Second Imperial [ECI]
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Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species
Human/humanoid
About Second Imperial
Second Imperial (or Imperial) is the language spoken by the second Mouse Empire and, because of that, it has become lingua franca in the Empire territory and beyond, specially between merchants and travelers of mousekind and even other species.
As summary information:
* SVO word order
* Inflection of nouns for case and two genders (Mouse and Rock) and verbs for voice and mood.
*The rest of verbal information is conveyed through particles.
*No adjectives, it uses adjectival nouns that agree in gender.
*Personal pronouns have T-V distinction with two levels of formality.
As summary information:
* SVO word order
* Inflection of nouns for case and two genders (Mouse and Rock) and verbs for voice and mood.
*The rest of verbal information is conveyed through particles.
*No adjectives, it uses adjectival nouns that agree in gender.
*Personal pronouns have T-V distinction with two levels of formality.
Language family relationships
Language treeImperial
⤷ First Imperial
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Second Imperial
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Second Imperial[view] About ImperialThis is the family of languages spoken by the Mouse Empire. It includes First Imperial, Second Imperial and Vilarratonian.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||||
| Plosive | p | [b]1 | t | [d]2 | k | [g]3 | ʔ | |||||||
| Fricative | f | s | h | |||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||
| Blends | wo | ja | je | wa |
- Between vowels, allophone of /p/
- Between vowels, allophone of /t/
- Between vowels, allophone of /k/
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Near- back | Back | ||||
| Close | i | u | ||||||
| Near-close | ɪ | ʊ | ||||||
| Close-mid | e1 | o2 | ||||||
| Open | a3 | |||||||
- Can only appear in the diphthong: [je], appearing at word initial as <ye> and between cons. as <ie>
- Can only appear in the diphthong: [wo], appearing at word initial as <wo> and between cons. as <uo>
- Can appear in the diphtongs /ja/and /wa/ between cons. as <ia> and <ua>
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Second Imperial. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| Second ImperialOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| '/ʔ/ | Aa/a/1 | Bb[b]2 | Dd[d]3 | Ee/e/4 | Ff/f/ | Gg[g]5 | Hh/h/ | Ïï/ɪ/ | Ii/i/ |
| IA ia/ja/ | IE ie/je/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | NG ng/ŋ/ | Oo/o/6 | Pp/p/ | Rr/ɾ/ |
| Ss/s/ | Tt/t/ | Uu/u/ | Üü/ʊ/ | UA ua/wa/ | UO uo/wo/ | Ww/w/ | Yy/j/ | ||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||
- Can appear in the diphtongs /ja/and /wa/ between cons. as <ia> and <ua>
- Between vowels
- Between vowels
- Can only appear in the diphthong: [je], appearing at word initial as <ye> and between cons. as <ie>
- Between vowels
- Can only appear in the diphthong: [wo], appearing at word initial as <wo> and between cons. as <uo>
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