Raven-Speak [CORVI]
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Language type
A posteriori
Place & SpeakersRaven-Speak is spoken by a population of around 1,700,000 in mainly Europe.
Species
Human/humanoid
About Raven-Speak
A descendant of Proto-Germanic, it is distinguished by its click sounds, introduced by the population of ravens this language is spoken by.
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Sample of Raven-Speak[view] «sa·kaldôƿintru·isti·nēhƿô:aina·snaiƿasturma·ƿilī·kƿemai / kƿem·in·mīn·ƿarma·haima·mīn·frijōnd / ƿiljakƿemô / kƿem·hēr:singƿ·andi·þin:et·andi·drink / sa·isti·mīn·ƿerþaizau / ƿī·habaiþ·ƿatōr:beuza:andi·meluk·friskō·fram·sō·kū / (?):andi·ƿarma·supô»[view all texts]
Language family relationships
Language treeGermanic
⤷ Proto-Germanic
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Raven-Speak
⤷ Proto-Germanic
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Raven-Speak[view] About GermanicThe Germanic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family spoken natively by a population of approximately 500 million people mainly in North America, Oceania, Western and Northern Europe. Proto-Germanic , which was spoken in approxima...
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ||||||||||||
| Fricative | f | [v]1 | θ | [ð]2 | s | [z]3 | ʃ | x | ɦ | |||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||||
| Trill | r̥4 | r | ||||||||||||||||
| Click | ʘ5 | ǃ | ||||||||||||||||
- allophone of /f/
- allophone of /θ/
- allophone of /s/
- see lesson #1 & #4
- SEE LESSONS
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Back | |||
| Close | i i: | u u: | ||||
| Near-close | ɪ | |||||
| Close-mid | e e:: e: | o o:: o: | ||||
| Near-open | æ æ: | |||||
| Open | ɑ ɑ: | |||||
| Polyphthongs | eɪ̯: eɪ̯ | ɑu̯: ɑu̯ | aɪ̯: aɪ̯ |
Stress informationFirst syllable stress
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Raven-Speak. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| Raven-SpeakOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| a Aa /ɑ/ | ā Āā /ɑ:/ | b Bb /b/ | c Cc /ʃ/ | d Dd /d/ | e Ee /e/ | ē Ē ē /e:/ | ê Ê ê /e::/ | f Ff /f/ | g Gg /g/ |
| ģ Ģģ /ʘ/1 | h Hh /ɦ/ | i Ii /i/ | ī Īī /i:/ | í Íí /ɪ/ | j Jj /j/ | k Kk /k/ | l Ll /l/ | m Mm /m/ | n Nn /n/ |
| o Oo /o/ | ō Ōō /o:/ | ô Ôô /o::/ | p Pp /p/ | r Rr /r/ | ŗ Ŗŗ /r̥/2 | s Ss /s/ | t Tt /t/ | ţ Ţţ /ǃ/ | u Uu /u/ |
| ū Ūū /u:/ | v Vv [v] | w Ww /w/3 | x Xx /x/ | z Zz [z] | æ Ææ /æ/ | ǣ Ǣǣ /æ:/ | þ Þþ /θ/ | ð Ðð [ð] | |
| ✔ Shown in correct order [change] | |||||||||
- SEE LESSONS
- see lesson #1 & #4
- Should be written as ƿ
Additional NotesWhen writing in Times or Carolingian scripts, t and ţ should be written separately as t and ꞇ, r and ŗ as r and ꞃ, and g and ǵ as g and ᵹ
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Lessons (4)
