Yalish [YALI]
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Yalish
Yāliši [jaːliʃiː]
YalishYāliši [jaːliʃiː]
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Language type
Not specified
Place & SpeakersYalish is spoken by a population of around 1,000,000 in Runta.
Species
Human/humanoid
About Yalish
A language for a simple fantasy world similar to those of Conan the Barbarian and the Lord of the Rings. The main intention is to reimagine or take inspiration from the real world and its history to some extent, with light supernatural elements. Yalish itself is an Afro-Asiatic-like language, holding grammatical and phonetic similarities, especially semitic. The original idea was a language from scratch, but Afro-Asiatic-like choice was taken because of the lack of conlangs that mimic well this language family.
Sample of Yalish[view] - bah ayhalahiy? / - hayawriy bahiy alahyaḏ! lābiy tadrūtu yagarwiy ti saqūš lāfati hadyaḏ! lābiy šabḥu fayhaḏ abū lagiš ud anḫu baḥyaḏ abū tiyūkūtiy.
- Do you really love me? / - Hell, I do! I want to spend the seventy next years of my life with you! I want to see your face every day and to hear your voice all the time.[view all texts]
- Do you really love me? / - Hell, I do! I want to spend the seventy next years of my life with you! I want to see your face every day and to hear your voice all the time.[view all texts]
Language family relationships
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | Pharyngeal | Glottal | |||||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Plosive | [p]1 | b | t tˤ | d | ɟ | k | [g]2 | q | ʔ | |||||||||||||
| Fricative | f | θ | ð | s sˤ | z | ʃ | [ç]3 | [ʝ]4 | x | ɣ | [χ]5 | [ʁ]6 | ħ | ʕ | h | |||||||
| Affricate | [t͡ʃ]7 | [d͡ʒ]8 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Lateral fricative | ɬ | ɮ | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Trill | [r] | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||||||||||
- Dialectical, allophone of /f/
- allophone of /ɟ/
- Only at the beginning of syllables, it replaces its allophone, allophone of /ɬ/
- Only at the beginning of syllables, it replaces its allophone, allophone of /ɮ/
- allophone of /x/
- allophone of /ɣ/
- allophone of /k/
- allophone of /ɟ/
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Near- back | Back | ||||
| Close | i: | u: | ||||||
| Near-close | ɪ | ʊ | ||||||
| Open-mid | [ɛ:]1 | [ɔ:]2 | ||||||
| Open | a a: | |||||||
| Polyphthongs | aw3 | aj4 |
- allophone of /aj/
- allophone of /aw/
- Becomes long o.
- Becomes long e.
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Yalish. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 YalishOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| Aa/a/ | Bb/b/ | Gg/ɟ/, [g], [d͡ʒ] | Dd/d/ | Hh/h/ | Ww/w/ | Zz/z/ | Ḥḥ/ħ/ | Ṭṭ/tˤ/ | Yy/j/ |
| Kk/k/, [t͡ʃ] | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Ss/s/ | ʕ/ʕ/ | Ff/f/ | Ṣṣ/sˤ/ | Qq/q/ | Rr/ɾ/, [r] |
| Šš/ʃ/ | Tt/t/ | Ḏḏ/ð/ | Ṯṯ/θ/ | Ġġ/ɣ/, [ʁ] | Ḫḫ/x/, [χ] | Śś/ɬ/, [ç]1 | Źź/ɮ/, [ʝ]2 | ||
| ✔ Shown in correct order [change] | |||||||||
- Only at the beginning of syllables, it replaces its allophone.
- Only at the beginning of syllables, it replaces its allophone.
