Gairny [GRY]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Gairny
For a pre-metalworking society. Germanicish aesthetic with a hint of PIE and French and some other stuff. Fossilized front-back vowel harmony in some derived words, active tense-lax harmony in affixes. Logical but nevertheless counterintuitive orthography.
Sample of Gairny[view] (Bın nēj) darva fōpil thaerāk tilhkil, maevāk luj atël phoj, naedāk luj phölh gāw, war tėf naedāk luj lym. Pemāk darvādy tilhkil: "Lēnhik nūŧ wilhog nō, nhalh thaeran ālhėik lymog tilhki." Pemāx tilhkil: "Gom, darvog: lēnhux mūlıŧ wilhaj mūlhı nhalh thaeram: lymogẏd, saeŧȧnẏd, dāwȯđ pil jagȯ war nēgȯđ. War fētȧpik darvādy pil." ...[view all texts]
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Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||||||
Nasal | m m: | n n: | ɲ | |||||||||||||||
Plosive | p pʰ | b | t tʰ | d | k kʰ | g | ||||||||||||
Fricative | f | v | θ | ð | s s: | z | [ç]1 | [ɣ˞]2 | χ | ʁ | [h]3 | |||||||
Lateral approximant | l l: | [ʎ]4 | ʟ | |||||||||||||||
Approximant | j | w |
- allophone of /χ/
- allophone of /ʁ/
- allophone of /χ/
- allophone of /ʟ/
Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Back | ||||
Close | i i: | y y˞: | u u: | |||||
Near-close | ɪ ɪ: | ʏ ʏ: | ||||||
Close-mid | e e: | o o: | ||||||
Open-mid | ɛ ɛ: | œ œ˞: | ɜ | |||||
Open | ä ä: |
Polyphthongs | i͡ə | æ͡e | y͡œ˞ | ɑ͡ʏ˞ |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Gairny. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
GairnyOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
Ȧȧ/ɜ/ | Aa/ä/ | Āā/ä:/ | Bb/b/ | Cc/k/ | Dd/d/ | Ēē/e:/ | Ee/e/ | Ėė/ɛ/ | Ëë/ɛ:/ | Ff/f/ |
Gg/g/ | Hh/χ/, [ç] | Īī/i:/ | Iı/i/ | Ïï/ɪ:/ | Ii/ɪ/ | Jj/j/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ |
Oo/o/ | Ȯȯ/œ/ | Ōō/o:/ | Öö/œ˞:/ | Pp/p/ | Rr/ʁ/, [ɣ˞] | Ss/s/ | Tt/t/ | Ūū/u:/ | Uu/u/ | Vv/v/ |
Ww/w/ | Xx/χ/, [h] | Ÿÿ/ʏ:/ | Ȳȳ/y˞:/ | Ẏẏ/ʏ/ | Yy/y/ | Zz/z/ | Ðð/ð/ | Ŧŧ/θ/ | ||
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |