The Ascian language is a fictional language invented by Gene Wolfe for his science fiction series The Book of the New Sun. The language is spoken by the...

liquid mercury. The Ascian language further expounds on the idea that word choice alters the thinking of people, as the Ascian language is simply a set of...

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Philosophy of language Politics and the English Language Sapir–Whorf hypothesis Soviet phraseology Un-word of the year Fiction: Ascian language Nadsat The...

on November 18, 2013, followed by the United Kingdom the next day. Ascian language Utamakura – Rhetorical concept in Japanese poetry Hoffman, Jordan (November...

Tailchaser's Song Gene Wolfe: Ascian in The Book of the New Sun Conlangers whose languages are neither international auxiliary languages nor part of popular media...

no doubt, after hearing the Ascian, that by it he could express whatever thought he wished." Several constructed languages are closer to the oligosynthetic...

orthodox science fiction framework". It was published in German and French-language editions within the decade. His best-known and most highly regarded work...

of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages. It developed from the languages brought to Great...

novel The Book of the New Sun describes the North American "Ascian" people as speaking a language composed entirely of quotations that have been approved...

setting. Eons ago, Hydaelyn sundered the world to imprison Zodiark. The Ascians, Zodiark's immortal servants, trigger Calamities on the Source to "Rejoin"...

moogles, aided by Ascians, have summoned a primal, Good King Moggle Mog XII. After besting him, the Warrior encounters the enigmatic Ascian Emissary, Elidibus...

An example of retained /sk/ is PG *aiskōną > OE ascian > ModE ask; there is evidence that OE ascian was sometimes rendered metathetized to acsian, which...

nations—Gridania, Limsa Lominsa, and Ul'dah—and the Garlean Empire also appear. The Ascians, immortal servants of the dark god Zodiark, continue their machinations...

drawn into war against armies of the North composed of people known as Ascians. Severian nearly perishes but is rescued by the androgynous spy he met...

/ʃ/) In wegas ("ways") the [ɣ] is not affected due to the following /ɑ/ In āscian ("ask", from earlier *aiskōjaną) the /sk/ remains due to the /ō/ For word-initial...

confrontation with the Warrior of Light. Zenos is assisted by the nihilistic Ascian Fandaniel, who wants the Final Days to occur so everyone, himself included...

the /s/ switched. This example has a long history: the Old English verb áscian also appeared as acsian, and both forms continued into Middle English, the...

Commentators have suggested that the name of the masque's main character Ascian might be a reference "to the people of Gene Wolfe's novel The Book of the...

necessarily somewhat speculative since it is preserved only as a written language. Nevertheless, there is a very large text corpus of Middle English. The...

desolate wasteland known as the Void thanks to the machinations of the Ascians. Originally a memoriate named Durante, he and his companion Golbez hailed...