Canaanite [CANA]
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[Deactivated User] on 13 August 2020
Language type
A posteriori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Canaanite
Canaanite is a modern-day descendant of Phoenician spoken in the Republic of New Canaan (OTL Lebanon, north of Israel, pieces of Syria and Jordan). Its orthography was greatly inspired by Goidelic languages such as Irish and Scottish Gaelic for reasons I'm too lazy to explain just roll with it
Grammatical features
Fossilised orthography in true Gaelic fashion Three types of initial mutation (lenition, eclipsis, fortition) Possessive pronoun suffixes on nouns (e.g. acha 'sister' → achagá 'your (masc.) sister') Verbs built on triconsonantal roots (e.g. cadól 'to kill' → cadalnú 'we killed', iagdal 'I kill') and nouns using construct case instead of genitive (e.g. rosaímh 'heads' → roisé cochanaímh 'heads of priests') in true Semitic fashion
Grammatical features
Language family relationships
Language treeSemitic
⤷ Proto-Semitic
⤷ West Semitic
⤷ Central Semitic
⤷ Northwest Semitic
⤷ Canaanite
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Phoenician
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Canaanite
⤷ Proto-Semitic
⤷ West Semitic
⤷ Central Semitic
⤷ Northwest Semitic
⤷ Canaanite
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Phoenician⤷
Canaanite[view] About SemiticThe Semitic languages are a language family originating in the Near East whose living representatives are spoken by more than 470 million people across much of Western Asia, North Africa and the Horn of Africa, as well as in large expatriate communit...
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Pharyngeal | Glottal | ||||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ||||||||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | θ | ð | s | z | [ʃ]1 | [ʒ]2 | [ç]3 | χ | ʕ | h | ||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | [j]4 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||||||||
- allophone of /s/
- allophone of /z/
- allophone of /χ/
- allophone of /ʕ/
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Near- back | Back | |||||
| Close | i: | u: | ||||||||
| Near-close | ɪ ɪ̯ | ʊ ʊ̯ | ||||||||
| Close-mid | e e: | o o: | ||||||||
| Mid | ə | |||||||||
| Open-mid | ɛ ɛ: | |||||||||
| Open | ä | ɑ: | ||||||||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Canaanite. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| CanaaniteOrthography [edit] | |||||||||||
| Aa álaib /ä/ | Áá álaib tabhail /ɑ:/ | Bb bé /b/ | Cc cáb /k/ | Dd dáil /d/ | Éé e tabhail /e:/ | Ee e /e/ | Ff fabh /f/ | Gg gímhe /g/ | Ii íodh /ɪ/ | Íí íodh tabhail /i:/ | Ll lamhaidh /l/ |
| Mm méi /m/ | Nn nú /n/ | Oo ó /o/ | Óó ó tabhail /o:/ | Pp pé /p/ | Rr reis /ɾ/ | Ss samhaig /s/ | Tt tabh /t/ | Uu ú /ʊ/ | Úú ú tabhail /u:/ | Zz zín /z/ | |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||||
