/la sadreil eivɪswa/
The Total Guide to the Sudreɪl language
By: Zachary Hilmer
The Total Guide to the Sudreɪl language
By: Zachary Hilmer
** this website is in transition from version 2.0 to version 3.0, therefore there are inconsistencies throughout. Pages marked with "**" are outdated, and those without have been updated to the modern version. An example is this page which calls the language Sudreil, while the modern version calls it either Sudrean (the name of the language in English, similar to how Spanish is called Spanish in English and Español in Spanish) or sadreil.
Sudreɪl has an interesting history, as most conlangs do. This project started almost accidentally, back probably when I was in 6th or 7th grade. Like it so often does, it happened quite naturally, just a bored kid doodling alphabets on the side of miscellaneous worksheets. The writing system has changed to an unrecognizable form sense then, though it was in making kinda crummy knockoffs of the Latin alphabet for the English language that I got my start on what would years later become somewhat of a sick guilty obsession of a weird though passionate 17 year old.
The word sudreɪl comes from another word I made a while back, Sudreɪa, a place in a fictional universe in the future, probably by about 500 or so years. It was here that I daydreamed, a cosmonaut cadet in the Sudreɪen fleet flying across the vacuum of the stars. Funny enough I have continued to add to the novel inside my head, and maybe I'll write it up some day, I think many would find it a very interesting story.
Regardless, I have zero linguistic education, simply learning how to make a language as I have gone along. I however have been inspired by many features of languages other than English in my attempt to make this one; years of trial and error, and adding revolutionary ideas and features have made me restart countless times, though have lead to an interesting mixing bowl of ideas from random languages across the world that I don't even speak. Regardless, this is my best attempt, and I must say I think I'm doing a pretty good job all things considered.
Given the fact that I have no linguistic education, the vast majority of this website will be written in what I will call, "normal human English", describing how my language words in common easy to understand ways for the average noob. The little linguistic jargon that does exist will be very elementary, and will most likely be explained once you get there. Anyway good luck, I hope you enjoy, and wish me luck in further developing what I consider to be my real mother tongue.
I have set up the tabs above for site navigation in the order that I think it makes sense to study the language. If you are here just to look around by all means go ahead, though I think at least reading through the website in order will make the genuine study of any aspect of it easier, sense much of the language and what you will learn builds on itself, especially in grammar and writing. Make sure to click on the main tab, and then go to its sub-pages after reading the introduction to each section of study; each introduction contains information that may prove critical to your overall understanding of the subject matter.