Astarian [ASTAR]
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Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Place & SpeakersAstarian is spoken in Astar, Eastern Orayen.
Species
Human/humanoid
About Astarian
vaguely slavic
Language family relationships
Language treeAmaro-Damsetian
⤷ Proto-Amaro-Damsetian
⤷ Proto-Amari
⤷ Old Amari
⤷ Middle Astarian
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Astarian
⤷ Proto-Amaro-Damsetian
⤷ Proto-Amari
⤷ Old Amari
⤷ Middle Astarian
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Astarian[view] About Amaro-DamsetianBKE = before Keassa's Era
KE = Keassa's Era (lasted for 1258 years)
NE = New Era (follows Keassa's Era)
KE = Keassa's Era (lasted for 1258 years)
NE = New Era (follows Keassa's Era)
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | ||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | [ŋ]1 | ||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | c | ɟ | k | g | ||||
| Fricative | [ɸ]2 | [β]3 | f | v | s | z | ʃ | ʒ | x | [ɣ]4 | ||
| Affricate | t͡s | d͡z | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | ||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||
| Approximant | j | |||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||
- allophone of /n/
- allophone of /p/
- allophone of /b/
- allophone of /x/
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i i: | ɨ ɨ: | u u: | |||
| Mid | e̞1 e̞: | o̞2 o̞: | ||||
| Open | a3 a: | |||||
- /e~e̞~ɛ/
- /o~o̞~ɔ/
- /a~ɑ/
Syllable Structure(C)(C)(C)(j)V(C)(C)(C)
Stress informationPrimary stress on penultimate syllable.
OtherDialectal variations:
Post-alveolar consonants are in free variation with their retroflex counterparts.
/Cj/ can be pronounced as palatalized /Cʲ/.
Palatal fricatives have quite a wild range of /ʃj~ɕ~ç/ and /ʒj~ʑ~ʝ/. As for the affricates, they assimilated with stops in most dialects (/t͡ʃj~c͡ç~c/ and /d͡ʒj~ɟ͡ʝ~ɟ/, with the plosives being slightly affricated in a number of dialects).
Vowels also have a wide range (/a~ɐ~ɑ/, /e~e̞~ɛ~æ/, /ɨ~ɪ~ə/, /o~o̞~ɔ/, /u~ʊ/) but the variations generally do not contrast.
Post-alveolar consonants are in free variation with their retroflex counterparts.
/Cj/ can be pronounced as palatalized /Cʲ/.
Palatal fricatives have quite a wild range of /ʃj~ɕ~ç/ and /ʒj~ʑ~ʝ/. As for the affricates, they assimilated with stops in most dialects (/t͡ʃj~c͡ç~c/ and /d͡ʒj~ɟ͡ʝ~ɟ/, with the plosives being slightly affricated in a number of dialects).
Vowels also have a wide range (/a~ɐ~ɑ/, /e~e̞~ɛ~æ/, /ɨ~ɪ~ə/, /o~o̞~ɔ/, /u~ʊ/) but the variations generally do not contrast.
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Astarian. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| AstarianOrthography [edit] | |||||||||||
| Aa Aa /a/1 | Áá Áá /a:/ | Bb Bb /b/, [β] | CZ cz CZ cz /t͡ʃ/ | Dd Dd /ɟ/, /d/ | DZ dz DZ dz /d͡z/ | DZS dzs DZS dzs /d͡ʒ/ | Éé Éé /e̞:/ | Ee Ee /e̞/2 | Ff Ff /f/ | Gg Gg /g/ | Hh Hh /x/, [ɣ] |
| Ii Ii /i/ | Íí Íí /i:/ | Jj Jj /j/ | Kk Kk /k/ | Ll Ll /l/ | Mm Mm /m/ | Nn Nn /n/, /ɲ/, [ŋ] | Óó Óó /o̞:/ | Oo Oo /o̞/3 | Pp Pp /p/, [ɸ] | Rr Rr /r/ | Ss Ss /s/ |
| SZ sz SZ sz /ʃ/ | Tt Tt /t/, /c/ | TS ts TS ts /t͡s/ | Uu Uu /u/ | Úú Úú /u:/ | Vv Vv /v/ | Ýý Ýý /ɨ:/ | Yy Yy /ɨ/ | Zz Zz /z/ | ZS zs ZS zs /ʒ/ | ||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||||
- /a~ɑ/
- /e~e̞~ɛ/
- /o~o̞~ɔ/
