Azimasi

Azimasi
Asimysī
Pronunciation	[æsiməsiː]
Created by	Saqvareli
Date	2024
Setting	Tunisia
Language family	Indo-European Mishic Artonian Azimasi
Early form	Old Azimasi

Azimasi /æziːˈmɑsiː/ (Azimasi: Asimysī [æsiməsiː]) is an Artonian language spoken in Tunisia.

Etymology

Azimasi is from Arabic عزمسي , from Old Azimasi Azīmusij, originally meaning "under the mountain", referring to Aurès.

Phonology

Consonants

Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Dorsal	Glottal
m	n
p	t		k
v /f/	s		ħ	h
w	l	j	y /ɰ/
	r

Vowels

Front	Non-Front
i	y /ə/
e	u /o/
a /æ/	o /ɑ/

All the vowels can be long and are marked with a macron. A lot of the vowel qualities have been influenced by neighboring languages.

Morphology

Nouns

Nouns use a complex system that's based on Old Kurufkuri's (one of the ancestors of Azimasi) system of hard vs soft grades. A lot of nouns behave very chaotically and thus have irregular declensions. Nouns can decline for Nominative and Oblique cases as well as Singular-Plural-Collective numbers.

Pronouns

The main pronouns are: me, tu, ī/i/ih, inu, vu, ī/īo/ih. They can also be prefixed onto verbs (to mark objects) and nouns (to mark possession) as me-, tu-, i-, nu-, vu-, i-.

Verbs

The default lemma form of the word is often the third person form. Third person singular and plural have been merged. The second person singular is unmarked. The past tense has largely been reanalyzed as a *-p- suffix, thus making the system semi-agglutinative.

Adjectives

Adjectives decline like nouns. They can also have comparative and superlative forms.

Particles

Azimasi uses an extensive system of particles to indicate relations of verbs and nouns. For example, instead of the copula, a particle ih is used. Every particle has a negated form. Whenever the sentence is negative, if there is a particle it has to become it's negative form, but if it doesn't have a particle, nih is added.

Syntax

The word order is usually SVO although objects are sometimes marked as prefixes on the verb.

Example texts

Surah Al-Fatihah 1:1-7

Azimasi	English
A ino Ilo, Sīaineīvamyh, Raħovamyh. Imywso ih ȳ Il Synyh y oiyo, Sīaineīvamyh, Raħovamyh, Synyh y Siv y Tain. Tu kyjinyh inu vavoimyh yve Ktu kyjinyh inu istasomyh. Nusuk a Aiyih Aiyih, Aiyih y a, īyh Tu ilatsopa, nīyh Tu syv seh nīyh ih īpuvoh.	In the Name of Allah—the Most Compassionate, Most Merciful. All praise is for Allah—Lord of all worlds, the Most Compassionate, Most Merciful, Master of the Day of Judgment. You alone we worship and You alone we ask for help. Guide us along the Straight Path, the Path of those You have blessed—not those You are displeased with, or those who are astray.