vusi [UDF]
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Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species
Human/humanoid
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Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | (k) | g | ||||||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | θ | ð1 | s | z | ʃ | ʒ | x | ɣ | h | |||||||
| Affricate | t͡s | d͡z | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | ||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | ʎ | ||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||||||
| Blends | ki2 |
- interchangeable with "ð"
- before any letter that is not "u"
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Back | ||||
| Close | i i: | y y: | u u: | |||||
| Near-close | [ɪ]1 | |||||||
| Close-mid | e e: | ø ø: | o o: | |||||
| Mid | ə ə: | |||||||
| Open-mid | [ɛ]2 | |||||||
| Near-open | æ æ: | |||||||
| Open | a a: | |||||||
- as an unstressed vowel, allophone of /i/
- before /r/ and as an unstressed vowel, allophone of /æ/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for vusi. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 vusiOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
| Ää/æ/, [ɛ]1 | Aa/a/ | Bb/b/ | Çç/s/ | Cc/k/, /t͡ʃ/2 | C'H c'h/x/ | Dd/d/ | DH dh/ð/3 | DZ dz/d͡z/ | Ëë/ə/ | Ee/ɛ/, /e/ |
| Ff/f/ | Gg/g/ | GH gh/ɣ/ | GLH glh/ʎ/ | Hh/h/ | Ii/i/, [ɪ]4 | Kk/k/5 | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Öö/ø/ |
| Oo/o/ | Pp/p/ | Qq/ki/6 | Rr/r/ | SSß/s/7 | Ss/s/ | SCH sch/ʃ/ | Tt/t/ | TG tg/θ/8 | TX tx/ʒ/ | Üü/y/ |
| Uu/u/ | Vv/v/ | Ww/w/ | XH xh/d͡ʒ/ | Yy/j/ | Zz/z/ | Ðð/ð/ | Þþ/θ/ | |||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||||
- before /r/ and as an unstressed vowel
- before e or i
- interchangeable with "ð"
- as an unstressed vowel
- loan words only
- before any letter that is not "u"
- interchangeable with "ss"
- interchangeable with "þ"
