Cân Gert [CGT]
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Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species
Human/humanoid
About Cân Gert
Cân Gert is a philosophical, artistic language created by Frederic Bayer. Its name means "short language" in Cân Gert, and brevity is among its major design goals. It features a strongly isolating but partly agglutinating morphology. The name is a nod to its original inspiration, Toki Pona, whose own name means "good language".
The guiding principles for Cân Gert are brevity, clarity, and ease of use.
The language is a priori in the sense that it is not derived from another language by way of regular sound changes and identifiable diachronic grammatical developments.
However, as its vocabulary is mostly derived (albeit often in opaque ways) from the Scottish Gaelic lexicon, it could arguably be described as an a posteriori language, depending on the definition applied. For instance, "cân" derives from cànan (language), and "gert" derives from goirid (short). A few aspects of Cân Gert's grammar are also inspired by it.
Occasionally, words from other languages contribute to choices of root words. For example, sû meaning "water, liquid, juice" is ostensibly derived from Gaelic sùgh (juice), but this choice is also influenced by Turkish su (water).
The guiding principles for Cân Gert are brevity, clarity, and ease of use.
The language is a priori in the sense that it is not derived from another language by way of regular sound changes and identifiable diachronic grammatical developments.
However, as its vocabulary is mostly derived (albeit often in opaque ways) from the Scottish Gaelic lexicon, it could arguably be described as an a posteriori language, depending on the definition applied. For instance, "cân" derives from cànan (language), and "gert" derives from goirid (short). A few aspects of Cân Gert's grammar are also inspired by it.
Occasionally, words from other languages contribute to choices of root words. For example, sû meaning "water, liquid, juice" is ostensibly derived from Gaelic sùgh (juice), but this choice is also influenced by Turkish su (water).
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Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ʔ | |||||||
| Fricative | f | v | s | [x]1 | h | |||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||
| Approximant | [ɹ]2 | j | w | |||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||
| Flap | [ɾ]3 | |||||||||||||
- allophone of /h/
- allophone of /r/
- allophone of /ɾ/
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Near- back | Back | ||||
| Close | i: | u: | ||||||
| Near-close | ɪ | ʊ | ||||||
| Close-mid | e: | o: | ||||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | ||||||
| Open | a a: | |||||||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Cân Gert. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 Cân GertOrthography | |||||||||
| Aa/a/ | Bb/b/ | Cc/k/ | Dd/d/ | Ee/ɛ/ | Ff/f/ | Gg/g/ | Hh/h/, [x] | Ii/j/, /ɪ/ | Ll/l/ |
| Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Oo/ɔ/ | Pp/p/ | Rr/r/, [ɾ], [ɹ] | Ss/s/ | Tt/t/ | Uu/w/, /ʊ/ | Vv/v/ | |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order | |||||||||
