Ælis

General information
Ælis is a philosophical a priori language with the aim to rule out as many grammatical aspects as possible. Nouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs do not exist in a grammatical sense, neither do verb conjugations, tenses, moods or voices. Instead, the focus is on semantical aspects such as agent, patient, action/state, ...

The core units of the language are root words, a few of which have no lexical meaning but a purely grammatical, structural function.

The word "Ælis", in Ælis, means 'peace'. "egælis" means 'harmonic' or 'peaceful language'.

Consonants
The letters used in this table are the ones used for transcribing Ælis with Latin letters.

Alphabet
The alphabet has 21 letters. In alphabetical order:

A Æ (pronounced as "eye") E I O U M N L Q G T D R H S Z P B F V

Phonotactics
The language is built with root words. for which only certain patterns are admissable:

Two letter root words: Three letter root words:
 * 1) CV: ni (woman, female)
 * 2) VC: am (manner, way)
 * 3) VV: ii (target, goal, destination)
 * 1) CVC: lis (concept, idea)
 * 2) CVV: rea (name)