Old Damsest [SEE]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Old Damsest
Cirnese is the eldest antecessor of Aranzech there are written records of. It was spoken from the 12th to the 16th centuries in the Sērmese kingdom,in modern-day Arkamka and minor parts of Zinsha. It's name comes from the PSV *xiː.zæ,meaning “common”.
- Like other Southern Vaniuan languages,it developed 2 dental fricatives /θ ð/,from the PSV affricates *t͡ʃ d͡ʒ
- Developed a rhotic from PSV *z
- Changed the array of PSV stops *ʈ ɖ c ɟ into t͡ʃ d ç z
- It maintained the pharyngeal fricative *ħ
- It maintained all PSV cases,but the Vocative was reduced to a simple vowel suffix or nothing at all,and the differences in declensions were only kept in 3 cases.
- It reanalysed the PSV 3rd person verbal suffix as 3rd person plural,having the unmarked verb be a 3rd person singular
- It developed infinitives and a passive voice
Background
Cirnese is the eldest antecessor of Aranzech there are written records of. It was spoken from the 12th to the 16th centuries in the Sērmese kingdom,in modern-day Arkamka and minor parts of Zinsha. It's name comes from the PSV *xiː.zæ,meaning “common”.
Features
- Like other Southern Vaniuan languages,it developed 2 dental fricatives /θ ð/,from the PSV affricates *t͡ʃ d͡ʒ
- Developed a rhotic from PSV *z
- Changed the array of PSV stops *ʈ ɖ c ɟ into t͡ʃ d ç z
- It maintained the pharyngeal fricative *ħ
- It maintained all PSV cases,but the Vocative was reduced to a simple vowel suffix or nothing at all,and the differences in declensions were only kept in 3 cases.
- It reanalysed the PSV 3rd person verbal suffix as 3rd person plural,having the unmarked verb be a 3rd person singular
- It developed infinitives and a passive voice
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Language family relationships
Language treeVaniuan
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Proto-Vaniu
⤷ Southern-Vaniuan
⤷ Proto-Bodni-Cirnic
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Old Damsest
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Proto-Vaniu⤷ Southern-Vaniuan
⤷ Proto-Bodni-Cirnic
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Old Damsest[view] About VaniuanThe Vaniuan language is a family of languages originating from a disputed urheimat of either Western Parshita or around Lake Melkanchuta. Its descendant languages consist of around an estimated 400-700 Million speakers with varying phonologies, vocab...
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Pharyngeal | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k kʲ | g gʲ | ||||||||||
| Fricative | v | s | x | ħ | ||||||||||||
| Affricate | t͡s | d͡z | ʈ͡ʂ | ɖ͡ʐ | c͡ç | ɟ͡ʝ | ||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | ʎ | ||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ɰ | |||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | ɽ | ||||||||||||||
| Vowels | This table is empty. |
Stress informationStress is mostly initial,except if the second or third syllables have a long vowel,stress goes on them. This is blocked for the 3rd syllable if the first syllable has amother long vowel.
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Old Damsest. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| Old DamsestOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| Bb Bb /b/ | Cc Cc /c͡ç/ | Dd Dd /d/ | DŽ dž DŽ dž /ɖ͡ʐ/ | DZ dz DZ dz /d͡z/ | Gg Gg /g/ | Ğğ Ġġ /ɰ/ | ĞN ğn ĠN ġn /ŋ/ | Ǧ ǧ G’ g’ /gʲ/ | Hh Hh /ħ/ |
| Jj Jj /ɟ͡ʝ/ | Kk Kk /k/ | Ǩ ǩ K’ k’ /kʲ/ | Ll Ll /l/ | Ľ ľ L’ l’ /ʎ/ | Mm Mm /m/ | Nn Nn /n/ | Pp Pp /p/ | Rr Rr /ɾ/ | Řř Ṙṙ /ɽ/ |
| Ss Ss /s/ | Tt Tt /t/ | TŠ tš TŠ tš /ʈ͡ʂ/ | TS ts TS ts /t͡s/ | Vv Vv /v/ | Ww Ww /w/ | Xx Xx /x/ | Yy Yy /j/ | ||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||
