Nichana [NIC]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Nichana
Spoken in a strongly hierarchical caste based society ruled with an iron fist, Nichana is a super wacky language that makes descisions not because they are easy, but because they are hard.
Nichana is a language with a strong hierarchy in nouns, levels of force behind verbs, and "orders". It has a cool new case that I thought of by myself, even though it's likely some other natlang has already done it, for the "jussor" that gave this "order".
Apart from that, Nichana uses a rather straightforward phonology, with a quite large inventory, which, when used, looks quite daunting. To me, at least.
Nichana is ergative/absolutive, except when the sentence contains a "to be" (which is always dropped by the way), uses double headed relative pronouns, relative pronouns look like this.
Word order is freaky and hierarchy based. I find it disgusting, but it's my baby. I don't want to kill my baby.
Nichana is a language with a strong hierarchy in nouns, levels of force behind verbs, and "orders". It has a cool new case that I thought of by myself, even though it's likely some other natlang has already done it, for the "jussor" that gave this "order".
Apart from that, Nichana uses a rather straightforward phonology, with a quite large inventory, which, when used, looks quite daunting. To me, at least.
Nichana is ergative/absolutive, except when the sentence contains a "to be" (which is always dropped by the way), uses double headed relative pronouns, relative pronouns look like this.
Word order is freaky and hierarchy based. I find it disgusting, but it's my baby. I don't want to kill my baby.
Sample of Nichana[view] Sáttichkehzh mayddech réttuechech. Duyipuddur oelthaesád, sukárzhide wazuevttánh sáttredává chayartád yoenh réttuechech.
Age is a great artist. As the years pass, it carves beautiful designs on our faces. [view all texts]
Age is a great artist. As the years pass, it carves beautiful designs on our faces. [view all texts]
Language family relationships
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Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | [ŋ]1 | |||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | [t̪]2 | [d̪]3 | t | d | k | g | ʔʲ4 | |||||||
| Fricative | f | v | [θ]5 | [ð]6 | s | z | ʃ | [ʒ]7 | h | |||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | [ʎ]8 | ||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | ɰ | ||||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||||
- allophone of /n/
- allophone of /t/
- allophone of /d/
- realization of /j/ between vowels
- allophone of /t/
- allophone of /d/
- allophone of /z/
- allophone of /l/
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i i: | y | [u]1 | |||
| Close-mid | e | o | ||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | [ɜ]2 | [ʌ]3 | |||
| Open | a | [ä]4 | ɒ | |||
- allophone of /y/
- allophone of /ɛ/
- allophone of /o/
- allophone of /ɒ/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Nichana. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 NichanaOrthography [edit] | ||||||||
| Áá/a/ | Aa/ɒ/, [ä] | Bb/b/ | CH ch/ʃ/ | Dd/d/, [d̪], [ð] | Ee/ɛ/, [ɜ] | Éé/e/ | Ff/f/ | Gg/g/ |
| Hh/h/ | Ii/i/ | Íí/i:/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/, [ʎ] | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/, [ŋ] | Oo/o/, [ʌ] | Pp/p/ |
| Rr/r/ | Ss/s/ | Tt/t/, [t̪], [θ] | Uu/y/, [u] | Vv/v/ | Ww/ɰ/ | Yy/j/, /ʔʲ/1 | Zz/z/, [ʒ] | |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||
- realization of /j/ between vowels
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