Oshri [OHRI]
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Oshri
Öshri [øʒɪ]*
Öshri [øʒɪ]*
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Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species
Human/humanoid
About Oshri
Okhri is a language with three genders, horizontal vowel harmony, consonantal mutations and marked nominative. I think.
WARNING: if you thought Ov's etymological spelling was like reading Russian subtitles for a Kenyan telenovella while being forced to eat wasabi ice cream, please remain calm and back away slowly.
Sample of Oshri[view] Abüshit rūaba blökshit rhun shretmüz thgūzhup. Hüsgak theiz zhrep shūruzhup. Shoruba üobokozhet?
There's a penis and a vagina in a tent. And it's on fire. Which do you save?[view all texts]
There's a penis and a vagina in a tent. And it's on fire. Which do you save?[view all texts]
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||||
Plosive | pʰ | b | tʰ | d | kʰ | g | ||||||||
Fricative | [f]1 | θ | ð | s | z | [ʃ]2 | [ʒ]3 | x | ɣ | [h]4 | ||||
Affricate | t͡ʃ | |||||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||
Flap | ɾ |
- Word-finally, allophone of /pʰ/
- Word-finally, allophone of /kʰ/
- Before a front vowel, allophone of /ɣ/
- Before a consonant (except at the beginning of a word), allophone of /x/
Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Near- back | Back | |||||
Close | i: | y | u: | |||||||
Near-close | ɪ | ʊ | ||||||||
Close-mid | e | ø | o | |||||||
Near-open | ɐ ɐ: |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Oshri. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
OshriOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
Aa/ɐ/ | Āā/ɐ:/ | Bb/b/ | Dd/d/ | DH dh/ð/ | Ee/e/ | Ëë/ʊ/ | Gg/g/, [h]1 | Hh/h/ | Īī/i:/ | Ii/ɪ/ |
Kk/kʰ/, [ʃ]2 | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | MH mh/ɣ/, [ʒ]3 | Nn/n/ | NH nh/ʒ/, [ɣ]4 | Oo/o/ | Öö/ø/ | Pp/pʰ/, [f]5 | Rr/ɾ/ | RH rh/t͡ʃ/ |
Ss/s/ | SH sh/x/, [f]6, [h]7 | Tt/tʰ/, [s]8 | TH th/θ/ | Ūū/u:/ | Üü/y/ | Uu/ʊ/ | Zz/z/ | ZH zh/x/, [h]9 | ||
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |
- Intervocallically
- Word-finally
- Before a front vowel
- Before a back vowel
- Word-finally
- Before a front vowel
- Before a consonant (except at the beginning of a word)
- Word-finally
- Before a consonant (except at the beginning of a word)
Latest 8 related articles listed below.
Vowel harmony and consonantal mutations 09-Feb-20 16:50
Interrogation 04-Feb-20 17:38
Tones 04-Feb-20 02:44
Derivation 02-Feb-20 19:28
Genders 28-Jan-20 19:02
General grammar 25-Jan-20 17:08