Laikan [LAIKN]
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[Deactivated User] on 9 December 2021
Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Laikan
My first conlang, and one I hope I can hold on to. Extremely janky, because I am very new to all this language stuff.
Sample of Laikan[view] Ta kanoté najâ'álasé nojô'álavé
You are eating my dog's food[view all texts]
You are eating my dog's food[view all texts]
Language family relationships
Phonology
| Consonants | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||||
| Nasal | n | |||||||||||
| Plosive | t | d | k | g | Ê” | |||||||
| Fricative | v | s | Ê’ | |||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||
| Approximant | ɹ | j | ||||||||||
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Back | ||||
| Close | i | |||||||
| Near-close | ɪ | |||||||
| Close-mid | o | |||||||
| Mid | [É™]1 | |||||||
| Open-mid | É› | |||||||
| Open | É‘ | |||||||
| Polyphthongs | aʊ | ai | ɪʊ | oi | ei | oʊ |
- only used at the end of a word, allophone of /É›/
Syllable Structure(C)V(C)
Probably...
Probably...
Stress informationStress is not too strict, but generally it falls on the first syllable. This doesn't necessarily apply to borrowed names or things like poems or songs.
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Laikan. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 LaikanOrthography [edit] | |||||||||||
| d/d/ | a/ɑ/ | t/t/ | e/ɛ/, [ə]1 | k/k/ | i/i/ | n/n/ | o/o/ | l/l/ | á/ai/ | r/ɹ/ | é/ei/ |
| s/s/ | ó/oi/ | v/v/ | â/aʊ/ | j/ʒ/ | ô/oʊ/ | g/g/ | ê/ɪʊ/ | ý/j/ | y/ɪ/ | '/ʔ/ | |
| ✔ Shown in correct order [change] | |||||||||||
- only used at the end of a word
