This page is all about the Gnomes and their languages. The Gnomes are an ancient race, dating back only one hundred years before the creation of the old world. This page will mainly focus on the modern Gnomish language (if you can really call it modern), not the history of the Gnomes, that you will eventually find on another page.

The Gnomish language is relatively simple. Its history is brief and blunt, to the point; and its grammer and spelling are too easy. In Nômík Sprøk may be modern, but in name only. It is actually the oldest of all the modern languages, and was spoken first around 3500 V.F. (vôrdér flik) by the survivors of the shattering of Ir.

It hasn't really changed since.

To learn Gnomish and at least have an understanding of it, all you need to know are 8 things:

1: The one prefix, grés- and how to attach it.

2-6: The other suffixes, which are wøg, én, ai, ík, and  ä/ú ( there are actually four others you will encounter, but I will list them later)

7: the syntax, which is SOV (subject, object, verb)

8: all of the Gnomish base words onto which you attach the affixes and make words with new meanings. This system (I don't know what to call it) each base word has a meaning, but they are all what we would call nouns or being verbs. To make the other parts of speech, you must add affixes to each word.

• Zér - green (noun, the color)
• Gøthík - god like
• Líkt - light
• Sund - sin
• In - the
• Nômä - Gnome (masc./neuter)
• Nômú - Gnome (fem.)
• Mønä - Man

This section of print really doesn't explain much of anything, except a few peculiarities of Gnomish that actually make it Gnomish and not just a cipher for English/American.

• Gnomish follows an SOV sentence pattern (I think this is called syntax) such as, "The man - the door - opens" rather than English "The man - opens - the door".
• The modifier can be used as an adjective or an adverb, depending on where it is in the sentance. But no matter if it is describing an noun or an verb, it must be right in front of the word being described. There is only one exception that I have run across, and eventually I might be able to explain it correctly here; it has something to do with the adjective/modifier behind the noun in certain cases when this has something to do with the verb... I don't know.
• There is no continuous verb tense in Gnomish. In place of this you most often use the present tense. There are only three tenses: past, present, and future.

Well, I can't think of anything else at the moment, but I will update this later.

A Gnomish word can go through many changes in this language, and become part of any part of speech. For example:

• Zér- the base form, green the color
• Zérík- the modifier form, green as in "the green house"
• Zérén- the verb form, to be green
• Zérwøg- "great green" if that makes any sense...
• Zérai- greens (plural)

As you can see, the base word does not change at all when the agglutinative endings are added. There is only one exception to this rule, making a new rule itself: When a word ends in a soft consonant that is not on the list of special consonants, a t must be added, then the ending. This is the same if the word ends in a vowel. You must add t.

1. Inth
2. Zurth
3. Drith
4. Verth
5. Feth
6. Séth
7. Sethz
8. Ôkth
9. Nôth
10. Ténth

These are here for this one guy who signed my guestbook, and I don't remember his name, or if he wanted an e-mail or not, but here they are!