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Formality Registers Guide

Guide to formality

👉 In Balkeon there are tones of formality and contractions, all of them with sensible reasoning.

Preliminary notes: the use of short modal verbs is universal.

👉 Always use -irian.

👉 Use of gender and plural suffixes on all words.

👉 0 tolerance of modern loan words.

👉 Os contraction is not allowed.

👉 Prefixes behind the modal verb slot.

👉 Use of genders in pronouns.

👉 Use of contraction -idu of adjectives

👉 Common usage of ian

👉 Occasional use of modern loanwords

👉 Contraction os is allowed

👉 Omission of -in allowed for specific adverbs.

👉 Use of general gender pronouns.

👉 Use of contraction -u in all words except adverbs, following the rules.

👉 Normal use of modern borrowings with mixture of formal compound words.

👉 Major use of the verbal suffix -ian.

👉 First signs of the use of modal verbs before the main verb.

👉 Pronoun-pronoun compound words using -ar- as infix.

👉 Almost no use of formal modern compound words.

👉 No prefixes behind the modal verb slot.

👉 Use of -u for adverbs.

👉 Use of Ay' and Y' (Say', Siy') when rules permit.

👉 Mixing modal verbs with the main verb.

👉 Use of prefixes as prepositions.

👉 Placing prefixes behind the modal verb slot

👉 Using -u for adverbs.

👉 Usage of Ay' and Y' (Say', Siy') when rules allow it.

👉 Compounding modal verbs into the main verb.

👉 Using prefixes as prepositions.

👉 Placing prefixes behind the modal verb slot any time with caution.

👉 Usage of nekin and yekin.