Anvalu [ANVAL]
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Language type
Mixed
Species
Human/humanoid
About Anvalu
Language spoken by the spirits of Rocosia, with a top-to-bottom abugida inspired by plant sprouts and ferns. SOV, head-final, polite/casual forms of speech. Influences from German, French, and Japanese. (Mainly Japanese.) Cases/moods undecided, grammar largely nonexistent. A major WIP, especially now that I'm reconstructing it.
Updates include getting rid of <ø> as a "null vowel," making the language ACTUALLY head-final, and changing romanization so it's closer to Anšyami. The two will actually look somewhat related now, yay!
For the sake of my sanity, pretend all of the definitions of nouns are plural. It was rare for early Anvalu speakers to see a single object, so the language is plural by default.
Updates include getting rid of <ø> as a "null vowel," making the language ACTUALLY head-final, and changing romanization so it's closer to Anšyami. The two will actually look somewhat related now, yay!
For the sake of my sanity, pretend all of the definitions of nouns are plural. It was rare for early Anvalu speakers to see a single object, so the language is plural by default.
Language family relationships
Language treeLanguages of Rocosia
⤷ Language of the Gods
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Anvalu
⤷ Language of the Gods
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Anvalu[view] About Languages of RocosiaUsually influenced IRL by French, Asian languages, and Eastern European languages. Typically made up of CV(V)(N) syllables, and derive roots from the names of the gods.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Velar | Glottal | ||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | gʶ | ||||||
| Fricative | ɸ | v | s | z | ʃ | ʒ | ɦ | |||||
| Affricate | t͡s | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | |||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||
| Vowels | Front | Back | ||
| Close | i | y | u | |
| Close-mid | e | o | ||
| Open | a | |||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Anvalu. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| AnvaluOrthography [edit] | ||||||||
| Aa/a/ | Bb/b/ | Dd/d/ | DŽ dž/d͡ʒ/ | Ee/e/ | Ff/ɸ/ | Gg/gʶ/ | Hh/ɦ/ | Ii/i/ |
| Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Oo/o/ | Pp/p/ | Rr/ɾ/ | Ss/s/ | Šš/ʃ/ |
| Tt/t/ | TS ts/t͡s/ | TŠ tš/t͡ʃ/ | Uu/u/ | Ūū/y/ | Vv/v/ | Zz/z/ | Žž/ʒ/ | |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||
