Olsantian [ONN]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Olsantian
Olsantian is a descendant of 
Old Fahiras, the main language of Keril Dostanjij. The grammar is very simple, but the pronunciation is very complicated.
Old Fahiras, the main language of Keril Dostanjij. The grammar is very simple, but the pronunciation is very complicated.
Language family relationships
Language treeKnijvas
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Proto-Knijvas
⤷ Old Fahiras
⤷ Old Kerilian
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Olsantian
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Proto-Knijvas⤷
Old Fahiras⤷ Old Kerilian
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Olsantian[view] About KnijvasSpoken in Knijvel, on Sokyr.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ||||||||||||
| Fricative | f | s | z | ʃ | [ʒ]1 | ç | [ʝ]2 | x | ʁ | h | ||||||||
| Affricate | [p̪͡f]3 | [t͡s]4 | [d͡z]5 | [t͡ʃ]6 | [d͡ʒ]7 | [c͡ç]8 | [ɟ͡ʝ]9 | [k͡x]10 | [ɢ͡ʁ]11 | |||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | ɹ | w | ||||||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||||||
- allophone of /ʃ/
- allophone of /ç/
- allophone of /f/
- allophone of /s/
- allophone of /z/
- allophone of /ʃ/
- allophone of /ʃ/
- allophone of /ç/
- allophone of /ç/
- allophone of /x/
- allophone of /ʁ/
| Vowels | Front | Central | Near- back | Back | ||||
| Close | i i: iʲ | u u: uʲ | ||||||
| Near-close | ʊ ʊ: ʊʲ | |||||||
| Close-mid | e e: eʲ | o o: oʲ | ||||||
| Mid | ə ə: əʲ | |||||||
| Open-mid | ɛ ɛ: ɛʲ | ɔ ɔ: ɔʲ | ||||||
| Open | a a: aʲ | ɒ ɒ: ɒʲ | ||||||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Olsantian. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| OlsantianOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| Aa/a/, /ɒ/ | Áá/a:/, /ɒ:/ | Ââ/ɒʲ/, /aʲ/ | Bb/b/ | Cc/ŋ/ | Dd/d/ | Êê/eʲ/ | Ëë/ɛ/ | Ee/e/ | Éé/e:/ |
| ËÉ ëé/ɛ:/ | ËÊ ëê/ɛʲ/ | Ff/f/, [p̪͡f] | Gg/g/ | Hh/h/ | Îî/iʲ/ | Íí/i:/ | Ii/i/ | Jj/ʃ/, [t͡ʃ], [ʒ], [d͡ʒ] | Kk/k/ |
| Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Óó/o:/, /ɔ:/ | Ôô/oʲ/, /ɔʲ/ | Oo/ɔ/, /o/ | Pp/p/ | Qq/ʁ/, [ɢ͡ʁ] | Rr/r/ | Ss/z/, /s/, [d͡z], [t͡s] |
| Tt/t/ | Uu/ʊ/, /u/ | Úú/u:/, /ʊ:/ | Ûû/ʊʲ/, /uʲ/ | Vv/ɹ/ | Ww/w/ | Xx/x/, [k͡x] | Ŷŷ/əʲ/ | Yy/ə/, /ç/, [ɟ͡ʝ], [c͡ç], [ʝ] | Ýý/ə:/ |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||
