Uixian [UIX]
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Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species
Uixo
About Uixian
Uixian is the language spoken by a sentient species of slime-based, cave-dwelling creatures called Uixo. My design goals with Uixian were to create a language that fulfilled these criteria:
- no nouns at all: no pronouns, no demonstratives either. But just "verbing" nouns by using constructions like "to be X" is not very creative or interesting and should be avoided if possible. But can they be avoided? Who knows. I'll try.
- alien and unnatural but usable and pronounceable by humans
- uses a triconsonant root system
- is non-sequential
Additionally, Uixian uses a lot of ingressive sounds. It can be written with a modified version of the
Chromatic Cave Language's hieroglyphs
There is a silent version of Uixian that uses only flashes of light.
- no nouns at all: no pronouns, no demonstratives either. But just "verbing" nouns by using constructions like "to be X" is not very creative or interesting and should be avoided if possible. But can they be avoided? Who knows. I'll try.
- alien and unnatural but usable and pronounceable by humans
- uses a triconsonant root system
- is non-sequential
Additionally, Uixian uses a lot of ingressive sounds. It can be written with a modified version of the
Chromatic Cave Language's hieroglyphs There is a silent version of Uixian that uses only flashes of light.
Sample of UixianCan't find any yet.
Language family relationships
Language treeAbyssal
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Proto-Abyssal
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Ancient Taleesian
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Deep Uixian
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Uixian
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Proto-Abyssal⤷
Ancient Taleesian⤷
Deep Uixian⤷
Uixian[view] About AbyssalThese are languages derived from those spoken by the Oceanites, a non-human sentient species that lives in the deepest parts of the oceans. The Oceanites had many dialects. They were mostly intelligible with each other, but clans from different ocean...
Phonology
[view]Phonological System: UixoWIP.Two different but similar species use this phonological system: the Oceanites and their descendants, the Uixo.
The Oceanites are deep-sea dwelling monsters known for their strength and their vaguely humanoid appearance. They live in deep ocean trenches and rarely come to the surface.
Uixo are a slimy, cave-dwelling species known for being reclusive and shy. They live in near continuous dark or twilight condition, but they are able to see somewhat thanks to an organ on their head called a luminent. Their vision is not the best, but it works for what they need.
Both species have an organ called a luminent, which they use to produce flashes of light in various colors. Their vocal apparatus is not very different from humans; the main distinction comes from the use of lunemes, but neither species can make very loud sounds like humans can.
| Lunemes | sustained | |
| ͻ | ͻ! | |
| red bright | ͻͻ | ͻͻ! |
| red short | ͻ) | |
| red long | ͻ* |
| Voiced Consonants | labiodental | dental | alveolar | post alveolar | retroflex | palatal | velar | pharyngeal | |
| plosive | g | ||||||||
| sibilant fricative | z ↓z: z: | ||||||||
| non-sibilant fricative | |||||||||
| approximant | ɹ | ||||||||
| trill | ʙ | ||||||||
| lateral affricate | |||||||||
| lateral fricative |
| Voiceless consonants | uvular | |
| approximant | ||
| trill |
| Vowels | front rounded | near-front rounded | central | central-rounded | near-back rounded | back | |
| near close | |||||||
| close mid | |||||||
| mid |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Uixian. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| UixianOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
| Aa// | Bb// | Cc// | Dd// | Ff// | FF ff/:/ | F̯̣ f̯̣/↓/ | Gg// | Hh// | HH hh/:/ | H̯̣ h̯̣/↓/ |
| Iı// | Ll/ɹ / | Nn// | Oo// | Ss/z/ | SS ss/z:/ | S̯̣S̯̣ s̯̣s̯̣/↓z:/ | Uu// | Ww// | Xx// | XX xx/:/ |
| X̯̣ x̯̣/↓/ | Yy// | Zz// | Ŋŋ/g/ | Ɔɔ/ͻ*/ | ƍ/ͻ!/ | Ƣƣ// | ƢƢ ƣƣ/:/ | Ƣ̯̣ ƣ̯̣/↓/ | Ȣȣ//1 | Ɦɦ// |
| ʍ// | ʯ// | Θϑ// | Λλ/ͻ)/ | Ρϱ/ͻ/ | Ϙϙ/ͻͻ/ | Ϣϣ// | Ϫϫ// | Ѧѧ/͡/2 | Ѻѻ/ͻͻ!/ | Ҩҩ/ʙ/ |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||||
- flick your tongue
- ɠ͡ɓ
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