Nithalos [NXS]
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Language type
Mixed
Species
Human/humanoid
About Nithalos
Nithalos is the language of Nithalosiä. Nithalosia is country comprising of the mainland, and the island of Seret off the coast. The main spoken language in Nithalosia is Nithalos, with Seretian coming in second as spoken in Seret and on the coastal city of Yamvođ. There is one main variant of Nithalos, spoken in the southern state of Govđa by the name of Nizalus - however Nithalos remains the official language.
The language was originally based on Japanese with some Russian and a few a priori elements added. As time has gone on, a lot of the Japanese elements have changed be more a priori-like, although a lot of the original Japonic vocabulary still exists today.
Nithalos has a fairly simplistic grammatical model with a large proportion of meaning derived through context. Some key features of Nithalos:
Nithalos has a conscript, which in the modern day is mostly used for ceremonial purposes. Below is a sample of the cursive script that uses each letter at least once:
The language was originally based on Japanese with some Russian and a few a priori elements added. As time has gone on, a lot of the Japanese elements have changed be more a priori-like, although a lot of the original Japonic vocabulary still exists today.
Nithalos has a fairly simplistic grammatical model with a large proportion of meaning derived through context. Some key features of Nithalos:
- The syntax follows a SOV pattern, although SVO is sometimes possible (stative) and OSV in some relative clauses.
- The language is highly pro-drop, only requiring a pronoun/subject to be used when the topic of discussion changes.
- There are no genders, no grammatical numbers, no marked definiteness in the language.
- There are 4 cases (nom, gen, acc, dat) + 1 contraction nowadays considered a case (stat).
- There are a large number of postpositioned particles that Nithalos employs to give extra meaning to nouns.
- The verbs are agglutinative and take suffixes for polarity, tense, voice, mood, aspect, and other syntactical morphemes.
- There is a three way split in tenses between past tense, present/present continuous/future realis, and future irrealis.
- Adjectives are able to conjugate much like verbs, while also being able to decline as adjectives.
Nithalos has a conscript, which in the modern day is mostly used for ceremonial purposes. Below is a sample of the cursive script that uses each letter at least once:
Sound samples in Nithalos
Some sound samples of Nithalos. Maximum of 6 shown. Click the links to see the full texts.
An evu SANI đai. Evu vistoka ana kravđi po pari.
I love her SO much. I hope she's my real mom.
I love her SO much. I hope she's my real mom.
Anu koa poske.
I am this man.
I am this man.
Ev sani ukitoka lati. Mo ev go tapa vomiom?
She looks rather forlorn. Perhaps you should go talk to her?
She looks rather forlorn. Perhaps you should go talk to her?
Kodu to modriya nertiya tasi voi se!
I just want to go home and sleep!
I just want to go home and sleep!
Mai'n ski asina poskeu praeigi, onskamo'nae koni al.
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
Kona ko šo tarmonita, an lepriya tapa tasiđa.
If it weren't so cold today, I'd go for a swim.
If it weren't so cold today, I'd go for a swim.
Language family relationships
Language treeNezen
⤷ Proto-Nezen
⤷ Proto-West Nezen
⤷ Sala
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Old Nithalos
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Nithalos
⤷ Proto-Nezen
⤷ Proto-West Nezen
⤷ Sala
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Old Nithalos⤷
Nithalos[view] About NezenThe Nezen family is said to have started thousands of years ago in the Salian mountains. The majority of the peoples migrated to the south and east, and their languages later became the East Nezen languages.
From this, Nithalos and its ancestor la...
From this, Nithalos and its ancestor la...
[view] Govđae Niđalos (Govthan)The Govthan dialect is spoken in the southern state of Govđa in Niđalosia. Govđa is separated from the most of the rest of Niđalosia by large mountains which accounts for its variation in language. Colloquially this dialect is known as 'Govđalos'.
[view] Seretođ Niđalos (Seretian Nithalos)Seretian Nithalos is the variety of the language spoken on the island of Seret. It is heavily influenced by the Serhet language - particularly in the vocabulary.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Alveolo- palatal | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ||||||||||
| Fricative | f | [v]1 | θ | [ð]2 | s | ɕ | x3 | |||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | [w]4 | ||||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||||
| Blends | fθ |
- intervocalic, geminated, or palatalised /f/, allophone of /f/
- intervocalic, geminated, or palatalised /θ/, allophone of /θ/
- may still be realised as /h/ in some environments
- after velar stops, allophone of /f/
| Vowels | Front | Back | ||
| Close | i i:1 [i̥]2 | [ɯ̥]3 | u | |
| Close-mid | e e:4 | o o:5 | ||
| Open-mid | [ɔ] | |||
| Open | a | |||
| Polyphthongs | aʊ | aɪ |
- when <e> occurs after <i>
- often in stressless syllables, allophone of /i/
- often in stressless syllables, allophone of /u/
- when <i> occurs after <e>
- when <u> occurs after <o>
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Nithalos. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| NithalosOrthography | ||||||||||
| Aa/a/ | Bb/b/ | Dd/d/ | Ee/e/ | Gg/g/ | Hh/x/1 | Ii/i/, [i̥]2 | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ |
| Oo/o/, [ɔ] | Pp/p/ | Rr/r/ | Šš/ɕ/ | Ss/s/ | Tt/t/ | Uu/u/, [ɯ̥]3 | Vv/f/, [v]4, [w]5 | Yy/j/ | Đđ/θ/, [ð]6 | |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order | ||||||||||
- may still be realised as /h/ in some environments
- often in stressless syllables
- often in stressless syllables
- intervocalic, geminated, or palatalised /f/
- after velar stops
- intervocalic, geminated, or palatalised /θ/
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