Ástralic

Ástralic is a conlang made by Requiem Seven for his/her YouTube channel. It is a lingua franca, designed to be an official language of Australia, and its name could transliterate as "Australian".

Orthography and Phonology
There are 34 letters in the Ástralic alphabet (accented vowels count as separate letters). The language's alphabet is notorious for bringing back the letters "Ð" and "Þ" into the English speaking language group. The language can be typed with a standard Icelandic keyboard.

The names of the letters are indeclinable.

All letters are pronounced accordingly with no exceptions. All letters apart from "ð" and "q" can be used as initial letters, so their capital forms are usually only seen in whole-word capitalisation.

Lexicon and Etymology
Words in Ástralic, as in English, derive from many different language families, and different forms of the same word is used in different contexts. There are three major ones: the Germanic, the Latin and the Greek forms.

Germanic Form
This form is usually used in general conversation and everyday talk. This is really informal speech and is used with people the speaker has a strong connection with, such as friends, family or soul-mates.

Latin Form
This form is usually used for political purposes and in meetings or discussions.

Grammar
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Unlike its well known ancestor (English), the grammar for Ástralic is very complex.

Pronouns, Nouns and Adjectives have seven genders:


 * Male
 * Female
 * Neuter
 * Masculine
 * Feminine
 * Object
 * Abstract

They also have six cases:


 * Nominative
 * Accusative
 * Dative
 * Genitive
 * Vocative
 * Instrumental

Verbs and Adverbs have three tenses:


 * Past
 * Present
 * Future

They also conjugate into:


 * First Person
 * Second Person
 * Third Person M (Male/Masculine)
 * Third Person F (Female/Feminine)
 * Third Person N (Neuter/Object/Abstract)

There are also:


 * Past, Present and Future Participles
 * Imperative Singular and Plural
 * Infinitive

but these only conjugate the verb and not the adverb.

Pronoun Declension
Because pronouns are used all the time, they are irregular in comparison to nouns.

Noun and Adjective Declension
To make up for having so many cases and genders, both the noun and adjective declensions are the same. This means that it is up to context to decide which word is the noun and which is the adjective, but the adjectives usually precede the nouns unless for poetic purposes.

The comparative and superlative forms of adjectives and adverbs are formed by adding "-or" and "-ost" before declining the word.

The regular declensions are in the table below (plurals are in brackets).

To help remember them:


 * Male and Masculine use the same letter, Male uses the accent. Same for Female/Feminine and Neuter/Object. In other words, animate nouns (people and animals) use the accent, inanimate nouns (plants and objects) do not.
 * Dative always ends with "m", Genitive with "z", and Vocative with "ó".
 * Dative is Accusative with "m" after it, Genitive is Nominative with "z" after it, and Instrumental is Accusative with an "n" before it.
 * Plural "r" comes before Dative "m", Genitive "z" and Instrumental "ó".

The definite and indefinite articles both decline as above, except in the Nominative Abstract which ends with "y".

Conjugation of "béjy"
The word "béjy", or "to be", is an auxiliary verb used all the time in Ástralic as it is in English. Be cause of this, the conjugation of the verb is irregular.

Verb and Adverb Conjugation
As the noun and adjective declensions are the same, the verb and adverb conjugations are similar.

The regular conjugations are in the table below (adverbs are in square brackets).

Adverbs also decline to agree with their adjective's case. Adverbs decline like Abstract Nouns with a "ý" instead of "y", including the Nominative.

Example
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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 1:

''All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.''

'''Álér húmanbéjiqér ýr born frér ad ékwálér in dignitiny ad réhtnyr. Þér ýr endówað wið résonym ad konscénsym ad skuda akty tówárds unérm ynáðrérm in ny spiritny áb bróðréhódyz. '''



Lexicon
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Word List English-Australian
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A
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 * 1) after - conj, prep: aftýr [+nom]; adv. [ind], pref: aftrý-
 * 2) and - ad
 * 3) appear - v: appáry

B
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 * 1) be - aux. v: béjy
 * 2) because - conj: ás, bikás; - "because of" prep: bikás [+gen]
 * 3) but - conj: but
 * 4) by - conj: bí

I
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 * 1) impossible - adj. GER: unkanbárr; LAT: impossibil

L
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 * 1) let - v. GER: laty; when used as an imperative, the order of words is changed slightly: the second verb is placed at the start in the Future Participle, and the pronoun is place after in the Vocative Case. To say "let's go!" for example is "gówul osó!", or "let me have it!" is "havul méjó yt!".
 * 2) l -

Word List Australian-English
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Nouns are written in the Nominative form. Adjectives are written in the Nominative Abstract form, as the declension has no ending. Verbs and Adverbs are written in the Infinitive form. Nouns which have multiple genders depending on context are marked with an asterisk (*).

A
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 * 1) ad - and
 * 2) appáry - v: to appear
 * 3) a -

Á
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 * 1) -ábil - pref. [makes adj.] LAT: -able, -ible; the "á" changes to "i" depending on the verb root, and the "i" is usually omitted when declining (i.e. gen. sg. NEU = -ábléz) GER. variant: see -bárr
 * 2) ál* - adj: all; - n. UNI: all of it, all, everyone (MLE/FML), everything (NEU)
 * 3) ás - conj: as, since, because
 * 4) ásé* - n. ANI: ass (animal = NEU, person = MLE/FML)
 * 5) á -

B
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 * 1) batál - n. ABS: battle
 * 2) -bárr - pref. [makes adj.] GER: -able, -ible; the second "r" is usually omitted when declining (i.e. gen. sg. NEU = -báréz) LAT. variant: see -ábil
 * 3) béjy - aux. v: to be
 * 4) but - conj: but
 * 5) b -

C
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 * 1) c -

D
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 * 1) dáh - n. ABS: day
 * 2) déjy - v: to die
 * 3) dówy - aux. v: to do
 * 4) d -

E
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 * 1) e -

É
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 * 1) éty - v: to eat
 * 2) é -

F
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 * 1) findy - v: to find
 * 2) f -

G
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 * 1) gáhny - v: to gain
 * 2) gáme - n. OBJ: game
 * 3) grén - n. ABS: green
 * 4) grýn - adj: green
 * 5) g -

H
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 * 1) hýry - v: to hear
 * 2) h -

I
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 * 1) -ibil - pref. see -ábil
 * 2) -ifjy - pref. [makes causative of v.] LAT/GER: -ify; the "jy" changes to "í" in conjugated forms. (hí -ifídac, -ifíc, -ifíluc = he -ified, -ifies, will -ify)


 * 1) i -

K
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 * 1) képy - v: to keep; - "onképy ...iq" phrase: to keep on ...ing
 * 2) k -

M
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 * 1) magnificent - adj: magnificent
 * 2) m -

O
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 * 1) offendy - v. LAT: to offend, GER. variant: see tóstríky
 * 2) o -

S
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 * 1) scadów - n. ABS. [irr]: shadow
 * 2) scam - n. ABS: shame
 * 3) scamy - v. to shame
 * 4) scád - n. ABS: shade
 * 5) scády - v. to shade
 * 6) só - conj: so
 * 7) s -

T
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 * 1) tóstríky - v. GER: to offend; the Germanic form is derived from the Latin form's literal meaning: offendō = ob- (to[wards], tó-) + fendō (to strike, stríky) LAT. variant: see offendy
 * 2) t -

Þ
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 * 1) þiq - n. ABS: thing
 * 2) þrúw - adv, adj. [ind], prep. [+dat]: through, [+ins] through(out), within
 * 3) þy* - art. UNI: the
 * 4) þ -

V
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 * 1) vjolent - adj: violent
 * 2) v -

W
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 * 1) wálky - v: to walk
 * 2) w -

Y
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 * 1) y* - art. UNI: a, some
 * 2) ygén - adv. [ind]: again
 * 3) y -