Kahlian [KAHL]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Kahlian
Kahlian was a dialect spectrum spoken in the various polities of Kahlire, a region bounded by highlands and the Kalarin Straits, in the same conworld as 
Sáharían, to which it's closely related.
Like its sister language Early Célibrían, Kahlian is active-stative and decidedly fusional. It has four genders, six cases (five for the neuter), a fairly integrated tense-aspect set (progressive and habitual aspects in the present and past, a three perfect tenses, and a couple futures), and makes heavy use of participles.
Kahlian evolved into Northern and Southern varieties (though the hazy boundary remained), and while the Northern branch had a descendent survive until -100, the Kahlian languages ultimately went extinct, losing out to the local dialect of
Imperial Hlorasan.
Sáharían, to which it's closely related.Like its sister language Early Célibrían, Kahlian is active-stative and decidedly fusional. It has four genders, six cases (five for the neuter), a fairly integrated tense-aspect set (progressive and habitual aspects in the present and past, a three perfect tenses, and a couple futures), and makes heavy use of participles.
Kahlian evolved into Northern and Southern varieties (though the hazy boundary remained), and while the Northern branch had a descendent survive until -100, the Kahlian languages ultimately went extinct, losing out to the local dialect of
Imperial Hlorasan.
Language family relationships
Language treeHlorasan-Erkavic
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Proto-Hlorasan-Erkavic
⤷ Proto-Célibrían
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Kahlian
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Proto-Hlorasan-Erkavic⤷ Proto-Célibrían
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Kahlian[view] About Hlorasan-ErkavicA large and disparate family, with its two main branches being the Hlorasan languages (a narrow group rather comparable to the Romance languages) and the Erkavic languages (a more varied group, with multiple branches within it). There are other minor...
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | |||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | ɴ | ||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | [ɟ]1 | k | g | q | [ɢ]2 | |||||
| Fricative | f | v | s | z | ç | ʝ | x | ɣ | χ | [ʁ]3 | ||||
| Lateral approximant | [l]4 | |||||||||||||
| Lateral fricative | ɬ | |||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||
- after approximants, allophone of /j/
- after voiced obstruents, allophone of /q/
- after voiced obstruents, allophone of /χ/
- in clusters, allophone of /ɬ/
| Vowels | Front | Back | ||
| Close | i | u | ||
| Close-mid | e | o | ||
| Open | a | ɒ | ||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Kahlian. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| KahlianOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
| Aa/a/ | Àà/ɒ/ | Bb/b/ | Dd/d/ | Ee/e/ | Ff/f/ | Gg/g/ | GH gh/ɣ/ | HL hl/ɬ/ | Ii/i/ | Jj/ʝ/ |
| Kk/k/ | KH kh/x/ | Ll[l]1 | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | NH nh/ɴ/ | Oo/o/ | Pp/p/ | Qq/q/, [ɢ]2 | QH qh/χ/, [ʁ]3 | Rr/ɾ/ |
| Ss/s/ | SH sh/ç/ | Tt/t/ | Uu/u/ | Vv/v/ | Ww/w/ | Yy/j/, [ɟ]4 | Zz/z/ | Ŋŋ/ŋ/ | ||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||||
- in clusters
- after voiced obstruents
- after voiced obstruents
- after approximants
