Old Dwarvish [DWA]
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Old Dwarvish
Duergi [dʷe̞rɣi]*
Old DwarvishDuergi [dʷe̞rɣi]*
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Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species
Human/humanoid
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
| Nasal | (m) | n | [ŋ]1 | |||||||||||
| Plosive | t tʰ | dʷ | k kʰ | gʷ | ʔʷ | |||||||||
| Fricative | v | [θ]2 | s | z | [x]3 | ɣ | h | |||||||
| Affricate | [d͡z]4 | |||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||
| Lateral fricative | ɬ | |||||||||||||
| Approximant | [ʋ]5 | j | [ɰ]6 | |||||||||||
| Trill | r r̥ | |||||||||||||
- before velars, allophone of /n/
- finally, allophone of /tʰ/
- finally, allophone of /kʰ/
- at word boundaries, allophone of /z/
- before back vowels & before consonants, allophone of /v/
- before back vowels & before consonants, allophone of /ɣ/
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | [u] | |||||
| Mid | e̞ | ə | o̞ | |||
| Open | ä | |||||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Old Dwarvish. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 Old DwarvishOrthography [edit] | ||||||||
| Aa/ä/ | DU du/dʷ/ | Ëë/ə/ | Ee/e̞/ | Gg/ɣ/, [ɰ]1 | GU gu/gʷ/ | Hh/h/ | Jj/j/ | Kk/k/ |
| KH kh/kʰ/, [x]2 | Ll/l/ | LH lh/ɬ/ | Mm/m/3 | Nn/n/, [ŋ]4 | Öö/ə/ | Oo/o̞/ | QU qu/ʔʷ/ | Rr/r/ |
| RH rh/r̥/ | Ss/s/ | Tt/t/ | TH th/tʰ/, [θ]5 | Uu[u] | Vv/v/, [ʋ]6 | Zz/z/, [d͡z]7 | ||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||
- before back vowels & before consonants
- finally
- loan words only
- before velars
- finally
- before back vowels & before consonants
- at word boundaries
