Unnamed [YHW]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Unnamed
A language with a history of several thousand years (actually my first one with such a deep history).
Some of the nicer features:
Some of the nicer features:
- Ejectives!
- Irregular stress ...
- ... and differing vowel systems in stressed and unstressed syllables
- Also, a fully defunct millenia old vowel harmony that plagues learners
- Grammar is mostly WIP at this point
Sample of UnnamedCan't find any yet.
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Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
| Nasal | m m: | n n: | ŋ ŋ: | |||||||||||||
| Plosive | p pʼ | b | t tʼ | d | k kʼ | g | ||||||||||
| Fricative | β | [θ]1 | ð | s | z | ʃ | ʒ | [x]2 | ɣ | h | ||||||
| Affricate | t͡s t͡sʼ | [d͡z]3 | t͡ʃ t͡ʃʼ | [d͡ʒ]4 | ||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||||
- near voiceless phonemes, allophone of /ð/
- near voiceless phonemes, allophone of /ɣ/
- between voiced phonemes, allophone of /t͡s/
- between voiced phonemes, allophone of /t͡ʃ/
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i | ɨ1 | u | |||
| Close-mid | o | |||||
| Mid | ə2 | |||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | ||||
| Open | ä3 | |||||
- only in stressed syllables
- only in stressed syllables
- only in stressed syllables
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Unnamed. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 UnnamedOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| a/ä/1, [ə]2 | b/b/ | c/t͡ʃ/ | c'/t͡ʃʼ/ | d/d/ | dh/ð/ | è/ə/3 | e/ɛ/ | g/g/ | h/h/ |
| i/i/ | j/j/ | k/k/ | k'/kʼ/ | l/l/ | m/m/ | mm/m:/ | n/n/ | ng/ŋ/ | nn/n:/ |
| nng/ŋ:/ | o/o/ | ò/ɔ/ | p/p/ | p'/pʼ/ | r/ɾ/ | rr/r/ | s/s/ | sh/ʃ/ | t/t/ |
| t'/tʼ/ | ts/t͡s/ | ts'/t͡sʼ/ | u/u/ | v/β/ | w/w/ | x/ɣ/ | y/ɨ/4 | z/z/ | zh/ʒ/ |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||
- only in stressed syllables
- in non-stressed syllables
- only in stressed syllables
- only in stressed syllables
