Losunian [LSN]
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Language type
A posteriori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Losunian
Losunian is a conlang spoken in Democratic Republic of Losun. Since the people of the nation are just predecessors of Chinese, most of the vocabulary are based on Chinese and its dialects (such as Mandarin, Taiwanese, Hakka, Cantonese). There are also many vocabulary derived from Japanese, Korean and English. Though Losunian is mainly base on Chinese, it is a non-tonal language (while Chinese and its dialects have tones). There are 24 consonants and 8 vowels in Losunian, plus 3 additional alphabets that used in specific grammer settings. The written form of Losun had two major forms, "Ladin pin'ɩm Šiq" (use Latin alphabet) and "H̋anb̋un Šiq" (use Chinese character). The former indicates the phonetics, while the latter indicates the meanings.
Sample of Losunian[view] 寧攏有快樂新年咔。
/ Nen loŋ iu failoq sinnieyn ka.
You all have a happy new year.[view all texts]
You all have a happy new year.[view all texts]
Sound samples in Losunian
Some sound samples of Losunian. Maximum of 6 shown. Click the links to see the full texts.
Ŋo gorŋ Iŋg̋i da.
I speak English
I speak English
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Alveolo- palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||||
| Plosive | p pʰ | b | t tʰ | d | k kʰ | g | ʔ̆ | |||||||
| Fricative | f | v | s | z | ʃ | ʒ | [ɕ]1 | [ʑ]2 | x | h | ||||
| Affricate | t͡s t͡sʰ | t͡ʃ t͡ʃʰ | [t͡ɕ]3 [t͡ɕʰ]4 | |||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||
| Approximant | ɹ5 | |||||||||||||
- when š comes before i or ü, allophone of /ʃ/
- when j̋ comes before i or ü, allophone of /ʒ/
- when j comes before i or ü, allophone of /t͡ʃ/
- when č comes before i or ü, allophone of /t͡ʃʰ/
- only in verb form
| Vowels | Front | Central | Near- back | Back | ||||
| Close | i i:1 | y | ɯ | u | ||||
| Near-close | ʊ2 | |||||||
| Close-mid | o3 | |||||||
| Mid | ə | |||||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | œ4 | ɔ | |||||
| Near-open | æ5 | |||||||
| Open | a | ɑ6 | ||||||
- only in noun form
- only exists in euy, eur
- only exists of auy, aur, ouy, our
- only exists in eoy, eor
- only exists in aey, aer, air
- only exists in aoy, aor
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Losunian. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 LosunianOrthography [edit] | ||||||||
| Aa/a/ | Bb/p/ | B̋ b̋/b/ | Cc/t͡sʰ/ | Čč/t͡ʃʰ/, [t͡ɕʰ]1 | Dd/t/ | D̋ d̋/d/ | Ee/ɛ/ | Ff/f/ |
| Gg/k/ | G̋ g̋/g/ | Hh/h/ | H̋ h̋/x/ | Ii/i/ | Jj/t͡ʃ/, [t͡ɕ]2 | J̋ j̋/ʒ/, [ʑ]3 | Kk/kʰ/ | Ll/l/ |
| Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Oo/ɔ/ | Pp/pʰ/ | Qq/ʔ̆/ | Rr/ɹ/4 | Ss/s/ | Šš/ʃ/, [ɕ]5 | Tt/tʰ/ |
| Üü/y/ | Uu/u/ | Vv/v/ | Yy/i:/6 | Zz/t͡s/ | Z̋ z̋/z/ | Ŋŋ/ŋ/ | Əə/ə/ | Ɩɩ/ɯ/ |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||
- when č comes before i or ü
- when j comes before i or ü
- when j̋ comes before i or ü
- only in verb form
- when š comes before i or ü
- only in noun form
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