Pharopric [PCH]
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Language type
Signed conlang
Species
Human/humanoid
About Pharopric
Pharopric is a language that I am basing off of Ancient Egyptian as well as modern-day Semitic languages such as Arabic. Some systems include a system for triconsonantal roots, ergative-absolutive alignment, as well as a wealth of derivational affixes for agglutination.
Following the end of pharaonic dynasties as well as a general dismantlement of the Egyptian religion, the nobility of Egypt decided the Egyptian language needed to be standardized and simplified to be used in administrative tasks. Once reserved for royalty and religion, hieroglyphs were repurposed and simplified into blocks that can easily be written and carved into stone. Upon the arrival of the Arabic Muslims in northern Africa, the language was altered once more, making the symbols more like the modern day Perso-Arabic script and many loan words were introduced and integrated into the language. While marked as a "signed language," Pharopric can still be pronounced, as each character corresponds to a unilateral glyph of the middle Egyptian language. Lately, the descendants who still Pharopric are opting to pronounce Pharopric rather than utilize it as a purely written language. ʔ
Following the end of pharaonic dynasties as well as a general dismantlement of the Egyptian religion, the nobility of Egypt decided the Egyptian language needed to be standardized and simplified to be used in administrative tasks. Once reserved for royalty and religion, hieroglyphs were repurposed and simplified into blocks that can easily be written and carved into stone. Upon the arrival of the Arabic Muslims in northern Africa, the language was altered once more, making the symbols more like the modern day Perso-Arabic script and many loan words were introduced and integrated into the language. While marked as a "signed language," Pharopric can still be pronounced, as each character corresponds to a unilateral glyph of the middle Egyptian language. Lately, the descendants who still Pharopric are opting to pronounce Pharopric rather than utilize it as a purely written language. ʔ
Language family relationships
Language treeAfroasiatic
⤷ Proto-Afroasiatic
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Ancient Egyptian
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Pharopric
⤷ Proto-Afroasiatic
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Ancient Egyptian⤷
Pharopric[view] About AfroasiaticThe Afroasiatic languages are a major language family of the Middle East, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and the Sahel. They have over 350 million native speakers, and include the liturgical languages of multiple religions, including Islam, Judais...
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | Pharyngeal | Glottal | Other | |||||||||||
| Nasal | m [m:]1 | n [n:]2 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Plosive | b [b:]3 | d [d:]4 | ʈ [ʈ:]5 | k [k:]6 | q [qʰ]7 | ʔ | ||||||||||||||||
| Fricative | f | s | z | ç | ɣ | χ | ʕ | |||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | [ɫ]8 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Lateral fricative | [ɬ]9 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | [ʍ]10 | w | |||||||||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||||||||||
- allophone of /m/
- allophone of /n/
- allophone of /b/
- allophone of /d/
- allophone of /ʈ/
- allophone of /k/
- allophone of /q/
- allophone of /l/
- allophone of /s/
- allophone of /w/
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i | |||||
| Close-mid | o o: | |||||
| Mid | ə ə: | |||||
| Open-mid | ɛ ɛ: | |||||
| Open | ä ä: | |||||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Pharopric. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| PharopricOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| ' ' /ʔ/ | a a /ä/ | aa aa /ä:/ | b b /b/ | ç ç /ç/ | c c [qʰ] | d d /d/ | e e /ɛ/ | ee ee /ɛ:/ | f f /f/ |
| g g /ɣ/ | h h /ʕ/ | i i /i/ | k k /k/ | l l /l/ | m m mml /m/ | n n nnn /n/ | o o /o/ | oo oo /o:/ | q q /q/ |
| r r r'l /ɾ/ | s s /s/ | t t /ʈ/ | u u /ə/ | uu uu /ə:/ | w w /w/ | x x /χ/ | y y /j/ | z z z'l /z/ | |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||
Additional NotesA prime example of how the language utilizes the best of each script is the glyph for /ʔ/. It is based on the hieroglyph of the Egyptian eagle and also loosely based on the Perso-Arabic letter for "aleph."
