Navian [IAI]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
Sample of Navian[view] Desi / / Ti vilm ielltãna; / Va Devadi ṽker qãm / Ka tena Nidṽhaemtsi iva ṽne mãnm? / Desi, rolos nãi haervt, / A poṽkt ṽne.
You were a flower; / What made Death come / Cut you down so soon? / O Death, please be easy now, / Pass me over 'til another year.[view all texts]
You were a flower; / What made Death come / Cut you down so soon? / O Death, please be easy now, / Pass me over 'til another year.[view all texts]
Language family relationships
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Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Velar | Glottal | |||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | (g) | ||||
| Fricative | f | v | s | h | ||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Back | ||||
| Close | i | |||||||
| Near-close | ɪ | |||||||
| Close-mid | o | |||||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | ɜ | ɔ | |||||
| Open | a | ɒ | ||||||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Navian. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 NavianOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
| Aa/a/ | AE ae/ɪ/ | Ã ã/ɔ/ | Bb/b/ | Dd/d/ | Ee/ɛ/ | Ff/f/ | Hh/h/ | Ii/i/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ |
| Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Oo/ɒ/ | Õ õ/o/ | Pp/p/ | Qq/g/1 | Rr/r/ | Ss/s/ | Tt/t/ | Vv/v/ | Ṽ ṽ/ɜ/ |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||||
- loan words only
