The Common Tongue [CTG]
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The Common Tongue
The Common TongueRegistered by
[Deactivated User] on 7 February 2016
Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About The Common Tongue
The Common Tongue is the language of the Humans in a fantasy epic that I have been working on. It is the language that is rendered by English, much like Westron in The Lord of the Rings.
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Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ||||||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | θ | s | z | x | ʁ | h | ||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||||
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Near- back | Back | ||||
| Close | i | u | ||||||
| Near-close | ɪ | ʊ | ||||||
| Close-mid | e | o | ||||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | ||||||
| Near-open | æ | |||||||
| Open | a | |||||||
| Polyphthongs | aɪ | eɪ | aʊ | ɔɪ |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for The Common Tongue. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 The Common TongueOrthography | |||||||||
| Ââ/a/ | Aa/æ/ | Bb/b/ | Cc/k/ | CH ch/x/ | Dd/d/ | Ee/ɛ/ | Êê/e/ | Ff/f/ | Gg/g/ |
| Hh/h/ | Îî/i/ | Ii/ɪ/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | NG ng/ŋ/ | Oo/ɔ/ | Ôô/o/ | Pp/p/ |
| Rr/ʁ/ | Ss/s/ | Tt/t/ | TH th/θ/ | Uu/ʊ/ | Ûû/u/ | Vv/v/ | Ww/w/ | Yy/j/ | Zz/z/ |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order | |||||||||
