Cuźíńa [CUZI]
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Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species
Human/humanoid
About Cuźíńa
Cuźíńa is an artlang that demonstrates a great deal of inflection sith very subtle differences. As the nouns are very inflected (ie. number, gender, case), they often contain the entire meaning within the noun itself. For example; the word for house is "fêzǫ́". But with the right inflections I can say "ųfêzǫ́" - "my house", "ųfêzǫ́ń" is "into my house", and "ųfêzǫníś" "I am going into my house". Notice how the "ni" and "si" suffixes get palatalised when they occur word finally. This is a feature of Cuźíńo's phonology. The word Cuźíńo itself is composed of "cú-zi-" ("cuź" when isolated) meaning the entire area of the face from the nose "cu" to the throat "inzí", and the suffixes "yí" meaning it is a general, non-specific action being done using this noun, "ni" meaning an action that has a use or is a tool, and "o" meaning this is a specific noun amongst a category of similar nouns.
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Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | Other | ||||||||||
| Nasal | m | n̪ | ɲ | ŋ | ||||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t̪ | d̪ | k | g | ʔ | |||||||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | s | z | ʃ | ʒ | x | ɣ | ||||||||||||
| Affricate | t͡s | d͡z | ||||||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | ʎ | ɫ | |||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||||||||
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i ĩ | u ũ | ||||
| Mid | e̞ ẽ̞ | ə̃ | o̞ õ̞ | |||
| Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | ||||
| Open | a | |||||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Cuźíńa. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 CuźíńaOrthography | |||||||||
| Aa/a/ | Bb/b/ | Cc/k/ | Dd/d̪/ | DZ dz/d͡z/ | Êê/ɛ/ | Ff/f/ | Gg/g/ | Hh/ʔ/ | Ll/ɫ/, /l/, /ʎ/ |
| Mm/m/ | Nn/n̪/ | Ńń/ɲ/ | NG ng/ŋ/ | Ôô/ɔ/ | Pp/p/ | Rr/ɣ/, /ɾ/ | RR rr/x/, /r/ | Śś/ʃ/ | Ss/s/ |
| Tt/t̪/ | TS ts/t͡s/ | Ųų/ũ/ | Vv/v/ | Ww/w/ | Yy/j/ | Źź/ʒ/ | Zz/z/ | ||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order | |||||||||
