Empirical Tyrian [ETYR]
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Language type
Proto-Conlang
Species
Human/humanoid
About Empirical Tyrian
Empirical Tyrian is a Proto-Language for what is now Chaani. As such, it has a fairly simple grammar and phonology. However, it has a system of iotated vowels (like Russian) that can be a bit confusing to non-natives. It exists in the Earthlike fantasy world of Achaan, and is spoken by the inhabitants of the Tyrian Empire, including the Hezasni, Inari, and Telki peoples.
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Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
Nasal | m | n̪ | nʲ | ŋ | ||||||||||||
Plosive | p | b | t̪ | d̪ | tʲ | dʲ | k | g | ||||||||
Fricative | β | f | s sʲ | z zʲ | x | h | ||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l | ʎ | ||||||||||||||
Approximant | ɹʲ | j | w | ɰ | ||||||||||||
Flap | ɾ |
Blends | br | gr | dr |
Vowels | Front | Near- back | ||
Close | i | |||
Near-close | ʊ | |||
Close-mid | e | |||
Open | a aʷ |
Syllable StructureSyllable Onsets can be Consonants, Consonant Clusters or Iotated Vowels, Nuclei can be Iotated or Normal Vowels, and Codas can ONLY be Consonants or Consonant Clusters, and ONLY word-finally; otherwise there is no Coda (and there sometimes isn't even word-finally).
Stress informationThe stress rules are fairly complicated in ancient Tyrian, but they are absolute and apply to almost every word. This is the procedure to find stress (make sure to follow the correct numbered order):
1. If the word is a compound word, stress the Ultimate syllable of the Penultimate root.
2. If the word ends in -jã, stress is Ultimate.
3. ends in: -CúZaKe, where Z is Consonant Clusters (including nasal released stops and unvoiced nasals/liquids/w), and K is unvoiced stops, stress is Antepenultimate.
4. ends in a vowel, stress is Penultimate.
5. ends in: -JC, where J is Iotated Vowels, stress is Ultimate.
6. ends in: -V[rql], stress is Ultimate.
7. ends in: -[úe]C, stress is Penultimate.
8. ends in: -a[nmsw], stress is Penultimate.
9. OTHERWISE, stress is Ultimate.
1. If the word is a compound word, stress the Ultimate syllable of the Penultimate root.
2. If the word ends in -jã, stress is Ultimate.
3. ends in: -CúZaKe, where Z is Consonant Clusters (including nasal released stops and unvoiced nasals/liquids/w), and K is unvoiced stops, stress is Antepenultimate.
4. ends in a vowel, stress is Penultimate.
5. ends in: -JC, where J is Iotated Vowels, stress is Ultimate.
6. ends in: -V[rql], stress is Ultimate.
7. ends in: -[úe]C, stress is Penultimate.
8. ends in: -a[nmsw], stress is Penultimate.
9. OTHERWISE, stress is Ultimate.
OtherVERY IMPORTANT NOTE:
The consonants marked as unreleased voiced stops: /b̚/ and /d̪̚/ actually are not quite that phonetically. They instead are voiced stops with nasal release: /bᵐ/ and /d̪ⁿ̪/. Currently CWS does not include this as a possible diatric, so I had to mark them as unreleased voiced stops. Thankfully, due to PhoMo I was able to change this in the dictionary, which will display correct pronunciation.
The consonants marked as unreleased voiced stops: /b̚/ and /d̪̚/ actually are not quite that phonetically. They instead are voiced stops with nasal release: /bᵐ/ and /d̪ⁿ̪/. Currently CWS does not include this as a possible diatric, so I had to mark them as unreleased voiced stops. Thankfully, due to PhoMo I was able to change this in the dictionary, which will display correct pronunciation.
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Empirical Tyrian. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
Empirical TyrianOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
a a /a/ | aw aw /aʷ/ | b b /b/ | d d /d̪/ | dj dj /dʲ/ | e e /e/ | f f /f/ | g g /g/ | h h /h/ | i i /i/ | k k /k/ |
x kh /x/ | l l /l/ | lj lj /ʎ/ | m m /m/ | ń ń /ŋ/ | n n /n̪/ | nj nj /nʲ/ | p p /p/ | ŕ ŕ /ɰ/ | r r /ɾ/ | rj rj /ɹʲ/ |
s s /s/ | sj sj /sʲ/ | t t /t̪/ | tj tj /tʲ/ | u u /ʊ/ | v́ v́ /β/ | w w /w/ | i y /j/ | z z /z/ | zj zj /zʲ/ | |
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Additional Notes'a', 'e', and 'i' are here presented a bit off the grid. This is because they are diatrics over the previous letter, and therefore in my font constructor I had to make them extra-left like so.
The script (Ancient Meridian) is written with a wooden/stone implement shaped much like the end of a ruler; letters are made by pressing the wooden/stone implement into clay, mud, etc. Therefore the easiest shape the implement can make is the 'k' shape, or the 'n' shape; a sideways stroke or a downward stroke. It can also make diagonal shapes, if you angle the implement so that it's corner touches the clay/mud first, but this is harder and rarer. It can also make straight lines, like the 'a' symbol, by pressing its flat side against the clay/mud. Usually vertical are thicker than horizontal strokes, and sometimes a line 'fades out'; or begins thick and grows thinner at its edges, because they are farther from the immediate recipient of the force of the implement.
Again, /b̚/, /d̪̚/=/bᵐ/, /dⁿ/
The script (Ancient Meridian) is written with a wooden/stone implement shaped much like the end of a ruler; letters are made by pressing the wooden/stone implement into clay, mud, etc. Therefore the easiest shape the implement can make is the 'k' shape, or the 'n' shape; a sideways stroke or a downward stroke. It can also make diagonal shapes, if you angle the implement so that it's corner touches the clay/mud first, but this is harder and rarer. It can also make straight lines, like the 'a' symbol, by pressing its flat side against the clay/mud. Usually vertical are thicker than horizontal strokes, and sometimes a line 'fades out'; or begins thick and grows thinner at its edges, because they are farther from the immediate recipient of the force of the implement.
Again, /b̚/, /d̪̚/=/bᵐ/, /dⁿ/