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: neuter and common. The feminine and neuter genders from Haoli merged and the masculine become the common gender.

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
  • 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

Articles

Articles
Gender Article Singular Plural
Neuter Definite von vono
Indefinite con cono
Common Definite ven
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 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