Aasti

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

Note on transliteration in this article: This article makes use of two distinct transliteration schemes for the Âsti language. While older sections of the article employ the double vowel ("aa") scheme, newer areas are transliterated by the circumflex ("â") scheme. By the time the edit is finished, this discrepancy should be resolved.

Aasti is the language of the peoples of Ka Aastaala, often referred to as the Aasti tribes. It is a fluid-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 string ea is an exception to the usual rules of pronunciation, and is said as 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).
• The forms shown here are subject forms. Objects are formed by changing the final a to an o, or i to ē. Possessive pronouns are formed by adding a final -r.

See Also

Aasti at Langmaker