Lish [LYY]
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Lish
ĕl [əl]*
Lishĕl [əl]*
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Language type
A priori
Place & SpeakersLish is spoken by a population of around 540,000,000 in Lland.
Species
Human/humanoid
Language family relationships
[view] About !!!The !!! language family is spoken in the most western of the original three civilizations in my conworld. This civilization was isolated from the other two so none of the !!! languages have influence from the other languages in my conworld.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Velar | ||||
| Nasal | m | n | [ŋ]1 | |||||
| Plosive | p pʲ | t | k kʲ | |||||
| Fricative | ɸ | s | ʃ | x | ||||
| Affricate | t͡s | t͡ʃ | ||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||
| Click | ʘ | ǃ | ʞ | |||||
| Implosive | ɓ | ɗ | ||||||
- before velars and at the end of words, allophone of /n/
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i i᷅: î: i᷉: ǐ: i̯ | u u᷅: û: u᷉: ǔ: u̯ | ||||
| Close-mid | e e᷅: ê: e᷉: ě: | ɘ ɘ᷅: ɘ̂: ɘ᷉: ɘ̌: | ɵ ɵ᷅: ɵ̂: ɵ᷉: ɵ̌: | o o᷅: ô: o᷉: ǒ: | ||
| Mid | ə1 | |||||
| Open-mid | ɛ ɛ᷅: ɛ̂: ɛ᷉: ɛ̌: | ɔ ɔ᷅: ɔ̂: ɔ᷉: ɔ̌: | ||||
| Open | ä ä᷅: ä̂: ä᷉: ä̌: | |||||
- only used to indicate syllabic consonants, is pronounced more like /ɜ/ or /ɞ/
Stress informationThere are four tones that only appear on long vowels.
à - sighing tone ˥˩
á - sharp tone ˩˥
ả - questioning tone ˧˩˥
ạ - rumbling tone ˨˩˧
à - sighing tone ˥˩
á - sharp tone ˩˥
ả - questioning tone ˧˩˥
ạ - rumbling tone ˨˩˧
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Lish. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 LishOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
| a/ä/ | â/ɘ/ | ă/ɵ/ | b/ɓ/ | c/ʃ/ | d/ɗ/ | e/ɛ/ | ê/e/ | ĕ/ə/1 | f/ɸ/ | h/x/ |
| i/i/ | j/ǃ/ | k/k/ | ky/kʲ/ | l/l/ | m/m/ | n/n/, [ŋ]2 | o/ɔ/ | ô/o/ | p/p/ | py/pʲ/ |
| q/ʞ/ | s/s/ | t/t/ | u/u/ | v/ʘ/ | w/u̯/ | x/t͡ʃ/ | y/i̯/ | z/t͡s/ | ||
| ✔ Shown in correct order [change] | ||||||||||
- only used to indicate syllabic consonants, is pronounced more like /ɜ/ or /ɞ/
- before velars and at the end of words
