Dyrfan [DYR]
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Language type
A priori
Place & SpeakersDyrfan is spoken by a population of around 100,000 .
Species
Human/humanoid
About Dyrfan
Dyrfic is an endangered language in the rocky hills of Dyrfa. The Dyrfans have lived in their valley for several years, feeding on what their gods provided and gave thanks for every bout of good fortune. Nowadays, the Dyrfans struggle to maintain their cultural heritage and language for their children are resorting to the majority language, Vetau, instead of speaking Dyrfan.
Dyrfan is a fantastic language with much to learn. There are 8 participles for 5 different tenses, 90 role distinctions (total 180 for each noun class), 2 noun classes based on vowels, transitivity distinctions, and much much more!
Status: expanding lexicon (the fun part)
Dyrfan is a fantastic language with much to learn. There are 8 participles for 5 different tenses, 90 role distinctions (total 180 for each noun class), 2 noun classes based on vowels, transitivity distinctions, and much much more!
Status: expanding lexicon (the fun part)
Language family relationships
[view] About DyrfanThe Dyrfan language family is shrouded in mystery as Vetauan linguists are unable to pinpoint an exact ancestor. Attempts have been made to connect Dyrfan to Vetau, but those attempts have failed, the linguists citing there are "no discernable charac...
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
| Nasal | m | ŋ | ||||||||||||
| Plosive | b | t | k | g | ʔ | |||||||||
| Fricative | β | f | h | |||||||||||
| Affricate | t͡s t͡s̚1 | t͡ʃ t͡ʃ̚2 | ||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | ʟ | ||||||||||||
| Approximant | w | |||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||
| Implosive | ɠ | |||||||||||||
| Blends | mŋ | ʟŋ | tŋ | gŋ | bŋ | kŋ |
- Ends of syllables only
- Ends of syllables only
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Back | ||||
| Close | u ʲu | |||||||
| Near-close | ɪ ʲɪ | |||||||
| Close-mid | o o̜1 ʲo | |||||||
| Mid | ə ə̝ | |||||||
| Open-mid | œ œ̹2 | |||||||
| Open | ä ʲä ä̚3 | |||||||
| Polyphthongs | œɪ |
- When proceeded by an affricate, fricative, bilabial, or labio-dental
- When proceeded by a labio-velar, velar, or glottal
- Only occurs at the end of words.
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Dyrfan. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 DyrfanOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
| ' ' e'apso /ʔ/ | 'a 'A 'a an /ä̚/1 | 'e 'E 'e /ə̝/ | 'o 'O 'o /o̜/2 | 'u 'U 'u /œ̹/3 | a Aa /ä/ | á Áá álgy /ʲä/ | b Bb baty /b/ | bv BV bv bvavoun /β/ | ç Çç çesos /t͡ʃ/ | e Ee en /ə/ |
| g Gg gino /g/ | gj GJ gj agjelo /ɠ/ | h Hh hatin /h/ | i Ii in /ɪ/ | í Íí ílvy /ʲɪ/ | k Kk kaso /k/ | l Ll luito /l/ | lg LG lg lgeño /ʟ/ | m Mm mele /m/ | ñ Ññ ñele /ŋ/ | ó Óó ódi /ʲo/ |
| o Oo on /o/ | ou OU ou /u/ | r Rr arañ /ɾ/ | t Tt talin /t/ | ts TS ts tsaka /t͡s/ | u Uu un /œ/ | ui UI ui /œɪ/ | v Vv volin /f/ | w Ww weku /w/ | ý Ýý ýni /ʲu/ | y Yy yñ /u/ |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||||
- Only occurs at the end of words.
- When proceeded by an affricate, fricative, bilabial, or labio-dental
- When proceeded by a labio-velar, velar, or glottal
