Asteran

Asteran is the liturgical and institutional language of the Choir of the Nine Chords. It is a severe, choral, highly ordered language used for doctrine, ritual song, legal authority, and acts of containment. Its sound is clean and chantable, with pure vowels, long vowels, strict consonant rules, and a signature ts sound. Grammatically, Asteran is genderless, articleless, case-heavy, and mostly verb-final. Nouns decline for seven cases, adjectives agree in case and number, and verbs mark person, number, tense, mood, and passive voice. The language uses a base-9 number system, reflecting the sacred structure of the Nine Chords.