Aethi [AET]
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Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Place & SpeakersAethi is spoken by a population of 220 in Aethi Imperium (interstellar empire).
Species
Human/humanoid
About Aethi
Just a somewhat lazy artlang for a constructed world I am creating, designed to be transplantable to most sci-fi universes.
Word order and syntax largely come from English, with a few quirks thrown in - there is no definite article, prepositional phrases typically come first, adjectives/adverbs both go directly after what they modify and there is no formal distinction between the two, there are a few particles/marking auxiliaries, and verbs inflect for more things.
Word order and syntax largely come from English, with a few quirks thrown in - there is no definite article, prepositional phrases typically come first, adjectives/adverbs both go directly after what they modify and there is no formal distinction between the two, there are a few particles/marking auxiliaries, and verbs inflect for more things.
Sample of Aethi[view] Os tai sil, eilath eldai lanta?
At what point does river become coast?[view all texts]
At what point does river become coast?[view all texts]
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | Other | |||||||||
Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||||||||
Plosive | t | d | k̠ | |||||||||||||||
Fricative | v | θ | s | z | ʃ | ʒ | h | |||||||||||
Affricate | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ1 | t͡ɬ | d͡ɮ | ||||||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||
Approximant | j | |||||||||||||||||
Flap | ɾ |
- Rare; usually in loanwords.
Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Near- back | Back | |||||
Close | i: | u: | ||||||||
Near-close | ɪ | ʊ | ||||||||
Close-mid | e | |||||||||
Mid | e̞ | |||||||||
Near-open | ɐ:1 | |||||||||
Open | a | ä | ɒ |
Polyphthongs | ɐi | e̞i |
- near-back; not quite central.
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Aethi. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
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' daia/elni // | - eser'elni // | Aa ata /ä/ | AA aa eser'ata /ɐ:/1 | Dd dai /d/ | DL dl dle /d͡ɮ/ | Ee ea /e̞/ | Hh hei /h/ | Ii isi /ɪ/ | II ii eser'isi /i:/ |
Jj je /d͡ʒ/2 | Kk ka /k̠/ | Ll le /l/ | Mm ma /m/ | Nn na /n/ | Oo orei /ɒ/ | Rr ri /ɾ/ | Ss sa /s/ | SZH szh/ʃ/ | Tt tan /t/ |
TH th tha /θ/ | TJ tj/t͡ʃ/ | TL tl tle /t͡ɬ/ | Uu uth /ʊ/ | UU uu eser'uth /u:/ | Vv vi /v/ | Yy ye /j/ | Zz za /z/ | ZH zh zha /ʒ/ | |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |
- near-back; not quite central.
- Rare; usually in loanwords.