Alfeme [AFM]
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Alfeme
Alfeme [alfeme]*
AlfemeAlfeme [alfeme]*
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Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Place & SpeakersAlfeme is spoken by a population of around 100,000 .
Species
Human/humanoid
About Alfeme
Alfeme is the language of the dragons of a small archipelago of a water-world called Meleti. The tidally-locked planet orbits a red dwarf, has an atmosphere twice as thick as Earth's, and has white skies, black plants, and yellow-pink clouds.
Features within this language:
Features within this language:
- Octal and dozenal counting
Seven meaningful noun cases
Highly inflectional
Obviation and reflexivity
SOV word order
Exclusively head-final
Inclusive and exclusive pronouns
No grammatical gender
Sample of Alfeme[view] Lu kiya navoy fle omila xananing kolavi paylu. Boti longaning letomu balan Ovayoning. Kvanija metalyais gelamu Tanhaosegeyting paylu. Ey siya koc koyammu vaya vang, balivoy balimu va. / / Si losaning.
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the light of the Tannhauser Gate. All these moments will be lost in time like tears in rain. / / Time to die.[view all texts]
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the light of the Tannhauser Gate. All these moments will be lost in time like tears in rain. / / Time to die.[view all texts]
Language family relationships
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | [ɲ]1 | ŋ | ||||||||||||
| Plosive | p [pʰ]2 | b | t [tʰ]3 | d | k [kʰ]4 | g | q | |||||||||
| Fricative | f | s | ʃ | [x]5 | χ | h | [ɦ]6 | |||||||||
| Affricate | t͡s | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | |||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||
| Approximant | ʋ | j | ||||||||||||||
- before /j/, allophone of /n/
- directly before vowels, allophone of /p/
- directly before vowels, allophone of /t/
- directly before vowels, allophone of /k/
- before a consonant, allophone of /h/
- between vowels, allophone of /h/
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i | [u]1 | ||||
| Close-mid | e | o | ||||
| Mid | [ə]2 | |||||
| Open-mid | [ɛ]3 | [ɔ]4 | ||||
| Open | a | [ɑ]5 | ||||
- in unstressed syllables, allophone of /o/
- in unstressed syllables, allophone of /a/
- in closed syllables, allophone of /e/
- in closed syllables, allophone of /o/
- after velar sounds and /ʋ/, allophone of /a/
Syllable Structure(C)(L)V(V/C)(C); L = l, j, v.
t, d, cannot come before /j/, d cannot come before any consonant. p, f cannot come before /v/, v cannot come before /l/, /j/.
t, d, cannot come before /j/, d cannot come before any consonant. p, f cannot come before /v/, v cannot come before /l/, /j/.
Stress informationStress falls on the heaviest syllable, or the second-to-last in the event of a tie.
Light syllables: V
Heavy syllables: VV, VC
Superheavy syllables: VVC, VCC
Light syllables: V
Heavy syllables: VV, VC
Superheavy syllables: VVC, VCC
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Alfeme. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 AlfemeOrthography [edit] | |||||||||||
| Aa/a/, [ɑ]1, [ə]2 | Bb/b/ | Cc/t͡ʃ/ | Dd/d/ | Ee/e/, [ɛ]3 | Ff/f/ | Gg/g/ | Hh/h/, /χ/, [x]4, [ɦ]5 | Ii/i/ | Jj/d͡ʒ/ | Kk/k/, [kʰ]6 | Ll/l/ |
| Mm/m/ | Nn/n/, [ɲ]7 | NG ng/ŋ/ | Oo/o/, [ɔ]8 | Pp/p/, [pʰ]9 | Qq/q/ | Šš/ʃ/ | Ss/s/ | Tt/t/, [tʰ]10 | Vv/ʋ/ | Yy/j/ | Zz/t͡s/ |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||||
- after velar sounds and /ʋ/
- in unstressed syllables
- in closed syllables
- before a consonant
- between vowels
- directly before vowels
- before /j/
- in closed syllables
- directly before vowels
- directly before vowels
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