Old Hearvand [OHV]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Old Hearvand
Old Hearvand is a language used by a nomadic pastoral people living in between the steppe and a forest. It is a tripartite fusional language with a tendency to encode in adverbs and adjectives.
Sample of Old Hearvand[view] ulas váldai / vuligán húrsán / vuradái cirin / hamdár talilan / vurál talíg dagán húrsan / ê vujandai ai camág / / êzên tês êzên tês / dargán tês ê vurál tês ê vurán tês / / ulus narig sorin hirsên / unagan joro jalai car hirsên / hail malin hunda haidirsên / ê haldar ai tês camág / / êzên tês êzên tês / dargán tês ê vurál tês ê ...[view all texts]
Language family relationships
Language treeHearvand
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⤷ Old Hearvand
⤷ Proto Hearvand
⤷ Old Hearvand
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
Nasal | m | [ɱ]1 | n | ŋ | ||||||||||
Plosive | t | d | k | g | ʔ | |||||||||
Fricative | ɸ | v | s | |||||||||||
Affricate | t͡s | |||||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||
Approximant | [ʋ]2 | j | w | |||||||||||
Flap | ɾ |
- before a final consonant, allophone of /m/
- before a final consonant, allophone of /w/
Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Back | ||||
Close | i1 | y | ɯ2 | |||||
Near-close | ɪ | |||||||
Close-mid | e | |||||||
Mid | e̞ | |||||||
Open-mid | œ | |||||||
Open | ä |
Polyphthongs | iɯ | ɯy | yœ | äɪ | ɯɪ | eä | äy | äe | ee3 | ɯœ |
iɪ | ie |
- always stressed
- stressed
- /ee̞/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Old Hearvand. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
Old HearvandOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
Aa/ä/ | Áá/ä/ | AE ae/äe/ | AI ai/äɪ/ | AY ay/äy/ | Dd/d/ | Êê/e̞/ | Ee/e/ | Ếế/e̞/1 | Éé/e/2 | EA ea/eä/ |
EÊ eê/ee/3 | Ff/ɸ/ | Gg/g/ | Hh/ʔ/ | Íí/i/4 | Ii/ɪ/ | ÍE íe/ie/ | ÍI íi/iɪ/ | ÍU íu/iɯ/ | Jj/j/ | Kk/k/ |
Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Ńń/ŋ/ | Nn/n/ | Oo/œ/ | Óó/œ/5 | Rr/ɾ/ | Ss/s/ | Tt/t/ | TS ts/t͡s/ | Úú/ɯ/6 |
Uu/ɯ/ | UI ui/ɯɪ/ | UO uo/ɯœ/ | UY uy/ɯy/ | Vv/v/ | Ww/w/ | Yy/y/ | Ýý/y/7 | YO yo/yœ/ | ||
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |
- stressed
- stressed
- /ee̞/
- always stressed
- stressed
- stressed
- stressed
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