Colese [CHL]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Colese
Colese is one of Edievian's sister languages, spoken in modern-day Bulgaria. Unlike Edievian, Colese ended up liking the Greeks and the language was overwhelmed with Grecian loanwords, along with Latin and Slavic ones.
Lenition was rampant in the language's evolution, with a mass amount of plosives turning into fricatives in a variety of environments. Gemination and palatalization stopped this fricativization, in contrast to Edievian, where palatalization was a large factor in the consonant system.
Grammatically, it is a VSO language with adjectives following nouns. Verbs can take many suffxes and prefixes for mood, polarity, and voice. Nouns come in singular and plural. and like Edievian, ablaut signifies the singular/plural distinction.
Lenition was rampant in the language's evolution, with a mass amount of plosives turning into fricatives in a variety of environments. Gemination and palatalization stopped this fricativization, in contrast to Edievian, where palatalization was a large factor in the consonant system.
Grammatically, it is a VSO language with adjectives following nouns. Verbs can take many suffxes and prefixes for mood, polarity, and voice. Nouns come in singular and plural. and like Edievian, ablaut signifies the singular/plural distinction.
Sample of Colese[view] Aphnashan iam ûman bhu je samach zhegha fanualtogh je dhishuam. Aphtashan lozhec jo riontorth, jo ophilan thaliath ili sua tropia un chabhaltogh.
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.[view all texts]
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.[view all texts]
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | Other | |||||||||
Nasal | m | n | [ŋ]1 | |||||||||||||||
Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ||||||||||||
Fricative | f | v | θ | ð | s | ʃ | ʒ | x | ɣ | h | ||||||||
Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||
Approximant | j | [ɥ]2 | ||||||||||||||||
Flap | ɾ |
Blends | wa | ja |
- before any velar obstruent, allophone of /n/
- before /ø/ and /y/, allophone of /j/
Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
Close | i | y | ɨ̈ | u | ||
Close-mid | e | ø | o | |||
Mid | ə | |||||
Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | ||||
Open | a |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Colese. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
ColeseOrthography [edit] | |||||||||||
Aa/a/ | Bb/b/ | Cc/k/ | Dd/d/ | Êê/e/ | Ee/ɛ/ | Ff/f/ | Gg/g/ | Hh/h/ | Îî/ɨ̈/ | Ii/i/ | Jj/j/, [ɥ]1 |
Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Ôô/o/ | Oo/ɔ/ | Pp/p/ | Rr/ɾ/ | Ss/s/ | Tt/t/ | Uu/u/ | Ûû/ə/ | Vv/v/ |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |
- before /ø/ and /y/