Fiction:Draconid Imperium/Dracid

Dracid is the language spoken throughout the Draconis Empire, both within the Draconis themselves and as a trade language. While commonly referred to as simply 'dracid' the language is in fact two varations; Low and High. Although the differences are marginal the prevalence varies greatly.

Overview
Dracid consists of 30 letters and a base-10 numbering system. The language itself is hundreds of thousands of years old - pre-dating both the empire nd the Cult of Drakon - and prior to the Era of Ascension existed in several different forms including Miminan, Osillan, Borealic and Central.

Today the other variations have become obsolete, leaving only Low and High. Low Dracid is most commonly found in protectorate states and is used as a trade language, High Dracid is found either within Draconid colonies or in government records. Traditionally Dracid is written with a pen or other writing tool and as a rsult is easily transferable into a digital format. Antoher interesting feature is that uppercase letters (known as upper marks) are larger than numbers when in a written format. The design of each letter, known as a mark, was originally influenced by the flowing movements of the scribes' pens.

Syntax
Dracid is written left-to-right on the page and each sentence starts with an upper mark. Compound words in other languages form into one word in dracid. Titles and names vary; on the occasion where a title consists of two words it is broken with an inverted comma - for example Fleet Master would be written as Fleet'Master - but names of animals and people do not follow this rule while cities (such as Minos'Drakon) do.

The differences in High dracid and Low dracid are in their complexities. Low dracid is easier to learn and excludes the letters Platha and Yast. Ocron Is written involving an O sound instead of Ou and several words such as Vos (hundred) are replaced. For example the High words Kothad and Alaikad (meaning refined [material] and refined [culturally] respectively) are replaceed with Althokad when translated.

High Dracid can be considered more pedantic than Low although variation in pronounciation (for example accidentally pronouncing Minos as Mei-nose instead of Me-noss) has little effect on interperetation due to it's design as a written language.

Common suffixes:
 * -ad - past tense
 * -usk - future tense
 * -us - noun
 * -ii - plural noun