Desiken [DSKN]
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Language type
Mixed
Place & SpeakersDesiken is spoken by a population of around 25,000 .
Species
Human/humanoid
About Desiken
This is the language of the Desiri, an ethnic group of people descended from the seafolk of the Dragon Sea on Sahar.
Language family relationships
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Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Pharyngeal | |||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ||||
| Fricative | ɸ | β | s | z | ħ | |||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||
| Approximant | j | |||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||
| Blends | ɲj | ħj |
| Vowels | Front | Near- back | Back | |||
| Close | i | |||||
| Near-close | ʊ | |||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | ||||
| Open | ɑ | |||||
| Polyphthongs | ɔi | ɑi | ɛi | ɑʊ |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Desiken. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 DesikenOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
| Aa/ɑ/ | Bb/b/ | Dd/d/ | Ee/ɛ/ | Ff/ɸ/ | Gg/g/ | Hh/ħ/ | Ii/i/ | Jj/j/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ |
| Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Oo/ɔ/ | Pp/p/ | Rr/ɾ/ | Ss/s/ | Tt/t/ | Uu/ʊ/ | Vv/β/ | Zz/z/ | |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||||
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The Desiri Culture
The beliefs and origins of the ethnicity that speaks Desiken
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