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Name: Asari
Native Name:  Asári

A Priori or Posteriori?:  A Priori
Isolate or Related?: Isolate

Numbers?: 2
Which?: Singular, Plural

Native Script?: Yes
Romanized?: Yes

Predominant Affix Type: Prefix
Variable or Absolute Affixes?:  Absolute

Primary Word Order: SVO
Alternate?: None

Declined?: Yes
Conjugated?: Yes

Basic Syllable Structure?:  (C)VV(C) or (C)V(C)V
Tonality?: No
Stress Position: First syllabe, unless specified otherwise by accented vowel
Affixes or Particles: Particles

Cases?: Yes
Number of Cases?: 4
Which?: Nominative, Accusative, Dative, Genitive

Pronouns?: Yes
Gender?: No

Adjectives Agree with Nouns?: Yes
Compounds?: No

Theme: to create a regal, Asari-like language with the orthography based off of Asari place names and proper names, and the grammar based off of what I feel fits a race such as the Asari.  For example:  All Asari are inherently female, even though gender does not necessarily mean anything to them, so their langauge does not distinguish between natural gender.  So technically Neuter = Feminine, even though there is no Masculine to distinguish it.


I know this might seem like a fairly standard language, but I felt like that was the best fit for the Asari.  I plan to branch out into more experimental language types with the other ME races.
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Outline for the Asari language. Asari=[link]


==Mass Effect Language Project Coming Soon!==
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Teach me to speak Turian.

Or Drell? Or maybe even Geth?

:P
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~SPARTAN-004 Jan 27, 2013  Hobbyist Artist
I haven't even begun to work out those ones yet! :) I do plan to make a Turian language, and hopefully there is enough of a basis to reate a Drell one, but I only have a very small amount of names to go off..
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There was an amazing ME fanfic I read part of, with tidbits of alien languages.

I remember the Drell language being based loosely of Turkish, and Quarian being based off of Russian because of Tali's accent.
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~SPARTAN-004 Feb 2, 2013  Hobbyist Artist
I was thinking of a slavic orthogaphy for Quarian, but I don't know how the actual grammar would be set up, because it seems to be somewhat agglutinative, just as Salarian seems to be. (when many different grammatical factors are contained in one word, such as case, tense, mood, and more)


There was a Salarian planet, I think it was called Kaleesh or something, that was named after the word for "it's still winter". That's technically an entire statement in one word.

I would expect Salarian to be like this though, because they have such short lives, it makes sense for them to have a language that allows them to get a lot of thought and knowledge out in little time. It would also be useful for scientific research because sentences can contain a lot of information that way.
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Maybe it could be part-polysynthetic, part-fusional?
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~SPARTAN-004 Feb 3, 2013  Hobbyist Artist
Maybe :P
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I'd love to collaborate.

Have people ever collaborated on conlangs before?
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~SPARTAN-004 Feb 7, 2013  Hobbyist Artist
I'm technically collaborating with Waahlis on this project, but we've both been busy (or at least I have) so work has been slow. If you'd like to help, I'd be glad to add you to the team!
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~Rostov-na-don Jan 26, 2013  Hobbyist Digital Artist
*chuckle chuckle*
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~SPARTAN-004 Jan 26, 2013  Hobbyist Artist
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