Vivia [VLJA]
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Language type
A priori
Place & SpeakersVivia is spoken in Vivia.
Species
Human/humanoid
About Vivia
Vivia (Velja [veʎa]) is a language isolate spoken in the country of the same name. Vivia (Veyjiva [veʎ:va]) is a small island country south of Iceland and North-West of the UK. As result of the Vivia people's travelling and trade, the language contains loanwords from Icelandic, French, Celtic languages, and English.
Vivia has it's own native writing script, but primarily use an extended Latin.
Vivia has it's own native writing script, but primarily use an extended Latin.
Sample of Vivia[view] Rany ekua den salesyr kadjen gotax den klabcabkasyr intɛ.
My horse is not an artist but an architect.[view all texts]
My horse is not an artist but an architect.[view all texts]
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | (ŋ) | |||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ||||||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | s | z | ʃ | χ | [h]1 | |||||||||||
| Affricate | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | ||||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | ʎ | ||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | ɹ | j | w | |||||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||||||
| Blends | (kw) |
- allophone of /χ/
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Back | ||||
| Close | i | ɯ | u | |||||
| Near-close | ɪ | |||||||
| Close-mid | e | o | ||||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | |||||||
| Near-open | æ | ɐ | ||||||
| Open | a | |||||||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Vivia. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 ViviaOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| Aa Aja /a/ | Ɛɛ Ɛja /ɐ/ | Bb Ba /b/ | Cc Ac /t͡ʃ/ | Dd Dy /d/ | Ee E /e/ | Ff Af /f/ | Gg Ga /g/ | Hh Ha /χ/, [h] | Ii In /ɪ/ |
| Jj Ja /j/ | Kk Ka /k/ | Ll Al /l/ | Mm My /m/ | Nn An /n/ | Ŋŋ Ɔŋ /ŋ/1 | Oo O /o/ | Pp Pa /p/ | Qq Qɛ /kw/2 | Rr Ry /ɾ/ |
| Ɔɔ Ɔja /ɯ/ | Ss Sa /s/ | Tt Ty /t/ | Uu Uja /u/ | Vv Av /v/ | Ww Wa /w/ | Xx Xa /ʃ/ | Yy Y /i/ | Zz Za /z/ | Ææ Æd /æ/ |
| ✔ Shown in correct order [change] | |||||||||
- loan words only
- loan words only
