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Levels of formality

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There are 3 levels of formality in quxha'nox:

  1. INFORMAL: everyday speech used when talking/writing to someone casually.

  2. FORMAL: polite speech used for people you respect or people you wouldn't speak casually to.

  3. HONORIFIC: very rarely used - for talking/writing to people with an official royal rank higher than you.

These formality levels are shown in imperative (command) particles as well as in common social vocabulary, like 'please, sorry, excuse me, etc)

In a gloss, formality in an imperative particle would be shown as '.i' for informal, '.f' for formal, and '.h' for honorific; for example '[IMP.h]' would be an honorific-formality imperative particle, the same goes for common social vocabulary.

honorific: .h

formal: .f

informal: .i

formal and honorific: .hf

informal and formal: .fi