Ophian [NSSN]
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Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species
Human/humanoid
About Ophian
Ssalōm!
/sʼaˈloːm/
Nasseni, also known as Ophian, is a language isolate belonging to an ethnoreligious group known as the Ophites, residing in and around the Fertile Crescent in an alternate history. Primarily a liturgical language, it spread into everyday use among the Ophites and even some of their neighbors. It bears minor influence from Semitic languages.
/sʼaˈloːm/
Nasseni, also known as Ophian, is a language isolate belonging to an ethnoreligious group known as the Ophites, residing in and around the Fertile Crescent in an alternate history. Primarily a liturgical language, it spread into everyday use among the Ophites and even some of their neighbors. It bears minor influence from Semitic languages.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p pʰ | b bʱ | t tʰ | d dʱ | k kʰ | g gʱ | ʔ | |||||||||||
| Fricative | f fʼ fʰ | v | s sʼ | ʃ ʃʼ | χ | h | ||||||||||||
| Affricate | t͡s t͡sʼ t͡sʰ | t͡ʃ t͡ʃʼ t͡ʃʰ | ||||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||||||
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i | u | ||||
| Close-mid | e | o | ||||
| Mid | ə | |||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | ||||
| Open | a | |||||
| Polyphthongs | ɔɪ | aw | aj |
Syllable Structure(C)VC(CV) with some variation
Stress informationPenultimate and final stress most apply.
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Ophian. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 OphianOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| Ä/a/ | A/ə/ | AW/aw/ | AY/aj/ | B/b/ | BH/bʱ/ | C/t͡ʃ/ | CC/t͡ʃʼ/ | CH/t͡ʃʰ/ | D/d/ |
| DH/dʱ/ | Ë/e/ | E/ɛ/ | F/f/ | FF/fʼ/ | FH/fʰ/ | G/g/ | GH/gʱ/ | H/h/ | I/i/ |
| K/k/ | KH/kʰ/ | L/l/ | M/m/ | N/n/ | Ö/o/ | O/ɔ/ | OE/ɔɪ/ | P/p/ | PH/pʰ/ |
| R/r/ | Š/ʃ/ | S/s/ | SS/sʼ/ | ŠŠ/ʃʼ/ | T/t/ | TH/tʰ/ | U/u/ | V/v/ | W/w/ |
| X/χ/ | Y/j/ | Z/t͡s/ | ZH/t͡sʰ/ | ZZ/t͡sʼ/ | ’/ʔ/ | ||||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||
