Nesyanian [EYI]
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Siblaime on 10 November 2019
Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Place & SpeakersNesyanian is spoken by a population of around 50,000,000 in Nesyania and Zaloma.
Species
Human/humanoid
About Nesyanian
My last attempt on creating an analytical language with almost no declension has failed miserably, so after a ragequit I'm making it into a blursed agglutinative abomination with ten cases, three numbers and lots of affixes.
Sample of Nesyanian[view] Ṅenusakwė nan tux rinteiha da hamiha u irunjurza da traunza. Ṅekanjakwė ṡun beurar da hindurėr hayu xewa tėindaxou hin yenete doi raduxtu miraṡkunri.
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.[view all texts]
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.[view all texts]
Language family relationships
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Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | [ŋ]1 | ||||||||||||
| Plosive | [p]2 | b | t tʼ | d | k kʼ | g | ||||||||||
| Fricative | f | s | z | ʃ | ʒ | [ç]3 | x | h | ||||||||
| Affricate | t͡ʃ t͡ʃʼ | d͡ʒ | ||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||||
- before velars, allophone of /n/
- after /m/, allophone of /f/
- before /i/, allophone of /h/
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i1 | u | ||||
| Close-mid | e | o | ||||
| Mid | ə | |||||
| Open | a | |||||
- realized as [ɪ] after /l ɾ w/
Syllable StructureThe maximum syllable structure is CwVC, CrVC or CxVC. Word-final consonant clusters exist only dialectally, usually they are splitted with a schwa or /o/, even in loanwords.
Stress informationThe default stress location is on the penultimate syllable with no exceptions in the lexicon.
OtherConsonants preceeding /i/ are slightly palatalized. This feature is not marked in the IPA transcription.
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Nesyanian. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 NesyanianOrthography | |||||||||
| a a /a/ | b b /b/ | j j /d͡ʒ/ | c c /t͡ʃ/ | c’ c’ /t͡ʃʼ/ | d d /d/ | t t /t/ | t’ t’ /tʼ/ | e e /e/ | ė ė /ə/ |
| f f /f/, [p]1 | g g /g/ | h h /h/, [ç]2 | i i /i/3 | k k /k/ | k’ k’ /kʼ/ | x x /x/ | l l /l/ | m m /m/ | n n /n/, [ɲ], [ŋ]4 |
| ṅ ṅ /ɲ/ | o o /o/ | r r /ɾ/ | s s /s/ | u u /u/ | w w /w/ | y y /j/ | z z /z/ | ż ż /ʒ/ | ṡ ṡ /ʃ/ |
| ✔ Shown in correct order | |||||||||
- after /m/
- before /i/
- realized as [ɪ] after /l ɾ w/
- before velars
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09-Jan-21 10:27
