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Asaari | |
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Lha asáari, Asáari | |
Pronunciation | [/ɬa at͡sá͜aʀɪ/] |
Created by | – |
Native to | United States of America |
Native speakers | 21,020 (2012) |
Lhisan
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Early form | |
Dialects |
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Official status | |
Regulated by | Tsárapi áyasáari |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-1 | as |
ISO 639-2 | aas |
ISO 639-3 | aas |
Lha asáari, or simply Asáari, Asaari /at͡sá͜aʀɪ/ is a language spoken in the eastern United States of America. It is not known to be related to any extant language and is thus a language isolate. The name, Lha asáari /ɬa at͡sá͜aʀɪ/ simply means "the ocean blue language", or "the language that is ocean blue".
Asaari is a heavily agglutinating or polysynthetic language, with a complex verbal morphology. The language has repeatedly been analysed as lacking nouns and adjectives altogether, in favour of verbs. Asaari is a tonal language with a limited vowel inventory, and an extensive array of consonants.
The language is being constructed by Waahlis to represent is fierce love for tones, voiceless consonants, and the voiceless lateral fricative.
Phonology
Consonants
Bilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Uvular | Glottal | |||
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central | central | lateral | ||||||
Nasals | voiceless | mh /m̥/ | nh /n̥/ | |||||
voiced | m /m/ | n /n/ | ||||||
Stops | ejective | p' /pʼ/ | t' /tʼ/ | q /qʼ/ | ||||
voiceless | p /p/ | t /t/ | q /q/ | ' /ʔ/ | ||||
Affricates | ejective | ts' /t͡sʼ/ | tl' /tɬ'/ | tsh' /t͡ɕʼ/ | ||||
voiceless | ts /t͡s/ | tl /t͡ɬ/ | tsh /t͡ɕ/ | |||||
Fricatives | voiceless | ph /ɸ ~ pɸ/ | th /θ ~ tθ/ | s /s ~ ts/ | lh /ɬ/ | sh /ç ~ ɕ/ | h /χ ~ x/ | |
Approximant | l /l/ | y /j/ | r /ʁ ~ ʀ/ |