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, notably IE and Firefox. Chrome and Safari seem to have no problems rendering the conscript. Please bear this in mind while reading if your browser does not support this feature.


 * 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 [Ælis] 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. But more than anything, 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.

Dig in!

Example text
 lA2tEuE3rA lAeMaNeAnArAtA hAnA4rAiArEAiAvW2tEtA iRaMdI3rAhA1lISiRiIaN3rAtA iRaNlWlA2tEhAdI4rAiWhAaSdA4rAtA iRaNtEiRaNeAnA4rAtA iRaMdI3rAiA6tEiRaSqA4rAdOhAqAnA3rAtA hAiInA3rAiAlWhAnA1rAlA6tEiWlA2tEtA iAlWhAnA1rAiA6tEiWlA6tEtA iA6tEhAaQ4rAhAvWqArAeInA1rA hAvWqA4rAnA1rAtA iRaMdI3rA. (The Lord's Prayer)