Qatill [QATIL]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Qatill
Qatill is the official language of the Queendom of Qatilluu, spoken by close to ten million people on the continent of Atsiq. Phonologically, it is one of the most deviant descendants of South Osveraali, distinguished by the near complete loss of all fricatives and a radical simplification of the extremely complex vowel system that is characteristic of many Osveraali languages.
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Language family relationships
Language treeOsveraali
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Proto-Osveraali
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South Osveraali
⤷ Jilic
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Old Jilian
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Old Qatill
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Qatill
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Proto-Osveraali⤷
South Osveraali⤷ Jilic
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Old Jilian⤷
Old Qatill⤷
Qatill[view] About OsveraaliThe Osveraali languages are native to the continent of Atsiq, where they account for more than ninety-five percent of speakers. Traits shared by most Osveraali languages include large vowel inventories, retroflex consonants, fusional suffixing morpho...
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||||
| Plosive | p | t | k | q | ʔ | |||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | ʍ | ||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ1 | |||||||||||||
- Unreleased or glottalised before other consonants.
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Near- back | Back | |||||
| Close | i: | u: | ||||||||
| Near-close | ɪ | ʊ | ||||||||
| Mid | ə | |||||||||
| Open | a | ɑ: | ||||||||
| Polyphthongs | ɑə | iə |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Qatill. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| QatillOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| Aa/a/ | AA aa/ɑ:/ | AE ae/ɑə/ | Cc/k/ | Ee/ə/ | Hh/ʔ/ | Ii/ɪ/, /j/ | IA ia/iə/ | II ii/i:/ | Ll/l/ |
| Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Pp/p/ | Qq/q/ | Rr/ɾ/1 | Tt/t/ | Uu/ʊ/ | UU uu/u:/ | Ww/ʍ/ | Ŋŋ/ŋ/ |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||
- Unreleased or glottalised before other consonants.
