Mountain Speech [MSP]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Mountain Speech
Spoken by the residents of the Dukedom of Mendarthis, this language is the second largest language used in the Laryllian Bay region.
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Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | [ŋ]1 | [ɴ]2 | |||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t̪ | d̪ | [c]3 | [ɟ]4 | k | g | ||||||||||||
| Fricative | ɸ | β | θ | ð | s | z | ʂ | ʐ | [ç]5 | x | ɣ | h | ||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||||
| Lateral fricative | ɬ | |||||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | [ʋ]6 | j | ʍ | w | ||||||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||||||||
| Blends | tl |
- Before /k/ or /g/, allophone of /n/
- After a nasal vowel, allophone of /n/
- Before front unrounded vowels, allophone of /k/
- Before front unrounded vowels, allophone of /g/
- Before front unrounded vowels, allophone of /ʂ/
- Before front vowels, allophone of /β/
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Back | ||||
| Close | i | ɨ | ɯ | |||||
| Near-close | ɪ | ʏ | ||||||
| Close-mid | e | ø | o | |||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | œ | ɜ | ʌ | ɔ | |||
| Near-open | æ | ɐ | ||||||
| Open | a | ɑ | ||||||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Mountain Speech. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 Mountain SpeechOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
| Aa/a/, /ɐ/ | Áá/ɑ/ | Bb/b/ | CH ch/x/ | Dd/d̪/ | Ee/ɛ/, /ɜ/ | Éé/e/ | Ff/ɸ/ | Gg/g/, [ɟ]1 | GH gh/ɣ/ | Hh/h/ |
| HW hw/ʍ/ | Ii/i/ | Íí/ɪ/ | Jj/j/ | Kk/k/, [c]2 | Ll/l/ | LL ll/tl/, /ɬ/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/, [ɴ]3, [ŋ]4 | NJ nj/ɲ/ | Öö/œ/ |
| Oo/o/ | Óó/ɔ/ | Pp/p/ | Rr/ɾ/ | RR rr/r/ | Ss/s/ | SJ sj/ʂ/, [ç]5 | Tt/t̪/ | Úú/ʏ/ | Uu/ʌ/, /ɯ/ | Vv/β/, [ʋ]6 |
| Ww/w/ | Yy/ɨ/ | Zz/z/ | ZJ zj/ʐ/ | Ææ/æ/ | Ðð/ð/ | Øø/ø/ | Þþ/θ/ | |||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||||
- Before front unrounded vowels
- Before front unrounded vowels
- After a nasal vowel
- Before /k/ or /g/
- Before front unrounded vowels
- Before front vowels
