Kwarlan [WRN]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Kwarlan
Kwarlan is my first true attempt to make a naturalistic language, and it is not meant to relate to existing languages in any way (although some strange coincidences have occurred). It is an agglutinative language that has no capital letters or articles and can combine many words into one. Verbs have altered transitivity, and can be intransitive, transitive, ditransitive, or even tritransitive. Subjects are attached to objects, then verbs, and finally suffixes that indicate tense and mood, all separated by k, the voiceless uvular fricative. This means that entire sentences can be a single word (although not all sentences will be). There is also a conscript, an alphabet where each letter stands for a phoneme, and the letters are modeled after how it is pronounced in the mouth. This is a primitive language, so it does not have many irregulars, although they still exist, and it can be unwieldy at times.
Sample of Kwarlan[view] .huigkastoiokotopetkapugustorehe stinu iokohot. cauoruekastopobakogkabost gopon oappihugkastofiugkabocastorehe papon oappihugkastoruguiginatkahukabocasttop.
"They are stupid, aren't they?" Dr. Orwell agreed, as though they were talking about the weather instead of insulting young children.[view all texts]
"They are stupid, aren't they?" Dr. Orwell agreed, as though they were talking about the weather instead of insulting young children.[view all texts]
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||||
Nasal | n̪ | n | ||||||||||||
Plosive | pʰ | t̪ | t | q | ɢ | |||||||||
Fricative | ɸ | ʃ | x | χ | h | |||||||||
Affricate | t͡ʃ | |||||||||||||
Approximant | ʰɹʶ | |||||||||||||
Trill | ʙ |
Blends | t̪θ | pɸʰ |
Vowels | Front | Back | ||
Close | i | y | u | |
Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | ||
Open | ɑ |
Polyphthongs | ɔɑ |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Kwarlan. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
KwarlanOrthography [edit] | |||||||
a a /ɑ/ | b bo /ʙ/ | c ca /t͡ʃ/ | e e /ɛ/ | f fri /ɸ/ | g igu /q/ | h he /h/ | i i /i/ |
k ka /χ/ | n un /n̪/ | o o /ɔ/ | p po /pʰ/ | r ri /ʰɹʶ/ | s sa /ʃ/ | t itu /t̪/ | u u /u/ |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |
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