Len Lango de Ásinaro

Asinarian ; Len Lango de Ásinaro
Pronunciation:	IPA: [lɛ̃ ˈlɑŋ̯ˌo deː ˈaː̯ˌzinˈaɾˌo]
Spoken in:	Asinara, Italy, Sicily, United States, Sardinia, Corsica
Region:	Mediterranian and North America
Total speakers:	roughly 10,000,000 native roughly 5,000 non-native
Language family:	—; Indo-European; Romance; Southern Romance; Sardino-Asinarian; Asinarian
Writing system:	Latin (Asinarian Variant)
Official status
Official language of:	Official Minority Language in: Italy (Autonomous Region of Sardinia)
Regulated by:	La Bibliteca dele Langoz Romanticoz de Ásinaro (The Library of the Romantic Lanuage of Asinara)
Language codes
ISO 639-1:	As
ISO 639-3:	—
	Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key.

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Name: Asinarian

Type: Romance-influenced ConLang

Alignment: Nominative-Accusative

Head Direction: Initial

Number of genders: 2

Declensions: No

Conjugations: Yes

Nouns declined according to
Case	Number
Definitiveness	Gender
Verbs conjugated according to
Voice	Mood
Person	Number
Tense	Aspect

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

Setting[]

Asinarian (Len Lango de Ásinaro (Asinara's Language)) is spoken on an island off the northwestern coast of Sardinia in the Mediterranian Sea. It has influences from French, Spanish, and other Romance languages, it also has influences from Turkish, Arabic, and German. This island is called Len Izlo de Ásinaro in Corcian. about 500 people speak Asinarian. Much of its noun declension comes from French, Spanish and Italian.

Phonology[]

The Phonology of Asinaran is a combination of French, German, Italian, and Spanish with a few Corsican influences, too.

	Bilabial	Labiodental	Labio-Velar	Dental	Alveolar	Post-Alveolar	Palatal	Palatal-Velar	Velar	Glottal
Nasal	m			n			ɲ		ŋ
Plosive	b p			t d				k g
Trill
Trilled Affricate
Tap or Flap				ɾ
Fricative		f v		θ ð	s z	ʃ ʒ	ʝ		x ɣ	h
Affricate									tʃ dʒ
Lateral Fricative
Lateral Affricate
Approximant			w	l			j
Lateral Approximant							ʎ

		Front		Central	Back
		unrounded	rounded	Central	Back
	oral	i ĩ	y ỹ		u ũ
Close-mid		e ẽ	œ œ̃	ə ə̃	o õ
Open-mid		ɛ ɛ̃		ə ə̃	ʌ ʌ̃ ɔ ɔ̃
Open-mid	nasal
Open	nasal
Open	oral	(a)			ɑ ɑ̃

Letter	Name	IPA
A	Ah	/ɑ/
Á	Ah Acut	/ɑː/
À	Ah Groev	/a/
Â	Ah Coircumflex	/ɑ/̃
B	Bi	/b/
C	Ci	/k/~/s/~/tʃ/
Ç	Ci Cedille	/ts/
D	Di	/d/
E	Eh	/e/
É	Eh Acut	/eː/
È	Eh Groev	/ɛ/
Ê	Eh Coircumflex	/ə/
F	Efe	/f/
G	Gue	/g/~/k/~/ɣ/
H	Haci	/silent/~/x/
I	Ih	/i/
Í	Ih Acut	/i/
Ì	Ih Groev	/i/
Î	Ih Coircumflex	/ĩ/
J	Jota	/j/
L	Ele	/l/
Ll	Elle	/ʎ/
M	Eme	/m/
N	Ene	/n/
Gn	Gni	/ɲ/
O	Oh	/o/
Ó	Oh Acut	/œ/
Ò	Oh Groev	/œː/
Ô	Oh Coircumflex	/ɔ̃/
P	Pe	/p/
Q	Cu	/k/
R	Ere	/ɾ/
S	Ese	/s/~/z/
T	Te	/t/
U	Uh	/u/
Ú	Uh Acut	/uː/
Ù	Uh Groev	/ʌ/
Û	Uh Coircumflex	/ũ/
V	Uve	/v/
W	Uve Dubloir	/w/
X	Ix	/ks/~/z/
Y	Ih Grec	/j/~/y/~/i/
Z	Zet	/z/~/s/

Graphs[]

Graph	IPA
Aa	/a/
Ai	/ai/
Ae	/ɛ/
Aue	/o/
Auex	/oʃ/
Ch	/tʃ/
Cch (In loanwords from Turkish, as an alternative to Turkish's s-cedilla)	/ʃ/
Eau	/õ/
Em	/ɛ̃/
Ene	/ɛ̃/
Enes	/ɛ̃/
Gh	/x/
Ghi	/xi/
Ghu	/xu/
Ie	/iː/
Ien	/jɛ̃/
Îi	/ə/
Îim	/ə̃/
Jh	/h/
Lh	/l/
Lli	/ji/
Lle	/j/
Oi	/ɔy/
Oim	/ɔ̃y/
Oir	/wɑ̃/
Ou	/u/
Òu/Òum	/ỹ/
Qu	/kv/
Sch	/ʃtʃ/
Sz	/z/
Uu	/w/
Ya	/ja/
Yy (Only in words from Turkish)	/jy/
Zh	/ʃ/

Phonotactics[]

1. C in front of a vowel is devoiced to /s/. In front of I or E it is pronounced /tʃ/.

2. Any vowel in front of M or N is nazalized, but if there are two nasal vowels adajcent to each other, the first is denasalized and "M" or "N" is pronounced separate of the vowel

example: amen IS NOT /ɑ̃ˈe/̃ , BUT /ɑmˈe/̃.

3. G in front of A, or U is pronounced /ɣ/, in front of I, or E it is pronounced /k/, everywhere else it is pronounced /g/.

4. S after voiced consonants or A, O, or U is pronounced /z/, everywhere else it is pronounced /s/.

5. Z after voiceless consonants or I, or E is pronounced /s/, everywhere else it is pronounced /z/.

6. H is silent at the start of a word or after a vowel.

7. Y is pronounced /j/ before or after a vowel, /i/ before or after a voiced consonant and /y/ before or after an unvoiced consonant.

Basic Grammar[]

There are no adverbs.

Nouns[]

Nouns are conjugated according to gender and number and, like French and Spanish, are not conjugated by any case.

Gender	Singular	Plural	Meaning

Masculine	Len Alemieno	Lens Alemienoz	German(s)
Feminine	La Curcîena	Las Curcîenez	Corsican (Person)

Posessive Nouns[]

Posessive Nouns are declined by taking the direct object, putting it before the subject, and adding "de (of)" in between them.

Example: The man's dog.

Len Pero dele Hambro (The dog of the man.)

Demonymic Nouns[]

Nouns are made into demonyms by adding suffixes.

Gender	Comes after A, O, U, or Consonant	Meaning
	Person
Masculine	Estonuuo (base - Estogno)	Estonian
Feminine	Ameriuua (America)	American

Gender	Comes after I, or E	Meaning
	Person
Masculine	Chinenes (Chine)	Chinese
Feminine	Acadenas (Acadie)	Acadian

Gender	Comes after A, O, U, or Consonant	Meaning
	Place, Thing, or Idea
Masculine	Estonien	Estonian
Feminine	Americh	American

Gender	Comes after E, or I	Meaning
	Place, Thing, or Idea
Masculine	Chineau	Chinese
Feminine	Acadya	Acadian

Example: He is Estonian

Ell es Estonuuo.

Example: That is Acadian snow.

El es nebe Acadya.

Dimunitive Forms[]

Gender	Base	Dimunitive	Base Meaning	Dimunitive Meaning

Masculine	Chico	Chicato	Boy	Little Boy
Feminine	Chica	Chicata	Girl	Little Girl

To intensify a dimunitive you add "trîis (very)" before the noun.

Example: The boy, The little boy, The very little boy

Len chico, Len chicato, Len trîis chicato

Pronouns[]

Pronouns are declined according to person and gender.

Singular	Plural

Min - I	Nòu - We
Tû - You	Vòu - You (Plural)
Ell, Ella, El - He, She, It	Eso, Esa, Es - They

Example: We are going to the store.

Nòu vo alla magacina.

Possessive Pronouns[]

Unlike in other romance languages there are no possessive adjectives, only possessive pronouns.

Singular	Plural

Mins - My/Mine	Nòun - Our/Ours
Tus - Your/Yours	Vòun - You/Yours (Plural)
Si - His/Hers/Its	Sin - Their/Their

Ex: Our dog's fur is soft.

Len pelcio de nòun cano es suva.

Adjectives[]

Adjectives take on the gender and number of the noun or pronoun.

Gender	Singular	Plural	Meaning

Masculine	Gurdo	Gurdoz	Fat
Feminine	Breva	Brevez	Short

Example: He is short and fat.

Est brevo at gurdo.

Example: They are ugly.

Eso sun fo.

Proper Adjectives[]

Proper adjectives are always capitalized. The noun being described is also capitalized. A Proper adjective always derives from a proper noun, but when it is an adjective it will take the gender of the noun it describes and not the noun it derives from.

Gender	Singular	Plural	Noun it derives from	Meaning
Noun is:
Masculine	Francenes	Francenesz	Francenas	French
Feminine	Irenas	Irenasz	Irenes	Irish

Example: The Irish man has red hair.

Len Irenes Hambro tegne capille pelire.

Adpositions[]

Adpositions function very similar to adpositions in Spanish. Most adpositions are prepositions. There are two postposition and one circumposition.

There are only two simple postpositions, the rest are prepositions.

Prepositions[]

A - To, at, into

Alle - To the (Masculine), at the (Masculine)

Ale - To the (Feminine), at the (Feminine)

Alle ludo de - Next to

Alle comparo de - Compared to

Alle partur de - Upwards of, starting from

Anta - Before

Après - After

Arcacinda - Behind

A travis - Through, across

Bal - Under

Curco/a de - Near

Cumo/a - As, like

Cum - with; of, containing (Un basquo cum oga)

Con - against (not in a physical sense as in "The man is against the wall." but in "He went against my idea."

Contre - against (in a physical sense)

Da - from

De - of; made of (used to make compounds)

Dem - (in time expressions), by, in the (in the day, evening, etc)

Dele - of the, in the, from the

D'la - feminine form of "Dele"

Des - from, since (used in place of "De" when stressing notion of movement, or with times, prices and values)

Durant - During, before

Enn - in, on, at

Enn lòun de - Instead of

Enn mediu de - In the middle of

Enn Ezterioir - Outside, outdoors

Entre - Between, Among

Givi - Depending on, according to

Hasto - Until, up to

Pour - (In time phrases) Around, by

Pour - For: expressing destination, direction, recipient ("brought it for me"), opinion ("for me, it seems...")

Par - For: in most other senses ("because of', 'on behalf of', 'in exchange for/per', 'to the value of', 'instead of')

San - Without, -less

Tram de - Behind, from behind

Vîs - (Indicating place) Via, through, throughout, around

Vîs-a-Vîs - Towards

Postpositions[]

A por - in search of Example: "Mi vo mins cano a por. ( I am looking for/in search of my dog. lit. I am my dog in search of.)

Ezterie da - Out of Example: Min vena Âfrique ezterie da. ( I came out of Africa. lit. I came Africa out of.)

Circumpositions[]

Enn...a - Onto Example: Eso salato enn len titlo a. (They climbed onto the roof. lit. They climbed on the roof to.)

Verbs[]

Verbs are conjugated according to 3 basic tenses.

Infinitive[]

Ezistizre - To be/exist

Gerund/Verbal[]

Len ezistmeyy - The being

Indicitive (Indicitivo)[]

Present (Presîimo)[]

Finite verbs are conjugated to person

To be (Ezistizre) in the present form

Mi ezistiso - I am

Tû ezistim - You are

Ell, Ella, El ezisti - He, she, it is

Nòu ezistsome - We are

Vòu ezistîsa - You are (plural)

Eso, Esa, Es ezista - They are

Imperfect (Enperfeito)[]

Mi ezistain - I was, I used to be

Tû ezistias - You were, You used to be

Ell, Ella, El ezistabo - He, she, it was, used to be

Nòu ezistiera - We were, We used to be

Vòu ezistierez - You were, You used to be (plural)

Eso, Esa, Es eziston - They were, they used to be

Future (Futero)[]

Mi ezistae - I will be

Tû ezistizêras - You will be

Ell, Ella, El ezistaa - He, she, it will be

Nòu ezistizau - We will be

Vòu ezistizuuir - You will be (plural)

Eso, Esa, Es ezistizon - They will be

Preterite (Passeo Simpleo)[]

Mi ezistuve - I was

Tû ezistes - You were

Ell, Ella, El ezista - He, she, it was

Nòu ezistámes - We were

Vòu ezistimes - You were (plural)

Eso, Esa, Es ezistiron - They were

Conditional (Condizioalo)

Mi ezisterja - I would be

Tû ezisterjas - You would be

Ell, Ella, El ezisterjaz - He, she, it would be

Nòu ezisterjon - We would be

Vòu ezisterìmez - You would be (plural)

Eso, Esa, Es ezistizrone - They would be

Subjunctive (Susjuntivo)[]

This mood is used along with phrases of want, emotion, opinion, or viewpoint to convey the verb's message. It corresponds with the English conjunctive mood.

Present (Presîimo)

Mi ezistizro - I was

Tû ezistizros - You were

Ell, Ella, El ezistizri - He, She, It was

Nòu ezistizrane - We were

Vòu ezistizrîsa - You were (plural)

Eso, Esa, Es ezistizra - They were

Imperfect (Enperfeito)

Mi ezistier - If I were

Tû ezistiers - If you were

Ell, Ella, El ezistiiro - If He, She, It was

Nòu ezistranano - If we were

Vòu ezistrimes - If you were (plural)

Eso, Esa, Es ezistieras - If they were

Future (Futero) Mi ezistizreé - I were to be

Tû ezistizrés - You were to be

Ell, Ella, El ezistizreo - He, She, It was to be

Nòu ezistizrenanos - We were to be

Vòu ezistizrimes - You were to be (plural)

Eso, Esa, Es ezistizieraz - They were to be

Conditional (Condizioalo) Ghui mi ezistizreéi - If I were to be

Ghui tû ezistizrési - If you were to be

Ghui ell, ella, el ezistizreoi - If he, she, it was to be

Ghui nòu ezistizrananosi - If we were to be

Ghui vòu ezistizrimesi - If you were to be (plural)

Ghui eso, esa, es, ezistizierazi - If they were to be

Imperative (Emparativo)[]

In Asinaran, the Imperative is souly a 2nd person mood.

Imperative Affirmative (Emparativo Apparnativo)[]

Tû ezistim! - Be!

Vòu ezistims! - Be! (plural "you" pronoun)

Imperative Negative (Emparativo Neghativo)[]

Tû ezistmeyim! - Don't be!

Vòu ezistmeyims! - Don't be (plural "you" pronoun)

Conjuctions[]

Conjuctions serve the same purpose as in English, to connect two clauses. There are three types of conjuctions: coordinating, subordinating, and correlative.

Coordinating[]

Coordinating conjuctions include but are not limited to:

Siry - For

At - And

Ne - Nor

Ghalbuca - But

Oi - Or

Ma - Yet

Sichi - So

Subordinating[]

This type introduces a subordinate clause. Included in this type:

Vail - Because

Agur - If

Ghalçem - Although

Vèrand - While

Correlative[]

This type uses two conjunctions that work together. Included in this type:

Ne...Ne - Neither...Nor

Ou...Ou - Either...Or

Dictionary[]

No.	English
1	I	Mi
2	you (singular)	Tû
3	he	Ell
4	we	Nòu
5	you (plural)	Vòu
6	they	Eso(M)/Esa(F)
7	this	Ezho(M)/Ezha(F)
8	that	Cuo/Cua
9	here	Echo/Echa
10	there	Aio/Aia
11	who	Co/Ca
12	what	Cio/Cia
13	where	—
14	when	—
15	how	—
16	not	—
17	all	—
18	many	—
19	some	—
20	few	—
21	other	—
22	one	—
23	two	—
24	three	—
25	four	—
26	five	—
27	big	—
28	long	—
29	wide	—
30	thick	—
31	heavy	—
32	small	—
33	short	—
34	narrow	—
35	thin	—
36	woman	Ambra
37	man (adult male)	Ambro
38	man (human being)	—
39	child	Fillo/Filla
40	wife	Mauex
41	husband	Mo
42	mother	Mader
43	father	Pader
44	animal	Agnimalo
45	fish	Pezh
46	bird	Kuzh
47	dog	Gòupe
48	louse	—
49	snake	—
50	worm	—
51	tree	—
52	forest	—
53	stick	—
54	fruit	—
55	seed	—
56	leaf	—
57	root	—
58	bark	—
59	flower	—
60	grass	—
61	rope	—
62	skin	—
63	meat	—
64	blood	—
65	bone	—
66	fat	—
67	egg	—
68	horn	—
69	tail	—
70	feather	—
71	hair	—
72	head	—
73	ear	—
74	eye	—
75	nose	—
76	mouth	—
77	tooth	—
78	tongue	—
79	fingernail	—
80	foot	—
81	leg	—
82	knee	—
83	hand	—
84	wing	—
85	belly	—
86	guts	—
87	neck	—
88	back	—
89	breast	—
90	heart	—
91	liver	—
92	drink	—
93	eat	—
94	bite	—
95	suck	—
96	spit	—
97	vomit	—
98	blow	—
99	breathe	—
100	laugh	—
101	see	—
102	hear	—
103	know	—
104	think	—
105	smell	—
106	fear	—
107	sleep	—
108	live	—
109	die	—
110	kill	—
111	fight	—
112	hunt	—
113	hit	—
114	cut	—
115	split	—
116	stab	—
117	scratch	—
118	dig	—
119	swim	—
120	fly	—
121	walk	—
122	come	—
123	lie	—
124	sit	—
125	stand	—
126	turn	—
127	fall	—
128	give	—
129	hold	—
130	squeeze	—
131	rub	—
132	wash	—
133	wipe	—
134	pull	—
135	push	—
136	throw	—
137	tie	—
138	sew	—
139	count	—
140	say	—
141	sing	—
142	play	—
143	float	—
144	flow	—
145	freeze	—
146	swell	—
147	sun	—
148	moon	—
149	star	—
150	water	—
151	rain	—
152	river	—
153	lake	—
154	sea	—
155	salt	—
156	stone	—
157	sand	—
158	dust	—
159	earth	—
160	cloud	—
161	fog	—
162	sky	—
163	wind	—
164	snow	—
165	ice	—
166	smoke	—
167	fire	—
168	ash	—
169	burn	—
170	road	—
171	mountain	—
172	red	—
173	green	—
174	yellow	—
175	white	—
176	black	—
177	night	—
178	day	—
179	year	—
180	warm	—
181	cold	—
182	full	—
183	new	—
184	old	—
185	good	—
186	bad	—
187	rotten	—
188	dirty	—
189	straight	—
190	round	—
191	sharp	—
192	dull	—
193	smooth	—
194	wet	—
195	dry	—
196	correct	—
197	near	—
198	far	—
199	right	—
200	left	—
201	at	—
202	in	—
203	with	—
204	and	—
205	if	—
206	because	—
207	name	—

Example text[]

The Lord's Prayer[]

English[]

Our Father who art in Heaven,

Hallowed be thy name;

Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done On earth as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread;

And forgive us our trespasses,

As we forgive those who trespass against us;

And lead us not into temptation, But deliver us from evil.

Amen.

Asinarian[]

Nòun Paro ghui ess enn la Parasa,

Sagnippicateé ess tus nammre;

Benîsa Tus regno

Pacha tus Bollunteé

Enn len Teurò cummu enn la Parasa.

Dune nòu huiy len panno de cestte gheornia

At purdugna nòun trasgreszioz

Cummu nòu purdunsome nòu trasgreszioturoz;

At nan nòu daje sonnbahizre alle eyartmaczio

Naiz libra'nòu da len kòtylyk.