Gnomish [GMH]
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Gnomish
xanob tanon [ʃänob tänon]
Gnomishxanob tanon [ʃänob tänon]
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[Deactivated User] on 12 May 2020
Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species
Human/humanoid
About Gnomish
Gnomish is the language of gnomes, created to be used in D&D and other tabletop RPGs. It is inspired by various Mayan languages. The descriptions given in official materials describe the language as having many words to describe the natural world, which is why Mayan languages were chosen specifically. However, official materials also say it uses the Dwarven script, but this was abandoned entirely.
Sample of Gnomish[view] A E I O U / / Okay it's yet another 5 vowel system, but since this is literally how Yucatec Maya (once of my source languages) does vowels, I think it's okay
A E I O U[view all texts]
A E I O U[view all texts]
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p pʼ | (b) | t tʼ | (d) | k kʼ | (g) | q qʼ | ʔ | ||||||||||
| Fricative | (f) | s | ʃ | h | ||||||||||||||
| Affricate | t͡s t͡sʼ | t͡ʃ t͡ʃʼ | ||||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||||
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i | u | ||||
| Close-mid | e | o | ||||
| Open | ä | |||||
Stress informationStress is always on the second-to-last syllable.
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Gnomish. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 GnomishOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| Aa/ä/ | Bb/b/1 | Dd/d/2 | Ee/e/ | Ff/f/3 | Gg/g/4 | Hh/h/ | Ii/i/ | Kk/k/ | K' k'/kʼ/ |
| Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Oo/o/ | Pp/p/ | P' p'/pʼ/ | Qq/q/ | Q' q'/qʼ/ | Ss/s/ | Tt/t/ |
| T' t'/tʼ/ | Ts ts/t͡s/ | Ts ts'/t͡sʼ/ | Tx tx/t͡ʃ/ | Tx tx'/t͡ʃʼ/ | Uu/u/ | Ww/w/ | Xx/ʃ/ | Yy/j/ | |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||
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