Andrew Nation

The Arusian language is restrictive concerning syllable structure, as it only allows a fixed set of syllables to be used in building new words.

Arusian syllables in general never end with /e/, /ow/ or /i/; they never begin with a vowel (even if they do seem to begin with a vowel, there is a glottal stop there); and they can end with /f/, /m/, /p/, /d/, /s/, /ʃ/, /z/, /ʒ/, /g/ and with /t/ and /k/ (which can alternate with /ʔ/ in faster or lazy speech). The following syllables are impossible in Arusian: bi, be, be, big, mig, vi, si, se, etc.

U and WEI are “special” pronouns in Arusian, because they don’t behave like other words and personal pronouns. In this article, we will explain their functions and why they can be considered resumptive pronouns.

Resumptive pronouns are a category of pronouns that simply refer back to an element already mentioned before. They are quite common in languages like Arabic, Hebrew, and Brazilian Portuguese. Although in Portuguese they are mostly optional, albeit common in speech, in Arabic and Hebrew they are mandatory in certain syntactic structures. In Arusian, the pronouns u and wei are also mandatory, as their omission can lead to ambiguity. Resumptive pronouns in Arusian allows you to make longer and more complex sentences.

Arusian classifies words in a different way from European languages and it has fewer categories. Prepositions, adjectives, and conjunctions don't really exist in Arusian and their roles might be replaced by co-verbs or intransitive verbs. In this post we will show you two different views on Arusian word classes according to their morphosyntactic behavior in sentences.

This post aims to investigate how word order in Arusian, which is considerably freer than English, affects formality and characterises colloquial and formal registers.

INTRANSITIVE VERBS​

Arusian distinguishes transitivity and voice in verbs morphologically.

Intransitive verbs are characterised by the morphemes -a and -ei (depending on the voice). Later, we will see that they often function as nouns, and not as verbs. We will explain why this happens.

This post is the second out of a series of posts on which we will compare Arusian to some Asian languages to test and seek features that might be similar. In this post, we will be comparing Arusian to Cantonese by taking into consideration five main features:

• Morphology and word building
• Topic-Comment syntax
• Adpositions
• Relative Clauses
• Copula

Please check out the comparison between Arusian and Vietnamese here!

This post is the first out of a series of posts on which we will compare Arusian to some Asian languages to test and seek features that might be similar. In this post, we will be comparing Arusian to Vietnamese by taking into consideration five main features:

• Morphology and word building
• Topic-Comment syntax
• Adpositions
• Relative Clauses
• Copula

After some time working on this project, Juweya and Andrew Nation are pleased to announce Arusian Academy, a place where you can learn more about the Arusan language, people, and culture. By learning Arusian, you also learn a new way to see the world! Learning a new language can have many benefits for you and your brain!