Enari [ENR]
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Language type
A posteriori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Enari
Enari is spoken in Enarpadjo, Enarpatsa, and Dopje, three countries located on an islandoff the coast of Europe. Like its close relative, 
Lentzic, it is a fusional language that has been extensively influenced by Indo-European languages. Other shared features include:
Enari, however, has lost verb conjugation by person, number, and voice, relying more heavily on word order, noun case, and pronouns.
Lentzic, it is a fusional language that has been extensively influenced by Indo-European languages. Other shared features include:- SVO word order (though Enari retains SOV in subordinate clauses and some simple sentences)
- Inflection of nouns for case and verbs for tense
- No agreement for adjectives/adverbs
- Use of modal prefixes for verbs
- Clitic forms of adpositions
Enari, however, has lost verb conjugation by person, number, and voice, relying more heavily on word order, noun case, and pronouns.
Language family relationships
Language treeEnar-Cumainic
⤷ Proto-Enar-Cumainic
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Enar-Lentzic
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Enari
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Proto-Enar-Cumainic⤷
Enar-Lentzic⤷
Enari[view] About Enar-CumainicThe Enar-Cumainic languages are spoken on three large islands off the western coast of Europe, which today form the five Atlantic States of Enarpadjo, Enarpatsa, Dopje,...
[edit] [view] Patseti (Eastern Enari)Spoken in most of Enarpatsa, though not the south coast or the city of Midözen
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
| Nasal | m | n | [ŋ]1 | |||||||||||
| Plosive | p | t | d2 | k | g | |||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | s | z | ʒ | h | ||||||||
| Affricate | t͡s | d͡z | d͡ʒ | |||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||
| Approximant | [j]3 | |||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||
- allophone of /n/
- pronounced /ɾ/ intervocalically in informal speech
- allophone of /i/
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Near- back | Back | |||||
| Close | i | u | ||||||||
| Near-close | ɪ | ʊ | ||||||||
| Close-mid | e | o | ||||||||
| Mid | ə1 | |||||||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | |||||||||
| Open | a | |||||||||
- final
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Enari. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| EnariOrthography [edit] | ||||||||
| Aa/a/ | Ää/ə/1 | Dd/d/2 | Ee/ɛ/ | Éé/e/ | Ëë/ə/3 | Ff/f/ | Gg/g/ | Hh/h/ |
| Ïï/ɪ/ | Ii/i/ | Jj/ʒ/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/, [ŋ] | Óó/o/ | Oo/o/4 |
| Öö/ʊ/ | Pp/p/ | Rr/ɾ/ | Ss/s/ | Tt/t/ | Uu/u/ | Vv/v/ | Zz/z/ | |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||
- final
- pronounced /ɾ/ intervocalically in informal speech
- final
- /o/ and /ɔ/ originally distinguished, now merged as /o/ in both Southern and Eastern dialects
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