Standard Nathani [SNN]
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Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species
Human/humanoid
About Standard Nathani
The main language spoken on Nathon. It evolved from Proto-Nathani, and developed an extensive inflection system.
Nouns decline through nine cases, in three different declensions, depending on their gender, which is determined by the nominative's ending. Adjectives decline in much the same way.
Verbs have four moods, over eight tenses, two voices. There are two different conjugation paradigms. They are very similar in some of their forms.
The preferred word order is SOV, but thanks to it being heavily inflected, the order can be altered a great deal.
Nouns decline through nine cases, in three different declensions, depending on their gender, which is determined by the nominative's ending. Adjectives decline in much the same way.
Verbs have four moods, over eight tenses, two voices. There are two different conjugation paradigms. They are very similar in some of their forms.
The preferred word order is SOV, but thanks to it being heavily inflected, the order can be altered a great deal.
Sample of Standard Nathani[view] Raûn pasanyāĉi mu lan xētenyāsi pasamēbec, zû bülēẑanoc paûshedhāni, zen bülēẑanoc paûshemēbec shinduri, vu shu pasari.
I would have gone to where I should have gone, had I had the time, but I couldn't have had the time, so I didn't go.[view all texts]
I would have gone to where I should have gone, had I had the time, but I couldn't have had the time, so I didn't go.[view all texts]
Language family relationships
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Standard NathaniPhonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Alveolo- palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||||
| Nasal | m | n nʲ | [ŋ]1 | |||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ʔ | |||||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | θ | ð | s | z | ʃ | ʒ | x | h | ||||||||
| Affricate | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | t͡ɕ | d͡ʑ | ||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | w | |||||||||||||||||
| Trill | r2 | |||||||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ3 | |||||||||||||||||
- Assimilates to a following velar consonant, allophone of /n/
- Only happens word-initial
- Never happens word-initial
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i i: | y | ʉ1 | u u: | ||
| Close-mid | e | o o: | ||||
| Mid | [ə]2 | |||||
| Open-mid | ɛ: | |||||
| Open | a a: | |||||
| Polyphthongs | aʉ | ai | ou |
- Rarely appears on its own, it usually happens in the dipththong /aʉ/.
- Word-final, allophone of /e/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Standard Nathani. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| Standard NathaniOrthography | |||||||||
| '/ʔ/ | Āā/a:/ | Aa/a/ | Bb/b/ | Ĉĉ/t͡ʃ/ | Cc/k/ | Dd/d/ | DH dh/ð/ | Ēē/ɛ:/ | Ee/e/, [ə]1 |
| Ff/f/ | Gg/g/ | Ĝĝ/d͡ʒ/ | Hh/h/ | Īī/i:/ | Ii/i/ | Ĵĵ/d͡ʑ/ | Jj/ʒ/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ |
| Nn/n/, [ŋ]2 | NY ny/nʲ/ | Ōō/o:/ | Oo/o/ | Pp/p/ | Rr/r/3, /ɾ/4 | Ss/s/ | SH sh/ʃ/ | Tt/t/ | TH th/θ/ |
| Uu/u/ | Ûû/ʉ/5 | Ūū/u:/ | Üü/y/ | Vv/v/ | Ww/w/ | Xx/x/ | Ẑẑ/t͡ɕ/ | Zz/z/ | |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order | |||||||||
- Word-final
- Assimilates to a following velar consonant
- Only happens word-initial
- Never happens word-initial
- Rarely appears on its own, it usually happens in the dipththong /aʉ/.
