Aethi [AET]
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Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Place & SpeakersAethi is spoken by a population of around 220,000,000,000 in Aethi Imperium (interstellar empire).
Species
Human/humanoid
About Aethi
The (intentionally anglo-accessible) language of an alien world, designed to be transplantable to most sci-fi universes.
Word order and syntax in Aethi should be familiar to speakers of Western European languages on Earth, particularly English, save for a few quirks: 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 is a distance-neutral indicative rank, there are a few particles/marking auxiliaries, and verbs inflect for more things than in English but less than most familiar languages with heavier inflectional systems.
Word order and syntax in Aethi should be familiar to speakers of Western European languages on Earth, particularly English, save for a few quirks: 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 is a distance-neutral indicative rank, there are a few particles/marking auxiliaries, and verbs inflect for more things than in English but less than most familiar languages with heavier inflectional systems.
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) | d͡ʒ | t͡ɬ | d͡ɮ | ||||||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||
Approximant | j | |||||||||||||||||
Flap | ɾ |
Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Near- back | Back | |||||
Close | i: [i̠]1 | u: | ||||||||
Near-close | ɪ | ʊ | ||||||||
Close-mid | e | |||||||||
Mid | e̞ | |||||||||
Near-open | ɐ:2 | |||||||||
Open | a | ä | ɒ |
Polyphthongs | ɐi | e̞i |
- before other vowels, allophone of /ɪ/
- 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.
AethiOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
AE ae AE ae aeya /e/ | Ee Ee eser'aeya /e̞/ | Mm Mm ma /m/ | Vv Vv va /v/ | Dd Dd de /d/ | Tt Tt tam /t/ | Aa Aa ata /ä/ | AA aa AA aa eser'ata /ɐ:/1 | Jj Jj je /d͡ʒ/ | Zz Zz za /z/ |
ZH zh ZH zh zha /ʒ/ | Ss Ss sa /s/ | Nn Nn nam /n/ | Ii Ii isi /ɪ/ | II ii II ii eser'isi /i:/ | Ll Ll le /l/ | Rr Rr ri /ɾ/ | TL tl TL tl tle /t͡ɬ/ | DL dl DL dl dle /d͡ɮ/ | Uu Uu uth /ʊ/ |
UU uu UU uu eser'uth /u:/ | Oo Oo olo /ɒ/ | Yy Yy ye /j/ | TH th TH th tha /θ/ | Hh Hh ha /h/ | Kk Kk ke /k̠/ | ' ' daia / elni // | - - eser'elni // | TJ tj TJ tj /t͡ʃ/2 | SZH szh SZH szh /ʃ/3 |
✔ Shown in correct order [change] |
- near-back; not quite central.
- loan words only
- loan words only