Old Shikathi [ZKD]
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Language type
Proto-Conlang
Species
Human/humanoid
About Old Shikathi
Spoken by the Nyrii who arrived on the new Shikathi homeworld
(multiple generations later). This group, so different from their ancestors, abandoned their Nyriian identity and called themselves “Zh’Kaar’s People”, their new homeworld “Zh’Kaar’s World”, and their language “Zh’Kaar’s language”
Features: vestige of animacy distinctions/ full case system / loss of most other word classes
(multiple generations later). This group, so different from their ancestors, abandoned their Nyriian identity and called themselves “Zh’Kaar’s People”, their new homeworld “Zh’Kaar’s World”, and their language “Zh’Kaar’s language”
Features: vestige of animacy distinctions/ full case system / loss of most other word classes
Sample of Old Shikathi[view] khirantuur'f gh'khraal chaelem, khruuf r'gaavi tokenaitaadfi ikeraadthi.
Calm down, son, it's just a drawing.[view all texts]
Calm down, son, it's just a drawing.[view all texts]
Language family relationships
Language treeZh'Kaarian-Nyrii
⤷ Proto-Shikathi
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Old Shikathi
⤷ Proto-Shikathi
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Old Shikathi[view] About Zh'Kaarian-NyriiZh'Kaarian:
Language of Zh’Kaar’s race. It’s true name was never known. No texts of this language have been found. Only a vague reference of the language in songs and fables.
Nyrii:
Ancient race whose homeworld was destroyed by some cataclysm. A...
Language of Zh’Kaar’s race. It’s true name was never known. No texts of this language have been found. Only a vague reference of the language in songs and fables.
Nyrii:
Ancient race whose homeworld was destroyed by some cataclysm. A...
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Velar | Uvular | |||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t tʰ | d | k | g | q | |||||||
| Fricative | f | v | θ | s | z | ʃ | ʒ | χ | ||||||
| Affricate | t̪͡θ | t͡s | d͡z | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | |||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||
| Blends | wə | wa | wɛ | wɔ | wɪ | wo | wi |
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Back | ||||
| Close | i | u | ||||||
| Near-close | ɪ | |||||||
| Close-mid | e | o | ||||||
| Mid | ə | |||||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | ʌ | ɔ | |||||
| Near-open | æ | ɐ | ||||||
| Open | a | |||||||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Old Shikathi. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| Old ShikathiOrthography | ||||||||||
| '/ə/ | Aa/ɐ/ | AA aa/a/ | AE ae/æ/ | Bb/b/ | CH ch/t͡ʃ/ | Dd/d/ | DTH dth/t̪͡θ/ | DZ dz/d͡z/ | Ee/ɛ/ | EE ee/e/ |
| Ff/f/ | Gg/g/ | GH gh/d͡ʒ/ | Hh/χ/ | Ii/ɪ/ | II ii/i/ | Kk/k/ | KH kh/q/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ |
| Oo/ɔ/ | OO oo/o/ | Pp/p/ | Rr/ɾ/ | RR rr/r/ | Ss/s/ | SH sh/ʃ/ | Tt/t/ | TH th/tʰ/, /θ/ | TS ts/t͡s/ | Uu/ʌ/ |
| U' u'/wə/, /wɪ/ | UA ua/wa/ | UE ue/wɛ/ | UI ui/wi/ | UO uo/wɔ/, /wo/ | UU uu/u/ | Vv/v/ | Zz/z/ | ZH zh/ʒ/ | ||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order | ||||||||||
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