Azien

Azien is the language that has developed in Australia after the Apocalypse in 2064.

Setting
Azien is believed to have started developing as a unique language approximately 40-70 years after the Apocalypse due to its isolation to other English speaking communities. Being derived from Enlish, it is fairly mutually intelligible; however, it also takes vocabulary from many slang words and other languages believed to have been spoken in Australia. Its grammer is also different and in some ways simpler than that of English. Certain aspects of the grammar have also been influenced by Japanese, specifically the presence of particles for marking a noun's role in a sentence.

Vowels
Monophthongs

Diphthongs

Consonants
1 The Alveolar approximant is usually not labialized like in English

Consonant Clusters
The following are acceptable combinations of consonants:
 * The following fricative/approximant
 * fl
 * vl
 * fr
 * vr
 * Any stop/approximant (ones including w are rare, however)
 * The following stop/fricative
 * cs pronounced as a voiceless postalveolar affricate /t͡ʃ/
 * pf NOT an affricate

Verbs
Verbs are not conjugated, with one exception (the verb "te" meaning "to be"). Instead, the subject is stated, then the verb, then a time particles indicating one of the following tenses: Simple past, simple present, simple future, past perfect, present perfect, future perfect, past progressive, and imperfective (present/future progressive or habitual actions).

Verb forms
Verbs can take three forms:
 * Simple, infinitive state - start with a "t", e.g. "toin" means "to eat". Verbs can take two other forms:
 * Participle form - start with a k, e.g. "koin" means "eaten". Note that these only function as modifiers.
 * Free or "bare" form - do not start with anything and are combined with a time particle and a subject to indicate an action, e.g. "oin" means "eat", "eats", "ate", "will eat", etc. depending on the time particle and subject.

The only verb that is conjugated is the verb "te" meaning "to be", and it is only conjugated according to the subject. Use the appropriate time particles to indicate tense. Note that in casual speech the verb is often not used, and the subject and time particle are only given and the verb is implied.

Conjugation for the verb "te":

Time Particles
1Note: Sometimes in informal speech the simple present marker is omitted.

Nouns
Nouns (except when referring to people) do not have gender, and are not declined. Case is marked either with a preposition, particle, or indicated by word order.

The subject of a verb (nominative case) always comes directly before the verb
 * e.g. "I eat" = "Au oin da"

The direct object (accusative case) and indirect object (dative case) usually follow the verb, in any order, and are marked by the particles "ve" and "ta" respectively. The particles directly follow the noun.
 * e.g. "I threw you the ball" = "Au caiva ye te he bal va" where "ye" (you) is the indirect object and "he bal" (the ball) is the direct object.
 * "I threw you the ball" could also be written as "Au caiva he bal va ye te"

A noun in the Vocative case goes at the beginning of a sentence and separated by commas. e.g. "John (Csan), you are a cat" = "Csan, ye tei da o kata ve"

All other cases are handled with appropriate prepositions as in English and placed in a logical location in the sentence, usually after the verb/noun to which it relates (syntax rules are very loose in Azien).

Pronouns
There are five different types of pronouns in Azien; Personal, possesive, demonstrative/relative, interrogative, and indefinite.

Personal pronouns
Personal pronouns refer to anything in any case (i.e. there is no distinction between a pronoun acting as a subject, like "I", or as a direct object, like "me"). The following is a table of personal pronouns:

Note that Azien has two genders, a male/neuter gender (like English "he" and "it") and a female gender (like English "she").

Adjectives and Adverbs
Azien is head-final, meaning that all adjectives are placed before the noun. If an adverb is modyfying an adjective or another adverb, then it is placed before the word it is modifying; if an adverb is modifying a verb, it is placed directly after the time particle (with any adverbs modifying it before).
 * e.g.