Shadow [SDE]
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Registered by
Shareenear on 7 January 2018
Language type
A posteriori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Shadow
The language of the shadow people from my conworld, also widely used among those who are related to the paranormal - mainly, angels, demons, gargoyles, rakshasas, and sorcerers. It's also a language of science - namely, alchemy and psychology.
No one really knows the origins of this language, so there's a lot of theories. Anyway, shadow people from Jüd become able to speak it once they learn to speak their mother tongue(don't forget that an individual of any species can be a shadow). The number of speakers of the Shadow language is unknown, but many suppose it's at least two times larger than the number of the shadows themselves.
What Shadow language is like? Well, it's a phonetical hell. My friends say it sounds like a Polish exorcist. Basically, I designed it to sound unnerving. The vocabulary is based on English, Gaelic(both Irish and Scottish), Welsh, Romanian, Norwegian, Ukrainian and Malay. The sentence structure is mainly VSO, the grammar is similar to Ukrainian and Romanian, but a bit more simple.
No one really knows the origins of this language, so there's a lot of theories. Anyway, shadow people from Jüd become able to speak it once they learn to speak their mother tongue(don't forget that an individual of any species can be a shadow). The number of speakers of the Shadow language is unknown, but many suppose it's at least two times larger than the number of the shadows themselves.
What Shadow language is like? Well, it's a phonetical hell. My friends say it sounds like a Polish exorcist. Basically, I designed it to sound unnerving. The vocabulary is based on English, Gaelic(both Irish and Scottish), Welsh, Romanian, Norwegian, Ukrainian and Malay. The sentence structure is mainly VSO, the grammar is similar to Ukrainian and Romanian, but a bit more simple.
Sample of Shadow[view] Єшúa жəspunшиw: "Щarлijeþ Çárneta Boгa ðø щeщtem шeлurüħ ðø ðaŋ pikyraŋtem шeлurüħ ðø ðaŋ щéđirtem шeлurüħ ðø. Ytu árħéþ føшt ðaŋ bsaжи. A ðarnə ytumu щykə: Щarлijeþ щajŋ щykə щarлijes шib. Ħyŋ ðá árħéné ðasár Жäщənən щéж ðaŋ ðysgwənən щéж nabjenen.[view all texts]
Sound samples in Shadow
Some sound samples of Shadow. Maximum of 6 shown. Click the links to see the full texts.
Makájш đika briskene maw, шpxins þidak þimp bra.
If you eat my cookies you're not going to have a good time.
If you eat my cookies you're not going to have a good time.
Жøчиm üçidə üщyldih đika moжлиw üçidə üçigщa üщyldih?
Why kill innocents if you can kill those who kill innocents?
Why kill innocents if you can kill those who kill innocents?
Xánja vonþ ytu brýt þidak apa ytu bra ðлä þá
Just because you want it, doesn't mean it's good for you.
Just because you want it, doesn't mean it's good for you.
Wið ħyŋ weki kurvи шmerðit sviđиvиm, чи þű baruшəжá matyл?
This old fuck reeks of the living world. Did you just die?
This old fuck reeks of the living world. Did you just die?
Aħ щjoгóðni my ðüжə burük ðaŋ aw düm bənшü ðaŋ щéж ðaŋ шəmua.
But I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything.
But I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything.
Шíst pantáþ pø bahwá шkawnjet ðaŋ ðøħ kurva nət ðø!
Sit your ass down in that chair and drink your goddamn tea!
Sit your ass down in that chair and drink your goddamn tea!
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Retroflex | Alveolo- palatal | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | Pharyngeal | ||||||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ȵ | ŋ | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p pʰ | b bʰ | t tʰ | d dʰ | k kʰ | g gʰ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | θ | ð | s | z | ʃ | ʒ | ɕ | x | ɣ | χ | ħ | |||||||||||
| Affricate | t͡s | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | ʈʂ | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | ȴ | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Blends | ji |
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i i: | y y: | ɯ | u u: | ||
| Near-close | ʊ̈ ʊ̈: | |||||
| Close-mid | e e: | ø ø: | o o: | |||
| Mid | ə ə: | |||||
| Open | a a: | ä ä: | ||||
| Polyphthongs | ie | iu | io | ia |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Shadow. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 ShadowOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
| Aa/a/ | Ää/ä/ | Áá/a:/ | A̋ a̋/ä:/ | Bb/b/ | BX bx/bʰ/ | Çç/t͡ʃ/ | Cc/t͡s/ | Dd/d/ | DX dx/dʰ/ | Ee/e/ |
| Éé/e:/ | Ff/f/ | Gg/g/ | GX gx/gʰ/ | Hh/x/ | Ii/i/ | Ïï/ji/ | Íí/i:/ | Jj/j/ | Kk/k/ | KX kx/kʰ/ |
| Ll/ȴ/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Ńń/ȵ/ | Oo/o/ | Óó/o:/ | Pp/p/ | PX px/pʰ/ | Rr/r/ | Ss/s/ | Tt/t/ |
| TX tx/tʰ/ | Uu/u/ | Üü/ʊ̈/ | Űű/ʊ̈:/ | Úú/u:/ | Vv/v/ | Ww/w/ | Xx/ħ/ | Yy/y/ | Ýý/y:/ | Zz/z/ |
| Ðð/ð/ | Øø/ø/ | Ǿǿ/ø:/ | Þþ/θ/ | Đđ/d͡ʒ/ | Ħħ/χ/ | Ŋŋ/ŋ/ | Əə/ə/ | Ə́ ə́/ə:/ | Гг/ɣ/ | Ёё/io/ |
| Жж/ʒ/ | Ии/ɯ/ | Лл/l/ | Чч/ʈʂ/ | Шш/ʃ/ | Щщ/ɕ/ | Юю/iu/ | Яя/ia/ | Ⲉⲉ/ie/ | ||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||||
