Athanese [DMBI]
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Athanese
Dumoranabi [dʉɱɔɾʌnʌbi]*
AthaneseDumoranabi [dʉɱɔɾʌnʌbi]*
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Language type
A priori
Place & SpeakersAthanese is spoken by a population of around 150,000 .
Species
Human/humanoid
About Athanese
The syntax follows a SVO and SOV pattern, though a more ancient way of writing sometimes prioritizes a VOS pattern, which evokes a poetic rhythm, and is usually used when writing metaphor and lyric.
Adjectives are often used after nouns, ie: "Good man" turns into "Man of goodness" or "Tall tree" into "tree of tall(ness)"
Adjectives are often used after nouns, ie: "Good man" turns into "Man of goodness" or "Tall tree" into "tree of tall(ness)"
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Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||||
| Nasal | [m]1 | [ɱ] | n | |||||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t̪ | [t]2 | d | k | g | |||||||||||||
| Fricative | ɸ | β | θ | s | z | ʃ | ʒ | ʂ | [x]3 | [h] | ||||||||||
| Affricate | t͡ʃ | |||||||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | [l]4 | [ɭ] | ʎ | |||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | ʋ | ɹ5 | w | |||||||||||||||||
| Trill | ʙ | r | ||||||||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | [ɽ]6 | ||||||||||||||||||
- allophone of /ɱ/
- allophone of /d/
- allophone of /h/
- allophone of /ɭ/
- Informal/Slang/Insulting
- allophone of /ɾ/
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Back | ||||
| Close | i | ʉ | ||||||
| Near-close | ɪ | |||||||
| Open-mid | ʌ | ɔ | ||||||
| Open | a | |||||||
| Polyphthongs | aɪ |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Athanese. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 AthaneseOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
| Aa/ʌ/ | AH ah/a/ | Bb/b/ | CH ch/t͡ʃ/ | Dd/d/, [t] | Ee/i/1, /ɪ/ | EA ea/ʎ/ | Ff/ɸ/ | Gg/g/ | Hh[x], [h] | Ii/i/ |
| Jj/ʒ/ | Kk/k/ | Ll[ɭ], [l] | Mm[ɱ], [m] | Nn/n/ | Oo/ɔ/ | Pp/p/ | Rr/ɾ/, [ɽ] | RB rb/ʙ/ | RH rh/ɹ/2 | RR rr/r/ |
| Ss/s/ | SE se/s/3 | SH sh/ʃ/, /ʂ/ | Tt/t̪/ | TH th/θ/ | Uu/ʉ/ | Vv/β/, /ʋ/ | Ww/w/ | Yy/aɪ/ | Zz/z/ | |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||||
- loan words only
- Informal/Slang/Insulting
- loan words only
