Now, first of all, and most importantly, Standard is a constructed fictional priori constructed language. I realise I may seem to have repeated myself; but there is a reason for this, because while being a constructed language in reality, it is also a constructed language in its internal history.
Standard was created to ease communication between 4 different sapient species. And while it remained close to its logical principles for a good while, it has eventually been subdued to natural evolution of languages, and have spawned countless dialects across Explored Space. But Standard (or in Standard: Kemp-haremle) is generally still considered an universal language; far greater than any previous lingua franca.
Standard's grammar is as simple as it gets; a position in a clause indicates 'word type' (e.g. noun, verb, etc.) and as such a clause can at maximum be constructed of 5 words ('subclauses' are considered just that; subclasses, and thus will appear in replacement of a word); clause definer, subject, object, verb and pre/postposition.
The only oddity in that list may be 'clause definer', but it's actually quite simple; this word defines if the clause has a special use; e.g. being a question or a reasoning. It also defines the relationship between the previous clause, e.g. 'but' in English and so on. The pronoun 'ai' is used to refer to just that and can be used as the subject or object (or any word, actually, not sure how much sense that would make), referring to the previous clause's subject.
Example: Luki amnuki nuk i, le ammunuki ai?
Or in English: If the future is now, is the past then the future?
Or more lit.: If[clause definer] the-future now is, question[clause definer] the-un-future [previous clause's subject; the-future]?
As you will notice, 'am-' is a noun definitive prefix, but not presented here is the plural suffix, which is -'za.
Standard's writing system is an alphabet. Plain and simple. It consist of 24 letters; 16 consonants and 8 vowels. And these 24 letters represents only 24 sounds.
- a /ɑ/
- e /e/
- i /i/
- o /o/
- u /u/
- y /y/
- æ /ɛ/
- ó /ɔ/
- d /?/
- f /f/
- h /h/
- j /j/
- k /k/
- l /l/
- m /m/
- n /n/
- p /p/
- r /ɹ/
- s /s/
- t /t/
- v /v/
- w /w/
- z /z/
- š /ʃ/
As you will notice, each glyph has an 'opposite'. While the writing system should always be read from a certain perspective, it never requires to be read 'left to right', even if that is the most common usage of it. There are some glyphs to indicate direction, but these are generally considered to be 'non-Standard', and thus vary from place to place.
The usage of the opposite characters are used in the numeral systems, as you will notice; there are 24 characters, and thus 12 pairs. The writing system uses the same glyphs for numerals, a number for each pair, which means you can pick two glyphs per numeral. To indicate something is numerals and not letters, a line hovering the characters are used.
Another thing about the glyphs; they are very simple, and don't look all that pretty up there, but handwriting looks slightly different (I shall make some handwriting of a poem I wrote in the language at a later point).
As said, the language is a priori language, and as such, includes no origin in any other existing language. If there are similarities, these are purely coincidences. The vocabulary is far from finished, however, I am still working on it.
But if you want to, I have created a wiki as a dictionary, where you can read what I have written (unfortunately, I do not intend to grant anyone besides myself the access to edit pages). A warning first; this language is intended for a novel I am writing, the dictionary may provide spoilers for the novel, but if you are fine by that (and so far there aren't actually any spoilers), you can visit it here.
In closing, I welcome any questions regarding the language.