Aoli

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, ni /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
i /ɪ/	oi /ɔ͡ɪ/
ii, ī /i/	ai /a͡ɪ/
e /ə/	ee, ē, ei, ae /e͡ɪ/
u /ə/	uu, ū, eu /u/
o /ə/	oo, ō /ɔ/
a /æ/	aa, ā /a/
ao /ɒ/

Morphology

Nouns

Aoli 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	cun

Verbs

Aoli 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
• isi - so
• i – and
• ja – for
• jū – but
• laja – nor
• ajs – than
• no - that
• bo - yet

Examples:
He listened and pondered.
Grai i'ajatō gasa.