh.png",
["y]"] = "Eerie Yuh.png",

},

["OhaxaChar"] = {
["a"] = "Ohaxa A.png",
["e"] = "Ohaxa E.png",
["i"] = "Ohaxa I.png",
["k"] = "Ohaxa K.png",
["m"] = "Ohaxa M.png",
["n"] = "Ohaxa N.png",
["o"] = "Ohaxa O.png",
["p"] = "Ohaxa P.png",
["r"] = "Ohaxa R.png",
["s"] = "Ohaxa S.png",
["t"] = "Ohaxa T.png",
["u"] = "Ohaxa U.png",
["w"] = "Ohaxa W.png",
["x"] = "Ohaxa X.png",
["y"] = "Ohaxa Y.png",

},

["OroChar"] = {
["a"] = "Oro A.png",
["b"] = "Oro B.png",
["j"] = "Oro Bj.png",
["c"] = "Oro Ç.png",
["d"] = "Oro D.png",
["z"] = "Oro Dz.png",
["e"] = "Oro E.png",
["g"] = "Oro g.png",
["y"] = "Oro gj.png",
["i"] = "Oro I.png",
["k"] = "Oro k.png",
["m"] = "Oro m.png",
["n"] = "Oro n.png",
["o"] = "Oro O.png",
["f"] = "Oro ɸ.png",
["s"] = "Oro Sh.png",
["t"] = "Oro T.png",
["1"] = "Oro Tɕ.png",
["h"] = "Oro Ts.png",
["u"] = "Oro U.png",
["l"] = "Oro L.png",
["2"] = "Oro ʑ.png",
["0"] = "Oro ʔ.png",
["r"] = "Oro R.png",
["'"] = "Oro End.png",
},

["IioouyaChar"] = {
["1"] = "BaseLong.png",
["2"] = "BaseUp.png",
["3"] = "DownLong.png",
["4"] = "UpLong.png",

},

["OsiiarnChar"] = {
["a"] = "Osiiarn A.svg",
["5"] = "Osiiarn Ai.svg",
["6"] = "Osiiarn Au.svg",
["b"] = "Osiiarn B.svg",
["d"] = "Osiiarn D.svg",
["d́"] = "Osiiarn Dz.svg",
["e"] = "Osiiarn E.svg",
["g"] = "Osiiarn G.svg",
["'"] = "Osiiarn GStop.svg",
["h"] = "Osiiarn H.svg",
["w"] = "Osiiarn Hw.svg",
["i"] = "Osiiarn I.svg",
["7"] = "Osiiarn Ia.svg",
["8"] = "Osiiarn Iu.svg",
["k"] = "Osiiarn K.svg",
["l"] = "Osiiarn L.svg",
["m"] = "Osiiarn M.svg",
["n"] = "Osiiarn N.svg",
["ŋ"] = "Osiiarn Ng.svg",
["o"] = "Osiiarn O.svg",
["p"] = "Osiiarn P.svg",
["R"] = "Osiiarn RR.svg",
["s"] = "Osiiarn S.svg",
["t"] = "Osiiarn T.svg",
["t́"] = "Osiiarn Ts.svg",
["u"] = "Osiiarn U.svg",
["9"] = "Osiiarn Ua.svg",
["ə"] = "Osiiarn Uh.svg",
["+"] = "Osiiarn Ui.svg",
["x"] = "Osiiarn X.svg",
["z"] = "Osiiarn Z.svg",
["!"] = "Osiiarn !.svg",
["."] = "Osiiarn Period.svg",
["0"] = "Osiiarn 0.svg",
["1"] = "Osiiarn 1.svg",
["2"] = "Osiiarn 2.svg",
["3"] = "Osiiarn 3.svg",
["4"] = "Osiiarn 4.svg",

},

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["a"] = "SurresiNewA.JPG",
["b"] = "SurresiNewB.JPG",
["c"] = "SurresiKreal.JPG",
["d"] = "SurresiNewD.JPG",
["e"] = "SurresiNewE.JPG",
["f"] = "SurresiNewF.JPG",
["g"] = "SurresiNewG.JPG",
["h"] = "SurresiNewH.JPG",
["i"] = "SurresiNewI.JPG",
["k"] = "SurresiNewK.JPG",
["l"] = "SurresiNewL.JPG",
["m"] = "SurresiNewM.JPG",
["n"] = "SurresiNewN.JPG",
["o"] = "SurresiNewO.JPG",
["p"] = "SurresiNewP.JPG",
["r"] = "SurresiNewR.JPG",
["s"] = "SurresiNewS.JPG",
["t"] = "SurresiNewT.JPG",
["u"] = "SurresiNewU.JPG",
["v"] = "SurresiNewV.JPG",
["w"] = "SurresiNewW.JPG",
["y"] = "SurresiNewY.JPG",
["z"] = "SurresiNewZ.JPG",
[","] = "SurresiComma.JPG",
["."] = "SurresiPeriod.JPG",
["!"] = "SurresiExclamatory.JPG",
["?"] = "SurresiInterrogatory.JPG",
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["2"] = "Surresi22222.JPG",
["3"] = "Surresi33333.JPG",
["4"] = "Surresi44444.JPG",
["5"] = "Surresi55555.JPG",
["6"] = "Surresi66666.JPG",
["7"] = "Surresi77777.JPG",
["8"] = "Surresi88888.JPG",
["9"] = "Surresi99999.JPG",
["0"] = "Surresi00000.JPG"

},

["KaiArialChar"] = {
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["b"] = "Kai Arial B.svg",
["c"] = "Kai Arial C.svg",
["d"] = "Kai Arial D.svg",
["e"] = "Kai Arial E.svg",
["f"] = "Kai Arial F.svg",
["g"] = "Kai Arial G.svg",
["h"] = "Kai Arial H.svg",
["i"] = "Kai Arial I.svg",
["j"] = "Kai Arial J.svg",
["k"] = "Kai Arial K.svg",
["l"] = "Kai Arial L.svg",
["m"] = "Kai Arial M.svg",
["n"] = "Kai Arial N.svg",
["o"] = "Kai Arial O.svg",
["p"] = "Kai Arial P.svg",
["q"] = "Kai Arial Q.svg",
["r"] = "Kai Arial R.svg",
["s"] = "Kai Arial S.svg",
["t"] = "Kai Arial T.svg",
["u"] = "Kai Arial U.svg",
["v"] = "Kai Arial V.svg",
["w"] = "Kai Arial W.svg",
["y"] = "Kai Arial Y.svg",
["z"] = "Kai Arial Z.svg",
},

["OnshokoeseChar"] = {
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["che"] = "Onshokoese_che.svg",
["chi"] = "Onshokoese_chi.svg",
["cho"] = "Onshokoese_cho.svg",
["chu"] = "Onshokoese_chu.svg",
["chw"] = "Onshokoese_chw.svg",
["ch"] = "Onshokoese_chu.svg",
["dha"] = "Onshokoese_da.svg",
["dhe"] = "Onshokoese_de.svg",
["dhi"] = "Onshokoese_di.svg",
["dho"] = "Onshokoese_do.svg",
["dhu"] = "Onshokoese_du.svg",
["dhw"] = "Onshokoese_dw.svg",
["dhy"] = "Onshokoese_dy.svg",
["dh"] = "Onshokoese_du.svg",
["gha"] = "Onshokoese_ga.svg",
["ghe"] = "Onshokoese_ge.svg",
["ghi"] = "Onshokoese_gi.svg",
["gho"] = "Onshokoese_go.svg",
["ghu"] = "Onshokoese_gu.svg",
["gh"] = "Onshokoese_gu.svg",
["kha"] = "Onshokoese_ha.svg",
["khe"] = "Onshokoese_he.svg",
["khi"] = "Onshokoese_hi.svg",
["kho"] = "Onshokoese_ho.svg",
["khu"] = "Onshokoese_hu.svg",
["kh"] = "Onshokoese_hu.svg",
["pha"] = "Onshokoese_wha.svg",
["phe"] = "Onshokoese_whe.svg",
["phi"] = "Onshokoese_whi.svg",
["pho"] = "Onshokoese_who.svg",
["phu"] = "Onshokoese_fu.svg",
["ph"] = "Onshokoese_fu.svg",
["sha"] = "Onshokoese_sha.svg",
["she"] = "Onshokoese_she.svg",
["shi"] = "Onshokoese_shi.svg",
["sho"] = "Onshokoese_sho.svg",
["shu"] = "Onshokoese_shu.svg",
["shw"] = "Onshokoese_shw.svg",
["sh"] = "Onshokoese_sh.svg",
["tha"] = "Onshokoese_ta.svg",
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["thi"] = "Onshokoese_ti.svg",
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["thy"] = "Onshokoese_ty.svg",
["th"] = "Onshokoese_tu.svg",
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["gua"] = "Onshokoese_gwa.svg",
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["so"] = "Onshokoese_so.svg",
["su"] = "Onshokoese_su.svg",
["sw"] = "Onshokoese_sw.svg",
["s"] = "Onshokoese_s.svg",
["ta"] = "Onshokoese_ta.svg",
["te"] = "Onshokoese_te.svg",
["ti"] = "Onshokoese_ti.svg",
["to"] = "Onshokoese_to.svg",
["tu"] = "Onshokoese_tu.svg",
["tw"] = "Onshokoese_tw.svg",
["ty"] = "Onshokoese_ty.svg",
["t"] = "Onshokoese_q.svg",
["va"] = "Onshokoese_wa.svg",
["ve"] = "Onshokoese_we.svg",
["vi"] = "Onshokoese_wi.svg",
["vo"] = "Onshokoese_wo.svg",
["vu"] = "Onshokoese_vu.svg",
["v"] = "Onshokoese_fu.svg",
["wa"] = "Onshokoese_wa.svg",
["we"] = "Onshokoese_we.svg",
["wi"] = "Onshokoese_wi.svg",
["wo"] = "Onshokoese_wo.svg",
["wu"] = "Onshokoese_vu.svg",
["w"] = "Onshokoese_o.svg",
["ya"] = "Onshokoese_ya.svg",
["ye"] = "Onshokoese_ye.svg",
["yi"] = "Onshokoese_yi.svg",
["yo"] = "Onshokoese_yo.svg",
["yu"] = "Onshokoese_yu.svg",
["y"] = "Onshokoese_i.svg",
["za"] = "Onshokoese_za.svg",
["ze"] = "Onshokoese_ze.svg",
["zi"] = "Onshokoese_zi.svg",
["zo"] = "Onshokoese_zo.svg",
["zu"] = "Onshokoese_zu.svg",
["zw"] = "Onshokoese_zw.svg",
["z"] = "Onshokoese_zu.svg",
["a"] = "Onshokoese_a.svg",
["e"] = "Onshokoese_e.svg",
["i"] = "Onshokoese_i.svg",
["o"] = "Onshokoese_o.svg",
["u"] = "Onshokoese_u.svg",
},

["MeyaniScript"] = {
["@"] = "Meyani Letter Ah.png",
["i"] = "Meyani Letter Ee.png",
["u"] = "Meyani Letter Oo.png",
["a"] = "̀",
["e"] = "́",
["o"] = "̗",
["z"] = "̇",
["b"] = "Meyani Letter B.png",
["c"] = "Meyani Letter Ch.png",
["d"] = "Meyani Letter D.png",
["f"] = "Meyani Letter F.png",
["g"] = "Meyani Letter K - G.png",
["h"] = "Meyani Letter Kh.png",
["j"] = "Meyani Letter Y.png",
["y"] = "Meyani Letter Y.png",
["k"] = "Meyani Letter K - G.png",
["l"] = "Meyani Letter L.png",
["m"] = "Meyani Letter M.png",
["n"] = "Meyani Letter N.png",
["p"] = "Meyani Letter P.png",
["q"] = "Meyani Letter Ql.png",
["r"] = "Meyani Letter R.png",
["s"] = "Meyani Letter S.png",
["t"] = "Meyani Letter T.png",
["v"] = "Meyani Letter V.png",
["x"] = "Meyani Letter Sh.png",
[" "] = ":",
["."] = "=",
},

["ProrinianNumeral"] = {
["0"] = "Common Prorinian Null Character.png",
["1"] = "Prorinian Numeral One.png",
["2"] = "Prorinian Numeral Two.png",
["3"] = "Prorinian Numeral Three.png",
["4"] = "Prorinian Numeral Four.png",
["5"] = "Prorinian Numeral Five.png",
["6"] = "Prorinian Numeral Six.png",
["7"] = "Prorinian Numeral Seven.png",
["8"] = "Prorinian Numeral Eight.png",
["9"] = "Prorinian Numeral Nine.png",
["A"] = "Prorinian Numeral Ten.png",
["B"] = "Prorinian Numeral Eleven.png",
},

}
return CharData

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{{Short description|A [[Qlerevi languages|Qlerevi language]] spoken in [[Meyāni]] and other regions in the [[Prorinian peninsula]]}}
{{Infobox Levarianquevan Language
| title = Meyāni
| othername = Meyānisian
| nativename = {{CustomScript|meyani|y}}̀ˋ˙{{CustomScript|meyani|t}}ˎ:{{CustomScript|meyani|n}}ˊ{{CustomScript|meyani|h@}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|n}}ˊ{{CustomScript|meyani|sir}}ˋ—{{CustomScript|meyani|i}} (''Yáto Nehấnesira-i'')
| image = Meyani distribution.png
| imagecaption = The distribution of the Standard Meyāni language in the Prorinian peninsula based on first-language speakers, overlaid by political boundaries: 
{{Color box|#7387Cf}}: Standard Meyāni is spoken by a majority of gators in the area as a {{w|First language|mother tongue}}. 
{{Color box|#8EA7ff}}: Standard Meyāni is spoken by a significant minority of gators in the area as a mother tongue. 
{{Color box|#bacbff}}: Standard Meyāni is spoken by a small minority of gators in the area as a mother tongue. 
{{Color box|#ffffff}}: Standard Meyāni is primarily learned as a {{w|second language}} by gators in the area, as little-to-no first-language speakers exist. 
{{Color box|#3f48cc}}: The area is covered by a body of {{w|water}}. 
{{Color box|#000000}}: Political boundary.|imagesize=250px|pronounciation=/ˈjæ.to nɛˈxɑː.nɛ.siː.ra.jiː/
| region=[[Prorinian peninsula]]
| speakers = ~ 9 million (L1) 
~ 16 million (L2) 
~ 25 million (total)
| family = [[Qlerevi languages|Qlerevi]]
*[[Eastern Qlerevi languages|Eastern Qlerevi]]
**[[Prorinian Qlerevi languages|Prorinian Qlerevi]]
***[[Central Prorinian Qlerevi languages|Central Prorinian Qlerevi]]
****[[Steppe Qlerevi languages|Steppe Qlerevi]]
*****[[Old Meyāni language|Old Meyāni]]
******[[Classical Meyāni language|Classical Meyāni]]
*******'''Meyāni'''
| script = [[Meyāni alphabet]]<ref>The script is classified as a partial {{w|abjad}} because "{{w|short vowels}}" are not written and require optional {{w|diacritics}} to be expressed properly without relying solely on {{w|context}}; see [[Meyāni language#Orthography|the orthography section of this article]].</ref>
| direction = {{w|Directionality and orientation|Left-to-right}}
| officialin = [[Meyāni]]
| recognized = [[Yaksōn]]
| consonants = 19
| vowels = 9 (6 {{w|monophthongs}}, 3 {{w|diphthongs}}
| syllablestructure = <nowiki>#</nowiki>((l)C)V/(N, h)(C)CV/(C, G)(C)#
| prosody = {{w|Stress (linguistics)|Stress}}
| inflectiontype = {{w|Analytic language|Analytic}}
| nouncase = m
| nounnumber = y
| noundefinite = n
| noungender = n
| adjectiveagreement = No
| verbtense = y
| verbaspect = m
| verbmood = m
| verbvoice = n
| verbsubject = n
| verbobject = n
| verbnumber = n
| verbevidence = n
| verbvalency = n
| markingposs = {{w|Dependent-marking language|Dependent-marking}}
| markingadj = {{w|Dependent-marking language|Dependent-marking}}
| markingverb = {{w|Zero-marking language|Zero-marking}}
| wordorder = {{w|Subject-verb-object}}
| otherorders = {{w|Verb-subject-object}} (in {{w|subordinate clauses}})
| headdirection = {{w|Head-directionality parameter#Head-final languages|Head-final}} ({{w|Head-directionality parameter#Head-initial languages|Head-initial}} in verb phrases)
| alignmenttype = {{w|Nominative-accusative alignment|Nominative-Accusative}}
}}

The '''Meyāni language''' is a [[Qlerevi languages|Qlerevi language]] primarily spoken on the [[Prorinian peninsula]]. The standard dialect is primarily spoken in southern [[Meyāni]], with significant minorities of speakers existing throughout the peninsula and adjacent lands. Its closest living relative that is not disputed to be a distinct {{w|language}} (either by the {{w|Linguistic description|descriptionism}} of {{w|Academic linguistics|scholarly linguistics}}, which is the primary form of {{w|Linguistic study|linguistic study}} used in this article, or {{w|linguistic prescription}}, which is promoted by [[Meyāni#Education|Meyāni's educational system]]) is the [[Bandit language]], which is spoken primarily in the northern and northwestern<ref>Due to Levarianqueva's retrograde rotation, east and west are swapped on maps.</ref> areas of the [[Great Prorinian Steppes (country)|Great Prorinian Steppes]]. The language is the sole {{w|official language}} of Meyāni, while it is recognized as a {{w|minority language}} in [[Yaksōn]] (where it was introduced to vast swathes of the country by lower-class {{w|refugees}} fleeing the low {{w|quality of life}} generated by [[Meyāni#Corporations|the corporations in ''de facto'' charge of the Meyāni government]]); in all other Prorinian countries, the language is not recognized.

The language has had a long history spanning back thousands of years. The ultimate accepted ancestor of Meyāni, the [[Proto-Qlerevi language]], was likely spoken in an area roughly overlapping with the modern-day nation of [[Qlerebam]]. After a {{w|drought}} that contributed to much of Qlerebam being covered in vast {{w|deserts}} today, the Qlerevi peoples then {{w|migrated}} throughout Levarianqueva, settling in locations as distant from [[Vreotannia]] to [[Arozdénia]] to the Prorinian peninsula. The Qlerevi languages that ultimately arrived at the Prorinian peninsula then diversified into two distinct {{w|language families}}: the [[Central Prorinian Qlerevi languages]] (which ultimately evolved into the Meyāni language and its relatives) and the [[Northwestern Prorinian Qlerevi languages]] (which ultimately evolved into the [[Nōlīnian language]] and its relatives), displacing the local [[Pre-Yaksōnian languages]] in the process while absorbing significant influences from them, including the development of a strict {{w|V2 word order}}.

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==Classification and Dialects==

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===Position in the Qlerevi family===
Meyāni is a [[Qlerevi languages|Qlerevi language]] belonging to the [[Eastern Qlerevi languages|eastern branch]], which includes the [[Prorinian Qlerevi languages]] (which Meyāni is a part of). The eastern branch of Qlerevi languages is primarily differentiated from other Qlerevi languages in that languages in this branch underwent various {{w|sound changes}} which were absent from other Proto-Qlerevi dialects, including, but not limited to:

* [[Proto-Qlerevi language|Proto-Qlerevi]] ''*p'' {{w|lenition|lenites}} into /''*β''/ between two {{w|vowels}} (and later disappears entirely in the Prorinian Qlerevi languages); e.g. Proto-Qlerevi ''*kapōñ'' "to form" > Proto-Eastern Qlerevi ''*kaβōñ'' > Meyāni {{CustomScript|meyani|k@}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|un}}ˊ (''káune'') "to build, to create," [[Nōlīnian language|Nōlīnian]] *SCRIPT TBA* (-''kaʔǫni''-) "to form."
* Proto-Qlerevi ''*w'' becomes /''*β''/ word-finally, which later disappeared in the Prorinian Qlerevi languages (and produced a four-way distinction in {{w|vowel length}} between short, half-long, long, and overlong which eventually disappeared in all of Proto-Prorinian Qlerevi's descendants in some way or another); e.g. Proto-Qlerevi ''*eqlew'' "eternal rival" > Proto-Eastern Qlerevi ''*eqleβ'' > Meyāni {{CustomScript|meyani|y}}ˋ˙{{CustomScript|meyani|ks}}ˋ (''yáksa'') "eternal rival," Nōlīnian *SCRIPT TBA* (''eqlè''-) "rival."
* Proto-Qlerevi ''*ts'' becomes /''*θ''/ in all positions, which later shifts into /''*s''/ in Proto-Prorinian Qlerevi; e.g. Proto-Qlerevi ''*wītsen'' "to see" > Proto-Eastern-Qlerevi ''*wīθān'' > Meyāni {{CustomScript|meyani|v@}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|is@n}} (''váisân'') "to see," Nōlīnian *SCRIPT TBA* (-''wįsąn''-) "to see."
* Some of Proto-Qlerevi's consonant clusters undergo heavy {{w|consonant assimilation}} in Eastern Qlerevi languages.

Modern Meyāni's closest living relative that is not disputed as being a distinct language is the [[Bandit language]], which is natively spoken in the northern and northwestern areas of the [[Great Prorinian Steppes (country)|Great Prorinian Steppes]]. The Bandit language shares many sound changes with Meyāni, which has diverged from it approximately 3,500 years ago. These include, but are not limited to:

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===Dialects===
Besides '''Standard Meyāni''' (which is what one typically means when they say "Meyāni language"), multiple other {{w|dialects}} of the Meyāni language exist each with their own unique properties. Standard Meyāni, which is based on the dialect spoken in the capital of [[Meraqlum]], is the official language of the country of [[Meyāni]] and is the dialect that is the closest to the [[Classical Meyāni|classical language]] spoken during the [[Bandit dynasty]] and also being the main {{w|liturgical language}} of the [[Áukanism|Áukanist]] faith. The main differences between Standard Meyāni and Classical Meyāni are the {{w|Conservative and innovative language|innovation}} of a separate {{w|optative mood}} in Standard Meyāni, the pronounciation of Standard Meyāni <v> as /w/ in Classical Meyāni, and the Classical Meyāni sequence /xl/ shifting in pronounciation to /q͡ʟ/ in standard Meyāni.

Some of the major dialect groups listed below. However, some of these dialects are dwindling in speakers as the standard dialect gains prominence ever since the establishment of a standardized [[Meyāni#Education|education system]]. Some quote-on-quote "dialects" that are more closely related to the Nōlīnian language than Standard Meyāni are excluded from the list.

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====Eastern Dialect Group====
The '''Eastern Dialect Group''' refers to a collection of Meyāni dialects that were spoken close to the border of [[Yaksōn]] and inside of the extreme eastern regions of the aforementioned country prior to massive standardization. Nowadays, dialects in this group are primarily spoken in the northeastern portions of Meyāni. These dialects are directly descended from early forms of the classical language and are closely related to the standard language; however, the Eastern Dialect Group has significant influences and {{w|loanwords}} from the [[Yaksōnian language]] due to centuries of contact which causes dialects in the Eastern Dialect Group to sound similar to Yaksōnian, so some speakers were mistakenly sent to {{w|concentration camps}} by the Nerấyavi regime on the basis that they were members of an "inferior race" despite not speaking Yaksōnian at all. These dialects are primarily written in both the [[Yaksōnian script]], which is an {{w|abugida}}, and the [[Meyāni script]], a partial {{w|abjad}}.

The main differences between the dialects in this group (with the Fidurin dialect given as an example, as it has most of the changes) and Standard Meyāni include:

'''Phonological differences:'''
* Standard Meyāni and Classical Meyāni non-{{w|Gemination|geminated}} <t> have turned into /r/ between {{w|vowels}} in dialects in the Eastern Dialect Group (compare Standard Meyāni {{CustomScript|meyani|s}}ˊ˙{{CustomScript|meyani|y}}ˋ{{CustomScript|meyani|t}}ˋ (''séyata'') "to fly" to [[Fidurin]] dialect *SCRIPT TBA* (''sáyoro'') "to fly").
* Dialects in the Eastern Dialect Group have undergone a massive {{w|vowel shift}} involving the following changes:
** Long vowels become short.
** Classical Meyāni <â> merged with <o>, then both shifted to /u/ (compare Standard Meyāni {{CustomScript|meyani|x@}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|by}}ˋ (''šấbya'') "good" to Fidurin dialect *SCRIPT TBA* (''šúppo'') "good").
** Former <nowiki></nowiki> became /y/ and later became /i/ (compare Standard Meyāni {{CustomScript|meyani|n}}ˋ{{CustomScript|meyani|gu}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|rt}}ˎ{{CustomScript|meyani|s}} (''nagúrtos'') "elephant" to Fidurin dialect *SCRIPT TBA* (''nokíttus'') "elephant").
** Former <nowiki></nowiki> became /e/ (compare Standard Meyāni {{CustomScript|meyani|i}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|n}}ˊ{{CustomScript|meyani|hiv}}ˋ (''ínehiva'') "instead of" to Fidurin dialect *SCRIPT TBA* (''énakewo'') "instead of")
** Former <e> became /ɐ̞/ (compare Standard Meyāni {{CustomScript|meyani|h}}ˊ{{CustomScript|meyani|xi}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|n}} (''hešín'') "to hear" to Fidurin dialect *SCRIPT TBA* (''kašén'') "to hear")
** Former <a> became /o/ (compare Standard Meyāni {{CustomScript|meyani|y}}ˋ˙{{CustomScript|meyani|x}}ˋ (''yáša'') "to think" to Fidurin dialect *SCRIPT TBA* (''yóšo'') "to decide")
** The diphthongs <ai>, <au>, and <eu> in Classical Meyāni have turned into monopthongs /e/, /o/, and /u/ respectively (compare Standard Meyāni {{CustomScript|meyani|y}}ˋ{{CustomScript|meyani|c}}ˋ{{CustomScript|meyani|ss@}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|i}} (''yačassái'') "bright," {{CustomScript|meyani|y}}ˋ{{CustomScript|meyani|v@}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|unk}}ˋ (''yaváunka'') "on the subject of," and {{CustomScript|meyani|l}}ˎ{{CustomScript|meyani|sti}}˙{{CustomScript|meyani|u}} (''lostéu'') "to lose" to Fidurin dialect *SCRIPT TBA* (''yočossé'') "hot," *SCRIPT TBA* (''yowókko'') "on the subject of," and *SCRIPT TBA* (''lussú'') "to lose").
** The above changes have caused stress to be phonemic in these dialects.
* All consonant clusters from Classical Meyāni are heavily simplified in dialects in this group, simplifying into geminated consonants. Initial <lw-> becomes <w-> in these dialects.
* Most dialects in this group (including the Fidurin dialect) merge voiced obstruents with their voiceless counterparts, and allophonically turn non-geminated voiceless obstruents into voiced ones between vowels.
* Geminated consonants become short consonants at the ends of words in dialects in the Eastern Dialect Group.
* Some dialects in this group drop {{w|Stress (linguistics)|unstressed}} vowels at the ends of words. The Fidurin dialect does not have this feature, however.
* Standard Meyāni inserts the sound /x/ between two consecutive monopthongs. However, a different consonant is inserted in dialects in the Eastern Dialect Group: /k/. This is because Standard Meyāni <h> merges with /k/ in dialects in this group.

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====Meraqlum Dialect Group====
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==Phonology==
Unlike {{w|humans}}, [[Alligatoris sapiens|gators']] {{w|soft palates}} (which are the practical equivalent of the human {{w|velum}} as gators lack it) are naturally lowered, and so do not redirect air into the {{w|mouth}}. Instead, all sounds (including all {{w|consonants}}) are {{w|Nasalization|nasalized}} (which is not indicated in the {{w|International Phonetic Alphabet|IPA}} charts for Levarianquevan languages). Therefore, to humans, gators sound like they are {{w|Disease|sick}}.

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===Vowels===
Modern Standard Meyāni has six {{w|vowel}} phonemes, with three being "{{w|Vowel length|long}}" and three being short. Note that "long vowels" are not pronounced longer than the short vowels in most dialects, but the long pronunciation is proscribed in school textbooks.

{| class="wikitable"
|+Meyāni vowels
!
!Front
!Back
|-
!High
|i(ː) <nowiki></nowiki>
|u(ː) <nowiki></nowiki>
|-
!Mid
|ɛ <e>
| o <o>
|-
!Low
|æ <a>
|ɑ(ː) <â>
|}

The language also has three {{w|diphthongs}} which are often categorized as "long vowels": /ai/ <ai>, /au/ <au>, and /eu/ <eu>, the latter of which is rare and only occurs in a few words.

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===Consonants===
Modern Standard Meyāni has nineteen phonemic consonant phonemes, with /g/ only being found in {{w|loanwords}}. Pairs of sounds distinguished only by {{w|Voicing (phonetics)|vibrations in the vocal cords}} (if any exist) are separated with dots. In Meyāni, there are {{w|minimal pairs}} distinguished by {{w|gemination|consonant length}}.

{| class="wikitable"
!
!{{w|Labial consonant|Labial}}
!{{w|Alveolar consonant|Alveolar}}
!Retroflex I ({{w|Palatal consonant|Palatal}})
!Palatal ({{w|Velar consonant|Velar}})
|-
!{{w|Nasal consonant|Nasal release}} (Nasal)
|/m/ <m>
|/n/ <n>
|/ɲ/ <ñ>
|
|-
!{{w|Stop consonant|Stop}}
|<nowiki>/p/ • /b/ </nowiki>
|/t/ <t> • /d/ <d>
|
|/k/ <k> • /g/ <g>
|-
!{{w|Affricate|Affricate}}
|
|
|/t͡ʃ/ <č>
|/q͡ʟ/ <ql>
|-
!{{w|Fricative}}
|/f/ <f> • /v/ <v>
|/s/ <s>
|/ʃ/ <š>
|/x/ <h>
|-
!{{w|Approximant}}
|
|/l/ <l>
|/j/ <y>
|
|-
!{{w|Trill consonant|Trill}}
|
|/r/ <r>
|
|
|}

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====Allophony====
Some consonants can recieve {{w|Allophony|allophones}} in certain situations in Standard Meyāni:

*Most consonants can be {{w|Palatalization|retroflex I-ized}} (which is marked in the IPA by the addition of a subscript {{w|Latin script}} letter "j" [ʲ] after the symbol) before front vowels. However, Retroflex I consonants cannot undergo this process.
*<r> is usually pronounced as a trill [r]. Nevertheless, it could be pronounced as [ɹ] in {{w|Syllable coda|coda position}} if the {{w|syllable onset}} contains an alveolar or retroflex I consonant other than /j/.

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===Phonotactics===
Most words in Meyāni contain entirely open syllables. However, its maximum {{w|Syllable#Components|syllable structure}} is <code>#((l)C)V/(N, h)(C)CV/(C, G)(C)#</code>, where:

*"#" represents a boundary between words.
*"(l)" represents an optional /l/ that is only able to go before /v/, like in ''lvansa'', which means "sword".
*"(...)" represent optional components.
*"C" represents a consonant.
*"V" represents a vowel or diphthong.
*"G" represents a word-final consonant that undergoes {{w|gemination}}. This is optional.
*"/(N, h)(C)CV/" represents the possible phonotactical structure in syllables at the middle of a word.
*"N" represents any {{w|Nasal consonant|consonant with a nasal release}}

Unlike the closely related [[Bandit language]], Meyāni does not allow for word-initial {{w|consonant clusters}} (other than /lv/). Loanwords with initial consonant clusters are usually dealt with by {{w|epenthesis}}, the insertion of extra vowels. Consonant clusters that consist of two consonants with the same place of articulation and manner of articulation and with the only distinction between the two consonants being different voicing are not allowed in the language; these types of clusters are typically turned into geminated consonants carrying the voicing of the last consonant in the illegal cluster prior to assimilation. Most words with final consonants end with just one consonant or geminated consonant, though it is possible for two consonants to be present. Most words that have medial consonant clusters only have just two consonants, though it is possible for three consonants to be present in these clusters as long as the first sound in the cluster is either a nasal or /x/.

Meyāni also does not allow the occurrence of {{w|vowel hiatuses}}. Therefore, the <-i> suffix used in adjectives and possessor nouns is realized as /jiː/ in words that end in vowels.

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===Prosody===
Meyāni is a strictly {{w|mora-timed language}}, with each syllable getting one {{w|mora}} (two if the vowel in the {{w|syllable nucleus}} is either a "long vowel" or a diphthong). Stress in Meyāni always falls on the first syllable with a "long vowel" or diphthong as a nucleus in a word, with stress falling instead on the first syllable if there are no "long vowels" or diphthongs in a word entirely. Suffixes cannot receive stress.

In foreign words that have not been assimilated, stress falls on the syllable where it fell in the original language. However, loanwords that have been fully assimilated often have a stress shift to match the regular stress patterns or irregular vowel shifts.

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==Orthography==
[[File:Meyani script.png|200px|right]]

The Meyāni language is written in its own script, which is descended from {{w|logographs}} used by Proto-Qlerevi speakers. The script itself has features of both an {{w|alphabet}} and an {{w|abjad}} because short vowels are not written and require optional {{w|diacritics}} to be expressed, with {{w|Linguistics|linguists}} coining the term '''alphabjad''' to classify the Meyāni script. It has the following letters:

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===Diacritics===
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===Writing direction===
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===Punctuation===
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===Numerals===
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==Grammar ==
''Note: All Meyāni text in this section of this article, other than the "Parts of Speech" section below, are written in a modified form of the {{w|Latin alphabet}}, not in the actual Meyāni script.''

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===Parts of Speech===
Meyāni grammarians divide all Meyāni words into nine {{w|parts of speech}}, primarily based on the treatises of [[Ancient Venēmīan language|Ancient Venēmīan]] grammarians and adapted to fit to the Meyāni language's grammar:

*Noun ('''Meyāni''': *SCRIPT TBA* (''ñấmyuvaba'') "name-thing"): A word that represents a place, person, idea, or thing. Ancient Venēmīan grammarians did not distinguish between nouns and adjectives because they inflected similarily in their language, but the Meyāni grammarians, whose language does not have much case marking (other than the genitive case) or adjective agreement, felt like the two needed to be distinguished. Hence, the words for "noun" and "adjective" have the same initial root.
*Adjective ('''Meyāni''': *SCRIPT TBA* (''ñấmyuhupsiltos'') "name-descriptor"): A word that describes a noun, verb, or another adjective. Adjectives can be used as adverbs in Meyāni, so the two are not distinguished according to the Meyāni grammarians when adverbs are their own parts of speech in Ancient Venēmīan. Postpositions and determiners can also be used to fill the functions of adverbs in Meyāni, but the few "true adverbs" like "now" and "tomorrow" that are not already classified as adjectives, postpositions, or determiners in Meyāni are classified as adjectives by the Meyāni grammarians.

:In Meyāni, adjectives have three uses: nominal, verbal, and predicative. "Nominal" adectives are the types of adjectives that describe nouns, and they go before their nouns and receive the <-''i''> suffix. "Verbal" adjectives function like adverbs, and describe both verbs and other adjectives. "Predicative" adjectives are adjectives that go after verbs, but the usage category also includes some intransitive verbs like *SCRIPT TBA* (''šấsane'') "to be sweet", which can stand alone as a predicate without requiring an additional verb before it and requires a suffix -*SCRIPT TBA* (-''ba'') to be used as a nominal adjective and a verbal adjective.

*Determiner ('''Meyāni''': *SCRIPT TBA* (''qlávmam ra yúča-i sávo vábaqlâkera-i sai ro'') "a word in the large grouping of thinglings"): A category of words that includes both {{w|quantifiers}} and {{w|numerals}}, both of which behave similarily both morphologically and syntactically and can be used as adverbs. Ancient Venēmīan scholars did not distinguish between the Meyāni determinative and demonstrative because they all went before the noun in their language, whereas in Meyāni, determinatives go before the noun while demonstratives go after despite both behaving morphologically similar; in fact, the Meyāni word for "determinative" in general, *SCRIPT TBA* (''vábaqlâke''), is a {{w|calque}} of the Ancient Venēmīan term for "determiner," which literally means "thingling."
*Demonstrative ('''Meyāni''': *SCRIPT TBA* (''qlávmam ra bấñâneba-i sávo vábaqlâkera-i sai ro'') "a word in the small grouping of thinglings"): A category of words that includes just two words: *SCRIPT TBA* (''su'') "this/these" and *SCRIPT TBA* (''súkin'') "that/those." These words are {{w|deictic}} words that convey which nouns are being referred to in the discourse.
*Pronoun ('''Meyāni''': *SCRIPT TBA* (''ñấmyuperidon'') "name-substitute"): A word that can stand in for any noun in a sentence. This category does not include [[Meyāni language#Subordinate clauses|the relative and end-relative pronouns]] ''ra'' and ''ro'' respectively, which are both lumped into the category of conjunction instead.
*Postposition ('''Meyāni'''): *SCRIPT TBA* (''vehašehấva'') "before-position"<ref>The name is inaccurate since it is a calque of a word in Ancient Venēmīan, which has prepositions instead of postpositions.</ref>): A word used to express spatial or temporal relations with a noun, which is refered to as its object. In addition, postpositions can also be used as adverbs.
*Verb ('''Meyāni''': *SCRIPT TBA* (''qlávmam'') "word"): A word that expresses an action or a state of being. The vast majority of verbs are action verbs, while the two verbs that express a state of being in Meyāni are *SCRIPT TBA* (''rấmmau'') "am/are/is" and *SCRIPT TBA* (''túnutu'') "was/were" (which also functions as an action verb because it is also the past tense form of the verb *SCRIPT TBA* (''túno'') "to become"
*Auxiliary ('''Meyāni''': *SCRIPT TBA* (''qlávmam ra yóho ro'') "a word that helps"): A word that adds to the verb and helps it express tenses and aspects beyond just the present and past.
*Conjunction ('''Meyāni''': *SCRIPT TBA* (''sídrenos'') (a loanword from Ancient Venēmīan)): A word that connects two clauses or affects the flow of a sentence.

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===Morphology===
Meyāni is generally an {{w|analytic language}} and does not make much use of {{w|inflection}}, other than {{w|Grammatical number|number}}, {{w|possession}}, and some {{w|grammatical tenses}}.

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====Nominals====
Nominals (nouns and adjectives) do not inflect for {{w|grammatical case}} (other than the {{w|genitive case}}), but inflect for number. The language has no {{w|grammatical gender}}. Meyāni is one of the only major [[Qlerevi languages]] to lack case marking.

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=====Noun phrases=====
Meyāni is mostly {{w|Head-directionality parameter#Head-initial languages|head-initial}} in noun phrases. The default order of Meyāni noun phrases is the following:

{| class="wikitable"
|+Default order of a Meyāni noun phrase
!Position
!-2
!-1
!0
!+1
!+2
!+3
!+4
!+5
!+6
|-
!What goes in the position?
!Numerals
(Independent words)
!Adjectives
(Independent words)
!HEAD NOUN
!Plural
(Suffix)
!Genitive
(Suffix)
!Possessor's noun phrase
(Independent words)
!Relative clauses
(Independent words)
!Demonstrative pronouns
(Independent words)
!Postposition
(Independent word)
|-
!Is this position mandatory in the phrase?
!No
!No
!Yes
!No
!No
!No
!No
!No
!No
|}

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=====Number =====
There are two grammatical numbers in Meyāni: singular and plural. The singular expresses that there is exactly one of a thing, while the plural expresses that there is more than one of a thing. To indicate plural number, a suffix <-ra> is used, which was derived from a Proto-Qlerevi word meaning "many." The plural number is not used when cardinal numerals are used in the noun phrase, as in this simple phrase:

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| áčane ñéra
| five gator-SG
| "five gators"
}}

Some determiners (such as "all" or "many") that do not influence the number of their nouns in English make them singular in Meyāni instead, like numerals:

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| báram ñéra
| all gator-SG
| "all gators"
}}

'''Mass nouns''' 
A mass noun is a noun which cannot be counted, and do not change between singular or plural numbers. Most mass nouns are ''singulare tantum'' (only taking the singular in all cases); however, some are ''plurare tantum'' (only taking the plural in all cases). To inflect for number, mass nouns are put into a possessive construction with a measure word or {{w|Classifier (linguistics)|classifier}} (depending on the grammar cited) being the possessee in the phrase.

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| áčane áifâm yeláira-i
| five bucket-SG wine-SG-POSS
| "five glasses of wine" (literally: five buckets of wine)
}}

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| áčane áifâm ehái-i
| five bucket-SG water-SG-POSS
| "five buckets of water" (literally: five buckets of water)
}}

Most abstract nouns (other than <''yáto''> "language," which also means "tongue") and most things that are very small are mass nouns in Meyāni, and require a measure word/classifier to be inflected for number.

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| čáiva néčaqlo-i
| branch-SG magic-SG-POSS
| "a unit of magic" (i.e. "magic spell") (literally: branch of magic)
}}

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| áukan píretes-i
| way/road-SG philosophy-SG-POSS
| "a philosophy" (literally: way/road of philosophy)
}}

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=====Possession=====
Meyāni has a {{w|genitive case}}, which is used for marking the possessor of a possessive phrase. The genitive case is marked with the suffix <-i>, which goes after the plural marker. Adjectives are also marked with the <-i> suffix, because both the genitive case and the adjectival marker are derived from a Proto-Qlerevi postposition meaning "of." Possessors go after their head nouns.

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| néčaqloba-i ấnossu úne-i
| magic-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}}-ADJ snail-SG 1SG-POSS
| "my magical snail"
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|kóra Sấvaren-i ča-i Reqlútton-i
|country-SG Sāvae-POSS and-POSS Reqlūndo-POSS| "Sāvae and Reqlūndo's country"
}}

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=====Adjectives=====
Like as mentioned in the previous section, Meyāni's adjectives are marked identically to the genitive case. However, adjectives are placed before their head nouns instead of after. Adjectives are not marked with the <-i> suffix when they are used alone as a predicate along with the copula.

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| Úne rấmmau '''šấbya''' .
| 1SG be.PRS good .
| "I am good."
}}

Numerals are also not marked with the <-i> suffix despite behaving like adjectives syntactically. Like numerals, determiners (like "all" and "many") do behave like adjectives syntactically.

Adjectives do not agree with their head nouns in terms of number, and stay the same form even if their head noun is plural.

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| néčaqloba-i ấnossura
| magic-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}}-ADJ snail-PL
| "some/the magical snails"
}}

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======Adjective inflections ======
Meyāni adjectives inflect to mark comparison, intensity, and sufficiency. These evolved from independent words that were suffixed onto adjectives and heavily simplified. Heavily-suffixed adjectives with affixes to convey comparison, intensity, and sufficiency are a common linguistic feature across the [[Prorinian peninsula]], but they are rare across the Qlerevi family.
{| class="wikitable"
! colspan="3" |
!Marking
! Example
|-
! colspan="3" |Positive
|*none*, ''-(y)i''
|''šấbya(-i)'' "good"
|-
! rowspan="5" |Comparative
! rowspan="3" |of superiority
!neutral
|''-(a)ran''
|''šấbyaran'' "better"
|-
!affirming
|''-(a)šberan''
|''šấbyašberan'' "better, and still good"
|-
!denying
|''-(a)šñaran''
|''šấbyašñaran'' "better, but not good"
|-
! colspan="2" |of equality
| -''(a)nso''
|''šấbyanso'' "as good"
|-
! colspan="2" |of inferiority
|''-(a)rña''
|''šấbyarña'' "less good"
|-
! rowspan="2" |Superlative
! colspan="2" |of superiority
|''-(a)šhi''
|''šấbyašhi'' "best"
|-
! colspan="2" |of inferiority
|''-(a)šañ''
|''šấbyašañ'' "least good"
|-
! colspan="3" |Intensive
|''-(a)šo''
|''šấbyašo'' "very good, so good"
|-
! colspan="3" |Insufficientive
|''-(a)ñân''
|''šấbyañân'' "not good enough"
|-
! colspan="3" |Sufficientive
|''-(a)vân''
|''šấbyavân'' "good enough, too good"
|}

'''Comparatives''' 
Meyāni ajectives have five different comparative forms, which are used for comparing two or three different entities:
* The '''neutral comparative of superiority''' expresses that one noun has a greater quantity of an adjective than other nouns, but does not make any statement about the comparison.
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|Bâr rấmmau '''rấvvibaran''' ra áudda íhâyi-i ro .
|3SG be.PRS be.fast-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}}-{{gcl|COMP.N.SUP|neutral comparative of superiority}} {{gcl|REL|relative pronoun}} brother-SG {{gcl|R|reflexive pronoun}}-POSS {{gcl|END.REL|end-relative pronoun}} .
|"He/she is faster than his/her brother."
}}
* The '''affirming comparative of superiority''' expresses that one noun has a greater quantity of an adjective than other nouns, but affirms the comparison.
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|Bâr rấmmau '''rấvvibašberan''' ra áudda íhâyi-i ro .
|3SG be.PRS be.fast-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}}-{{gcl|COMP.A.SUP|affirming comparative of superiority}} {{gcl|REL|relative pronoun}} brother-SG {{gcl|R|reflexive pronoun}}-POSS {{gcl|END.REL|end-relative pronoun}} .
|"He/she is faster than his/her brother, and also fast."
}}
* The '''denying comparative of superiority''' expresses that one noun has a greater quantity of an adjective than other nouns, but denies the fact that the noun with a greater quantity of said adjective has that trait.
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|Bâr rấmmau '''rấvvibašñaran''' ra áudda íhâyi-i ro .
|3SG be.PRS be.fast-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}}-{{gcl|COMP.D.SUP|denying comparative of superiority}} {{gcl|REL|relative pronoun}} brother-SG {{gcl|R|reflexive pronoun}}-POSS {{gcl|END.REL|end-relative pronoun}} .
|"He/she is faster than his/her brother, but he is not fast.", "While he/she is faster than his/her brother, he/she is not fast."
}}
* The '''comparative of equality''' expresses that one noun does not have a greater or lesser quantity of an adjective than other nouns.
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|Kấraše rấmmau '''ahháumbanso''' ra áudda íhâyi-i ro .
|Kấraše be.PRS care-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}}-{{gcl|COMP.E|comparative of equality}} {{gcl|REL|relative pronoun}} brother-SG {{gcl|R|reflexive pronoun}}-POSS {{gcl|END.REL|end-relative pronoun}} .
|"Kấraše is as caring as his brother."
}}
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=====Pronouns=====

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======Personal pronouns======
Meyāni has six {{w|personal pronouns}}, with three being singular and three being plural. Personal pronouns do not change form for case or gender.

{| class="wikitable"
|+Meyāni personal pronouns
!Number →
Person
↓
!Singular
! Plural
|-
!1st person
|''úne''
|''úñra''
|-
!2nd person
|''qle'', ''qlíša''<ref><Qlíša> (the plural form) can be used as a polite form of address or to address strangers regardless of number, while <qle> (the singular form) is used among friends and family members or to insult one's superiors. A similar thing happens in [[Yaksōnian language|modern Yaksōnian]], which is a part of a pan-Prorinian linguistic ''{{w|sprachbund}}'' affecting the two languages.</ref>
|''qlíša''
|-
!3rd person
|''bâr''
|''bấrra''
|}

Meyāni is a partial {{w|pro-drop language}}, which means that subject or object personal pronouns are optional and can be dropped if the context gets rid of the need for them. This is especially seen in sentences relating to the weather or in informal conversation.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| ('''Bâr''') Šéha reñấn áčane qlísseyo sai . ('''Qlíša''') Túnutu sáudeče úne-i sai ?
| (3SG) rain-PRS FUT.AUX five qlisseo-SG in/on/at . (2PL) be.PST message-SG 1SG-POSS in/on/at ?
| "It will be raining in five ''qlisseo''<ref>A [[Levarianqueva|Levarianquevan]] unit of time roughly equivalent to 1.7933 hours in {{w|Time#Measurement|Terran time}}</ref>. Did you get my message?"
}}

Note that the above sentences lack subject pronouns, as they can be inferred from context.

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======Reflexive pronouns======
Meyāni has a single simple reflexive pronoun: <''íhâyi''>. This pronoun can be used for all persons and numbers when any noun in the predicate is the same as the subject.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne ámu '''íhâyi''' .
| 1SG love-PRS {{gcl|R|reflexive pronoun}} .
| "I love myself."
}}

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Ke ámu qle/qlíša '''íhâyi''' ?
| Q love-PRS 2SG/2PL {{gcl|R|reflexive pronoun}} ?
| "Do you love yourself?"
}}

When the possessor of the direct object, indirect object, or any noun in a postpositional phrase is the same as the subject, the reflexive pronoun is used as the possessor in the possessive phrase. This is similar to certain Terran languages like {{w|Russian language|Russian}} and (to a lesser extent) {{w|Latin}}.

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| Bâr ámu sấku '''íhâyi-i''' .
| 3SG love-PRS wife-SG {{gcl|R|reflexive pronoun}}-POSS .
| "He loves his own wife."
}}

Contrast the above sentence with the following sentence, where the possessor of the sentence's direct object is not the same as its subject:

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| Bâr ámu sấku '''bấr-i''' .
| 3SG love-PRS wife-SG 3SG-POSS .
| "He loves someone else's wife."
}}

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======Indefinite pronouns======
Unlike certain colloquial forms of English, which use the second person personal pronoun to express an indefinite pronoun "one", Meyāni uses the third person singular personal pronoun for this purpose instead.

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| '''Bâr''' ña ấhano bávva ra sáubune Eqlíssalos ra áqlo oñqlấmmuba-i šohčúqlau ro šấne ro .
| 3SG NEG coerce AUX.DEO {{gcl|REL|relative pronoun}} change-PRS Eqléssalos {{gcl|REL|relative pronoun}} start-PRS to.be.violent-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}}-ADJ protest-SG {{gcl|END.REL|end-relative pronoun}} up/after {{gcl|END.REL|end-relative pronoun}} .
| "One cannot force the Eqléssalos to reform by starting a violent protest."
| c1 = (A quote from Rírin-i Roqlínau, who famously advocated for a reformation of the [[Eqléssalos of Mages]] in order to reduce corruption within the magical institution and turn it into a bulwark against corporate influence.)
}}

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====== Demonstrative pronouns======
Meyāni has two basic {{w|demonstrative pronouns}}: <''su''> "this" and <''súkin''> "that." Demonstrative pronouns behave like numerals morphologically, not agreeing in number with the nouns they modify and not taking the <-i> suffix that is taken by adjectives when in a noun phrase. However, they go after their head noun instead of before.

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| šấbya-i ñéra '''súkin'''
| good-ADJ gator-SG that
| "that good gator"
}}

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====== Interrogative pronouns======
Proto-Qlerevi had one simple interrogative pronoun (which was the ancestor of Meyāni <''vu''> "what, which"). However, new interrogative pronouns evolved in Meyāni (as well as in almost every other Qlerevi language) from combinations of this simple root with a series of postpositions. The resulting combinations then gradually simplified over time due to common usage.

{| class="wikitable"
|+Meyāni interrogative pronouns
!Meyāni word (source)
!English translation
|-
|''vu''
|"what," "which," "who/whom"
|-
|''vúši'' (< ''vu sai'' "in/on/at what")
|"where"
|-
|''vútu'' (< ''vu tau'' "from what")
| "whence"
|-
|''vúbña'' (< ''vu báne'' "towards what")
|"whither"
|-
|''váiba'' (< ''vu yáiba'' "during what")
|"when"
|-
|''vúra'' (< ''vu sára'' "by what means")
|"how"
|-
|''vúsa'' (< ''vu sa'' "for what")
|"why"
|}

The base interrogative pronoun can behave like numerals when used as adjectives, as shown in the following interrogative sentence:

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Ke yáira úne '''vu''' ñéra ?
| Q like-PRS 1SG what gator-SG ?
| "What/which gator do I like?"
}}

=====Articles=====
Meyāni does not have articles, so <''šấbya-i ñéra''> could either mean "a good gator" or "the good gator" depending on context.

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====Verbs====
Meyāni's verb system is generally analytic; the verb system relies on {{w|auxiliary verbs}} to express tense, aspect, or modal information outside of what the verbs themselves can express alone.

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=====Tense=====
Meyāni verbs inflect for just two tenses: {{w|past}} and {{w|Nonpast tense|non-past}}, which expresses events that happened in the past and events that did not happen in the past respectively. The non-past tense (which is often called simply the "{{w|present tense}}" and glossed in this article as such) is considered to be the default form of the verb and is listed in dictionaries alongside the past form in entries for irregular verbs. Most verbs indicate the past tense by the addition of a suffix <-tu>, which is derived from a verb meaning "to become." However, some verbs undergo {{w|suppletion}} between the non-past and past tenses (e.g. non-past <''rấmmau''> "am/are/is" → past <''túnutu''> "was/were" (which also means "became"); non-past <''íhu''> "go/goes" → past <''sáista''> "went").

However, some verbs indicate the past tense by changing the last vowel in the root in addition to using the <-tu> suffix (e.g. non-past <''ấnnaiha''> "receive/receives" → past <''ấnnaihâtu''> "received"; <''túno''> "become/becomes" → <''túnutu''> "became" (which also means "was/were")), which is ultimately caused by a final ''*w'' in the Proto-Qlerevi form. Some verbs indicate the past tense by means of a suffix <-ču> instead of the regular <-tu> (e.g. non-past <''yába''> "give up/gives up, surrender/surrenders" → past <''yábaču''> "gave up, surrendered"; non-past <''lvábba''> "fight/fights" → past <''lvábbaču''> "fought"); this also has an etymological origin, this time that of a final ''*y'' in the Proto-Qlerevi form instead of a ''*w''.

The {{w|future tense}} is formed by the addition of the verb <''reñấn''> "to want" after the non-past form of the verb. Unlike the [[Nōlīnian language]], Meyāni does not distinguish between any subdivisions of these three basic tenses and relies on adverbs or adverbial phrases to express these more concrete subdivisions instead.

The different tenses can be illustrated with the following three sentences:

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|Úñra '''lvábba''' kídobâlo .
| 1PL fight-PRS corruption-SG .
| "We are fighting corruption."}}

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| Úñra '''lvábbaču''' kídobâlo .
| 1PL fight-PST corruption-SG .
| "We were fighting corruption."}}

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| Úñra '''lvábba''' '''reñấn''' kídobâlo .
| 1PL fight-PRS AUX.FUT corruption-SG .
| "We will be fighting corruption."}}

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=====Aspect=====
Meyāni distinguishes between just two {{w|grammatical aspects}}: the {{w|imperfective aspect}} and the {{w|perfective aspect}}. The imperfective is considered to be the default form of a verb; the perfective is expressed by turning the dictionary form of the verb into an adjective and adding the appropriate form of the verb <''rấmmau''> "to be" after the main verb.

'''Uses for the imperfective aspect''' 
The imperfective aspect's main usage is to express that an action is ongoing or is habitual. In the present tense, it expresses that the action stated by the verb is ongoing.

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| Úñra '''lvábba''' tấbanra íhâyi-i , ča qlíša ña váhho óban . Yo váhho rấsâm rấnlaksara qlíša-i sai !
| 1PL fight-PRS enemy-PL {{gcl|R|reflexive pronoun}}-POSS , and 2PL NEG now party . IMP now get.back-PRS formation/line-PL 2PL-POSS in/on/at !
| "We are fighting our enemies, not partying. Get back in your formations immediately!"
}}

In the above sentences, the verb phrase with the main verb <''lvábba''> "to fight" is in the imperfective aspect in the present tense, expressing that the act of fighting enemies is an ongoing process.

In the past tense, the imperfective aspect expresses that an action was ongoing in the past but has been stopped in some way, either by being completed or by being interrupted.

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| Úne '''ấščâlârtu''' eredấnos Partấbala Meraqlúm-i sai .
| 1SG study-PST math-SG university-SG Meraqlum-POSS in/on/at .
| "I was study/used to study mathematics at the University of Meraqlum."
}}

In the above sentence, the verb phrase with the main verb <''ấščâlâr''> "studied" is in the imperfective aspect, expressing that the act of studying mathematics at a university was ongoing, but is not ongoing anymore in the present.

In the future tense, the imperfective aspect expresses that an action will be ongoing in the future.

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| Úñra '''básso''' '''reñấn''' áiñeye .
| 1PL join-PRS AUX.FUT army-SG .
| "We will join the army."
}}

In the above sentence, the verb phrase with the main verb <''básso''> "to join" is in the imperfective, expressing that the act of joining the army is something that is going to happen.

Meyāni lacks a {{w|Progressive aspect|progressive}} aspect and a {{w|Habitual aspect|habitual}} aspect. The imperfective aspect is used instead to convey the roles expressed by the progressive and habitual aspects on their own.

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| Úne šíra .
| 1SG work-PRS .
| "I work/am working/habitually work."
}}

'''Uses for the perfective aspect''' 
The perfective aspect is primarily used to emphasize that an action has been completed. In the past tense, it is used to show that the action stated by the verb has been completed, with emphasis on the action being completed.

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| Úne '''róčaba''' '''túnutu''' yeláira áifâm-i .
| 1SG eat-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}} AUX.PFV.PST wine-SG bucket-SG-POSS .
| "I drank a glass of wine."
}}

In the above sentence, the verb phrase with the main verb <''róča''> "to eat/drink" is in the perfective aspect, expressing that the action of drinking wine has been completed, with emphasis on completion.

In the future tense, the perfective aspect is used to express that an action will be completed in the future.

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| Úne '''čétalataba''' '''rấmmau''' '''reñấn''' čétala .
| 1SG read-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}} AUX.PFV.PRS AUX.FUT book .
| "I will finish reading a book."
}}

In the above sentence, the verb phrase with the main verb <''čétalata''> "to read" is in the perfective aspect, expressing that an action will be completed in the future.

In the present tense, using the perfective aspect is ungrammatical in most formal varieties. However, some colloquial dialects use present tense and perfective aspect to express that an action will be completed soon or has been completed recently.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne '''čétalataba''' '''rấmmau''' čétala .
| 1SG read-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}} AUX.PFV.PRS book .
| "I will finish reading a book soon/I have finished reading a book recently."
}}

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Meyāni does not have any distinctions between the active and passive voices.

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===Syntax===

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====Word order====
Standard Meyāni generally has a default word order of {{w|Subject-verb-object word order|subject-verb-object}} (SVO), as in English.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne rấmmau ñéra .
| 1SG be.PRS gator-SG .
| "I am a gator."
}}

However, this becomes {{w|Verb-subject-object word order|verb-subject-object}} (VSO) in {{w|subordinate clauses}}.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| ... ra ña rấmmau bâr ñéra ro .
| ... {{gcl|REL|relative pronoun}} NEG be.PRS 3SG gator-SG {{gcl|END.REL|end-relative pronoun}} .
| "... that he/she/it is not a gator."
}}

As said in the section on nominals, Meyāni's {{w|adjectives}} proceed the nouns they modify and {{w|Possession (linguistics)|possessors}} succeed their possessed nouns. Adverbs and adverbial phrases also proceed the parts of speech they modify and {{w|Numeral (linguistics)|numerals}} behave like adjectives in overall syntax.

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====Prepositional phrases and animacy====
In Meyāni, prepositional phrases (or postpositional phrases, as there are postpositions instead of prepositions) have an {{w|animacy}}-based {{w|Implicational hierarchy|hierarchy}} dependent on their objects which dictates the position of the postpositional phrase in relation to the direct object or intransitive verb of the sentence. Postpositional phrases with more animate objects tend to come closer to the direct object (or the verb, in sentences that lack a direct object) than postpositional phrases with more inanimate objects. In this example, the first and last postpositional phrases in the sentence are '''bolded'''.

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| Úne vehíčasaba túnutu '''ačấmra''' '''ahhaumba-i''' '''oksara-i''' '''lấčai''' nenáum ra rấmmau yánohe Meraqlúm-i sai ro sai '''ku-áčane''' '''ča''' '''ku-yáñña''' '''ku-hấssâya''' '''ča''' '''ku-yáñña-i''' '''yehấrum''' '''ra''' '''túnutu''' '''Bemumšo''' '''šấne''' '''ro''' '''sai''' .
| 1SG hatch-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}} PFV.AUX.PST hand-PL care-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}}-ADJ parent-PL-POSS into carcass {{gcl|REL|relative pronoun}} be.PRS city.center-SG Meraqlum-SG-POSS in/on/at {{gcl|END.REL|end-relative pronoun}} in/on/at {{gcl|ORD|ordinal numeral}}-five and {{gcl|ORD|ordinal numeral}}-four {{gcl|ORD|ordinal numeral}}-two.hundred.fifty.six and {{gcl|ORD|ordinal numeral}}-four-ADJ year {{gcl|REL|relative pronoun}} be.PST drought-{{gcl|INTS|intensifier}}-SG up/after {{gcl|END.REL|end-relative pronoun}} in/on/at .
| "I was hatched into the hands of caring parents at a carcass in Meraqlum's city center in the 2,308th year AC (After the Collapse)."
| c1 = (An excerpt from ''An Autobiography of the Rebel-Mage'' by [[Rírin-i Roqlínau]])
}}

The sentence is grammatical because, in the Meyāni animacy hierarchy, "year" is less animate than "carcass," which is in turn less animate than "hands." However, Meyāni does not apply this animacy hierarchy to the subject, direct object, or adjectival predicates of a sentence like in [[Proto-Qlerevi language|Proto-Qlerevi]].

Meyāni maintains most of the Proto-Qlerevi animacy classes, but some have been merged into other classes; most notably, the inanimate and abstract classes of Proto-Qlerevi have merged into a single inanimate class and the megalozoic and microzoic classes have merged into a single biotic class in Meyāni. Also, the egordian and tuordian classes of Proto-Qlerevi have merged into a single "altordian" class in Meyāni, leaving only five animacy classes compared to the eight that Proto-Qlerevi has. Proto-Qlerevi itself is evidenced to have undergone a similar reduction in the amount of distinguished classes in its history, with earlier versions likely having massive {{w|noun class}} systems similar to Terran {{w|Bantu languages}} like {{w|Swahili language|Swahili}}.

The following five classes are distinguished in Meyāni:

{| class="wikitable"
|+Meyāni animacy hierarchy
!Rank
!Class name
!What falls into this class?
|-
!I
|Altordian
|first-person and second-person personal pronouns
|-
!II
|Masculine
|third-person personal pronouns and other pronouns, deities, and male gators
|-
!III
|Juvenofeminine
| primarily female gators and hatchlings, but also weather events, body parts, and {{w|extraterrestrial life}}
|-
!IV
|Biotic
|animals, plants, and other biological things
|-
! V
|Inanimate
|stationary non-biological things, landscape features, astronomical bodies, [[Magic (AWiEC)|magic]]-related concepts, and abstract concepts
|}

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====Interrogative and negative sentences====
In an {{w|interrogative sentence}} in Meyāni, the interrogative auxiliary <ke> goes before other constituents of the sentence, and the verb moves to where the subject would be in a normal sentence. This is a remnant of the older {{w|V2 word order}} in Prorinian Qlerevi languages, whereby the verb phrase is always the second constituent of a clause.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| '''Ke''' róčaba túnutu úne ấvvâsa tấbanra-i úne-i ?
| Q eat.{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}} PFV.AUX.PST 1SG blood-SG enemy-PL-POSS 1SG-POSS ?
| "Did I drink the blood of my enemies?"
}}

Unlike English, Meyāni does not do {{w|wh-movement}} and does not have {{w|do-support}} in both questions and negative constructions.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Ke vóraba túnutu úne '''vu''' ra róča ấvvâsa tấbanra-i úne-i ro ?
| Q do-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}} PFV.AUX.PST 1SG what {{gcl|REL|relative pronoun}} eat blood-SG enemy-PL-POSS 1SG-POSS {{gcl|END.REL|end-relative pronoun}} ?
| "What did I do in order to drink the blood of my enemies?"
}}

According the [[Question word-first principle]] in Qlerevi languages whereby question particles always go first in a sentence, the negative particle <ña> goes after the main verb phrase in an interrogative sentence with negative mood.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Ke róčaba túnutu '''ña''' úne ấvvâsa tấbanra-i úne-i ?
| Q eat.{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}} PFV.AUX.PST NEG 1SG blood-SG enemy-PL-POSS 1SG-POSS ?
| "Did I not drink the blood of my enemies?"
}}

In a normal sentence with a negative, however, the sentence completely reverts to the verb going between the subject and direct object, with the negative particle going before the verb.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne '''ña''' róčaba túnutu ấvvâsa tấbanra-i úne-i .
| 1SG NEG eat.{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}} PFV.AUX.PST blood-SG enemy-PL-POSS 1SG-POSS .
| "I did not drink the blood of my enemies."
}}

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===="To Have"====
Meyāni does not have a verb meaning "to have", like many Qlerevi languages. Instead, it uses the appropriate form of the verb <rấmmau> "to be", with the postposition <sai> "in/on/at" being attached to the verb's direct object.

{{interlinear|indent=2
| Úne '''rấmmau''' ấvvâsa '''sai''' .
| 1SG be.PRS blood-SG in/on/at .
| "I have blood." (literally: "I am in blood.")
}}

In an intransitive sentence or a sentence with a direct object that has been dropped, Meyāni uses a perfective construction with the verb <''táksa''> "to catch" in the present tense to express the meaning of "to have". This is descended from the earlier meaning of the verb as "to grab." In this usage of the verb, applying the imperfective aspect is ungrammatical.

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| Úne '''táksaba''' '''rấmmau''' .
| 1SG catch-{{gcl|ADJZ|adjectivizer}} AUX.PFV-PRS .
| "I have." (literally: "I have caught.")
}}

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====Subordinate clauses====
In Meyāni, subordinate clauses are almost completely identical in both formation and usage to subordinate clauses in Proto-Qlerevi.

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=====Formation=====
Subordinate clauses in Meyāni are typically formed by using the particles <ra> and <ro>, termed the "relative pronoun" and the "end-relative pronoun" respectively (even though they aren't really pronouns in the strictest sense: a word that can stand for other words in a sentence). As the names suggest, the relative pronoun preceeds a subordinate clause and the end-relative pronoun succeeds a subordinate clause, functioning in order to revert the sentence back to the clause before the subordinate clause began.

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=====Usage=====
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==Numeral system==
The Meyāni language uses a {{w|Hexadecimal|hexadecimal}} or base-16 system, even though actual written numerals are expressed using {{w|Duodecimal|dozenal}} or base-12. Linguists theorize that the hexadecimal system developed when speakers of [[Qlerevi languages]], with most of their languages using a {{W|vigesimal}} or base-20 system, encountered speakers of [[Pre-Yaksōnian languages]], whose languages primarily used {{w|12 (number)|12}} as a base. When these two languages encountered each other, the pre-Yaksōnian speakers who ultimately assimilated themselves into the Qlerevi languages and culture tried to use 20 as a base but were so used to their native base-12 system that they ended up using 16 as a base as a compromise between the two systems; the Qlerevi speakers later adopted this, hence the use of 16 as a base.

Meyāni numerals by default express their {{w|Cardinal numeral|cardinal}} form. Prefixes exist which are used to express the {{w|Ordinal numeral|ordinal}} and {{w|Fraction|fractional}} form. However, all of Meyāni's multiplicative forms for numerals are borrowed from the [[Ancient Venēmīan language]] and therefore {{w|Suppletion|suppletive}}; alternatively, these forms could be expressed by using {{w|Adpositional phrase|postpositional phrases}}.

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==Vocabulary==
Around 2/3rds of all Meyāni {{w|vocabulary}} is of [[Qlerevi languages|Qlerevi]] origin. Qlerevi words in Meyāni are either directly inherited from [[Proto-Qlerevi language|Proto-Qlerevi]] or were borrowed from other Qlerevi languages. The vast majority of these terms in Meyāni are directly inherited from Proto-Qlerevi; the Qlerevi terms that were borrowed from other Qlerevi languages only account for less than 5% of all of Meyāni's vocabulary. Qlerevi-derived words encompass most of Meyāni's core vocabulary, so most of the time, no conherent sentence can be formed in Meyāni without resorting to using words of Qlerevi origin, with very rare exceptions.

Now-extinct [[pre-Yaksōnian languages]], which account for over 1/5th of all Meyāni words, are the main sources of {{w|loanwords}} within Meyāni's vocabulary. [[Ancient Venēmīan]], a {{w|prestige language}} which used to be learned by Meyāni gators of all ranks of society to connect with classical texts from the [[First Venēmīan Empire]] until it was banned by [[Meyāni#Nerấyavi's régime and the Great Prorinian War|the then-fascist-led government of Meyāni]] in 1942 AC shortly after [[Operation Yaksaháihča|the start of Meyāni's failed invasion of Yaksōn]], is the original language for the vast majority of these pre-Yaksōnian terms. Pre-Yaksōnian words in the Meyāni language are mostly terms relating to technical fields studied in the Prorinian peninsula like {{w|mathematics}}, {{w|Science|the sciences}}, {{w|music theory}}, {{w|philosophy}}, and [[Magic (AWiEC)|the art of magic]]; however, Pre-Yaksōnian words are also found in words relating to features of the Prorinian peninsula that don't exist or rarely do exist in the Qlerevi homeland, such as fauna (e.g. Meyāni *SCRIPT TBA* (''nagúrtos'') "{{w|elephant}}," with irregular o > u shift typical of assimilated loanwords), flora (e.g. Meyāni *SCRIPT TBA* (''ấččevon'') "{{w|Sequoioideae|redwood tree}}"), drinks (e.g. Meyāni *SCRIPT TBA* (''yeláira'') "{{w|wine}}"), and musical instruments (e.g. Meyāni *SCRIPT TBA* (''erínis'') "[[Prorinian music#Bee-lute|bee-lute]];"). Pre-Yaksōnian influence may have affected the grammar of Meyāni as well as contributing to vocabulary, with the language developing a strict {{w|V2 word order}} (which later shifted into a default {{w|Subject-verb-object word order|SVO word order}}, with few traces of the old V2 system remaining in the modern language) and losing most of the Proto-Qlerevi {{w|Grammatical case|case}} system.

Another major contributor of loanwords in Meyāni is the [[Rudakami language]]. Most Rudakami loanwords in Meyāni arrived during the period of [[Rudakami trade colonies|Rudakami merchants colonizing large areas of land on or near the Prorinian peninsula's coastline for trade with the local pre-Yaksōnian speakers]], which lasted from around 1800 BC until around 800 BC; these loanwords are typically related to concepts such as {{w|economics}}. However, during the period of [[Meyāni#Rudakami conquest and rule|Rudakami rule over Meyāni from 1632 AC until 1794 AC]], more Rudakami loanwords entered the language, mostly terms relating to {{w|government}}, the {{w|legal system}}, and {{w|feudalism}}. After Meyāni regained its independence from Rudakami control, there was widespread {{w|linguistic purism}} in Meyāni which aimed to purge all traces of Rudakami words within the language's vocabulary, which succeeded in removing a sizeable portion of Rudakami borrowings in the Meyāni lexicon but did not succeed in removing all of them. Today, Rudakami words account for around 1/10th of the Meyāni language's vocabulary.

===Derivation===
Meyāni makes heavy usage of {{w|agglutination}} and {{w|Compound (linguistics)|compounding}} to form new words. For example, the word *SCRIPT TBA* (''qlavmamčấčâlu'') translates to "{{w|syntax}}" in English and can be broken up into the following:

{{Interlinear|indent=2|top = qlavmamčấčâlu
|qlavmam-čâčâ-lu
|word-{{gcl|COL|collective}}-study.of
|"syntax" (literally: the study of a group of words)
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==Example text==
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==Footnotes==
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