South Entish [TIV]
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Language type
A posteriori
Species
Human/humanoid
About South Entish
Another language of ents spoken in the south of my conworld, mainly in northern Cyclopia and Čeoaeaiea - including the county of Namilia. Closely relates to the other Entish, but they are very unlikely to be mutually intelligible. Some features of South Entish:
- SVO word order
- One click consonant
- Nasal vowels
- Funny orthografy with "x" doing some magic tricks
- Latvian, Greek and Portuguese vocabularies
- 7 noun cases
- Synthetic grammar
- 3 tenses
- passive voice formed by the "-r" suffix
- Article? Nope, haven't heard about that
- SVO word order
- One click consonant
- Nasal vowels
- Funny orthografy with "x" doing some magic tricks
- Latvian, Greek and Portuguese vocabularies
- 7 noun cases
- Synthetic grammar
- 3 tenses
- passive voice formed by the "-r" suffix
- Article? Nope, haven't heard about that
Sound samples in South Entish
Some sound samples of South Entish. Maximum of 6 shown. Click the links to see the full texts.
Nogalinācjur!
I'm being killed!
I'm being killed!
Dzxia kadzx isx sxacikstel etxi itxan bom.
The day I met you was a good day.
The day I met you was a good day.
Isx txilul dxio mazx veni dxinwi mani sxo um.
I wanted two, but they would only give me one.
I wanted two, but they would only give me one.
Mazx veni nesoprāsxenat kasx milam Txisvalode.
But they don't understand what we say in [lang].
But they don't understand what we say in [lang].
Bomux an etxis acxnākl itxu powku noris.
It would be good if you got here a little early.
It would be good if you got here a little early.
Ate bernsx zināsxonat kasx putna pot olxa.
Even a child knows that birds lay eggs.
Even a child knows that birds lay eggs.
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Alveolo- palatal | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | Other | |||||||||||
Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||||||||||||
Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | q | |||||||||||||||
Fricative | f | v | θ | ð | s | z | ʃ | ʒ | ɕ | x | ʁ | ɧ | ||||||||||
Affricate | t͡s | d͡z | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | ||||||||||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l | ȴ | ||||||||||||||||||||
Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||||||||
Trill | r | |||||||||||||||||||||
Click | ǃ |
Vowels | Front | Back | ||
Close | i i: | y | ɯ | u u: |
Close-mid | e e: | o | ||
Open | a a: ã |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for South Entish. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
South EntishOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
Aa/a/ | Āā/a:/ | AX ax/ã/ | Bb/b/ | Cc/t͡s/ | CX cx/t͡ʃ/ | Dd/d/ | DX dx/ð/ | DZ dz/d͡z/ | DZX dzx/d͡ʒ/ | Ēē/e:/ |
Ee/e/ | Ff/f/ | FX fx/ɧ/ | Gg/g/ | Hh/x/ | Īī/i:/ | Ii/i/ | Jj/j/ | Kk/k/ | KX kx/ǃ/ | Ll/l/ |
LX lx/ȴ/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | NG ng/ŋ/ | Oo/o/ | Pp/p/ | Qq/q/ | Rr/r/ | RX rx/ʁ/ | Ss/s/ | SX sx/ʃ/ |
SXX sxx/ɕ/ | Tt/t/ | TX tx/θ/ | Uu/u/ | Ūū/u:/ | UX ux/ɯ/ | Vv/v/ | Ww/w/ | Yy/y/ | Zz/z/ | ZX zx/ʒ/ |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |