Final Dritan Language

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Dritan Language

Celia, Charlie and Neel



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Dritan (the language)..

*has no alphabet

*is pictorial

*has words made of four tiers each*quite complex- somewhat like a mixture of hieroglyphs and Greek



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What’s in a word?

1st tier is the spirit animal of the god (that pertains most to the word)(ex: for rain the Goddess would be Kindie)

2nd tier is picture representing the sub division(ex: for life it could be animals/nature or humans)

3rd tier is a number for how much of the 2nd tier object is approximately needed for theactivity

(ex: for holding hands you need two people, the number 2 in Dritan numbers wouldbe used)

4th tier is yet another denotation that more specifically represents the word

(ex: for health it could be a bandage or a red cross)



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4th Tier

The 4th tier is special, because the other tiers could be the same. Thefourth tier is actually the symbol that discerns it from other words. Many

words can share the first 3 tiers in common (for example rain, water, lake,

and ocean), but no 4th tier image is the same. The symbol used as thefourth tier is not unlike a pronoun that replaces an antecedent after the

pronoun has been stated once in a piece of writing. Once the entire wordhas been used once, the final tier’s symbol may be used to represent the

whole word in later references.



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1st tier (God’s animal symbols)



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Gods’ names (as noun)

When a God’s name is being references, only the first tier is needed. But, inorder to respect the holiness of gods as is custom in Drite, the God’s animal

symbol is drawn with a special symbol surrounding it called an Dritesian

Ring.



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proper Nouns

When writing someone’s name, you place a regular rectangle around it(similar to what you do for a God’s name, except it’s just a rectangle). Thisdifferentiates the person’s name from the word that means the same thing.



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Nouns

Me/I

You

Him/He

Her/She



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verbs



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Adjectives and Adverbs

Adjectives (colors):

Adverb (slowly):



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Comparative Adjectives

Big, bigger, biggest

Big, bigger, biggest

Small, smaller, smallest



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Tenses

You put this arrows in front of a word in order to make it past, present, orfuture tense. (for a verb)



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Punctuation

period (plain)

exclamation point (excitement)

question mark (questions)

After a full word (the final tier) you can use the following punctuationto show different emotions:



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Showing Possession

Use this arrow to connect a noun and what the noun owns:



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Dritan Mathematics

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Final Dritan Language