Asitane

General information
This is a work in progress. More to come later.

Vowels
Vowels are distinguished by length, short and long.

Orthography
The residents of Asitane during this period had no writing system. I will thus use the Latin alphabet with the following correspondence: Long vowels are represented by a doubled vowel.

Phonotactics Syllables adhere to the pattern CV(N), where N is any consonant except plosives and /ɹ/. Vowels may be short or long.

Mutations:
 * A bilabial consonant in the coda rounds the preceding vowel
 * /h/ is elided if the preceding syllable ends in a consonant.
 * When a stop follows a consonant articulated in a different location, the stop assimilates to that same position. E.g. /xt/ -> /xk/
 * A plosive following a nasal assimilates to also become nasal. E.g. /mp/ -> /mm/

Verbs
Verbs conjugate to morphologically represent gender, number, tense, mood, and polarity.

There are three tenses: past, present, and future.

There are seven moods: The conjugation patterns follow below. The endings indicate tense, gender, number, and polarity, while moods are represented by suffixes inserted before the inflections.
 * Indicative
 * Subjunctive
 * Desiderative
 * Potential
 * Conditional
 * Hortative

Affirmative Negative Modal suffixes The affirmative participle is formed by an irregular conjugation pattern, which follows. Negative participles are formed instead by adding a suffix between the verb stem and regular negative inflection. The suffix is: The passive participle is formed by adding a suffix to the end of the corresponding active participle. The suffix is -man if the active participle ends in /m/, and -tan otherwise.

The gerund is used to form a noun out of a verb, which takes the meaning of "the act of doing x." The gerund is formed by a suffix, and declines like a first declension noun. The suffixes are as follows: