Shana [XRY]
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Language type
A posteriori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Shana
Shana, as termed in the English language, is both the name for the language, its people, and the planet upon which this tongue is found.
Sample of Shana[view] tanonar-keda ði tanonar ʃevanna eno tanig wé aeo kedai vavoraʃana. yé tani kawe iʃi tanonar, tanonar-keda oʃanna.
Linguistic stress lies upon the second syllable unless drawn elsewhere in a word by a stressed vowel. In the case of a word with one syllable, there is no stress.[view all texts]
Linguistic stress lies upon the second syllable unless drawn elsewhere in a word by a stressed vowel. In the case of a word with one syllable, there is no stress.[view all texts]
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Alveolo- palatal | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||||||||
Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||||||||||||
Plosive | t | d | k | g | ||||||||||||||||||
Fricative | v | θ | s | z | ʃ | ʒ | χ | h | ||||||||||||||
Affricate | d͡ʑ1 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||||||||
Flap | ɾ |
Blends | kw | ks |
- Only ever appears before the ɛ phoneme.
Vowels | Front | Back | ||
Close | i i: | |||
Close-mid | o o: | |||
Open-mid | ɛ ɛ: | |||
Open | a a: |
Polyphthongs | [ai]1 | oɛ | [oi]2 | aɛ |
- allophone of /aɛ/
- allophone of /oɛ/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Shana. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
ShanaOrthography [edit] | |||||||||||
Aa/a/ | Dd/d/ | Ee/ɛ/ | Gg/g/ | Hh/h/ | Ii/i/ | Jj/d͡ʑ/1 | Kk/k/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Oo/o/ | Qq/kw/ |
Rr/ɾ/ | Ss/s/ | Tt/t/ | Vv/v/ | Ww/w/ | Yy/j/ | Zz/z/ | Ðð/θ/ | Ʃʃ/ʃ/ | Ʒʒ/ʒ/ | ɧ/χ/ | |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |
- Only ever appears before the ɛ phoneme.