Viet-dong [VTDNG]
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Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species
Human/humanoid
About Viet-dong
Viet-Dong is a language that is very widely spoken on the world of Khontark. It has tones, and is often compared to singing by speakers of non-toned languages (Such as 
Tuluru).
Tuluru).
Sound samples in Viet-dong
Some sound samples of Viet-dong. Maximum of 6 shown. Click the links to see the full texts.
Điỏ hớmbảp Đóng Vỉet
I speak English
I speak English
Language family relationships
Language treeTseng Gusu
⤷ Proto-Tseng-Gusu
⤷ Old Tseng-Gusu
⤷ Old Tseng
⤷ Middle Tseng
⤷
Viet-dong
⤷ Proto-Tseng-Gusu
⤷ Old Tseng-Gusu
⤷ Old Tseng
⤷ Middle Tseng
⤷
Viet-dong[view] About Tseng GusuVery old, comes from Proto-Tseng-Gusu (PTG)
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t tʰ | d dʼ | ʈ | ɟ | k kʷ | g | ||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | s | ʃ | x | ɣ | h | |||||||||
| Affricate | t͡ʃ | |||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||||
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i i᷄ i̋᷇ | ɨ ɨ᷄ ɨ᷇ | u û ǔ | |||
| Close-mid | e ê ě | o ô ǒ | ||||
| Mid | ə ə̂ ə̌ | |||||
| Open-mid | ɛ ɛ̂ ɛ̌ | ɔ ɔ̂ ɔ̌ | ||||
| Open | a â ǎ | |||||
Syllable Structure(C)V(C)
Stress informationStress is on the penultimate syllable, unless that syllable does not have tone, in which case the ultimate syllable is stressed if the penultimate syllable is the first syllable, and the pre-penultimate syllable is stressed if the word is three syllables or longer.
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Viet-dong. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| Viet-dongOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
| Áá/â/ | Ảả/ǎ/ | Aa/a/ | Bb/b/ | Cc/ɟ/ | CH ch/t͡ʃ/ | Dd/d/ | Éé/ɛ̂/ | Ểể/ě/ | Ẻẻ/ɛ̌/ | Ee/ɛ/ |
| Êê/e/ | Ếế/ê/ | Gg/g/ | GH gh/ɣ/ | Hh/h/ | Ỉỉ/i̋᷇/ | Íí/i᷄/ | Ii/i/ | Kk/k/ | KH kh/x/ | Ll/l/ |
| Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | NG ng/ŋ/ | NH nh/ɲ/ | Ơơ/ə/ | Ỏỏ/ɔ̌/ | Ớớ/ə̂/ | Óó/ɔ̂/ | Ổổ/ǒ/ | Ôô/o/ | Oo/ɔ/ |
| Ởở/ə̌/ | Ốố/ô/ | Pp/p/ | PH ph/f/ | QU qu/kʷ/ | Rr/r/ | Ss/s/ | Tt/t/ | TH th/tʰ/ | TR tr/ʈ/ | Ưư/ɨ/ |
| Ứứ/ɨ᷄/ | Uu/u/ | Ửử/ɨ᷇/ | Úú/û/ | Ủủ/ǔ/ | Vv/v/ | Xx/ʃ/ | Đđ/dʼ/ | |||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||||
