Standard Tegarseri [TEGA]
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Language type
A priori
Place & SpeakersStandard Tegarseri is spoken in Tegarsia.
Species
Human/humanoid
About Standard Tegarseri
Standard Tegarseri is the lingua franca of Tergarsia, and some of the smaller countries around it. Standard Tergarseri is based on the main dialect spoken in the capital, and a few surrounding areas.
Main features of Tergarseri;
VOS word order Nominative-Accusative Alignment 3 Levels of formality for pronouns (Upper; Neutral; Lower) [Singular - Dual - Plural] marking for nouns & pronouns 15 total noun cases Synethetic morphology mixed with Agglutination;
"sziyaradcze t'yıgralıseraleksıgılımędzįgzata [leyı]"
"i stole some rocks away from the two men out of the two houses"
(wip so far)
Standard Tegarseri is the lingua franca of Tergarsia, and some of the smaller countries around it. Standard Tergarseri is based on the main dialect spoken in the capital, and a few surrounding areas.Main features of Tergarseri;
"sziyaradcze t'yıgralıseraleksıgılımędzįgzata [leyı]"
"i stole some rocks away from the two men out of the two houses"
(wip so far)
Sample of Standard Tegarseri[view] ?Tratmutıvuk dzefenel cse, cseradz zahetlivik hesikiv srız?
How do you feel when you see a sunset?[view all texts]
How do you feel when you see a sunset?[view all texts]
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Retroflex | Alveolo- palatal | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ||||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | s | z | ʂ | ʐ | ɕ | ʑ | h | |||||||
| Affricate | t͡s | d͡z | ʈ͡ʂ | ɖ͡ʐ | t͡ɕ | d͡ʑ | c͡ç | ɟ͡ʝ | ||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | ʎ | ||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | |||||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||||
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Near- back | Back | |||||
| Close | ɨ | |||||||||
| Near-close | ɪ | ʏ | ʊ | |||||||
| Close-mid | e | ø | o | |||||||
| Mid | [ə]1 | |||||||||
| Near-open | ɐ | |||||||||
| Open | ɑ | |||||||||
- in colloquial speech, unstressed /e/, /ʊ/ and /ɐ/ are reduced
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Standard Tegarseri. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| Standard TegarseriOrthography [edit] | ||||||||
| Aa/ɐ/ | Ǎǎ/ɑ/ | Bb/b/ | Cc/t͡s/ | Dd/d/ | DZ dz/d͡z/ | Ee/e/ | Ęę/ø/ | Ff/f/ |
| Gg/g/ | Hh/h/ | Iı/ɨ/ | Ii/ɪ/ | Įį/ʏ/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ |
| Oo/o/ | Pp/p/ | Rr/r/ | Ss/s/ | Tt/t/ | Uu/ʊ/ | Vv/v/ | Yy/j/ | Zz/z/ |
| ✔ Shown in correct order [change] | ||||||||
