Aasti

Aasti
Pronounced:	/'asti/
Timeline and Universe:	Aarð, Ancient Times
Species:	Human
Spoken:	Ka Aastaala (The Eastlands)
Total speakers:	30,000 (approx.)
Writing system:	Ðanmarc
Genealogy:	Aasti Group Aasti (Proto-Aasti)
Typology
Morphological type:	Inflecting
Morphosyntactic alignment:	Fluid-S
Basic word order:	SVO
Credits
Creator:	Navidel
Created:	June 6, 2007

Aasti is the language of the peoples of Ka Aastaala, often referred to as the Aasti tribes. It is a split-S language, and has 6 vowels: Aa, a, e, i, o, and u. E, i, o, and u are used as their IPA equivalents, while aa (spelled a at the end of words) represents /a/ and a represents /æ/. When found finally, a is always followed by an h, a letter which is (almost) always silent in the language. The Ðanmarc alphabet is used as follows to write Aasti:

Script

Hh - Hatc is always silent except at the beginnings of words, where it represents /h/. It is also used after c and g to keep them hard before front vowels and after a finally to show that it represents /æ/.

Mm - Mē /m/

Nn - Nē /n/

Ŋŋ - Ŋē /ŋ/

Ee - E /ɛ/

Bb - Be /b/

Ēē - Ē /e/

Vv - Va /v/

Pp - Pa /p/

Gg - Gi /g/ (/ʒ/ before front vowels unless followed by h)

Ff - Fi /f/

Tt - To /t/

Oo - O /o/

Dd - Do /d/

Kk - Ka is not used

Rr - Ra /r/

Aa - A /æ/ is doubled for aa (pronounced as /a/, as the single letter is finally)

Ww - Wa /w/

Ss - Sa /s/

Zz - Zē /z/

Ii - I /i/

Cc - Ci /k/ (/ʃ/ before front vowels unless followed by h)

Jj - Ji /ʒ/ (used only before back vowels and consonants in loanwords)

Ðð - Þa /θ/ is transcribed as þ

Uu - U /u/

Yy - Yog /j/

Šš - Ša /ʃ/ (used only before back vowels and consonants in loanwords, this letter is actually c with a diacritic and is not found in the standard Ðanmarc alphabet)

• The diphthong ea represents the equivalent of ēaa.
• Note: The Aasti alphabet is very similar to the adaptation of the Ðanmarc alphabet used for transcribing Xolcti.

Grammar

Nouns

    N    A
SN      -ē
PL  -a  -o
SP  -ez -ēz
PP  -u  -u

• N = nominative; A = accusative
• SN = singular; PL = plural; SP = singular possessive; PP = plural possessive

Verbs

          PF   PR
F   -aav -av  -am
PR  -aaz -az  -an
P   -ēg  -eg  -eŋ

• PF = perfect; PR = progressive
• F = future; PR = present; P = past

Basic Pronouns

• Va: I
• Ti: We (exclusive)
• Zi: We (inclusive)
• Da: You (singular)
• Ri: You (plural)
• Pa: He
• Sa: She
• Ca: [E]*
• Ta: It
• Ci: They

• Note: English has no exact equivalent to Aasti Ca, which is a third person singular pronoun of indefinite gender (sometimes a singular they is used to informally fill this gap).