Ælis

Preliminary Remarks

 * The text on this wiki is interlaced with the proper Ælis conscript. However, it seems that not all browsers allow embedding of non-installed fonts. If both texts on the right appear identical to you, then it seems proper scripts aren't supported in your browser. If the upper row shows a writing that you don't know, you're good to go.


 * A note on the use of the apostrophe: the author will sometimes use an apostrophe in bracketed Romanisations of Ælis words (e.g.: lA2tE  [la'ete]) to remind the reader that both sounds are to be pronounced separately. The apostrophe is not a part of correct orthography but merely a pronunciation guideline. It can be omitted.

Ideology
 hAnWnA4rAsAiA2tE (Welcome!) k1lISK (transcribed as "Ælis"; IPA transcription ['ɑɛ̯.lis]; pronounced in English as "eye-liss") is a constructed a priori language with a very particular approach on grammar. One of its purposes is to be an artlang, aesthetically pleasing to both the ear and the eye. It is probable that any speaker native to any language group in the world would have to make about the same effort learning the language, which advocates its candidacy as a future IAL. More than anything, however, Ælis is an experimental and philosophical language with the aim to incite anyone who comes near to start exploring the boundaries of human grammar, inviting them to contemplate about alternative grammatical models to the ones they grew up with. Especially aficionados of theoretical linguistics will like to take a look under the hood and find out how a language can function without nouns, adjectives, verbs or adverbs in a grammatical sense; without verb conjugations, inflections, declensions, tenses, moods, voices or tones; with a completely free intonation and virtually no rules for emphasis in general; with a free word order; and all of this in continuous writing (i.e. no spaces to divide words and no punctuation to separate clauses and sentences). The Ælis grammar is not easier, nor is it more difficult than Western patterns. It is simply very different. And if you know that Ælis means as much as 'harmony' or 'peace' in the language itself, who wouldn't fall in love?

Dig in!

Example text
Listen to the voice recording:  lA2tEuE3rA lAeMlWiRaNeAnA4rAiW tA hAnA4rAiArEiAvW2tE tA iRaMdI3rAhA1lISiRiIaNdA2rA tA iRaNlWlA2tEhAdI4rAiWhAaSdA4rA tA iRaNtEiRaNeAnA4rA tA iRaMdI3rAiA6tEiRaSqA4rAdOhAqAnA3rA tA hAiInA3rAiAlWhAnA1rAlA6tEiWlA2tE tA iAlWhAnA1rAiA6tEiWlA6tE tA iA6tEhAaQ4rAhAvWqA4rAeInA1rA hAvWqA4rAnA1rA tA iRaMdI3rA. (The Lord's Prayer) 