Astroxian

Astroxian parlotia astroktia
Type	synthetic
Alignment	SVO
Head direction
Tonal	No
Declensions	Yes
Conjugations	Yes
Genders	2
Nouns decline according to...
Case	Number
Definiteness	Gender
Verbs conjugate according to...
Voice	Mood
Person	Number
Tense	Aspect
Meta-information
Progress	0%
Statistics Nouns 0% Verbs 0% Adjectives 0% Syntax 0% Words 100 of 1500
Creator	Relox84

Classification and Dialects

Astroxian (paroltia astroktia [pɑr.lo.t͡sja as.tɾɔk.t͡sja]) is a romance language widely spoken in the astrasian continent. It derives from latin, but throughout the middle ages was heavily influenced by the gu'gaθi language spoken before the roman invasion of the continent.Today astroxian is considered a macro-language made out of many different dialects, and is used as a lingua franca along the nations of the astrasian continent.

Phonology

Consonants

	Bilabial	Labio-dental	Dental	Alveolar	Post-alveolar	Retroflex	Palatal	Velar	Uvular	Pharyngeal	Epiglottal	Glottal
Nasal	m			n		ɳ*
Stop	p/b (allophones)			t  d		ɖ*  ʈ*		k  g	q  ɢ*			ʔ
Affricate				t͡s*					q͡χ
Fricative		f v	θ  ð	s  z	ʃ*  ʒ*		ç  ʝ*					h
Approximant							j
Flap or tap				ɾ
Trill				r

• rare/dialectal sound

Vowels

	Front	Near-front	Central	Near-back	Back
High	i				u
Near-high
High-mid	e  ø		ɘ		o
Mid
Low-mid	ɛ				ʌ  ɔ
Near-low
Low	a				ɑ

Writing System

THe astroxian language is written with the kjenvari alphabet, which is a variant of the latin alphabet that have been heavily influenced by gu'gaθi writing systems. Hereafter is the official transcription of this alphabet in latin (the kjessel is used after a letter to indicate that it is doubled, except when that letter is at the end of the word, in which case it will be simply written twice):

Letter	a	b	c	d	e	ē	ë	f	g	h	i	j
Sound(s)	a-ɑ	b	θ-ð	d-ɖ	e-ɛ	e	ø-ɘ	f-v	g-ɢ	h-ç	i-j	x
Letter	k	l	m	n	o	p	r	s	t	u	ü*	v
Sound(s)	k-q	l	m	n-ɳ	o-ɔ	p	r-ɾ	d-z	t-ʈ	ʌ	ɥ	v
Letter/grapheme	an*	on*	-kjessel-	ou	au	eu*	ae*	kj	◌h	rr
Sound(s)	ɑ̃	ɔ̃	none	u	ɔː	ʊ	eɪ	q͡χ	◌ʰ	r

• rare/archaic letters

Grammar

Nouns

Astroxian nouns are very easy to understand. In standardised modern astroxian they are indeclinable and the only inflexion most of them may get is the plural form which most of the time is done by adding a "t" at the end of the noun (not that the t can be preceded by a vowel -either a or e for female and male nouns respectively - if the word ends with a "t", a "d" or a consonant cluster that would have become too big to ensure an easy pronunciation). Of course they are bunch of exeptions which may be found in the Lexicon:

Des apel = the apple / Des apelt = the apples

However the astroxian language also has a remnant of the high-astroxian dual, which is used to describe pairs of objects. In theory, any regular noun could become dual by adding an "h" (or "eh" if it ends with a consonant), but in practice only words that can be expected to come in pairs are accepted in their dual form, and pointing at two cars and saying "Liont sent net Autoh" would sound unnatural to any native speaker.

Here are some exemples of how and when dual may be used:

"Liont sent kalokah" = Thoses are shoes (a pair of shoes) / "Liont sent kalokat" = Those are shoes (a bunch of shoes)

"Vē eto jumeh" = You are twins (you were born the same day from the same mother) /

"Vē eto jumet" = You are twins (you are twins by yourselves but you do not necessarily have the same mother)

Also note that dual may sometimes apply to nouns that typically form a group of more than two entities:

"Mas mana at thenka sagej" = My hand has five fingers / "Liont et gejet" = Those are fingers.

As you will see below, verbs don't conjugate according to dual, but rather consider it as plural. This is also true for adjectives, pronouns and determiners.

Verbs

In astroxian, much like in most romance languages, verbs experience conjugation.

There are two main types of verbs and three auxiliaries.

Tense	Person	Oskiret	Tevennet	Etnet	Asset	Viarnet
Present	Iē	oskiro	tevenno	sio	asso	vasso
	Tē	oskiras	tevennas	es	as	vassas
	Li/Lea/Lot	oskirat	tevennat	et	at	vat
	Nē	oskihilas	tevennitas	etas	assas	viatias
	Vē	oskihilo	tevennito	eto	asto	viasito
	Liant/Liont	oskirent	tevennont	sent	astant	vassant
Past	Iē	oskital	tevental	fao	abal	alto
	Tē	oskitas	teventas	fas	abas	altas
	Li/Lea/Lot	oskitat	teventat	vat	abat	altat
	Nē	oskitiras	teventinas	famas	avetas	altiras
	Vē	oskitiro	teventino	famato	avito	altiro
	Liant/Liont	oskitirent	teventinent	vanent	abent	alitent
Future	Iē	oksiril	tevennil	serel	aural	irril
	Tē	oskiris	tevennis	seres	auras	irris
	Li/Lea/Lot	oskirit	tevennit	seret	aurat	irrit
	Nē	oskiriras	tevenniras	seriras	auriras	irriras
	Vē	oskiriro	tevenniro	serero	auriro	irriro
	Liant/liont	oskirirent	tevennirent	serent	aurent	irrent
Imperative	(tē)	oskio	teveno	sao	aio	valo
	(nē)	oskiruns	tevennuns	sauns	aiuns	valuns
	(vē)	oskirito	tevennito	saito	aito	valito
Participle	-	oskirik	tevennok	etek	abek	vialak

Verbial suffixes & prefixes

-ga- (just before the verbial conjugation suffix)

turns an active verb into a passive verb (the verb will be in the -net class, even if the original verb belonged to the -ret class)

-re- used for an usual/repeated action:

iē fetal = i did ; iē feretal = i was doing

Examples: oskiret = to kill ; oskiganet = to be killed

The -re- infix is commonly assumed to be a corruption of the latin imperfect tense, while the -ga- infix is likely from a substrate language.

Pronouns

Case	1s	2s	3s Masc	3s Fem	3s Neut	1p	2p	3p Human	3p Neut	Reflexive
Nominative	iē	tē	li	lea	lot	nē	vē	liant	liont	-
Accusative	mo	to	lo	la	lot	nos	vos	lat	liont	so
Dative	me	te	lui	le	lui	nos	vos	let	let	se
Reflexive emphatic	mema	tema	loma	lama	loma	nema	vema	elma	lioma	sema
Disjunct	mē	tē	lo	la	lot	nē	nē	els	liont	sē

	1s	2s	3s	1p	2p	3p
MS	mas	tas	ses	not	vot	let
MP	mes	tes
FS	mon	ton	sen
FP	men	ten

Possessive pronouns don't decline for case

Articles

Definite articles:

Usage	Male noun	Female noun	Proper noun
Nominative	des	den	Ø
Accusative	det	den	Ø
Nom. possessive	des	del	de
Vocative	os	ol	to
"from the"	daot	daol	dao
"to the"	sedot	sed	sedo
"at the"	olt	oln	o
"over the"	suros	suron	suro
"under the"	supos	supon	supo
"in front of the"	tavnos	tavnon	tavno
"behind the"	ternos	ternon	terno
"next to the"	klossos	klosson	klosso
"by the"	perot	perol	pero

Indefinite articles:

Usage	Male noun	Female noun
Singular	en	an
Plural	net	nat
Sin. possessive	dēen	dēan
Plu. possessive	dēet	dēat
"from a"	dae	daa
(plural)	daet	daat
"to a"	sede	seda
(plural)	sedet	sedat
"at a"	ole	ona
(plural)	olet	onat
"over a"	sure	sura
(plural)	suret	surat
"under a"	supe	supa
(plural)	supet	supat
"in front of a"	tavne	tavna
(plural)	tavnet	tavnat
"behind a"	terne	terna
(plural)	ternet	ternat
"next to a"	klosse	klossa
(plural)	klosset	klossat
"by a"	pere	pera
(plural)	peret	perat

Negation

There are two main ways of negating a sentence in astroxian:

*the di(r)- prefix:

"ji" = happy, "diji" = sad.

*the "nant" word, equivalent of the english "not". It's always placed just before the verb:

Iē nant sio ji = I am not happy.

Syntax

In a basic sentence, the syntax is subject-verb-object

In a basic interrogative sentence, it is verb-subject-object-?

Lexicon

Astroxian dictionary