Vono Cripta

Vono Cripta (Void Text) is a conlang created by Startacker. It has appeared previously in ScrungeCraft, Sludge, and the Community Server.

Star (and the few others she shares her master document with) is the only person with complete knowledge of it, requiring others to attempt translation themselves. Community-sourced reference materials can be found in the "useful links" section.

Description
Vono Cripta is a language tied to denizens of the Void.

It ultimately has no inspiration points besides vague, subconscious Latin. Many words are intentionally false friends (sound similar, but are wildly different in meaning) of English ones.

Grammar & morphology
Vono Cripta is structured very similarly to English. Text can often be translated from Vono Cripta to English, or vice versa, without any change in word order.

Vono Cripta is not gendered. Pronouns differ based on person (I vs. you vs. they) and number (I vs. we) alone.

Apostrophe words
Words that start with an apostrophe, such as 'lo and 'le, are a special class. These words are usually words with special functions such as pronouns, and have unique grammatical rules.

Apostrophe words are always written in lowercase. If one or more of them begins a sentence, the first non-apostrophe word after that will be capitalized instead. For example, the sentence "You are good" would be 'le Meunenst yeron, not 'Le meunenst or 'le meunenst.

Some apostrophe words are modified based on possession and structure, but nothing is currently known about the modification except that it's strange.

Numbers
Vono Cripta has a unique numbering system that does not use numerals, instead using acronyms, hyphens, and slashes alongside words.

Little else is currently confirmed about numbers, as we don't know which number words correspond to which values. We only know there are 12 regular numbers plus a 13th "for special occasions", and words for 11 of them (again, not which numbers they are, just that they are numbers). "aret - brett - gone - lence - mirici/mirci - norm - solos - tern - ull - vectif - yeri"

Names
Influenced by Icelandic, Vono Cripta names are composed of several different parts that give information on the individual’s origin, title/job, and relations. All parts aside from the first name are optional, but have a specific order separated by hyphens:

"[Origin]-First-Last-Middle-(Association)-"

For example:
 * Entropy Mercy, an explorer romantically partnered with Defluo, would have the name Entropy-Mercy-(Defluo)-
 * Star, a Voided Soul originating from the Void and member of the Void Council, would have the name [Void]-Star-(Void Council)-

Words would also be translated into their Vono Cripta equivalents when appropriate. (The given examples are left in English as we don't have the ability to translate them yet.)

If an individual has multiple associations— for example, both an adventuring party and a romantic partner— they decide which one is most significant to them, and that one alone is used for their name.

Known Speakers
• DEAD HAND and their Replicas

• * Magazine

• * Stun

• Defluo

• ETERNITY

• Kore

• Nebula

• Oracle

• Reverse

• SAPRONOSIS

• The Void Council

• * Comet

• * Star

Writings that use Vono Cripta

 * Creation Ceremony poem
 * Message in a Bottle #59
 * Telo Aro!

Useful links

 * Dictionary (collaborative effort by Scrunge/Sludge community members, hosted by Maggy Hue)
 * Newer dictionary/translation document (continuation of above, assembled by mars)