Australian [AUSTR]
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[Deactivated User] on 26 November 2022
Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Place & SpeakersAustralian is spoken by a population of around 4,700,000 in Australia.
Species
Human/humanoid
About Australian
At 11:04 PM on November 26th, 2022, Eden thought: "What if there was an Austronesian language in Australia." And she could not hold back.
Australian is an Austronesian language spoken by various communities in Australia
Features:
○ 5 vowels that are actually 14
○ Verb-initial word order, usually VSO but VOS is also okay
○ Flexible head-marking (isang keys ~ keysang isa "one thing", syang ruma ~ rumang syan "inside the house")
○ Austronesian alignment yay (kita see → kumita see.AGEAgent (role)
cause or initiator of event/action.FOCFocus (syntactic)
shows new or contrastive information; kinita see.PATPatient (role)
recipient or target of event/action.FOCFocus (syntactic)
shows new or contrastive information; kisita see.INSTRInstrumental (case)
'with' 'using'.FOCFocus (syntactic)
shows new or contrastive information)
○ Reduplication slay (kita see → kikita see.PROGProgressive (aspect)
be verb-ing; yaheyu day → yaheyu yaheyu every day)
○ English and Sinitic loans because I like them
Features:
○ 5 vowels that are actually 14
○ Verb-initial word order, usually VSO but VOS is also okay
○ Flexible head-marking (isang keys ~ keysang isa "one thing", syang ruma ~ rumang syan "inside the house")
○ Austronesian alignment yay (kita see → kumita see.AGEAgent (role)
cause or initiator of event/action.FOCFocus (syntactic)
shows new or contrastive information; kinita see.PATPatient (role)
recipient or target of event/action.FOCFocus (syntactic)
shows new or contrastive information; kisita see.INSTRInstrumental (case)
'with' 'using'.FOCFocus (syntactic)
shows new or contrastive information)
○ Reduplication slay (kita see → kikita see.PROGProgressive (aspect)
be verb-ing; yaheyu day → yaheyu yaheyu every day)
○ English and Sinitic loans because I like them
Sample of Australian[view] > kinita na susu ku niyung yaheyu.... mabusa
> saw a snail today…. effervescent[view all texts]
> saw a snail today…. effervescent[view all texts]
Language family relationships
Language treeAustronesian
⤷ Proto-Austronesian
⤷ Malayo-Polynesian
⤷ Nuclear Malayo-Polynesian
⤷ Sunda-Sulawesi
⤷ Australian
⤷ Proto-Austronesian
⤷ Malayo-Polynesian
⤷ Nuclear Malayo-Polynesian
⤷ Sunda-Sulawesi
⤷ Australian
[view] About AustronesianThe Austronesian languages are a language family widely dispersed throughout the islands of Southeast Asia, Madagascar and the Pacific, with a few members on continental Asia, that are spoken by about 386 million people. A German scholar, Wilhelm Sch...
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||||
Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ʔ | |||||||
Fricative | s | ʃ | h | |||||||||||
Affricate | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | ||||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||
Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||
Trill | r |
Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
Close | i | u | ||||
Mid | e̞ | ə | o̞ | |||
Open | ä |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Australian. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
AustralianOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
Aa/ä/ | Bb/b/ | Cc/t͡ʃ/ | Dd/d/ | Ee/ə/, /e̞/ | Gg/g/ | Hh/h/ | Ii/i/ | Jj/d͡ʒ/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ |
Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | NG ng/ŋ/ | Oo/o̞/ | Pp/p/ | Rr/r/ | Ss/s/ | Tt/t/ | Uu/u/ | Ww/w/ | Yy/j/ |
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