Osgantan [OTR]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Osgantan
OSGANTAN 2.0 UNDER CONSTRUCTION
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Osgantan is a 99,9% A PRIORI with an Europeanesque aesthetic.
Its main features are
Osgantan is a 99,9% A PRIORI with an Europeanesque aesthetic.
Its main features are
- generally SVO, even though it's technically free
- NOM-ACC
- generally head-initial
- mix of analytic, agglutinative and fusional elements
- pretty consistent spelling with very few irregularities
- small phonetic inventory with (mostly) basic sounds
Sample of Osgantan[view] Na noktagod stangerdrans' va n'onsal erveltarteg
It was so late that the sun was rising again. [view all texts]
It was so late that the sun was rising again. [view all texts]
Language family relationships
Language treeDryglithic
⤷ Osgantan
⤷ Osgantan
[view] About DryglithicThe Dryglithic language family is home to one of the most infuential languages of the Krastevsian conworld.
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||||
Plosive | (p) | (b) | t | d | k | g | ||||||||
Fricative | (f) | v | s | [z]1 | (ʃ) | (ʒ) | h | |||||||
Affricate | t͡s | [d͡z]2 | (t͡ʃ) | (d͡ʒ) | ||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||
Approximant | j | |||||||||||||
Trill | r |
- allophone of /s/
- allophone of /t͡s/
Vowels | Front | Back | ||
Close | i | (u) | ||
Close-mid | e | o | ||
Open-mid | [ɛ]1 | |||
Open | a [a:]2 |
- allophone of /e/
- allophone of /a/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Osgantan. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
OsgantanOrthography [edit] | |||||||||||
Aa a /a/ | Bb ba /b/1 | Čč/t͡ʃ/2 | Dd da /d/ | DŶ dŷ/d͡ʒ/3 | Ee e /e/ | Ff af /f/4 | Gg ga /g/ | Hh eh /h/ | Ii i /i/ | Kk ka /k/ | Ll lad /l/ |
Mm ma /m/ | Nn na /n/ | Oo o /o/ | Pp pa /p/5 | Rr ran /r/ | Ss as /s/ | Šš/ʃ/6 | Tt ta /t/ | Uu u /u/7 | Vv va /v/ | Ŷŷ/ʒ/8 | Yy ya /j/ |
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