Imperial Standard

Imperial Standard (lingua imperialis; lingua thodronensis; or simply thodronesum), also known as Thodronese and simply Standard, formerly Republic Standard during the High Republic, is the lingua franca of the Andromeda Galaxy and the official language of the Imperial State of Thodron. It is the most commonly spoken language in the galaxy.

It can be written with two different writing systems, Common (Vulgaris) and Proper (Prōprias). Common is especially used by ordinary people while Proper is used only for government or official purposes. The Aptasian family and members of the Senate sometimes use Proper when writing to each other.

History
The first precursors to Standard came into existence when ancient Thodroni encountered the expansionist Yaer'aed Empire around 3200 AE. It originally drew heavily from Yaer’aed vocabulary, which is still a prime feature of modern Standard today.

Standard first became a common language of the Thodroni during their first interstellar flights and expansion. As they encountered more and more other intelligent species they eventually expanded to the farthest reaches of Andromeda, with their language spreading with them. As a result today, it remains as a very common language, especially in worlds located in the Core and Ento Sectors.

Grammar and syntax
Imperial Standard is highly inflected and word order is somewhat free, however it tends to be in subject-object-verb; a verb can be in any part of the sentence and adjectives can (along with genitive forms of nouns) precede or follow a noun. Adjectives usually come after the noun but they can come before it for emphasis or a different meaning. Nouns and adjectives are divided into one of three genders (masculine, feminine, neuter) and one of five declensions, and adjectives agree with nouns in case and number. These declensions have five cases (nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, ablative).

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Orthography
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Sample texts
The following is a sample from a text about an ancient Thodroni kingdom:

Original version: "...post mortem Entorigis II, status discordiæ regnum se punebam. Nobilitas dum proxibis heres attentabunt se lucantur."

Translation: "...following the death of Entorix II, the kingdom was put into a state of discord. The nobility fought amongst each other in determining the king's heir.