Qesz [QSZ]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Qesz
Qesz is language spoken on several islands located off the southern coast of the Zekharian Empire. It is a Ceannic language related to Zekharian and Cjaëan. Though the native speakers, the Qemedai (singular Qemeda), number only in the hundreds of thousands, a much greater number of people speak it as a second language. It is the lingua franca of maritime trade in the region and is the most commonly heard language in ports, and amongst merchants and pirates.
Language family relationships
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Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Alveolo- palatal | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Other | |||||||||
Nasal | m | n | [ɲ]1 | [ŋ]2 | [ɴ]3 | |||||||||||||
Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | q | |||||||||||
Fricative | f | ð | s | z | ɕ | ʑ | x | ɧ | ||||||||||
Affricate | t͡s | d͡z | t͡ɕ | d͡ʑ | ||||||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l | ʎ | ||||||||||||||||
Lateral fricative | ɬ | |||||||||||||||||
Approximant | ʋ | j | ||||||||||||||||
Trill | r |
- allophone of /n/
- allophone of /n/
- allophone of /n/
Vowels | Front | Back | ||
Close | i | u | ||
Mid | e̞ | o̞ | ||
Open | a |
Polyphthongs | au | e̞u |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Qesz. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
QeszOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
Aa á /a/ | Bb ba /b/ | CZ cz cz /t͡ɕ/ | Dd da /d/ | DJ dj dja /d͡ʑ/ | DZ dz dza /d͡z/ | Ee é /e̞/ | Ff fa /f/ | Gg ga /g/ | Hh heu // | Ii í /i/ |
Jj ja /ʑ/ | Kk ka /k/ | Ll la /l/ | LH lh lha /ɬ/ | LY ly lya /ʎ/ | Mm ma /m/ | Nn na /n/, [ɴ], [ŋ], [ɲ] | Oo ó /o̞/ | Pp pa /p/ | Qq qa /q/ | Rr ra /r/ |
Ss sa /z/, [s] | SS ss ssa /s/ | SZ sz sza /ɕ/ | Tt ta /t/ | Uu ú /u/ | Vv va /ʋ/ | Xx xa /x/, [ɧ] | XZ xz xza /ɧ/ | Yy ya /j/ | Zz za /t͡s/ | Ðð ða /ð/ |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |