Szvania [ZVS]
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Szvania
Zvagna [zvaɲa]
SzvaniaZvagna [zvaɲa]
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Language type
A priori
Place & SpeakersSzvania is spoken by a population of 835,706 .
Species
Human/humanoid
About Szvania
Just a language I am casually working on, have some interesting ideas for grammar that I really like.
Sample of SzvaniaCan't find any yet.
Language family relationships
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SzvaniaPhonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
| Nasal | n | ɲ | ||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ||||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | s | z | ʃ | ʒ | x | [h]1 | ||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||
| Lateral fricative | ɬ | |||||||||||||||
| Approximant | ɹ | w | ||||||||||||||
| Trill | [r]2 | |||||||||||||||
- allophone of /x/
- Used to be a distinct sound, but grew to be the same with sound shifts, allophone of /ɹ/
| Vowels | Front | Back | ||
| Close | i | u | ||
| Close-mid | e | o | ||
| Open | a | |||
| Polyphthongs | ui | ei | oɑ | ae | ai | ua | ea |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Szvania. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| SzvaniaOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
| Aa/a/ | AE ae/ae/ | AI ai/ai/ | Bb/b/ | Dd/d/ | Ee/e/ | EA ea/ea/ | EI ei/ei/ | Ff/f/ | Gg/g/ | GN gn/ɲ/ |
| Hh/ɬ/ | Ii/i/ | Jj/ʒ/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ | Nn/n/ | Oo/o/ | OA oa/oɑ/ | Pp/p/ | Rr/ɹ/ | Ss/s/ |
| SH sh/ʃ/ | Tt/t/ | Uu/u/ | UA ua/ua/ | UI ui/ui/ | Vv/v/ | Ww/w/ | Xx/x/ | Zz/z/ | ||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||||
