Len Lango de Ásinaro

Setting
Asinarian (Len Lango de Ásinaro (Asinara's Language)) is spoken on an island off the northwestern coast of Sardinia in the Mediterranian Sea. It has influences from French, Spanish, and other Romance languages. This island is called Len Izlo de Ásinaro in Corcian. about 500 people speak Asinarian. Much of its noun declension comes from French, Spanish and Italian.

Phonology
The Phonology of Asinaran is a combination of French, German, Italian, and Spanish with a few Corsican influences, too.

Phonotactics
1. C in front of a vowel is devoiced to /s/. In front of I or E it is pronounced /tʃ/.

2. Any vowel in front of M or N is nazalized.

3. G in front of A, or U is pronounced /ɣ/, in front of I, or E it is pronounced /k/, everywhere else it is pronounced /g/.

4. S after voiced consonants or A, O, or U is pronounced /z/, everywhere else it is pronounced /s/.

5. Z after voiceless consonants or I, or E is pronounced /s/, everywhere else it is pronounced /z/.

6. H is silent at the start of a word or after a vowel.

7. Y is pronounced /j/ before or after a vowel, /i/ before or after a voiced consonant and /y/ before or after an unvoiced consonant.

Nouns
Nouns are conjugated according to gender and number and, like French and Spanish, are not conjugated by any case.

Posessive Nouns
Posessive Nouns are declined by taking the direct object, putting it before the subject, and adding "de (of)" in between them.

Example: The man's dog.

Len Pero dele Hambro (The dog of the man.)

Demonymic Nouns
Nouns are made into demonyms by adding suffixes.

Example: He is Estonian

Ell es Estonuuo.

Example: That is Acadian snow.

El es nebe Acadya.

Dimunitive Forms
To intensify a dimunitive you add "trîis (very)" before the noun.

Example: The boy, The little boy, The very little boy

Len chico, Len chicagno, Len trîis chicagno

Pronouns
Pronouns are declined according to person and gender.

Example: We are going to the store.

Nòu vo alla magacina.

Possessive Pronouns
Unlike in other romance languages there are no possessive adjectives, only possessive pronouns.

Ex: Our dog's fur is soft.

Len pelcio de nòun cano es suva.

Adjectives
Adjectives take on the gender and number of the noun or pronoun.

Example: He is short and fat.

Est brevo at gurdo.

Example: They are ugly.

Eso sun fo.

Proper Adjectives
Proper adjectives are always capitalized. The noun being described is also capitalized. A Proper adjective always derives from a proper noun, but when it is an adjective it will take the gender of the noun it describes and not the noun it derives from.

Example: The Irish man has red hair.

Len Irenes Hambro tegne capille pelire.

Adpositions
Adpositions function very similar to adpositions in Spanish. Most adpositions are prepositions. There are two postposition and one circumposition.

There are only two simple postpositions, the rest are prepositions.

Prepositions
A - To, at, into

Alle - To the (Masculine), at the (Masculine)

Ale - To the (Feminine), at the (Feminine)

Alle ludo de - Next to

Alle comparo de - Compared to

Alle partur de - Upwards of, starting from

Anta - Before

Après - After

A travis - Through, across

Bal - Under

Curco/a de - Near

Cumo/a - As, like

Cum - with; of, containing (Un basquo cum oga)

Con - against (not in a physical sense as in "The man is against the wall." but in "He went against my idea."

Contre - against (in a physical sense)

Da - from

De - of; made of (used to make compounds)

Dem - (in time expressions), by, in the (in the day, evening, etc)

Dele - of the, in the, from the

D'la - feminine form of "Dele"

Des - from, since (used in place of "De" when stressing notion of movement, or with times, prices and values)

Dietro - Behind

Durant - During, before

Enn - in, on, at

Enn lòun de - Instead of

Enn mediu de - In the middle of

Enn Ezterioir - Outside, outdoors

Entre - Between, Among

Hasto - Until, up to

Pour - (In time phrases) Around, by

Pour - For: expressing destination, direction, recipient ("brought it for me"), opinion ("for me, it seems...")

Par - For: in most other senses ("because of', 'on behalf of', 'in exchange for/per', 'to the value of', 'instead of')

Sega - Depending on, according to

San - Without, -less

Tram de - Behind, from behind

Vîs - (Indicating place) Via, through, throughout, around

Vîs-a-Vîs - Towards

Postpositions
A por - in search of Example: "Nòu vo mins cano a por. ( I am looking for/in search of my dog. lit. I am my dog in search of.)

Ezterie da - Out of Example: Min vena Âfrique ezterie da. ( I came out of Africa. lit. I came Africa out of.)

Circumpositions
Enn...a - Onto Example: Eso salato enn len titlo a. (They climbed onto the roof. lit. They climbed on the roof to.)

Verbs
Verbs are conjugated according to 3 basic tenses.

Infinitive -izre
Infinitive verbs end with -izre

Present (Presîim)
Finite verbs are conjugated to person

To be (Ezistizre) in the present form

Mi ezistiso - I am

Tû ezistim - You are

Ell, Ella, El ezisti - He, she, it is

Nòu ezistsome - We are

Vòu ezistîsa - You are (plural)

Eso, Esa, Es ezista - They are

Imperfect (Imperfeit)
Mi ezistain - I was, I used to be

Tû ezistias - You were, You used to be

Ell, Ella, El ezistabo - He, she, it was, used to be

Nòu ezistiera - We were, We used to be

Vòu ezistierez - You were, You used to be (plural)

Eso, Esa, Es eziston - They were, they used to be

Future (Futero)
Mi ezistae - I will be

Tû ezistizêras - You will be

Ell, Ella, El ezistaa - He, she, it will be

Nòu ezistizau - We will be

Vòu ezistizuuir - You will be (plural)

Eso, Esa, Es ezistizon - They will be

Preterite (Passe Simplê)
Mi ezistuve - I was

Tû ezistes - You were

Ell, Ella, El ezista - He, she, it was

Nòu ezistámes - We were

Vòu ezistimes - You were (plural)

Eso, Esa, Es ezistiron - They were