Revamped Nordic Dovahzul [DZR]
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Revamped Nordic Dovahzul
Dovazul [ˈd̪ɔβɑzʊl̪]
Dovazul [ˈd̪ɔβɑzʊl̪]
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[Deactivated User] on 15 April 2016
Language type
Other
Species
Human/humanoid
About Revamped Nordic Dovahzul
A common complaint about the dragon language from Bethesda's The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is that it's more or less English. While I'm probably by no means the first person to have their own go at the language, I still feel like there's no problem trying to remake it.
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Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||||||
Nasal | m | n̪ | [ŋ]1 | [ɴ]2 | ||||||||||||||
Plosive | pʰ | b | t̪ʰ | d̪ | kʰ | g | ||||||||||||
Fricative | ɸ | β | θ | s | z | ʃ | ʒ | x | ɣ | h | ||||||||
Lateral approximant | l̪ | |||||||||||||||||
Approximant | j | w |
Blends | qχʰʷ |
- allophone of /n̪/
- allophone of /n̪/
Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Near- back | Back | |||||
Close | i: | u: | ||||||||
Near-close | ɪ | ʊ | ||||||||
Close-mid | e: | o: | ||||||||
Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | ||||||||
Near-open | æ | |||||||||
Open | ä: | ɑ |
Polyphthongs | ɑɪ | ɑʊ |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Revamped Nordic Dovahzul. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
Revamped Nordic DovahzulOrthography [edit] | ||||||||
Aa/ɑ/ | AA aa/ä:/ | AI ai/ɑɪ/ | AU au/ɑʊ/ | Bb/b/ | Dd/d̪/ | Ee/ɛ/ | EE ee/e:/ | Ff/ɸ/ |
Gg/g/ | Hh/h/ | Ii/ɪ/ | II ii/i:/ | Jj/ʒ/ | Kk/kʰ/ | Ll/l̪/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n̪/, [ŋ], [ɴ] |
Oo/ɔ/ | OO oo/o:/ | Pp/pʰ/ | Qq/qχʰʷ/ | Rr/ɣ/ | Ss/s/ | Šš/ʃ/ | Tt/t̪ʰ/ | Uu/ʊ/ |
UU uu/u:/ | Vv/β/ | Ww/w/ | Xx/x/ | Yy/j/ | Zz/z/ | Ææ/æ/ | Þþ/θ/ | |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |