Despotanmagi

The Despotanmagi language was originally the langauge of the Massenpreost Despotanfras people. It went extinct as a spoken language together with the race of the same name, but remained used as a literary and religious language by the Ancient Lizardman Empire, and also as a language of magic.

Grammar
The Despotanmagi language was ergative–absolutive, SVO agglutinative language - or more precisely, agent–verb–object (AVO).

Cases
Due to the fact that Despotanmagi was an agglutinative language that built words by combining morphemes into words like building blocks, it is up for debate whether the language had an actual case system, or if the case-endings were more like helper-words attached to root words to put them into grammatical context.

As Massenpreost Despotanfras was an ergative–absolutive language, it lacked nominative and accusative cases, instead having an ergative and an absolutive case. In a nominative-accusative language, the agent of a transitive verb and the core argument of an intransitive verb both warrant the usage of the nominative case, while object of a transitive verb warrants the usage of the accusative case - in contrast with this, in an ergative-absolutive language like Massenpreost Despotanfras, only the agent of a transitive verb is marked by an ergative case, while both the object of a transitive verb and the core argument of an intransitive verb warrant being marked by the absolutive case.

Thus, the list of cases:
 * Ergative: Indicates the agent of transitive verb
 * Absolutive/Dative: Indicates the object of transitive verb or core argument of intransitive verb (absolutive), as well as the indirect object of any verb (dative)
 * Ablative: Indicates movement away from
 * Genitive: Indicates possessor of another noun
 * Vocative: Addresses a noun
 * Locative: Roughly corresponds to English prepositions in, on, at, and by and other less common locational prepositions.
 * Instrumental: Roughly corresponds to English prepositions by, with and via as well as synonymous constructions such as using, by use of and through.

There was no distinct dative case - it instead has merged with the absolutive case.

Pronouns
Unlike in other languages that typically had distinct pronouns often completely independent from the markers of the various grammatical cases, Massenpreost Despotanfras only had three basic words that could be used as pronouns when combined with a grammatical case:
 * being the core first-person proto-pronoun, meaning "I" or "me" when combined with a singular case-marker, "we" or "us" when combined with a plural case-marker.
 * being the core second-person proto-pronoun, meaning "you"
 * being the core third-person proto-pronoun, meaning "he/she/it" or "him/her/it" when combined with a singular case-marker, "they" or "them" when combined with a plural case-marker.

As such, the full list of pronouns in their grammatical cases:

Numbers
Massenpreost Despotanfras language employed Base 8, or Octal. Ordinal numbers were used for counting, cardinal numbers were used for position or rank in a sequential order. Large numbers are made by taking cardinal numbers and having them in an order of A-B-C for $$(A*8^B)+C$$, such as $$(3*8^2)+4$$ being ȟos-ňot-qap. To turn it into an ordinal number, only the last one needs to be made ordinal - for example ȟos-ňot-qaveo. In theory, the largest number that can be represented in the language would be feti-redevot-feti - in other words $$(7*8^6)+7=1835015$$.

Ordinal numbers can also be treated (and thus conjugated/cased) like nouns, such as saying "kät-ȟoseo-yä" for $$2/3$$ (two thirds). To further help with representing non-integer numbers in the language, a radix point can also be used - the word for it is "vosp", such as saying ye-vosp-ye for $$(1*8^0)+(1*8^{-1})=1.125$$

Adjectives and adverbs
Adjectives are marked this way:
 * to mark regular adjectives
 * to mark comparative adjectives
 * to mark superlative adjectives

Adverbs are formed from adjecitves by adding to its end.

Vocabulary
Important words in the Massenpreost Despotanmagi language include:
 * Basic words: (life),  (death),  (magic),  (magic)
 * Colours: (light),  (dark),  (red),  (blue),  (green),  (yellow),  (brown)