Asshai is a land in Essos far to the east of the Dothraki Sea. From the Wiki of Ice and Fire:
Asshai is a mysterious port city located in the far south-east of Essos, where the Ash river meets the Jade Sea at its eastern exit, the Saffron Straits. Asshai is on the southernmost edge of a mountainous peninsula known as the Shadow Lands, thus the city is often called Asshai by the Shadow or Asshai-by-the-Shadow. To go to Asshai can be described as to “pass beneath the shadow”, and the area of the Shadow Lands and Asshai are sometimes referred to simply as the Shadow.
- Challenge Level: Intermediate
- Wiki of Ice and Fire Entry for Asshai
- Characters Associated with Asshai: Melisandre, Mirri Maz Duur (non-native), Maester Marwyn (non-native)
Proto-Phonology
Consonants
| Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plain | Labialized | ||||||
| Stops | p/b | t/d | k/ɡ | kʷ/ɡʷ | ʔ | ||
| Fricatives | θ | s | ç | x | xʷ | h | |
| Nasals | m | n | ŋ | ŋʷ | |||
| Approximants | r, l | j | w | ||||
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i, iː | u, uː | |
| Close-Mid | e, eː | o, oː | |
| Open-Mid | ɛ, ɛː | ǝ, ǝː | ɔ, ɔː |
| Open | a, aː |
Note: For the sake of simplicity, the following changes have been made to the usual phonetic descriptions of various IPA characters:
- “Labial” is used as a cover term for bilabial and labio-dental.
- [ǝ] has been placed in the Open Mid row.
- To shorten the tables, “Approximant” is used as a cover term for approximants, glides, taps, and trills.
- Where a consonant or pair of consonants appears in two columns, it means that place distinction is unimportant for the phoneme(s) in question.