Vortesian [VORS]
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Language type
A priori
Place & SpeakersVortesian is spoken by a population of around 1,912,000 in Vortesia.
Species
Human/humanoid
About Vortesian
Vortesian is a Bluelandic language spoken by the Vortesian people in the Bluelandic Union. It belongs within the Noviaka branch.
Vortesian is an official recognized language in the Bluelandic Union, mostly spoken in Vortesia. It is the most widely spoken home language in Blueland, with about 53% of Blueland's population speaking it at home. It is also the most widely spoken Bluelandic language. It is written in the Latin script. A standardized variety of it known as Bluelandic is also used as the country's national language.
The language is an agglutinative language with vocabulary and influence originally deriving from the Bantu languages of South Africa (Zulu, Xhosa, Tswana), however, some of the vocabulary and language features have been mostly a priori as of recently. Vortesian, as with other Bluelandic languages, is primarily a pitch-accent language in a similar fashion to Japanese. I wouldn't call it my finest language, but it is definitely one that I hold dear.
Vortesian is an official recognized language in the Bluelandic Union, mostly spoken in Vortesia. It is the most widely spoken home language in Blueland, with about 53% of Blueland's population speaking it at home. It is also the most widely spoken Bluelandic language. It is written in the Latin script. A standardized variety of it known as Bluelandic is also used as the country's national language.
The language is an agglutinative language with vocabulary and influence originally deriving from the Bantu languages of South Africa (Zulu, Xhosa, Tswana), however, some of the vocabulary and language features have been mostly a priori as of recently. Vortesian, as with other Bluelandic languages, is primarily a pitch-accent language in a similar fashion to Japanese. I wouldn't call it my finest language, but it is definitely one that I hold dear.
Sample of Vortesian[view] Manje oņa waba ņihuvu wobafu poşi dedakinya wayapoşi kinya-kinya. Nalayayaņigaçe ņanumawa, ayayaņiņwodo gorirawa ņweyaza yoŞinar, way'ayaya ņizoye filo-filo kena. Zora ayaya ņideda ņanumunye wayamunye: "Jalanto! Jabuyeşobişobi wokundo yodar-yodar wayavente kyaikyai ņwekaro." Tozu ayaya ņibose yodar-yodar nunça şan-şan, way'asafa...[view all texts]
Language family relationships
Language treeBluelandic
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Proto-Bluelandic
⤷ Ekelic
⤷ Novikanic
⤷ Noviaka
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Vortesian
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Proto-Bluelandic⤷ Ekelic
⤷ Novikanic
⤷ Noviaka
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Vortesian[view] About BluelandicThe Bluelandic languages are spoken from Blueland to northeastern Leedonia and Cacedonia as well as Saronia and a bit of northern Pratia. It mainly consists of three branches, the Ekelic languages, the Northern Bluelandic languages, and the Penchuic ...
[edit] [view] jeJuwu (Juvulandic)Juvulandic Vortesian is spoken in Juvuland, a predominantly Vortesian region spanning parts of Blueland and Leedonia. It is mainly separated by political borders, as well as mountains. This isolation, as well as influence from the nearby Ikyutan language, has caused the dialect to diverge drastically from standard Vortesian, and is considered mutually unintelligible with standard Vortesian.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ ŋʷ | ||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | c | ɟ | k kʷ | g gʷ | ||||||||
| Fricative | ɸ | β | [f]1 | [v]2 | s | z | ʃ | h | ||||||||
| Affricate | t͡s | t͡ʃ | [d͡ʒ]3 | |||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||||
| Blends | (ks)4 |
- Used before nasals, allophone of /ɸ/
- Used before nasals, allophone of /β/
- Sometimes used before back vowels, allophone of /ɟ/
- Only used in loan words (i.e Expo)
| Vowels | Front | Back | ||
| Close | i | u | ||
| Mid | o̞ | |||
| Open-mid | ɛ | |||
| Open | a | |||
Syllable StructureCV(C), (C)VC
Stress informationNone
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Vortesian. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| VortesianOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| Aa/a/ | Bb/b/ | Çç/t͡ʃ/ | Dd/d/ | Ee/ɛ/ | Ff/ɸ/, [f]1 | Gg/g/ | Hh/h/ | Ii/i/ | Jj/ɟ/, [d͡ʒ]2 |
| Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Ņņ/ŋ/ | Ny ny/ɲ/ | Oo/o̞/ | Pp/p/ | Rr/r/ | Ss/s/ |
| Şş/ʃ/ | Tt/t/ | Ts ts/t͡s/ | Uu/u/ | Vv/β/, [v]3 | Ww/w/ | Yy/j/ | Zz/z/ | ||
| ✔ Shown in correct order [change] | |||||||||
- Used before nasals
- Sometimes used before back vowels
- Used before nasals
