User:Ponzai/Sast

A language created for personal practice and potential inclusion in the Conglomera project.

Phonology

Consonants

Consonants
	Bilabial	Labio-dental	Dental	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Plosive	p b		t̪ d̪	t d		k g
Fricative		f v	θ ð	s	ç ʝ	ɧ1	h
Lateral fri.				ɬ
Flap or tap		ⱱ		ɾ

1. Is in some dialects replaced with the normal velar fricative /x/.

Vowels

Vowels
	Front	Central	Back
Close	i	ɨ
Open-mid			ɔ
Near-open	æ
Open	a

The proto-language contains no diphthongs, though several derived languages do.

Phonotactics

Syllabic Structure

C=Consonant
V=Vowel
F=Fricative
P=Plosive
All syllables have the following structure

• (F)C(V)V((F)P)

Orthography

Orthography
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
f	F f
v	V v
θ	Tz tz
ð	Th th
s	S s
ç	Ss ss
ʝ	Z z
ɧ	Sj sj
h	H h
ɬ	L l
ⱱ	W w
ɾ	R r
i	I i
ɨ	U u
ɔ	O o
æ	E e
a	A a

Grammar

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.

Number

Noun suffixes
Gender↓	Case
	Nominative			Accusative
	Singular	Dual	Plural	Singular	Dual	Plural
Inanimate	-	-ad	-at	-a	-ab	-ap
Feminine	-u	-udd	-usjk
Masculine	-usk	-usg
Spiritual

Adjectives

Adverbs Particles Derivational morphology