Astinian | |||||||||||||
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Type | Fusional | ||||||||||||
Alignment | Nominative-Accusative | ||||||||||||
Head direction | Initial | ||||||||||||
Tonal | No | ||||||||||||
Declensions | Yes | ||||||||||||
Conjugations | Yes | ||||||||||||
Genders | 3 | ||||||||||||
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Case | Number | ||||||||||||
Definiteness | Gender | ||||||||||||
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Voice | Mood | ||||||||||||
Person | Number | ||||||||||||
Tense | Aspect | ||||||||||||
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Progress | 0% | ||||||||||||
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Creator | gjordanoff |
Classification and Dialects
Being spoken in the Astinian Commonwealth as the official language, Astinian is an Eastern Germanic language, heavily influenced by its Slavic neighboring languages, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian and Russian. It is a fusional and highly inflected language with a case system and a complex verb system. Furthermore, it is the only Germanic language which uses the Cyrillic script. As in Belarusian and Russian, vowel reduction (especially the akanye and the ikanye) is present in Astinian.
Phonology
Consonants
Labial | Dental, alveolar | Dental | Alveolar | Post-alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | |
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Nasal | m mj | n | ||||||
Stop | p pj
b bj |
t tj
d dj |
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Affricate | ts tsj | tʃ | tɕ | |||||
Fricative | f fj
v vj |
s sj
z zj |
ʃ
ʒ |
ɕ
ʑ ç |
x | |||
Approximant | l | j | ||||||
Trill | r rj | |||||||
Lateral app. | ʎ |
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