Mer [ZZI]
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Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species
Human/humanoid
About Mer
The language of the Taennilas, or merfolk.
Sample of Mer[view] Aev selisgdi reniz'ich dyarravi ubani aev selisgdi reniz'ich dyao'ili onich dyavanirdz
The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.[view all texts]
The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.[view all texts]
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Retroflex | Alveolo- palatal | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||||
| Nasal | m | ɳ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ʔ | |||||||||||||
| Fricative | [ɸ]1 | f | v | θ | s: | z̀: | ʃ | x | ɦ | |||||||||||
| Affricate | p̪͡f | b̪͡v | t͡s | d͡z | ||||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | |||||||||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||||||||
| Click | ǁ | ǂ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Blends | pj | dj | ɳkθ | dk | mx |
- allophone of /v/
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i | u | ||||
| Close-mid | e | o | ||||
| Mid | ə | |||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | |||||
| Near-open | æ | |||||
| Open | a | |||||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Mer. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 MerOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| '/ʔ/ | Aa/a/ | AE ae/e/ | Bb/b/ | BV bv/b̪͡v/ | CH ch/x/ | Dd/d/ | DJ dj/dj/ | DK dk/dk/ | DZ dz/d͡z/ |
| Ee/ɛ/ | EA ea/æ/ | EU eu/ə/ | Ff/f/ | Gg/g/ | Hh/ɦ/ | Ii/i/ | Jj/j/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ |
| Mm/m/ | MCH mch/mx/ | NG ng/ɳ/ | NGKTH ngkth/ɳkθ/ | Oo/o/ | OU ou/u/ | Pp/p/ | PF pf/p̪͡f/ | PJ pj/pj/ | RLR rlr/r/ |
| RR rr/ɾ/ | Ss/s:/ | SH sh/ʃ/ | Tt/t/ | TH th/θ/ | TZ tz/t͡s/ | Vv/v/, [ɸ] | Zz/z̀:/ | |/ǁ/ | ||/ǂ/ |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||
