Jaic [JAC]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Jaic
Like other Richitic languages, Jaic is spoken by both humans and avians. Unlike Crays, Jays faces little discrimination and do not have dark feathers. Jaic's phonology is complicated and distinct from other west spienic languages, and has a low consonant to vowel ratio compared to many languages. Jaic shares many features with Craic in grammar
-Transitive/Intransitive
-4 cases
-Mood focused
-Fusional
-Animate/Inanimate
-Alienable/Inalienable
-Singy songy - the language is not tonal but Jays like the language to sound tonal.
Jaic conjugation and declination is actually regular, though at first glance it seems highly irregular. Each word takes a form depending on if the word ends with a consonant, a diphthong, a vowel or a glottal stop. The same applies to prefixes as well. The pronunciation of words are very different compared to how the words look like when written, this is because Jays don't update spellings regularly.
-Transitive/Intransitive
-4 cases
-Mood focused
-Fusional
-Animate/Inanimate
-Alienable/Inalienable
-Singy songy - the language is not tonal but Jays like the language to sound tonal.
Jaic conjugation and declination is actually regular, though at first glance it seems highly irregular. Each word takes a form depending on if the word ends with a consonant, a diphthong, a vowel or a glottal stop. The same applies to prefixes as well. The pronunciation of words are very different compared to how the words look like when written, this is because Jays don't update spellings regularly.
Sound samples in Jaic
Some sound samples of Jaic. Maximum of 6 shown. Click the links to see the full texts.
Sahv grøddar bøtdie ja'
Let's settle this beef
Let's settle this beef
Language family relationships
Language treeRichitic(Spienic)
⤷ Richitic(Spienic)
⤷ Tarkuk Spienic
⤷ East Spienic
⤷ Proto Jaic
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Jaic
⤷ Richitic(Spienic)
⤷ Tarkuk Spienic
⤷ East Spienic
⤷ Proto Jaic
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Jaic[view] About Richitic(Spienic)The Richitic family consists of languages spoken by avians. Most of the languages died out due to unpopularity and low prestige, but some speakers of these languages remained proud of their culture, though facing many oppressions, discourage and disc...
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Alveolo- palatal | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||||||
| Nasal | [m]1 | n | ŋ | |||||||||||||||
| Plosive | b̥ b̥ʰ | d̥ d̥ʰˢ | g̟̥ g̟̥ʰ g̠̥ g̠̥ʰ | ʔ | ||||||||||||||
| Fricative | [f]2 | [v]3 | s | ɕ | ʁ̝ | h | ||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | ɹ̻ˠ | j | w | |||||||||||||||
- Only pronounced by humans, allophone of /ŋ/
- only when pronounced by humans, allophone of /s/
- only when pronounced by humans, allophone of /s/
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Back | ||||
| Close | i | y1 | ɨ | ɯ | ||||
| Near-close | ɪ ɪ̯ | |||||||
| Close-mid | e | ɤ | ||||||
| Mid | ə | |||||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | œ2 | ʌ | |||||
| Near-open | æ | ɐ̯ | ||||||
| Open | a | ɑ | ||||||
| Polyphthongs | ɪn | aɐ̯ | ʌɐ̯ | œɐ̯ | aɪ̯ | eɐ̯ |
- Only when pronounced by humans
- Only when pronounced by humans
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Jaic. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| JaicOrthography [edit] | ||||||||
| 'N 'n/ɪn/ | '/ʔ/ | Aa/ɛ/ | AR ar/a/ | ARE are/aɐ̯/ | Bb/b̥/ | Dd/d̥/ | DD dd/ɹ̻ˠ/ | Ee/e/ |
| EI ei/aɪ̯/ | EN en/ɪn/ | ER er/ə/ | ERE ere/eɐ̯/ | ERN ern/ɪn/ | Gg/g̠̥/ | GH gh/ɪ̯/ | GJ gj/g̟̥/ | Hh/h/ |
| HV hv/w/ | Ii/ɪ/, /i/ | IE ie/ɨ/ | Jj/j/ | Kk/g̠̥ʰ/ | KJ kj/g̟̥ʰ/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/ŋ/ | Nn/n/ |
| ND nd/n/ | NG ng/ŋ/ | NT nt/n/ | Oo/ɑ/ | Pp/b̥ʰ/ | Rr/ʁ̝/ | RR rr/ɐ̯/ | Ss/s/ | SJ sj/ɕ/ |
| Tt/d̥ʰˢ/ | Uu/y/1 | Yy/ɯ/ | Ææ/æ/ | Øø/œ/2 | ØR ør/ɤ/ | ØRE øre/ʌɐ̯/ | ØRR ørr/œɐ̯/ | ØV øv/ʌ/ |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||
- Only when pronounced by humans
- Only when pronounced by humans
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