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Grammar Descriptions

Unfortunately, I have yet to figure out the best way to describe the grammar of Asha'ille. If you know what BNF grammars are, you may be interested in the EBNF grammar of Asha'ille, including phonotactics. Otherwise, I recommend looking at the various fragments collected below:

Dialects

Like any language, Asha'ille has several dialects:

Maesha
the standard dialect of the central plains Cresaeans.
Imacatásh
spoken by the Imacatá Cresaeans. Adverb markers are optional.
Shéchanin
spoken by the Ashyinave (the mountain Cresaeans). Differences between it and the standard Maesha dialect:
  • VOS order somewhat common
  • verb particles are replaced by their full-word equivalents
  • the full-word equivalents do not contribute to the one-adjective rule's count
  • has the additional allophones [æ] and [h]
  • fewer double-consonant words (lorielav instead of llav, for example)
  • more frequent use of pronouns, as opposed to conjugations
  • use of just te to join sentences, as opposed to t'ves
  • use of ne only when subject or object has a "clarifier"
  • sho– prefix to mark subject pronouns:
    • shoyí instead of subject en'i
    • shojh instead of subject ejh
    • feyi instead of subject chishélsa (irregular)
    • shoya instead of subject scadhelsa

Lessons

Sholdävsóte aet n'enllav' n'e asha'ille a? That is, Would you like to learn Asha'ille? Suggestions for lessons are always welcome. The most recently written lessons are formatted as dialogs with commentary between each exchange.

Some older lessons are still hosted at UniLang:

CONLANG-L Posts

I have yet to put on my site all the information I have posted to the CONLANG-L mailing list. Here's a rough list of those emails, so that I can get to incoporating them and you have access to them. Note that I make no guarantees that the rules of Asha'ille haven't changed since I wrote these emails, so do not take them as gospel.