Nimnarian [PTRCK]
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Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Place & SpeakersNimnarian is spoken by a population of 1 .
Species
Human/humanoid
About Nimnarian
Attempt at a naturalistic language. First step of the evolutionary process. Earliest step of the protolang
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||||
| Plosive | p pʰ | b | t tʰ | d | k kʰ | g | ||||||||
| Fricative | v | z | x | [ɣ]1 | h | |||||||||
| Affricate | t͡s t͡sʰ | d͡z | ||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||
| Blends | rɣ |
- allophone of /x/
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i | y | u | |||
| Close-mid | ø | [ɘ]1 | ||||
| Mid | e̞ | o̞ | ||||
| Open | a | |||||
- allophone of /e̞/
Syllable Structure(C)V(N)
C: any consonant
V: any vowel
N: [m, n, l, p, t, k, j, w, r]
C: any consonant
V: any vowel
N: [m, n, l, p, t, k, j, w, r]
Stress information2-syllable words: Almost always in the first syllable, unless:
- The last syllable has a rounded vowel.
- The last syllable is of the form CVN, except when C is an /h/ caused by compounding or reduplication.
3-or-more-syllable words: Almost always in the penultimate syllable, unless:
- The antepenult syllable has a rounded vowel.
- The antepenult syllable is of the form CVN, except when C is an /h/ caused by compounding or reduplication.
- The last syllable has a rounded vowel.
- The last syllable is of the form CVN, except when C is an /h/ caused by compounding or reduplication.
3-or-more-syllable words: Almost always in the penultimate syllable, unless:
- The antepenult syllable has a rounded vowel.
- The antepenult syllable is of the form CVN, except when C is an /h/ caused by compounding or reduplication.
Other- In any plosive-plosive cluster that is created when compounding two words, the first consonant will disappear, and the second will be geminated.
- Whenever a CVN syllable is reduplicated, only the VN part will be reduplicated.
- A reduplicated /r/ or /r͡ɣ/ becomes [z̠]
- A reduplicated /j/ becomes [l] (after a process of fortition via [ʎ])
- A reduplicated /w/ becomes [v]
- A reduplicated /ɣ/ becomes [g]
- /x/ intervocalically voices to /ɣ/
- /t͡sʰ/ turns into /tʰ/ before rounded vowels
- Unstressed word-final /e/ becomes /ə/
- Whenever a CVN syllable is reduplicated, only the VN part will be reduplicated.
- A reduplicated /r/ or /r͡ɣ/ becomes [z̠]
- A reduplicated /j/ becomes [l] (after a process of fortition via [ʎ])
- A reduplicated /w/ becomes [v]
- A reduplicated /ɣ/ becomes [g]
- /x/ intervocalically voices to /ɣ/
- /t͡sʰ/ turns into /tʰ/ before rounded vowels
- Unstressed word-final /e/ becomes /ə/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Nimnarian. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 NimnarianOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
| Aa/a/ | Bb/b/ | Cc/t͡s/ | Cc cc/t͡sʰ/ | Ćć/d͡z/ | Dd/d/ | Ee/e̞/, [ɘ] | Ëë/ø/ | Gg/g/ | Hh/h/ | Ii/i/ |
| Jj/j/ | Kk/k/ | Kk kk/kʰ/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Ńń/ŋ/ | Oo/o̞/ | Pp/p/ | Pp pp/pʰ/ | Rr/r/ |
| Rr rr/rɣ/ | Tt/t/ | Tt tt/tʰ/ | Uu/u/ | Vv/v/ | Ww/w/ | Xx/x/, [ɣ] | Yy/y/ | Zz/z/ | ||
| ✔ Shown in correct order [change] | ||||||||||
