Aasti

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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 always silent in the language. The Ðanmarc alphabet is used as follows to write Aasti:

Hh - Hatc is always silent

Mm - /m/

Nn - /n/

Ŋŋ - Ŋē /ŋ/

Ee - E is not used

Bb - Be /b/

Ēē - Ē /e/ is transcribed as e in the Latin alphabet for convenience, since Ðanmarc e is not used

Vv - Va /β/

Pp - Pa /p/

Gg - Gi /g/

Ff - Fi /φ/

Tt - To /t/

Oo - O /o/

Dd - Do /d/

Kk - Ka /k/

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 - /z/

Ii - I /i/

Cc - Ci /ʃ/

Jj - Ji /ʒ/

Ðð - Þa /θ/ is transcribed as þ

Uu - U /u/

Yy - Yog /j/