Veteline [QVK]
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Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species
Human/humanoid
About Veteline
A language spoken by the Vetelians in a conworld with technological achievement roughly equivalent to that of Rome.
Notable Features
- Between analytic and fusional
- All verbs have a verbal particle before it based on class
- Topic-comment word order
- Verbs have no tense, but two or three different aspects, depending on dialect
Sample of Veteline[view] Eovi fi fei ri ta o po eubirota vese ni
Keep only those things that speak to your heart.[view all texts]
Keep only those things that speak to your heart.[view all texts]
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 | v | z | ʒ | ʝ | ɣ | ɦ | ||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||||
| Trill | ʙ | r | ʀ | |||||||||||||||
| Click | [ǃ]1 [ⁿǃ]2 [ǃ̬]3 | |||||||||||||||||
- allophone of /t/
- allophone of /n/
- allophone of /d/
| Vowels | Front | Back | ||
| Close | y | u | ||
| Open-mid | ɛ | ʌ | ||
| Open | a | |||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Veteline. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 VetelineOrthography [edit] | ||||||||
| Aa/a/ | Bb/b/ | Cc/ʀ/ | Dd/d/, [ǃ̬] | Ee/ɛ/ | Ff/ʙ/ | Gg/g/ | Hh/ɦ/ | Ii/y/ |
| Jj/ʝ/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/, [ⁿǃ] | Oo/ʌ/ | Pp/p/ | Qq/ŋ/ | Rr/r/ |
| Ss/ʒ/ | Tt/t/, [ǃ] | Uu/u/ | Vv/v/ | Ww/w/ | Xx/ɣ/ | Yy/j/ | Zz/z/ | |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||
Latest 8 related articles listed below.
Veteline Syntax
Heavily topic-comment
04-Apr-19 21:28Veteline Nouns
A summary of how nouns work
31-Mar-19 22:29Veteline Verbs
How verbs work
31-Mar-19 22:23
