Aol
Phonology
Consonants
| Bilabial | Labiodental | Dental | Alveolar | Post Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | voiceless | p /p/ | t /t/ | k /k/ | |||||
| voiced | b /b/ | d /d/ | g /g/ | ||||||
| Nasal | m /m/ | n /n/ | nj /ɲ/ | ||||||
| Trill | r /r/ | ||||||||
| Fricative | Normal | voiceless | f /f/ | þ /θ/ | s /s/ | c /ʃ/ | |||
| voiced | v /v/ | ð /ð/ | gh /ɣ/ | ||||||
| Lengthened | voiceless | ff /fː/ | ss /sː/ | ||||||
| voiced | vv /vː/ | ||||||||
| Approximant | j /j/ | ||||||||
| Lateral Approximant | l /l/ | ||||||||
Vowels
| Monophthongs | Diphthongs |
|---|---|
| y /ɪ/ | oi /ɔ͡ɪ/ |
| i /i/ | ai /a͡ɪ/ |
| e /ə/ | ei /e͡ɪ/ |
| u /u/ | aa /a/ |
| o /ɔ/ | |
| a /æ/ | |
| ao /ɒ/ |
Morphology
Nouns
Aol Nouns decline for case, gender, and number.
Gender
Gender in Aoli pertains to how the plural is formed as well as how it is declined. Aoli articles do have gender agreement with the constituent noun. Aoli has two genders: feminine and masculine. The neuter gender from Haoli was absorbed into the feminine.
Plurals
Aoli plurals are formed by suffixes or ablaut.
Pronouns
| Pronouns | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Person | Feminine | Masculine | |
| First Person | jan | jana | |
| Second Person | gas | gasa | |
| Third Person | ed | eda | |
Declension
Basic Cases
- Nominative
- Accusative
- Dative
- Malefactive
- Adverbial
- Vocative
- Contrastive
- Genitive
Oblique Cases
- Translative
- Exessive
- Essive
- Instrumental
- Prolative
Locative Cases
Internal
- Innesive
- Hyperessive
- Illative
- Hyperlative
- Elative
- Hyper-elative
- Supraperlative
- Hyperlative
- Perlative
Traversal
- Lative
- Superlative
- Prosecutive
- Terminative
Exodal
- Ablative
- Antessive
- Delative
- Eblative
Relational
- Superessive
- Supraessive
- Comitative
- Pertingent
- Apudessive
- Enclosive
- Forbative
- Locative
- Bative
- Transversive
- Circumfrentive
- Situative
- Abessive
- Intrative
- Subessive
Temporal Cases
- Temporal
- Temporal-lative
- Temporal-hyper-transversive
- Temporal-terminative
- Temporal-hyperbative
Articles
| Articles | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Gender | Article | Singular | Plural |
| Feminine | Definite | ven | |
| Indefinite | cen | ||
| Masculine | Definite | van | vana |
| Indefinite | cen | ||
Verbs
Aol Verbs conjugate for tense and mood.
Negation
Aoli uses the circumfix ro VERB an. The /o/ is dropped if the verb begins with a vowel. This construction comes from the negation circumposition in Haoli.
Example:
The flower is not black.
Reiþan ast vet.
Tense
- Present
- Imperfect
- Future
- Pluperfect
Mood
- Indicative
- Interrogative
- Subjunctive
- Conditional
- Imperative
- Jussive
- Opative
- Quotative
Pre-Affixal Clitic Conjunctions
- aja – or
- ysy - so
- i – and
- ja – for
- ju – but
- laja – nor
- ajs – than
- no - that
- bo - yet
Examples:
He listened and pondered.
Grai i'ajado gasa.
Numbers
Each digit 1-11 are written as the first consonant that appears in the word, zero is represented by the symbol used for terminating sentences and the decimal is represented by the symbol used to divide text into sections. The mathematical operators: +, *, ^, -, / are represented by the vowels: a, e, i, o, u respectively.
| Aoloð Mar (Aol Numbers) | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 |
| mydad | eð | ged | ar | negh | ot | vad | jed | njol | reso | boi | of |
| 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 |
| eðev | eðueð | eðeged | eðar | eðenegh | eðuot | eðevad | eðeid | eðenjol | eðereso | eðeboi | eðuof |
| 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 |
| gedev | geded | gedged | gedar | gednegh | gedot | gedvad | gedjed | gednjol | gedreso | gedboi | gedof |
| 12 | 24 | 36 | 48 | 60 | 72 | 84 | 96 | 108 | 120 | 132 | 144 |
| edev | gedev | arav | neghev | otev | vadav | jedev | njolov | resov | boiv | ofev | eðec |
| 1*12^12 | 2*12^12 | 3*12^12 | 4*12^12 | 5*12^12 | 6*12^12 | 7*12^12 | 8*12^12 | 9*12^12 | 10*12^12 | 11*12^12 | 12*12^12 |
| eðec | gedec | arac | neghec | otec | vadac | jedec | njoloc | resoc | boic | ofec | eðeb |