Old Kyzym [KYZYM]
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Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Place & SpeakersOld Kyzym is spoken by a population of around 600,000 in Kyzym.
Species
Human/humanoid
About Old Kyzym
BORN TO CLIMB / MOUNTAIN IS A FUCK / 鬼神 Kill Em All 589 / I am dragon man / 410,757,864,530 DEAD HORSES
Old Kyzym is a based and Tsezpilled language of ancient dragon-Circassians, and the ancestor of modern Kyzym and its four relatives. It's also the language I got Janko'd with for the first time!
It was spoken in Kyzym, a small, mountainous kingdom designed for a D&D campaign which has an economy and culture largely built around the collection and sale of the shed hides of dragons that live in the area.
The language is documented here as spoken a few hundred years after the introduction of writing.
Features:
Old Kyzym is a based and Tsezpilled language of ancient dragon-Circassians, and the ancestor of modern Kyzym and its four relatives. It's also the language I got Janko'd with for the first time!
It was spoken in Kyzym, a small, mountainous kingdom designed for a D&D campaign which has an economy and culture largely built around the collection and sale of the shed hides of dragons that live in the area.
The language is documented here as spoken a few hundred years after the introduction of writing.
Features:
- Height and rounding-based vowel harmony
- Odd phonology with palatal vowel/consonant agreement
- Way, way too many locative cases
- Split ergativity based on verb class
- Masculine, feminine and neuter genders
- Needlessly complicated verbal paradigm
- Mostly free but primarily VOS word order
- Awesome calligraphy
- Dragons
Sample of Old KyzymCan't find any yet.
Language family relationships
[view] About KyzymicFour languages descended from Old Kyzym. All are agglutinative and display ergativity and some degree of vowel harmony.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||||||||
| Nasal | m mʲ | n nʲ | ||||||||||||||
| Plosive | pʼ pʼʲ | b bʲ | tʼ tʼʲ tʰ tʰʲ | d dʲ | kʼ kʼʲ kʰ kʰʲ | qʼ qʰ | ||||||||||
| Fricative | v | s | z | ʃ | ʒ | x xʲ | ʁ | h | ||||||||
| Affricate | t͡sʼ t͡sʰ | d͡z | t͡ʃʼ t͡ʃʰ | d͡ʒ | ||||||||||||
| Lateral fricative | ɬ ɬʲ | |||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | |||||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ ɾʲ | |||||||||||||||
| Vowels | Front | Back | ||
| Close | i | y1 | ɯ2 | u |
| Close-mid | e | ø3 | ɤ4 | o |
| Open | a a: | |||
- Only occurs with palatalized consonants
- Only occurs with nonpalatalized consonants
- Only occurs with palatalized consonants
- Only occurs with nonpalatalized consonants
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Old Kyzym. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 Old KyzymOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| Aa/a/ | Áá/a:/ | Bb/b/ | BY by/bʲ/ | Cc/t͡sʰ/ | C’ c’/t͡sʼ/ | CH ch/t͡ʃʰ/ | CH’ ch’/t͡ʃʼ/ | Dd/d/ | DY dy/dʲ/ |
| Ee/e/ | GH gh/ʁ/ | Hh/h/ | Ii/i/ | Jj/d͡z/ | JH jh/d͡ʒ/ | Kk/kʰ/ | K’ k’/kʼ/ | KH kh/x/ | KHY khy/xʲ/ |
| KY ky/kʰʲ/ | KY’ ky’/kʼʲ/ | Ll/ɬ/ | LY ly/ɬʲ/ | Mm/m/ | MY my/mʲ/ | Nn/n/ | NY ny/nʲ/ | Oo/o/ | Öö/ø/1, /ɤ/2 |
| P’ p’/pʼ/ | PY’ py’/pʼʲ/ | Qq/qʰ/ | Q’ q’/qʼ/ | Rr/ɾ/ | RY ry/ɾʲ/ | Ss/s/ | SH sh/ʃ/ | Tt/tʰ/ | T’ t’/tʼ/ |
| TY ty/tʰʲ/ | TY’ ty’/tʼʲ/ | Uu/u/ | Üü/ɯ/3, /y/4 | Vv/v/ | Yy/j/ | Zz/z/ | ZH zh/ʒ/ | ||
| ✔ Shown in correct order [change] | |||||||||
- Only occurs with palatalized consonants
- Only occurs with nonpalatalized consonants
- Only occurs with nonpalatalized consonants
- Only occurs with palatalized consonants
