Grammar of Allaganic Languages Pt.1
Allaganic languages are predominantly SVO, although Allagan itself had free word order and was predominantly SOV (while Amaurotine had free word order and placed the topic first (usually with verb-object bonding, so often SOV but also OVS; this later evolved into the Aldenardic passive voice) An exception is Ishgardian, where VOS constructions are permitted with the preposition on. This is a loaned grammatical feature from Dravani (and in fact, so is the particle itself, though its function differs). However, SVO remains the primary word order. Additionally, the Lalafellin languages use strictly SOV.
2. Most Allaganic languages place adjectives (including numerals, negatives, and nouns in the genitive case) after the head, but place them before when forming compound words. This is reflected in the Eorzean word atari, "to do nothing", from a compound of ata + uri. In Nymian, adjectives always precede nouns. 3. Most Allaganic languages have prepositions. However, Nymian shifted, in many cases, to postpositions as its adjective order also switched.
4. The way of marking yes/no questions varies from language to language - in Mhachi and descendants, as well as Hyuran (and thus ultimately Eorzean), a particle is placed at the end of the sentence. In Elezen, it's placed after the verb (except in Padjali, where it's placed at the beginning of the sentence). In Roegadynic, you switch from SVO to VSO. In Garlean, no change is made to the sentence at all, except a change in tone. In the original Allagan, the verb is moved to the front of the sentence (the origin of Roegadynic's word order thing). 5. Auxiliaries are consistently on the other side of a verb compared to its modifiers in Allaganic languages - in most languages including Eorzean, the order is "should go quickly", but in Nymian and Koboldic it's "quickly go should".
