Khazgrun
Spoken In: Eastern Dwôrven Republic (EDR) and its territories.
Evolved From: Durinkhâld (Ancient Dwôrven); reshaped through clan reunification and multi-species integration after the Sundering War.
Script: Hybrid glyph set drawing from Durinkhâld angular forms and convergent clan scripts; alphabet, left-to-right.
Type: Agglutinative, SVO.
Common Use: Daily speech, industry, diplomacy, trade, and labor organizing across the EDR.
Note: Khazgrun is the only language on Adamah with dedicated base vocabulary for capitalism, exploitation, and collective resistance.
Khazgrun is how the EDR talks. It descends from Durinkhâld, but the clan reunification after the Sundering War broke the old language open and let labor, politics, and multi-species contact pour in. What came out is a tongue built for workshop floors and union halls, dense with the vocabulary of collective action, and blunt about wealth and power in a way no other language on Adamah matches.
The numbers and noun cases carried forward from Durinkhâld mostly intact. The pronouns did not. During reunification the clans built a new pronoun set around the khaz- root: khaz (I), khadul (we), khadan (union). Belonging got encoded into the grammar.
"Khazgrun has a word for 'sellout', Zarîdûn. It's in the base vocabulary, not slang. Same tier as 'family' and 'honor.' That tells you everything about what the people who built this language had already been through."
— Archivist Pol Veth, Storvhall University of History
Grammar
Noun Case (khadan, "union")
| Case | Form |
|---|---|
| Nominative | khadan |
| Accusative | khadana |
| Genitive | khadanûr |
| Dative | khadanir |
Verb Paradigm (farûn, "to fight for, to seize")
| Form | Conjugation |
|---|---|
| Present | farûn |
| Imperative | fargh! |
| Past | faragh |
| Future | farûl |
Pronouns
| Pronoun | Khazgrun |
|---|---|
| I | khaz |
| You (sg) | khûr |
| He | durn |
| She | durna |
| It | zar |
| We | khadul |
| They | gûrn |
Numbers (0–10)
| Number | Khazgrun |
|---|---|
| 0 | zor |
| 1 | ûn |
| 2 | dran |
| 3 | thrûl |
| 4 | kîr |
| 5 | khîr |
| 6 | shokh |
| 7 | zakh |
| 8 | orn |
| 9 | ghûl |
| 10 | drûn |
Vocabulary
| Word | Meaning | Symbol |
|---|---|---|
| Khadan | Union | ⍳⍚⍦⍚⍯ |
| Drokzûr | Machine | ⍦⍩⬩Ⱀ⬷Ⰹ⍩ |
| Fargûn | Worker | ⬽⍚⍩⍥Ⰹ⍯ |
| Ulfarîn | Solidarity | ⬪Ⰺ⬽⍚⍩⬨⍯ |
| Farzarîn | Revolution | ⬽⍚⍩⬷⍚⍩⬨⍯ |
| Ulfakhadan | Collective | ⬪Ⰺ⬽⍚⍳⍚⍦⍚⍯ |
| Kolgrûn | Equality | Ⱀ⬩Ⰺ⍥⍩Ⰹ⍯ |
| Azmarûn | Capitalism | ⍚⬷⍮⍚⍩Ⰹ⍯ |
| Dûrakûn | Oppression | ⍦Ⰹ⍩⍚ⰀⰉ⍯ |
| Farzakûn | Exploitation | ⬽⍚⍩⬷⍚ⰀⰉ⍯ |
| Dorîn | City | ⍦⬩⍩⬨⍯ |
| Dûn | Night | ⍦Ⰹ⍯ |
| Ghardûr | Labor | Ⱁ⍚⍩⍦Ⰹ⍩ |
| Tarûn | Duty | ⬵⍚⍩Ⰹ⍯ |
| Khazmakh | Production | ⍳⍚⬷⍮⍚⍳ |
| Rîgûn | Effort | ⍩⬨⍥Ⰹ⍯ |
Vernacular & Slang
| English | Khazgrun |
|---|---|
| Worthless | Skahr |
| Quick | Zirf |
| Angry person | Grûm |
| Inspiration | Khîr |
| Fight | Thrak |
| Undecided | Zalâk |
| Scram | Skaz |
| Failure | Fûlg |
| Annoying | Khip |
| Leader | Khazmâr |
| Oh F*ck | Dûlûr rûz! |
| Damnit | Nûlkhîr! |
| Rich Person | Khazât |
| CEO | Khazrûn |
| Corporate Drone | Zarnâk |
| Sellout | Zarîdûn |
Common Phrases
| English | Khazgrun |
|---|---|
| Strength in community | Khûg na duron |
| Honor the ancestors | Durkar na zarîn |
| Family is our foundation | Nêkhlûr na morlû |
| Unity is strength | Ulfar na khûg |
| Union fights for equality | Khadan na dorin |
| Revolution brings change | Farzarîn na dorin zarîn |
| Greed destroys community | Drogûn na ranorîn |
| Wealth corrupts | Khazût na mûzarîn |
| Debt enslaves the people | Dûrmât na ranorîn |
| Seize the day | Farûn na tar |
| Honor your word | Durkar na ranor |
| When in doubt, go left | Farûn dûrmât na shâr |
| Labor is dignity | Ghardûr na durkar. |
| The collective is strength | Ulfakhadan na khûg. |
| Oppression fails | Dûrakûn na fûlg. |
| The worker builds the city | Fargûn na dorîn. |
Writing System
| Symbol | Sound | Symbol | Sound | Symbol | Sound |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ⍚ | A | ⬦ | Â | Ⰵ | Ä |
| ⍧ | B | Ⱆ | CH | ⍦ | D |
| ⬧ | E | ⬦ | Ê | Ⰶ | Ë |
| ⬽ | F | ⍥ | G | Ⱁ | Gh |
| Ⱇ | H | ⬨ | I | ⬨ | Î |
| Ⱍ | J | Ⱀ | K | ⍳ | Kh |
| Ⰺ | L | ⍮ | M | ⍯ | N |
| ⬩ | O | Ⰳ | Ô | Ⰸ | Ö |
| ⬴ | P | Ⱃ | Q | ⍩ | R |
| Ⰾ | S | Ⱅ | SH | ⬵ | T |
| ⬪ | U | Ⰹ | Û | Ⰹ | Ü |
| ⬼ | V | Ⱉ | W | Ⱊ | X |
| Ⱈ | Y | ⬷ | Z |
Khazgrun merges Â/Ê, I/Î, and Û/Ü into shared glyphs. Context and the Romanization carry the distinction on the page; in writing, they look the same.
Revised Grammar: Agglutinative Morphology (Typology Overhaul)
Khazgrun is agglutinative with SVO order, diverging from its SOV ancestor Durinkhâld. Meaning is built by stacking one separable suffix per grammatical feature in a fixed order: ROOT - NUMBER - CASE - (POSSESSOR). Each piece keeps a constant shape. Note: Khazgrun still has noun cases (agglutinative languages typically have many); the difference from fusional Durinkhâld is that case and number are separate, invariant suffixes rather than one fused ending. The genitive -ûr stays -ûr whether the noun is singular or plural. That separability is what makes Khazgrun agglutinative.
- Number: plural -en. Case: accusative -a, genitive -ûr, dative -ir.
- khadan (union) -> khadan-a (union-ACC) -> khadan-en (unions) -> khadan-en-ûr (of the unions)
- Verb far- (to fight / seize): far-ûn (present), far-agh (past), far-ûl (future), far-gh (imperative)
The collective khaz- root (khaz I, khadul we, khadan union) drives the system: belonging is encoded directly in the grammar, the legacy of the clan reunification that broke the old fused tongue open.
Phonology (IPA)
IPA transcription of the sounds in this page's Writing System table.
Consonants: /b tʃ d f ɡ ɣ h dʒ k x l m n p q r s ʃ t v w ks z/
Vowels: /a e i o u/ plus /ɑː eː iː oː uː/ and /æ ɛ œ y/ (merged glyphs)
Notable: keeps the dwôrven gutturals /x/ and /ɣ/ but adds the sibilants and labials Durinkhâld lacks, reflecting multi-species contact.