Alchemic [ALC]
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Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species
Human/humanoid
About Alchemic
Alchemic, or Onyadoranov, is spoken by the Alchemes (also known as the Onyadora), a civilization of celestial beings who have grasped deep alchemic arts that allow them to freely transform their bodies and the world around them.
Sample of Alchemic[view] Nekoita ko ranov eitxìnsai ko ranov kwatade
My future is in my past and my past is my present.[view all texts]
My future is in my past and my past is my present.[view all texts]
Language family relationships
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Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||||
| Nasal | m | n [n:]1 | [ŋ]2 | |||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p p: | b | t t: | d [d:]3 | k k: | |||||||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | θ | ð | s s: | ʃ | [x]4 | h | ||||||||||
| Affricate | [t͡ʃ:]5 | |||||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | [ɹ̥]6 | [j]7 | [w]8 | |||||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||||||
- Allophone of /n/ after nasalized vowels, also occurs when /nn/ appears due to affixation
- Sometimes inserted between a nasal vowel and an oral vowel in hiatus
- Allophone of /d/ following /t/ or /ɾ/, previous is deleted
- Generally occurs in free variation with /h/, but is mandatory after non-semi-vowel consonants
- Only occurs when sequence /tʃ/ appears due to affixation
- Occurs word-finally, allophone of /ɾ/
- allophone of /i/
- allophone of /u/
| Vowels | Front | Central | Near- back | Back | ||||
| Close | i i: | ɨ | u u: | |||||
| Near-close | [ʊ]1 | |||||||
| Close-mid | [e]2 | [o]3 | ||||||
| Open-mid | ɛ ɛ̃ | ɔ ɔ̃ | ||||||
| Open | a a: ã: ã | |||||||
| Polyphthongs | eɪ | aʊ | aɪ | oɪ |
- Occurs before ɾ, allophone of /u/
- Occurs before /ɔ/ and /oɪ/, allophone of /ɛ/
- Occurs after /ɛ/, allophone of /ɔ/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Alchemic. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 AlchemicOrthography [edit] | ||||||||
| a/a/ | aa/a:/ | aang/ã:/ | ang/ã/ | b/b/ | c/θ/ | d/d/ | e/ɛ/ | eng/ɛ̃/ |
| f/f/ | g[ŋ]1 | h/h/ | i/i/ | ì/ɨ/ | ii/i:/ | k/k/ | kk/k:/ | l/l/ |
| m/m/ | n/n/ | o/ɔ/ | ong/ɔ̃/ | p/p/ | pp/p:/ | r/ɾ/ | s/s/ | ss/s:/ |
| t/t/ | tt/t:/ | u/u/ | uu/u:/ | w[w] | x/ʃ/ | y[j] | z/ð/ | |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||
- Sometimes inserted between a nasal vowel and an oral vowel in hiatus
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