Giant language

The giant language, called Jotun by those who speak it, was the ancient language of most giants. It was one of the oldest active languages. It was believed that the language shared some of its roots with Common and Thorass.

Script
Modern Giant was written with Dethek runes.

Grammar
Jotun tended to follow a subject–verb–object order, but there were exceptions. The copula, er, was often left out of sentences.

Nouns
The plural forms of nouns varied depending on the declension. For example, the plural of jotun ("giant") was jotunen, while the plural of huslyd ("family") was huslyder.

Verbs
Scholars have determined that verb forms in Jotun were inflected, that is, they changed form depending on the subject of the sentence. For example, the verb fer, "to go", was known to have at least the following forms:

The participial form ferd derived from the verb and meant "going" or "journey".

The infinitive form, fer, was used in commands, e.g., Fer zu dun heim, "Go to your home."

Pronouns
The subjective forms, as known, are shown below:

The following were the known objective forms:

The known possessive forms were as follows:

The two demonstrative pronouns were i and det, "this" and "that", respectively. The interrogative pronouns included wo ("what"), wer ("who"), and wie ("where").

Numbers
The cardinal numbers in Jotun are listed below:

Numbers after ten were formed simply by following ten with the next digit, as in tier et, that is, there was no separate word for eleven. 20 and 30 were represented with to tier and tre tier. Similarly, 2,345 would be represented as to tusen tre hund fir tier fem.

The only ordinal number known to scholars was stot, "second".

History
Giant was derived from the Primordial language.

Derivatives
There are several languages and dialects based on Jotun that have evolved from it.


 * Jogishk : This is the patois spoken by ogres.
 * Jotunalder : Similar enough to Jotun to be reasonably understood, this language has not changed in thousands of years and is used formally in ceremonies.
 * Jotunhaug : Spoken by hill and mountain giants, and closely related to Jotunise.
 * Jotunild : Spoken by fire giants.
 * Jotunise : Spoken by frost giants and closely related to Jotunhaug.
 * Jotunskye : The language used by cloud and fog giants.
 * Jotunstein : Spoken by stone giants. The written form was called "Metamorpherie".
 * Jotunuvar : Spoken by storm giants.