Imperius Dictionary (Will be expanded a lot)

Imperius Language

Mon Imperiusa roden licune! — We like the great Imperius!

This is a web documentation of the Imperius Conlang. Imperius Conlang is inspired by the Imperius Tribe in the game Battle of Polytopia.

Phonetics

If you don't have the slightest idea how this is pronounced, check some IPA chart or something.

Phonetics of Imperius are taken from the town names, which are generated from syllables located at the Polytopia Wiki.

Here are the consonants, with romanization:

#	Bilabial	Alveolar	Velar
Plosive	/p/ P	/t/ T – /d/ D	/k/ C*
Nasal	/m/ M	/n/ N	-
Trill	-	/r/ R	-
Fricative	-	/s/ S	-
Affricate	-	/t͜s/ C*	-
Lateral	-	/l/ L	-

* I'm not sure with C. They used that, but I don't know which one. Use whatever C you want, but be consistant.

Also, here are the Vowels:

#	Front	Back
Close	/i/ I	/u/ U
Mid	/e/ E	/o/ O
Open	/a/ A	-

Grammar

Imperius is a free word order language, but because it's people have a organizational heart, there are still some rules you should follow:

Try to keep it SOV: for Imperius people, different word orders sound wierd or archaic (except SVO, when you want to emphesise the verb). Try to use SOV as much as you can.
Theme goes first: whatever is a theme of your sentence, let it be the first word. It will mostly be the subject.
Animates go first: whatever is most animate, consider it putting first in the sentence. This will again be in most cases the subject.
Object and Verb are together: because the object is closely related to the verb, it must be near it (i mean the subject and indirect object, adverbs and adjectives should be where they belong).
Adjectives are always after the head. Period.
Relative clauses come after the head: the same as adjectives, put them after the head.

Osre lim-ap nem-a pon-a.

horse little-CLASS.AGREEMENT man-ACCUSATIVE see-CLASS.AGREEMENT

The little horse sees a man.

Passive voice

Example of a passive voice in action:

Yoda saw Luke ⇒ Luke was seen by Yoda

This is a very handy thing that can be used in lot of cases.

Passive voice is made by the adverb pi-su (pre-attached suffix).

Note that the patient is marked with nominative case, and the agent in genitive case.

Nouns

Noun Cases

Imperius has five cases. Those cases are:

#	Nominative	Accusative	Genitive	Dative	Vocative
Singular	-	-(s)a	-(t)i	-(c)o	-(a)r
Plural	-(o)m	-(c)e	-(t)im	-(c)om	-(a)ra

Note: the letter in parentheses may be removed, if it neighbors another letter of the same type (consonant/vowel).

The only irregularity are the person markers. Here they are:

#	Nominative	Accusative	Genitive	Dative	Vocative
1st Person Singular	mi	ma	mit	mam	-
2nd Person Singular	ra	re	rat	rer	rar
3rd Person Singular Masculine	sa	se	sat	ses	-
3rd Person Singular Feminine	co	cu	cot	cuc	-
1st Person Plural Inclusive	mon	moni	monit	monim	monar
1st Person Plural Exclusive	mul	muli	mulit	mulim	-
2nd Person Plural	rem	remi	remit	remir	remar
3rd Person Plural	ces	cesi	cesit	cesic	-

3rd Person Singular Feminine can be used for inanimate human-made stuff, the 3rd Person Singular Masculine is used for every other inanimate thing.

Rar, sa osre-ce mit-ap pon-e.

2ND.PERSON.SINGULAR.VOCATIVE, 3RD.PERSON.SINGULAR.MASCULINE horse-NOMINATIVE.PLURAL 1ST.PERSON.SINGULAR.GENITIVE-CLASS.AGREEMENT see-CLASS.AGREEMENT.

Hey you! He sees my horses!

Also, here are two other things you can use in your sentences:

This	That
ni	nic

Apply standard declension to them.

Noun Classes

This is something very different from cases. Alternative way of saying this is a grammatical gender, but it isn't related to it, so it's a noun class.

#	Humanoid	Human-Made	Animals	Plants	Others (inanimates, ideals)
Adjective Agreement (head is marked)	-(e)n	-(o)d	-(a)p	-(u)l	-(i)s
Verb Agreement (subject is marked)	-(n)e	-(d)o	-(p)a	-(l)u	-(s)i

Verbs

Tenses

Here is the whole tense system:

Past	Present	Future
s(a)-	-	t(u)-

Stacking tenses is a viable option, if you want to make something more close or more remote.

Adverbs are made by adding the -(s)u suffix.

Imperfective is made by the adverb adet-u (it has pre-attached suffix).

Modality

Imperius has two optional modality suffix things. Here they are:

Reportive Modality:

Myself	Known Source	Unknown Source	General Knowledge
-(a)p	-(a)c	-(u)s	-(o)n

Epistemic (may/must/will) Modality:

Speculative	Deductive	Assumptive
-(o)r	-(i)m	-(i)d

Conditionals and Imperatives (between tense and core):

Imperative	Conditional
-r(o)-	-p(e)-

Mi osre-sa sa-pe-pon-e, det mi nis-a nopo-ne.

1PS horse-ACCUSATIVE PAST-COND-see-CLASS.AGREEMENT, then 1PS that-ACCUSATIVE know-CLASS.AGREEMENT.

If I saw that horse, I would know that.

Comparatives and Superlatives

These things in Imperius aren't done like English does it.

In some dialects, suffix system is used to potray these meanings:

#	Suffix	How to use
Comparative	-(m)om	The subject/agent is more of verb's meaning than the object/agent.
Superlative	-(l)al	The subject/agent is the most of verb's meaning. There is no object/patient.

In other ones, there are simply adjectives (pre-attached suffix):

#	Adjective	How to use
Comparative	om-u	The subject/agent is more of verb's meaning than the object/agent.
Superlative	ales-u	The subject/agent is the most of verb's meaning. There is no object/patient.

Mi rod-om-e re. — Mi rod-e om-u re.

1PS big-COMPARATIVE-CLS.AGR 2PS.ACC. — 1PS big-CLS.AGR more-ADVERB 2PS.ACC.

I'm bigger than you.

Literally: I'm biggering you. — I'm biging you more. (Template: "I'm taking you")

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