Old Azaric [ASZ]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Old Azaric
Azaric is the lingua-franca of The United Federation of Azary or colloquially termed as The Language of the North, it is considered as a third language in most southern and equatorial regions of Harmonia. It is the language of the Azarians and is spoken by about 41 million people as of 12,023 (Harmonian year; Holocene calendar), 2023 (Earth year) in Harmonia and about 15,000 people on Earth.
Sample of Old Azaric[view] kinaszegot vite szarinde zan sagdagai va nar'yagai mat ataran va vietan. ame zan mivarago ka yuude va yœndare va tago tandan b'wara aldat szarinde mat made g'yo ćidetazan.
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.[view all texts]
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.[view all texts]
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ||||||||
| Fricative | ɸ1 | β | s s: | z | ʃ | ʒ | (h) | |||||||
| Affricate | t͡s | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | |||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||
| Approximant | j2 | (w)3 | ||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||
| Blends | [wi]4 |
- pronouced more as [ɸʷ] without protrusion of the lips, at the end of words
- pronounced as /h/ before /i/
- before and after rounded vowels
- before and after nasals and the letters l and r , allophone of /oɪ/
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Near- back | Back | |||||
| Close | i i: | [y] | u u: | |||||||
| Near-close | [ɪ] | ʏ | [ʊ] | |||||||
| Close-mid | e e: | ø | o o: | |||||||
| Mid | [ə]1 | |||||||||
| Open-mid | ɛ ɛ: | œ œ: | [ɔ]2 | |||||||
| Near-open | [ɐ] | |||||||||
| Open | a a: | ɶ | ||||||||
| Polyphthongs | [eɪ]3 | aɪ4 | oɪ5 |
- allophone of /e/
- allophone of /o/
- before and after nasal consonants and the letters l and r
- non-word initial
- non-word initial
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Old Azaric. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 Old AzaricOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
| 'H 'h/ʰ/ | 'W 'w/ʷ/ | 'Y 'y/ʲ/ | Aa/a/ | AA aa/a:/ | A̹ a̹/ɶ/ | Bb/b/ | Ćć/t͡ʃ/ | Dd/d/ | Ee/e/ | EE ee/e:/ |
| Ff/ɸ/1 | Gg/g/ | Hh/h/2 | Ii/i/ | II ii/i:/ | I̹ i̹[y] | Jj/d͡ʒ/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ |
| NG ng/ŋ/ | Oo/o/ | OO oo/o:/ | Pp/p/ | Rr/ɾ/ | Śś/ʃ/ | Ss/s/ | SZ sz/s:/ | Tt/t͡s/, /t/ | Uu/u/ | UU uu/u:/ |
| Vv/β/ | Ww/w/3 | Yy/j/4 | Zz/z/ | Źź/ʒ/ | Ææ/ɛ:/ | ÆI æi/aɪ/5, [eɪ]6 | ŒI œi/oɪ/7 | ŒŒ œœ/œ:/ | ||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||||
- pronouced more as [ɸʷ] without protrusion of the lips, at the end of words
- loan words only
- before and after rounded vowels, loan words only
- pronounced as /h/ before /i/
- non-word initial
- before and after nasal consonants and the letters l and r
- non-word initial
