Churra [CHU]
▲
7▲ 7 ▼ 0
Registered by
[Deactivated User] on 10 February 2014
Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Churra
Churra is spoken by the Chasrae, an alien race with similar but somewhat different vocal tract than our own. The language features a few sounds unpronounceable by humans, but these are replaced with nasals, which are unpronounceable by the Chasrae.
Churra has the unique property of determining its tense solely through the word order of its major arguments.
Churra has the unique property of determining its tense solely through the word order of its major arguments.
Sample of Churra[view] baalimaj iqei lu ljj buqa, piw iqei fukula koihmit lu wei zimik il.
I came out to have a good time and I’m honestly feeling so attacked right now.[view all texts]
I came out to have a good time and I’m honestly feeling so attacked right now.[view all texts]
Language family relationships
[view] About IsolatesThis is a family for isolate languages.
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Alveolo- palatal | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||||||||
Nasal | mˤ | nˤ | ŋˤ | |||||||||||||||||||
Plosive | b | p̪ | t | c | k | q | ||||||||||||||||
Fricative | ɸ | v | ð | s s̩: | ʒ | ɕ ɕ̩: | x | ʁ | h h̩: | |||||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||||||
Approximant | j | w |
Vowels | Front | Back | ||
Close | i i: | u u: | ||
Open | a a: |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Churra. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
ChurraOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
Aa/a/ | AA aa/a:/ | Bb/b/ | Cc/c/ | Dd/ð/ | Ee/ʲ/ | Ff/ɸ/ | Gg/ŋˤ/ | Hh/h/ | HH hh/h̩:/ | Ii/i/ |
II ii/i:/ | Jj/ɕ/ | JJ jj/ɕ̩:/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/mˤ/ | Nn/nˤ/ | Oo/ʷ/ | Pp/p̪/ | Qq/q/ | Rr/ʁ/ |
Ss/s/ | SS ss/s̩:/ | Tt/t/ | Uu/u/ | UU uu/u:/ | Vv/v/ | Ww/w/ | Xx/x/ | Yy/j/ | Zz/ʒ/ | |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |