Otonish [OTO]
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Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species
Human/humanoid
About Otonish
I'm making a Eurolang.
Be scared.
Very scared.
Explanation:
This is what happens when I take all the colloquial languages of Europe, blend them for 3 minutes, pour the mush into two molds, make those two languages have a baby, then make them have babies with their own baby, and then make those babies have babies with each other.
More detailed explanation:
There's no case and there are only three verbs to conjugate, but it manages to be insane despite being analytic. For example, many verbs have suppletion for gender of subject. On top of deranged syntax.
Setting:
A part of the world where, in 2018, baggy polo shirts and JNCO jeans are still the trendy things to wear, and the Backstreet Boys are the hottest group. Visited mainly by package tourists who have only a vague sense of where they're going to end up.
Metaname:
Clitopia
(because clitics)
Highlights:
—The first person singular nominative can be gho, o, w, f, m, or mi, depending on its phonological context and whether the sentence is stative or dynamic:
To gho'k de'n stut ent ët 'so I was studying the language'
O'k de'n stut ent ët 'I was studying the language'
F u'n stut ent ët 'I study the language'
W äj'n stut ent ët 'I have studied the language'
M äj'n mir ent ët 'I have seen the language'
Mi näj'n mir ent ët 'I will see the language'
—The plural definite article is x, and also makes any modifier into a plural noun, except for demonstratives, where it nominalizes the singular ones too.
—The plural particle is (ë)r, which attaches to the end of the first word in the noun phrase. The (ë) is only used on (ë)r if either the previous consonant is a coronal sonorant, or there is no following word and the previous word ends in a consonant. The particle isn't used at all if the noun phrase consists of only a noun and demonstrative, or if x immediately precedes the noun.
Be scared.
Very scared.
Explanation:
This is what happens when I take all the colloquial languages of Europe, blend them for 3 minutes, pour the mush into two molds, make those two languages have a baby, then make them have babies with their own baby, and then make those babies have babies with each other.
More detailed explanation:
There's no case and there are only three verbs to conjugate, but it manages to be insane despite being analytic. For example, many verbs have suppletion for gender of subject. On top of deranged syntax.
Setting:
A part of the world where, in 2018, baggy polo shirts and JNCO jeans are still the trendy things to wear, and the Backstreet Boys are the hottest group. Visited mainly by package tourists who have only a vague sense of where they're going to end up.
Metaname:
Clitopia
(because clitics)
Highlights:
—The first person singular nominative can be gho, o, w, f, m, or mi, depending on its phonological context and whether the sentence is stative or dynamic:
To gho'k de'n stut ent ët 'so I was studying the language'
O'k de'n stut ent ët 'I was studying the language'
F u'n stut ent ët 'I study the language'
W äj'n stut ent ët 'I have studied the language'
M äj'n mir ent ët 'I have seen the language'
Mi näj'n mir ent ët 'I will see the language'
—The plural definite article is x, and also makes any modifier into a plural noun, except for demonstratives, where it nominalizes the singular ones too.
—The plural particle is (ë)r, which attaches to the end of the first word in the noun phrase. The (ë) is only used on (ë)r if either the previous consonant is a coronal sonorant, or there is no following word and the previous word ends in a consonant. The particle isn't used at all if the noun phrase consists of only a noun and demonstrative, or if x immediately precedes the noun.
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Retroflex | Alveolo- palatal | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | Other | |||||||||||
Nasal | m | n | [ɲ]1 | [ŋ]2 | ||||||||||||||||||
Plosive | p | b | t | d | k [kʲ]3 | g [gʲ]4 | ||||||||||||||||
Fricative | β | f | s | z5 | ʃ | [ʒ]6 | [ʂ]7 | [ɕ]8 | [x]9 | ɣ | [χ]10 | [ʁ]11 | ||||||||||
Affricate | t͡s | d͡z | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | ||||||||||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l | ɫ | ||||||||||||||||||||
Lateral fricative | [ɬ]12 [ɬˤ]13 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Approximant | j | [ʍ]14 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Flap | ɾ15 |
- before a palatal or after /i/, allophone of /n/
- before a velar, utterance-finally, allophone of /n/
- before front vowel, allophone of /k/
- before front vowel, allophone of /g/
- cannot end a word
- allophone of /ʃ/ before a voiced obstruent, after /ɾ/, allophone of /j/
- utterance-finally, allophone of /ɾ/
- utterance-finally, allophone of /j/
- utterance-finally, allophone of /ɣ/
- before a nonvelar voiceless consonant, allophone of /ɣ/
- before a nonvelar voiced consonant, allophone of /ɣ/
- utterance-finally, allophone of /ɬ/
- utterance-finally, allophone of /ɫ/
- before a voiceless consonant, allophone of /β/
- totally assimilates to any following consonant, except /j/, cannot begin a word
Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Back | ||||
Close | i | [ɨ]1 | u | |||||
Near-close | ɪ | |||||||
Close-mid | [e]2 | ø | o | |||||
Mid | ə | |||||||
Open-mid | ɛ | [ɔ]3 | ||||||
Open | [a]4 | ɑ | [ɒ]5 |
- before two or more consonants, allophone of /ə/
- after postalveolar or palatal consonant or after /i/ or /u/ or before /o/, allophone of /ɛ/
- before /ɾ/, allophone of /o/
- after a postalveolar or palatal, but not /i/, allophone of /ɑ/
- before /β/ + voiceless consonant, allophone of /ɑ/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Otonish. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
OtonishOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
Aa/ɑ/, [a]1, [ɒ]2 | Ää/ɛ/, [e]3 | Bb/b/ | Cc/t͡s/ | CH ch/t͡ʃ/ | Dd/d/ | Ëë/ə/, [ɨ]4 | Ee/ɪ/ | Ff/f/ | Gg/g/, [gʲ]5 |
GH gh/ɣ/, [ʁ]6, [x]7, [χ]8 | Ii/i/ | Jj/j/, [ɕ]9, [ʒ]10 | Kk/k/, [kʲ]11 | Ll/l/, [ɬ]12 | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/, [ŋ]13, [ɲ]14 | Öö/ø/ | Oo/o/, [ɔ]15 | Pp/p/ |
Rr/ɾ/16, [ʂ]17 | Ss/s/ | SH sh/ʃ/ | Tt/t/ | Uu/u/ | Ww/β/, [ʍ]18 | Xx/z/19 | Zz/d͡z/ | ZH zh/d͡ʒ/ | Łł/ɫ/, [ɬˤ]20 |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |
- after a postalveolar or palatal, but not /i/
- before /β/ + voiceless consonant
- after postalveolar or palatal consonant or after /i/ or /u/ or before /o/
- before two or more consonants
- before front vowel
- before a nonvelar voiced consonant
- utterance-finally
- before a nonvelar voiceless consonant
- utterance-finally
- allophone of /ʃ/ before a voiced obstruent, after /ɾ/
- before front vowel
- utterance-finally
- before a velar, utterance-finally
- before a palatal or after /i/
- before /ɾ/
- totally assimilates to any following consonant, except /j/, cannot begin a word
- utterance-finally
- before a voiceless consonant
- cannot end a word
- utterance-finally