Chromatic Cave Language [CCL]
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[Deactivated User] on 31 July 2017
Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species
Human/humanoid
About Chromatic Cave Language
CCL got accidentally deleted, so I'm re-doing it. I'm not sure I can use Conworkshop to document it, but I'm going to try [again].
- CCL is an extinct unspoken ritual language that was carved and painted on cave walls.
- CCL is a hieroglyphic, color-based language.
- It has no spoken component. It's connection to other spoken languages, or if it had a spoken component, are unknown. However...
- ...Using Conworkshop to create an unspoken, unsigned written language was too difficult, so I decided to post a phonology too. This represents Uixian, not CCL. A modified version of the hieroglyphs can be used to write Uixian. The two languages are otherwise completely unrelated. [It's like using the Latin alphabet to write in your conlang - there's isn't a connection beyond the writing system.]
- The people who used CCL were called Ozairans. They were mostly colorblind, but scribes had acute visual abilities - some were tetrachromats.
- There is only one person left alive who still understands CCL. >
Sample of Chromatic Cave LanguageCan't find any yet.
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||||
Nasal | ŋ | |||||||||||||||||
Fricative | f ↓f f: | v v: | s ↓s s: | z z: | ʃ ʃ: | x ↓x x: | h ↓h h: | |||||||||||
Approximant | j | ʍ | w | |||||||||||||||
Trill | r | |||||||||||||||||
Click | ǃ̻1 | |||||||||||||||||
Implosive | ɓ | ɗ̪ | ɠ |
Blends | ŋ͡m |
- sublaminal lower alveolar percussive click
Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
Close | u uʱ ṵ: u̥ | |||||
Close-mid | ɵ ɵʱ ɵ̰: ɵ̥ | |||||
Open | a aʱ a̰: ḁ |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Chromatic Cave Language. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
Chromatic Cave LanguageOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
Ũ ũ /uʱ/ | Aa/a/, /a/ | AQ aq/ḁ/ | Ã ã/aʱ/ | A̰A̰ a̰a̰/a̰:/ | Bb/ɓ/ | Dd/ɗ̪/ | Ff/f/ | FF ff/f:/ | Gg/ɠ/ |
Hh/h/ | HH hh/h:/ | Ii/ʍ/ | Jj/j/ | Kk/x/ | KK kk/x:/ | Ll/ǃ̻/1 | NG ng/ŋ/ | NGM ngm/ŋ͡m/ | Oo/ɵ/, /ɵ/ |
OQ oq/ɵ̥/ | Õ õ/ɵʱ/ | O̰O̰ o̰o̰/ɵ̰:/ | Rr/r/ | Ss/s/, /s/ | SS ss/s:/ | Uu/u/ | UQ uq/u̥/ | ṴṴ ṵṵ/ṵ:/ | Vv/v/ |
VV vv/v:/ | Ww/w/ | Xx/ʃ/ | XX xx/ʃ:/ | Zz/z/ | ZZ zz/z:/ | Ʇʇ/↓f/ | |||
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |
- sublaminal lower alveolar percussive click
Latest 8 related articles listed below.
Pronouns 09-Feb-19 15:58
2018 Lexember Roundup 02-Feb-19 20:46
CCL and Uixian
a brief history
24-Dec-18 00:56Color classes
how color is used in CCL
18-Dec-18 00:28CCL example 16-Sep-17 17:37