Livzien [LVZ]
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Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species
Human/humanoid
About Livzien
An a priori artlang. It is in its proto phase, but the evolution to Old Livzien is almost there ;).
SOV, except for stative clauses which are SVO. Adverbs and adverb phrases usually appear after the verb as in:
"Ei faas eild dweirdechein."
1SFirst person singular (person)
speaker, signer, etc.; I.NOMNominative (case)
TRANS subject, INTR argument fall PASPast
action occurred before moment of speech sound-CAUCausal (case)
'because (of)'
I fell because of the sound.
The adverbs can be placed anywhere else, such as near the subject if the adverbs are of importance.
SOV, except for stative clauses which are SVO. Adverbs and adverb phrases usually appear after the verb as in:
"Ei faas eild dweirdechein."
1SFirst person singular (person)
speaker, signer, etc.; I.NOMNominative (case)
TRANS subject, INTR argument fall PASPast
action occurred before moment of speech sound-CAUCausal (case)
'because (of)'
I fell because of the sound.
The adverbs can be placed anywhere else, such as near the subject if the adverbs are of importance.
Sample of Livzien[view] Elyizud! Balvig ewin alt fngf3501en, waal vil alt vil alalomurken Livziyenan.
Hello! My name is [conlanger], and this is the page for [language]. / [view all texts]
Hello! My name is [conlanger], and this is the page for [language]. / [view all texts]
Language family relationships
[view] About IsolatesThis is a family for isolate languages.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ||||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | s | z | x | h | ||||||||||
| Affricate | t͡ʃ | |||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | ʍ | ||||||||||||||
| Trill | [r]1 | |||||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||||
- optional pronounciation, allophone of /ɾ/
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i | u | ||||
| Close-mid | e | ø | o | |||
| Mid | ə1 | |||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | |||||
| Open | a | ɑ | ||||
| Polyphthongs | oi | ei | oʊ | ai |
- in some unstressed syllables
Syllable Structure(C)(C)V(C)(C)
Stress informationpenultimate
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Livzien. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 LivzienOrthography [edit] | ||||||||
| Aa/a/ | AA aa/ɑ/ | Bb/b/ | CH ch/t͡ʃ/ | Dd/d/ | Ee/e/ | Ff/f/ | Gg/g/ | Hh/h/ |
| Ii/i/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Oo/o/ | Pp/p/ | Rr/ɾ/ | Ss/s/ |
| Tt/t/ | Uu/u/ | Vv/v/ | Ww/ʍ/ | Xx/x/ | Yy/j/ | Zz/z/ | ||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||
