Ashcant

Natively known as: aeshkent /aˈeshkent/

 

Spelling & Phonology

  Consonant inventory: j k l m n p q r s t w ç ɸ ʧ
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↓Manner/Place→	Bilabial	Alveolar	Palato-alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Uvular
Nasal	m	n
Stop	p	t			k	q
Affricate			ʧ
Fricative	ɸ	s		ç
Approximant				j
Trill		r
Lateral approximant		l

  Co-articulated phonemes
 

↓Manner/Place→	Labial-velar
Approximant	w

  Vowel inventory: a e i o u
 

	Front	Back
High	i	u
High-mid	e	o
Low	a

  Syllable structure: (C)(C)V(C)(C)(C) ?
Stress pattern: Penultimate — stress is on the second last syllable ?
  Spelling rules:
 

Pronunciation	Spelling
j	y
ʧ	ch
ɸ	f
ç	sh

 

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Grammar

  Sentence word order: Subject-Verb-Indirect object-Direct object. “She gave the dog a bone” turns into She gave the dog a bone.
Adjective order: Adjectives are positioned before the noun.
Adposition: postpositions ?
 

Nouns

 

Definite

 

	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Singular	If ends with vowel: Suffix -çi Else: Suffix -içi knipishi /kniˈpiçi/ the boy	Suffix -urts wiktsaurts /wiktˈsaurts/ the girl	If ends with vowel: Suffix -rsti Else: Suffix -orsti tirporsti /tirˈporsti/ the dog
Plural	Suffix -a knipa /ˈknipa/ the boys	If ends with vowel: Suffix -qe Else: Suffix -eqe wiktsaqe /wiktˈsaqe/ the girls	If ends with vowel: Suffix -rtre Else: Suffix -ertre tirpertre /tirˈpertre/ the dogs

Indefinite

 

	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Singular	If ends with vowel: Suffix -ntl Else: Suffix -untl knipuntl /ˈknipuntl/ a boy	If ends with vowel: Suffix -rr Else: Suffix -urr wiktsarr /ˈwiktsarr/ a girl	Suffix -imp tirpimp /ˈtirpimp/ a dog
Plural	Suffix -i knipi /ˈknipi/ some boys	Suffix -erp wiktsaerp /wiktˈsaerp/ some girls	If ends with vowel: Suffix -rts Else: Suffix -arts tirparts /ˈtirparts/ some dogs

 

Articles

  Ashcant encodes definite article ‘the’, and indefinite article ‘a’ in noun affixes. See Noun section.

 

Pronouns

 

1st singular	yim /jim/ I, me, mine
2nd singular	chtu /ʧtu/ you, yours
3rd singular masc	kerr /kerr/ he, him, his,
3rd singular fem	i /i/ she, her, hers,
3rd singular neuter	mo /mo/ it (nt.), its (nt.)
1st plural	shyamp /çjamp/ we, us, ours
2nd plural	ro /ro/ you all, yours (pl)
3rd plural masc	sops /sops/ they (m.), them (m.), theirs (m.)
3rd plural fem	tol /tol/ they (f.), them (f.), theirs (f.)
3rd plural neuter	rum /rum/ they (nt.), them (nt.), theirs (nt.)

 

Possession

 

	Possessive
1st singular	wich /wiʧ/ my
2nd singular	nru /nru/ your
3rd singular masc	shulpt /çulpt/ his
3rd singular fem	ef /eɸ/ her
3rd singular neuter	mo /mo/ his, her, its (nt.)
1st plural	mi /mi/ our
2nd plural	staps /staps/ your (pl)
3rd plural masc	lo /lo/ their (m.)
3rd plural fem	su /su/ their (f.)
3rd plural neuter	a /a/ their (nt.)

  Ashcant marks the the possessed noun with an affix, rather than the possessor.
E.g. manʼs dog.

Possessed

Suffix -o tirpo /ˈtirpo/ (possessorʼs) dog

 

Verbs

 

Present	No affix sri /sri/ learn
Past	If ends with vowel: Suffix -rr Else: Suffix -irr srirr /srirr/ learned

  Ashcant uses a standalone particle word for future tense:

Future

Particle before the verb: i - i sri /i sri/ will learn

 
 

Numbers

  Ashcant has a base-10 number system:
  1 - nyil
2 - shye
3 - psha
4 - chtu
5 - mench
6 - wi
7 - ips
8 - yip
9 - sik
10 - psho
11 - kloq
12 - ko
13 - pa
14 - omch
15 - nyi
16 - wa
17 - nru
18 - nrim
19 - shunrosyi
20 - shyoyo
100 - pship
1000 - pep