Levantine [LVT]
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Levantine
ешшамые [eʃʃa:mɪje]
ешшамые [eʃʃa:mɪje]
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Language type
A posteriori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Levantine
A language descended from colloquial Arabic in an alternate history where the Russian Empire conquered the Ottoman territory around the Levant and Iraq.
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Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | Pharyngeal | Glottal | ||||||||||
Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||||||||||
Plosive | (p)1 | b | t tˤ | d dˤ | k | (g) | (q)2 | ʔ | ||||||||||||
Fricative | f | (v) | s sˤ | z zˤ | ʃ | ʒ | x | ɣ | ħ | ʕ | h | |||||||||
Affricate | (t͡s) | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | |||||||||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||||
Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||||||
Trill | r |
Blends | jɑ | jo | ju | ʃtʃ |
- only found in Russian, Greek and Turkic loans
- only in loans from Standard Arabic, often merged with /ʔ/ or /k/
Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Near- back | Back | |||||
Close | i: | u: | ||||||||
Near-close | ɪ | ʊ | ||||||||
Close-mid | e e: | [o]1 o: | ||||||||
Open-mid | [ʌ]2 | [ɔ:]3 | ||||||||
Near-open | æ | |||||||||
Open | ä: | [ɑ]4 |
- allophone of /ʊ/
- allophone of /æ/
- allophone of /ä:/
- allophone of /æ/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Levantine. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
LevantineOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
Аа/ä:/, [ɔ:] | Бб/b/ | Вв/v/1, /w/ | Гг/g/2 | Дд/d/ | Ёё/jo/ | Ее/ɪ/, /e/, /e:/ | Жж/ʒ/ | Зз/z/ | Ии/i:/ | Йй/j/ |
Кк/k/ | Лл/l/ | Мм/m/ | Нн/n/ | Оо/ʊ/, [o] | Пп/p/3 | Рр/r/ | Сс/s/ | Тт/t/ | Уу/u:/ | Фф/f/ |
Хх/x/ | Цц/t͡s/4 | Чч/t͡ʃ/ | Шш/ʃ/ | Щщ/ʃtʃ/ | Ъъ//, /ʕ/ | Ыы/ɪ/, [e] | Ьь// | Ээ/æ/, [ɑ], [ʌ] | Юю/ju/ | Яя/jɑ/ |
Ғғ/ɣ/ | Ҙҙ/zˤ/ | Ққ/ʔ/, /q/5 | Ҫҫ/sˤ/ | Ҭҭ/tˤ/ | Ҳҳ/ħ/ | Һһ/h/ | Ꚁꚁ/dˤ/ | |||
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |
- loan words only
- loan words only
- only found in Russian, Greek and Turkic loans, loan words only
- loan words only
- only in loans from Standard Arabic, often merged with /ʔ/ or /k/, loan words only