Here will reside all known documents on the language, spanning various periods of development from Old Éa to modern mërèchi.
A brief index of grammar and vocabulary for PDA users can be found here.
Excerpts from a conhistorical account of Merechianist linguistics can be viewed here.
Ea was the language- and world-building project embarked upon in 1984, when I read Tolkien's Book of Lost Tales (I) at age 12 or 13, influenced originally by German, Latin and proto-Elvish, later picking up various and sundry influences, reaching its most productive period in 1987 or 1988 and added to sporadically since then. The language began as a shameless relex of English, except for having (mostly) postpositions instead of prepositions, and having verbs conjugate fully (in classical mërèchi onward) by having the subject pronoun appended to the verb; it has been becoming more agglutinative since then, especially in the area of derivational affixes on verbs.
The real reason the orthography makes no sense is because I invented it when I was 12, before I had realized why English "long vowels" were different from continental ones, and before I had any sense of limiting the phonemic inventory. Also, I was fascinated with diacritical marks at the time, thanks to JRRT.
As a result, the vowel system is a fusion of English and continental systems, with both stress and "length" marked in a system of (usually) four possible diacritical marks per vowel. In general, a vowel without a diacritic (eg. a) is short and unstressed; with a grave accent (à) it is short and stressed; with a diaresis (ä), it is "long" and unstressed; and with an acute accent (á) it is "long" and stressed. Long a and e are both pronounced /e/. There is no long i, but í is used for the stressed form. Same goes for y, which is pronounced the same as i (haven't figured out a rationalization for this one yet).
The consonant inventory also contains a remarkable number of English or European peculiarities, the most glaring being the existence of both c and k for /k/. (This has recently been reanalyzed as the existence of both a velar stop (k) and a palato-velar stop (c).)
For more information, see orthography.html.
See the calendars of the mërèchi year! "mërèchi tërín alitànö" is a 146-day calendar which can be seen in its entirety by clicking on "Go to year view". The "zyentinaz" calendar was inspired by the Mayan calendars which ran in simultaneous cycles of differing lengths; think of it as a slot machine with three rollers, one having 3 values, the next 11 values, and the third 17 values, for a complete cycle of 561 days. If you hit the jackpot, it's a major holiday.
Last updated: 7/20/2007