Sacred Earth [WRI]
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moonstone on 19 February 2019
Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species
Human/humanoid
About Sacred Earth
Sacred Earth is the language of Earthen aesthetic. It's orthography and grammar are inspired loosely by West Germanic and Skandanavian languages, with the phonetic assembly of Romance languages. It's dictionary is heavily structured, with most verbs and nouns originaling from a specific root (or combination of roots). Sentences are formed in SVO order, as in English, with a required subject listed, as verbs do not conjugate to indicate person. Instead of nouns declining grammatically, the roots "decline" poetically to form a family of related terms; the six noun genders are active, common, abstract, natural, omnipotent, and sacred. For example, the root spex-, meaning "to speak," translates to the following in each gender respectively: speech, story/history, word, birdsong, conversation, language.
Sacred Earth is the language of Earthen aesthetic. It's orthography and grammar are inspired loosely by West Germanic and Skandanavian languages, with the phonetic assembly of Romance languages. It's dictionary is heavily structured, with most verbs and nouns originaling from a specific root (or combination of roots). Sentences are formed in SVO order, as in English, with a required subject listed, as verbs do not conjugate to indicate person. Instead of nouns declining grammatically, the roots "decline" poetically to form a family of related terms; the six noun genders are active, common, abstract, natural, omnipotent, and sacred. For example, the root spex-, meaning "to speak," translates to the following in each gender respectively: speech, story/history, word, birdsong, conversation, language.
Sample of Sacred Earth[view] ahrêðå wiqi ðyn orjênßeð, / akro̊čå ðuwi ðâ rewado! / riqå ðuwi čiðømâ, / ădo ðuwi äkdro̊mâ ðyn xraðo kî ðyn orjênßeð. / akûnǵømâ ƀo̊ğeð wiqi f'ßola; / ăð ƀenwytømâ akûnǵeð adâ jukøǵo wiqi, / kî ißße ƀenwytačâ akûnǵeð jukøǵo ƀäsi. / w'ădømâ ăf kräwu, ăð akûnǵømâ ăf råðå. / ðuwi ðačâ fjød riqå, xleţema, âd rewama / kûneko ăð ...[view all texts]
Language family relationships
Language treeFalling Leaf Rituals
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⤷ Sacred Earth
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Sacred Earth[view] About Falling Leaf RitualsFalling Leaf Rituals are a set of artistic, ritual languages for use in Paganism and other Earth-based religions, and by their practitioners. Each language in the family imitates the aestetic of each classical element: earth, water, air, and f...
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | Pharyngeal | Glottal | Other | ||||||||||||
| Nasal | m̥ | m | [n̪]1 | [n]2 | ɲ | |||||||||||||||||||
| Plosive | b | [t̪]3 | [d̪]4 | d [dʲ]5 | k kʷ | g | ʔ | |||||||||||||||||
| Fricative | ɸʷ | f | v | θ | sˑ | ʃ | ç | ɣ | χ | ħ | ||||||||||||||
| Affricate | t͡s | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | t͡ɬ | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Click | ǀ | ʞˀ | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Blends | ks |
- allophone of /ɲ/
- allophone of /ɲ/
- allophone of /t͡ɬ/
- allophone of /d/
- allophone of /d/
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Near- back | Back | |||||
| Close | i | u | ||||||||
| Near-close | ɪ | ʊ | ||||||||
| Close-mid | o | |||||||||
| Mid | [ə]1 | |||||||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | œ | ɔ | |||||||
| Near-open | æ | |||||||||
| Open | ɑ | |||||||||
| Polyphthongs | ɔɪ | aɪ | aʊ |
- allophone of /ɛ/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Sacred Earth. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| Sacred EarthOrthography | ||||||||||
| Aa â /ɑ/ | Ää äm /æ/ | Åå åd /aɪ/ | Ăă ǎð /aʊ/ | Ƀƀ ƀyn /ɸʷ/ | Cc ec /ks/ | Čč eč /t͡ʃ/ | Dd di /d/ | Ðð ðyn /θ/ | Ee ê /ɛ/, [ə] | Ff fê /f/ |
| Gg gän /g/ | Ǵǵ ǵê /d͡ʒ/ | Ğğ ğos /ɣ/ | Hh hå /ħ/ | Ħħ ħað /ʔ/ | Ii î /i/ | Jj jô /j/ | Kk kön /k/ | Ll el /l/ | Mm em /m/ | Ṁṁ eṁâ /m̥/ |
| Nn ana /ɲ/ | Oo ô /o/ | O̊ o̊ o̊č /ɔɪ/ | Öö öð /ɔ/ | Øø øn /œ/ | Pp pe /b/ | Qq iqlăut /ç/ | Q̈ q̈ q̈arð /kʷ/ | Q̂ q̂ q̂â /ʞˀ/ | Rr râ /ɾ/ | ß ßåß /sˑ/ |
| Ss syn /ʃ/ | Tt ete /t͡ɬ/ | Ţţ ţan /ǀ/ | Uu uṁ /u/ | Ûû ûn /ʊ/ | Ww waf /v/ | Vv vaf /w/ | Xx axlăt /χ/ | Yy dyn /ɪ/ | Zz ezi /t͡s/ | |
| ✔ Shown in correct order | ||||||||||
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