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The Language of the Valley is a dead language spoken by a fictional Elven race who lived in a prosperous valley before the arrival of the Human race. After immigration, Humans found only ruins of palaces, monuments and common houses. They began to study the inscriptions, manuscripts and books left by this mysterious Elven race and adopted the language for its cultural worth and beauty. Since then, the Language of the Valley took the same role as Latin for Romance languages, although not directly descendant. Thus, there was the differentiation between the Educated Language and the Common Speech.

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rdfs:label	Language of the Valley
rdfs:comment	The Language of the Valley is a dead language spoken by a fictional Elven race who lived in a prosperous valley before the arrival of the Human race. After immigration, Humans found only ruins of palaces, monuments and common houses. They began to study the inscriptions, manuscripts and books left by this mysterious Elven race and adopted the language for its cultural worth and beauty. Since then, the Language of the Valley took the same role as Latin for Romance languages, although not directly descendant. Thus, there was the differentiation between the Educated Language and the Common Speech.
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abstract	The Language of the Valley is a dead language spoken by a fictional Elven race who lived in a prosperous valley before the arrival of the Human race. After immigration, Humans found only ruins of palaces, monuments and common houses. They began to study the inscriptions, manuscripts and books left by this mysterious Elven race and adopted the language for its cultural worth and beauty. Since then, the Language of the Valley took the same role as Latin for Romance languages, although not directly descendant. Thus, there was the differentiation between the Educated Language and the Common Speech. The Language of the Valley means to be simple and agglutinative. It 's based on syllables that can express a verbal or nominal value, depending on the suffixes they take. The main features are: * 5 vowels: up to 7 sounds if we includes the couples /e, ɛ/ and /o, ɔ/ as allophones * 14 consonants: [sh] is considered as a digraphs for /ʃ/; [j] has 3 allophones /ʒ, dʒ, tʃ/. * nominative-accusative alignment: subjects of a transitive or intransitive verb are treaten as same. * topic-prominent alignment: the word order emphatizes the sentence topic, allowing a "double subject" - topic+subject. * strongly pro-drop: the personal pronouns are often omitted. They can be used with emphatic effect in both nominative and vocative cases. * case inflection: the grammatical role of the word is descirbed by the suffix case. * large use of verbal modificators (suffix) that enrich verb meanings.

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