Turnalon [TURNA]
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Language type
A priori
Place & SpeakersTurnalon is spoken by a population of around 50,000 .
Species
Human/humanoid
About Turnalon
[This is a language created for a yet-to-be-written fantasy novel, from the fictional planet of Astrafel, a dimensional cousin of Earth.]
For over 600 years, the Turnan people have lived in a secluded valley surrounded on all sides by dense forest and high mountains. This, combined with the society's isolationism, has created a fascinating culture quite unlike any others on the planet. Nowhere is this more apparent than within Turnalon, the language of the Turna. With roots in the Old Common Speech, now half-a-millennia removed, Turnalon is a complex language filled with the cultural markers of its speakers.
For over 600 years, the Turnan people have lived in a secluded valley surrounded on all sides by dense forest and high mountains. This, combined with the society's isolationism, has created a fascinating culture quite unlike any others on the planet. Nowhere is this more apparent than within Turnalon, the language of the Turna. With roots in the Old Common Speech, now half-a-millennia removed, Turnalon is a complex language filled with the cultural markers of its speakers.
Language family relationships
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Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||||
Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | |||||||||
Fricative | f | v | θ | s1 | ʃ2 | h | ||||||||
Affricate | t͡s3 | t͡ʃ4 | d͡ʒ5 | |||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||
Approximant | ɹ6 | |||||||||||||
Flap | ɾ7 |
Blends | ts8 | tʃ9 | ʃt | ʃk | dʒ10 |
- allophone of /ʃ/
- allophone of /s/
- allophone of /ts/
- allophone of /tʃ/
- allophone of /dʒ/
- allophone of /ɾ/
- allophone of /l/
- allophone of /t͡s/
- allophone of /t͡ʃ/
- allophone of /d͡ʒ/
Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Near- back | Back | |||||
Close | i | u | ||||||||
Near-close | ɪ | ʊ | ||||||||
Close-mid | e | o | ||||||||
Open-mid | ɜ | ʌ | ɔ | |||||||
Open | a |
Polyphthongs | ai | ʊə | eɪ | oʊ |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Turnalon. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
TurnalonOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
Aa/ʌ/ | Āā/ɔ/ | AÍ aí/ai/ | Á á/a/ | Bb/b/ | Dd/d/ | Ee/ɜ/ | È è/e/ | Ẹ̇ ẹ̇/eɪ/ | Ff/f/ | Hh/h/ |
Īī/ɪ/ | Í í/i/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Ơơ/oʊ/ | Oo/o/ | Pp/p/ | Ṙṙ/ɾ/ | Rr/ɹ/ |
Ss/s/ | Tt/t/ | Uu/ʊ/ | Ú ú/u/ | Ü ü/ʊə/ | Vv/v/ | ƺ/d͡ʒ/ | ȶ/θ/ | Ȿȿ/ʃ/ | ʄ/t͡ʃ/ | ʦ/t͡s/ |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |