Asha'ille Writing

Scripts

The kateinu yiréb is the modern script used to write Asha'ille. There is even a basic font available!

Another script, no longer in use, is the sarapin.

Corpus

Note: The texts below are maintained as they were originally written. Asha'ille grammar has likely changed in some details since the older texts were written. The grammar description is the canonical reference, should any text here disagree with it.

Relays

Conlang relays are run every now and then. Like the children's game of telephone, the goal is more or less to see how contorted a story can become as it's translated from one language to another.

The "Relay" column in the table below designates the number of the relay, as well as distinguishes which group organized the relay:

#

Relay list (a spinoff of the CONLANG-L list)

I#

Inverse relay (in which someone else writes in your conlang!)

LCC#

Language Creation Conference

Z#

Zompist forum

CBB

Conlanger forum

The "Date" column in the table below corresponds to when I wrote the text; sometimes I translated an old relay after it had officially completed. If the date has an asterisk following it, that means I was not a relay participant; I merely translated the relay text later.

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Relay	Title	Followed	Date	Status
7½	A Letter			unformatted
8	The Key to the Monastery	Ŝeraɬ	May 2003	complete
9	Thinking About Winter	mërèchi	spring 2004	complete
10/R	Beware of the Baby	Evíendadhail	summer 2004	complete
Z	a haiku	Proto-Drem	May 2004	complete
11	Raviolis	Silindion		complete
12				missing
13	A Joke to Alleviate Your Winter Melancholy	Tatari Faran	Jan/Feb 2006	complete
Z2	The Seed: Parent of the World	Saonian	early 2006	complete
CBB	The Little Turtle and the Evil Rabbit	Cshevraki	early 2006	complete
14			*	incomplete
LCC2	The Stone That Spoke	Greek Sans Flexions	summer 2007	complete
I1	The Nightwatcher	Kamakawi	August 2007	complete
15	—	Märik	spring 2008*	incomplete
16	Morality	Kēlen	fall 2008	complete
LCC3	Into the Waves	Sabasasaj	early 2009	complete
I2	Seasonal Traveling	Kamakawi	July 2009	complete

McGuffey Readers

Based on the revised editions of McGuffey's classic graded readers, you can practice your Asha'ille reading skills with these monolingual readers. While not available yet, I will also be making these texts into the interlinear format, for those of you who can't read straight Asha'ille just yet. ;)

For practice in Asha'ille, try translating the Review section from either language into the other. Since the actual translations are included at the bottom of the interlinearizations, you can self-correct your translations.

Eclectic Revised Edition

• McGuffey Primer Revised, Lessons 1–5
• McGuffey Primer Revised, Lessons 6–10
• McGuffey Primer Revised, Lessons 11–15
• McGuffey Primer Revised, Lessons 16–20

• McGuffey First Reader Revised, Lessons 1–9

Gutenberg Edition

• McGuffey First Reader, Part I
• McGuffey First Reader, Part II
• McGuffey First Reader, Part III

Miscellaneous

Informal Writing

• My personal blog has some entries in Asha'ille (interlinearized here)
• Interlinearized emails

Poetry

• Ne Arásh Illenim Seni, an original poem
• Afraid, a poem
• Fear litany, from Dune
• The One Ring, a translation of Tolkien's poem
• Elokuno, a poem translation exercise
• The Ecstasy of Creation, a poem translation exercise

Other Texts

• North Wind and the Sun, the first Asha'ille text translated
• Genesis 11:1–9, the story of Babel
• Gate of the Year, a translation exercise
• Random sentences