Aasti

Âsti
Pronounced:	/'ɑsti/
Timeline and Universe:	Aarð, Ancient Times
Species:	Human
Spoken:	Âstâl (The Eastland)
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.

Âsti is the language of the peoples of Âstâl, often referred to as the Aasti tribes. It is a fluid-S language, and uses SOV (Subject-Object-Verb) word order, meaning that the normal form of the sentence He saw her would be rendered as *He her saw.

Script

For our purposes, Âsti will be written using the Latin alphabet. (Note: Because the (mostly illeterate) speakers of the language live in a world where the Latin alphabet does not exist, in the rare cases that Âsti is written down by a native speaker, an adaptation of the common Ðanmarc Alphabet is used.) The general rules of pronunciation follow:

• a

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