Ástralic

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Ástralic / Australian Ástralic
Type
Synthetic
Word origins
Alignment
Fluid
Head direction
Mixture
Tonal
No
Declensions
Yes
Conjugations
Yes
Genders
No
Nouns decline according to...
Case	Number
Definiteness	Gender
Verbs conjugate according to...
Voice	Mood
Person	Number
Tense	Aspect

Ástralic is a futuristic and one of the official languages of Australia in the 23rd Century. Its name could transliterate as "Australian", from the "Ástralja" [Austraila] + "-ic" [language name suffix]. Other official languages include: Australiane, Astrális, isyAsidlaliya, Āztlālyatōhli, Australiká, Avstralskij, and Ulurrulirra.

Overview

	Gender	Cases	Numbers	Tenses	Persons	Moods	Voices	Aspects
Verb	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
Nouns	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
Adjectives	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
Numbers	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Participles	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No
Adverb	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
Pronouns	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No
Adpositions	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Article	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
Particle	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No

Orthography and Phonology

There are 34 letters in the Ástralic alphabet (accented vowels count as separate letters). The language's alphabet is notorious for bringing back the letters "Ð" and "Þ" into the English speaking language group. The language can be typed with a standard Icelandic keyboard.

The names of the letters are indeclinable.

Uppercase	Lowercase	Name	Pronunciation	IPA
A	a	a	cat	/æ/
Á	á	á	father	/ɑ/
B	b	bé	bat	/b/
C	c	ec	shin	/ʃ/
D	d	dé	dot	/d/
Ð	ð	eð	this	/ð/
E	e	e	bet	/ɛ/
É	é	é	bait	/eɪ/
F	f	ef	foot	/f/
G	g	gé	give	/g/
H	h	há	have or Scottish loch, whichever seems most convenient.	/h/ /x/
I	i	i	bit	/ɪ/
Í	í	í	beat	/i/
J	j	ijé	yes	/j/
K	k	ké	cake	/k/
L	l	el	lake	/l/
M	m	em	mend	/m/
N	n	en	nope	/n/
O	o	o	pot	/ɒ/
Ó	ó	ó	boat	/oʊ/
P	p	pé	pay	/p/
Q	q	kú	singing	/ŋ/
R	r	er	red	/ɹ/
S	s	es	sign	/s/
T	t	té	tip	/t/
Þ	þ	þorn	thing	/θ/
U	u	u	look	/ʊ/
Ú	ú	ú	suit	/u/
V	v	vé	vote	/v/
W	w	uwé	wait	/w/
X	x	ex	pleasure	/ʒ/
Y	y	y	club	/ə/
Ý	ý	ý	fur	/ɚ/
Z	z	zé	zap	/z/

All letters are pronounced accordingly with no exceptions. All letters apart from "ð" and "q" can be used as initial letters, so their capital forms are usually only seen in whole-word capitalisation.

Lexicon and Etymology

Being Australia's official Germanic language, all the words in the language originate from Proto-Germanic roots.

Grammar

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Unlike its well known ancestor (English), the grammar for Ástralic is very complex.

Pronouns, Nouns and Adjectives have seven genders:

• Male
• Female
• Neuter
• Masculine
• Feminine
• Object
• Abstract

They also have six cases:

• Nominative
• Accusative
• Dative
• Genitive
• Vocative
• Instrumental

Verbs and Adverbs have three tenses:

• Past
• Present
• Future

They also conjugate into:

• First Person
• Second Person
• Third Person M (Male/Masculine)
• Third Person F (Female/Feminine)
• Third Person N (Neuter/Object/Abstract)

There are also:

• Past, Present and Future Participles
• Imperative Singular and Plural
• Infinitive

but these only conjugate the verb and not the adverb.

Pronoun Declension

Because pronouns are used all the time, they are irregular in comparison to nouns.

First and Second Person Pronouns

Person	First		Second		Reflexive
	Sing.	Plur.	Sing.	Plur.
NOM	éh	veð	þú	þeð	-
ACC	mig	os	þig	us	sig
DAT	mé	osm	þé	usm	sé
GEN	mín	órz	þín	úrz	sín
VOC	mejó	osó	þejó	usó	sejó
INS	miné	osn	þiné	usn	siné

Third Person Pronouns

Declension	Animate				Inanimate				Abstract
	MLE	FML	NEU	PLUR	MAS	FEM	OBJ	PLUR	SING	PLUR
NOM	hí	cí	ét	þér	hi	ci	et	þer	yt	þyr
ACC	hím	hár		þém	him	har		þem		þym
DAT	hám	húr			ham	hur
GEN	híz	hárz	étz	þérz	hiz	harz	etz	þerz	ytz	þyrz
VOC	hó	có	tó	þró	hó	có	tó	þró	tó	þró
INS	hní	hná	étn	þnér	hni	hna	etn	þner	ytn	þnyr

Noun and Adjective Declension

To make up for having so many cases and genders, both the noun and adjective declensions are the same. This means that it is up to context to decide which word is the noun and which is the adjective, but the adjectives usually precede the nouns unless for poetic purposes.

The comparative and superlative forms of adjectives and adverbs are formed by adding "-or" and "-ost" before declining the word.

The regular declensions are in the table below (plurals are in brackets).

Declension	MLE	FML	NEU	MAS	FEM	OBJ	ABS
NOM	-í(r)	-á(r)	-é(r)	-i(r)	-a(r)	-e(r)	-(yr)
ACC	-á(r)	-ú(r)	-é(r)	-a(r)	-u(r)	-e(r)	-y(r)
DAT	-á(r)m	-ú(r)m	-é(r)m	-a(r)m	-u(r)m	-e(r)m	-y(r)m
GEN	-í(r)z	-á(r)z	-é(r)z	-i(r)z	-a(r)z	-e(r)z	-y(r)z
VOC	-(r)ó
INS	-ná(r)	-nú(r)	-né(r)	-na(r)	-nu(r)	-ne(r)	-ny(r)

To help remember them:

• Male and Masculine use the same letter, Male uses the accent. Same for Female/Feminine and Neuter/Object. In other words, animate nouns (people and animals) use the accent, inanimate nouns (plants and objects) do not.
• Dative always ends with "m", Genitive with "z", and Vocative with "ó".
• Dative is Accusative with "m" after it, Genitive is Nominative with "z" after it, and Instrumental is Accusative with an "n" before it.
• Plural "r" comes before Dative "m", Genitive "z" and Instrumental "ó".

The definite and indefinite articles both decline as above, except in the Nominative Abstract which ends with "y".

Conjugation of "béjy"

The word "béjy", or "to be", is an auxiliary verb used all the time in Ástralic as it is in English. Be cause of this, the conjugation of the verb is irregular.

Conjugation	Past		Present		Future
First	wa	waram	em	erim	lu	ulum
Second	war	warað	er	erið	lur	uluð
Masculine	wac	wara	ec	eri	luc	ulu
Feminine	wax		ex		lux
Neuter	was		es		lus
Partictiple	bén		béjiq		béjul
Imperative	sg: béjú / bérú pl: béjeð / béðeð
Infinitive	béjy

Verb and Adverb Conjugation

As the noun and adjective declensions are the same, the verb and adverb conjugations are similar.

The regular conjugations are in the table below (adverbs are in square brackets).

Conjugation	Past		Present		Future
First	-da [-ýd]	-dam [-ýmd]	- [-ý]	-im [-ým]	-lu [-ýl]	-lum [-ýml]
Second	-dar [-ýrd]	-dað [-ýðd]	-ir [-ýr]	-ið [-ýð]	-lur [-ýrl]	-luð [-ýðl]
Masculine	-dac [-ýcd]	-da [-ýd]	-ic [-ýc]	-i [-ý]	-luc [-ýcl]	-lu [-ýl]
Feminine	-dax [-ýxd]		-ix [-ýx]		-lux [-ýxl]
Neuter	-das [-ýsd]		-is [-ýs]		-lus [-ýsl]
Partictiple	-að [-ý]		-iq [-ý]		-ul [-ý]
Imperative	sg: -(r)ú [-ý], pl: -(ð)eð [-ý]
Infinitive	-y [-ý]

Adverbs also decline to agree with their adjective's case. Adverbs decline like Abstract Nouns with a "ý" instead of "y", including the Nominative.

Word List English-Australian

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A

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1. after - conj, prep: aftýr [+nom]; adv. [ind], pref: aftry-
2. and - ad

B

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1. be - aux. v: béjy
2. because - conj: ás, þwí; - "because of" prep: þwí of [+gen]
3. but - conj: but
4. by - conj: bíj

I

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1. impossible - adj: unmóguleh

L

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1. let - v: laty; when used as an imperative, the order of words is changed slightly: the second verb is placed at the start in the Future Participle, and the pronoun is place after in the Vocative Case. To say "let's go!" for example is "gówul osó!", or "let me have it!" is "havul mejó yt!".
2. l -

Word List Australian-English

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Nouns are written in the Nominative form.

Adjectives are written in the Nominative Abstract form, as the declension has no ending.

Verbs and Adverbs are written in the Infinitive form.

Nouns which have multiple genders depending on context are marked with an asterisk (*).

A

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1. ad - and
2. a -

Á

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1. ál* - adj: all; - n. UNI: all of it, all, everyone (MLE/FML), everything (NEU)
2. ás - conj: as, since, because
3. á -

B

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1. -bárr - pref. [makes adj.]: -able, -ible; the second "r" is usually omitted when declining (i.e. gen. sg. NEU = -báréz)
2. béjy - aux. v: to be
3. bi- - pref: [makes causative of v.]
4. but - conj: but
5. b -

C

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1. c -

D

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1. dah - n. ABS: day
2. déjy - v: to die
3. dówy - aux. v: to do
4. drém - n. ABS: dream
5. d -

E

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1. e -

É

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1. éty - v: to eat
2. é -

F

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1. findy - v: to find
2. f -

G

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1. gahny - v: to gain
2. game - n. OBJ: game
3. grén - n. ABS: green
4. grýn - adj: green
5. g -

H

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1. hýry - v: to hear
2. h -

I

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1. -ifjy - pref. [makes causative of v.]: -ify; the "jy" changes to "í" in conjugated forms. (hí -ifídac, -ifíc, -ifíluc = he -ified, -ifies, will -ify) See also: bi-

1. i -

K

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1. képy - v: to keep; - "onképy ...iq" phrase: to keep on ...ing
2. k -

M

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1. m -

O

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1. o -

S

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1. scadów - n. ABS. [irr]: shadow
2. scam - n. ABS: shame
3. scamy - v. to shame
4. scád - n. ABS: shade
5. scády - v. to shade
6. só - conj: so
7. s -

T

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1. talky - v: to talk
2. t -

Þ

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1. þiq - n. ABS: thing
2. þrúw - adv, adj. [ind], prep. [+dat]: through, [+ins] through(out), within
3. þy* - art. UNI: the
4. þ -

V

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1. v -

W

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1. walky - v: to walk
2. w -

Y

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1. y* - art. UNI: a, some
2. ygehn - adv. [ind]: again
3. y -