Classical Entish [ENTI]
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Classical Entish
Bāzuulɣuum [bɑ::zu:lɣu:m]*
Classical EntishBāzuulɣuum [bɑ::zu:lɣu:m]*
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Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species
Human/humanoid
About Classical Entish
Classical Language of the Ents, used as a liturgical and literary tongue by peoples throughout the temperate continents. Now natively spoken only by the isolationist Deep Ents of the Verdant Sea.
Highly polysynthetic, with many extremely fine grammatical distinctions, a clean tripartite alignment system and high regularity, to ensure maximum grammatical shenaniganry in descendant langs that will take this regular, clean system and rip it to shreds.
Highly polysynthetic, with many extremely fine grammatical distinctions, a clean tripartite alignment system and high regularity, to ensure maximum grammatical shenaniganry in descendant langs that will take this regular, clean system and rip it to shreds.
Sample of Classical Entish[view] tba
Underestimate the pawn, and you've already lost. / / (if you wish, replace the pawn with an equivalent piece in a board game played by your conculture).[view all texts]
Underestimate the pawn, and you've already lost. / / (if you wish, replace the pawn with an equivalent piece in a board game played by your conculture).[view all texts]
Language family relationships
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Classical Entish[view] About EntishAll languages descended from Entish.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Retroflex | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɳ | ŋ | ɴ | |||||||||||||
| Plosive | b | d̪ | ɖ | g | ɢ | |||||||||||||
| Fricative | v | ð | z | ʒ | ʐ | ɣ | ʁ | ɦ̰ | ||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||
| Lateral fricative | ɮ | |||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | ɻ | |||||||||||||||||
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Back | |||
| Close | i i:: i: | u u:: u: | ||||
| Near-close | ɪ ɪ:: ɪ: | |||||
| Open-mid | ɛ ɛ:: ɛ: | ʌ ʌ:: ʌ: | ɔ ɔ:: ɔ: | |||
| Open | ɑ ɑ:: ɑ: | |||||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Classical Entish. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| Classical EntishOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
| Āā/ɑ::/ | Aa/ɑ/ | AA aa/ɑ:/ | Bb/b/ | Dd/d̪/ | DH dh/ɖ/ | Ēē/ɛ::/ | Ee/ɛ/ | EE ee/ɛ:/ | Gg/g/ | Hh/ɦ̰/ |
| Ii/i/ | Îî/ɪ/ | Īī/i::/ | ÎÎ îî/ɪ:/ | II ii/i:/ | Ī̂ ī̂/ɪ::/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Ńń/ŋ/ | NH nh/ɳ/ |
| Ōō/ɔ::/ | Oo/ɔ/ | OO oo/ɔ:/ | Qq/ɢ/ | Řř/ʁ/ | Rr/ɻ/ | Uu/u/ | Ūū/u::/ | UU uu/u:/ | Vv/v/ | Yy/ʌ/ |
| YY yy/ʌ:/ | Ȳ ȳ/ʌ::/ | Zz/z/ | Źź/ʐ/ | Žž/ʒ/ | Ðð/ð/ | Łł/ɮ/ | Ŋŋ/ɴ/ | Ɣɣ/ɣ/ | ||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||||
