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Revision as of 13:06, 20 October 2015
A language created for personal practice and fun!
Background
Phonology
Consonants
Consonants | |||||||
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Bilabial | Labio-dental | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |
Plosive | p b | t̪ d̪ | t d | k g | ʔ | ||
Fricative | f v | θ ð | s | ç1 ʝ | ɧ2 | h | |
Lateral fri. | ɬ | ||||||
Flap or tap | ⱱ | ɾ |
1. Is in some dialects replaced with the voiceless palato-alveolar sibilant /ʃ/
2. Is in some dialects replaced with the normal velar fricative /x/.
Vowels
Vowels | |||||||
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Front | Central | Back | |||||
Close | i | ɤ | |||||
Open-mid | ɔ | ||||||
Near-open | e̞ | ||||||
Open | a |
The proto-language contains no diphthongs, though several derived languages do.
Phonotactics
Syllabic Structure
C=Consonant
V=Vowel
F=Fricative
P=Plosive
There are three types of syllables in Sast: precursory, subsequent and amalgam. Generally speaking, precursory and subsequent syllables come in pairs, whereas amalgam syllables come on their own. Note how the amalgam syllable is very similar to a precursory-subsequent syllable pair. The hyphen in the subsequent syllable represents a glottal stop, as all subsequent syllables start with one.
- Precursory: (F)CV
- Subsequent: -V((F)P)
- Amalgam: (F)CV((F)P)
Consonant clusters
Certain consonant clusters never occur, due to their difficulty in pronounciation. Others are rare, but still do occur.
Consonant clusters | |||||||||||||||||||||
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p | b | t̪ | d̪ | t | d | k | g | ʔ | f | v | θ | ð | s | ç | ʝ | ɧ | h | ɬ | ⱱ | ɾ | |
p | - | - | - | - | - | - | pk | - | - | pf | pv | pθ | pð | ps | pç | pʝ | pɧ | - | pɬ | - | pɾ |
b | - | - | - | bd̪ | - | - | - | - | - | bf | bv | bθ | bð | bs | bç | bʝ | bɧ | - | bɬ | - | bɾ |
t̪ | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | t̪f | t̪v | t̪θ | t̪ð | t̪s | t̪ç | ||||||
d̪ | |||||||||||||||||||||
t | |||||||||||||||||||||
d | |||||||||||||||||||||
k | |||||||||||||||||||||
g | |||||||||||||||||||||
ʔ | |||||||||||||||||||||
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ɧ | |||||||||||||||||||||
h | |||||||||||||||||||||
ɬ | |||||||||||||||||||||
ⱱ | |||||||||||||||||||||
ɾ |
Orthography
Orthography | |
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IPA | Romanized |
p | P p |
b | B b |
t̪ | Tt tt |
d̪ | Dd dd |
t | T t |
d | D d |
k | K k |
g | G g |
ʔ | - (Hyphen) |
f | F f |
v | V v |
θ | Tz tz |
ð | Th th |
s | S s |
ç | Sh sh |
ʝ | Z z |
ɧ | Sj sj |
h | H h |
ɬ | L l |
ⱱ | W w |
ɾ | R r |
i | I i |
ɤ | U u |
ɔ | O o |
e̞ | E e |
a | A a |
Parts of speech
Nouns
Gender
Sast nouns belong to one of four genders:
- Inanimate - Objects that seem to contain no form of life, like stone.
- Feminine - Animate objects that seem feminine in nature, such as women, or doors.
- Masculine - Animate objects that seem masculine in nature, such as men, or lighthouses.
- Spiritual - Both objects that seem to be supernatural in nature and abstract nouns belong to this gender. Examples being love, fire, or deities.
Nouns inflect differently based on gender, and verbs inflect for the gender of the subject.
Note: the genders need reworking. There are still going to be 4, but I will probably change inanimate to neuter or something like that
Case
Sast nouns are written differently in two cases.
- Nominative
- Accusative
Subjects are written in nominative form, whereas both accusative and dative objects are written in accusative form.
The case of a noun affects its suffix in most cases.
Generally, the accusative contains fricatives, while the nominative does not. This is however not always the case.
Note that there is no genetive form, but rather a genitive particle. This is covered in the adverbials section.
Number
Noun suffixes | ||||||
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Gender↓ | Case & Number | |||||
Nominative | Accusative | |||||
Singular | Dual | Plural | Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Inanimate | - | -ad | -at | -a | -ab | -ap |
Feminine | -u | -udd | -usjk | -usht | -ushd | -ilk |
Masculine | -usk | -usg | -isk | -isg | ||
Spiritual | -e | -eg | -ef | -efg |
Pronouns
Personal pronouns
Personal pronouns | ||||||||||
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Case | Gender | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | ||||||
Singular | Dual | Plural | Singular | Dual | Plural | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||
Subject | Inanimate | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | Tte | Di | Ddi |
Feminine | Sha | Zki | Sku | Za-a | Du-i | Di-i | Vzo-i | Tzshi | Tatt | |
Masculine | ||||||||||
Spiritual | ||||||||||
Object | Inanimate | |||||||||
Feminine | ||||||||||
Masculine | ||||||||||
Spiritual |
Interogative and relative pronouns
Indefinite pronouns
Verbs
Adjectives
Adverbs
Particles
As particles are much more situational they will not displayed in a table, but rather be listed and explained.
The relative particle
To mark the beginning of of a noun clause
Syntax
Sast is an SOV language, meaning the subject is followed by the object, and last comes the verb.
- Example: I am following him -> I him following
Adverbials are always added after the word that they are modifying.
- Example: I am following him with courage -> I him following with courage.
Noun clauses are formed using the relative particle "la" to mark the start of a noun clause and the end particle "tza" to end it.
- Example: I think that following people is wrong -> I "la" people following "tza" wrong is.
Subordinate clauses
Adverbials
Noun clauses
Derivational morphology
Derivations are done using either suffixes or infixes before the last syllable.
Nouns
- Verb-to-noun is done by infixing "asj" before the last syllable.
- Adjective-to-noun is done by suffixing "ash".
- Maker, implying the doer of an action or the maker of an object is done by infixing "ttip".