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Costanian
Kostaniet linger
[kostæniət liŋgeɹ]*
Registered by [Deactivated User] on 28 December 2021
Language type A posteriori
Place & SpeakersCostanian is spoken in COST.
Species Human/humanoid
About Costanian Costanian language (Kostaniet linger) is an official laguage of the Republic of Costania, an island nation located south-west of Ireland. It's a germanic language, but within it, it makes its own branch. It's a semi-agglutinative language with simple grammar.
Sample of Costanian[view] Eie iem levone!

We are lions!
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Latest vocabulary
marknmaking
marknwork
markndoing
Language family relationships
Language treeGermanic
 ⤷ Proto-Germanic
  ⤷ West Germanic
   ⤷  Costanian
[view] About GermanicThe Germanic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family spoken natively by a population of approximately 500 million people mainly in North America, Oceania, Western and Northern Europe. Proto-Germanic , which was spoken in approxima...
Phonology
ConsonantsBilabialLabio-
dental
AlveolarPalatalVelarUvularGlottal
Nasal m   n   ŋ    
Plosive p b   t d   k g (q)  
Fricative   f v s z       h
Affricate     t͡s        
Lateral approximant     l        
Approximant       (j)      
Flap     ɾ        
Blends (ks)
VowelsFrontCentralBack
Close i   u
Close-mid e   o
Mid   ə  
Open     ɑ
Syllable Structure(C)V(C)
(C)V
V(C)
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Costanian. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 CostanianOrthography [edit]
Aa/ɑ/Bb/b/Cc/t͡s/Dd/d/Ee/e/, /ə/Ff/f/Gg/g/Hh/h/Ii/i/
Jj/j/1Kk/k/Ll/l/Mm/m/Nn/n/, /ŋ/Oo/o/Pp/p/Qq/q/2Rr/ɾ/
Ss/s/Tt/t/Uu/u/Vv/v/Ww/v/3Xx/ks/4Yy/i/5Zz/z/
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Typological information for Costanian

Animacy distinctionsNone
Base counting systemDecimal (10)
Definite articleNone
Primary directional systemRelative egocentric (right/left)
Double negativesCancel each other

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