Hesperian [HSP]
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Language type
A posteriori
Species
Human/humanoid
Language family relationships
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Hesperian [view] montènyan (Montenian)No summary available for this dialect.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | [ŋ]1 | ||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | (k) | g | ||||||||||
| Fricative | ɸ | β | θ | s | z | ʃ | ʒ | [h]2 | ||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | ʎ3 | ||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | (w) | ||||||||||||||
| Trill | r4 | |||||||||||||||
- dialectal, allophone of /n/
- dialectal, allophone of /s/
- dialectal
- varies by dialect
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Near- back | Back | |||||
| Close | i | u | ||||||||
| Near-close | [ɪ]1 | [ʊ]2 | ||||||||
| Close-mid | e | o | ||||||||
| Mid | [ə]3 | |||||||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | ||||||||
| Open | ä | |||||||||
- allophone of /e/
- allophone of /u/
- allophone of /ä/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Hesperian. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| HesperianOrthography | ||||||||
| Aa/ä/, [ə] | Bb/b/ | Cc/θ/, /k/ | Dd/d/ | Ee/e/, [ɪ] | Ff/ɸ/ | Gg/ʒ/, /g/ | Hh/ʲ/ | Ii/i/, /j/, [ɪ] |
| Jj/ʒ/ | Kk/k/1 | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/, [ŋ]2 | Oo/o/, [ʊ] | Pp/p/ | Qq/k/ | Rr/r/3 |
| Ss/z/, /s/, [h]4 | Tt/t/ | Uu/u/, /w/, [ʊ] | Vv/β/ | Ww/w/5 | Xx/s/ | Yy/j/ | Zz/z/ | |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order | ||||||||
- loan words only
- dialectal
- varies by dialect
- dialectal
- loan words only
